¡A—That
>k C<>un.
Bide for
for. and be told liim. ns you all know,
that it was Us-d tor washing puijHMvs
and that a llltle package of it was
Fir or
worth about lit cents. Aaron thoixlit
o«y (ii
that if this was I be price wb.il lie uail
d in the
of What Happened In seen must be worth tUotlsaiids <>i dot
A Power In Railways.
»e, on or
I lain.
Among the lieutenants of tlie late IS.
cert ¡fieri
Death Valley.
•'The next morning. after lilt- tr imps
of anio.
defKirmre. Aaron talked v»et >» nb 11. Harriman none is better kuowu i.i
ompan,
Rosie wliat had been said ulioul lue i the railroad world ibau Albert J. Ear-
■ylCUTHBERT BAKER.
I liug. wbo was In-Id in high esteem by
Kat the
1910, by American Press Asso borax deposits. lie thought it was
Ills former chief. Wherever railroad
IKissible
that
what
be
¡>.«1
seen
lu
ciation.)
for the
tell us a story about some- Death valley might I k - Imrux. Bat ers gather Mr. Earling's name Is men
f award
even if lie went there be had no uiea.is tioned with respect and enthusiasm,
lie tiled ag (bat occurred when you lived
of discovering whether what in- lunl because be began at the bottom mid
Clerk of ^^■far
seen was Imrax or ordinary soil
I won his way.
story about something that
. on or
“'Rosie, dear.' said Aaron. I woii IJ
Sixty years ago Mr. Ehrling whs
^^^^bened
?
”
nesday,
like you Io go to a low u where you
real true story!” shouted can get these elieiuK als for testing I Isiru in a little town in Wisconsin. mid
M^Kildreu
borax. but It will require a week «■■ I Ills education was acquired in I lie
MaWpcII. I'll tell you what hop two. during with Ii 1 shall have to sta.) ' common schools. At the age of eight-
ed t* |k a ron Winters and his wife, here nloue. Then w lieu you coiue back • eeti lie entered the employ of the St.
tie, HBUie Death valley region.”
we shall have to make a trip to Death ! Paul and Minnesota as a clerk, and
Clerk.
lAeathjraliey! That must have been valley, aud utter Illi our trouble there since then his career has been ever on
^^^Kilace.”
isn't one chalice In a dozen that wliat ( the up grade. After serving for a time
its the
they called it Death I have seen there will turn out to is as clerk be learned telegraphy and be-
ley. Bt WBS 80 hot that people borax.'
iot wbo MM* Ave there. Aaron aud Rosie
'•‘1 really think. Aaron.' teplled tin
fcord of
jraNM In tbe valley, but in a gulch wife, 'that tile chances don't «arrant
'e shot,
Recently BHH r meadows, not far from tbe the trouble, but i'ui worn out with
Ive suf- H^Bthe valley. But even at Ash this desoiatiou and uni yearning t<> see
iey and ^^■it was desolate and lonely. people. I ¿eel as if I must have one
ed sey. I?SmMe lived In a little hut on the ■ >f my owu sex to talk to, eveu if «mb
dicinet > of • knountaln. Tbe country was for a day '
ef until I and [rugged, so wild and ruggid
“'Well, sweetheart, go. i»ut don't stay
Kidney t Mki'One else would live there any longer than to have it good etial
a Kid- JMMmhi was a hundred miles from for I'm very anxious to make the
sev- J®
iiy kid- lirBBfr' neighbor. Aaron Winters test.' ~
a hfriter, and that’s why he lived
“So the next day Aaron ttaik hei
d often
ty from other people. Hunters where shb could get some one to take
lile up- ttjKL
it live where there is game, and her on farther and left Iler to go back
would MA¿
HI cottiers come lu tbe game moves to tbe cabin. As she kissed him good
I have
-’s Kid-
by she looked at Him wistfully aud
nt bet
ften considered the feaslbil- said:
ritt) my
g his wife to a more cheer-
‘"Aaron. I won't leave yon again,
ï more
. but he knew no trade but know how lonely you are without me.
1 thia I
unter.
And
how could he how bard it is for you to have to get
y Pilli
’lug except when there was your meals, and I worry for teal
i to my
ides, having always dwelt something will happen to you. What
i men, bow would he get on would you do while I ant away It you
? If be bad means to make should become sk-k or meet with an
ndent that would be au- accident ?'
er. He had nothing but Ills
'"Never mind nbout that. Rosie
ALBERT J. KA KLING.
the game be killed, He Bring back tbe chemicals as soon as
r fund» to euable him to you can.’
came a train dispatcher, ft is said of
MWPM change.
“'Oh, there's nothing in that. Aaron him that he never made a mistake.
"But how could he ever hope to gath- Don't think about it. You're sure to lie
For five years he controlled the
r funds In a country where no man disappointed.’
movements of the trains on the St.
-ould come to settle? True, he could
"They parted. Rosie going oti aud l’aul system and then became succes-
are all the land he cared to take pos- Aaron going back to the calilu. Il sively assistant superintendent and
esslon of. but it wasn't worth any- seemed very quiet there without Ills general manager, achieving the latter
HMKm tcive often thought that this wife, aud lie wished it was the end in position at the age of forty. Ten
e been another cause to keep stead of the beginning of their separa years later he was elevated to the
i. Perhaps he thought that tlon. After lie bad cooked and eaten presidency of the St. Paul. Uuder him
settlers would come lu and his supper lie sat smoking his pipe, that road became a part of the trans
»ell bis mountain side for thinking about what tbe tramp bail continental route established by Mr.
oney to enable him to gel told him. He realized that there »us Harriman.
scarcely a chance of wliat he It.id seen
Mr. EHi'Iiug was an important factor
being borax, but the thought ot wliat in consolidating the system outlined
would happen If It should lie lairax by Mr. Harriman and since the latter's
sent a thrill all through him. He death has been the real bead of the
would lie the only person to know It. Union Pacific.
and no one was likely to come into
Death vnlley to learn of the secret be
Ballinger’s First Law Case.
fore he had established Ills le/al claim
Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of
to all tbe property tie cared to possess the interior, tells of his first law case
"In ten dnys Rosie came back with a which he had at Kankakee, 111. "1
substance she had obtained from a had hung out my shingle a good while
chemist. But neither she nor Aaron before any client arrived,” he said.
thought much about this, they were so •'Finally one came. He was a weak,
glad to meet again. After a day or two
meek being whom three determined
Rosie spoke of it nod itske.l her bus
band when he was going to Death vat women had wedded In rapid succes
sion. and be was being tried for big
ley. He said be dreaded to go. for he
felt sure be would have Ills trouble for amy. As all of the wives appeared
nothing. But Itosle said that sin- e against him. we lost the case, and bo
they had the materials they might ns got a term of two years. But this did
not seem to worry him In fact, lie
well make tbe trip and she would g >
seemed anxious ior more. lie was
with blm.
taken to the penitentiary, and just be
"So the next day Itosle spent tilt fore his term ended I got a letter from
morning preparing a lunch of anlelo|>e him. 'Do you think,' tbe bigamist
steak—this was all there was. since asked anxiously, 'that it will be safe
they lived only on game—and in tbe for me to come out T ”
afteruoou they set out for lhe valley.
“They reached their destination some
A Stickler For the Law.
time before sunset, and. having pro
It is said of Judge Elmer B. Adams,
cured some of the substance they laid
gone for, they mixed It with tbe one of the four United States jurists
chemicals. But they did not wish to who declared the Standard Oil com
Ignite It till night came. Iiecauar they pany to lie a trust in restraint of trade,
might not be able by daylight 1« tel! that he originated the phrase "tile
whether or not tbe Ha me was green man higher up.” Whether or not this
More than an hour must elapse la-fore ' be true, it is well known that Judge
IT WITH THK CnxUlOXllS.
it
would be dark, aud they s | h * ih the Adams is a stickler for the law as it
nt If that was what be was
is writteu and baa a 8teru sense of
for he was doomed to dlsap Interval in suspense, so much de justice.
pended on what they hoped f-.-r Aaron
it.
It is told of Judge Adam» that on
ay a desert tramp came along did not care so mu« h for Lmself dl one occasion a man mine before bini
rectly. It was of Itosle he was think
•d for shelter overuiglit. lie
w ho w is charged with assaulting a
tint tiumau being that either Ing. F or years be bad kept her In a mail carrier and taking from blm reg-
wilderness,
and
now
If
this
substance
r Rosie bad seen lu many a
I Istered letters, burning all save tbe
. and you may be assured the were borax be could take her wtorr- money contained in tbe pouch. Un
lade him welcome. A desert ever she cared Io go. Willie lie was able to believe tbe evidence agalost
not likely to be a very Intel- thinking of this tin- wife's mind wan
or well bred fellow, and this full of dread lest her Inislnnd. win
■ inly was not. He was burned bad built great ho|«-s on this matter
black by tbe sun. and his should be dlsap|s>iiit<d
"The sun set. darkness came, and yet
were dirty aud ragged But he
ilk to them, and that's more Winters delayed to apply the match.
“'Why don't you light It, Aaron?"
eir cats or their dogs could do
it think bow the sound of nn- asked Rosie
“Aaron made no reply, None WEM
>lce than tbeir owb must tare
needed. His wife knew he »!rv.it hi!
d them!
1 got up a good supper for tbe the disappointment tbut both felt was
which be ate as though be bad almost sure to come They lunl had
through Ikes th valley, wltere no carvfnl description of the ajtpe-ir
raa neither Oesh nor vegetable a nee of the substauce the tramp Ind
nan could lire on. After supper, seen, and even If they had there nd -1-t
iosle was clearing tbe table and be resemblance without the sulmtaiMv«
r the dishes. Aarou gave tbe being at »11 alike What folly !■> ex
a pipe and some tobacco, and pect that they were tbe same!
“Then Aaron M-r»t< bed n mat. h nu«l
» sat down for a smoke and a
Aarou didn't care what bis held It to tbe combinatl m. It blaze I
Biked about so kmg as be talk- np In ■ bright flame
“'It Irani« green. Rosier be sb-oted
K<wle at her work enjoyed tbe
of a voice, mugb and uncouth We're ricbf
"So they were for people wll'i had
It was. as well as her husband
p««r They s>,Id their i>n>|s-r
tramp had visited many region» been
Iturally talked about them. He ty for Oi.nmi
“Rnt they Were n<» city pei-tde an-l
ten at Halt lake aud told them
BI.MU B ADA
le water was so dense that per would not enjoy a < Ity life. Tiierefore
»thing la tt would float ou Its tbe fortune they »eqnltssl was »H they
I like a boot on water He had needed to make them eumfuftabie and
a Colorado and told them bow happ.r They le-ugbt a ranch lu Neva
Id was stamped out of tbe rock, «la. where they Mijori'd a country life
lot place be had been was Ne- and bad all Ibe oef.-htr.rs they w!«lie«l
Tbere are borax deposits to for
"Thai's th« story, my Beer», as I
ate. and be told Aaroa bow they
heard W. and I think W's about ■« It
baiipened The west in full of aBrb
wonderful ca«irs of pro|-le wit howl
uw<oey. eveu In rags. Ilgbiln« utriu
snmMMng of great rahse to <ioake
tbeaa rirb
It was UM rt- fa»» that
Ainu Winter« ami bU wife re-ml«»«l
1» make them balmy, tmt »uiSriew,
means 1« enaMe them tr. les re tbe
Dsatt- ralley region."
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