Woodward County Democrat and Palace Weekly Pioneer. (Woodward, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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Woodward Damoorat J “Be keerfui! Don't straighten his fin-
gers too quick!M
And some of you bear me also to
W. A. Pyne, Pub.
WOODWARD, I | : OKLA.
my downy couch, won’t you? 1, too.
ain a froien wayfarer, Sally ’ u.”
Phlneas climbed out of the coach nnd
stepped up to Sally B. with proffered
hand.
minute I heard the signature I smelt I
a mice."
‘ What do you mean?”
" **• 2 & 4’ is Hlowhard Cad's sig-
nature, 1 m sure. I heard it once be-
fore."
"Those initials are ours."
■%. r Kir 1
' h> didn 1 you | crooked he does will be charged to
Alvin grlnnp I, but was quickly
Copyright, 11)07, A. C UtClurg ft Co., Chicago
SYNOPSIS.
The story opens during a trip of the
Overland Mail" through the Kooky
mountains "Uncle Hilly" Dodge, stage
or.ver. Alfred Vincent, n young man. nnd
J Illness Cadwailader. Introduced. They
come across tlie remains of a massacre
jotter at Anthony's station they find the
redskins have carried their destructive
work there also Stella Anthony, tliugh-
. , Anthony, keeper of station, is in-
troduced Anthony has been killed.
, Is assigned his work In unearth-
!I!,ni eiS enemies of railr ad. b >;ng
ouiit. \ incent visits town where railroad
nir*n are working on ro-ul and r«*c<*ivefi
token of esteem from S;e’l,. The old
ItiHge driver decides to w t!< clos> to
town in order ti.at he m.iv be able to
keep fatherly watch over the young
woman. Mho Is engaged ns n tutor for
I , rnard, daughter of hotel land-
KOM yneent visits society circles of on
ennes of the Central Pacific railroad and
learns tlndr r s He r-tur s to Stella,
each show ng signs of love for the other.
Showing signs of love for the other
l tineas ( adwallud-r. pushing a railr ad
I posing i entral I. hie. reaches murns
wr11*‘S to Alfred Virvent ills
boast Hying li;s attentions C i lTilla ler
Insults her and she is res. .jed hv fil l, on
hei father s servant In turn he proposes
m.irrage. Is rejected, leaves I., r d». I ir ng
h. will return the sort of » man she will
'! , "J ' nt "ahows up" San Urancis.-o
and Washoe road and lv pr.is. I t>> g .v-
ernor and Inai’s of O-nlrul Pa Iti It,.
Ing know n as agent of < \ p p,. de -id-s
10 E"s ! f,,i of a hrakeman for a
f. f ,ln!"- Stella hears front let lover
WnS2nr-fnd ;1f ,,is *menal success.
1 mds ietter of Imp-rtame involving plan;
ot oppi sition road.
CHAPTER X.—Continued.
Some dec iltry to our company
Sav! You know everything; maybe
you can figure It out. And say! Mum's
the word. I amt suppose! to let any
one see what goes over the wire, you
know. So long." He handed her a
bulky envelope and turned.
Is it all this?'' Sttlia began, when
Alvin broke in:
Oh, my work's in th»re, too. Say.
Mi?s Stella, you re a buily te.irh'*r!
M.v brains are growing so fast niv
skull aches. I must skip or niv
chief'll call me before 1 g >t back, and
that II mean—" He drew his tingei
across his throat, laughed merrily and
almost c!os“d the door when he turned
Itack a sheepish face and in a voice to
match said: "There's a note to Vi in
there; would you—would you—"
Stella laughed. "Oh. yes, I will; but
I’ll tell her mother, too."
"Ye—s. I sjose that goes, 0. K.,
too. Good-bye. I'm gone."
Stella heard him stumping oT down
the street, watched him through th*
dim light climb the muddy hill to the
little box where he was jaded with the
"clicker'' 24 hours a day. save the
three—sometimes only two—short res
pites the chief operator in Sacra
mento gave him for meals. Stella
thought of the eerie nights, thought cl
Alvin's social nature an 1 sighed. No
wonder his predecessor had been dis
Charged for drunkenness. But Alvin
was made of better stuff.
To-night the budget went unopened
Stella extracted the note addressed
to Vialo, carried the rest to her h mie-
made desk in grandma'am's room and
went to supper.
Hut \ ic \* ah’s best efforts were un
appreciated. She toyed w ith her to d.
listening tensely for a he aid of the
stage and was gladdened at last by
the shout that announced its coming
Doors were Hung open and unxi jus
eyes peered Into darkle ss, wat hing
a black obj-et emb dj it:. if the I
night and labor up to tb< lump lit ex- j
pre--- office. Stella aw a rigid form
on the box and ran C ;-.vn the sidewalk '
to barn for hen If If ii was r<
Uncle Hilly. He did nof move; only
a feeble voice tesMlu d to life.
though she laug’ie i.
set on the box an' spell Uncle Hilly
with the lines, you skunk? You are
younger’n him.”
"1 ain't drivi ig Charley Crocker's
stage Jtn his prsscng t."
Sally H. hustled I i::i nsfde and
cleared ihe way lor the men who car-
ried Uncle Billy, jro.c sting feebly, to
her best chamber, where the two
women took him ir. charge.
But their ministrations and the
sight of Stella’s pitying fan >, roused
him for a minute only; he was soon
In the vision-laden spaces where tiick-
sies make jest of human travail. For
long hours, under a wearying conglom-
eration of angles and curves that
grandma am called a "dream of the
night," poor Uncle Billy tossed and
moaned, fought over again his lonely
battle with the storm.
Keep it up a little longeh, boys.
Lights ahead—no, lights out! Fly.
boys! The mountain's falling! Po’
Snorteh, down again! Git up, boy!
Pul! up, there! Now, altogeiheh!
Uncle Hilly must stick—by the stage,
live—or die—save the treasure—don't,’
Stella, dear! The old man ain't wo'th
a teah from—yo' sweet—good-bye, lit-
tle one. Uncle Hilly cain't go any—"
bteila s tears fell unheeded on the
stiff blistered hands while the story
of the awful drive grew out of his
fevered babblings. Towards morning
he was quieter. Stella declared she
cou!d not rest, but Sally H. drove her
to her room; and nature and youth
soon prevailed. She awoke late in
the morning, depressed by a dread her
rest had not banished.' Her first
thought was of Fade Billy; her next
was of Phlneas; and from him her
mind Hew to the strange dispatch.
She dressed hastily and ran down-
-tairs. attacking it at once. Fruitless
she searched for a clew, some pre-
science of its Importance holding her
>j the task heedless of breakfast and
>t l ncle Billy. Suddenly the signifi-
•ance of the paper she had picked
iti) on the hillside after her encounter
with Phineas llashei upon her. She
found It and began her work anew, re
warded at last by a message that
whitened her cheek, unsteadied her
and. Waiting for neither breakfast
nor wraps, she flew up the hill to the
statioa.
worse-
ns.
serious again. "There's
wire's been tapped."
"How do you know that?"
Cause I asked every operator clear
lown the line from Virginia if he
■ 'aid anJ’ ( hoctaw going through, anil
not one clicker east of here had It.
At Sacramento the night man heard it,
but paid no attention to it."
"Its a state's prison offense."
"Oh. yes; but Cad won't go to (iris
on. You'll see! How’ll they catch
him? And. anyway, the fellers he's
working for in San Francisco '11 save
him. They’ll have to, if they save
their own skins."
Alfred was heedless. He was read-
ing the second dispatch. "A. C. &
O, San Francisco. To he called for
Everything fixed. 'Flora' leaves Fri
day at tea. with five hundred tons
iron. P. Q. undertakes the job for
price we offered. No mistake. Timed
for the straits. Don't let her take pas-
sengers. C. P. 2 & 4
.
Alvin nodded. "Guess I can think
up that trick in four hours."
At the hotel Alfred took only time to
don riding hoots and to find Ste.la for
a hurried word. "Get Sally B. to hold
Cadwailader here over train time, if
It's possible," Alfred said before his
good bye. "It may mean everything
to the company. I'll return to-night
If I can."
A swift horse took him to the
front, where he found the superin
tendent riding his beat. Alfred told
his story briefly and asked if there
was a lineman on the force.
"Juj iter! You can't track that
man, \ incent! The snow's come and
gene since that Hecate’s job was done."
"But. Mr. Gregory, l e'd have to cut
the wire, ar.d he’d lave to climb a
tree or a pole to do It. Could that be
done without leaving a trace?”
"What then? How can you prove it
was he?"
"How'll I know
uni ess I try?"
"Linemen don't show up often in
my diggings. I'll ask Bennett; hi3 sec-
tion begins here."
Inquiry discovered an intelligent
man who had worked on the line. His
climbers were at camp nenr by; and
Mr. Gregory's resourcefulness provided
horse and saddle. The two men set
off without delay. They rode fast till
HOUSE IS BUILT ROUND.
Residence of Peculiar Architecture to
Please Neighbors.
Guthrie, Okla.—Visitors In this city
are always Interested In a residence
of peculiar architecture, located ia
West Guthrie, and few people come
here who do not take a look at this
house before leaving. Local photog-
raphers state they finish more kodak
pictures of this residenco than of any
other one point of interest in this lo-
cality. It is commonly referred to ns
"the round house," "the house with
the pin on it," and “the wonder
house."
It is a pagoda looking affair, of sev-
eral stories, built as round as a but-
I couldn't prove U
"Good heavens!" Alfred cried dron- wit*lin nf>ar*y niiles of Dutch Flat,
n.. i _ a _ _ « . . * * I A If rod iurlirintr flint nu i____
Francisco
ping Into a chair by the desk and
reaching for slip and pencil. “This Is
Friday, and—" He took out his watch
"Nine-five! Got a San
paper, Al?”
Aes; but It's several days old."
"No matter! Find out quick what
dock the 'Flora' leaves, then get to
your key. We must beat lightning to-
The two were silent. Alvin nervous
lv turning the paper. Alfred scratching
dispatches. Evidently the "Flora” was
not a regular boat; her name was not
in the shipping lists
Well have to send the message on
trust then. Quick, Al! Tell the op
■rator down there it means life or
death to officers and crew—this
aid,
to
w (
--I cal n't
ns kind
bis lips,
ids fame
“Some one take the lines, I
open my fin -eh " fi
hands held hot whi-ky
"Dl :
thick y betwee Take th<
po' felli hs out from w! e <• 11 • -y ' in i,
won't you? Hoys, you nil t: ke hold-
thote h ' lom nd on't
make 'em pull the ole w -on up that
muddy hill—to-night. JV rich'
It's good-bye for him—I ri*,kon. He's
His words dwindled to a wfik |
and the huddled figure, rcu <
the I wig
lower.
'Boys, he'll full!
Liuj down!" culled
from
strain, drooped lower and
Bonn
'tally
o
yon lift
tharpljr.
CHAPTER XI.
Tracked.
Alvin saw Stella coming and sprang
to the door. "Heard the news?” lie
-hi nted before she could speak. "Vir
giaia A: 1 ruckee railroad's a go this
ime. sure. No sardines behind it, like
before, but men; money, too. They'll
o did from Virginia to Reno, and we'll
meet 'em there. It'll help us like
sixty!"
All this was pour-M out impetuously
as she came toward him, her mind
scantily comprehending the import of
his words, though a mental tiashiight
told her that the complexion of the
reads would make forever unneces ary
such drives as Uncle Billy's latest
stormy trip.
Oh, Alvin," she panted; "that
cipher dispatch—it means—it means
•bath! What shall we do? If the
chief knew you showed it to me—"
No matter what happens to me!
Tell me, quick, what's in it!"
Hut I must ii t get you discharged.
Alvin She* had the woman's mind,
that delays, protects, conserves; and
•she hesitated.
Hut Alvin had the masculine cour-
age that destroys boldly to build again
boldly. "The discharge of one or more
two-bit operators don't count 'longslde
of this matter. Mr. Vincent's due on
ihe extra in a minute. He's O. K. for
company's inside business if he is only
a brakeinan."
"Every minute's precious,” Stella
said. "What if ihe train's late? it
Mr. Vincent is not—" A whistle In-
terrupted her.
There she Is'" Alvin exclaimed,
turning toward the rock promontory
that hid the train, though the rever-
berating whistle sounded from across
the gorge.
"I'll start back," Stella said. "If
Mr. Vincent's not aboard—they may
have transferred him—wave to me
when I come in sight under the hill."
The train puffed In. Alvin gave dis-
patch nnd translation to Alfred with
a whispered explanation, and Htella
aw no hand wave from the doorway,
it needed little time for him to read
und verify Stella's solution. lie took
the shorter of the two messages first.
D. H , Kan Francisco. To be called
lor. Huy G. k (’ at any price, con-
tiguous lodes if possible. Hlg strike.
Set ret >et. C. 1*. 2 At 4."
Allied scowled. "Secret Information
lor i m red buyers. When did you get
this?"
"Wednesday
light."
"What were up to at thut time!
In the morning?"
."Nothing, The stuff waked mo go-1
Uuougli. It va.i so queer. Tbs
Alfred's Eye Was Caught by the
Gleam of a Crescent of Burnished
Geld.
morning before day
message does. Tell him to put a man
*n a horse—I'll stand the expense
anything to get word to the 'Flora' in
time! Oh, sign my name. It Don’t
do to have the company show up in
this."
Alvin bent over his key. Men cann
and went. Alvin holding off trainmen
and "commercial” messages alike with
the decisive words, "company’s bu.si
ness. He looked up at last, breathing
freer as lie spoke. "They'll do it," he
whispered to Alfred. "They know
where the 'Flora' lies. They have 20
minutes to catch her."
Alfred sent a second message to the
company's office in Sacramento telling
of Alvin's discovery aud asking relief
from his train for the day. A third
dispatch went to the county sheriff
telling him of the wire tapping and
of the evidence against Cadwailader.
While waiting for replies Alfred
wrote to Gov. Stanford. Inclosing the
cipher dlspatt hes and their transla
lions. Hut ».,s was soon done, and
tlie two men, o] pleased with their
death laden secret, watched the cluck
feverishly.
Th- minute* dragged as intolerably
for Alfred, though he wore his mask
more easily than Alvin. Would they
he In time? Would they catch the
little steamer before she left port for
her fate? Even then, would they find
the infamous secret before Its fateful
moment arrived? Whit would it be'.*
Powder? A slit in the hull? A cun-
ning Injury to the boiler?
At last San Francisco called, Alvin
sprang to tin* key. The steamer had
started, had been hailed, had waited
for a small boat and the message, and
bad gone on her way.
Alfred rofio, us stiff with the tension
as if minutes had been hours. "That’s
ail we can do at that end. Keep your
eye and car busier thau your tongue.
Al. for the rest of the day. I'm off to
settle with Ills nibs, Phlneas Fad-
wallader. By the way. couldn't you
contrive some way to get him left;
The train reported lute in |»nvlng,
false report, something like that?"
Alfred judging that, since Phineas
took the stage there, his exploit must
be in that neighborhood.
The afternoon was past its half
when they began to Inspect each pole
and wire-touched tree with close
scrutiny. "Well work east over those
five miles to Dutch Flat," Alfred said.
"If we find nothing we'll have to stay
over night In town, go east a short
distance in the morning, and then
take It west from here."
For the first two or three miles
their search was unrewarded by any
sign. Just at sunset, in a windy little
vale, the lineman's practised eye
caught a peculiar piecing of the wire,
and he climbed nimbly to Inspect it!
It was not a joining made by the regi*
lar force, but a recent cut. The
marks of tlie climbers were also fresh.
Is there anything about it to dis-
tinguish it from regular work?" Al-
fred asked.
You bet! Any chump could tell, if
he see it close, that it was the work
of an amachure by the way the wires
are tied.”
That was something gained, but not
«>nough. "How did the man get up
there?"
Before the man could reply Alfred's
eye was eaught by the gleam cf a
crescent of burnished gold. Lying
half Imbedded in the wet remains of
a snowdrift. Its uppjr surface washed
clean and shining, he found a cuff but-
ton of a peculiar design—a star within
a crescent, the two free points lipped
with diamonds. He knew it. ho knew
who owned its fellow! Turning it over
he saw tin* engraved initials, P. C.
"Good enough!" he called. “We need
10 more evidence. You can go on to
town tor the night, or back to camp,
as you cho .se. I'll ride too hard for
you, perhaps."
The man chose to turn back. Alfred
iri anged for i uyinent for the extra
work and a;;Jin rode east.
In a few minutes he arrived at the
Dutch Hat office and telegraphed Al-
• in. asking of Phineas. Five minutes
ater he was reading the reply:
"C.'s here, pacing the platform like
i mad gobbler. We did the leaving
trh k lor tlie regular train O. K. Hut
he thinks lie's going on the special in
spite of fate."
"Let him go in peace," Alfred wired
hark; and Immediately s-nt a message
to the sheriff at Auburn that was an-
wend after two hours as follows:
"Sheriff's office, Auburn. P. C. walked
into my arms as unsuspecting as a
lamb. He had no time to destroy in-
criminating evidence. Is now resting
noisily in the cooler."
(TO HE CONTINUED.)
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DO HORNETS STAND GUARD.
Experiments Seem to Show that They
Have Sentinels.
Is n hornet’s nest guarded by sen-
tinels, after the manner of ant bills?
Is not so easy to decide, for their
private bald s do not Invite familiar
approach. Hut. some experiments
seemed to point that way. No noises,
however near or strident, had the least
effect upon the workers. Hlow on
divers Instruments as loudly and
ain illy as I u .nild, they poured In and
out of the gate or labored on the walls,
Intent wholly upon their own affairs.
Hut at the slightest jar upon the win-
dow or shutter, out flew a bevy of
irate Insects and flung themselves
a liiist tin* w!ri* window screen with
a« •'>11_• ry "bump" that showed how
4-' ’! Was their intention, at least, to
defend their horn-. It was always so;
a - paid of workers, free and ready for
iignn ssive duty, seined to h > lurking
near tlie pate, prompt to sally r«>rth
a fi w kept
"Round House" at Guthris, Okla.
tor ball. Within, the rooms corner In
the center of the house, but the outer
walls are round and persons who have
inhabited It always find trouble In se-
curing carpels that can be placed In
the rooms and with finding suitable
places to locate their various articles
of furniture. It has ]>orehes and ver-
andas that run around the entire
house.
'I hen Charfos Babcock came to
Guthrie at the opening of “Old" Okla-
homa in 1889, there were but few resi
dences in that portion of the city
where he purchased a lot It so hap
penod, too, that what few residences
w>*re In that vicinity surrounded hh
place—houses to tho east and west,
north and south of him.
Naturally, when the town was still
young, there was much speculation
among the oth*r residents regarding
the manner cf architecture Mr. Bab-
cock would adopt In building his new
home, and each of his immediate
neighbors made the demand that,
whatever the architecture, the house
should face In his particular direc-
tion.
They were all mighty nice people."
said Babcock recently in explaining
why he had built the round house,
"and not desiring to disappoint any
cf my neighbors, I just concluded to
build it round, so that It would face
in all directions. They were all so de-
termined about wha* direction It
should face that afterward I had the
laugh on them all by making It face
in all directions. I found it very
comfortable to live In, for It made no
difference during the summer time
from what direction the wind was
blowing I always got the benefit, while
oftentimes my neighbors were suffer-
ing with heat."
Mr. Babcock denied the report, cur-
rent here for some time, that in his
earlier years he had beeu in the navy
and that he had designed his resi-
dence after the conning tower of some
ship he had served on. He is a na-
tive of Wisconsin and learned the
blacksmith trade in Milwaukee a good
many years ago. Later he resided In
both St. Louis and Kansas City prior
to coming to Guthrie.
While a resident here Mr. Babcock
served several terms in the city coun-
cil and resigned in 1901 to take a
claim In the Kiowa and Comanche In-
dian country, then opening for H"ttle-
ment. He still owns his "round house"
In Guthrie.
upon alarm. Even nt. night
nearby, and although their port hail
lost its vicious swt'ig and they ri)<«v*-rl
about qjili a sluzg sh , ,n(, |,kft
• iy watchmen, as doubtless they
won*, they wt Upon the observer th«
Impr. mion that they were on s-ntlnel
H-rivcc, In which tho community wa»
never lacking, -llurpcr'e Mugo.uu.
Saved!
At last the entire visible stock of
lumber had been used up.
"What's the matter," asked tho
father of a large family, "with using
the old wooden bedsteads piled up In
the attics?"
Here was n practically exhaustle-s
source of supply that nobody had
thought of, and mankind eagerly
adopted the suggesiioti und ran up tlie
price remorsi less on the
—Chicago Tribune.
paper trust.
Not Quite the Same Thing,
“This trouble of midnight marau len
In Kentucky and Ohio Is not a new
one. It existed long ngo."
"When?"
“Why, In the days of old. whet
knklils were bold, didn't they have
knight rldt rn? —Baltimore American
Keep It Dark.
Rome women will admit tlici they
n srrled a man to reform him, h it
mighty few will , kiie > | » , .
mrde a mess of the Job.—Whslinigiu*
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