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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
FIRST INSTALMENT

Rose Morris was at once the
richest and the prettiest girl in
Dover, Michigan. She drove a
sleek, fat little pony hitched to a
marvellous wicker dogcart, the en-
Wy of every child in town, and to
Jimmy Rowan she represented all
that was both desirable and unat-
toinable.
By the time he was fifteen he
was hopelessly in love with her and
he carved hearts and arrows on all
the trees in his yard and initiated
them with interlocking Rs and is
He wrote her passionate misspelleo
love notes and in words of fire he
told her of his undying devotion.
He never sent the notes, of course,
and his declarations were only whis-
pered to the empty air, for he still
remained 'the Rowan kid; his
people were desperately poor and
he was cursed with a sensitive pride.
Jim was surprised one day to hear
that Mr.. Hiram Morris had "gone
out of business" and was leaving
for the West. What that meant
the boy did not know, but he I'M
derstood that the Morris fortune
was not what it had been. Rose and
her mother remained in Dover.
They lived on much as usual and
they referred vaguely to those large
interests whirh kept MI. Morris
away from home. But the pony
and dogcart wers gone and so were
the housekeeping bays. 1t was while
Jim was working his way through
college that they quietly moved
away. The Morris house sold for
barely enough to pay the mortgage.
Some people endure poverty
cheerfully, others with a grim
stoicism: the majority of people
who are Born poor accept it with a
fatalistic resignation and never look
forward to anything else.
Jim Rowan was unlike any of
these. He loathed poverty; it was
uncomfortable. 1t had kept him from
knowing Rose Morris. He swore
he would make himself rich for her
sake. In time this became a fixed
idea with him and he quit college
and went to work, savagely. 1t took
him quite a while, however, to real
lie that riches are not come by in
a hurry and that he was getting no.
where.
He had lost track of the Morrises
completely-there was no use of
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sed with some extraordinary ane
unexpected good fortune were apt
to boast that they had " Mich
gan's luck" Michigan's luck
became an Alaskan phrase.
More than once Rowan took
stock of his winnings and realized
that he had nearly attained the
goal he had set for himself, but
invariably Fate interviewed to pre-
vent him from quite reaching the
quitting point. Time crept along.
The cycle of life for placer camps
is brief.
Dawson grew, flourished, began
to die; representatives Of big COM
panies appeared and bought up
tracts of property; they talked Of
huge dredging and hydraulic pro-
jects.
Some of these newcomers were
possessed of the gambling fever and
they tried their luck against The
Michigan Kids. Rumors spread of
big games in the back rooms Of the
Kids place, games where the sky
was the limit. One man in particu-
lar scoffed at "Michigan's luck"
and prophesied that he would get"
the Kid-send him out of the coun-
try broke. This was a Colonel
Johnson, a great engineer and min
ing promoter who represented a
London syndicate. He and Rowan
met, finally, much as famous duel
lists meet, and behind locked doors
they played for twenty hours.
What the stakes were nobody
knew, but they must have been
enormous, and luck must have run
the Kids way, as usual for Colonel
johnson rose finally, stepped out
into the hall, and killed himself.
That at least was the story which
was made public and which the au-
thorities accepted. Certain spite
ful-minded persons whispered
knowingly that this story was all a
fabrication: hat 'Michigan's luck
had finally deserted him and that
the hot had been fired inside, not
outside, the room.
Ugly rumors such as these flew
through the streets, but whether
they reached the ears of the Kid
nobody ever knew. Perhaps they
did. Perhaps that was why he sold
his place two weeks later and with
out so much as saying good by to
anybody he caught the next down.
river boat.
y
When Jim Rowan closed the door
Of his steamer stateroom behind
him, he closed it, as he thought
upon The Michigan Kid and every
thing that had to do with that no
torious character.
When the first bend of the river
had hidden Dawson City from view
he drew from his pocket a wallet,
and from this he carefully extracted
a bury, time-yellowed picture Of
Rose Morris. 1t wa a picture he
had clipped from a Dover news
paper on the day Rose graduated
from the local high school and it
showed her as a girl in white with
a floppy hat and a sash Of ribbon
about her waist. 1t was perhaps
the one and only personal posses
sion that he had never risked los
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

keeping in touch with them-but
he still had his day-dreams, he still
thought of himself as Roses's prince
who sooner or later would search
her out and seat her upon a throne.
Depression seized him occasionally
when he saw how hopeless was the
task he had set for himself.
At such times he grew desperate
and he told himself that nc price
was too great to pay for success;
he longed for some opportunity of
becoming suddenly rich and vowed
that he would sell his soul for such
a chance. ~
The chance came finally, or it
seemed to come, with the news of
the Klondike discovery. Jim Joined
the first rush to the Yukon and he
arrived in Dawson City with the
firm determination to make a for
tune somehow, anyhow. Here again
however, he learned that money was
not to be had for the asking.
Placer mining was a hazardous
undertaking, with the odds a thou
sand to one against success. Educa-
ton counted for little in a country
where men were judged on a pick
and-shovel basis and paid for the
actual work they did. Jim saw that
here was not the place in which to
earn a fortune; here was nothing
but speculation, chance, a gamble
either with men or with nature.
In order to beat the game one
had to risk all, then double his win
.nings and risk them again and
again. To gamble here was not a
sin, it was the daily practice of
everybody. Men gambled with
death when they hit the trail; they
gambled again when they staked
their labor and their time against
Natures bedrock secrets, only they
took longer chances than when they
heaped their chips on the roulette
table or dropped their Jokes" on
the high card. There was this diff
ference, too; Nature seldom played
fairly, whereas there were many
square gambling houses in Dawson.
Jim Rowan fitted himself to his
new surroundings and adapted him.
self to a new code of morals. He
played as other men played, except
in one respect; he never played for
the excitement or for the fun of it,
he played only to win. He played
for Rose Morris. He tried specula-
ting in claims, but he was unIucky:
his only winnings came from the
manipulating of Dawson City real
estate or at cards, and the time!
when he found himself the owner
of a huge Front Street saloon and
gambling house, together with a
nickname of the Alaskan flavor.
Perhaps a score of people knew
him as James Rowan, but to the
thousands that went in and out of
his place he was "The Michigan
That was the way he even
his checks, for the name had
brought him luck, and superstiti-
ously he chung to it.
Life flowed at a furious pace in
those early days. Regulations were
made in a night; in six months they
were hallowed; in a year they had
become legendary. There were
many celebrities in the Yukon
country the mere mention of whom
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
Keep a Good Laxative
always in your home

Among the necessities Of home is
q good, reliable laxative. Don't be
without onel Do your best to pre-
vent constipation. Don't neglect it
when you feel any Of It's disagree
able symptoms coming on I'VE
have used Thedford's Black-Draught
FOR Il years and have found it a
very useful medicine that every
family ought to have In their home"
writes Mrs. Perry Hicks, Of Bolton,
Texas. II take Black-Draught for
blousness, constipation and other
Ills where a good laxative or purga-
tive b needed. I have always found
Black-Draught gives good results"
Sold in 25-cent packages.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
The Human Element Bacl
Of Your Telephone

I But for the hn-
man element back
Of your telephone,
the millions of dol
lars worth Of tele-
phone equipment
in the State would
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

be confined to supervising any tuplets appear will b
scenes in which his charges appear their nursery at DaFoa
ed. Callander. They will !
Any scenes in which the quin- ed to any studio.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15

spent r1ainlN sr
the necessities M
life, in the COM
munities~ wherethey
work and live. This
regular ~expendi-:
ture of money aids
Evening star., 1935-02-08

city editor.
Hector read the insulting message
In silence. "Humph." he ragged
through gritted teeth. "A typical city
slicker." It was the fourth such re-
ception he had received in one morn
ing.
Hector picked up a copy of the
paper that lay on the desk. The lead
story ran like this: "Gangland guns
famed death again on the South Side
when two henchmen Of Black Joe
Penturis were shot to death while
delivering"
The impulse to tell the city editor
what he thought of such news writing
was irresistible, so, on a piece OF paper
supplied by the sympathetic attendant,
Hector wrote:
such brilliant news writing as
'Gangland guns etc, is certainly
tribute to your intelligence. You
might look through your back files and
see how many times the same words
have appeared in your own paper.
Back in his hotel room Hector re-
viewed the jolts lie had received and
there was born in him flaming de-
sire for revenge.
Suddenly his brain clicked. He drew
a piece of paper to him and wrote
rapidly: Wanted, three experienced
newspaper men, reporters or reWrlte
men. for downstate magazine work.
Salary $125 weekly and expenses;
must now be employed on city paper ;
tell about yourself"
Next morning he inserted the ad IN
the Globe. From the rs letters he re-
ceived shortly Hector selected three
from the men on the Globe. Two were
rewrite men and one a reporter.
He introduced himself as John E
Broces. All three signed contracts
which Hector drew himself.
Hector figured that City Editor Mil
Ter would receive three designations
the following day, Monday morning
And he didn't figure wrong, for when
he telephoned as a rewrite man looking
for a job the call was Immediately
switched to Miller's line.
I'm looking for a man." Miller
told him. Where do you come from
Mr.. Leary?"
Worked in New York for five
years" said Hector laZily.
Back and forth they jockeyed over
salary until it ended with Hector S
being promised starting wage of $50
weekly. He vas to report for work
Wednesday morning.
There were moments when Hector
Evening star., 1935-02-08

ploye on a big city daily!
AS he gauged the strain under which
Miller labored he suddenly forgave
him. But he was reused from his rev.
erie by Miller's voice: Take the call
off No. S, Leary!"
'Heeney, at the detective bureau"
he heard voice say. There was
riot this morning at the Royal Hotel.
The old fake job racket. Some dude
named John E. BroceS OF New YORK
hired bunch of boys to do magazine
work. Guess he took about $50 from
each one. Beat it with the dough.
you know.
well, the boys reported for work
this morning and he was among the
missing. The fellows started a hight
with the manager A riot call was
| turned in. Three Of the guys who
were gypped are being questioned IN
the hotel now by coppers. Guess
maybe Broces got dough from about
so suckers"
"How many were in the hotel this
morning waiting for this chap
Broces?" Hector asked interestedly.
"Oh, make it 25. I'll have the police
report 20 to 25," Heeney obliged.
How do you spell this Broces"
asked Hector. Like this B, as
in broke; R, as in rustic; o, as in out
smarts; C, as in city; E, as in editor;
S, as in sap?"
Yeah, that's right" said Heeney.
IS, as in sap"
Quickly Hector pounded out the
story Miller liked it so we'll his shout
was heard above the din. Nice story,
Leary. I'm giving you by-line on it.
His praise cut Hector like a razor.
What a rotter he was! A cheater.
Waiting until Miller's desk was cleared
| he marched up and confessed his
double dealing in all its details. Then
III be leaving now, Mr.. Miller. Just
glad I had a job, if it's all the same
to you"
Leaving? Like the devil! You're
staying right here. We're looking for
young men like you. Sure, I'll take
those saps back, but you go on back
| to your desk And tell the operator
| to give you the call off No. 6. It's
beautiful murder up on the Gold
Coast. And jazz it up, Leary! Love,
Kisses and Lead. Boy! That's tabloid
gold!"
(Copyright 1880
Tomorrow: Rural Finery," by Ruby
E. Livingston, tells how a country lass
got her man, although she had to get
pair of shoes to effect the capture.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
COLOMBIA REJECTS
TREATY WITH PERU
Proposed Leticia Protocol Of
Friendship Turned Down
by Senate.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOGOTA, February S.-The pro-
posed Leticia protocol of friendship
and cooperation between Colombia
and Peru was rejected yesterday by
the Colombian Senate.
After two tie votes, the Senate pres
ident cast the deciding ballot against
ratification and the Congress was
then adjourned.
The Leticia protocol was signed at
Rio de Janeiro last April and rat1fed
by the Peruvian Congress in Novem-
ber. Advanced under League of Ma
tions aegis it was designed to settle a
standing border dispute between
the two nations which at one time
threatened to embroil them in hostili-
ties.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
MkNSLAUGHTER ALLEGED
Two Held In Deaths of Seven
School Children.

STURGIS, S. OAK, February Cp).
Ted Roberts, driver, and Eldon Nor
ris, owner of truck which collided
with a school bus, resulting in the
deaths of seven Calcite children Janu-
airy 8, were bound over on manslaugh-
ter charges to the May term of Cir
cult Court by Judge Lynn Milne yes
terday,
Evening star., 1935-02-08
actually hated him

actually hated him
self for his ignoble
role. 1t seemed
grossly unfair to
make the three
chaps he had
hired suffer for the
conduct of their
superior.
I've got It," he
exclaimed Tuesday
evening, the eve Of
the denouem.n .nt.
I'll confess the
whole thing to Mil
Ter just as soon as
I've turned In my
first story and
shown him ! have
the stuff. Then
I'll quit and he can
hire those three
fellows back"
Enthroned at his
desk in the Globe
city room on We'd
nesday morning
Hector wanted to
pinch himself. At
last a regular en-
Evening star., 1935-02-08
TAKING his di-
l. ploma from the

- plOIIld lIoIil IIle
Ce tervi1le e
School Of Journal
ism, Hector wrote
at the bottom Of It:
THE young man to
whom this was
awarded is at the
door of the city
room seeking en-
ployment. I am
thoroughly expert
enced and desire
only a trial"
When the recep-
tion room attend
ant returned he
handed Hector the
diploma, this time
with a note at
tached. Suggest
you be careful how
you display this
thing. You'll likely
be prosecuted for
carrying concealed
weapons if it's
found ON you"
Signed hy Miller,
Evening star., 1935-02-08

E. Late that day Tom Orman and Bill West, pur-
suing their vain search for Rhonda and Naomi
came upon Eyad, resting from his flight. They ap-
preached carefully. for they recognized him as one
Of the girls kidnapers. But Eyad heard them
Swiftly he seized his mllsket
Evening star., 1935-02-08

But Orman had him covered and forced the Arab
to drop his gun Where are Miss Madison and
Miss Terry?" Orman demanded Eyad knew no
English but he recognized the names. In excited
pantomime he began to describe what he knew OF
the fate Of Rhonda and Naomi.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24
.uTHE LUNATIC FRINGE"

There is lunatic fringe Of
drivers who create hazards, for
themselves and everyone else, as
they rush on they rush on their
needless way" said an articles in
the Ladies Home journal, for
judy, 1886. '"They are the 5 to 10
per. cent of drivers who are re-
sponsible for 80 per cent of all ac-
cidents."
This ''lunatic fringe" has so far
shown itself to be 100 per cent
deaf to the most elementary prin-
ciples of reason. Its members
know that Excessive speed is the
MOST prolific of all CAUSES Of ser
ious accidents, and that a collision
that would be unimportant at 20
miles an hour will probably prove
fatal at sikty-yeb they continus
to push he throttle through the
floorboards. They know that pass
ing on hills and curves is an invi-
tation to the coroner-yet SO i'm
portant does time seem to to them
that they are perfectly willing to
risk theft necks and the necks of
others to save a few usually I'm
important minutes. They know
that weaving in and out of traffic,
driving On the wrong side of the
road and similar stupid practices,
may mean sudden death in one of
It's most horrible forms yet
they persist in these practices.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24
81. Andrews


There was no school during
Monday and Tuesday, because OF
the Teachers Regional Institute
in Wenatchee.
Mrs. M. E. Ward spnet the
week end in Waterville with her
daughter and son in law, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. j. Preston. and from there
she went to Teachers Institute the
first of the week in Wenatchee.
Mrs. Mickey is spending several
days in SIT. Andrws, guest of Mrs.
w. Bogart before going to the
coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Bogart of
Brewster, spent Sunday with Mo-
ris' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Bogart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen of Oroville
came down Friday to visit Mr., and
Mrs. Alfred Nicholson. Mr.. Allen
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24

returned Saturday but Mrs. Allen
who is a sister of Mrs. Nicholson.
plans on staying a few weeks.
Miss Ena Wogensen spent the
1nstitute vacation with her rela-
tives in Brewoeog. sis.
Mr. and Mrs. Silas Burton were
visiting relatives in Wenatchee
Monday and Tuesdty.
o. w. Frederick and sons Ken
meth and Eugene, We're in Mans
field Monday
Mrs. Bud Wick is up north
with hr father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. Corey Gilbert, hunting.
Little Shirley Ann Mickelsen
was not able to return to school
Wednesday on account of being
sick.
Laurence Tannebergs' enter
tanned the Jenkin family for Sum
day dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford jolly
Miss Nell Jolly and Miss Velma
Jenkin, were visiting relatives in
Leavenworth over tn week end.
Nell took this opportunity to have
her tonsils removed.
Willis Jolly returned from vi
sit at his old home in Missouri
One Of his nephews accompanied
him.
Mrs. Ward received the sad
news from Portland of her BROTH
Ier, Charles Cowan. having been
stricken with paralysis.
We, as a school, are suite hap
Ply over the Painting that Miss Maj
that is being done.
Miss Martha Larsen of Spokane,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24

They know that many accidents,
fatal and minoq alike, can be at
tributed to CARS in faulty mechani-
cal condition-yet they continue
driving many an Gold heap when
it's horn is silent, it's lights are
either glazing or inadequate, it's
steering shimmies, and it's snakes
are about as valuable stopping
device, ais the accelerator.
Result: An unusual death toll
that hovers around the $500
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24
mark.

HlaYA.
Only the most stringent meth
DDS can hope to handle the lunatiE
fringe Modern traffic laws, rigidly
enforced not only by the traffic
patrol but by the enthusiastic CO.
operation Of the sane and careful
drivers (the copper cent? ARE Wit
al. The only way to hammer some
sense into the lunatic fringe is to
treat them as the public enemies
they are.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
Published Every Friday at
Coulee City, Washington

Entered as second class matter at
the Postoffice at Coulee, Washing
ton, Under the Act of Congress
of March 8, 1879.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24

is spending the week with her re-
1atives.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-10-24

G. ID. ARNOLD, Publisher
, 1935-09-20

DURANT, Okla, Sept. 20. -0P1-
Five persons we're injured, one
critically IN the collision Of two
automobiles Thursday night near
Boswell, 20 miles east OF here.
A. G. Harris Of Madill. 81. was in
jured the most serirt sly. His Jaw
was penetrated by a steering wheel
spoke. Maurine Harris. 9. received
q broken leg. Rowena Harris, 2, suf-
fered internal injuries and two
others were bruised slightly.
The cars were driven By Henty
Harris. the elder mans son and T..
T. Dane OF Soper.
, 1935-09-20

tally wreckinb n business building
and killing Mrs. Prudie Rutherford,
mother Of several children.
The blasts tore out. concrete. brick
and timbers In a building neal the
postoffice.
FRS. Rutherford. who lived In en-
apartment on the second floor. at
te pied to get her children out
after the first explosion. Another
blast hurled her down TO the first
floor Of tn: building. The children.
VIII had reached the front OF the
building. escaped with only minor
injuries.
The lower floor OF the building
, 1935-09-20
MUSSOLINI IS
sole ARBITER
FOR ITALIANS
New Power Puts Duce
In Position For
Immediate Action In
Making War
CcopyriEht.l 1885 by the A. P.D

Copyright. 1888 by the A. P)
ROME, Sept. 20.-Premier Benito
Mussolini became the sole inteT-
prefer for Italy of tn einternstion-
al war code Friday, assuming the
position legally 10 answer any at
tacks on his Ethiopian campaign
A decree signed by King Victor
Emanuel and issued In the official
gazette, set up a commission Of the
nations highest commanding Of
ficers for revision Of the agree
ments which have disciplined the
conduct Of war among b~elliEerents
and n~eutrals."
It provided that II Duce. as chief
of the government, would be the
sole arbiter Of such necessities
The decree was interpreted In in
formed circles as placing MuSsolini
In q position to strike Immediately
and with the fun weight Of Italian
hw-against any nation which at
tempted TO Judge Italy under an
tedated" rules Of war procedure.
With this advanced answer to ap-
plication Of sanctions by England or
any other nation which might con-
slider an italian attack on Ethiopia
as an unprovoked aggression, Italy
drove ahead with vast warlike pre-
parations In its east African colonies.
Ten steamers took on loads at
Naples for immediate sailings 10 east
Afr = bearing troops. Three OF
them we're to sail Immediately, and
ell to clear port before Monday.
The question asked most fire.
quently In political and diplomatic
circles was: When viii an Italo-
Ethiopian war start7
Various dates we're suggested, but
most diplomatic circles picked Octo-
her 10 as the most probable.
Reports that the war might break
out Friday-the anniversary Of
united Italy-were ridiculed by
spokesman for informed Rome
quarters. who pointed out that italy
does not even celebrate this ami
versary any more In Difference to the
Vatican.
This was the anniversary Of the
day in 1870 when Victor Emanuel's
troops broke through the gates Of
Rome and made Pope Plus TX a pri-
soner. But since the Lateran treaty
of 1929 .Mussolini has ordered that
the day not be celebrated. He Great
ed a new holiday. February IL. the
da-. the accord was signed.
That the cabinet would declare
war Saturday was generally held
most improbable. The ministers were
ex. scted to take some additional
measures Of an economic nature for
further financing Of the east African
campaign.