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XIII
The Pirate of
A lastair
RUPERT * SARGENT
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HOLLAND
CoprrtgM. I BOB. by J. B
Lleptncsitt Company
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CHAPTER XVI
H rawlnued I
• t»ntly »aw was h •» • man'» property
Th* larder waa well »to-ked. thank» to With thia Ince, I opened the »butter» wld»
Char!»» foresight, »mt we me«!« a nuxt «n<l stepped on to th» balcony,
•t vUetW ettrper of potted ham,
bon—I tow me I mw Bartram. dr»Med
chicken, pilot biscuit, and coffee, hulled as tn«, th» color In her cheeks lush
only t'harlee knows how
While «upper much eannonadin«
was being
priqxred Duponceeu and I
''Good morning." «be called to m*
"I
■nail* th* round of the house, putting up rod* down to th» Ship, but found that
the great storm shutter« with which I ua you had »11 flown. *> t left tny horse In
usily pt- ’• ted the windows I nk the tbe «roods and came ter». I thought you
winter galea, and piling
pa«4tlng box»« must have gone for tbe »»«»oil. by th»
and extra heavy furniture against
the look» of tb. boa»». May I come InT"
d- «rs. m > that th»
might te *M«ly to
“You may.” I cried, my hewrt hound-
wltl.atan l any sudden attach. I waa sur In« with new delight at the »»<»!n«w of
prised to fln«l how snug we could mak» her voice. “I remember a day when you
the cottage, It had teen hullt to w»»th»r wouldn't enter."
tbe rotisheet of offshore aale«, but
I
‘‘You forget. Mr. Selden, that that waa
never Chotight <>f It aa useful for s lo< when thee* »•» peace in th* land. Many
bouse In case of attack by land. I was things hap|>en In a siege."
very proud of it when w» barred th* last
''Many delightful thing«
One minute
shutter.
and I'll he down at the door."
Meanwhile Charles was spreading th»
I hurried down stair», but before I
table, and Itnlney. reclining upon a co«ich • otiid open the front door I beard Bar-
as became a w.-«m<Tvwl warrior, was ptif bars'» <oi<» crying. "Walt. watt!”
ting contentedly at the first cigarette he
Rodney jumped from hi» courtl aod
ha«l had In three days.
joined ne
lie a» well as I hat slept In
••Little dl.l I think. SelJen." »aid he. his clotbi-s.
"What 1» It, Felix T" be
“when I Inm-bed with you that day, that asked.
I’d b* coming te«-k as a m-n>t>*r of a
“Ml»» Graham 1« out»i«l* and want» to
midnight garrison. def«-ndlng a mysterious mme In but she'» just called to me to
g< iith-ru.in In a hla-k cloak, who popped wait.
I'll open tbe little »14» wlmlow
n;> out of the sea
Not but what I enjoy Hr»t "
It,” h* added. «« Dttponcean looked his
I alid the windoar bolt and ! »»bed out.
way: ”1 haven’t had s«ich a goo«l time Two nwn. the dlMgreeable ehip of our
aln« * I went tear hunting In Ixhrador
tly.’
and another atsrly fa.-ad Indi
btlt I should Ilk* to know what’s hapiwn- vidual. stood K.me twenty fe»- te- k of
ed to th* market."
> Barham.
I placed my revolver on the
Diarie» | window ledge.
"Perhaps
I
can
smuggle
through the enemy's lines to th» club In a
"Now. then, what do you men want V
day or two." I answered.
I I <b-mand»L
Rodney grunted.
'You talk of a day
"We don't went the lady to go In.“ tb»
or two as though time were nothing Th* IlMgrwable looking one replied
whole bottom might drop out In lex than
"Dos» tbe lady want to?" I »»ked.
an hour. Itowev-r, 1 «lou’t ear» so lung
"Rhe do*»," Mid Barbara, In a next de-
a- supper*« come ’*
[ termined tune of voice.
We disponed of a prodigious meal, and
'“I’hen sb* shall. ¡Slide back th* bolt».
when we hai finished Duponceau exsra I»--I- • j ' I " ■ ..... - I
'No « If an■■ ««lie
Ined with great Intereet an armory of old
•
sw.wds and other war like Instruments house, he «-an reflect that h»'s looking in
th it hung over the mantel piece. Finally to a S'might steel barrel."
he unhooked txro long and rusty bladea,
Th* door opened, and Barbara,
her
compared them carefully, aud. carrying j head high, walked tn.
I »hut th» small
them with him. went to tbe »taira,
• window and put tbe revolver In my pock
"You're tx.t going to kill him?" I ex et. "Ther« '• a pretty mad look-ng pair
claimed.
I out there,” I Mid. "Welcome tu the log-
"Certainly not; but p<>aalt>ly W» ran ’ bouse!"
erct this campaign tonight. Come with
But llartxra was not regarding me
nie "
' W '
1. ’
«., • -I
Itmlney and 1 followed Mm up to my
! has happened to your arm? They didn't
study, wfecre onr prisoner was stretched
. shoot you, did they?"
8b* had caught
out In the
Morris chair
Ihiponceau
sight of Rodney's arm In a sling
flung the two swords on th* center table,
“It's nothing. Barbara.” he Mid, team
and I could »«■* a quick look of alarm
Ing ; "only a »cratch. I might have been
flare up In the captive's eyes.
potted by that badly «booting anlpe."
"I sm ateut to prop-sra.” m I<I Du;«>n-
Hh» looked at him, bar face all ml ml-
cm ti. ”a happy settlement of all our lit!!
ration.
"It's Ilk« you to »p-rak lightly,
cultlea. lusteail of your tend of six or
. but you've been In danger, and partly on
eig*«t outlaws lighting my three comradee
my account, for you'd never have laid
anal myself, what My you If you atxl I | eye» on Monsieur Ihiponceau It It hadn't
fight It out. you to withdraw your party
!«*en tor me."
If I win. 1 to go with you if I loate?
t would have drifted out of th» room If
Come, that sounds fair
enough."
He
I could. I>ut I was caught between them
b»<»*4 th* temiage from the prisotier's
and tbe door.
mouth
Th» wry »mile reap;warej.
Rodney smiled; I could Imagine bow
"What do you take uw tor? I'm no
pleased he must be feeling.
fencer, and the part«.-»
te«-k
of
me
the
•‘We've had several wnps
on
wouldn't stand for su«-h a game anyhow.
Ship.” he explained, “and when our food
They want you taken «juietly, delivered
gave out we came up tern.”
up. and l-ra't care what happens to any
"You poor dear«!' the eiclaltue.1. and
Sumter of me."
this time I waa Included In her words.
Ihiponceau looken taken aback ;
he
‘Tve been thinking of you every minute
th<> ght over the man's words for a mo-
of the laat two days, and wanting to
tneiit. then turned to ua. ‘‘You'll beer
curae over to join you. Wall. I've stolen
witnee* that I've don» everything In my
away at loot, for a nrarnlng rid», and now
power to settle this affair with the l<»a
I'm going to •tay here with you.”
of sotssly'a bloo>l but my own. and that
"Stay her* with us !” w* both »»«‘taira
my offer was refused."
ed in a none men t.
ltodney and I agreed. "Wliat shall we
"Vntii after breakfast.
I'm going to
do with him?” I asked
set your table, and pour your coffee, and
"Turn him loowe.’ Mid Ibelney
"It's
fix your rooma, and »bow you In general
hettter to have all our enemies on the
what a woman can do tn a bouse."
earn* »Id* of tbe house"
We both had had vlalon« of that al
Dupon«-*au was of like mind, so we
ready. I fancy. 1 caught Rodney's eyaj
took th* man down stair«, and, opening
he smiled, and the color roeo to hla face.
the front door, «ent him out Ihto th»
"Where’s Chari*»?" Bartar« demanded
night. "I'll tell the chief about what you
I le<l her Into the kitchen, where Charlee
offered.” he mid as he left, “aud If be
• d busied, and Rodney and I sat on the
It's a go. we’ll bring our teet fencer
«Irewser tend watched while Barters roil
with a flag of truce.
But yon needn't ed up her sleeve», plnnep a napkin over
axi»-*t him, for frotn what I’ve beard the b< r dreae ns an apron, and pr«»‘e»«|e.| to
boee won't risk no rdvance of losing you." ■fired Charlea as to th» cooking thing«.
I closed th» door, and double bolted It.
Either one of us wouhl hav« teen su
Chart*» had laid a fire and ligtitod it,
premely happy If the othar had not been
for we were all stiff with our life on
there.
board the Khlp. and as I stretched out
When the table was set, and th» break
comfortably tehire. It I remembered the
fast on It» way from the kitchen to the
old Flnglieh saying that a man'« house Is
«ilnlng-mom. Ihiponceau appeared, for
his castle, aiul was determined that n<>
th* first lime free of th* cloak b» had
men In tte |xy of privets schemers
worn on th» Ship, but »till all In black,
Should suter mine without my full «on-
Mve for bl» gold chains, and »till »uvei-
sent.
mystery
oped In that peculiar air of
LINN
I OI \ Ti
• e
*0-» «r
I at R I *y and at
Impartially, and llsteoed silent:rely
ervrythlt g IraponcMU Mid Even (* ss I m
felt her Influence. I could see him Ung»r
In the doorway an lhe alert to aerve her
Breakfast came to an end. and Barbara
Insisted « m > bandagtng Rodney*« arm.
I
”« nk he we« a«rry that she sh raid know
I liow »light rhe w.rand really was. for h»
4<-murre«l. though with a took of great
Mtl-factkra; but he finally cunevnt»«! to
mil up hla aleeve. I drew
Ikipoiiceau
away to n«y «ten, and the two were left
a tune f«»r a Ion« _
half hour.
Mra «leur
r«*rr» n.xd I disc «a»»! matter« of defener
When we returned to the tiring room
i lUrtets'» fare waa flushed, and Rodney's
ch—-ks were red.
Ills arm was wound
: with a new tetklage and a little gold pin
f«»i.-n«d IL
"IVill you take me over tn the house?"
aaksd lurlara, jumping up; and now It
was ray turn to gluat. for she l(i<d»t*d on
. losing Into every n««uk sod cranny, on
Ivsrmng how two men left to their own
' <tevi«-«x lived. ai>d <>n Improving what she
: found. I who ha«I once been averee to
i feminine Influence about a tewise, surren-
: tered
She straightened the picture«, re-
arranged the ornaments atul knl- k knav'fcs,
■
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■
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"Oh. plea»« don't touch that!" I ex
claimed.
Six etopped »nd looked at me. "Rod
■ ney let i»e fit hla arm when he didn't
■vaio to an I ..>«
"
"Plea»» <te,” I Mid. mntlonlng towards
the trap*rs. an«! «he placed them In little
pile«, ipiHe r«qt«rdIeM of what they were
ateut.
"Now I've ten horrid enough,” ■ba
•aid wh*n yhe'd finished "I dsre My men
are better off living atone. Think bow
angry v.«u'd te If a woman sb«vuld do that
every day.”
"TTxat !-, .-n«h on ths wosan. I could
Imagine
”
"I always tol<! you you were Inxglna
five." she broke In
"The woman you
could Imagine wouM
prutebly
be
a
n, mph.”
"Yas," I agreed . "aba la."
"And nytwphs are proverbially slippery
creaturM."
“Y«x. an I've heard.”
"8o she might slip away from you with
out a monienl’» noli«-»’*
Hh* sat down In my big «leek chair.
"Poor llodney.” she sighed. "It seettx
»« If he were Mcrlflclng a greet deal.
Think ««f his stock» and bunds."
"Yea." 1 agree*I
A moment later I
a l.lr l ”1 haven't written a line for ever
«o many day«"
"And It's so Important that a broker
should k—-p lu touch with his ofles,” she
added.
"And that a writer should write '
"Then why did you give It upT"
"Ihiponceau." I answered. Our •yoa
met. and we tech laughed
There waa a brief alienee, and then she
me»
"I have a bwllng that th» crisis 1»
ruining, Remember that I truxt y«u tu
shield my pirate
I ntiiM g» back to th»
.-lul. "
end
H«rtwr«
We went down eta I re,
ma«te her ad I ent
"I'll go with you to your horse," said
R<»lney
"I shall te delighted to go," I put In at
th» Mme moment.
"I am n«»t on valuable a men «» von."
Rodney explained, "In caae the, should cut
|"
Barters I«»vked frotn one to the otter
of ua. "Itodney------ *' ah» tegan.
1 bowe«l "I yield" He was the older
friend, and. much as I fee red him. I could
but admit that h» was entitled to
privilege.
Islip smiled with pleasure. ‘Thank
you." be Mid.
"Rodney must not go," she finish«-«!
It was my turn to etart for tte door
"Nor must you." she continued to m*. "!
am mu< h safer a «ne than with either of
yon."
The matter was settled; we could only
hoM the door open, an«! let ter peas out
We watch*«! her aa eh» went down the
beech. Once »he turned and waved h*r
rlding-rrop In fan»w»ll
I* was cruel that
nff should te ;ieunsd up within four walls
when the world waa crying aloud for joy
cf the day, and ate was going out to It.
IV» turned tech III at ee«t towards each
other, end just then a bullet ploughed Into
the house to tte right of ua We jumped
In, elaninwd tbe >!•■*. and bolted it.
There was a cry from t’barlM. 'Ttey’re
coming up the balcony !'*
(To te continued.)
r»»r*«i < < ih »< i « mm .
A ph y »letan waa aummoned to a
very alck man. who waa very much
preoccupied with troubles of his own.
On arriving at ths sick man's twd. he
said to bis wife
"Your hustend Is In the last thro««
Every movement shows that the and
Is nearing."
At thia moment the sick man’s head
tell over tba pillow, when the doctor
aald: "The end baa come, your hue
band la dead "
In a ahrtll. thin voice the alck tuan
aald:
"Taln’t eo. Marla."
At once the wife laid her hand on
hla head and remarked: "Don't dl»
which instinctively set him apart from all turb yourself. Rufus the doctor know«
CHAPTER XVII.
■wdfnary being«.
Barters curtsied
to
I w»s «Ireenilnc of tbe sharp crackle of him. and he ralm«l her hand to hla lipa beat."— Harper's Monthly.
Busketry when I awoke to fin«! small and hi «»cl It with the grace of tbe eld-
In the Weuag Maaa.
Stones rattlltis atafnet the abutter« of time school.
It waa not until three bataman tn
niy «tudy window
iMponceau had «lept
“We are not quite forgotten by the out- succession bad struck out that a dia
In my tel •» team« the giiMt of honor able world,” he Mi-I. wlrtv almost a tinge
gusted patron In the bleachers yelled:
- an«! I had found lodging for the night of royalty tn bls vol*», "very far Indeed
“Heyl
You muffs oughts be up
nfon (be divan that graced the den. I from forgotten, when so charming an em v
here. You’re nothin’ but fans ”—Kan
went to the window, and. cautiously peep Mry joina ua."
ing through • reach's opening In tte shut
Barters looked pleased ; I could see saa City Timas
ham. looked for the stone thrower.
I
cool«I w* only ths white top of the nearer
4nnee, and a shy of cloud lew» blue, tbs
whit* and blue as perfert as ever painter
dr< ttned.
Although I could not see my
vi»ltor. It was evident that the «penlng
shutter ws» risible, foe s Isrger stone
»■ruek the shutter snd fell on to the bal
cony
t'urionaly enough, it w»e wrapped
in a baiilkerihief. aud uue «LA I In
that f hi ponces a was etlll her paragon of
romance.
“Will von take tbe bead of the table,
monsleurT" she s»ked
He carefully »eat
ed her behind the coffee urn, took hie own
place, and Rodney and I Mt at the aideo.
ft was the first atate breakfast my cot
tage had ever known.
|
Bart«ara contrived thet we should all
fvrget that we were
«« jm I up in a log
I
Hee
reeteeenee.
Edyth—Would you marry a mai. to
reform him?
Mayme—Not If I could get a tuan
who didn’t need reforming.
of the world's population there are
silty four to tbe million who ara
blind.
l'.MD.»
EVENTS OF THE DAT
CLASHES WITH GOVERNMENT
National Troops May Be Called To
Settle Georgia Trouble.
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i.-».
TWO TRAINS COLLIDE
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 28. lutwyerg
and judges of the state are intensely
intareated in the serious clash now on
between the state and the Federal au-
horities in the case of Charles K. Steg-
gall, in jail at Trenton, Ga., for con
tempt of court by order of Judge A.
W. Fite, of the Dade county Superior
c«>urL Sb ggall refused to testify be
fore the grand jury in reference to an
alleged distillery.
Over Steggall the bitterest legal
Leia Important but Not Lets Intar
Locomotive Heara Down on Caboose
tight in the history of the alate haa
eating Happenings from Pointe
Without Warning Flames Con-
twwn precipitated, with both aides eon-
Outside the State.
fldent and standing pat.
sum« Demolished Ca-e.
Should the State court persist in its
attitude of detlan<-e to the mandate of
Mure earthquake» are predicted for the Federal court, the chance» are that
Chicago, Sept. 28. Ten men were
Sicily.
most interesting development» will
come to pa»» this week, which will re 1 killed and Di probably fatally injured
Spanish troops have burned many
jeaterday morning when a train aouth-
suit in the arrest of several other ofli
Moorish village«.
bound
for Cincinnati on the Pennsyl
ciala. It ia b<-li«V(Mi hare that tte E'ed |
A French aviator ha« estabhehed a eral court will carry its point, even if I vania road crashed into the cai>ooae of
new record in Germany.
obliged to make a direct ap|«eal to tte a Chicago, Milwaukee A St. I'»ul cat
tle train bound for tba «tockynrda.
A Boston bride weigh« 210 pound* United States government to enforce
Sixteen men were in the caboose of
I
ta
orders.
Therefore,
in
the
O-ttle-
ami stands n feet one high.
ment of thia dispute, national troopa the stock train when the passenger
train crashed into it In the railroad
Six children were badly Injured in a may have to be used.
yards
a few blocks from the downtown
school fire at Jersey City, N. J.
The acute situation in Dade county
station. The engine plowed through
Harvard university haa a Chinese arose over an effort to secure evidence the rabooee, tearing it to bits and set
in an alleged blind tiger case,
Tte
athlete who ia looking for honors.
ting Are to the debris.
jieople of Dale county, near Rising
Six b ailee Were recovered within a
A San Francisco highwayman has Fawn, have believed a diatlll<«ry ha«
Iwwn sentenced to &o years in the peni been locate«) in that neighborhod for few minutes after the crash, while the
flames were eating up the aplintered
tentiary.
some time, and that it has paid the
pieces of the demolished car.
Sixteen
The twelfth annual convention of government license to secure immunity
injured were dragged from lhe burning
the American mining congreea ia in from Federal raids. In order to get
ruins.
the neceaeary evidence, the grand jury i
session at Goldfield, Nev.
The passenger train known aa the
summoned before that body Charles
Mayor Galvin, of Cincinnati, has r»-
Cincinnati special of the Pan Handle
Steggall, storekeeper and government 1
tsbliahed a "kicking «lay," when all
rout* of the (‘annaylvaniaiefl the union
gaugvr. Steggall then communicated
complaint« are to be heard by the city
station soon after midnight.
No sig
with the collector of internal revenue,
ofllciale.
nals had been given, so far aa could be
II. A. Rucker, asking him what he
learned, that any other
on
George F. Baer, of the Ree ling com- 1 should do In the matter.
the tracks.
pany, »ays there ia no combine among I
Rucker wirad him that under the
The passenger train increased Its
the anthracite coal cotnpanra of Penn- government rule», he wouhl have to
a|M><-d and when at Ona Hundred and
eylvania
keep quiet. Thia 1« the outcome of a I
Twentieth street th* engineer saw the
Thru«- miner« w«-r<- buried by a • av.- government statute, under tba revised I rear light» of the freight ahead,
It
laws, by which government employee I
in in a Goidtield. Nev., mine.
waa too late to avert a collision,
Ha
are liable to lira» of p«raition, fine and '
The physician» attending Judge Wil imprisonment, if they divulge informs used the airbrakes and reversed hie an-
gine, but the train crashed into the
liama are hojwful of hia recovery.
lion secured in their official capacity.
ralMMMe tilled with sleeping stockmen,
Steggall
promptly
informed
the
A big fight is :>n in MlaMtwi I ■
»
with tremendous mono ntum.
grand
jury
that
he
could
not
ansa
er
the
the breweries and prohibitionist*.
! questions put to him, and gave the gov
PRESIDENT IN MINE.
A F rench army dirigible balloon ex eminent rules as his reason.
Hia re-
ploded in the air and four aviators ( fuitai brought tte matter to the attan-
were killed.
I lion of Judge File, who ordered him to Taft Visits Famous Copper Diggings
at Butts.
The Omaha streetccacr com|>any will 1 answer. Three times ba was »ent for,
make concrsaions to its men and a set and three times rafueed b> answer, and
Helena, Mont., SopL 28. Attired in
, then he waa sent to jail.
tlement i* likely.
a linen duster, an old black slouch hat
He made appeal to the Federal au
I'!»<•»»«■ ia breaking out in the dis thorities in Atlanta for protect on. A» an«l swinging an electric lantern at hia
trict d« nueded by the hurricane along I the government cannot afford to allow side. President Taft waa locked in a
the Louisiana coast and more deaths its employes to te kept in prison for narrow iron cage an«l driqq>ed 1,2<M>
feet through midnight datkneaa into
are expected.
obedience to government rules, the th* depths of the famous old iahinard
ItejMirts from Morocco say the tribes Federal officials determined to stand copiH-r mine at Butte yesterday, and
men have inflicted a terrible defeat by Steggall.
had the rare ex|M>rience uf seeing min-
Before they couhl take action, how- sis at work with a giant drill in a vein
upon the Spanish, driving them back «
ever, Judge Fite held that Rucker had . of ...........
and killing 7,000.
high grade .....
ore that sparkled green
linterferred with the conduct of hia ' wHh'Tt/w^alth'.'if' mineraT
-------- .... _J ....-------'. When he
An American company will tie
court by ordering Steggall not I ,o had
..................
_
ascended with a whig after half
awarded lhe contract over a British
speak, and so be «ant Sheriff ihurman, Bn hour under ground, lhe peealdant.
concern for furnishing the machinery
of Dade, to Atlanta, to aerve summons blinking in th« glare of the noonday
for conatructlng a »mall arms factory
on Rucker to appear in hi» court.
sun, waa cheer« d to the echo by the
in Australia.
crowd of curious jx-ople gathered at
Hunger among the Moors has led to
CANADA WANTS ASIATICS.
the hoiat and declared enthusiastically :
overtures for peace.
"I wouldn't have mieacd it for the
A Colorado man 78 year* old Is to Railroad Contractors Facing Serious world.”
It was the preaident*« flrat visit to
remarry the wife he divorced 50 years
Labor Famine.
_
■ th«« Montana cupper district and be-
«go.
Ottawa. Ont.. Sept. 28. —
“ “H" tw« en th<-»«(¡«•Iter* at Anaconda and
Moro pirates are thought to have dian railway» are face to face with a
the mines at Butte, he had a aeries of
un
a plan can ba
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captured an American cutter and mur labor famine,
.
.
.
.
.
’
.
inv»'rvr»i
* p-i irm <’w.
rsu%
interesting »- experience*.
Not ini
the ’ Irani
least
dered the crew.
devised whereby Asiatic labor pray ba f the„
waa
a
thrilling
automobila
ll>il^rta»«l
t eno t
”
imported
for Cun»
conatruction
work, much
Police of Omaha are busy in their
ride over the mountains from Hutte to
of their railroad building will have to
•fforts to prevent riots in connection
the mouth of the Leonard mine.
be abandoned. Thia ia the opinion ex
with the streetcar strike.
pressed by Collingwood Schrieber, Con-
SPANISH ROUT MOORS.
Several English suffragettes in jail aulting engineer of the department of
in Ixmdon have refused to eat and had railways.
Tribesmen, Driven to Dire Straits,
to be fed with a stomach pump.
On the Wretern prairies the demand
Ask Terms of Surrender.
Eastern railroads »«tabl'shed cheap
iyni latmrrr» haa temporarily de-
Madrid, Sept. 28. The War office
excuraion ra*.*a from th* Middle W«'at »1,,rB|ix<«l the railwny conatruction
announces today the complete success
to the Atlantic thia summer with good
being »»jiecially hard hit
Thia road of the maneuvers against the Moore.
results.
haa been able to retain only a »mall
Both Nador and Zetuan have been
( larern •• II. Mackay say« the report pero-ntage of it» labor>'rs «'mploysd on 'occup ed. L'.
At the latter town there was
that the Postal T«4egraph company is construction work, the farmers in that ; bloody lighting with large bodiea of
about ot absorb the Western Union is Metlon having offer.»! as high as <4 a Moors.
unfounded.
day for m< n while the railroad company
The ring around Mount Guruga ia
now considered almoat close«! and the
The Wright brothers are to start a P*y* ^ut W«
In the next two year», four new con poaition of the Moor» ia dea|wrate.
light against several flying machine«
Raid Ama» appeared before General
which they consider infringement« on tract« are to te let for conatruction
work, and 25,000 men will be needed. Marina, the commander of the Spanish
their patent«.
Sir Charlea Rivera Wilaon, preaident forces, yesterday and aeked terma of
The late Governor Johnaono, of Min of the Grand Trunk system, haa been surrender for the tribes entrenched on
nesota left no will, but it waa hia wish here conaulting Sir Wilfred I.aurier Mount Guruga.
The rraulte of thia
that hia wife should have all hia prop upon a projxwal to employ Aaiatic labor
conference are not known, but it ia be
erty, worth about 118,000
in building new llnea. It ia proponed lieved the Moore are ready to aubmit
General Solicitor Ixiomie, of the tn bring the Aaiatica to Canada and re without conditione.
Union Pacific, with headquarters at turn them to their native countriea
Omaha, is to g«> to New York to be after the work haa teen completed.
Central States Are Shaken
come head of the legal department of
St. I »rala. Sept. 28. A alight earth-
Japs Herded With P.gs
tbe Harriman tinea.
quake, which waa felt through South*
Victoria, Sept 28. Captured by the eastern Missouri and in Southern and
French inventors have several new
Russian cruiser Shilka, in an attempt Central Illinois and Indiana, occurred
aeroplanes.
to make a sealing raid on the Ski to 'ay. In St. (»>uis the tremor came
The death lose in the Gulf storm is island seal rookeries, three Japanese at 3:47 o'clock. So far as haa been
now placed at 100.
seal hunters of the crew of the Japan ascertained little or no damage haa re
Peary aays hie Indictment of Cook eae sealing achooner Ho*ei Maru. have sulted. The grr.eral direction of the
returned to Japan, being releaned ac shock was weal to east, and it waa felt
will contain 30 counts.
cording to information brought by the more clearly in thinly settled district«.
Religious riate at Castro, Spain, re steamer Empraoa of China, which ar
Villages west of St. Ix>uia reported the
sulted in the death of a priest
rived laat night.
The report is that destruction of a few chimneys and in
An Iowa grand jury haa indicted 85 the arrested seal poachers were thrown the west end of thia city, the residence
into an outbuilding on Copper island, district, many sleepers were awakened.
men for a gigantic bunco gam*.
containing a number of cows and pign,
A young Chinese at San Francisco
and were imprisoned there for 13 days.
Mra. Harriman Takes Her Own.
haa invented an aeroplane which haa
Goshen, N. Y., Sept. 28.—Th* sim
made several successful flight«.
S'upw ack ad Man Ra-urn.
ple will of th* lat« £. H. Harriman,
Thousand« of pounds of euppl'es are
Victoria, B. c., Sept. 28. Seven bequeathing hia vast estate to hla wid
being sent from Monterey, Melico, to
survivor* of the Japaneae schooner ow in loto, without reaervation or con
th* flood sufferers.
Pack mu lea are
Hykuman Maru, given up long ago aa dition. waa admitted to probate thia
uaed.
lost. returned to Hakodate ahortly be afterno n. Mra. Harriman qualified Ba
The recent flood fatalities in North- fore the departure of the Fmpreaa of executrix and became the sole director
em Mexico have reached the appalling China, which arrived here laat night of the railway magnate’a milliona, aa-
total of 3,000. The property loss will Their achooner went ashore In the aumirg her position aa onn of the ricb-
reach into the milliona.
Kuril island* August 25, laat year.
eet women in the world.
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
Ten Men Killed and 16 Probably
Fatally Hurt.
PREPARED FOR THE BUST READER
INJURED DRAGGED FROM FIRE