Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Page 7

SATTRDAY, SEPT. 15, 1017

CHAPTKR I—J. Montague Smith. Law* renceviile bank cashier and society man, receives two letters- One warns him that a note which he has O. K.*d with consent of Watrous Dunham, the bank's president, is worthless. The other is a summons from Dunham. He breaks an appointment with Vera Riehlander. daughter of the local millionaire, and meets Dunham alone at night In the bank. CHAPTER n—Dunham threatens Smith •with the police. Smith becomes aggressive. Dunham draws a pistol and is floored by a blow that apparently kills him. Smith escapes on an outgoing freight train. CHAPTER I!!. The High Hills. The Nevada through f.v : ght was two hours late issuing from the western portal of Timanyoni Canon. Through the early mountain-climbing hours of the night and the later flight across the Red desert, the dusty, travel-grimed young fellow in the empty box car midway of the train had slept soundly, with the hard ear floor for a bed and his folded coat for a pillow. But the sudden cessation of the crash and roar of the shut-in mountain passage awoke him and he got up to open the door and look out. It was still no later than a lazy man’s breakfast time, and the May morning was perfect. Over tbe top of the eastern range the sun was looking, levelrayed. into a parked valley bounded on all sides by high spurs and distant snow peaks. In its nearer reaches the valley was dotted with round hills, some of them bare, others dark with mountain pine and fir. From the outer loopings of the curves, the young tramp at the car door had momentary glimpses of the Timanyoni, a mountain torrent in its canon, and the swiftest of upland rivers even here' where it had the valley in which to expand. A Copah switchman had tqjd him that the railroad division town of Brewster lay at the end of the night’s run, in a river valley beyond the eastern Timanyonis, and that the situation of the irrigation project which was advertising for laborers in the Denver newspapers was a few miles up the river from Brewster, o As the train swept along on its way down the grades the valley became more open and tha prospect broadened. At one of the promontory roundings the box-car passenger had a glimpse of a shack-built construction camp on the river’s margin some distance on ahead. A concrete dam was rising in sections out of the river, and dominating the dam and the shacks two steel towers, with a carrying cable stretched between them, formed tbe piers of the aerial spout conveyer for the placing of the material in the forms. The train made no stop at the construction siding, but a mile farther along the brakes began to grind and the speed was slackened. Sliding the car door another foot or two, the young tramp with the week-old stubble beard on his face leaned out to look ahead. His opportunity was at hand. A block semaphore was turned against the freight and the train was slowing in obedience to the signal. Waiting until the brakes shrilled again, the tramp put his shoulder to the sliding door, sat for a moment in the wider opening, and then strung off.

His alighting was upon one of the promontory embankments. To the •westward, where the curving railroad track was lost in the farther windings of the river, lay the little intermountain city of Brewster, a few of its higher buildings showing dear-cut in the distance. Paralleling the railroad, on a lower level and nearer the river, % dusty wagon roau potsted in one direction toward the town; and in the other toward the construction camp. The young man who'had crossed four states and the better part of a fifth as a fugitive and vagrant turned his back upon the distant town as a place to be avoided. Scrambling down the railroad embankment, he made his way to the wagon road, crossed it. and kept on until he came to the fringe of aspens on the river’s edge, where he broke all the trampish traditions by stripping off the travel-worn clothes and plunging in to take a soapless bath. The water, being melted snow from the range, was Icy cold and it stabbed like knives. Nevertheless, it was wet. and some part of the travel dust, at least, was soluble in it. He came out glowing, but a thorn from his well-groomed past came up and pricked him when he had to put the soiled clothes on again. There was no present help for that, however; and five minutes later he had regained the road and was on his way to the ditch camp. As he walked he read for the fiftieth time- something on the page of a recent St. Louis paper. It was under flaring headlines: ATTEMPTED MURDER OF BANK PRESIDENT. Society-Leader Cashier Embezzles SIOO,OOO and Makes Murderous Assault on President Lawreneeville, May la-—J- Montague smith, cashier of me Lawreneeville Bank and Trust company, and a leader in the Lawreneeville younger set is today a fugitive from Justice with a price on his

The Real Man

Read. A t a late hour last night trr watchman of the bank found President Dunham lying unconscious in front of his desk. Help was summoned, and Mr. Dunham, who was supposed to be suffering from some sudden attack of illness, was taken to his hoteL Later, it transpired that the president had been the victim of a murderous assault. Discovering upon hl£ return to the city yesterday evening that the cashier had been using the bank’s funds in an attempt to cover a stock speculation of his own, Dunham sent for Smith and charged him with the crime. Smith made an unprovoked and desperate assault upon his superior officer, beating him into insensibility and leaving him for board any of the night trains east or west, Smith is supposed to be in hiding somewhere in the vicinity of the city. A warrant is out, and a reward of SI,OOO for his arrest and detention has been offered by the bank. It is not thought possible that he can escape. It was currently reported not long since that Smith was engaged to a prominent young society woman of Lawrenceville, but this has proved to be untrue.

He folded the newspaper and put It in his pocket. The thing was done, and it could not be undone. Having put himself on the wrong side of the law, there was nothing for it now but a complete disappearance; exile, a change of identity, and an absolute severance with his past. When he had gone a little distance he found that the wagon road crossed the right of way twice before the construction camp came into view. The last of the crossings was at the temporary material yard for which the side track had been installed, and from this point on, the wagon road held to the-river bank. The ditch people were doubtless getting all their material over the railroad so there would be little hauling by wagon. But there were automobile tracks in the dust, and shortly after he had passed the material yard the tramp heard a car coming up hehiud him. It was a six-cylin-der roadster, and its motor was missing badly. Its single occupant was a big, bearded man, wearing his gray tweeds as one to whom clothes were merely a Convenience. He was chewing a black cigar, and the unoccupied side of his mouth was busy at the passing moment heaping objurgations upon the limping motor. A hundred yards farther along the motor gave a spasmodic gasp and stopped. When the young tramp came up, the big man had climbed out and had the hood open. What he was saying to the stalled motor was picturesque enough to make the young man stop and grin appreciatively. “Gone bad on you ?” he inquired. Col. Dexter Baldwin, the Timanyoni’s largest landowner, and a breeder of fine horses who tolerated motorcars only because they could be driven hard and were insensate and fit subjects for abusive language, took his head out of the hood. “The third time this morning,” he snapped. ‘Td rather drive a team of wind-broken mustangs, any day in the year!” “I used to drive a car a while back,” said the tramp. “Let me look her over.” The colonel stood aside, wiping his hands on a piece of waste, while the young man sought for the trouble. It was found presently in a loosened

“I Used to Drive a Car.”

magneto wire; found and cleverly corrected. The trump went around in front and spun the motor, and when it had been throttled down, Colonel Baldwin had his hand in his pocket. “That’s something like,” he said. "The garage man said it was carbon. Yon take hold as if you knew how. What’s your fee?” The tramp shook his head and smiled good-naturedly. “Nothing; for a bit of neighborly help like that” The colonel put his coat on, and in the act took a better ipeasure of the stalwart young fellow who looked like a hobo and talked and behaved like a gentleman. “You'are hiking out to the dam?” he asked brusquely. „ “I am headed that way, yes,” was the equally crisp rejoinder. “Hunting a job?” “Just that” “What soVt of a job?

By Francis Lynde

“Anything that may happen to be In *ight.” “That means a pick nnJ shovel or a wheelbarrow oh a construction job. But there isn’t much office work.” The tramp looked up quickly. “What makes you think I’m hunting for an office job?” he queried. “Tour hands,” said the colonel shortly. The young man looked at his hands thoughtfully. They were dirty again from the tinkering with the motor, but the inspection went deeper than the grime. , “I’m not afraid of the pick and Shovel, or the wheelbarrow, and on some accounts I guess they’d 'be good for me. But on the other hand, perhaps it is a pity to spoil a middling good office man to make an indifferent day-laborer—to say nothing of knocking some honest fellow out of the only job he knows how to do.” Colonel Baldwin swung in behind the steering wheel of the roadster and held n fresh match to the black cigar. Though he was from Missouri, he had lived long enough in the high hills to know better than to judge any man altogether by outside appearances. “Climb in,” he said, indicating the vacant seat at his side. “I’m the president of the ditch company. Perhaps Williams may be able to use you; but your chances for office work would he ten to one lu the luwn.* i ~~ “I don’t care to live in the town,” said the man out of work, mounting to the proffered seat; and past that the big roadster leaped away up the road and the roar of the rejuvenated motor made further speech impossible. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

SOME GOOD ADVICE Strengthened by Rensselaer Experience. Kidney disease is too dangerous to neglect. At the first sign of backache, headache, dizziness or bladder weakness, you should give the weakened kidneys prompt attention. Eat little meat, take things easier and use a reliable kidney tonic. There’s no other kidney medicine so well recommended as*Doan’s Kidney Pills. Rensselaer people rely on them. Here’s one of the many statements from Rensselaer people. Mrs. J. C. Beckman, Van Rensselaer St., says: “Judging from my own experience with Doan’s Kidney Pills, I gladly recommend them as a reliable medicine. Doan’s have always relieved me of backache and other symptoms of kidney disorder.’.’ Price 60c at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Beckman had. FosterMilburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. —Advt.

BROOK

(From the Reporter) Floyd Bohannon of Clinton was home over Sunday and Labor day. Henry Wood of Rensselaer was visiting his son, iDr. C. A. Wood, and family this week. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Duify of Chicago spent Sunday at the hom<) of Mrs. Wesley Buswell. Otto Frauenhoff and O. B. Stonehill and their wives are enjoying the fishing in Michigan this week. Henry Downing and (Harry Wild of Goodland were over Saturday looking qfter some business affairs J. D. Rich and Fred Lyons were in Jasper county the first of the week looking after their farm property. The Misses Edith Carlson and Florence Nelson of Chicago were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Quince Hood this week. Walter Murffitt and wife and Charlfes Murffitt and Miss Florence Cline spent Sunday with friends at Logansport. Postmaster McMillen is now In North Dakota, spending his vacation watching the thrashing machine on his farm turn out $2 wheat. A. Ohman and wife and a party of friends from Chicago spent Sunday and Monday with Mrs, Ohman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe Beagley. Mr. and Mrs. John Sell were pleased Wednesday morning to receive a cablegram from their son Ted that he had arrived safely in France and was well. L. A. Sunderland and family and Claude Fix and family returned Sunday evening from their trip to Bat-

laKji el||p . -£■> Hl v#f 6BEBl|«Paßßjg| ■H Charles H.Tlartin AUCTIONEER Sales made anywhere. Years of experience. A judge of values. An honest effort made to sell for the highr dollar. For terms and dates Phone 77, Morocco, Ind., or call on John A. t Dunlap, Rensselaer, Indiana

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

FARMS FOR SALE

60 acres. On Main road, half mile from pike and milo from station, school and church; is on R. F. D. and telephone line. This farm is all black land, in cultivation except eight acre& In timber adjoining buildings. The outlet for drainage is good. There Is a now five-room bungalow with nice porch, barn for four horses, six cows, grain and hay; hog house, chicken house, all new; a good well and young orchard. Price SBS. Terms, $1,500 down and long time on remainder. 4 3 acres. In Barkley township. This farm lies on main road, near pike, R. F. D. and telephone line. It is well tiled and all in cultivation, except two acres in timber. There is a good small house, good barn, good well, and plenty of all kinds of fruit. It is hickory and burr oak soil. Owner will sell on good terms and might take property as part payment. Price $75. 120 acres. This farm is on main road and 'half mile from pike. 65 acres in cultivation and is heavy clay loam soil, with good outlet for drainage. 55 acres is in pasture and mostly pole timber. There is a new eight-room house and several outbuildings, a large bearing erchard, lots’ of walnut and hickory trees. Price $65. Owner will accept property or smaller tract of land as first payment and give long time on remainder. Or will sell on terms of $1,500 down.

S 3 acres. On main road, near two stations and in good neighborhood. 35 acres in cultivation and now in good crops, remainder pasture and timber. There is a large barn, three-room! house, a young orchard and good well. Thero is 15,000 feet of lumber on the farm that goes with the place. Price $45. Owner will sell on terms of S6OO down and long time on remainder. Or be will take good property as first payment. 90 acres. This farm lies on main road near station, pike and school.! It has a set of fair improvements, j good well and is all level black J soil with clay subsoil, and is in j cultivation except pasture around! the house, which is a hickory \ grove. There is some tile and is near the proposed Ryan ditch. Price $75. Owner might take part in good property. 200 acres. This farm is well tiled and all good grain land in cultivation except 40 acres in pas-j ture containing about 20 acres of timber, but is all good land. It is on public road and mile to pike. There is a large new two-story cement block house, large barn, good well and other improvements. Price SBS. Owner does not live on the farm and is not situated to look after it. She will sell on terms of $2,500 down and long' t s me on remainder. Or she will | accept a clear smaller farm or clear property as first payment. This farm is a good one and well situated in good surroundings and has, good outlet for drainage. 75 acres. This nice little home lies on the Jackson* highway four miles out from this city. It is in a closely settled community and in one of our best neighborhoods. It is all good grain land, all in cultivation and well tiled. There is a neat five-room house, a nice barn and other outbuildings, good well and windmill, lots of fruit and nice shade. Price $125; terms, $2,500 down and suitable time on remainder. 156 acres. This farm lies on pike road, two miles from station, school across the road, has R. F. D. and telephone. There is a ten-inch tile that heads at line of this farm, giving fine outlet for drainage. 130 acres is in cultivation and remainder pasture; the pasture has some timber on it; 140 acres of this farm is level and deep black loam soil, remainder little rolling and lighter soil. There is neat five-room house and substantial and roomy barn, plenty of fruit, a good well and other outbuildings. The fencing is mostly new. There is a loan on this farm of $10,500 that runs long time. Owner will trade his equity in this farm for smaller farm, good property, Western land, hotel or merchandise. Price sllO. Or will sell on payment of $2,000 down and suitable time on Describe fully and price what you have to offer. 40 acres. This tract of land lies on public road and mile from <pike. There are no improvements except fence. There is about 25 acres in nice black prairie land that has never been broken and has been used for pasture; the remainder is in timber. There is some saw timber on it, enough for. frame for house and barn. . Owner of this land will sell on terms of S3OO down and long time on remainder. Or if purchaser will build good house and barn they can have good time on all the purchase price. This is a chance for one having

GEORGE F. MfeYERS

tie Creek, Michigan. They had a splendid time and claim the ■fishing was fine. Keary and James Carr of Rensselaer were over Thursday afternoon. Miss Essie Kendall was with them. They called at the home of Mrs. James Kendall and on other friends in town. Henry B. Severson has invented an attachment to go on a corn planter which plants corn without a wire. It makes a wireless corn planter. There is no trick in .getting a good check crossways of the field. All you have to dp is to start straight and you will land straight. • v •'

limited means to get a nice home. Price $45. This land lies four miles from good town with elevator and high school. ® 31 acres. This is a splendid tract of land and is beautifully situated. It is all good heavy loam soil, fine for all kinds of grain and grasses and splendid for truck. It is all in cultivation and is all in oats this year, which has been sown to timothy. There is a pike road along the west side and there is a couple of acres of a nice rise facing the pike, making a nice place for buildings. There are no improvements on it except fence. On the south line there is a dredge ditch that gives fine outlet for drainage. It is 80 rods from village and station and school. Price $75. Terms, SI,OOO down and long time on remainder. Or if purchaser will build neat house and barn it can be arranged to give good lerms on the entire amount. 120 acres. This farm lies on pike road joining station and at head of dredge ditch. It is all in cultivation, except eight acres timber and 20 acres in pasture which could be broken. It is mostly black soil. There are two sets of 4m pro v cmonte -on- this —land-. —Oner set consists of good five-room cottage, good small barn, chicken house and other buildings; the eight acres of timber lies back of barn and is fenced for hogs. There are two good wells. The other set

of improvements consist of fair fiveroom house, small barn, well and lots of fruit. Price SBS. Terms. $2,000 down and suitable time on remainder. Owner would accept clear property as part payment if not too far away. 80 acres. This farm lies on public road and less than mile from pike, and is on R. F. D. and telephone line. There is a dredge ditch that touches one corner of the farm - that gives line outlet for drainage. There is a new fourroom house and small new barn and good well. This is all black except a few acres and has 00 acres in cultivation and 20 in pasture, which has some nice young timber. Owner will sell on easy terms. Price $75. Owner might take some clear property or live stock, _ .. 120 acres. This is a rich piece of soil and lies four miles lrom this city. It is on main road near pike, is on R. F. D. and telepbonel line. It is all in cultivation and nice bluegrass pasture, it is gently rolling enough to drain well. There is good outlet for drainage and two large tiles pass through it. There is a good five-room house, fair barn, good well and bearing orchard. Price $135. Farms around i this one are priced much higher. This belongs to an estate of lour 'heirs and must be sold for cash, j 1(10 acres. This farm lies eight i miles out from this city and on main road, fourth mile from pike. Has telephone, R. F. D. and near church and school. This farm has I 85 acres of good black loam land 1 adapted to all kinds of grain and IS acres a little rolling. Part of this land is in pasture and has nice bluegrass. There are a few patches of light timber in the pasture. The farm has good outlet for drainage and is near large ditch. There is a good five-room house and a number of serviceable outbuildings, a good well, windmill, tank and good bearing orchard and lots of small fruit. Owner will sell at $75 and on terms of $2,500 down. Owner might take part in clear property. Owner lives on this farm, 40 acres. This little farm lies on main road joining station and village, is near school and fourth mile from pike. It ihas good outlet for drainage and is all cultivated except small grove near buildings. The soil is productive and partly black land and part sandy loam. There is a comfortable five-room house, barn and outbuildings, good well and lots of fruit. Owner will sell this farm for SBS, on terms of SI,OOO down and suitable time on remainder. 100 acres. This farm lies six miles from this city and is well located, being on the Jackson highway. It is on R. F. D. and telephone line. 75 acres is in cultivation, which is well tiled and has large tile outlet on the farm and is good grain land. The remainder is in pasture and has some timber on it but mostly small and scattering and well set to bluegrass. There is a three-room house, large new barn and good well. Price $92.50. This farm has a loan on it for $6,500 that is in easy payments and has long time to run. Owner will trade his equity for smaller farm, live stock or good property. Owner lives on this farm. 200 acres. Three miles from this city, This is a fine body of , corn and bluegrass land and is all

Rhinehard Bossung was taken suddenly ill Monday night and his condition was such that Dr. Collier recommended that he be .takeh to Chicago Wednesday morning for an expert X-ray examination. * A serious condition of the stomach exists, probably due to ulcers. His wife and, the doctor accompained him to the city.

Tasmania’s apple crop is small and for that reason the island will be able to ship only 1,000,000 bushel cases to England, instead of twice that quantity, as last year.

in grain except some in bluegrass pasture. It is all tillable. It lies on main road near pike, on R. F. D. and telephone. It has fine outlet for drainage and is well tiled. There are two sets of improvements, all in good condition, Fencing is also good.- OwfifiF Rves on this land. The main set of improvements consists of good six* room two-story house, cement walks, large barn, double cribs, tool sheds and a lot of other outbuildings, good well pumped with gasoline engine, which also furnishes power for other purposes. There is lots of fruit and good shade. Price $155. We have a large tract of deep black soil that is especially adapted for the raising of onions and potatoes. There are many large fields of onions now growing on this kind of land in this county and will make large yields to the owner. We will sell this land in small tracts at a much less figure than most of this kind of land has been sold at. Also will give terms. 7 5 acres. This is a splendid piece of land and a good homo. It lies in well improved neighborhood, on R. F. D., telephone line, pike .and—fourth - mile - to—country—store, two-room school house and church. The land is tiled and all in cultivation and all good grain land. There is a good two-story eight-room house, good new ham and a number of out-buii<Fngs, fruit, good well and wind mill. This farm lies six miles from this city and is Occupied by the owner. - Price $135. Terms, $2,000 down. 240 acres. This farm is a good one and lies on main road that is to be piked and one mile from pike now built that leads to all parts of the country. This farm has been used as a stock and grain farm. It is level and all in cultivation or bluegrass pasture ready for the plow, except three groves, ia all about 30 acres. It is all good grain land and 160 acres in deep black" soil aAd remainder is lighter soil but productive. It has good drainage, haring large ditch through it. There is a good sevenroom house, good horse barn, two good Cattle sheds, double crib, granary, work shop, milk house and several more ontbnildings. There are three wells, two windmills, tanks and good bearing orchard. The fencing is good. Owner of this farm liTes on it and his age and health Is caose for selling. He offers it at the low price of $67.50. Terms, $3,000 down and suitable time oh remainder. Or he would consider clear property or smaller piece of land not to exceed $6,000 as part payment. , 100 acres. This farm lies on main road which is to be piked and is two miles from station. < It is ail black land in cultivation except ten acres pasture and timber. It is now mostly in corn, has 15 acres of wheat and some oats. It has fine outlet for drainage, having a good graded road on west side and a new dredge ditch on the south and east line. There is a five-room house, good sized barn, crib, work shop, chicken house, well house and good well. The buildings are in good condition and not old. Owner lives on this farm i.nd has good reasons for selling. Price $75. Terms on half. 8o acres. Owner of this farm lives on it and is a carpenter and desires to work at his trade and offers to trade the farm. There is a loan on this farm of $3,300 which"* runs for some years. Price of farm $75. Owner will trade his equity for clear property or small tracbof laud. This farm lies on public road and near pike, three mUe*. from village and station. It has good ontlet for drainage and is In . good neighborhood. 50 acres is in cultivation and is black grain land; 30 acres is in pasture and has some timber bnt cojjld be easily cleared. There is a comfortable five-room house, large barn, some other buildings, good well, windmill and fruit. Describe fully what you have to offer. 78 acres. This is a good farm and all in cultivation except a few acres in grove. It Is level to gently rolling and has creek running through it which furnishes good drainage. It is well tiled and is a heavy loam soil. It has good fiveroom house, good roomy barn and a number of outbuildings, a good well and lots of fruit. This farm is in well settled neighborhood and near school and church. Price $93. 80 acres. This farm lies three miles from this city and is one of the best farms in the county. It is all deep black loam soil and splendid grain and grass land. It is slightly rolling to make it drain ] nice and la well tiled and has two ■ large outlet tile through it. There lis splendid six-room house, good barn, doable cribs and several other outbuildings, good well, cement walks, large orchard. Price ; sißs.

PROTECT YOUR BUELDEXGS FROM uasramra by having them properly roddsd. Sixteen years* experience In the business and never have had a building damaged from lightning that 1 rodded. Best and heaviest rods used- Call and see me or ’phone 135 or 568.—F. A. BICKNELLs Rensselaer, Indiana. ts The United States, the greatest business organization in the world. [permits fifty-five different systems, of bookkeeping in Washington.

PAGE SEVEN