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River Valley for Armenian relief is three H
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more fortunate nations. Cordova is asked jj
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It would have made no difference
If he had been poor as a church mouse
to Alice Leigh, but Wade Porter did
not know that. Besides, he resented
the idea of asking a girl brought up
amid wealth and luxury to risk unit
ing herseif to a man without means,
and one, too, who had not even demon
strated his business abilities.
“She likes you, Wade,” his best
friend, Neil Wolfson, told him, “and
when a woman like Alice Leigh fixes
her affections they are likely to prove
lasting.”
men 1 will not take advantage of
her confidence,” answered Wade reso
lutely. ‘‘I believe there is something
in me worth bringing out, and when I
have proven that, I am going to her
like a man and tell her so.”
In a careless moment Neil imparted
this information to his sister and she
, in turn passed it along to Alice. The
latter was made very happy by the in
telligence. When Wade, all uncon
scious of this, made a call upon her
his hope was increased and his am
bitions stimulated by the gracious way
in which Alice treated him. He made
his preparations to qualify for a posi
tion in another city, when he received
a letter from an aunt whose husband
had recently died and its contents
quite interested and excited him.
“Your uncle always liked you.”
wrote the lady, “and it was his will
that you should be remembered before
he died, but the latter years of his
life he had some serious business trou
bles and did not attend to it. -lust be
fore he died, however, he asked me to
see to it that you were given some
mining property he had traded for in
Arizona. It is my duty to tell you
that after looking up the property he
was very much disappointed. Still,
he said that you were young, active,
ambitious, and that you might make
. something out of a proposition he had
grown too old to handle.”
When Wade told his friend Neil
Wolfson of his acquisition the latter
was fired with enthusiasm. “Why,”
declared the latter, “I’d give all I
have for a chance like that. Gold, sil
ver, adventure! The very uncertainty
of the thing is fascinating,” and he of
fered to supply the capital to finance
the Arizona exploitation.
It was on the morning of a gloomy,
threatening day that the two adven
turers halted their tired steeds at a
slraggling, dismal looking settlement
fitly designated as Last Hope. They
had traversed a barren alkali stretch
of over a hundred miles without pass
ing a single habitation. Then had
come the mountains. Here at ihe apex
was Last Hope, which was a half-way
point between a number of isolated
mining camps. The tavern keeper
viewed the two young men with a pity
ing expression of face as they divulged
the motive of their coming.
“I hope you’re not expecting gold
or silver,” he observed. “I don't sup
pose there is a foot of Twin Craters
that has not been prospected and not
so much as a true fissure vein of gold
or a specimen of horn silver discov
ered. Some shrewd speculators salted
it once and palmed it off on a tender
foot investor in the East.”
“Well, we will look it over, anyway,”
suggested Neil, which they did and
camped on their possession that night,
a gloomy, uncongenial duo.
They were discussing the feasibility
of a return to civilization early the
next morning when an automobile
came lumbering towards them. It
held half a dozen well-dressed, intel
ligent looking men, and was followed
by a motortruck loaded with survey
ing and other scientific instruments.
A brisk, pleasant-faced young man ap
proached from the automobile first to
arrive. He spoke courteously in greet
ing and then with a keen, searching
glance observed:
“Looking up the old craters, gentle
men?”
JNo, replied \\ ade bluntly, “dis
cussing the surest means of getting
away from them as far as possible. I
was lured out here thinking that there
might be some value to the four hun
dred acres of land which a relative of
mine left to me.”
“Hello! You’re not the owner of
the craters, are you?” propounded the
stranger eagerly.
“I am that unfoi'tunate individual,”
acknowledged Wade, trying to smile.
“Then you are the very person we
shall be looking for as soon as we
have made a little calculation as to
how much water those extinct craters
will hold. My associates yonder are
capitalists from the East. They own
over two hundred thousand acres of
the most arid, but also most fertile
land in Arizona, seventy-two miles
away. If science and cement can
make those great natural reservoirs
leak proof, we can pump up water
from the river, lay a pipe system to
our land and turn the desert into a
garden of beauty.”
“What a scheme!” exclaimed Neil
Wolfson later.
“And what a price they offer—two
hundred thousand dollars 1 Why, on a
fifty-fifty basis, that makes us both
rich!” echoed Wade.
“Yes, you can now carry out alf
your ambitious business plans back
home,” observed Neil.
“And win Alice 1“ murmured Wade
reptly.
WIFE’S DETECTIVE
IS GOOD SPENDER
But “Squealed at S6.EO Drink
Bill,” Husband Writes; Evi
dence Wins Decree.
Chicago.—Harold A. Waterbury may
not be the truest husband in the world,
but he Is one of the most obliging. A
few weeks ago, for instance, Charles
E. Erbstein attorney for Mrs. Pauline
Waterbury, 5353 Michigan avenue, sent
a private detective to St. Louis to ob
tain evidence for a divorce.
Waterbury didn’t keep t,he detec
tive waiting long. After it was all
over he wrote his wife a letter, which
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He Squealed a Little.
was offered by Attorney Erbstein be
fore Superior Judge Hopkins yester
day. It read:
“Dear Pauline-—Tour detective ‘came :
and saw and conquered.’ He is now on
his way rejoicing, though I had ex
pected an offer from him for his si
lence.
“He was quite a joke, and at that
did have me fooled for at least two
hours.
“I do not know who paid for it, but
he showed me a good time, though he j
squealed a little when one round of
drinks set him back over $6.50.
“At first I thought I would work
fast and let him get away Saturday,
but reconsidered, and kept him waiting
for the proper staging for the climax, j
He has all the ‘evidence’ now. Fortu- j
nately the police station is only a
block from the hotel, so I was not put
to much trouble and only detained a
moment.
“If you had seen fit to consult me I
could have saved you considerable ex- j
pease. The lack of confidence is one 1
of the fundamental principles which !
are responsible for our separation.”
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Mrs. Waterbary named an “Ethel
Hoot.” The wife was granted a di
vorce. «
Death of Bear Is
Birth of Romance
San Francisco.—Robert Pros
ser of Comstock, Tex., million
aire rancher and sheep owner,
was married to Mrs. Joseph
Hurt, wealthy young widow of
Ashland, Ore., at St. Luke’s
Episcopal church on Van Ness
avenue.
The bride is known throughout
the northwest as an intrepid
big game hunter and fisher. She
was the widow of Joseph Hurt,
refrigerator magnate. '
Prosser met his bride while
on a hunting party in the north
west and stood beside her when
she shot a black bear.
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LEAVES “HUBBY” FOR CAGE
Six Months of Matrimony With Red
Haired Man Entirely Too
Strenuous.
Philadelphia.—After six months of
married life with a red-haired hus
band, Mrs. Olga Celeste Murphy is go- -
ing to resume her comparatively rest- _
fill occupation of training and exhibit
ing a troupe of leopards in their big
cage.
Olga Celeste began with training
horses, after running away as a little
girl. Her parents found her several
days later living in a barn wirh a
manger for a bed and hay for food.
Subsequently she advanced to leop
ard training. But when she tried
matrimony as the next step she went
too far, she says, for a woman used to
the companionship of nothing more vi
cious than leopard*.
SHOOTS FIVE IN QUARREL
Woman Turns Shotgun on Neighbor
Crowd Which Came to
Remonstrate.
Miami, Okla.—Charged with shoot
ing five persons, two men, two boys
and one woman, Mrs. Carrie Brooks,
forty years old, of Miami, Okla., is in
Jail.
Alleging that a daughter of Mrs
Brooks had severely beaten a three
year-old child earlier In the day, a dele
gation went to the Brooks home to as
certain the cause. As they neared the
house Mrs. Brooks, armed with a shot
gun, fired Into the crowd.
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Alaska
Steamship Company
Regular SaMings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward
FROM SEATTLE— * SAILS SOUTH—
Sept. 5 8.ALASKA.Sept. 28
Sept, 25.ALAMEDA.Oct. 5
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Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage.
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Agent
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LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
About Oct. 15.— WATSON_Sept. 28 !
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego. For further information call
Office phone 223. L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Residence Windsor hotel
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Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Sunday and Thursday
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Monday and Friday
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Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Saturday.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
\\ hart trom 9 a. m. to 5 p- in., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
on • i onr before departure of trains.
CA :' ,E3 CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent
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Our new fall line of Blue Serges,
Bankers’ Grays, Fancy Wor^
steds and Imported Tweeds.
All suits will be made here
HUBBERT & STEEINE
PHONE 130
FRED M. SCHAUPP
SANITARY PLUMBING
Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
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