The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 63, Ed. 1 Monday, August 28, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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NORMAN DAILY TRANSCRIPT
CITIZEN SAILORS ENLIST FOR SEA TRAINING
THE CITY OF NUMBERED
DAYS
BY FRANCIS LYNDE
C« yrlrfkt by Ckartei 3crtb««r'a Sou
la thcro anythii.j
CHAPTER XXII—Continued.
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Harlan'i lean, fine-lined faro was a
study in changing emotions us be read
Rut at tho end there was an aggrieved
look in his eyes, mirroring tho poignant
regret of a newsman who hns found a
priceless story which he dares not use.
"It's ripping," ho sighed, "tho hip
gest piece of fireworks a poor devil of
a newspaper man ever had a chance
to touch off. But, of course, I can't
print It."
"Why 'of course'?"
"For tho samo reason that a sane
man doesn't, peek down tho muzzlo of
a loaded gun when he Is monkeying
with tho trigger. I want to live u little
while longer "
Brouillard looked relieved.
"I thought, perhaps, it was on ac-
count of your investments," ho said.
"Not at the present writing," amend-
ed Harlan with a grin. "I got a case of
cold feet when we had that little let-up
a while back, and when tho market
opened I cleaned up and sent tho sure-
enough little round dollars home to
Ohio."
"And still you won't print this?"
"I'd like to; you don't know bow
much I'd like to. But they'd hang me
and sack the shop. I shouldn't blame
'em. If what you have said here ever
gets into cold type, it's good-by Mirap-
olis. Why, Brouillard, the whole Uni-
ted States would rise up and tell us to
get ofT tho map. You'vo made us look
like thirty cents trying to block the
wheels of a million dollars—and that Is
about the real size of it, I guess."
"Then it is your opinion that if this
were printed it would do the busi-
ness?"
"There isn't the slightest doubt about
it"
"Thank you. Harlan, that is what 1
wanted to find out—if I had made it
strong enough. It'll be printed. I'll
put it on the wires to tho Associated
Press. I was morely giving you the
first hack at It."
"Gee—gosh! hold on a minute!" ex
claimed the newsman, Jumping up and
snapping his fingers. "If I weren't
such a dod-gasted coward! Let me
run In a fow 'It is alleged's', and I'll
chance it."
"No; It goes as It lies. There are no
allegations. It Is merely a string of
cold facts, as you very well know.
Print It If you like, and I'll see to it
that they don't hang you or loot the
office. I have two hundred of the
safest men on my force under arms to-
night, and we'll take care of you. I'm
In this thing for blood, Harlan, and
when I get through, this little obstruc-
camo here with nothing and I shaft go "I am the man who wrote that ar- to us from this out
awav with nothing. The rest of it tide you've been reading, and Mr. liar we can do?"
was all stage money." Ian printed it as a matter of news If Ilrouillard shook his head. "I don't
"Say—by hen!" ejaculated the own- you have anything to say to me you want to stop the retreat. I've heard
er of the Spotlight. Then, smiting the know where to find mo. Now. move rrom President Ford. The entire west-
desk "You ought to let me print that, on and let Mr. Harlan's property alone tern division will hustle tho business
I'd run it in red headlines across tho or somebody will get hurt." <>f emptying the town, and the quicker
top of the front page. Hut, of course. Nobody stayed to press the argu- it is done the sooner It will bo over "
you won't. . . . Well, here goes ment at the moment. An early-morn- For a tumultuous week the flight
for the fireworks and a chance of u ing mob is proverbially incoherent and from tho doomed fclty went on, and the
soaped ropo." And he pushed tho bell incohesive; and, besides, loaded Win- overtaxed single-track railroad wrought
button for the copy boy. i chesters in tho hands of five deter- aiiracles of transportation. Not until
Late as it was when ho left the Spot- mined men are apt to have an elo- i the second week did the idea of mate-
light office, Brouillard waited on tho quence which is more or less con-1 rial salvage take root. but. onco start-
corner for a Quadjenal car, and, catch- , vinclng. | °d, It grew like Jonah's gourd. Hun-
ing one, he was presently whisked out j But with tho opening of business tho , dreds of wrecking crews wero formed,
to tho ornate villa In tho eastern geyser spouted again. Tho exchanges "It begins to look a little better."
suburb. There was a light In the hall j were mobbed by eager sellers, each raid Anson on tho day In tho third
and another in a rcom to tho rear, anil frenzied atruggler hoping against hope week when tlio array of government
it was Amy who answered his touch j that he might find someone simple laborers began to strip the final forma
of tho bell-push. ' enough to buy. At ten o'clock the bank i from tho top of tho great wall which
"No. I can't stay." ho said, when she | ^—m i I «ow united tho two mountain shoul-
Kf//fls
asked him In. "But I hail to come, if
It was only for a minute. Tho deed Is
done. I've had my next/to-tho-last
round up with Mr. J. Wesley Cart-
wright, and tomorrow's Spotlight wilt
fire tho sunset gun for Mirapolis. Is
your father here?"
"No. lie and Stevlo are up at tho
mine. I am looking for them on every
car."
"When they come, tell your father
it's time to hike. Are you all packed?"
She nodded. "Everything is ready."
"All right. Three of my teams wilt
bo here by midnight, at tho latest. Tho
drivers and helpers will bo good men
and you can trust them. Don't let any
thing interfere with your getting safe-
ly up to the mountain tonight. There'll
bo warm times in Gomorrah from this
on and I want a free hand—which 1
shouldn't havo with you here."
"Oh, I'm glad, glad!—and I'm Just as
scared as I can be!" she gasped with
true feminine inconsistency. "They
will single you out first; what If I am
sending you to your death, Victor! Oh.
please don't go and break my heart
tho other way across by getting
killed!"
He drew a deep breath and laughed.
"You don't know how good It sounds
to hear you say that—and say it in
that way. I sha'n't bo reckless. But
I'm going to bring J. Wesley and his
crowd to book—they've got to go, and
they've got to turn tho 'Little Susan'
loose."
"They will never do that," she said
sadly.
"I'll make them; you wait and see."
She looked up with the violet eyes
kindling.
"I told you once that you could do
anything you wanted to—if you only
wanted to hard enough. I believed it
then; I believe it now."
"No," he denied with a smile that
was half sorrowful, "I can't mako two
hills without a valley between them.
I've chased down the back track like
a little man—for love's sake. Amy—
and I've burned all the bridges behind
me as I ran; namely, the sham doeds
to the pieces of rosorvolr bottom I'd
been buying. But when it Is all over
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The Spotlight Office Was the First
Point of Attack.
closed—"Temporarily," the placard no-
tice said. But there were plenty to be-
lieve that it would never open again.
By noon the trading panic had ex-
hausted itself a little, though tho lobby
and cafe of the Metropole were crowd-
ed, and anxious groups quickly formed
around any nucleus of rumor or gossip
in the streets.
Between one and two o'clock, while
Brouillard, Leshington and Anson were
hastily eating a luncheon sent over to
tho mapping room from Bongras', Har-
lan drifted in.
"Spill your news." commanded Lesh-
ington gruffly. "What's doing, and
ders and completely overshadowed
and dominated the dismantled town.
"If tho avenue would only take Its
hunch and go, tho agony would be
over."
"It will bo worse before It Is better,"
was the young chief's prediction, and
tho foreboding verified !:self that
night. Looting of a more or less brazen
sort had been going on from the first,
and by nine o'clock of the night of
prediction a loosely organized mob of
j drink-maddened terrorists was drifting
from street to street, and there were
violence and incendiarism to follow.
Though the property destruction
mattered little, the anarchy it was
breeding had to bo controlled. Brouil-
lard and Leshington got out their re-
serve force and did what they could to
I restore some semblance of order. It
was little enough; and by ten o'clock
the amateur policing of tho city had
reduced itself to a double guarding of
tho dam and the machinery, and a
I cordoning of the Metropole, tho re- j
I elamation service buildings, and the
Spotlight office. For Harlan, tho dash |
of sporting blood In his veins assert-
ing itself, still stayed on and continued
to issue his paper.
"I said I wanted to be in at the
death, and for a few minutes tonight J
thought I was going to be," he told
Brouillard, when tho engineer had
posted his guards and had climbed tho
stair to tho editorial office. Then he
asked a question: "When is this little
hell-on earth going to be finally extin-
guished, Victor?"
Instead of answering, Brouillard put
a question of his own: "Did you know
that Cortwrlght and Schermerhorn and
Judge Williams camo back this eve-
ning, Harlan?"
"I did," said the newspaper man.
"They are registered at tho Metropole
as large as life."
"What's up?"
"That is what I'd like to know.
bunch of strangers at tho
too, a sheriff's posse,
Bankers, brokers, lawyers and physicians, as well as business men and their employees, have been mustered in
with the Boston contingent of citizens who will go aboard the U. S. S. Virginia for the rigid training received aboard a
man-o'-war. They will be gone from August 15 to September 15.
DISASTROUS FLOODS IN THE CAROLINAS
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who's doing it
"Nobody, and nothing much," said j There's a
Harlan, answering tho two queries as | Metropole,
one. "The town is falling apart liko | Poodles thinks; at least, there Is a
a bunch of sand and the get-away has deputy from Red Butte with tho
set in. Two full trains went east this j crowd."
forenoon, and two more are scheduled j Harlan tilted back In his chair and
I shall be Just where 1 was when wo for this afternoon If the railroad peo- ; scanned the celling reflectively. "This
began—exactly one hundred thousand Pi® can RRt the cars here.' j thing is getting on my nerve, old man.
" 'Good-by, little girl, good-by,' " j I wish we could clean the slate and all
hummed Grislow, entering in time to go home."
hear the report of the flight. | "It is going to bo cleaned. Notices
But Leshington was shaking his big will be posted tomorrow warning
head moodily. "Laugh about it if you everybody that the waste-gates will bo
can, but it's no Joke," he growled. ! closed promptly on the date adver-
"When the froth is blown away and
the bubbles quit rising, thero are going
to be some mighty bitter settlings left
in the bottom of the stein."
"You're right, Leshington," said
Harlan, gravely. "What we're seeing
now is only the shocked surprise of It
—as when a man says 'Ouch!' before
he realizes that the dog which has bit-
ten him has a well-developed case of
rabies. We'll come to the hydrophobic
stage later on."
"If What You Have Said Here Ever
Gets Into Cold Type, It's Good-by!"
tion In the way of progress that Cart-
wright and his crowd planned, and
that you and I and a lot of other fools
and knaves helped to build, will be
cooling Itself under two hundred feet
of water."
"Good Lord!" said the editor, still
unable t,o compass tho barbaric sud-
denness of it. Then he ran his eye
over the scratch sheets again. "Does
this formal notice that tho waste gates
will be closed three weeks from tomor
row go as it stands?" he inquired.
"It does. 1 have tho department s au-
thority. You know as well as I do that
unless a fixed day is sot there will bo
no move made. We are all trespassers
here, and we'vo been warned off.
That's all there Is to it. And if we
can't get our little belongings up into
the hills in three weeks it's our loss;
we had no business briuglng them
here."
The editor lroked up with a light of
a new discovery in his eyes. "You say
'we' and 'our.* That reminds me;
Garner told me no longer ago than this
afternoon that you are on record for
something like a hundred thousand
dollars' worth of choice Mirapolis
front feet. How about that?"
Crouillard's smile was quite heart-
w liule.
i- kept my salary In s separate
j "u "!r.n Besides that--well, I
dollars short of being able to say
'Come, girl, let's go and get married.'"
"But father owes you a hundred
thousand dollars." she said quickly.
"Not in a hundred thousand years,
0 most inconsistent of women! Didn't
wo agree that that money was
poisoned? It was the purchase price
of an immortal soul, and I wouldn't
touch it with a pair of tongs. That is
why your father couldn't use it; it be-
longed to the devil and the devil want-
ed it back."
"Father won't take that view of It,"
she protested.
"Then you'll havo to help me to bully
j him, that's all. But I must go and re-
I lieve Grizzy, who is doing guard duty
at the mixers. . . . Tell your fa-
] iher—no, that isn't what 1 meant to
say, it's this—" and bis arma went
suddenly acroe
dollar chasm.
aw
to reach Its fulfillment. The avenue
CHAPTER XXIiI
Exodus
clamor was the roar of a mob Infurl
ated. Brouillard and Leshington had
Just returned from posting a company
of the workmen guard at the mixers
and crushers, when Grislow, who had
been scouting on the avenue, came In.
"Harmless enough yet," ho reported.
"It's only some more of the get-away
In the Yellowstone National park j^at Harlan was describing. Just tho
there is an apparently bottomless pit i HamP it's something awful. People taking that they dldn'l take In the
which can be instantly transformed in- are fairly climbing over one another sauve qui peut? By Jove—say! Did
to a spouting, roaring Vesuvius of boil- ! on llie ro"a(j up tho hill to tho station— I old David Masslngale get out of J.
Ing water by tho simple expedient of wlth no possible hope of getting a
dropping a bar of soap into it. train before some time tomorrow.
The Spotlight went to press at threo Teamsters are charging twenty-five
o'clock. By the earliest graying of
dawn, and long before tho sun had
shown itself above the eastern Timan-
yonls, Broulllard's bar of soap was
melting and the Mirapolltan under-
depths were beginuing to heave. Like
wildfire, the news spread from lip to
tho geyser was retching and vomiting, saving his own miserable stake!" ho
belching debris of cries and maledic- stormed 'What are the spell binders
tions, and pouring excited and riotous .ioing, Grizzy?"
crowds into Chigringo avenue. The hvdrographer grinned. "Cort-
Most naturally, the Spotlight office wright anil a chosen few left this aft-
was the first point of attack, and Har- ernoon. hotfoot, for Washington, to get
lan suffered loss, though it was incon- the government to interfere. That's
siderable. At the battering down of the story they'd like to have tho people
the doors the angry mob found Itself believe. But the fact is, they ran
confronting the young reclamation away from Judge Lynch."
service chief and four members of his "Yes; 1 think I see 'em coming back
staff, all armed. Brouillard spoke I—not!" snorted the first assistant,
briefly and to the point. j Then to Brouillard: "That puts it up
After exacting an unknown toll.of death and causing a property loss of millions of dollars, the Hoods In the
Carolinas have subsided. Many towns and villages were wrecked, and Asheviile, N. C., was especially hard hit.
The photograph shows how the gas and electric plants and railroad yards of that city wero flooded.
CROWN PRINCE REWARDS HIS VERDUN TROOPS
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Used."
"When Is It? Things have been re- j
volving too rapidly to let me remombei
such a trivial Item as a date."
"It la the day after tomorrow, at
noon."
The owner of the Spotlight nodded.
"Let her go. Gallagher. I've got every-
thing on skids, even the presses. Au
revoir—or perhaps one should say, Au
reservoir."
Fresh shoutings and a crackling of
This photograph, which cume to Awcrica on the Herman submarine Deutschland, shows the German crown
prince distributing iron crosses among his troops on the Verdun front.
SENDING HIS RESPECTS TO GERMANS
JIM MANN IN WHITE
By nightfall of this first day the edi- pistols arose in the direction of the
tor's ominous prophecy seemed about plaza, and Brouillard got up and went
to a window. The red glow of other
house burnings loomed against the
Bomber background of Jack's moun
tain.
"Senseless savages!" ho muttered,
and then went back to the editor. "I
don't liko this Cortwright reappear-
ance, Harlan. I wish I knew what it
means."
"Let's seo," said the newsman
thoughtfully; "what Is there worth
Wesley's clutches before the lightning
struck?"
"I wish I could say 'Yes', and be sure
of it," was the sober reply. "You knew
dollars a load for moving stuff that
won't find cars for a week, and they're about the thieving stock deal, or what
scarce at the price." you didn't know I told you. Well, I
Leshington. who was not normally a ila(| Masslngale, as president, call a
profane man opened his mouth and meeting of directors—which never
said things met. Afterward, acting under legal
"If the Cortwright crowd had one advice, he went on working the mine,
lip and street to street, and by sunrise man In It with a single idea beyond and he's been working it ever since,
British soldier in France preparing to send his compliments to the <1
mans by means of one of the huge shells that are stacked up for the English
guns.
shipping a good bit of ore now and
then, when ho could squeeze it in be-
tween the g< t away trains. Of course,
there irf bound to be a future of some
sort; but that is the present condition
of affairs."
"How about those notes In the bank?
Wasn't Masslngale personally Involved
in some way?"
Brouillard bounded out of his chali
as If the question had been a point-
blank pistol shot.
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
CULED HERE AND THERE
j Emperor William of Germany has
| 295 different uniforms, but wears only
| 20 or 30.
| Thirty-one languages are spoken by
the variety of races in the Philippine
islands.
Mistletoe Is proving a pest In the
lumber region of the Northwest and
iteps are being taksn by the govern-
ment forestry people to combat IL
The centennial of gas lighting In
this country has Just taken place.
To catch burglars an Englishman
has patented a mechanism to drop a
person who steps In fiont of a safe at
certain hours Into a pit, doors clos-
ing over him.
Of the coal produced In Great Brit-
ain in 1913, 189,092,369 tons were re-
tained for home consumption—repre-
senting 4,108 tons for each of the pop-
ulation.
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Judging by the snapshot of Con*
gressman Mann, minority leader In the
house, he Is standing the hot weather
very well.
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