The Stigler Beacon. (Stigler, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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CHAPTER I X— Continued
I looked a question and she went
on: "I have some worries and then
last night I saw youwere all keeping
some bad news from me and so I
couldn’t sleep” - '
“Then we did wrong to make a mys-
tery of it Miss Cullen” I said “for
it really isn’t anything to trouble
about Mr Camp is simply taking le-
gal steps to try to force me to de-
liver those letters to' him”
"And can he succeed?”
“No”
“How will you stop him?”
“I don’t know yet just what we
shall do but If worse comes to worse
-1 will allow myself to be committed
for contempt of court”
“What would they do with you?”
"Give me free board for a time”
“Not send you to prison?”
“Yes" x -
“Oh I” she cried “that mustn't be
You must not make such a sacrifice
for us”
“I’d do more than that for you” I
said and I couldn’t help putting a lit-
tle emphasis on the last word though
I r ew I had no right to do it
She understood me and blushed
rosily even while she protested “It is
too much — — ”
“There’s really no likelihood” I In-
terrupted "ft my being able to as-
sume a martyr’s crown Miss Cullen
so don’t begin to pity me till I’m be-
hind the bars”
- "But I can’t bear to think — ”
“Don’t” I interrupted again rejoic
lng all the time at her evident anxi-
ety and blessing my stars for the
luck they had brought me “Wby
- Miss Cullen” I went on “I’ve become
so Interested in your success and the
licking of those fellows that I really
think I’d stand about anything rather
than that they -should win Yester-
day when Mr Camp threatened
to—” Then I stopped as it suddenly
occurred to me that it was best not
to tell Madge that I might lose my po-
sition for it would look like a kind
of bid for her favor and besides
would only add to her worries
“Threatened what?” asked Miss
Cullen
“Threatened to lose his temper”
answered - —
“You know that wasn’t what you
were going to say” Madge said re-
proachfully -
“No it wasn't” I laughed
"Then what was it?” ’
“Nothing worth speaking about”
' “But I want to know what he threat-
ened” “Really Miss Cullen” I began but
she interrupted me by saying anx-
lously: -
“He can’t hurt papa can he?”
"No” I replied
“Or my brothers?”
"He can’t touch any of them with-
out my help And he’ll have work
to get that I suspect”
“Then why can’t you tell me?” de-
manded Miss Cullen "Your refusal
makes me think you are keeping back
some danger to them”
“Why Miss Cullen” I said
didn’t like to tell his threat because
- It seemed — well I may be wrong but
I thought it might look like an at-
' tempt — an appeal— Qh pshaw!”
“It must be breakfast time”
faltered like a donkey — “I can’t say
it as I want to put it”
“Then tell me right out what he
threatened" begged Madge
“He threatened to get me dis-
charged” That made Madge look very sober
and for a moment there was silence
Then she said:
“I never thought of what you were
risking to help us Mr Gordon And
I’m afraid it’s too late to ’
“Don’t worry about me” I hastened
to interject “I’m a long way from
being discharged and even if I should
be Miss Cullen I know my business
and It won’t be long before 1 have an-
other place”
’But it’s terrible to think of the
injury we may have caused ' you"
sighed Madge sadly "It makes me
hate the thought of money”
’That’s a very poor thing to hate”
I said "except the lack of it”
’Are you bo anxious to get rich?”
asked Madge looking up at me quick-
ly as we walked — for we had been
pacing up and down the platform dur-
ing our chat
"I haven’t been till lately”
“And what made you change?” she
questioned
’’Well” I said : fishing round for
some reason other than the true one
perhaps I want to take a rest”
“You are the worst man for fibs I
ever knew” she laughed
I felt myself getting red while I
exclaimed "Why Miss Cullen I nev-
er set up for a George Washington
but I don’t think I’m a bit worse liar
than nine men in ’’
"Oh!” she cried interrupting me “I
didn’t mean that way I meant that
when you try to fib you always do it
so badly that one sees right through
you Now acknowledge that you
wouldn’t stop work if you could?”
“Well no I wouldn’t” I owned up
"The truth Is Miss Cullen that I’d
like to be rich because — well hang it
I don’t care if I do say it — because
I’m In love”
Madge laughed at my confusion
and asked “With money?”
“No" I said With just the nicest
sweetest prettiest girl in the world
Madge took a look at me out qf the
comer of her eye and remarked “It
must be breakfast time”
Considering that it was about six-
thirty I wanted to ask who was tell-
ing a taradiddle now but I resisted
the temptation and' replied:
“No And I promise not to bother
you about my private affairs any
more"
Madge laughed-again merrily say-
ing “You are the most obvious man I
ever met Now why do you say that?'
“I thought you were making break-
fast an excuse” I said “because you
didn’t like the subject”
‘‘Yes I was” said Madge frankly
"Tell me about the girl you are en-
gaged to”
I was so taken aback that I stopped
in my walk and merely looked at her
"For Instance" she asked coolly
when she saw that I was speechless
“what does she look like?”
“Like like — ” I stammered still
embarrassed by this bold carrying of
the war into my own camp — “like an
angel”
“Oh" said Madge' eagerly “I’ve
always wanted to know what angels
were like Describe her to me"
"Well” I said getting my second
wind so to speak “she has the blue-
est eyes I’ve ever seen Why Miss
Cullen you said you’d never seen any-
thing so blue as the sky yesterday
but even the atmosphere of ‘rainless
Arizona’ has to take a back seat
when her eyes are around And they
are Ju6t like the atmosphere out here
You can look Into them for a hun
dred miles but you can’t get to the
bottom’-’
“The Arizona sky is wonderful'
said Madge “How do the scientists
account for it?”
I wasn’t going to have my descrip-
tion of -Miss Cullen side-tracked for
since she had given me the chance
I wanted her to know just what
thought of her Therefore I didn’
follow lead on the Arizona skies but
went on:
“And I really think her hair is Just-
as beautiful as her eyes It’s light
brown very curly and — ”
“Her complexion!” Madge exclaim-
ed ‘ “Is she a mulatto? And if so
how can a complexion be curly?”
"Her complexion” I said not a bit
rattled “Is another great beauty of
hers She has one of those skins — '
“Furs are out of fashion at pres-
ent” she Interjected laughing wick-
edly “Now look here Miss Cullen’
criedi indignantly "I’m not going to
let even you make fun of her”
“I can’t help it” she laughed "when
you look so serious and Intense”
“It’s something I feel Intense about
Miss Cullen” I said not a little pain-
ed I confess at this way she was Jok-
ing I don’t mind a bit being laughed
at but Miss Culleq knew about as
well as I whom I was talking about
and it seemed to me she was laughing
at my love for her Under this im-
pression I went on “I suppose it is
tunny to you probably so many men
have been in love with you that
man’s love for a woman has come to
mean very little in your eyes But
out here we don’t make a Joke of love
and when we care for a woman we
care — well It’s not to be put in words
Miss Cullen”
1 really didn’t mesa to hurt your
feelings Mr Gordon” said Madge
gently and quite serious now “I
ought not to have tried to tease yon”
“There!” I said my irritation en-
tirely gone “I had no right to lose
my temper and I’m sorry I spoke so
unkindly The truth is Miss Cullen
the girl I care yorr-is4a love with an-
other man and so I’m bitter and ill-
natured in these days"
My companion stopped walking at
the steps of 218 and asked “Has she
told you so?”
’No” I answered “But it’s as
plain as she’s pretty”
Madge ran up the steps and open-
ed the door of the car As she turned
to close it she looked down at me
with the oddest of expressions and
said:
'How dreadfully ugly she must be!”
chapter x
Waiting for Help
If ever a fellow was bewildered by
a single speech it was Richard Gor-
don I walked up and down that
platform till I was called to breakfast
trying to decide what Miss Cullen
had meant to express only to succeed
in reading fifty different meanings
into her parting six words I want-
ed to think that it was her way of
suggesting that I deceived myself in
“Has she told you so?”
thinking that - there was any-
thing between Lord Ralles and her-
self but though I wished to believe
this I had seen too much to the con-
trary to take stock in the idea Yet
I couldn’t believe Madge was a co-
quette I became angry and hot with
myself for even thinking it for
moment I -
Puzzle as I did over the words I
managed to eat a good breakfast and
then went into the Cullen’s car and
electrified the party by telling them
of Camp’s and Fred’s dispatches and
how I had come to overhear the for-
mer Mr Cullen and Albert couldn’t
say enough about my cleverness in
what had really been pure luck and
seemed to think I had sat up all night
in order to hear that telegram The
person for whose opinion I cared
the most — Miss Cullen — didn’t say
anything but she gave me a look that
set my heart beating like a trip-hammer
and made me put the most hope-
ful construction on that speech of
hers It seemed Impossible that she
didn’t care for Lord Ralles nd that
she might care for me but after hav-
ing had ' no hope whatsoever the
smallest crumb of a chance nearly
lifted me off my feet
We had a consultation over what
was best to be done but didn’t reach
any definite conclusion till the sta-
tion agent brought me a telegram
from the postmaster-general Break-
ing It open I read aloud:
“Do not allow service of writ and
retain possession of letters according
to prior instructions At the request
of this department the Secretary of
War has directed the commanding of-
ficer at Fort Whipple to furnish you
with military protection and you will
call upon him at once if in your
judgment it Is necessary On no ac-
count surrender United States proper-
ty to Territorial authorities Keep
Department notified”
(To be continued)
One Serious Fault
“We specialize in this age” said
Richard Mansfield at a dinner “Each
of us confines himself to one thing
Btudles out that one thing’s last detail
and thus comes nearer to perfection
than was possible in the past
“Let me illustrate the unexpected
and amazing attention to detail that
abounds in modern life
"A friend of mine Is a clergyman
Recently a new pulpit was placed in
his church Meeting him a few days
after the pulpit’s installation I asked
him how he liked it
“ ‘Not at all’ said he Tt hides too
much of the figure and I like every
shake of the surplice to tell”
Fingers In Wild Gyrations
“Gee- are those fellows crazy?”
' “What’s wrong?"
"Look at their fingers gyrating
Gosh they’ll snop ’em off!”
“No it’s all right They’re a cou-
ple of deaf mute students giving their
class yelL”
GAS WORTH $9000
DESTROYED DAILY
Efforts to Cap Burning Well Near
Owen I T Prove Futile
K&Y EXHAUST ADJACENT FIELD
‘lames Forced 150 Feet in the Air
Visible Thirty-five Miles Away
--Stones Bombard Vicinity
Owen I T — Five thousand people
from all parts of the country crowded
every train and went out to see the
big burning gas wells on the Kansas
Natural Gas Company’s lease near
here which was tsruck by lightning
a' week ago last Friday afternoon
38000000 feet of gas at the lowest es-
timate bas been wasted every twenty-
four hours — a total loss at 20 cents
a thousand of $68400 for the nine
days or a loss in fuel value -when
measured by comparison with coal at
Caney prices of more than $100000
The flame is forced 150 feet into the
air and can be distinctly seen at Cher
ryvale thirty-five miles away also at
Independence and Coffeyville Sedan
and Bartlesville The whole country
at night is as light as day Stones
are being thrown from the well and
guards are stationed to keep the
spectators at least 200 yards away
Earth is being blown from around
the casings and it is feared the casing
itself may go at any time
The experts of the Kansas Natural
are baffled have exhausted every ef-
fort to extinguish the flames but none
of the devices have had the desired
effect
The first attempt to extinguish the
flames with steam was a failure Then
an iron hood was made This is five
feet across the bottom ' four across
the top and five feet high and weighs
3000 ponds Two pipe arms project
from the sides each eighty feet It
was planned to draw this up to the
well on a track of eight-inch pipe
with horses and drop it over the hole
at the same time turning in steam
from seven boilers through sixteen
lead pipes When the' track pipes
were pushed in toward the well the
heat was so intense the pipe melted
down and became useless The hood
was turned to a white heat when
within twenty feet of the well
SQUATTERS ORDERED OFF
Santa Fe to Extend from Coffeyville
Kas Into Indian Teritory
Vinita I T — The Atchison To
peka & Santa Fe Railroad company
it is rumored here will at once extend
its line from Coffeyville Kas south-
east to Vinita I T The Santa Fe
has owned for several years the right
of way through Coffeyville and from
three miles southeast into the Indian
Territory and the squatters upon this
right of way have been ordered off
A preliminary survey as far as Cen
tralia has already been made and the
line as far as Vinita has been mapped
out The Santa Fe alreadv has a lin
through the western part of the terri-
tory torn Caney Kas through the
oil fields by Bartlesville to Tulsa and
now if the line is extended southeast
out of Coffeyville to Vinita it will
pass through' an excellent coal belt
and one of the finest agricultural sec
tions of the Indian Territory
Drove Silver Spike
Lehigh I T — Boone Wiliams
president of the Commercial club of
Lehigh I T last week drove the
silver spike with which began the
building of the Oklahoma and Cen
tral railroad from Lehigh to Chick
a sha It was exactly one year to a
day from the time- the road was first
proposed until the first spike was
driven when construction work began
Lehigh is southeast from Chickasha
and the road will traverse the finest
timber region in the southwest be
sides having acess to the largest coa
area in Indian Territory
10 Square Inches of Diamonds
New York — Mrs Stuyvesant Fish
was in a box at the opera house last
night (She wore her new diamond
tiara whose value jewelers say is
$125000
The tiara' is a solid triangular mass
of diamonds with five very large
stones surounded by- lesser ones
There are at least 2000 gems ia it—
10 square inches of diamonds
Desecrate Italian Churches
There Is considerable excitement la
Italy over the Increasing number of
thefts of works of art in churches and
monasteries
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from the "Oltf Scratch” than any
other known agent simply because It
makes scratching entirely unneces-
sary One application relieves any
form of Itching skin disease that ever
afflicted mankind One box guaran-
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Hogan, R. The Stigler Beacon. (Stigler, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1906, newspaper, March 16, 1906; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1977547/m1/3/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.