The morning Astorian., March 25, 1908, Page 3, Image 3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1008.
THE MORNING ASTOIUAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
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Hojne Coming
Trcntlss Hayward ptfnhetl lift chair
lick from the, deslj; in4 'shut hi
watch wltlra snap, It! wanted only
ton minute till (our ami Helen hud
been ordered to he al the office at
four o'clock sharp, Helen would be
on time at her own hunglig, her
father knew only too well, just as the
had been on time at her wedding
because the had promised and could
not break her word.
' Even now the memory of that mar
riage rankled in hit soul. Had the
not been punished sufficiently? Had
not he himself thrust the m4n upon
lierf Yet, but that was while, he
thouiiht Barnard Warren could be of
service to him. To have his only
dnughtcr elope with the man who had
outwitted him, overreached him at
every turn, that, was; what hurt. It
was that for which be had never for
given her. ....
A part of the' debt he had collected
when, after her home had suffered
Ahipwreck and her husband had de
serted her for the third and last time;
ho took her sixteen-year-old son into
his office, there to act as office boy,
janitor, scapegoat for everything that
went wrong, One morning, when
Howard Warren, together with five
thousand dollars from the safe, was
missing, the other men in the office
declared the boy could t.Ot be blamed.
Nevertheless his grandfather procur
ed a warrant for his arrest, . k
' That was five years ago, but not a
trace of the missing boy had ever
been found. Doubly ' heartbroken
Helen contrived to eke out a meager
livelihood by means of her needle and
brush. In three years she had not
seen her father and now, when in re
sponse to his peremptory command,
she entered the office, she was shock
ed to see how unwelcome age had
left its impress on his face. He had
never been other than stern grasping,
and even as child she had dreaded
jrather than yearned for his home
fromlng. Today It seemed to her that
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every usee ui Humanity nuu junc
from his countenance.
With a shy "Good af ernoon, father,
I trust you are well," she approached
ithe desk. 'The extended hand was
ignored, as the old man fumbled a
hnndfull of letters. One of them he
drew forth and returned the rest to a
pigeonhole as he remarked,
"I am informed that the miserable
young th'ef your son, is In St. Paul.
"Don't, father! Howard is not a
thief. He may have yielded to the
pressure of a sudden temptation, and
he may be the victem of some other
man's wrongdoing, hut he is not a
thief."
"Call it by whatever soft name
pleases your artistic fancy," Prentiss
Hayward sneered. "From my point
of view he is a plain thief. When a
boy takes five thousand dollars from
the safe of his benefactors, I call it
fkeft."
Now could Howard have known
the combination on the safe? And
besides, if he had had that much
money, I am sure he would not let
his mother suffer." i
"Oh, I have no doubt his mother
has sharing it with him. I happen
to know that you have heen helping
him to evade my detection all these
years."
"Father, you know that is a wicked
falsehood. How can you make such
a charge? I have never seen nor
heard from Howard since the day be
fore he went away." As she spoke,
her too sensitive conscience pricked
as she remembered the note her boy
had sent her, "Don't worry, and
don't tell anything. You are in dang
er and I have to go away to save you.
Refuse to .sign all documents, It will
be hard on us both, but we must be
brave." As his glittering blue eyes
met hers it seemed that he must read
even this closely treasured memory,
the memory that had sustained her
for five years.
"Falsehood or truth, it makes very
little difference to us now. I only
wanted to tell you that we'll have the
young rascal in jail within twenty-1.
four hours. How does that suit your
ladyship?'! : a;' . l :
. "Fatherl" her face, grew a shade
whiter and she grasped the edge of
the desk for support. "You could not
imprison your only grandchild. , Think
what it would mean to have such a
stigma on his name, You cannot"
. "I both can and: will." , Neither of
them had heard the office door open,
so intent were they in this final battle
lof wifla." In the shadow near the door
Woung man with a travel-worn suit
vcose In one hand and a small leather
j satchel in the other, sank into a chair.
The woman's skirt screened him from,
the old man's Vie.- ''. 1 K f
-.."I have wired the sheriff at Stl Paul
to arrest him at once and have him
sent here by the first train. You can
visit dim in the city Jail the day after
tomorrow." '
"Father, I beg you" Tears were
streaming down her pallid cheeks as
she 'leaned across the desk to look
him full In the face. Tunish me at
much as you like, but spare him."
"Well, that sounds different," Hay
ward muttered. , "You remember cer
tain documents that I asked you sev'
eral years ago to affix your signature
to? You were stubborn and hateful
then and refused, although I never
could see why. The papers are noth
ing to you. A mere matter of busi
ness, but you wouldn't accommodate
me. Maybe you have changed your
mind. Maybe you will give me those
signatures in exchange for this war
rant."
"Oh, father, I'll do it. HI do any
thing rather than have him arrested
And you swear, on your honor, that
you will never try to prosecute him1
if I iign." -
"Humph, the object being removed,
why should 1 bother with your worth
less boy? No, I'll never molest him.
Here, 1 have them all ready for you.
Put your full name on the lower line."
He had lifted three yellow documents
from a drawer and spread them on
the top of the desk. The woman re
moved her oft-mended glove and took
the pen from his hand. As she was
about to sign, her hand was seized
violently from the rear and a voice
commanded:
'"Don't sign those papers. I told
you not to sign under any circum
stances. Don't let that old vidian
bluff you."
The "old villian" had started to his
feet as if the very devil himself had
appeared in the room. Then he sank
back in his chair, the veins standing
out like ropei on bit brow. Hit lip
twitched and he rubbed his hands
together nervously as his daughter
wheeled and fell into the arms of her
son. As soon as he could command
his trembling voiee he yelled:
"So you have had the braien audac
ity to come back and to come right
here to my office!"
"Yes, Mr. Hayward, it was I who
warned you that you had about come
to the end ,of your rope. I even sug
gested this meeting with my mother
for this afternoon. I didn't know it
would all work out so smoothly; but
I thought it would be worth taking
a chance at."
"You you upstart, you rascal, you
thief, you" "There, that's about
enough." He had seated his mother
in the chair by the door and the two
men were glaring at each other across
the desk. "I am not any of those
things that you mention and I have
proof that"
"Much good your proof will do
when I get you landed in jail. I'll
have the warrant served at once. I'll
see whether you'll defy me, you you
son of a gambler, boodler, money
shark!" "I have no doubt my father was all
those things; but I had a good start
in life on the mother's side, and I
would never have had such a father
if he had not been your partner in
crime. I happen to resemble him in
only one respect that I have suc
ceeded in getting the best of you."
"Getting the best of met What do
you mean? Don't come any bluffing
on me. I'm too old a bird to be
caught with such chaff."
"It doesn't happen to be chaff, Mr.
Hayward. This is a trap that even
an old bird isn't going to get out of."
He paused and waited, conscious of
his power.
"You you show your hands. Show
your hands, I say," the man across the
desk thundered. "What is it you've
got? What is" he paused, gritted
his gold--laden teeth and changed his
tack, "What have you done with my
five thousand dollars, the money that
you stole out of my safe?"
"I didn't steal any money out of
your safe. You thought I was asleep
when you took that money from the
safe. I played possum all right
while you put one thousand of it intb
my pockets and buried the rest in the
cellar. I heard you muttering to
yourself while you fixed up those
papers for my mother to sign. It
stood me in good stead to have the
reputation of being a fearfully sound
sleeper, I didn't do any sleeping that
night, not even after, the dope you put
in my coffee. I knew the coffee was
wrong as soon as I tasted it, and that
put me on my, guard. I poured the
stuff down Jhe sewer and went with
out my iupper.1 1 didn't .know jwhat
you night have mixed with the mus
tard in the sandwiches."
"You verminl to think that you
didn' even-'' I :f ; . ;
j"No, I didn't even,": the young man
sneered. "But 1 beg you not to in
terrupt me again. I have not .finish
ed yet." ...
"But you haven't any proof. I defy
you to produce one bit of evidence
that would hold in court."
"Yes, I have the evidence. You
probalby missed your precious red
morocco diary, the morning after I
disappeared."
"You carried that off? Much good
that will do you. You can't read it."
"My dear Mr. Hayward, there
never yet was a cipher alphabet to
cleverly contrived that somebody
couldn't make it out. I have had am
ple time, out in the deserts of New
Mexico, to transform your cunning
cipher into the ordinarp English al
phabet, and I have made a complete
transcript of all your confessions. I
should have thought such a threwd
old rabbit at you would have known
better than to leave tuch plain tracks"
At he tpoke, the old man lay back
in hit chair, bit lipi working convul
sively, hit eyet rolling.
"I have the complete record of all
your dealing! with my father, not to
mention certain little dealt with city
officials. I have a detailed account j
of the circumstances leading to your ;
marriage to my grandmother when '
my mother was a baby a little more j
than a year old. It was worth all the
trouble, just to know that you were ;
no relation to me. It is enough of a .
handicap to have a bad father. I
wanted to have a decent blood on one '
side at least." , '
"You read-" j
"Oh, ever so much more, Mr. Hay- j
ward. I asked you once not to in-,
terrupt me. I read the record of bow
you tried to force my grandmother
to sign those papers, that would put
a million dollars worth of property
into your hands, and how you choked
her, yes, choked her to death, when
she refusedl" '
"Stop! It's enough. Give me my
book and let me go my way."
"Give you your book? Do you
take me for that kind of fool? Hand ,
you the rope to tie around my neck?
No, Mr. Hayward, I know you entire-'
ly too well for anything like that I
have you where I can put you in the
penitentiary on any one of eighteen
counts, not to mention that little ep-
isodc, the murder of your wife. IT
I had my own way, I'd put you there,
too. Not for what you did to me,
but for what you made my mother
suffer. But the grievance is hers.
I'll let her decide. Come, Mamma
dear. You have heard the case
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against tnis naruenea oia vmuin.
What shall I do with him?"
The mother arose and laid a hand
on his arm. "We can be merciful,"
she said, "now that we have each
other. I don't want vengeance. 1
want only you," and they left the
office together.
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The Cardiff Coal & Coke Company of Portland hat leased 851 acres of proven coal land on the
Cowliu River, about three milet north of Kelso, Washington.
Development
This property it opened by several miles of tunnels, cross-cuts, dip entries and air connections,
thowing three veins of coal with actually more than 500,000 tons of coal blocked out and in tight
Equipment
The property it equipped with a railroad from the mine to the Cowlitz River, laid .with 35-pound
steel rails, with bunkers both at the mine and the river. Pit cart and coal cart, a large machine
thop, three-story hotel furnished complete, large dining room, commissary, butcher shop, barn,
powder magazine, oil and tool houses, timber sheds, office and eleven new bouse. ,
Capacity
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The capacity of the mine at present can produce more than 100 tons per day. This will be in
creased to a minimum capacity of 300 tons per day by October ltt This year, in fact, the capacity
of the mine will only be regulated by the amount of coal we can .tell at the mine could eatily pro
duce 1000 tont per day in six montht, by forcing our narrow work in the different levels. Anyone
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Quality of the Coal
The coal it a fair grade of lignite coal and will compare favorably with any coal mined on the
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Transportation
We have both rail and water transportation, and can ship our coal from the bunkers to all point
on the Willamette from Corvallis to Portland, and from The Dalles to Astoria on the Colombia, at
a cost of from 20 cents to 50 cents per ton freight Thus enabling the company to market the coal
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Management
' The management is capable, honest and conservative. E. E. Merges, a Portland capitalist, it presi
dent; A. K. Bentley of the well-known Bentley Construction Co, it vice-president and general man
ager; A. P. Goss, retired banker, it secretary; John L. Hartman, of Hartman & Thomson, bankers,
of Portland, it treasurer; and handlea every dollar of the company's funds. C H. Callender, of the
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That the affairs of the company will be managed by these gentlemen, is sufficient guarantee that
every man who invests a dollar in the company's stock will get a square deal
Our Proposition
The Cardiff Coal & Coke Company is incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington, with
a capital stock of 50,000 shares of a par value of $10.00 each. Our minimum output of 60,000
tons per annum at a profit on only $1.00 per ton net, would pay a divident of 12 per cent on par, or
more than 40 per cent of its present selling price, $3.00 per share.
For the purpose of further equipping our property with a complete electric plant including
hoists, lights, ians and an underground trolley system of haulage in all the main tunnels, as well
as a fleet of barges.
We are offering a limited amount of our treasury stock for sale at $3.00 per share. The price
of this stock will positively be advanced to $5.00 per share not later than the 15th of ApriL
Remember, coal is as staple as flour, and that this is not a prospect hole bit a developed mine '
on which more than $200,000 has already been expended, and where you have five tons of coal in
actual sight to secure every dollar invested.
Order Your Coal Now
Leave or phone your orders for coal at the office of The Callender Navigation Company, or give
it to your express man and we will be able to furnish all the coal Astoria can burn, beginning the
early part of April, for $5.00 per ton on the dock.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AS TO EITHER THE COAL OR THE COMPANY'S
STOCK, SEE C H. CALLENDER AT THE CALLENDER NAVIGATION COMPANY, OR
J. C. LEE, GENERAL SALES AGENT, AT THE NORTHERN HOTEL.
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