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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09

aud her heavy labor were "a matter
OF note. So the sheriff took special
cogniranco Of the look of her hig field
% corn ana nodded IN pleased salts
faction
Too had shs Lost those six steers"
ho told himself 4" they'd have help.
ca a lot In her years Furnishings.
Game young pair
Then Do moved on up into the
blue brush that clothed the slants By
the river and made FOR the heiEhtr-
Three hours later - vac sitting
slduWize la his saddle beside the well.
worn trail which led up 20 Sky Line,
I lio was not too close. being en-.
rconced iu a little thlekct u maple
about 30 yards back and above. Ho
had spent many AN hour. here before
n afforded "a gpod view OF iho
trail. and better stlll q splendid
chance 90 hear
Twice in the last month he had
heard and seen q bunch Of Rates
riders coming homo from Cordova
lwherr they had Funo 90 gamble. hut
this fact had been unproduciive q
anythng sinister
They had ridden boldly az be.
hoovca innocent men. their horses
climbing slowly with rattle Of spur
and biz chain. The squeak ana whine
OF gaddlca
selwood had reached hand 20 his
horses nose 20 preclude rs neigh.
ms. and had seen them pass on up
and disappear.
Next day ho had unostentnilously
made sure that these men had played
az McKane'a-in both instances,
And now he waited again. seeming
iy IN "A foolish quest.
Ito know Il would seem 10 10 an
observer II seemed 40 10 him when
ho regaried Il with reason. Bui
reason was not aciuating him. II
waa instinct -hunrh.
SO sheriff Price sslwood hom
Kate CAthrcw quite frankly hated
sat In tho darkness and listened
beside her trail. lost little thread
lon tho vast eTpanse o. the wooded
slopes.
4 long hour passed. filled with the
bouudful silence ~ tho wilderness
lilo heard an owl call and call IN
mouruful quaycr from FAR below. an.
other answer lie knew that some
hunting animal was abroad in the
manzanitA 90 his right. for he
caught a thud and rustic. the pitiful,
shr.li screAm Of a rabbit. A nigh,
bird gave out sweet. alert note
from time 90 time and an insect
drummed n Pine tree.
And then no heard. or though, h,
did. another sound.
II was 20 far or and faint that he
could not h. fure. and for time
he fancied 10 might haYo been mis-.
taken Then Il cama again the
crack Of hoof- on stone, and once
more silence,
Ito held his breath. listening.
once again no heard that crack.
ing q hoofs-and this time no knew
them FOR cloysn hoofa 4 cattle
brute was coming up The trail toward
him, There wrs nothing IN that fact
10 cause undue sIcltemsnt-cxeep,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09

one thing.
Under ordinary conditions that
steer would b. lying IN some suuE
glade chewing its eui. In no nat.
ural case would II 10 coming up a
trail az a smart pact-vtth n horse
Behind n.
And there was a horse behind u.
selwood heard now distinctly the
quleter step % a saddle horse.
lie leaned forward. gripping his
own mounts nose. and strained hin
eyes In the elusive hulfllEht Pres
entity be saw what he knew DO would
hee-a rider. driving one lone steer
up the trail 10 Sky fAns.
~ was too dark 10 SEQ anything
siso-Nho the man was. or what
manner Of steer he. drove, o. what
horso 10 rode.
And tho he waited tili she cooler
breath ~ tho night warned him oi
coming day he saw nothing noFc.
lie spent half The ucai day az Cor.
dova. listening. but Tho several cat.
tlrmen came IN there was nothing
said 81 loss among them.
But tho day after Old man Conan
Was "a and ~ for dunnce.
lCeniiuucd Tomorrow
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09
CHAPTER VII
The Shadows Thicker

OLD man Conan was. a. Mckane
" had said, half crazy with the
Ioss OF his cattle. They were not so
many. only matter OF some e head
laIr they meant a lot 10 hun. He
6vncd no patented land. He was
merely n squatter in tho lower
frinSes OF the Upper Country around
AZ the western end OF Mystery Ridge
where Rainbow cliff stopped spec
sacuiarly. He lived with his wife In
q disrepuiable old cabin and worked
beyond his years and strength In the
white fire OF nmbitlon-a laudablc
ambition. for he had u crippled son
hack East in college. He ran cattle
in the hills and he knew every head
% his brand 10 tho last woboly calf.
an easy matter. since they were few.
AZ the store IN Cordova 10 told
his woes 10 the countryside. and he
had an attentive audience. for his
issue was theirs. and in a broader
way.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09

warming weeks OF spring which had
not seen him. "a shadow IA tho ahsd'
owa, riding tho slopes and flats Of
Namcless. Sometimes he sat Tor
hours high ON some shoulder of the
hills watching tho bowl beneath with
Tho moonlight sitting down In a silver
flood. Again, when tho nights were
dark. ho rode up under tho very liz
on Rainbow eliff and watched and
listened. his every sense as acute a.
a panthcra There were times
when he sat for half a night within
hnllmr distance OF Kate CathreW 4
stronghold. and once her dogs. wind.
lng him. hammered c1citedly. This
brought ont steaiihy listener
whose only betrayal wns the differ
emf note In tho dogs voices
hut someone WAS there Ia the
darkness % the veranda. aud sci
wood outatayed him. whoever he was
-outstayed tho animals excitement
their curiosity. ana left with the hin,
OF coming dawn 10 drop back down
tho slanta ana sleep the day away al
home.
Night again saw him travelling
and always hia ono olaossion TINY
eied with him tho hardand.fnst pre-
sentiment that Kate CAthrow wa,
tho tangible element In the smoke
screen o. mystery which rode the
country.
IL was not long after the talk al
the store. perhaps a week or surl
matter. when he got tho first faint
milling OF a clue. IL was scarcely
more. yet u served 10 sharpen al,
wits 90 a razor edge. ~ was mol
moon light. neither was n clear dari
OF tho moon. but that vague tim,
IN between when pale sickle haile,
tho vault and shed tn halflight {,
make shadows ghostiy and substane,
lllusivc.
solwood had ridden an the lover
reaches Of Nameioss that week, hat
nlSlrted tho western end Of Myster,
and even trailcd far into tho Deei
Hearts themselves in an effort 1,
find something. anything. whiei
might tell him no was az least on "a,
right track.
Ho hardly knew what II was foi
which no scarehed-pcrhaps an ols
trail. perhaps secret branding fire
But 10 had found nothing. so b,
fell back on his night riding again
and as always this led him Instinct
lively into tho region OF Sky Lin,
ranch. lie had crossed the fivei
near the head Of Nance Alilson'i
titled land and had sat a moment
pcerinE down tho length OF IN,
brown stretch where tho rows o,
young corn wcre sprinsinE hraysiy
II pleased tho sheriff 20 SEQ INT
promise OF a fair crop. for he knew
tho SRI. and had known her fathei
for an honest. straightforward man
Tho hard effort Of the family 20 Eet
along was known 10 all the ranehsri
and earned It's mead o. admiration
in a land where work was regards
almost a. a religion.
Nameless could eondons wronE
but not ahlftlesaness
And this girl was not shlftloss.
insoiad her sharp management
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09

the Twins held tight 90 snooI.s
.on tho night mnr6H hack
snooflo was the ofdest son ~ che
Dream Maker Man ana he was
searching for Tweskanose. vss0 had
stolen tho sleepy sand from the
Sand Man.
"Glddapr' said Enoozle, and the
white nightmare went ciuba.lub
olubalub. ciuba.lub along the MILKY
Way straight toward Mari,
And pretty soon they got there
and knocked az the gate. i.ata.tat
tat Hatniattati
who's thercT asked an old man
with "a Frcen beard and blue hair
and a nose ike a cucumber. full Of
bumps aud ridges and very. very
long Hs was first cousin 20 Tie
Moon Man. but nobody would have
known ~. he being 20 queer m all.
but then all tho people Or Mars
were queer and no two were alike.
who's thrrcT'' asked tho Old man
sticking his head out Of a window
in the stone wall heslds the gate.
us" said Nancy. ibid Taeeka.
nose. the gnome. come here with q
sack Of sandT'
"No'm." said tho old man.
That's what fald." declared
Nancy impatlontiy. lies a gnome
ana he's a rascal. too. Did you eco
himT'
Nom" said tho queer old fellow
again with a shake of his head.
't3astwaya ! didn't SEQ him. But
then Two heen asleep on Mar
everybody sleeps while ho works aud
all the guards sleep on duty. A
am on duty 81 hours every day, !
sleep most OF tho time, N DO vas
good climber be could get over
tho wall and I wouldn't zee him. Ho
may b. on Mars and then again be
may not be on Mars. and n 30 n on
Mars /"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09
Victoria Surgeon
to Pen Four Years

VICTORIA. Il. C.. Oct 9.--Dr
Erik W. Boak. well known local
surgeon. must so 70 tho peniten.
tiary on charge Of killing David
Bailaniyne, Dr. Boak'a car hit
Ballantyns and Alexander AcLach.
Ian on the highway here August
20. Dr. Boak was sentenced 10
serve four years IN the pcniientiary
yesterday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09

SYNOPSIS
~Cattle Kate Cathrew IL seektnE.
fer sonae unknown reason. 20 drive
Nance Allison aud her family cut OF
the NameIes. NlN er country. Aiiison
has been Killed by n fall from =
sfIff. the the family believe. cattle
ru.tier. were responsible. "saftIe
Kate runs skyline ranch. Her rid
era arc NIL stranger. In the valley.
sheriff Price .eiiweod 10 suspicious
sf her. and fights Mehanr, st"re-
le~prr NJ ,srdeva and n silent ad-
mlrer OF kate. when he voices hts
su.pIelen.. Nance. ridiaE In the
hills. find. n small boy. sonny. nna
q collie. il,ing In . cave. He tells
her he lives With "nrapd-- The
sheriff again warns Mehnne OF
Kate. telling him he believe. skyllnc
ranch Is responsible for the rustitnE
Meantime kate gives her foreman
secret instructions.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09
Washington Has q
Proofreader Jobs

Persons qualified 20 DO proofread-
inE. editing and inds1inE arc sought
for vacancies IN four positions IN
departmental work az Washington,
D. G. according 90 an announce
mrnt OF the 18th district head
quarters civil service commission,
wednesday Tho posts and their
opening aalarics arc:
Principal editorial clerk. $500:
senior editorial clerk. 1880; chi
,orihi clerk. 1850. assistant cdi-
toriai clerk. $500. Applicants. be.
tween ~ and 90 years. inclusive,
should apply NJ room 2o7 Posiofncs
bldg. for Information regarding the
examination 10 10 held November &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
TRIBUTE IS PAID
 TO JOHN J. EAGAN
Dr. W. W. Alexander Sketches
 Career Of Idealist

BLUE RIDGE, N. C., Aug. 10.- The career of John J. Eagan, promi- 'nent Birmingham and Atlanta business man, was sketched during an address here in which Dr. W. W. Alexander, an associate, paid a tribute to Mir. Egan and remarked that he was one of the most remarkable men the south produced since the war.
 Purchase of the American Cast Iron Pipe company, his influence in the re- form movement, his determination to conduct his affairs on the basis of the Golden Rule and his efforts to protect American soldiers and sailors from the dangers of vice, were the high points in Dr. Alexander's speech.
 Ordinary men rose to the ideals of Eagan," Dr. Alexander declared, re- counting the determination of his as sociates at the time of his death to carry OH his work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
VICTIM BLINDED ]. BY HGHWAYMEN
 AFTER ROBBERY
Acid Thrown In Face Of
 Salesman TO Effect

Pretending to be seriously. injured in an automobile accident, two bandits late Monday night Iured F. T. Rivers, travelling salesman, of Savannah, Ga, out of his machine and robbed him of a watch, diamond stickpin and $160 in money on the Bessemer highway, 10 miles beyond Bessemer.
 After Heecing their victim, the rob bers made their escape by throwing an acid into Rivers eyes which left him blind for 30 minutes while they made their escape in a Ford coupe.
 Rivers was coming to Birmingham when he saw two men, apparently seriously injured, lying beside an au- tomobile, he told deputy sheriffs Mon- day night. He called to the men, and when he received no answer got out to render aid.
 As he bent over the first man, a gun was thrown in his face and ordered to put his hands up. The second bandit took his watch, stickpin and money. Completing the robbery, the bandits threw the liquid which left their victim blind until they could make their escape.
 When he was able to drive, Rivers made his way to the Tutwiler hotel and notified the sheriff's office. Dep uties form the Birmingham and Bes. semer offices left immediately for the scene of the crime. Rivers was able to give only a meager description of the bandits. They were dressed in khaki, he said h
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
lBy Associated Press.l

GOFF PLAZA, CLARKS- BURG, w. Va, Aug. H. John w. Davis opened his campaign for the presidency of the United States tonight in a veritable torrent of rain, a rain that soaked the thousands i of persons who had journeyed from many cities to "itles the formal ceremonies to notify the candidate of lis 8as lection as the standard beare1 of the democratic par '.
 Undaunted by the vea ther, I Mir. Davis stood upon tns Ispeakers, platform yvii5.a a I lfriend held an unIbreil q 5Ya This head, and launched a bif- ter attack upon the rer Il ticaA party, declaring it had shakeR public confidence to Sis very | foundation" And the great throng gathered to listen to his speech, only a few Rllon were able to provide make shift shelter from th9 storm with newspapers and other non-water proof materials, stayed on despite the rain. They listened to MT. Davis de- nounce the republicans for having exhibited a deeper and more widespread corruption than any that this generation of Americans has been called upon to witness" s."
 Says Confidence Needed
 The supreme need of the time, said the nominee, is to bring back to the people confidence in their government. Having thus sounded the rallying cry of democracy's hosts in the battle ahead, Mir. Davis with vigor and force pre- scented the program to which he pleaded himself if given the mandate of the American people.
 He promised as the chief features of this program an hoHesr, impartial shd | just government; tax and tariff re- vision; farm aid; cooperation "offi- cially" with all legitimate endeavors to lessen the prospect of war; economy in government and conservation of all of the nations natural resources and strict enforcement of the prohibition as well as all other laws.
 Turning to the subject of religious freedom, which was the basis of sharp | Oh in hA Arly hot named him the party candidate, MT. Davis did not mention the Ku Klux Klan by name, but was emphatic in his declaration of opposition to any chal- lenge, organized or unorganized, under whatever name or in whatever charae-
 (COntinued On Page TwO.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
CHICAGO YOUTHS FIRST INTENDED TO ATTACK GIRL Theories Of Phantasy Life Vigorously Assailed
 By Defense NEW TESTIMONY
 IS BROUGHT OUT Claim Made That Boys Were 'Rehearsed'
 For Trial
(By Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-The theories of the phantasy life and functional disorder of the endocrine glands built up by the dense through it's fourth alienist, Dr. H. s. Hubert of Chicago, in it's plea for miti- gation of punishment of Rich ard Loeb and Nathan F. Leo- pold, IT,, for Kidnapping and staying young Robert Franks, was attacked vigorously by the state today in the hearing be- fore Judge John R. Caverly. Battering away at the mass of writ l ten and oral testimony developed by the defense in it's claim that the youths were influenced by childish phantasies, which continued to sway them us they developed into manhood, Loeb dream ing of committing the perfect crime and Leopold blindly following because of "kingslave" dream that had per sisted for yeers, Robert E. Grove states attorney, forced from Dr. Hul- bert the admission that it was possible the youths had been rehearsed by att torneys and doctors interested in build ing their defense.
 Hammering no less relentlessly, the prosecutor gained the admission that ] the effect fo the endocrine glands on Eforning and fixing mentality is as yet ser s5nsiy debated question in the med icaI profession.
 lAssi e.. Gy.x..Rvss Ep saF 'Fs'la--z H4s5 2
 The young mental pathologist ad. mitted that his conclusions that both | Tsoeb and Leopold were mentally sick' were based chiefly on statements made to him by Leob and Leopold, and that he knew the two had lied to him in some instances. mainly through withholding information they were asked to divulge.
 He admitted there were gaps in his report, which, if filled in with the withheld :. information might have in- fluenced him to conclusions different from these he has recited.
 That Leopold favored Kidnapping
 and attacking 8 young girl before
 killing her, rather than following LOeb's plan of selecting 8 male child as their victim, also was
 brought out by Mir. Grove on
 cross examination. .Dr. Hubert
 said that Leopold had told him his
 preference of a girl victim was in-
 fluenced by a phantasy in which he
 had vlsioned German soldiers at-
 taching French girls.
 Dr. Hubert joined the three alien ists who had preceded him in the wit ness box ill stating that Leopold, while intellectually powerful, was of an emo tional age of below 12 years. but Mir. Grove got from him the statement {:
 Leopold has more cmtion than he says exists"
 Mir. Grove had asked the witness | If, when Leopold was not posing, |" with his super-mentality on guard, he was not emotional.
 Declared Posing
 "It is possible" Dr. Hubert replied when the prosecutor asked him if Leo
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
COST SPLIT ONLY POINT NOTSETTLED New Conference Will De- termine Amount City
 Must Spend 2 OTHER STREETS WON'T BE SPAWNED 14th And 2Oth Will Re- main Unprotected Un-
 der Agreement CROSSING PROBLEM IS NEARLY SOLVED Tripartite Farley Finds Common Ground-LitigatiOn Care
 fully Summed
2 OTHER STREETS
 WON'T BE SPAWNED
CROSSING PROBLEM
 IS NEARLY SOLVED

A compromise that will in- sure immediate construction of viaducts at Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth streets, but may leave Fourteenth and Twentieth streets unprotect- ed for several years, was vir- tually agreed on late Monday at a grade crossing confer enee between railroad execu- tives, city commissioners, the viaduct committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Gen. w. l.. Sibert.
 The lone point on which the com mission and the railroads remain at variance is q division of the cots of the structures. The railroads asked the city to bear % per cent of the cost, but commission members counterad with 2 proposal to pay 8 per cent. These if nancial differences will be settled at q final conference on August g. after which steps for an actual beginning of fIIe work will be put under way.
 The sighteenth ara street spans will cost aispro tely $S500 GOO each. Similar structures will be placed at Fourteenth and Twentieth streets later on, under the plan adopted.
 Litigation Is D0dged.
 Entering the conference firmly bent on placing underpasses at all four of these downtown crossings, commission members relented when it was made plain that this plan would result in long litigation.
 City. Engineer A. J. Hawkins, who prepared the underpass plans by direc- ti0n of the commission, asked that they be withdrawn from consideration If they are going to prevent quick action 2
 General Sibert, who recently sug- gested viaducts at Eighteenth and Twentieth streets after completing a survey for the Chamber of Commerce, told the conference he thought the re- vised program was an excellent ar rangement."
 The railroad heads suggested that the work on Eighteenth and Twenty
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
EFFORT TO ALLAY
 WAR FEARS MADE
Big Loan For Japan To Be
 FlOated In America

NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-Unusual clauses designed to allay fears on the part of investors of a possible war be- tween this country and Japan or of the result of the exclusion of Japanese immigrants from the United States, are contained in the terms of big loan to Japan for which the national city company has invited subscriptions.
 It is proposed to raise $22, ,000 for Japan by selling bonds issued for the account of the Industrial Bank of Japan. Ltd, each of which will be internationally guaranteed and en- dorsed by the imperial Japanese govern ment,
 The terms of the loan contract pro vide that the bonds shah be payable in time of war as we'll as of peace, ire spectiye of the nationality of the holder and without any declaration of citizen ship. The are redeemable beginning August 16, 1926 upon 30 days notice at 100.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
Allied Forces Of Greed
 Threaten Natior. DaUis

made to world peace in the last four years?"
 I've must face the humiIiating fact that we have a government that does not dare to speak its mind be- yond the three-mile limit"
 From ymy point of view he only deserves to be called a progressive who cannot see a wrong persist with out an effort to redress it, or a right denied without an effort to protect it; who feels a deep concern for the economic welfare of the United States, but realizes that the making of better men and better women is matter greater still who thinks of every governmental policy first of all in its bearing upon human rights rather than upon material things 1; who believes profoundly in human equality and detests privilege in what ever form or in whatever disguise, and who finds the true test of sue cess in the welfare of the @nany and not the prosperity and comfort of the few"
 FavOrs World Court
 "We favor the world court in sincerity and not merely for cam paign purposes or as an avenue of escape from the consideration of larger questions"
 we do not and we cannot accept the dictum unauthorized by any ex- precision of popular will that the Neague of Nations is a closed in- cident as far as we are concerned"
 T have never found it possible greatly to concern myself as to the terms of our adherance or the language in which those terms might be phrased. Deeds are of more con sequence than words"
 If I become President of the United States, Amreica will sit as an equal among equals whenever she sits at all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-12
SAFE CRACKERS GET
 $I,OOO AT MOBILE
Kress Company Robbed Early
 Monday Morning

MOBILE, Aug. 11.-Expert safe crackers who robbed the safe of s. H. Kgess and company of considerable cash, estimated at $1 900 had not been apprehended by the police tonight. The safe blowers were modern in every re- spect. They first cut the lock off the front door of the place so neatly that it was hardly noticeable. After reach ing the inside of the store they piled up heavy dress goods and towels around the safe,. drilled the combination, loaded it with nitro-glycerine and set the charge off with an electric torch. An electric fuse and saw was found on the floor near the safe. The place closed Saturday night at 10 o'clock, but the robbery was not discovered until today.