Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — Page 7

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SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—The ■tory opens In the town of Granville, Ontario, where Miss Jlazel Weir Is employed ae a eteno<rapher in the of flee of Harrington and Bush. She fa enaaaed to Jack Harrow a young real •state agent, and the wadding day is set. While walkinc with him one Sunday they tneet Mr. Bush. Hazel's employer, who for the first time seems to notice her attractiveness. Shortly afterward, at hie request. she becomes his private stenographer. After three months Mr. Hush propose* marriage, which Hazel declines, and after a stormy acene tn ths office Haas! leaves her employment. Mr. Bush warning her he would make her sorry for refusttig him. CHAPTER 11-Bush makes an effort, by • gift of flowers, to compromise Hasel in ’the minds of her friends. She returns them. The next day Bush Is thrown from bls horse and fatally hurt. He sends for Hazel. who refuses to see him before he dies. Three days afterward It >" announced that he left a legacy of *6.000 to Hasel, "in reparation for any wrong I may have done her.** Hasel recognises at once what construction will be put upon the words. Bush had his revanae. CHAPTER lll—Jack Barrow, In a fit of Jealous rage, demands from Hasel an explanation of slush's action. Hasel s pride Is hurt, and she refuses. The engagement is broken and Hazel determines to leave Granville. She sees an *d™rtlsernent for a school teacher at Cariboo Meadows. British Columbia, and secures the situation. • CHAPTER TV—Cariboo Meadows la tn • wild part of British Columbia and Hasel. ehajtly * fter her ar v rivil ' ’3 s ** way while walking In the woods. She wanders until nlgbt. when, attracted by the light of a campfire, she turns to it hoping to find somebody who will guide her ftme. At the fire she character known to Cariboo Meadows as ••Roaring Bill Wagstaff." wh ° her at her boarding house J* e promisee to take her home In the morning, but she is compelled to spend the night in the woods. CHAPTER V—They start next day. Hazel supposes, for Cariboo Meadows, but Wagstaff finally admits he Is taking her to his cabin In the mountains. He is re soectful and considerate and Hazel, though protesting indignantly, is helpless and has to accompany him. | CHAPTER Vl—At the cabin Wagstaff provides Hazel with clothing which had Seen left by tourists. There they pass the winter. Wagstaff tells her he loves ter. but in her Indignation at her abduction” sWte refuses to listen to him. CHAPTER Vll—With the coming of spring Hazel insists that Wagstaff take fer out of the mountains. He endeavors to persuade her to marry him and stay, trot on her persistent refusal, he accompanies her to Bella Coola, from where She can proceed to Vancouver. ■CHAPTER VIII—On jrfvM Hasel a packare which she alacov era later contains 11.200 and a map which ■will enable her to ?nd her way to the cabin if she desires to go back. At van eonver Hazel plans to return to O»" ville, but on tne train realizes that sb loves Wagstaff, and decides to go to him. She leaves the train at the first stop. CHAPTER IX-Wlth the aid of Bill’" ■map she finds her way back, and the pair ‘travel to a Hudson Bay post and are ■married After some months they decide to go farther into the rn ,°y? ta ! n .’ 12. Wpot where Bill is confident there is gold. And In the cool of a midsummer morning, before Hazleton had rubbed the sleep out of Its collective eyes anfl taken up the day’s work of discussing its future greatness, Roaring Bill and his wife draped the mosquito nets over ithelr heads and turned their faces (north.

They bore out upon a wagon road. (For a brief distance only did this ensure, then dwindled to a path. A turn in this hid sight of the clustered log ihouses and tents, and the two steamers that lay up against the bank. The driver itself was soon Tost in the far (stretches of forest. Once more they rode alone in the wilderness. For the first time Hazel felt a quick shrinking from the North, an awe of its huge, silent spaces, which could so easily engulf thousands such as they and still remain a land untamed. On the second day they crossed the Skeena, a risky and tedious piece of business, for the river ran deep and strong. Presently the way grew rougher. If anything, Roaring Bill Increased his pace. He hftnself no longer rode. When the steepness of the hills and canyons made the going hard the packs were redivided, and henceforth Satin bore on his back a portion of the supplies. Bill led the way tirelessly. Through files, river crossings, camp labor, and all the petty irritations of the trail he kept an unruffled spirit, a fine, enduring patience that Hazel marveled at and admired. Many a time, wakening at some slight stir, she would find him cooking breakfast. In every way within his power he saved her. Many a strange shift were they put

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to. Once Bill bad to ten a great spruce across a twenty-foot crevice. It took him two days to hew it flat ao that his horses could be led over. The depth was bottomless to the eye, but from far below rose the cavernous growl of rushing water, and Hazel held her breath ns each animal stepped gingerly over the narrow bridge. One misstep— Once they climbed three weary days up a prtk’ipitous mountain range, and, turned back in sight of the crest by an impassable cliff, were forced to back track and swing a flfty-mile detour. September was upon them. The days dwindled in length, and the nights grew to have a frosty nip. Early and late he pushed on. Two camp necessities were fortunately abundant, grass and water. Even so, the stress of the trail told on the horses. They lost flesh. The extreme steepness of succeeding hills bred galls under the heavy packs. They grew leg weary, no longer following each other with sprightly step and heads high. Hazel pitied them, for she herself was trail weary beyond words. The vagabond instinct had fallen asleep. The fine aura of romance no longer hovered over the venture. Sometimes when dusk ended the day’s journey and she swung her stiffened limbs out of the saddle, she would cheerfully have foregone an the gold in the North to be at her ease before the fireplace in their distant cabin, with her man's head nesting in her lap, and no toll of weary miles looming sternly on the morrow's horizon. It was all work, trying work, the more trying because she sensed a latent uneasiness on her husband’s part, an uneasiness she could never Induce him to embody in words. Nevertheless, it existed, and she resented its existence —a trouble she could not share. But she could not put her finger on the cause, for Bill merely smiled a denial when she mentioned it. Nor did she fathom the cause until upon a certain day which fell upon the end of a week’s wearisome traverse of the hardest country yet encountered. They broke out of a canyon up which they had struggled all day onto a level plot where the pine stood in somber ranks. A spring creek split the flat in two. Beside this tiny stream Bill unlashed his packs. It still lacked two hours of dark. But be made no comment, and Hazel forbore to trouble him with questions. Once the packs were off and the horses at liberty. Bill caught up his rifle. "Come on. Hazel,” he said. "Let’s take a little hike.” The flat was small, and once clear of it the pines thinned out on a steep, rocky slope so that westward they could overlook a vast network of canyons and mountain spurs. But ahead of them the mountain rose to an upstanding backbone of jumbled granite, and on this backbone Bill Wagstaff bent an anxious eye. Presently they sat down on a bowlder to take a breathing spell after a stiff stretch of climbing. Hazel slipped her hand in his and whispered: “What Is it, Billy-boy?”

“I’m afraid we can’t get over here with the horses,’’ he answered slowly. “And if we can’t find a pass of some ■ kind —well, come on! It isn’t more than a quarter of a mile to the top.” Just short of the top Bill halted, and wiped the sweat out of his eyes. And as he stood his gaze suddenly became fixed, a concentrated stare at a point northward. He raised his glasses. “By thunder!” he exclaimed. “I believe —it’s me for the top.” He went up the few remaining yard? with a haste that left Hazel panting behind. Above her he stood balanced on a bowlder, cut sharp against the sky, and she reached him just as he lowered the field glasses with a sigh of relief. His eyes shone with exultation. “Come on up on the perch,” he invited, and reached forth a long, muscular arm, drawing her up close beside him on the rock. “Behold the Promised Land,” he breathed, "and the gateway thereof, lying a couple of miles to the north.” They were, it seemed to Hazel, roosting precariously on the very summit of the world. On both sides the mountain pitched away sharply in rugged folds. Behind them, between them and the far Pacific, rolled a sea of mountains, snow-capped, glacier-torn, gi“Down there,”’Roaring Bill waved his hand, “there’s a little meadow, and turf to walk on. Lord, I’ll be glad to get out of these rocks! You’ll never catch me coming in this way again. It’s sure tough going. And Tve beep scared to death for a week, thinking we couldn’t get through.” “But we can?”

“Yes, easy,” he assured. “Take the glasses and look. That flat we left our outfit in runs pretty well to the top, about two miles along. Then there’s a notch in the ridge that you can’t get with the naked eye, and a wider canyon running down into the basin. It’s the only decent break in the divide for fifty miles so far as I can see. We’re luc£y to hit this pass.” f'Supposewe couldn’t get over here?” Hazel asked. “What if there hadn’t been a pass?” “That was beginning to keep me awake nights,” he confessed. “Do you realize that it’s getting late in the

,-rtif? Winter may come —blng!—lnside of ten days. And me caught In a rock pile, with no cabin to shelter my beat girl, and no hay up to feed my horses! You bet it bothered me." She hugged him sympathetically, and Bill smiled down at her. “But it’s plnln Milling now,” he continued. “I know-that basin and all the country beyond It. It’s n pretty decent camping place, and there’s a fairly easy way out.” He bestowed a reassuring kiss upon her. They sat on the boulder for a few minutes, then scrambled downhill to the jack-pine flat, and built their evening Are. And for the first time tn many days Roaring Bill whistled and lightly burst into snatches of song in the deep, bellowing voice thnt had given him his name back in the Carlnod' coOntry. His hilmor was infectious. Hazel felt the gods of high adventure smiling broadly upon them once more. At noon, two days later, they stopped out of a heavy stand of spruce into a sun-wnrmed meadow, where ripe yellow grasses waved to their horses’ knees. Hazel came afoot, a freshkilled deer lashed across Silk's back. Bill hesitated, as if taking his bearings, then led to where a rocky spur of a hill jutted into the meadow's edge. A spring bubbled out of a pebbly basin, and he poked about in the grass beside it with his foot, presently stooping to pick up something which proved to be a short bit of charred stick. “The remains of my last campfire,” be smiled reminiscently. "Packs off, old pal. We’re through with the trail for a while.” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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for about two rail lengths and that the body was still warm. By questioning it was brought out that the body could not have been warm nor lying in the position in which it was found had Hughes been killed 12 hours previous. They testified that 11 trains had passed over the track where the body of Hughes was found, six of them being fast passenger trains and that there was no evidence that the body had been .mrtved back and forth by these trains. Mason and Lutes also testified that they found one-half of the timecard carried by Hughes at the Awitchstand near Pleasant Ridge, one mile west of where the body was found.

Samuel Vawter, a Monon section hand, testified that he found Hughes’ blood-soaked pocketbook 3% miles east of where the body was found and that he located a piece of bloody shirt near the same ■place. J. Hughes, a section foreman, testified that he assisted in caring for the dead brakeman s body. F. E. Lewis, trainmaster of the northern division es the Monon, testified that he was on the milk train on the morning of October 25 and saw Hughes’ body soon after it was found. He also testified that the body was warm and that 11 trains passed over the scene from the time Hughes was last seen until the finding of the body. He gave the arrival of each train at the point where the body was found and said that it would have been impossible for the trains to have run over the body without tearing it to shreds. He also stated that a switch near the scene had been unlocked during the night and turned just enough so that it would Interfere with the block. Two trains —one at 11:17 p. m. and the other at 11:27 p. m. —passed over the point, the crew of the last train closing the switch. It is inferred that Brakeman Hughes might have attempted to open the switch in order to stop a train and ride to his home in Monon, ere he was finally struck and killed.

Joseph Nelson, who is in the accessory business at Monon, claimed that lhe found a bar with blood stains on it on the caboose in which it was alleged the trouble occurred. The first witness for the defense was Bert Abbott, engineer of the Babcock grain elevator at Rensselaer, who testified that he talked with Hughes on the evening of October 24 concerning the switching of cars, and that Hughes was intoxicated and could not read the numbers on his switch list. Joseph Ennis, also of Rensselaer, testified that he talked with Hughes on the same night; that Hughes’ breath smelled of liquor and that his lantern was out; W. H. Beam, Monon station agent at Rensselaer, testified that Hughes was in the station and that he was intoxicated. Fred Ball, the conductor of the train on which Hughes was employed, testified that Dan Hartnett boarded the train at Shelby with a union card and at Roselawn went to sleep, and slept all the way to Pleasant Ridge. Ball stated that he got off the caboose and went to the front of the train and that when he returned to met Hartnett and Hughes about fifteen car lengths from the rear. According to Ball’s testimony Hughes thought the train had arrived at Monon and told Ball that he had no business permitting Hartnett to ride as he was a member of the Switchman s

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union and that "no O. R. C. man should carry a switchman." Ball ordered both men back to the caboose, which be unlocked, Hugtea having locked the door when he and Hartnett got off the car. Hartnett again reclined cm • bunk in the caboose and, according to Ball’s testimony, Hughes advanced to Hartnett, called him a ' snake"— switchman in railroad -parlance—and took hold of Hartnett who attempted to raise 'himself from the bunk. Ball testified that (he separated the pair and pushed Hughes to one side telling him to behave himself. Ball then testified that Hughes struck at him with a chair and that he slapped Hughes, "as a father would his son." Hughes then threw a lantern at Ball, according to the testimony, and went to the roar platform of the caboose saying: "I’m going to quit you.” Ball stated that he supposed Hughos had gone over the top of the train to the front end. Ball made a rather poor witness, in that he admitted that certain parts of his story told in verbal and signed statements previously and at the coroner’s Inquest were not correct. He also testified here that he did not know Hartnett and had never seen him until he got on his train October 2 4 at Shelby. Hartnett, who is rather hard of hearing and probably heard but little of Ball’s testimony, as the latter spoke rather low, said, when he was called to the stand later, that he had "known Fred Ball for 20 to 25 years.” Ball is said to be a fine fellow, however, and bears a splendid reputation, and it was inferred that he had first attempted to conceal the fact that Hartnett had ridden on his train, as it was really against the rules to let anyone ride without a pass, and Hartnett only had his switchman’s union card. However, there is an unwritten law or rule that one railroad man will not refuse to carry another railroader who is in good standing, regardless of all the rules of the railroad officials. Hartnett was placed on the stand in his own defense and told a pretty straight story. He was 37 years old, his home was in Lafayette and he had been working at railroading almost all his life, never very long in one place; he was a wanderer, working on different roads all over the country, and admitted under the severe cross-examination of Lawyer Sills that he had been arrested many times and had served a 60-day sentence at the Indiana penal farm for liitoxlcatlon, but said that he never was before arrested in his life on any other charge He denied that he had told Welnhart that Ball had knocked Hughes from the train, but said that he did tell him of the trouble on the caboose, which story of the trouble was practically the same as told by Ball in his testimony. Ball had testified that there was no other trouble whatever between ■Hartnett and Hughes, except as heretofore stated, and that Hartnett did not strike Hughes at all. Hartnett said the same, and It was the general opinion of everyone who heard the evidence that nothing had been brought out to justifyMthe court in binding the defendant over. Hartnett went to Lafayette on the milk train Tuesday evening.

W. H. Parkison represented the defendant in the hearing and Kit Sill, Jr., of Monticello and J. A. Dunlap of this city represented the widow or the state. Whether this will end the matter remains to be seen. Rumor has dt that the idea really was to connect Conductor Ball with the case in such a way that a damage suit would lie against the railroad company. If Ball had permitted Hartnett to ride and the latter had knocked Hughes from the train, thereby indirectly causing the latter’s death, the groundwork for a damage suit would be constructed. The theory of the railroad company is understood to be that Hughes was intoxicated; that he left the train in a fit of anger and in wandering about in an intoxl-

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cated condition, was struck by some passing train and killed. There was ne evidence brought out that Hartnett was drunk or that he had any liquor on his person or had given Hughes any liquor.

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Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning.

Wheat Variety Trial Under Way. Gladden, a variety of wheat introduced into the state last fall has come through the winter better than any other of the three varieties being tested out on the Kunrie land one and one-half miles northwest; of Rensselaer this season. Last fall th.s variety was sown between Turkey Red and Gypsy, considered the most hardy varieties of this section of the state. The new variety has come through in fine shape and has made a good start, the Gypsy coming second, and the Turkey Red coming at bhe foot with a comparatively thin stand and with plants of apparently lower vitality. Turkey Red is usually slow to start in the spring and harvest time may show entirely different results. , Now is the tune to check up on the winter resistance of the numerous varieties of wheat grown in the county. While time of seeding and fertility of soil have much to do with the appearance of wheat at the time of the year, general observations of value can be made by anyone, who will watch different fields as he travels through the country. Winter resistance being one of the essentials of good variety of wheat for the locality, too much attention cannot be given to this matter at this time. Potash Experiment* to Be Located. With a view of establishing some fertilizer experiments to compare the more important of our domestic potash materials with German potash, the Indiana Experiment Station has asked bhe writer to locate some black

sandy loam soil which is deficient m potash. Four or five acres of soil at uniform composition that can toe leased on a cash basis are required. It must not have had treatmen with manure, straw or potash fertiliser* to any extent in recent years. The state officials desire to take exclusive control of the field, and harvest the crop. As heavy applications of potash are to be applied ts many of the experimental plot, the field will undoubtedly returned io the farmer in a much better condition than when the work is started. Any farmers who have such sod conditions and desire to lease it to the experiment station should report the fact to the county agent at once. The question of the values of different kinds of potash is one that comes up frequently and any data throwing light on the subject will be welcomed by our farmers. Stock Feeder* Save Money. About sl4 per ton was saved on a carload of tankage unloaded by the livestock committee of the County Betterment Association last week. At the Annual Meeting early in the month, the point was raised that hog feeders were having difficulty in purchasing tankage when they needed it. Members of the committee took the matter up with a local feed firm which agreed to let the committe purchase any brand of tankage it dj sired and to furnish a man to heli, unload the car, make collections and handle all details for $1.25 per ton. The committee selected a well known brand of 60 percent goods goods which cost the farmer $101.5Q per ton. It is probable that the committee will continue to take care of the tankage situation. Serious Corn Insect in U. 5. Professore James Troop, Entomologist of the State Experiment Station has sent out a warning for farmers to be on the lookout for a serious corn insect known as the European Corn Borer, which has been introduced into New York and some of the other eastern states. According to Prof. Troop this incest is liable to find its way west and in case it does make its appearance in the corn belt of the middle west, is likely to do very serious damage to the crop. Ohio has already taken action along this line and farmers are urged to keep a careful watch and if anything in the way of borers should make ita appearance in their fields to send in specimen as soon as possible. Should the borer become introduced it would cause a very serious damage to the corn crop. Prompt attention may be able to stamp it out.

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