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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1913)
i Kaintuck He Saw New York and Went Through the Tunnel O ♦ ♦ I <► <► By THOMAS R. DEAN % A. SCHOLL DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots Shoes, Agricultrral Imple ments, Sash Doors, Paints, Oils Ranges, Cookers, Heaters and Tinware A large line of Bedding, Rugs and Furniture If what you want is not on hand, we will order it for you In New York city there is a spacious excavation at the crossing of Broad way and Thirty-third street which is the entrance room of the Hudson tun nels. There are newspaper and candy stands, ticket offices and benches. One afternoon a tall, bony man, descended the steps leading to this subterranean» station and looked about him wonder- ingly. He was Martin Granger, a Ken tuckian, who had come from his native state to see New York. He had taken a tour in one of the big autocars in which strangers are shown the metrop olis while a conductor points out the principal items of curiosity and com ments on them through a megaphone. And now he had determined to go through the tunnel under the Hudson river that he might go back to Hen derson county, Ky., and tell his chil dren how the great ships, some of them ¿00 or 900 feet long, had sailed right over his head, while smaller boats without number had steamed back and forth in the same relative position. Not knowing exactly how to get to the cars which were to take him on this (to him) perilous journey or per haps wishing for time to screw up his courage to plunge under the great riv-‘ er, he sat down on one of the benches, presenting a perfect picture of a south western countryman wonder struck with that congregation of people which within a radius of twenty-five miles forms the largest in the world. He had not been there long before a man came and sat down beside him. But Martin Granger was not interested in a single man, but the throngs pass ing through this station, wherein every thing was as much alive underground as bn the surface and were just as much alive above the surface as on it. The man beside him sat there but a few minutes, then got up and went i away. Presently Granger noticed persons buying tickets at a booth and put his hand into his pocket for money,, in tending to do the same thing. Casting his eyes down beside him4 he saw a small package on the bench. He took it up. looked at it, then cast a glance about him for the owner, thinking th^t it had been left through carelessness.- A Dumber of persons were near, but there was no evidence that any one of them was the owner of the pack age. He weighted it and found it light —no heavier than paper. He pondered awhile as to what to do with it, then untied a string and partly unwrapped the covering. Any look of surprise th^t had come over Martin Granger’s face while in New York was surpassed by the one that came upon it now. He looked upon the corner of a bank bill and es- pecially on the figures $100. As soon as he regained something of his equa- niini£v he lifted the corner of the bill, Clean Wholesome Beds. Sweet Home Hotel Foster ÇWjooogj-oc UNRIVALED FACILITIES ENABLES US TO GUARANTEE OUR QUALITY AND IT AMOUNTS TO NO SMALL DEGREE, FOR THIS REMARKABLE SUCCESS IN PLEASING EVERYONE printing Newly refurnished and painted inside. Tables are supplied with the best the market affords Feed barn in connection with the Hotel.............. The kind you ought to use and when you ought to have it, this is when you really need it, We have contracted the habit of satisfying our customers. TELEPHONE MAIN 672 Goodenough printing will not do. ing is the lever that moves your goods. 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The package was prove an alibi since he had reached about two inches thick. New York only that morning and Cy “What you got there?” Butler could swear to the fact since Granger, looking up, saw a man he had come all the way from Hen standing over him regarding him with derson county with him. a severe expression. “Well,” said the detective, “I sup “Somebody has been powerful care pose I’ll have to go with you to the less and left a wh^le stack o’ bank bank that lost the money, but it’s too bills on this yere sqat. late to go today, The banks don’t “I’m in luck,” said the other. “You’ve keep open after 3 o’clock, You can found the bills taken from the vaults stay with me overnight, and we’ll of the---- Trust company.” turn the money over tomorrow morn- “How do you know that?” asked /ing.” Granger. The Kentuckian said he had prom- “I know it because I am a detective ised to stay with Cy Butler at a hotel and have been shadowing the man on th$ east side, but the detective ex who stole the bills. I followed him plained that it would not do for him down here, and, realizing that I had to let him go away with the money, him trapped, rather than be caught so Granger finally consented to spend with the plunder on him he sat down the* pight with him in his room. here beside you and when he went The apartment was in a cheap flat away left it. His intention is doubt house. The detective, as soon as they less to follow you, and when you get had entered it, locked the door and far enough from the station and he said to Mr. Granger: thinks himself unobserved he will “See here, pard, there’s plenty for claim the property.” both of us in this deal. I’m the man The westerner' looked at the man that took that money from the bank. with wonder. “You must be one o’ There’s $80,000 of it. I’ll give you them fellers that I’ve read about in $20,000. What do you say?” the stories printed in our home paper. “What do I say? Why, I say I’m They kin tell from a shirt button or Famin’ New York powerful fast. I the stump of a cigar jist who done the thort you was a. detective.” murder.”' “You’re a pretty good sort of chap,” “Yes; I’m a detective. Now I’ve got replied the other, “and I don’t mind the stolen property I want you to help taking you into my confidence, I was me take the thief. Where are you go the man who sat down by you in the ing?” Hudson tunnel station. I was trying “I’m goin’ down under the river jist to get away from a shadower. I con- to see how it feels to be joggin’ along cludbd to load the goods on to you till under the big ships.” I could get away from him and divide “All right. Put the package in your with you. All you’ve got to do to be pocket and”— rich is to. turn the goods back to me The speaker stopped short and turn and deduct your share.” ed his back on Granger as though he Granger looked at him with righteous had no intercourse with him. In a few indignation and said: minutes he turned again and con- “Stranger, I’ve lived in Henderson tinued : county. Kaintucky. for forty year. T saw the rascal. He’s gone down Anybody thar’ll tell you I hain’t got a the stairs to the train. I didn’t want dishonest ha’r in my head. I’m goin.’ to have him see me talking to you. to turn this money back to the bank Go to that birdcage over there and buy that lost it, and don’t you forgit it.” the tickets. You’ll be given two of The man put out his hand and grasp ’em. Then go past that man over ed Granger’s, saying. “Anybody ’d there and drop ’em in the box. Get on know to look at you that you were an the train, and don t leave it till you honest man.” get to the last station—Hoboken. I’ll Holding Granger’s right hand, the be in the same car with you, and quite rascal put his own left hand to his hip likely tlu\ man who stole the bills will and drew a revolver. He had cocked De on the train. When he joins you and raised it only a part of the way and asks you for his parcel I’ll nab to cover his man when Granger, quick as a flash, put his hand to the back of him.” “Waal, now, ain’t that fine! I thort his neck and drew forth a knife about that when I come to New York I’d see ten inches long and held it point down some remarkable sights, but I didn’t ward over the so called detective. “I see that hand,” he said quietly, think I’d git inter one o’ them detec ;“and go you. one better. Drop yer tive stories.” The man gave him a knowing look, weepon!” The man needed to raise his pistol j and Granger bought his tickets and, descending a flight of steps leading but a short distance to make it effec-j farther down toward the center of the tive, yet the distance was sufficient to] earth, found a train, which he board give the Kentuckian time to draw hisj ed, and was soon carried down under bowie knife—a weapon of the olden • the mighty waters. He seemed over- time—and hold it point downward over ‘ powered •and’ did- not draw a regular him. The villain quailed and dropped breath, till a guard called “All out!” his pistol. How the Kentuckian drove his en and. seeing the other passengers leave the train, the visitor to New York also emy down and out into the street, met a policeman and the three proceeded left. He had no sooner stepped on the to a station; how the next morning the money was turned over by its finder platform before he saw the detective to the bank, is merely a succession of looking at him, and Granger followed ordinary details. When the president him up a flight of stairs, through a handed Granger a check for $10,000 railway station and on to a ferryboat. the subject grows again interesting. As soon as the boat left the dock the The Kentuckian handed it back, say detective joined the Kentuckian. ing: “I thort you was goin’ to nab the . ‘-‘Do you reckon that if. one o’ my thief,” said the lattdt. Kaintuck neighbors’ mares war to “He has eluded me. We’ll return to stray away and git on to my premises New'York. You may as well turn over and I sent her back by a nigger I’d the goods to me. I shall not be able, take money for doin’ it? No. sir. You to take the thief.” may do things that a-way in New York, Now, Granger was a countryman, but; we don’t do ’em so in Kaintuck.” but there are few persons in the world And. turning on his heel, he left the who have not learned the principle bank. that, “possession is nine points of the law.” Some housewife who seems to make “What am I goin’ to git out o’ the a business of making her head save-her find?” he asked. hands and feet has hit upon the plan “Oh, you’ll get the reward. There’s of stacking the dishes when the meal $10,000 offered for the return of the is over on a two deck stand provided stolen goods.*’ with casters and wheeling this, loaded, “Reckon that’s all right. But if you from the dining room into the kitchen, do the returnin’ how am I to git the instead of making from eight to a doz reward?” en trips in carrying the same dishes “I’ll report you as the finder of the out by hand. In getting the meal on property.” to the table nearly as many»steps are “You jist tèli me whar to turn it in, saved by placing the prepared food on and I’ll go th$r with it.” these shelves and. wheeling the stand There was a good deal of sparring into the dining room. The idea is cer on the part of the detective to get pos tainly worth trying out by any house session of the property, which failed. wife whose time and strength are lim Before the boat landed he explained ited. ’ . to the Kentuckian that the latter was If the BCH Trojan Stumping Powder NO FUMES, NO FREEZING, NO HEADACHES Gunv^mmuniti^ Everything for the Sportsmen and Athelete BICYCLE AND GUN REPAIRING ALBANY GUN STORE from meadow to mow. HAUSER BROS., PVops. Albany Oregon Wl • A successful farmer with whom the writer was talking the other day stated that he didn’t take much stock in this theory of spontaneous combustion re sulting from putting clover hay in the mow or stack in a somewhat green condition. He stated that be always put it up in the afternoon of the same day on which he mowed it no matter how heavy the yield; that he bad nev er suffered loss from fire and that the hay put up in this fashion was always sweet and fragrant and chock full of food value. Another advantage of this method of curing the hay, our friend said, was that it did not lose a large part of the clover leaves in hauling This world has been led more by footprints than gwldeboards. - H. &
