The Coffeyville Daily Journal from Coffeyville, Kansas • Page 6

7 it. 11: 1 ----THE COFFEYVILLE 'DAILY JOURNAL; WEpNESpA EVENING: -MARCH 25, 1914. IIIIIIlIlilillllllillilllHlIIIIililllinillllllillllllilllllllilllliilllllllllllililllllilili returned here to accept his 4 former Job on the section. 1 General Superintendent Here FOR THE GRIP Peruna la Sometimes Used With Good Results -1- tdd a Little Easter to the Home EST as a i W. F.

Rossman of St. Louis, gener- al superintendent of the American Zinc, smelters, was in Dearing last Thursday and Friday looking over and as cessful financially, more than 5 be- ing 'cleared. A 'large crowd turned out to witness the play and everyone was pleased with the manner in which it was handled. The success of the play is a glowing tribute to Mrs. Laura Payne, who was the director.

Owing to the success with which the play was favored "at its presenta-i tion Saturday night, it will be repeated next Saturday nighjt under the auspices of the Odd Fellows lodge. As before it will be held in the Odd Fellows hall. Appl Jane A great many people use Peru- the Sdme use It as the grip the local smelter. Dearing Personals 3 "Begins, taking it Pay a little down on a New Rug or Draperies and you'll still have money left for new Easter Toys. I John Slykhous went to Tyro Tues-.

day- i 1 11 w1 Dr. Barker was at Caney on busi- CI' Sweet as a Nut Penn's Natural Leaf and you enjoy the during the acuta stage 'Of the claiming for it great efficacy in shortening the disease, and 'especially in shorten ing ness Monday. George Knotts of Coffeyyille was 'a rDearing visitor Tuesday." Chem Tobacco 4 Adams Farm Sold The farm belonging to W. B. Ad mm i.tmmmr E.

G. Danf orth of Caney was in Dearing on business Saturday. Charles Julian of Bartlesville was in Dearingr on business Tuesday. ams situated 4 miles south of- Dear- ing, has been purchased by J. R.

Per- Mrs. Jane Gift. the after stages. luxury of highest quality. Many people take it after they have ry.

Mr. ierry will not occupy tne i i farm until the first of next year, as: had the grip. Their convalescence is Miss Leona Sparks of Coffeyville C. W. Milam, the present occupant, slow.

They have suffered along for a has a lease on the property until; month or two, without any signs of that time. Before buying the farm complete Then they resort 4 43 id a raws Mr. Perrv decided that he would look 10 Peruna as a tonic, with splendid results. UJ UJ around a bit before binding the bargain. After' looking over a number Mrs.

Jane Gift, R. F. D. 1, Athens, 1 a 1 EASTER RUG AND DRAPERY PRICES of farms in Missouri which he had in 1 ines: imiiit i. woum nave oeen mind he came to the conclusion that dead long ago if.it had not been for was a visitor in Dearing Saturday.

ess M. H. Bemmer, who has been ill EES for the past three weeks, is still quite ss sick. SSS W. B.

Adams, who has been ill for some time, is showing some' improve- s. ment. aa John Payne of Tulsa, is spending a few days in Dearing visit- ing relatives. S3 The many friends of Z. P.

Murray will regret to learn of her continued rss serious illness. Mrs. Laura Payne was called to In- sss dependence Sunday by the serious ill- 5SS ncss of her sister. sss Thick Natural Leaf he could farm at home as well as anywhere else. I Peruna.

Six years ago I had la grippe 9x12 Axminster Rug 9x12 Brussel Rugs $10.50 9x12 Wool Fiber Rugs 9.00 9x12 Ingrain Rugs 6.50 G-ft. Linoleums 50c very Daa. The doctor came, to see me every day, but I gradually grew worse. I told my husband I thought I would surely die if I did not get relief soon. "One day I picked up the news TP "b) 1 Meetings Well Attended The Sunday services the different churches of Dearing are attracting larger crowds at each succeeding service.

The Sunday school and rUl-TP if Ilj paper and accidentally found a testi- church attendance has been better! monial of a woman who had "been Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Alexander spent since the revival meetings of last win cured of grip by Peruna.

I told my Sunday afternoon the guests of Mr. ss- 6-ft. Linoleums 6-f t. Linoleums, very heavy Linoleums 12-f t. Linoleums "Easement" Scrims, per yd.

"Georgian" Cloth, per yd. "Eisil" Cloth, per yd "Frincess" rer yd. "Sunfast" Portieres ami Overdrapes, per pair ter than ever before. nusoana 1 wanted to try it. He went and Mrs.

W. B. Adams. EES directly to the drug store and got a 1 Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Beam have mov-i botUe of Peruna. I could see the im- ed from the Beam farm into the prop- Transferred to Caney W. D. Ross, kiln man at the local smelter, has been transferred to the erty adjoining Dr. Barker's residence smelter at Caney, where he will be 1 BP Lace Curtains, large assortment, per pair 75c to 4.00 employed a similar position to the one he held" here.

Mr. Ross left for Caney Monday night. BRIGHTON FURNITURE CO. Attended Odd Fellows is manufactured with old thoroughly ripened tobacco and is GUARANTEED to be the best Natural Leaf Tobacco made. Any dissatisfied customer can return it to any merchant, whom we hereby authorize to refund the money.

A number of the members of the Coffeyville order of the Odd Fellows Mrs. B. H. Dunbar and family of Tyro spent Tuesday here with Mrs. Dunbar's mother, Mrs.

Laura Payne. Messrs. Roy Camp and Owen Douglass left Monday for Collinsville, where they will be employed. C. M.

Hicks, who has been ill for the past few weeks, is now able to be down town, although he is still quite weak. Mrs. Chadwick, wife of Dr. Chad-wick of Tyro, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.

M. A. Spaulding Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. John Slvkhous left Saturday for Gas City, to spend a few was soon able to do my work.

I continued using it until I was entirely cured." Mr. Victor Patneaude, 328 Madison Topeka, Kas, writes: "Twelve years ago I had a severe attack of la grippe and I never really recovered my. health, and strength, but grew weaker every year, until I was unable to work. "Two years agoI. began, using Peruna and it built up; my strength so that in a couple of months I was able to go to work again.

This winter I had another attack of la grippe, but Peruna soon drove it out of my system. My wife and I consider it a household remedy." Those who object to liquid medicines can now- obtain Peruna Tablets. lodge attended the meeting of the EARING NEWS NOTES' Dearing lodge Monday night. Will Shio Metal Seven carloads of zinc metal were sr. davs with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs II. C. Elliott. stage fright at the rising of the curtain and maintained this attitude throughout the play. The play is a very humorous comedy and the interpretations of the actors together with their "make-ups" werei sufficient to keep the audience in a continual uproar of laughter.

The characters were all so well adapted to their parts and the play so well bal THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY A Sedalia Banker Dead Sedalia, March 25. George R. Shivelv. a retired farmer who has leaded at the smelter the first of the -i I week in preparation for shipment This metal is some of the zinc that lived in Pettis countv fifty years, died was stored in thn vards --whilp t.ho director the Citizens' National Play Big Success Thchome talent play, "At the Village rostoffice," which was given at the Odd Fellows hall Saturday night under the auspices of the Rebekah lodge, was without doubt the best production of its kind ever before attempted in Dearing. The play went through from start to finish without a single hitch or break of any kind and evey one of the thirty-eight characters handled his part in such a manner as would do credit to more experienced actors.

Although the majority of the cast had never previously appeared before the footlights, none of them showed any trace of bank. plant was running. anced that no one showed up above ing to be the guest of her mother, Mrs. Josie Agee, 312 West Twelfth street, for a few days. years ajro and settled in Ottawa county, later moving to this He retired from the farm ten years ago and has lived in Salina ever since.

Isaac Anderson of Salina Dead Salina, March 25. Isaac An V. Returned from 'Missouri Richard Nelson arid family return derson, a veteran of the Mexican war the rest in their acting. At any rate that was the general opinion among those who saw the play. One of the particularly good numbers was the "Cowboy Drill" given by a number of small boys.

The play was very suc- ed to Dearing Monday and also of the civil war, is dead at where they have been visiting his home here. He was 87 years old. Phone T. M. ROBERTSON 1 Mr.

and Mrs. L. Conway of Edna arrived Wednesday morning, and will remain for. the theitheater tonight. Will Visit Her Mother Mrs.

If B. Orndorff of Vinita, arrived in the city Wednesday morn- mm for the past two Mr. Nelson He cam eto Central Kansas thirty TSf Qy By Walt Gregg. 3 to go along. Sorry as was her dependent lot.

it must be worse if Plais was dragged to prison and the two what ails you, man? had been rapped with Mi an Invisible club kt(tf Rl. It was Plais; Pi sanguined, jovial, re- heels. Well, here's locking towards you all." It was during the next merciful interregnum between cdurses that I found my opportunity. Mrs. Plais was powdering herself at the mirror.

Miss Sken and Ohlm were holding hands on the sofa, that is she was his sleep, certain definite steps to or-Ser ensued. still a turgid lump of unconsciousness, was sent upstairs with attending physicians and wailing women. Frase. under iuard. marched off almost blithely to the station housa, while! the dead body of Ohlm, that one definite and undefinable fact, was hustled out cf sight like a pauper's.

I was glad to break awav from the insistent and sarcastic Inquiries of idlers, all going to the point of what I had been doing in any such galley, and to seek the retfrement of my room, my sympathies more ac- urated with tobacco, ravenous for food and drink, at the very apex of his delectable again. Here, Joe, you and that young fellow there what's his name. Prase? help me into the next where I can lay quiet a. SDiff, you stay, with the ladies and see that they do what I say. I'm in no mood for nonsense." There was something in the energy of the man that corroborated and enforced his words, something sln.ter, malign, devilish, as if tho jester's mask ba.d been discarded and tli a true evil underneath revealed.

I know I came near calling to Prase to stay as Plais lurched into the -dressing rocm with; the young fellow, slim, erect, manly, candid, and auriferous, supremely selfish, on 'either side but, then, what 'reason could I give- for what was- no -more r-than an irupres- noiaing bis. Dare and Emily were absorbed in close, conversation. Only Plais, the old guard, still held hi3 post and glass. "There's a cablegram I had from my brother," I said. 1 He took the paper unsteadily to the light, and even a3 he read I could see the gray creeping under the "There's a lot in that word," he aid.

"Your lot," I replied, and I told him all I luxurious women left penniless. "I believe I'll join them at any. rate," at. length I muttered. Just then a young man who had been sitting all this while in one of the high backed chairs in front of me, hat over his eyes, sprang to his feet, "Let me entreat you.

Mr. Sniff." he said with the greatest earnestness, "to take me in there with you." "Who are you?" I demanded, "and why should I make you a fellow gueet with me?" "I am H. Prase." he answered, simply. "When there is time I can show you that I am worthy of your confidence. "That young girl.

Emily, whom I saw you watch with such Interest, and I love each other; we have laved each other all our lives. She is not rightly placed, with these fast and vulgar people, besides, she is being persecuted by that empty ass of an t.ive than ever for the young, pair of mountain; and he flldn't. know, he didn't know' No wonder that I stared dully; no wonder that I gulped twice before 1 spoke. "I do want to see you," I "but "Then youll have to take pot fuck." he declared. wouldn't cut 5ff a nioment from our layout for a million.

So see you later, or ta-ta. Just as you please." And off he swayed to the curtained doorway of the small dining room, where the two dressed women In the "Yes, and they whispered a good deal, but I made out that they would look for this mcney in Plais' clothes and put it away in a safe place until they could divide. Oh! "Yes, and so they did; fetching the money from the other room and taking back the pocketbook that held it all stuffed with papers. Then they put the mcney In this envelope and hid it under the carpet by the fireplace, and then, think of It. both went sound asleep oh!" "But why did they stuff the pocket-book with r-per." I akd.

"and put It bark In Plais Twlcef" "I don't know," answered the girl. tell you they whispered some, and the more they whlppered the worse thev did oh! Yes. he 1s bad enoueh. is Plais, but thev are more, than his matcb wfmpn are when they that, kin And now she broke down completely, with pitiful moans and I was up betimes that morning, glad to be awav from mv thoughts and active in Frase's interests. By 10 o'clock, when the inquest convened in the bit; parlor.

I had a bright young lawyer there named Hazar. who took mv fragmentary Information and exhibits without a word, but with an alert look that seemed to sav ho couM make a complete defen f-i He began to take the initiative at once by asking that Frase be examined. Accordingly the prisoner, hay-inir'hPMi dulv cautioned, told his that he was a penniless sharper v.bi had used Ohlm for his own selfish purposes. It was amazing how Plais writhed under these stings, actually forgetting, it seemed to me. his own dreadful stress in the wounds of his vanity until one remembered, as I have already said, that money was his life.

"Come, now" asked Hazar. "you are on oath, remember. Will you swear that you have $1000 of your own in the world?" "A thousand dollars?" sneered Plais, leaning forward, his eyes like red danger signals. easy. Yes, and I've got a thousand times a thousand dollars, solid see? Come.

-I'm getting sick of this: why. I'm used to carrying a hundred thousand for small change. I've got-it w-'th me now. Just run over the bills in that -bunch, younsr man, and then ro us 11 fst." As Plais arrogantly slapped out the large envelope from his pocket I glanced instinctively to the two women under tho twin toadstool. Their clasped hands were vibrating up and down with excitement.

Hazard opened the envelope. "There is nothing here but a lot of worthless paper," he said quietly, "as worthier ss vonrlf. Mr. "What? Plais straightened In hts eagerness to see; and then, with a horrid puff of the veins In his forehead, rolled headlong cn the floor. "Have him sent to our room, have him sent to our room!" screamed the two women, and without waiting, to- 1 (..

Impossible hats were Impatiently waring their veils to him. Yet. It was Plai, dancing en air, in Ignorance that he was a pau lovers. Frase's explanation of his conduct had seemed both natural and sufficient to me. He' had run through the hall, he said, because Plais begeed him to summon a And indeed the physician who had so quickly appeared on the scene Ftated that he had been called on the telephone to attend a Mr.

Plais. Then too Emily, as she unwillingly attended the women had turned her eves po expressively to me that I seemed to read In the glance her faith In her lover's Innocence and her resolve to mr.ke It manifest. Was there ndt something more an appeal that I should help? It seemed but what, alas, could I do, so shaken, so mystified by the tragedv? If Frase did not kill Ohlm, then Plais must have done so; and why should he kill the friend upon whom he depended for help- in his troubles? I own' I felt very small and weak to myself when I crept Into bed and curled to sleep. I wdke with a start at a sound. It was still dark, that qualmish presages the break of day.

I listened and again I heard a faint, persistent rat. tat, tat on the window pane. And as I sat up and strained my eyes I seemed to discern a shadowy form without, feminine of outline. I sprang to mv feet and into my dressing gown. I turned up the light and threw up the sash and admitted Emily Dare, scantily clad and shivering from the cold.

locked me in my room," she declared ruthlessly, "but I lay out on the fire escape and listened through the crack of the 1 window. Then after they went to bed I slipped in and got it, and worked my way a'long to bring It to you. Oh, you must save poor Harry, you must, you must!" "It" proved to be a large hotel 1 story as I have oudlned It, making -in the view of the knowing many dar serous admissions. Then the coroner called Plals himself to the stand. It was plain to me as the man came shambling along as if already aged, that he was still very 111 and weak, but that he wag braced by sotnethlng to a supreme effort.

While there was death in Ms eye there was also hope. He paused at my chair for a moment. "Nothing In the morning paners from England." he whispered "You won't sav anything. Yon will give me a chance fcr life?" I answered "yes." and Indeed In my statement to Hazar I had confined myself to what EmiW had said, deeming 1t no of mine to make public what my brother had written In confidence to Plais testified with a sort of forcsd glibness. While the two men! were helping him 0 the sofa in the dressing room he said Ohlm had stumbled against.

Whereupon Frase had struck Ohlman with some Ohlm. "I would take her eway. See I am able to support a wife." And he showed a pocketcase well filled with notes and drafts. "Ohlm Is after Miss Skcn." I observed, sharply. "No, sir; pardon me; it Is Miss Sken who Is after Ohlm.

Give me a 'chance, I beg you. I haye been following them for days. Surely no harm is done In introducing any well behaved person to such a the rest, you can see for yourself "Come," I said, with sndden sympathy for the young couple. The gorge I can use no litter word was at Its height when we entered. A half dozen waiters had scarce sufficed for the endless task of fetching, removing and replacing viand upon viand and wine upon wine.

Passive. Emily glanced up from a barely touched plate with a shy smile. It is true, but not a sign of recognition came from the active four until a change of course afforded a chance for breath. -What. Sniff!" cried Plais vigorously nollshlng with -his two nankins.

"Good for you! You are welcome, and so Is- your friend. The toffy fs bang up and the wine out of sight. "Draw- up, the both of you. Let me make yon aemiainted, genta. with Mrs Plais.

Miss S.ken. Joe Ohlm, the Joker of the pack yes. you are. -Joe and oh. of Emily; we generally have to bring her along." Isn't good form to speak of our charities.

Oscar." said Mrsj Plala, a monumental woman, with a voice situated somewhere, near the base. And It wouldn't be appreciated If it-was," added Miss Sken spitefully, with a ruddy glow at Ohlm. who had bent forward to "whisper to the shrinking EmITy. itloutlroared Plais. tell vou I won't have any sharp shots.

This An just. the shank of the evening and we've all got to be mellow. "Make Toom. there. Joe.

for this voung fellow what's his name. Frase? Jennie Sken Is about your JAnd you, this 'side of me. where you can-say whatyyou 7 per or worse, as the cablegram In my pocket, only an hour before re-reived, assured me. No wonder I had Jooked awed, for was that man's life. Actually I was faint from the.

agony of not knowing Just what I should do. and out of that spirit of tem-Dorizlnjc with one's self which comes to all In a Quandary I proceeded to review, my slight connection with Plais. It. began by his calling on me with a cautiously-rworded note of Introduction from my brother, -Sam. In England.

ITe represented, so Plais Bald, the American -African diamond rmdlcate. Perhaps on account of his long absence from his native land, I would be so good a to put him wise on tLIs point and that. Ther were baits dangled on the Me, of course. but Jf I had any Idea of venturing a Mte I was scared Into deep water again by warning letter from Sam. He wrote: The syndicate Is sound nd rich.

hnt ther 1 much quit alk against Plais. It is said tht his own hres are bvpotbecated for their fnll velue ond tb Ie bab of them has been rehvuothecated. that hla account la enormously overdrawn, that exoert now pt work on the book have already 'onnd fal entries jnd other si en a of It la said tht he trn1ed Joe Ohlm. an undeniable rollHonalre, to aecom-nnv him In the desperate hope of binding him to him, throueh marrlape wlh MIsa Rken. wife's sister.

All th and mow. Is snr to come "vThen It does I will rable a single word' significant of hla fate. An I recalled this letter I thought of Sam nrudent nature how he eald nothing unles he knew, and ten hnt little. With such a context th In my noclcet was abr fnlutelv damning, for contamed the single word Freedom alone aemalned for Plais; and If that was to be his he must be warned this night. Should I do It? I declare that.

tn.t many -good reaRons for t'- I mv own affairs, the .1 was the memory of FRASE STABBED HIM AND THEN PUT OFF LIKE MAD. see wnetner he was alive or dead, though those about well knew, that apoplexy had killed-hlm with a lightning stroke, they hurried ahead upstairs. It was not difficult to surmise what the little twisted note had contained, nor what they were after now. When the dead body was removed testified, producing the money I had received from Emily. She.

tco, told her. Ftory, simply. After a little a bank teller identified the bills as havine been paid to Ohlm a day or sn "before. The case against Frae melted away; he was honorablv discharged. A message from some insistent porters called me out Into the hall.

As I stood there, furnishing fact for fiction. I saw two women come sneaklne down the stairs and hurry out 6f the side rntrane. Thv were' Mrs. Plais and Miss Sken. So dogs may slink, when a hone has been snatched away.

When I returned to the big parlor Frase and Fmllr were standing, doubtfully, side by side.1 "His honor, the coroner, Is a'mag-: lstrate," I suggested. "And there Is. no timet like the present." And side-by side, they advanced to -the desk. "Iet me see that little twisted note," will I asked of Hazard, who Was bustling by. 1 Without a word he; produced It.

'0 It was written a vulgar, feminine scrawl, and read as follows: "Egg him on to show what money he has with "They'must have counted." mused" "on the. shock killing --But Just then, an attendant came "His honor wants you two gents thing that nasnea ana men naa darted away with it in his hand, even while the latter fell bleeding envelope filled to bulging. My eyes went one way and my breath an-o the floor. Ha could not tell more 1 IV then he sion of an impression? We resumed our. seats, the two women bored and sleepy, and Emily abstracted, and sat In silence, but not for long.

Presently, I heard the hall door yjf the waiting room open and shut and light feet speed down the corridor. Silence again, Jmt not for long. Of a sudden the connecting dcor banged open- and Plais staggered back, a rubicund ghost from the lowest circle. "What are you doing of, Plais?" screamed his wife, "you will be my end if "Ohlm's dead!" he gasped. "That young devil of a Frase, at a word stabbed him to th heart and, then put off lik? mai- Call' the po And down he in a raging fit, as If possessed of a legion of selves.

Out from the horrible confusion of women screaming, empicyes mining hither and thither, the cool. definitely, for he was, still Such joviality as Plals's is often a conscript force to hold down fear. It was wonderful now to see how the natural emotion arose and overthrew the hireling. The man bent forward, his head on his hand. In the posture there was the stupid submission of a knockout blow.

"Are you sick, Plais," -screamed his wife from the mantel, and they all came crowding around. Through the triangular, opening of his arm I could see the thick red blood again surging to, his brain. Something, was at work there, spurred cn" by the voice that could so much of reproach, bickering and torment. "Are you sick, I say?" she persisted. "The Lord knows you might well.bei there never was a manl- Plats 'lowered his hand; he raised his In his mottled face I saw purpose growing more resolute.

"If vou will only all sit by for a few was, very faint and. sick. Just before Hazar rose to cross examine a little twisted note was passed along to him. which he read and crumbled In his hand. I- did not see whence.

It started, but It came from where the two "-women;" Mrs. Plais and Miss Sken. sat. In- oriental retirement wadeV their great conr cave hats. The line cf examination which ensued was' shrewdly calculated," while not alarming the witness, to stir his other wnen 1 roup a tnaz 11 containea 100 crisp, new one hundred dollar bills.

"They figured it all out, did Mrs. Plais and Miss Sken, between them" Emily hurried on to say. they are keen ones. "They agreed that you must have told Mr. Plais that, the jig was up In England that he must have killed Mr Ohlm for the large sum he knew he had with him, and that he vould have slipped alway with It to parts unknown, after causing poor H-yryA-rst, had not the- n't caught UlCh aa niuicooco, ixv Bella.

1 sharp. inquiries cf Fraser sh'ning like ja scornful young Apollo in the midst of them, and the perfunctcry exami-1 nation of a magistrate dragged from want to say wben I'm not too busy. conceit and Importance. It belittled And In another we stood moments, while I get my second "Ill be all right the-pe" out proud face of EmHr. "Hurry np with that magnum Pet-j 1 nim, throwing out the Imnreifon on either side cf the happy couple.

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