Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 139, Hammond, Lake County, 28 November 1916 — Page 7
Tuesday. Nov. 28. 1916
THE TIMES PAGE SEVEK
THE MAN FROM YUKON An Adventure of Grant, Police Reporter By Robert Welles Ritchie Story by Redfleld Infills
, Copyrighted, 1916, by Kalem Company.
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ry circumstances Tom
my Grant, police reorter for The Chronicle, might have shrugged his shoulders and turned away on seeing the man with whom he was to have luncheon already In the clutches of a lady of the underworld. But
somehow Grant's heart had warmed at once to the bis:, simple-hearted Swede. Their meeting that morning had been ludicrous enough. The reporter had been walking up Broadway In search of a story when he had seen some one hang out a freshly laundered shirt to dry on a flagpole outside a window In the particularly elite Hotel Croesus. Scenting some feature stuff, he had promptly obtained an Interview with "Porcupine Peterson, Yukon," who had Insisted on being shown the sights on his own plethoric bank-roll. So the appointment had been arranged for the afternoon. Tommy had returned to the Croesus at the hour agreed on. only to find Porcupine gazing with soulful baahfulneas into the eyes of a smartly dressed and prettv
young woman whom the reporter had recognized at once as "Helen the Mouse." Klnce her portrait graced the Rogue's Gallery at Headquarters. 'Gee!" thought Tommy as he watched them from the cafe door. "The poor boob won't have car-fare In the morning if her gang once gets holds of him. And he ll probably knock my block oft If I try. to put him wise." Nevertheless, when Helen the Mouse excused herself" just then and swayed languorously out Into the lobby, the reporter seized the opportunity. But Porcupine was hlghly'indignant. She bane a perfect lady!" he declared vehemently. "I bane sorry to dlsapp'int you. but ve skoll have our good time tomorrow. She bane show me how to vin on de hotse-races, and then I have a even bigger 'poke' for tomorrow." Grant expostulated, but Porcupine only eot angry. So when He!en returned a momert later he turned away with a shrug of disgust. The miner and the woman went out into the lobby, and there she Introduced him to a !oucly dressed. sporty-looKing man, while Grant watched cynically from a litt'e distance. Tet even now he couldn't bring himself to abandon the lamb to the slaughter, so when t.ie three started ofT down the street a moment later, the reporter followed. A few minutes later he was 'phor.ing h'.s frteni, Cadogar, chief o? detectives. "Tep, regular cd-fashionefi wire-tapping swindle." he said swiftly. "Fake poolroom and fake telegrapher in a room underneath. Telegrapher is supposed to gei the dope on the races a little 'n advance of the pool-room, so the come-on can have time to rush up-stairs and bet on a horse that's already won. Get me? There's some other monkey-business that I'm not wise to yet I got this doing a '.ittle quiet burgling. They're going to pull it off right away, landed the sucker and everything. Yep, Helen the Mouse and her crowd. Can you come over and bring a few dicks? Fine! S'long." Grant had "phoned from a booth In the hall-way of a small office building on a side street not far from the Croesus. He now ran quietly up-staira again the elevator boy was unquestionably "in" with the gang. He ound a window-cleaner's ladder and used it to reconnoiter through the transom of the' telegrapher's room. That gentleman waa "evidently Just getting the "returns" on a " race." while Porcupine and Helen watched him eagerly. The big Swede had already "won" on an earlie- race as Grant knew. And he snorted. Helen and her victim turned towards the door, and Grant slipped from the ,';dder and out of sight down the stairwar just in time to escape detection. The ,f!oor opened and the two hurried up-Stalrs towards the "pool-room."
The young reporter started after them, then hesitated. Cadogan and his detectives would be on the ground in a very few minutes, and since Grant had given the number of the "pool-room," they would undoubtedly raid that. Meanwhile what would become of the "telegrapher," and w hat exactly signified the brass pipe, like the pneumatic chutes in department stores, thut was on the far walls of the latter's room? The man ougnt to be looked after. To think, with Tommy Grsnt was. in a crisis, to act. He went quietly to the door and tried it. It was open. He slipped Inside, and without bothering about ethics, tackled the "telegrapher," whose back w as turned, without warning. The man uttered an oath, and a moment later the reporter had cause to congratulate himself on his action, for he whipped out s. amall, but wicked, automatic pistol, and was evidently fully prepared to use It. Thereat Tommy dropped all finesse, shifted the half-Nelson he had secured for a Jiu-jitsu arm-hold, and was Just going to fracture the arm when the automatic clattered to the floor and the man yielded, half fainting. Breathing heavily, for it had been a lively tussle, the reporter secured the weapon, and a moment later had trussed up the swearing, evil-eyed crook with some handy twine and a length of gas-hose, binding him to a chair. Then he dropped the pistol into his pocket anu went to the window. Below, three stories down, Cadogan and his men were Just turning into the street. The chief of detectives looked up, and Grant waved his hand. They would go straight up to the fake pool-room on the fourth floor, and It was up to Grant to be there :o keep Porcupine from getting arrested. He was just turning to the door when a thud from the direction of the brass tube arrested his attention. He went at once to investigate, opened a panel and cook out a short brass cylinder with buffers at each end. And this contained Porcupine's "poke," the fat leather wallet still stuffed full of big bills! Grant whistled. "And now If you'll kindly pass that over here" said a soft voice behind him. The reporter started and turned, to face Helen the Mouse and a very business-like revolver. 'Come on," she said Impatiently, and after a look at her eyes he obeyed. It was that or death. Tle young woman backed out of the room, calmly ignoring the pleas and threats of the bound "telegrapher." and locked the door behind, her. At the same moment Grant heard feet pounding down the stairs and Porcupine's excited voice crying. "Das yoint bane pinched!" "Quick, the elevator!" Grant heard Helen respond. He attacked the door, but It was securely locked, and be sprang to the window. A ledge ran along the face of the building, and Grant stepped out on it without hesitation and made his way. hugging the wall, to the next window, which led into t ie hallway. It was open, and the Reporter sprang inside just in time to be too late the elevator was, disappearing be'.ow the floor level. "What's the matter?" cried Cadogan. half way down the stairs. "They're making a get-away," snapped Grant, looking wildly around. A reel of heavy fire-hose hung beside the window, and the reporter leaped for it with a whoop of joy. "Here, brake this for me, and we'll beat them .to it!" Cadogan cried out in horror as P"ant seized the nozale and got out of the window, but was too late to stop him. Grant took a. firm grip of the nozzle with the hose trailing behind him, and dropped. He shot down with sickening velocity, the reel squealing above, and landed safely on the sidewalk just In time to halt with the automatic Porcupine. Helen and her lieutenant as they hurried out of the front door. A few minutes later Porcupine received back his "poke", from the woman's handbag, and watched in amazement as she and her gang were marched away. "You v&s right." he mourned to the grinning reporter, "she bane no lady." Then his face lighted. "But I bane vin two hundred dollars on de first race, so come on ve skoli do de town!"
THE TIES' FINANCIAL COLUMN LP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEW YORK STOCKS CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. s
November 28. JVtehison 105 American Beet Sugar 1031 American Car Foundry 72 American Locomotive S8 Anaconda American Smelting 116 American Tel. & Tel. Co. 128 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 84 Baldwin Locomotive S"l Baltimore & Ohio 85J Canadian Pacinc 168 orom. J...& 5 SBaltii hrdla h American Can Co. flH
SYRUP OF FIGS
X. Y. Central 106 Colorado Fue 1 55 Chandler Motors 10SJ Central Leather , UOi Chesapeake & Ohio 67 Corn Products . 26 Crucible Steel 84$ Erie ; 7 Great Northern Ore 117j Illinois Central 105 National Leatl 67t Maxwell Motors 73J Mex. Petroleum 103 Norfolk & "Western .140 Northern Pacific , 110 Pennsylvania R. R 56j Pullman , 166 Republic Iron &. Steel 86 Reading 109 V. S. Rubber 63 Sears Roebuck 230 Southern Pacific 100 Southern Railway . 27 Chi., Mil. & St, Paul J 93 Texas Oil 231 Union Pacific 147j V. S. Steel 126 ltah Copper 121 .Western Union -101 Willys-Overland 37
CHICAGO GRAIN TTTTTBES. Dec. wheat 167 May wheat 175 .July wheat 144 Dec. Corn 87 May Corn 31 July Corn !)0f Dec. Oats 52 May oats C6 S
If little stomach is sour, liver torpid or bowels clogged.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. Hogs Receipts. 52,000; market sow and 5 to 10c lower. Mixed. J9.2o'1 10.15: good, $3.35 10.05; rough, $9,601? 9.75; light, $8.70 i 9.85; pigs, $6.50 8.65; hogs tomorrow, 50,000. Cattle Receipts, 9,000: market, 25c above last week's close; beeves, $6.75 12.35; cows-heifers, $3.65fi9.75; stock-er-feeders, $4.60r9.70; Texans, $7.60? 8.90; calves. $9.00 ?r 12.75: canners. $3.75 ft.5.00; westen steers, $6.75 10.25.
CHICAGO PRODUCE. Butter Creamery, extras, 42c; creamery, firsts. 4041c; firsts. 38?i39c: seconds, 35'f?S6c. Live poultry Fowls, 12fi;l5c; ducks. 16 17c; geese, J I 16c; springs, 17cj turkeys, 25c. Eggs Ordinaries, 37ff?3Sc; firsts, 39 39c.
ALLIES PLAN TO PUT MORE GUNS ON LINERS ; NEW COMPLICATION FEARED
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"75" gun on forward deck of French liner Touraine, photographed on he recent arrival at New York. The British povernment is seriously considering the adoption of Winston Churchill's suggestion that guns be mounted at both bow and stern of all merchant ships flying the British and allied flags. Should' this suggestion be carried out the entire subject of armed merchantmen would be brought forward on a new line, necessitating a formal ruling the first time a vessel so armed entered an American port. Many allied vessels now making American ports carry a big gun on the forward deck.
ease. Symptoms of the disease showed on two healthy cattle. This convinced officials that the malady has invaded Kansas City. There is no evidence of tne disease at the Calumet Park stock yards.
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IMPROVING. Mrs. Julia Deutsch, 666 Massachusetts street, mother of Detective Sergeant Deutsch, who- is confined with a serious attack of pneumonia at Mercy hospital, is reported as somewhat Improved. MRS. HICKEY. After a visit here of a month with ner daughter, Mrs. George Weeks in Maryland street, Mrs. John F.' Hickey has returned to her home at Buffalo, N". Y.
MR. AXD MRS. PI.EW. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Plew o f Harrison street, left today to spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Pdew's sister at Elkhart. 1 MISS MERHIM.. "Miss Ann Merrill who has just returned from an extended trip, through Europe and Turkey, arid has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Brownell in Jackson street, has gone to Des Moines, Ja. ATTE.ND GAME.. Miss Doris Davidson and James Davidson. 570 Harrison street, attended tne Illinois-Wisconsin football game at Madison, Wis., Saturday. VMJERf.OES OPERATION. Miss Grace Brooks, teacher in the Emerson schools, who underwent an operation at Washington Park hospital a few days ago, is reported as improving nicely. TO ATTEND WEDDI.XG. L. P. Godwin. 812 Tyler street, left last nisht to Join his wife in a visit to relatives at St. Louis, and tonight will witness the marriasce of Mrs. Godwin's niece. Miss Virginia Bausch, who
is well known in Gary, having visited tne Godwins on several occasions. Mr. and Mrs. Godwin will return to Gary after Thanksgiving. XORTH.I.AR50X. On Wednesday, Nov. 29. at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John North of Miller, the marriage of Mis Clara North, to Elmer Larson of Hobart, will be solemnized. The ceremony will take place at 8 o'clock In the evening. Rev. Lundell of Ho bart, reading the services. - Miss Ethel North, sister of tne bride, will act as bridesmaid and Ward .A. Gaidar, deputy county clerk, as best man. Mrs. J-ohn T. North, sister-in-law of the bride will assist as matron of honor, and the little Misses Margaret Carpenter and Ruth Nelson the ring bearers. Miss Jessie Carpenter of Chicago, will play, the wedding march. Immed, iately following the ceremony the guest to tne n,umber of eighty-five will sit down to the wedding dinner. Following their honeymoon the young couple will reside in Hobart where a home is in readiness. The bride !s well kntfwn both In Gary and Miller, having been employed In the postoffice money order service at the Gary postoffice for ten years, or from the time Gary was but a small village. The bridegrom 'nolds a position in the elec. trical department of the steel mills, and is very, popular with his fellow workers a nd at his horn town and with his bride has the well wishes of a host of friends.
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Albert Gemeinhart. 2655 Monroe street. Gary, Is an honest man and a lucky one, too. . Last evening Mr. Gemeinhart phoned the police that 200 pound pigr bad walked into nis front yard. He awaits a claimant.
HEBREW INSTITUTE TEAM AT "Y" Hebrew Institute team and Gary T. M. C. A.'s senior team will clash for wrestling honors at Gary T" gymnasium next' Saturday evening. Coach George Pinneo Is getlng the rallmakers trained for a strenuous wrestling season.
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MATERNITY GOWN, By Anabel Worthington.
CHICAGO. Nov. 28. Wheat had a violent drop at the close here today, December showing a loss of 6J points. May showed a range of 10i points during the day. December closed down 6J at 167J, May down 6 at 175, July down 5 at 144. December corn down 11 at STJ, May down 11 at 91J, July down 2J at 90, December oats down 2 J at 52. May down 2 at 56 1.
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BURNING TRASH CALLS OUT FIREMEN
A imudge in a storage shed in the rear of the J. W. Wets drug: store, brougnt fire departments Nos. 1 and 3 Into tha business district shortly after" 9 o'clock this morning. Some one is said to have burned trash In an alley box In the rear of the Hohman building-. The wind carried sparks Into the Weis shed and started a blase there. The department 'responded promptly and confined tile damage to some empty boxes.
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M. Oeromatta, a Gary contractor, was arrested today by Officer McCrea on the charge of not having a license for his automobile. Mr. Geromctta was released on his own recognizance pending hearinr
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