The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, October 13, 1921, Image 2
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THAT MICHIGAN ELECTION
Readers of The Advertiser may remember
tnai u long time ago, there |
was an election in Michigan for United
States Senator in which Ilenry
Ford and Furman Newberry were
the candidates for the United States
Senate. Ford was defeated but it
was claimed that Newberry spent
$180,000 to win the election which is
contrary to the State and the United
States and also contrary to all ideas
of right and justce.
After a long delay a Congressional
committee has deeded that Ford was
not elected and that Furman Newberry
was entiled to the seat in the
Senate. As the Republicans are in
the majority in both houses of Congress
it is not surprising the committee
decided to keep Furman Newberry
in, which they did.
It is said that Ford intends to have
another and more important and ex
tensive investigation of Newberry's
right to the seat in the Senate.
Mr. Ford says he is not contending
for the seat 111 the Senate, but doeswant
to show and rebuke the methods
by which he was defeated.
In this investigation that has just
now come to an end a Democratic
minority report signed by Senator;
Ashurst of Arizona, King of Utah
and I'omerene of Ohio, accused New
bcrrv of consnirinir with others l"o,
the debauchery of the Michigan elec
torate and the violation of the Michi
gan election laws and the federa
statute limiting a senatorial can
didate's campaign expenditures "by
the expenditure of large sums u,
money with his knowledge and con.
sent."
i tie report also charged that New
berry was "familiar with the fact
that large sums were being expended,
and that he knew that not les
than $1X8,568 was expended in viola
tion of law," to further his candidacy
despite statements to the contrary
made by him under oath which thi
report asserted were "false and untrue."
^
llad the Republican majority a
sense of fairness and justice they
would not have seated Newberry a.
his vote was not needed n the Senate
with its large Republican majority.
But they swallowed Newberry with
his $188,508 spent in the election and
did not bat an eye.
When the \vha!u swallowed Jonah
that false prophet became so dis
agreeable that the whale threw him
up.
Newberry should profit by this example
and not squirm too much or he
too may be thrown to the fishes with
no providential hand held out to save
him- J**.
A newspaper head line read: "Are
you ready to sow your oats?" Wild 01
tame?
OUR BOYS ON THE RHINE
There has been much adverse crici
cism concerning the fact that a
large force of American soldiers are
still kept in Germany, hut it appear;
that the Germans want our boys t'
stay on the Rhine for the very reason
that if the American soldiers
come away French soldiers will take
their place. A German paper expresses
the wish and says that it is
universal in Germany that the Americans
may remain a long time.
BILLIONS FOR WAR
NOTHING FOR CIVILIZATION
An exchange calls attention to the
fact that while all this peace talk
and disarmament plans are going on
fourteen nations have six million soldiers
under arms.
Commenting upon these figures
the Atlanta Georgian says:
"How much useful work could be
done in worm if the .e, million
men ruw unit ding up and dawn doing
nothing, waiting to kii!, were
equally well trained, well fed, well
clothed, well taken care of and put
at useful work? How quickly they
would do away with deserts and
swamps and make this earth what
it ought to he. Pillions for war,
not a cent for civilization, is the
revised version."
COURTSHIP TICKLERS
Charlie?Put I asked you, dearest,
to keep our engagement a secret for
the present.
Claire?I couldn't help it. That
Ella said the reason I wasn't married
was because no fool had proposed to
me, so I told her you had.
She?I wish I had your talent.
He?Well, that goes with me.?
Life.
Ethel?A 16-page letter from
George? Why, what on earth does he'
nay?
Mabel?He says he loves me.?
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
"When you refused him my hand,
papa, did he go down on his knees?"
"Well, 1 didn't notice just where,
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1 pot up. removed the dapper from
my pocket. and examined TT In the
eleetrie lipid. It was a toy weapon, ,
yet sufficiently danperous, for all that, j
and I looked at It with a sense ot horror.
How could n woman have ever
thrust even that keen blade with one
tlii-mml. f/\ 4?.r> l.r... 1 Vn? ?l.n I
evidence wiis before me. Those dark
stains wore blood?htininn ldood? j
dried now, but unmistakable In their '
??roof of crime. I washed Hie steel. j
'onvlnp ttie blade hrlpht ami polished; !
ben wrapped It carefully, and hid It
away at the very bottom of my bap,
lockinp the latter apalnst possible in- !
speetion by n curious maid. I felt reMoved
once I had the weapon out of !
slpht.
The niorninp papers contained no
reference to tbe tragedy?the body of
lie dead man had not been found In
ime. There would bo noise enouph
vhen it was. no doubt, for Alva must
mve been widely known and ranked
is of some Importance. Kven if his
dentitv was never established, if no
uispicion was aroused as to his posl- I
ion. and secret work In this oountry I
et the very mystery of the ease would
rente a sensation. 1 tut perhaps he
ad papers on his person of value. I
retted not having searelied Ills j
aiekets. Then the convietion came
hat possibly here might he I he true
atliitioti of the murder a desire to se itre
some doenments the man earried.
I went down to Costipan's place on
'ont, not being entirely eert.ain of the
xnet loeriion. It was tin ordinary
orner saloon, with a stairway lending !
o rooms above. In the morning hours
he barroom was nearly d< sorted, hut
lie man at the bar. looking tne over
atttie'jsly. said that "Mr. I'tirker" had
already gone out. and had left no
word as to when ho would return. I
ias rather glad, yet I left a toloihotie
number, with a request that I
)( enuou whenever lie canto i?noK. I
waited impatiently for the call in my
room. i*i!i now came. It dawned upon
no tlcit in nil probability llnrris was
"nintlenlly endeavoring to fitul the
whoivnhoiits of Alvn. ns vol having 110
illKpintoll of ids do.'llll. I lolopllonod
('osiiu'iin's, hut "Mr. Parker" luul not
returned.
I sent out for 11 noon edition, ontrerly
scanning its roiunins. tint finding
nothing. Surely the deserted car.
with its grini tmrden, nmsi Imve been
discovered before this. The poliee
must Imve suppressed the news to enable
them to work in seeret ; they
might have found some evidence in
the dfr.d mnn's pockets, or in 'be dark
reer i>< e ' the car,- by whi< li tin \ ?lill
hope ' Tr cupi ;re tlie assassin.
I rcnieinber ratine in a basement
,t wh?re T was totalii on
known^ and then departing for tinieiidcxi
oils oti !.< <'oiuptc street. 1
approached the tiiiinlier given with
serious misgivings. If tlie poliee were
actually on the trail, some knowledge
of this place might lie in their posses
Mini, itiui i (otjjii not iip too cautious.
There was no outward sign of any
tsurvcillnnce us I turned into the
block; indeed except for a grocery
truck before one of the houses, and
nn organ-grinder at the farther corner,
entertaining a group of children,
the street was entirely deserted. Mustering
toy courage, and with a feeling
of deep excitement, I advanced up
the steps of the house numbered 247.
and, finding refuge in the outer vestibule,
rang the hell. I heard no distant
tinkle, hut within a moment or
two the door opened a eraek, held in
"Well, What In It?" She Snapped.
i i
(lint position l?y n chain, hikI the fare
of ii middle-aged woman peered out
at me.
"Well, what is it?" she snapped, in
no encouraging tone.
"I should like to see Miss Conrad," I
began apologetically. "I have an appointment
with her."
"Not here yer ain't, young man, for
there ain't nobody by that nnme In
this house." ?
"Are you aure? This la 247f la It
not? That was the number given me.
She. was to he here at two o'clock."
"This yere Is 247 all right. I nln't
denyln' that," the voice more acid
than ever, "but there ain't no Mlsa
Conrad ytre; ?o that'* all there la
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RANDALL PARR15H
"Hut tliere must be." i
"Must be nuthln'! I guess I know. I
I've been yere seventeen years, an'
ther never was. nobody of that name
ever In tills house. Besides, I'm housecleanln'
and cun't stand yere talkln* i
all day."
"Do you know a man named
Kruntz?" I flung at her desperateJy,
In n last effort to arouse some resnnnsp
"Ailnlnh Rrnnt*"
"No, I dou't; titer ain't none of
those people yere, I tell yer."
The door slapped shut in my face,
and I heard a bolt shot Into place?
the interview was ended.
I stared a moment nt the blank door
In bewilderment; then turned away,
and slowly retraced my steps to the
street. So the younK woman had deliberately
lied to me; had merely been
amusing herself at my expense; had
sent nie on this wild goose chase so
that she might laugh over my simplicity.
But was this true? If so,
how was I to account for the strange
coincident that both she and Harris
had named the same number, and
street? It could not have occurred
merely through chance. Something
must have happened In the meanwhile
to overthrow all her plans, and
to cause this rahld housekeeper to
even deny her very existence. And I
held the key of explanation?the murder
of Alva.
Beyond all doubt here was both
cause and elTect. The girl hud intended
to either see me herself, or by
proxy In the form of .this mysterious
Miss Conrad. But what had since
occurred had compelled a sudden
change In pluns, a necessity for concealing
her escape. There was no
way in which she could notify nie, but
she might very easily have telephoned
ii> her landlady. And, if the nlace
was what 1 susplcloned it to he, she
might have every confidence that her
secret would he guarded.
I glanced up at the front of the
house, searching the windows but
without results. The curtains were
closely drawn to keep out the sun.
and the place appeared forlorn and
deserted. At the dellcutessen shop on
the corner I gained a gleam of light,
hut merely enough to strengthen my
former Judgment. The keeper, a flaxen-haired
Swede, was loquacious
enough, hut had only been In business
there a few weeks.
"247 Le Compte, you soy. Yes, she
takes roomers; some ore men, and
some are women. They come In here
and buy, hut I never ask the names; it
was all cash, so why should I care?
| Sometimes I hear them call names?
sure; hut never Conrad. The woman
what keeps the house? Waft and I
j tell you; it is on the hooks; ah! you
rend as site wrote It for me?Mrs. Augusta
Wnldron; maybe a widow?
| What you think? Bah, she never like
anything I have to sell. I rare
ing for trade with her?n cut this Mrs.
Augusta Wnldmn."
T loft b'ni with the fnrnllinr sound
of tb" 'jtmp rinplnp In my ears?tho
whole thlnp was traveling In n circle,
and the circle 'vns growinr continually
mote compact. Blindly, I was
stumbling up against It here and
there most unexpectedly. Augusta
Wahlrou, beyond doubt, was Ivan Waldron's
wife. No wonder her houite
was designated the meeting place for
those people.
1 I returned to the hotel. Only as I
stood before the door did I realize
that the newsboys were calling out,
"Kxlrn ! All about the murder!" I
felt that my face was white, and that
by band shook, yet I hastily bought
copies of haJf a dozen sheets^ shoving
them Into my pockets.
j The reports were mostly alike, exceedingly
brief and unsatisfactory, except
that they conveyed the impreeslon
that thus far the police possessed
no real due as to the perpetrator of
the crime. No one connected with
the meeting the night before was mentioned
in any article, nor was any suspicion
of such a meeting mentioned. I
read the last line with a distinct feeling
of relief, dropping the paper on
the floor.
They had discovered no clue, noth
in* Mimirvrr m worn upon. U'lie interior
of the car hud yielded no evidence
of Its former occupant, the only
reference being to mud on the floor.
Outside nil footprints had been obliterated
by the falling ruin. No one
In the neighborhood had heard a
sound, or witnessed any movement.
The whole ntTair was shrouded In mystery.
What, under these conditions, was
my duty? What could I either do, or
suy, to clarify this tragedy, and bring
the guilty to justice? I sat there for
an hour thinking and smoking, endeavoring
to answer these queries. I
could study out 110 clear way to any
confession, which would not directly
involve myself In the tolls of the police,
or else implicate Marie Uessler,
so as to make any defense on her part
almost impossible. No doubt she was
guilty vet I could not <lrivo muuolf
w ~ " "v"v" lv
openly charge her with the crime.
There must he some extenuating clrcumstances,
some unknown cause,
which had led to the act. I could not
forget her face, her manner, the clear,
womanly look of her eye?she was no
murderess, and It was not In my heart
to denounce her as such. Besides, If
1 took this responsibility it would
onJy serve to shield other crimes of
more Importance than the violent
death of this Chilean revolutionary?
the murder pertfhp* of many Innocent
victims, and the destruction of much
valuable property. For Alva'a death
wouid hardly atop the plotting already '
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| New York ready to be used; the propagandists
at Washington would never |
permit It to long lie idle. They would
lind somewhere another leader, and 1
! alone seemed to he in a position to
balk their hellish purpose. Perhaps
it was even hy their orders that Alva
had thus heen put out of the way.
He had acted too slowly, and sua- ,
plcion might have heen aroused as to
his real purpose. On every side I was
assailed with doubts.
Yet, even if I held silent, I knew
not in which direction to turn. 1 had
I apparently lost all touch with the
j girl. She had Jailed tne completely?
i either hy accident, or design. Her appointment
with me had served to reveal
only one fact which might prove
of importance?217 Le Compte street
was undoubtedly a link in the chain
of the conspiracy; it was the home of
| Ivan Wnldron. Once I told this dlsi
covery to Harris the way might be
opened to closer investigation. But
what had become of Harris? It was
already approaching six o'clock, and
the man had not telephoned me. Surely
he must lie aware by this time of
the murder of Alva; the uselesstiess
of seeking longer to find him alive,
Was he also endeavoring to avoid me?
I was ids purpose deceit? or hud some
suspicion arisen in his mind as to my
really being Harry Daly?
Aroused by this possibility, and un!
able to remain quiet longer, I slipped
a revolver from the depths of my hug
Into a coat pocket, and departed again
They Tell Me You're Hunting
Parker."
for C'ostlpnn'a, determined to lenrn th?
truth. I approached the same bar
tender with whom I had spoken In thf
morning, and he must have recalled
me at once, for, without answering
my quest Ion, he turned and called oui
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THE LONG SHOT MADE BY BILLY
DIXON
"The old Sharps rifle ended the
North American buffalo," once wrote
Theodore Roosevelt, the chronicler of
the w Inn lug of the West, and he
might have added that this famous
gun helped write "Finis" to the story
of the Indian with a few periods of
lend.
One of the most remarkable shots
ever made with this rifle too* place
at the Adobe Walls tight In the Texas
Panhandle In 1874, when a war party
of Kiowa8. Comanches and Cbeyennes
tried to wipe out a little groep of buffalo
hunters who had their headquarters
there. The shot was flred by
Billy Dixon, known to the Indians as
"Hants?Long Hair."
After three charges against the
stockade had failed to overwhelm the
buffalo hunters, the Indians settled
down to starve them out During the
siege "Bat" Masterson, one of the
hunters, noticed a* group of Indians
gathered on a hill nearly three-quarters
of a mile away. They could be
nlslnlv gpon nnri u'nrn nvlriontlu hillr.
log over some new plan for overcom-.
tog the white men when Masterson
called Dixon's attention to the group.
"Billy, it wouldn't bo a bad Idea to
break up that little pow-wow over
there, would It?" he said.
"Don't know whether the old Sharps
Is good for It or not, but I'll try it,"
replied Dixon. He knew the range?
approximately 1,200 yards. Fixing tho
sights of his gun to this range, tho
scout aimed carefully and fired. Tho
white men saw the conference of tho
warriors break up hastily and the savages
retreat to a safer place.
Dixon served as a scout for General
Miles In the campaign against the
southern tribes that year, and he was
one of the six dispatch bearers who
made a heroic stand In an old buffalo
wallow against a war party of 125
Comnnehes and Klowas. In this fight
Amos Chapman, a fellow scout, lost
h's leg. Although Dixon's shirt front
was riddled with bullets, he received ..
only one slight wound. That night
he volunteered to go for help and
m'ter a perilous trip he brought hack
t troop of cavalry and rescued his
comrades.
For nine years Dixon was a governaient
scout at Fort Elliott, Tex. Then
he homesteaded a ranch In the Panhandle.
building his log house on the
ruins of the old Adobe Walls where
he had made Ills fumous shot with the
Bid S*ai7v?. Later he moved to Cimarron
county, Oklahoma, and died near
the little town of Oresham In 1914.
Stories of i y Elmo I
Great Scouts Wot ton |
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TEN TO ONE?WILD BILL'S
GREATEST FIGHT
When the Overland stage route to
the Colorado gold fields was estab- ~~
IIshed shortly before the Civil war,
one of the bravest drivers in its employ
was a young man from Illinois
named James B. liickok. In 1861
llickok was taken off the stages and
mi + In /iKn wma /\# n ^n- ? ?
... vii?i?c vi iuc ivucit ^ruen siatlon,
west of Topeka, Kan., In a region
tilled with gangs of outlaws and highway
robbers. One of these, known aa
the McCandlass gang, invited Hlckok
to Join them and, upon his refusal,
i threatened to visit him some day and
, make him regret his defiance.
"You'll find me here any time yon
I come," was Hickok's reply.
| A few days later the McCandlass
gang did-And him there. They atI
tacked him in his dug-out, battered
dowu the door and Jim McCandlass,
the leader, sprung Into the room. Us
was killed by_a bullet from Ulckok's
rifle. Three more of the gang were
shot down with a pistol before the
other six drew their bowls knives and
rushed upon blm.
"Then I went wild," said Hlckok
In telling of the fight afterwards. Desi
perately wosnded but terrible In his
! berserker rage, he came to grips with
the outlaws, and when the fight was
over eight of the ten were dead and
the other two fled for their Uvea
Ever afterward Klckok was known as
"Wild Bill."
Later Wild Bill enlisted In the Union
army as a scout lie served with General
Curtis In Arkansas and repeatedly
entered the Confederate lines as a
spy. More than once he was discovered
and forced to flee, and more than
once the fleetness and Intelligence of.
his favorite horse, "Hlnck Nell." saved
! his life. He was a sharpshooter at
the Battle of Fed Itldge, where he distinguished
himself by killing the Confederate
general. McCullough.
After the wor Bill returned to Kan*
aas and became a scout for Genera'
Custer, who set a high value on his
services aud who once said: "Whether
on foot or on horseback. Wild Rill
was one of the most perfect types of
physical manhood I have ever seen."
From 1807 to 1870 Hlckok served as
marshal of Hays City and Abilene,
Kan.
fllcknk's adventurous career came
to an end In the Black Hllla of South
Dakota. He had gone there with the
first gold rush and In some way had
Incurred the enmity of Jack McCall,
a gambler. On August 2. 1870. Mo
Oall treacherously shot him In the
back as he sat playing cards with
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by catarrh sufferers for the past thlrtyflve
years, and has become known as the
most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's
Catarrte Medicine acts thru the Blood on
the Mueeus surfaces, expelling the Poison
from the Blood and healing the diseased
portions.
After you hare taken Hall's Catarrh
Medicine for^a short time