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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1911)
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A comrade discov er gold and Daylight reaps 11 rich har vest. He goes to Dawson, becomes tlm moMt proiuluent figure In tho Klondike and defeats n combination of capitalists In a viiHt mining ili'iil. Itu returns to civilization. CHAPTER VII. In no blnzo or glory did Hurtling Dnyllght dcuccml upon Snn Francisco Not only hnd ho boon forgotten, but tho Klondike along with him, Tho world wiik Interested In other things, and thu Aln.9k.nn adventure, lllo tho Spnnlsh Wtir, was nn old story. Ho Bot tled down In St. Francis Hotel, wns Interviewed by tho cub-reporters on tno hotol-run,' nnd received brlof pnrn graphs of notice for twenty-four hours. Several months punned In San Fran cisco, during which time bo studied tho game nnd its rules, and prepared himself to take a hnnd. Tiring of being inorely an onlooker, ho ran up to Nevada, where the now gold-mining boom was fairly started "Just to try a flutter," aa ho phrasod It to himself. Tho flutter ou the To nopnh Stock Exchange lasted Just ten days, during which time his smash ing, wild-bull game played ducks and drakes with the more stereotyped gamblers, and at tho end of which tlmo, having gambled Florldcl Into his .flat, ho let go for a net profit of half a million. Whereupon, smacking his lips, ho departed for San Fran cisco and tho St. Frnncls Hotel. It tasted good, and his hunger for tho game became more acute. And onco more tho papers sensa tionalized him. BURNING DAYLIGHT was a big-letter headltno again. In terviewers flocked nbout him. Old flies of magazines nnd newspapers wore searched through, and tho ro mantic and historic 131am Harnlsh, Adventurer of tho Frost, King of the Klondike, and Father of tho Sour doughs, strodo upon tho breakfast tn ble of a million homes along with the toaBt and breakfast foods, liven be fore his elected time, ho was forcibly launched Into tho game. Financiers and promoters, and all the flotsam and jetsam of the sea of speculation surged upon tho shores of his eleven millions. In self-defence be wns com pelled to open offices. He dabbled In little things at first "stalling for time," as he explained it to Holds worthy, a friend he had made at the Alta-PaclHc Club. Daylight himself was a member of the club, and Holds worthy had proposed him. And It was well that Daylight played closely at first, for he was astounded by tho multitudes of sharks "ground-Bbarks," he called them that flocked about him. He saw through their schemes readily enough, and even marveled that such numbers of them could find sufficient prey to keep them going. Their rascality and general dubious ness was bo transparent that he could not understand how any one could be taken In by them. So It was that he resolved to leave the llttlo mon, tho Holdsworthys. alone; and. while he met them in good fellowship, he chummed with none, and formed no deep friendships. He did not dislike the little men. the men of the Alta-Paclflc, for Instanco. Ho merely did not elect to choose them for partners In tho big game In which ho Intended to play. What this big game was, even he did not know. Ho was waiting to find it. And in tho meantime ho played small hands, In vesting In several arid-lands reclama tion projects and keeping bis eyes open for tho big chance when It snouia come along. And then he met John Dowsett, the great John Dowsett. It waa sthe first big magnate Daylight had met face to face, and ho was planned and charmed. There was auch a kindly humannoss about tho man, such n genial demo cratlcness, that Daylight found It hard to roallzo that this was tho John Dow sett, president of a string of bonks, Insurance manipulator, reputed ally of the lieutenants or Standard Oil, and known ally of tho Guggenhammcrs. Nor did his looks belle his reputation and his manner. Physically, he guar anteed all that Daylight know of htm. Despite his sixty years and snow white hair, his hand-shake was firmly hearty, and be showed no Rlgns of decrepitude, walking with n quick; snappy step, making nil movements definitely and decisively. It wns not long afterward that Day light came on to New York. A letter from John Dowsett had been the cause a simple little typewritten let ter 0' several lines. Jut Daylight i Iiln had thrlllod as ho read It. Tho bald sentences seemed gorged with mys tery. "Our Mr. Howlson will call up on you nt your hotel. Ho Is to bo trtiBted. Wo must not bo seen to gether. You will understand after wo hnvo hnd our talk." Daylight cbnned (ho words ovor and over. That was It. Tho big gnmo had arrived, and it looked as if ho were bolng Invited to sit In nnd take a hnnd. Surely, for no other reason would one man so peremp torily Invito another man to make a Journoy across tho continent. They met thanks to "our" Mr. HowlBon up tho Hudson, In n mag nificent country home. Daylight, ac cording to Instructions, arrived In a prlvnto motor enr which hnd been fur nished him. Dowsett was already thore, nnd another mnn whom Day light recognized before the Introduc tion' was begun. It wns Nathaniel Let ton, and none other. Daylight had seen his faco n score of times In the mag azines and newspnpors, and read nbout his standing in tho flnntfclal world, nnd nbout his endowed University of Dnrntonn. He, likewise, struck Day light as a mnn of power, though he was puzzled In that ho could find no likeness to Dowsett. Except in the matter of cleanness a cleanness that seemed to go down to tho deepest flberB of him Nathaniel Letton was unliko the other In every particular. Thin to emaciation, he seemed a cold flame of n man. Not more than fifty, thatched with a sparse growth of Iron gray hair, ho looked several times the age of Dowsett. They drank Hint Is, Nathaniel Letton took mineral water served "I Must 8ay, Mr. Harnlah, That You by tho smoothly operating ma chine of a lackey who Inhabited the place, while Dowsett took Scotch and soda and Daylight a cocktail. Leon Guggenhammer arrived In the mldBt of the drink, and ordered Scotch. Day light studied him curiously. This was one of tho great Guggenhammer fam ily; a younger one, but nevertheless ono of the crowd with which he had locked grapples In the North. Nor did Leon Guggenhammer fail to men tion cognizance of that old affair. He complimented Daylight on his prow ess "The echoes of Ophlr came down to us, you know. And 1 must say, Mr. Daylight er, Mr. Harnlsh, that you whipped us roundly In that affair." Leon Guggenhammer was young and fat. Not a day more than thirty, hU face, save for tho adumbated puff sacks under tho eyes, wns as smooth and llnelcRs as a boy's. The talk soon centored down to business. Dow sett broached the plan, aided by an occasional remark from tho other two, while Daylight asked questions. What ever the proposition was, ho wns go ing Into It with his eyos open. And they filled bis eyes with tho practical vision of what ho had in mind. v J mwop or "rr ciu or mrwio! ''hwrr rjmr "MwrM towerc. (Copyright, 1910, by tlm New York Herald Company.) (Copyright, M10, by the MuoMlllun Company. "They will never dream you are with us," Guggcnhammer interjected, as tho outlining of the matter drew to a close, his handsome Jewish eyes flashing enthusiastically. "They'll think you are raiding on your own In proper buccaneer stylo." "Of courso, you understand, Mn Har nlsh, tho absnluto neod for keeping our alliance in tho dark," Nathaniel Letton warned, gravely. Daylight nodded his hend. "And you also understand," Letton went on, "that the result can only ho productive of good. Tho thing Is legitimate and right, nnd tho only ones who may bo hurt aro tho Rtock gam blers themselves, It Is not nn attempt to smash tho market. As you see your self, you aro to bull tho market. Tho honest Investor will bo tho gainer." "Yes, Hint's tho vory thing," Dow ,sett said. "Tho commercial need for copper Is continually Increasing. Ward Valley Copper, and all that It stnnds for practically one-quarter of tho world's supply, as I havo shown you Is a big thing, how big, oven wo enn scarcely estimate Our arrangements aro made. Wo havo plenty of capital ourselves, and yet wo want more. Also, there Is too much Ward Valley out to suit our present plans. Thus wo kill both birds with ono stone. Not only will you bull Ward Valley, but you will at the same tlmo gather Ward Valley In. This will be of Ines timable advantage to us, while you and nil of us will profit by it as well. And as Mr. Letton has pointed out, tho thing Is legitimate and square. On tho eighteenth the directors meet, and, Instead of the customary divi dend, a double dividend will be de clared." "There will bo all BortB of rumors on the street," Dowsett warned Day light, "but do not let them frighten you. These rumors may even origin ate with us. You can see how and why clearly. Hut rumors are to be Whipped Us Roundly In That Affair." no concern of yours. You are on tho Inside. All you have to do is buy, buy, buy, and keep on buying to .the last stroko, when the directors declare tho double dividend. Ward Valloy will Jump so that It won't be feasible to buy after that." "And one other thing. Mr. Harnlsh," Ouggenhammer Bald, "If you exceed your available cash, or the amount you care to invest in tho venture, don't fail immediately to call on ub. Remera ber, wo aro behind you." "Yes, wo are bohlnd you," Dowsett repeated.' Nathaniel Letton nodded his head in affirmation. CHAPTER VIII. Hack at hla hotel, though nearly two In the morning, he found the reporters waiting to' Interviow hlnr. Next morn Ing thore were more. And thus, with blaro of paper trumpet, waa he re ceived by New York. Once moro, with beating of tom-toms and wild nulla balloo, hla picturesque figure strodo across tho printed sheet. The King of tho Klondike, tho hero of the Arctic, tho thlrty-mlUlon-dollar millionaire of GHT. IpNDON tho North, had como to New York. Whnt had he como for? To trim the New Yorkers as he had trimmed the Tonopnh crowd in Nevada? They were prepared ror him to play, nnd, whon heavy buying of Ward Val leg began, it was quickly decided thnt he was the operator. Flnnnclnl gossip buzzed and hummed. He wns nftcr tho Guggenhnmmers once moro. The story or Ophlr wus told over ngaln nnd sensationalized until oven Day light scarcely recognized It. Still. It was all grist to his mill. Tho stock gamblers wero clearly befooled. Earn day ho Increased his buying, nnd so eager were tho Rollers that Ward Valley roso but aruwly. A wildly ex citing tlmo was his during tho week preceding Thursdny tho eighteenth. Not only was ho gambling as he had nover gambled before, but he was gambling nt the biggest table In tho world for stakes so large that oven tho case-hardened habitues of that tn bio wero compelled to sit up. In splto of tho unlimited soiling, his persist ent buying compelled Ward Valloy steadily to rise, and as Thursday np proached, the situation becamo acute. Something had to smash. How much Ward Valloy waa this Klondike gam bler going to buy? How much could he buy? Whnt wns tho Ward Vnlley crowd doing nil this time? Daylight appreciated Interviews with them that appeared Interviews delightfully placid nnd non-commlttnl. Leon Gug genhammer even hazarded tho opinion that this Northland Croesus might pos sibly be making a mistake. Out not that they cared, John Dowsett ex plained. "It Is purely gambling from beginning to end." were Nathaniel Let ton's words; "and wo refuse to have anything to do with it or to take no tice of It In any way." During this time Daylight had sev eral secret meetings with bis partners one with Leon Guggenhammer, one with John Dowsett, and two with Mr. Howlson. Deyond congratulations, they really amounted to nothing; for, as he was Informed, everything was going satisfactorily. Out on Tuesday morn ing a rumor that was disconcerting camo to Daylight's ears. It was also published In the Wall Street Journal, and It was to the effect, on apparently fiiraigai insiao mrormatlon, that on Thursday, when the directors of Ward Vulley met, instead of tho customary dividend being declared, an assess ment would be levied. It was the first check Daylight had received. It came to him with a shock that If the thing were so he was a broken man. And It also came to him that all this colos sal operating of his was being done on his own money. Dowsett, Gug genhammer and Letton were risking nothing. It was a panic, shortlived, it was true, but sharp enough while it lasted to make him remember Holds worthy and the brick-yard, and to im pel him to cancel all buying orders while he rushed to a telephone. "Nothing in It only a rumor," came Leon Guggenhnmraer's throaty voice In the receiver. "Ab you know," said Nathaniel Letton, "I am one of the directors, and I should certainly be awaro of it were such action con templated." And John Dowsett: "I warned you against Just such rumors. There is not, an iota of truth In It certainly not. I tell you on my honor ub a gentleman." Heartily ashamed of himself for his temporary loss of nerve, Daylight re turned to his task. The cessation of buying had turned the Stock Exchange into a bedlam, and down all the line of stocks the bears were smashing. Ward Valley, as the apex, received the brunt of the shock, and was already beginning to tumble. Daylight calm ly doubled his buying orders.. And all through Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday morning, he went on buying, while Ward Valley rose triumphantly higher. Still they sold, and still he bought, exceeding his power to buy many times over, when delivery was taken Into account What of that? On thla day the double dividend would be declared, he as sured himself. The pinch of delivery would be on the shorts'. They would be making terms with him. And then the thundorbolt struck. True to the rumor, Ward Valley levied the assessment. Daylight threw up his arms. He verified the report and quit. Not alone Ward Valley, but all securities were being hammered down by the triumphant bears. As for Ward Valley, Daylight did not even trouble to learn if It had fetched bottom or was still tumbling. Not stunned, not evon bewildered, while Wall Street went mad, Daylight withdrew from the field to think It over After h short conference with his brokers, ho pro ceeded to his hotel, on the way pick ing up the evening papers and glanc ing at the head-lines. DURNINO DAYLIGHT CLEANED OUT. ho read; DAYLIGHT GETS HIS; ANOTHER WESTERNER FAILS TO FIND EASY MONEY. He passed up to his rooms, ordoed a Martini cocktail, took off his shoes, and sat down to think. After half an hour be roused himself to take the drink, and as ho felt the liquor pass warmlngly through his body, hla fea tures relaxed Into a slow, deliberate, yet genuine grin. Ho was laughing at himself. "Buncoed, by gosh I" ho muttered. (CO BE CONTINUED.) &WHEUR p. NESBIT ! ..' V 11 1 ! j wmrmm. "'" ""' " Ii ' till h :ihmmmkHmLm4) If you always laugh ut tlm other mnn'a Joko You'll win great popularity, So laut;h nt lis Jest till you nlmost choke It Is a gentln charity. And then you'll llnd tin you go through life Thus BprendhiR your frivolity, 'Hint you'll bo famed as 11 man who's rlfo With cver-hrlmmlnK Jollity. It matters not If hln Jokn be chaff And not ho very humorous, Jtemeinhir this, that the folk who laugh Aro not so very numerous. And, oh, my boy, If the limn be great And hit Joko be Joe-Mlllery, Then laugh yourself to 11 parlous Btata Though you'd prefer a pillory. If you alwuys laugh nt the other man's Jest With wild nnd long hilarity, Ho'll say ho knew you had long pos" sesscd That most Impressive rnrlty A sense of what Is thu glut of wit And humorous analysis Then como again with nn nnelent bit That bus scnllo paralysis! Scored at Last. "Jones said to me " The man began to tell It, but in stantly his wife interrupted him with a remark of her own, which Introduc ed some comment from her sister, who was at the table. When silence came, the man began again. "Jones said to me " The sister-in-law broke in at once with a statement about one of the neighbors who was still wearing her last season's dress, and this led to a discussion of the fashions. When a lull came, tho man started again: "Jones Bald to me " The wifo immediately began telling her Bister something she had forgot ten to tell her that morning, and tho man sat and waited until the telling was completed. Once more he as sayed: "Jories said to me " Tho sister-in-law stopped him by be ginning a vivacious account of a di vorce 'suit that was about to be filed. The man now became somewhat peev ish, and devoted hlmBOlt to his din ner. At length his wife noticed his Bllence and said sweetly: "Did you say that Mr. Jones told you something, dear?" ,, "Yes. Jones said to me that he never could finish a sentence at home." Retribution. Just as the young man with the rice on his hatbrlm and the bruise from an old shoe under his left ear Is boarding the train a number of individuals make a rush for him, drag him through the station, tearing bis cloth ing, trampling upon bis hat, and final ly hurling him into a waiting carriage. "Stop!" says an officer. "What Is the meaning of this?" "Say," says the spokesman of the kidnapers, "we are all married men, and this .fellow has been the leader of the merry crowd' that has placarded our trunkB and otherwise made us feel like victims of the inquisition. We are Just getting even with him" "That's enough," says the officer. "All I ask is that you take him to the edgo of town nnd gag him so his yells won't be too loud." This Busy World. Although most of us are complain ing restlessly that there Is nothing going on, there is a war, there are Hoods, there are strikes, big and lit tle; fall openings; Taft's speeches; comment on Canada; the Harmon, Clark, Woodrow Wilson and othei boems; the Lorlmer Investigation; fall hats; Cavalldra; an ocean-to-ocean aeroplane race and a gambling Inves tigation all happening simultaneously. Yet one-half tho world is wondering how to have its new .bonnets trimmed and the othor half Is asking tho clothes-cleaner if bo can spruce up last winter's suits. Henry's Falling. "Do not weep," they said to the mourning widow, "remember that Henry has gone to a land flowing with milk nnd honoy." "I know," sho sobbed. "I know. Hut poor Henry always waa so care less about his rubbers." LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, SECURES DRY FARM ING CONGRESS F0RJ912. The term, "dry farming" docs not Indicate all thnt might be implied. It docs not mean a system of irrigation, but ono where nil the rain fall and precipitation is stored up and con served in tho soil, to be drawn upon by scientific and sane processes when It may be required to forward and In crease the growth of grain. In certain sections of tho Canadian West as well as In the American West, there is n portion of the coun try In which tho soil is the very best for the growing of cereals, but the geographical locations and relative position to the rain avenues, do not glvo tho advantngo that other parts possess In tho matter of precipitation. Agricultural science, howev.or, has been making rapid progress during the past fow years, and it Is now as-' certnlncd thnt It is not nltogether tho number of inches of rain that Is es sential to the Browing of crops, but Its conservation, and that is tho meaning of "Dry farming." "Dry Farming" may well bo applied to dis tricts whore thero Is n heavy rain fall and better results will follow. The education of the public Into these new methods, not new exactly, but such ns have had satisfactory demonstra tion, is not nlonc the purpose of theso dry-farming Congresses. One idea Is to bring into llfo nnd into operation tho great nrens of splendid land lying within what might be termed soml arld, without placing them under the restrictive and expansive process of Irrigation. Tho Congresses nro attended by thousands nnd they bring representa tives from nil parts of tho world. Tho Province of Alberta, and also of Sas katchewan, has taken a vital interest In tho Congresses which havo been held in tho past two or three years. The, Province of Alberta has made provincial exhibits, districts have shown their products, and last year, several hundred dollars were taken In prizes; this year tho Province of Al berta took, prizes ten to one in excess of any state in the Union. Alberta has won eight .out of twenty special cups, that province taking one, Leth bridge one, Arthur Perry six, and John Baxter, Edmonton, carrying off one sweepstakes. When it came to a matter of! location for the Congress for 1912. the City of Lcthbrldge, which had put up a splendid fight for It, secured the Congress by a unani mous vote. It Is expected that the Lethbrldge Congress will be the larg est yet held and will be the biggest convention In the history of Western Canada. In emphasizing his invita tion to Lethbrldge, one of the speak ers said he had just received a tele gram from Magrath (near Lethbrldge) stating that of one thousand acres of wheat Just thrashed Hethershaw and Bradshaw had thrashed 47,000 bush els. Literature Bent out recently by the Canadian Government Agents, which will be sent postage free on applica tion, tells of hundreds of splendid yields in all parts of Western Canada. Her Credit Was Strained. A young country merchant who had something of a reputation for close figuring was especially attentive to the village schoolma'am. The young womnn had a sweet tooth and was not at all retiring about making the fact known. Accordingly, she hinted to her adrplrer that a box of chocolates would be greatly appreciated on the occasion of his next visit Later the suggestion was repeated and again duly heeded. The third time the sub ject was broached, however, the dis penser of sweets turned a deaf ear to the entreaty. "I don't know about taking that girl any moro candy," he confided to a companion next day. "She's owln' me sixty cents for chocolates already." Llppincott's Magazine. ' Pantomime Code. James T. Fields of the firm of Tick nor & Fields wore a flowing beard, as many men of his time did. He was scrupulous in the care of It, and in the main managed It at the table with skill. His wife was always on watch for him, too, when they went out to din ner together. They had a pantomime code and a few expressive spoken sig nals. Should a bread crumb catch in the floss Mrs. Fields would say: "My dear, there's a gazelle in the garden." Turkish Medicines. Old-fashioned physicians have plen ty of reliable remedies for cholera. An ngate in tho pocket and a hyacinth on the neck are much esteemed, but the bone of a dead child carried In the pocket is nearly as efficacious. Cholera, we learn, Is caused by the moon. Therefore drink decoctions of laurel while Mars or Mercury is in the ascendant, since these planets are un friendly to the moon. We are glad to know this, as we have always bad our doubts about the moon. , During the Spat, Wife (complalningly) You're not like Mr. Knagg. They've beon mar ried 20 years, and Mrs. Knagg Bays her husband Is so tender. Hub Tenderl Well, he ought to bo, after being In hot water that Storm' Note. Ltttle Harold Hillside looked out of the window at tho snowstorm last Monday morning and exclaimed, "Oh, look at tho blister!" Newark News. X IV. . ,jl".
