Canadian Valley Record. (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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The Canadian Valley Recorf
C. • McDowell. Ed. A Prep.
CANTON, • • - OKLAHOMA.
NEW STATE NEWS
The II. A It. of Oklahoma will meet
ai Ktild .May 22.
It now se«-ms assured that Fort
8111 will boou be mack; an artillery
pout. /
Webber Fall* is aKiiHiing the que*
tfon of a canning factory and a big
aaw mill for handling local trade.
The survey for the new steel bridge
to connect Purcell and lexington has
been made.
.Indue Raglefou and Bird 8. Mctiuire
not only live in the name town, but
they live in the same ward at Paw-
nee.
Carmen lias arrived at its majority
and will noon be incorporated with
full power* of self government afford
ed cities.
The agricultureal experiment station
at Stillwater will experiment ti|K>n the
health of fine blooded live stock in
the Indian Territory.
The Verdigris river is now carry
Ing an immense quantity of refuse oil
on Its aurface from the overflow ol
the wells in Its surrounding country.
The first appraisement of property
in Pawhuska for taxation shows a
valuation of $1,120,587. cf which $743,-
8S0 Is real and $376,707 personal prop-
erty.
The question of a great power dam
on the Grand river not far from Tah-
lequah is being reviewed. The dam
could furnish power to • lead and
sine Industries of the nation.
Towns along the Katy in Indian
Territory are agitating the question
of building streets out of pebbled
rocks.
p nv one of a score of counties In
Oklahoma contains enough Portland
cement rock to furnish cement for the
union, and fuel enough to last for a
hundred years.
A Bartlesville brick company has a
contract for 6 million bricks. Natural
gas made it possible.
One sane has advised the farmers
to plant hogs now that the green bug
has devastated the wheat fields.
Many of the vexed questions that
have puzzled sages for ages are now
being settled, by the young graduate.
The heavy rains have undoubtedly
been the means of giving a few of
Oklahoma's green bugs a sea voyage.
That Oklahoma towns are proud of
their public schools are evident by
• he amount of space given in the ex-
changes to the closing of the year's
work.
The Oklahoma farmer Is getting
.iretty well fixed when the lows of a
wheat and oat crop produces hardly
a ripple In the business world. The
farmer is no longer dependent upon
a single crop, or a single season's pro-
duction.
L. M. Xabod killed a pelican in one
cf the ponds of the Big Pasture near
lawton a few days ago. It Is describ-
ed as a beautiful specimen. Tiie body
was entirely white with the exception
of black spots on each wing. It was
full grown and at the time It was
killed it had three fish in its bill. It
evidently had lost its bearings.
At Kaw City a number of laborers
are making as high as $25 a day skin
ning cattle which have died after
dipping. A bunch of thirty-eight
steers died at one time during the
cold rainy, spell.
The Comanche county republican
central committee endorsed the can
didacy of Hon. Frauk Frantz for gov-
ernor.
A Tulsa man whose vote was chal-
lenged on the ground of Insufficient
period of residence, stated iliat he
owed six months' rent on wo differ-
ent houses in the city. The challenge
wa3 withdrawn.
Farmers are destroying the pecan
groves cf Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tory to "dear" their land, and are
cutting the trees into drift wood. Jo-
seph Soitdheimer of Muskogee, who
made a fortune in early days dealing
In furs and ptcans. says that farmers
do not realize the commercial value
of their pecan trees, and that in a few
.years there will be no peoan*.
WrSTEBY
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CHAPTER 1.—Continued.
"That's more'n I know." said the
man. turning and looking me squarely
in the face, "but they said they seen i ,,ir|y wel)
two ghosts, one fur the old man. an' I '•pe.-t your brother In town to-day or
one fur the boy. aout under the trees ! £"'! he wl". pi:<.,bably Ztty.
. - , . .. . , . , , I °*rr and go on to Carn«v-Oroft the
In front of the haouse right where ole next day Kliner he or I win telegraph
I am sorry to hear that Miss Weston ta
ill again. for it inust add to your cares
materially, but as you have told me that
■-ill >our house servants aire reliable and
trustworthy I suppose you are managing
Carney felPoff his hoss! Every one
of 'em seen the same thing, an' when
nine men agtees to a dot on a thing o'
this kind it's pretty hard, even fur a
church member, not to believe It.
"They'll all tell ye the same story.
The boy was a-awayln' back an' forth.
Jest as he did after the hoss kicked
him, an' the ole man kind o' hoverin'
an' hendin' over him like he was in
the saddle a-cimsln' him again. The
Aggers was perfectly plain, all in
white, but them that stayed to look
long enough said ye could see the
trunks o' the trees an' other things
right through 'em. too."
"I suppose they all came back to
Hoskins' after seeing this wonderful
sight," I remarked.
"You bet they did, an' they come a-
runnln". loo." said the man. "I never
seen a scarder lot o' men in my life."
"Made pretty good business for Hos-
kins that night, eh?" I ventured
"Wal, I guess It did!" he rejoined,
with a grin. "An" It'll keep right on
makin' gotxl business fur him. too!
Them fellers won't git over taikia' o'
that fur a month o' Sundays!"
"How did . they get home that
night?" I continued persuasively.
His grin broadened as he chuckled.
Thein as couldn't walk had to ride
home in this 'ere rig. Haow 1 ever
piled so many in is more'n I kin tell!"
aud he laughed Immoderately at the
thought.
"So when business Is good with
Hoskins it's likely to be good with
you. too, eh?" I went on.
"Most ginerally," he replied. "Most
glnerally; 'less Hoskins gits all their
money 'fore they're ready fur me an"
their credit ain't no good."
"And when the men aren't working
at Carney's they spend a, good deal of
time at Hoskins', don't they?" I asked.
"Yes, an' a good deal o' money, too,"
he rejoined. "Ole Carney alius paid
'em well; nobody can't deny that."
"So It's a good thing for Hoskins
and a good thing for you. to get them
away from the place every little
while," I suggested warily.
"I s'pose It Is, an' I s'pose we can't
neither of us help It If they want to
leave," he returned sullenly and with
audden suspicion as he pulled bis
horse up sharply at the station plat-
form.
My train arrived In a few moments,
and as I was about to step aboard I
drew the fellow toward me and said
to him In a low tone, that others might
not hear:
"The men were quite right about
the ghosts. I saw them myself, from
my window, perfectly distinctly and
exactly as you have described them."
The car was already moving and I
swung up on the step and left him
standing bewildered.
CHAPTER II.
Two Letters.
My Dear Mr. Ware:
My a polonies for not replying to your
letter of nearly two weeks ago are weak-
>ou HU soon,as he arrives.
1 thought you knew about the ghosts
or 1 should liave written you before.
There were two large pieces of mosquito
netting in my room whlrh were apparent-
ly Intended for covering portraits. I
threw them over a rhair-hack near the
window and they blew out during the
night and caught In the branches of the
trees in front of the house. 1 knew that
some of the men from the village had
seen them and taken them for ghosts,
but as 1 myself saw your butler putting
mem be red that I was the legal ad-
viser. only, of the house of Carney,
and not in any way concerned with
the moral conduct of Its head.
"You had a comfortable journey. I
hope," I remarked icily.
"As comfortable as such a Joarney
can be." he wheezed. turning his
bleary eyes toward me as he spoke.
" The conditions which made my home-
coming necessary did not make my
trip enjoyable, and 1 traveled with the
greatest possible haste, as there are
certain matters tha' 1 want you to ar-
range for me at once."
He spoke h'.s words with a force and
precision unusual in a man in his con-
dition. but he was evidently control-
ing himself to the utmost degree and.
as he talked, his face flushed in great
blotches, his blood-shot eyes seemed
almost bursting from his head, and
the perspiration oozed from his body
and trickled in little streams down his
cheeks and neck.
"Do you wish to hear any of the de-
tails of your father's death?" I asked
In a most matter of fact tone.
"No, thank you." he said, with some
effort. "I found a long letter from
Florence at my hotel this morning and
Going
Carney-Croft To-Night.*1
them down early the next morning I sup-
posed the whole story had been ex-
plained to the satisfaction of everybody.
Very sincerely yours.
FREDERICK WAKE.
CHAPTER III.
John Carney.
As Mr. Carney was ushered into
my private office I rose to greet him,
ened by the fact that I am now writing and stepped from behind my desk with
to_ you in.great distress. outstretched hand: but as he raised
My brother will be here day after to-
morrow. and it has Just occurred to me
that I have made a most dreadful blunder
and I need your advice more than ever
before.
You know. I asked Miss Weston, my
old s.hool friend, to come here and stay
with n./- for a time at least, and she did
so. understanding. as I have since
learned, that Jack was away and not to
return.
Fhe is here now and seems to me to be
quite 111 again, but the embarrassing part
of It Is that she and Jack was once great
sweethearts. and his going away to Hon-
olulu was really due to some disagree-
ment that they had nearly three years
ago I never knewr Just what the trouble
was As Annie was my dearest friend
In school and afterwards, too, I quite
overlooked the whole matter In my anx-
iety to have someone with me when I
was so awftflly alone. You remember I
merely telegraphed her to come, and she
did not even know of father's death and
aupposeit. of course, that Jack was away
Now she is too ill to go home again,
and Jack is coming so soon that I don't
know what to do. It Is a frightfully em-
barrassing position to be placed In. espe-
cially as there was so much mystery over
their separation.
You see. under the circumstances, I
cannot possibly adopt your suggestion to
close the house and come to town for
the present, and. anyway, 1 feel that I
light to stay here till Jack comes to
keep an eye on father's things.
Miss Weston Is, I am sure, quite too
111 to be moved, and with Mrs. Remsen,
our old housekeeper, I feel perfectly safe
I'lease write me at once and advise me
In my present predicament.
Very truly yours,
FLORENCE CARNEY.
P. 8 There is a rumor that Carney-
Croft is haunted, and some of the village
people even go so far as to say that you
saw a ghost when you were here. Have
you heard anything of this sort? It Is
ridiculous, of course, but it makes me
nervous. F. C.
My Dear Miss Carney:
Yc
our letter of yesterday Is at hand. I
would not worry. If I were you. about
jrour brother and Miss Weston. It was
robably some childish alYalr th*t th«r
ve both farvottan > t^j* time
his face to mine I drew back in amaze-
ment and disgust and motioned him
to a chair with scant ceremony.
"Drunk! the beast!" I muttered to
myself, as he shambled drowsily to
the seat I had indicated and dropped
into It with a thickly uttered "Thank
you."
He seemed to fall asleep for a mo-
ment, and I eyed him steadily for some
time before I could bring myself to
speak. And so the handsome, straight-
forward, manly fellow of three years
ago had sunk to this! A sodden, de-
graded wretch, unfit to associate with
pigs In a sty, and yet the heir to a
vast estate and the sole, legitimate
protector of the sweet-faced orphan at
Carpey-Croft who awaited his coming
with the impatience born of love and
hope and confiding trust! God help
the poor girl now, and God help the
accursed wreck that sat opposite me!
His heavy breathing wheezing In
and out of his throat; his listless,
stupid face, flushed and mottled from
the effects of his excesses; his body,
dripping with perspiration which stood
out In beads on his forehead and
glistened on his hand as it lay in the
sunlight; and his drooping, blood-shot
eyes, now half closed and again wan-
dering aimlessly about the room; all
combined to make a disgusting pic-
ture. It was with the utmost difficulty
that I could restrain my feelings suf-
ficiently to address him with ordinary
civility. Finally, my judgment pre-
vailed over mv indignation and I re-
she has told me everything. 1 wish
merely to arrange some money affairs
with you and make my will, and I
wish to do so at once."
5
till
port unity to rest from your Journey
and your—ahem—your health has im-
proved somewhat?"
I regretted my words on the instant.
In spite of the man s condition, they
seemed to have cut him to the quick.
An expression of anguish, pitiful to
see, passed over his face and his whole
body trembled. After a moment he
said slowly with the same wonderful
self-control:
"My health, as you choose to call it.
Mr. Ware, will not improve to may ap-
preciable degree, and my mind Is. at
this moment, as clear as it will ever
be. I wish you to draw up a will leav-
ing everything I possess to my sister.
Florence Carney, and I wish, also. '<>
give you power of attorney so that
from this time on, you can conduct
the estate in my stead and supply her
with such funds as she may need I
do not expect to spend much time at
Carney-Croft and I want these mat-
ters attended to now, before I go there
at all."
His ideas were so thoroughly In ac-
cord with his duty to his sister that I
was now anxious to carry them out at
once as he requested, lest another op-
portunity might never occur. It took
but a short time to arrange the details
of the will, and then it and the power
of attorney were signed by him in a
trembling hand and witnessed by
members of my office staff.
When these formalities were over
and we were alone again, Mr. Carney
said abruptly:
"I am going to Carney-Croft to-night
and have wired Florence to hare a
carriage for me at the midnight train
and not to sit up. I don't expect t«
stay there long, and I should think P
would be better to close the place and.
have her take a house here In town
where she would be more comPTrt-
able."
"I made the same suggestion my-
self," I replied, "but she wrote that
she felt perfectly safe at home, and
that she wanted to remain until you
caine to take charge of things. A*
you have turned all such responsibil-
ity over to me. as your attorney, thero
Is but one thing now to prevent Q *r
leaving."
"What else can there be?" he mut-
tered thickly.
I watched him closely as 1 answered
"Do you not know that her friend.
Miss Weston, is with her?"
'"What! Annie Weston there!" he
exclaimed. "Is she well?"
"No," 1 replied, studying him. "She
Is not at all well. In fact, she is too
ill to be moved, and that Is why Miss
Carney cannot close the house at pres-
ent."
"I never dreamed 'hat Annie Wes-
ton would be in my house," he whis-
pered, as If to himself. "Poor girl!
Poor girl!"
"When Miss Carney asked her to
come. Miss Weston did not know that
you were to return, and even now she
has not been told that you are on your
way home," I continued. Your sister
was quite upset over the fact that, in
asking Miss Weston to visit her when
she was In such need of a companion
she entirely forgot the disagreement
between you a few years ago."
"Disagreement!" he almost shouted,
pulling himself up In his chair. "Whv.
what on earth are you talking about,
man? We had no disagreement, I tell
you! Nothing of the sort. I suppose
Florence told you that, but she knew
nothing about It at all. I went away
because Annie thought I ought to; but
she was mistaken, poor girl! If I had
stayed at home I shouldn't be in thin
.... , , . condition now, but she thought it was
. do you nced for | for ,he be8t Poor mt|e woman
tried so hard to do the best thing for
me and—look at me now' I/ook at me.
Ware! But she must not be disturbed
under any circumstances. You say
she does not know I am coming home.
She nnvt not be allowed to know i\
As I told you, I shall not stay there
long, and there Is no need of her
knowing that I am In the house I
shall not see her. Ware." he almost
sobbed. "I'm no* fit to see her! I'm
not fit to see her. man!"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
the present?" I asked, sarcastically.
"How much money do I need?" he
repeated, In a bewildered tone. "Why.
I don't need any. I have all the ready
cash that I want. I only want to ar-
range for the future, you know."
"Very glad to hear it." I observed
dryly. "Now. as to your will. Do you
think. Mr. Carney, that your state of
mind today is such that you are quite
ready to make a will" Would it not
be bettor for you to wait a day or so
until—er—until you have bad an op^
Richest Austrian Subject
The richest Bubject of the Austrian [ and got into the Congressional Rec-
emperor is the Archduke Frederick ord. His oratory was an accident. An
Marie Albert William Charier of Tes item In the sundry civil bill appropri-
chen. He inherited his vast posses- ating $.12,000 for a cemetery at Oreen-
sions and enjoys them to the full, vllle was attacked. This cemetery
Most Imposing of his numerous homes contains the remains of Andrew John-
is the Albracht palace In Vienna, son, whom Mr. Brownlow eulogired as
which Is a veritable treasure of art,
having one of the most valuable col-
lections of pictures in Europe. The
engravings aione number -'0,000 and
there are 50,000 books, many of them
very rare, besides a collection of 24,-
000 maps and plans.
Hie First Speech a Success.
Ten years In congress before he
made his first speech is the almost In-
credible record of Walter Brownlow,
who has represented the famous east
Tennessee district continuously since
1M7. He kreke h'* decade of silence
"the greatest patriot of the civil war."
He swept the house with unsuspected
eloquence.
Offers Dog Collars Free.
A Scarborough tEngland) woman,
who desired her name to remain a
secret, has instructed a local saddler
to supply dog collars to any local
persons who can show they are too
poor to buy them. The woman, who
is a lover of animals, has taken this
step to prevent the destruction of do«
under the b«w dog act.
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