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Show r SATURDAY, FEBIttfARY 3, 1923. AMERICAN FOUR CITIZEN SATURDAY, FEBBUARY 3t 1D2X .t...... , : ntfieo-Alpm Trt. Ca. Bldg. A PROGRESSIVE. INDEPENDENT , SUBSCRIPTION, e Tear-(Ia A") ; to Months! Entered M Second-ciaes Port Offlct at American Fork. Utah. u w. OAISFORD . - PUBLISHER rot 81U FOB SALE O004 milk cow (fertey) freshen thli week.- Aaron Allred, phone 10W1, Uhl , S-ltp FOR SALE Poultry Ranch of near .17. two acres, within one block of tabernacle; good eoopa for 600 hens. A. UtU of all kinds of fruit," nice modem noma with heat Price $4,600, Terms. ; . Martin Nielsen, Phone llS-W.. tO-tf. WE JALB-JnaranieM 8. 0. White Leghorn day aid Bullets,' also day Id broilers. Utah refsrenesa. Signed, Cureka Hatchery. James K. Hirst, Prop. l D. it. Petaluma, Cat. tt-tt AH Unds of Baby Chicks, Logan Hatchery, JJtah,can be delivered wtthln a few days.- Arthur Hawkins, Agent, American Fork. t-tf. LOST LAP ROBE Between John Kelly's and Alpine road. Finder please return re-turn to Ray Lee. Reward. -: ; S-lt-p . jnsczLLAirxouB - ?ARRT Vt LONELY; for rasulta, try me; best and most successful "Home t&Aksr"; hundreds rich wish marriage -opi; ttrtctly wnfldential: ,inot .re-ttabie; .re-ttabie; years experience; descriptions tree." Tns Successful Club." ..Mrs, Naah, Box 658, Oakland. Calif. PMt-p 'imssxxsi hoticb ko. ii f . SsBBa,,e? ( . r. Paclfta field Mining and Wiling Company, principal place ef bislaess Anwrlcaa Fork. Utah, notice Is hereby glren. that at a meeting of the Directors of the above named company, held on the 26th day of January 1923, assessment No. . of $5.00 per 1000 shares (one half cent per share) ,was levied on . the capital stock of the corporation, pay- 'able Immediately to H. C. Johnson, Secretary, atthl office, . American Fork, Utah. . Any stock on which this assessment remains unpaid, on March , 192S, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction - and unless payment la made before, will be sold on Saturday March 24, M2S, at 4 o'clock p. in. at the office of the Secretary, at American Fork, 1o pay the delinquent assessment, together to-gether with the cost of advertising and expense of saiek - : -H. C. JOHNSON, Secretory, first Publication Feb. S, 1921 - . Last Publication March . I.. 1923.1 ? i o , '. Attribnte Their Success To r.:-: Newspaper Advertising la an Interview today, Mr. Warren Wright, President of the Calumet Baking Powder Company the largest Baking Powder Company In the World, strongly advocated the use of newspaper advertising, and points to Calumet's success as proof of , his sternest, v " - , 81e4 itt Times As Mnch "Calumet sales are Stt times as much as any other brand" stated Mr. Wright, "and we attribute this to our lavish us o' newspaper space. We believe that the newspaper la the most direct medium We can use in retting our message across to the housewife and we know from our experience covering thirty years, that the housewife house-wife will respond to newspaper advertising adver-tising quicker than she will to any -other form of advertising." J Newspaper Protect Readers" " Tb housewives have confidence In newipaper advertisements because they knov that the newspapers set p - high- standards .fot-Jhelr ndver; titers. It Is for that reason that the housewife looka to the newspaper for Information on products la which aha is Interested." ' . .Almost Beyond Human Deviling. I am trying te do two thtugftdara U be a radical, and not be a fool; which, if may JinIk by th- WM- none ar'",' ? ? r t " . 'mall tlliU.uUv ' - .linn A ii:iiiiM. i raw If Copyrtohv 1112 . YNOP8l CHAPTER I.-John BrUy, notd ctlm-Bial ctlm-Bial tnveatlator. rvccntly rturnd from wwt 8eri work durlnc U war, la ak4 by th ovrnor of Naw Torfc U mvoatlota a mysterious attempted rob-Mry rob-Mry of ths Robert fclyks home at Circle Lake, near Kara toe a. Peculiar elrcuni-atancea elrcuni-atancea of the caae InUraat Hartley, and heaecepta, ,,..-... ,:..,.,r"t CMAMER IL-With pis friend Fait. Bartley foea to Orcle Lake, the pair becoming the guests ef Bob Currte. aa eld friend. The three visit the Slrke noma. Clyke apparently reennta Bartler'e com Inf. saying he Is aatlsfled the twe snea In prison for the attempted robbery were guilty. Bartley la not. Neat moraine mora-ine Slyka la found dead m bad, apparent, tr Jut'ing abet himself. "CHAPTER tll.-Mlae Potter, the dead man's aister-ln-law, the Village police chief, Roche, and the family physician. Doctor King, all agree Slyka killed hlm- Jslf. but Bartley Insists be waa murdered, nrastigatlng, Bartley finds evidence that filyke. after a card party he had gtren, waa shot an the tower of the house, us-d us-d resetJ. and placed in bed. During ale absence from the room someone raaaevee be revolver from Blyke'a band. -CHAFTl'"lY"a:workttwjB ge garage aaserU ha beard a shot during the night, apparently "in te air, w really oa the tower. ..- '-- . CHAPTER IV "T?Thi"6ealMairt , For several momenta we were alt so startled that none of us apoke. For myself. I could only look at the hand that had, ao short a time before, held the revolver. - 1 could , not Imagine who could have taken It, and what als purpose in doing ao could ' be. I glanced at Bartley. His face was set, a white line showing around his tight-ly tight-ly dosed Upa , He was angry, vary angry. As he turned te Boche, who stood with vee bulging, his voice shook a little. ."Roche, go and get Miss Potter Pot-ter at once. Tell her to can all the servants and have them assemhlo la the living room. I will be dowa la a moment"- ;VV .""'"." 7" ; .Bocha hurried out ..without - speaking. speak-ing. Immediately Bartley bent again over the bed,-studying the position of the hand that had held the revolver. When he straightened op he told, the photograpber, thai-he would not need him any longer. Aa soon aa the young man bad left the room, Bartley turned to me with a rueful Uttle smile. "Well,; Pelt. I certalaly slipped up this morning, We left this room without with-out locking the "door. True, there was no key, bnt I should have left either Roche or you on guard. la-stead la-stead of that we have given someone a chance to slip to hero and remeva the revolver. He thought he waa removing re-moving a valuable piece of evidence. The Joke Is that the removal of. the; revolver does not make much difference. differ-ence. We all saw the gun, and we all heard Miss Potter say that It had belonged to Siyke.",. - r . ' "But," I asked, 'who could havt known about It I mean that It was murderTITouiwera the only one who suggested It Every one else who knew about the crime thought It was suicide" "That's the queer thing about It, Pelt Only those that were la the room with us are presumed to know It Is murder. That la, unless Miss potter told others when she left hero. The strange thing Is that It was first made ta appear to be suicide by placing plac-ing the gun In Slyke's hand. Now that evidence Is removed I - hardly know what we are expected to believe. I bad an Idea, even before wa came Into this room, that Miss Potter knew that her brother-in-law had been murdered." mur-dered." ------ - What more be might have said I do not , know, for at that moment Roche returned. Be looked aheeptah and rather 11! at. ease. , H lold us that Miss Potter had refused to call the servsnta, saying that Bartley had no authority to compel her to do so, and he paused a moment, his red face flushing a deeper red aha had added that she considered Bocha was the only one who bad any authority to give orders here. For herself, she was convinced that Slyke had committed com-mitted suicide, sad that Bartley did not know what be was talking about when he said that ha had been murdered. mur-dered. ' " Bartley gave a low whistle. "Does that satisfy you, Roche r ha asked. "No, It doeent," Roche replied, shaking his head vigorously, "it doesnt, not by one little bit I am frank enough to say, Mr. Bartley, that though I don't see any light la this an, I knew yea csa. Tour axperleace and repuutlon are both greater than mine. I am, of coarse, the head of the local police and ahall have to put "op "sorns i kind "bf f bluff, but I -wish yea would take charge of tha case." , "Ton say Miss Potter doesn't wlah to give na any aid at slir Rocbs nodded. v "Well, then, Roche, we will have to RO down and see what we can uo with her together. . Tou tell her I am our assistant,, Tou. might also add that If he rfnwi to glvy-ns the In ti will pay yea well ta read the ads mm Chorion JDutton niuslrdtorabj Poad.rWodonjC9 Ine. formation we need, we "can arrest her on the charge of obstructing' ha officer in the discharge of bis duty " , Both men grinned at this," sod, still smiling. Roche led the way from the room. From the top-of the stairs we could see Miss Potter In the living liv-ing roouVbelow, pacing nervously bad and forth. When she heard us descending, de-scending, with Roche in the lead, sbe stopped at the desk and began ta arrange Its contents In an effort to rover her nervousness snd confusion. She did not look up even when we were at her side, ,. ': ' After waiting for her to speak, Bartley said In a grave Una, "Miss Potter, I understand that you told Officer Roche that you refused to call the servants." " 1: .' ; " She raised her face, crimson with anger, : and tried ta answer, but though her Ups formed the words not a sound cams from them. At last, In a voice broken with passion and with words stumbling one over tha other, she said. "I yes It's so. I told kfr. Roche not to call the servants. No one asked you to come here. Tou have no business In this house looking look-ing Into things that do not concern "you. " Mr. Slyka la dead, and every oue will believe that he killed himself la spite of anything you can say. Anything Any-thing that has to be done Mr. Roche can do. It's none of your business, aaywayr . : Standing In front of ns with her flgurt straight and her ahoulders thrown back defiantly, she almost shrieked the last words at -aa. - 80 was so angry that she did not seem to know what she waa saying. I wondered won-dered why she should be In such a rage, go far as I could see, there was no reason for It, .. We stood silent and embarrassed. Hartley's eyes never left ber face. . Under, hla grave scrt-tlny scrt-tlny she flushed and her eves dropped. .."Miss Potter," he said suddenly, "you don't want me to believe that yon know who killed your brother-in- law, do your His qoestlon seemed tha but straw. She turned on him Ilka a- fury, and her eyes roved over the desk as If she . were looking for something to throw at him. She ehrleked, "Ton he thrieked, ."Yea lay I Know Who Killed Him I I Know!" , ay I know ' who killed him 1 1 knowt Why, I don't even believe that he was murdered. How dare you say that bow can you .stand there and say It to my facer . Bartley ahrugged his shoulders. "! dont say that you know, but If you keep on acting use uus wnraTr jwm are asked a question some one also wtlL If It should come out at the Inquest, for Instance, that you refused re-fused to allow us to question the servants, people may aet only think you know, but they may go oven farther. far-ther. If you don't aid as, Boche csa arrest yoa for obstructing an ofdeer n tha performance of his duly." This was news to her. Anger gave place to fear, and aha looked at ns helplessly. V . Bartley realised ' that, overcome by what aha had been through, ahe was not herself, and added kindly. "I know this death must have ehocked you terribly, Hies Potter. Pot-ter. I am trying my beef to make It easier for yoaV-J did aot fores myself my-self : into the house. Doctor King himself asked me to come this nwm-lng, nwm-lng, Wbat yon do not seem to comprehend com-prehend lsthaTa"slou: ertma has been committed, JTour brotheNn-law has been murdered, snd the Uw will demand to know who did It' It Will alad want to know If you did very-thing very-thing In your power to help as to discover dis-cover the murderer, For a moment she said nothing, then she turned and faced Bartley, her eyes searching bis, and In the tone of one weary and broken ha said,.! will do what I can to help you." .. :'3hT ' Mi She benttated. and brushed the unkempt un-kempt balr arnln snd araln from her eyes, as U hardly knowing what she was dolne. "It's driving me wild. I im half crasy," ahe cried suddenly, and taktnt an - uncertain step forward stumbled almost-tn her knees, . . , BartlTr placed bis arm around her and" led hr 0 a cnalr. Then turning turn-ing to Roche, he asked him to call the servant. As soon as Roche had gone, Bartley began to examine the room. A few feet away front him were three card tables, their surfaces - littered with playing rnrds, Jnst as they bad been thrown down when the last game wns over l so. too, the chairs were In the same . position Into which they had been pushed when the pUyrs rose for the hftt time. Bartley picked up the cards on the-nearest table and counted them. He did the same thing with th"" on the (Second table and on the third. At the last table he paused longer than he had at the other two. Finally he took from his pocket the two cards we had found In the tower and motioned to me to Join blm. As I reached Hartley's side, he esked me to count the cards on the table, I did so and found the pack was two cards shortX As I . finished, he handed me the two cards that we had found upstairs saying, "Look at these.". -- r r-- ', . I scuhned the two cards be gave we and then those on tha table. The pack, was an ordinary one, such as is sold for a dollar. Not only the designs de-signs on the backs were the same, bat tha texture of the cardboards as well, t "Do you realise what that showsr "asked Bartley."'"r--;'""'--r-:--r-'----' "That the cards wa found ta the tower are from , the pack on this Ubla." .' ;-"r' "Tea! They may have been dropped up there by rthe murderer, - or they may have been placed there ta make as believe that someone In the poker party had committed the crime." .. ".Why couldnt It have been done," I suggested, "by someone In the partyr "?-rrr-r---r7- Ha, wsa thought nil fur a second or two, then slowly shook his head. "Of course, It might hnve l,en, but I think that the odds are u,.'iint It. This Is ao ordinary crime, though some one wanted na to think It was a commonplace common-place suicide. ' The criminal was afraid, however, -that we might discover dis-cover It to be murder and prepared for that emergency." ; " "How do you uaka that outr I aaked, astonished. . "An .ordinary crtmlnar Bartley spoke so softly that Miss Potter could not hear "would never have takaa all the trouble Involved in undressing Blyko and placing him In bed. That was intended to give the Idea ef suicide sui-cide j but, as the murderer knew there was a chance-of some one suspecting that It waa murder, ha took the cards from the table and placed them where we could find them. He knew that tha finding of cards in the tower, would throw . suspicion upon everyone present pres-ent at the game. It Is to me only aa additional link In evidence that proves It was not suicide.'' , ;' " Roche returned, bringing with htm the butler,, three women and a boy. None of them could give ns any Information In-formation of value. Bartley sooa dismissed dis-missed them. : ...-7''.,:: .-;..;( v- After they had gone, Bartley turned to the boy who, from tha azdtad way be was wriggling, evidently wanted to aay something. It came out with an eagerness thst was slmost laughable. laugh-able. v...:. - ' "I heard a gun last night," he cried. "Tou dldr aaked Bartley, startled for a second. ' The" boy nodded eagerlyr ; "':Te:alr;"i:Last''ntght"rir."'-":----' Bartley . placed his hand on tha boy's shoulder. "Where were you when you heard the shot I What time .was Itr ;" ' ' .nirellslrt the boy began, "you see, I work out In the -garage, wash the ears and such things. , I sleep over It and eat In the kitchen. Last night, yea know, we had tha big car out to take some of the gentlemen home that were at the card party. When the chauffeur got back I washed the car.' The chauffeur! We stared Inquiringly Inquir-ingly at each other, and Bartley aald sharply fo Roche, "Where Is her Boche looked confused sod shamefaced, shame-faced, then hurried from tha room, and Bartley resumed his examination of tha boy. 1 " , . "Ton said you ware washing tha car. What thenr - ' "Tea, sir. I waa washing the ear. It was after twelve o'clock and It took sometime. , Then I smoked a cigar a man had given me and went to bed. JuRt after I crawled in, about half-past one. I guess, I beard a shot Not very loud, but It was a shot all right".' v . ... . "Where did It seem to rome frotnr Bartley asked.- ;-r . -w The boy scratched hla head for a moment and rooked a bit footlah as he replied. It's funny, but It seemed to be up la the air near the bouse." : Bartley threw me a quick glance. This fitted In with his theory that Slyke bad been killed on the balcony of the toer.? Tf that theory was right snd the shot that the boy bad heard was the one that had killed Slyke, ho would naturally think that the sound came from jibe air. I wondered If the . boy could tell ns anything erne "Did you get out of bed to see tf you could discover where tha shot came fhmr? '' "No, sir, I did not t but If I bad known thnt Mr, Slyke bad killed himself, him-self, you bet your life I would." From his answer I Judged that tha servants did not yet know that their employer had born murdered. At least, tM boy rid! not know. He had tld Iron With a Smile The clothes aro turned out faultlessly clean, and with a minimum of effort on your part. But then what! You are faced with several wearisome hours of Jronin by hand unless you havo a . , . .. Simplex Ironer An ironing that requires half a day to do by hand is easily .done on the Simplex in an hour. -There is no standing for hours no tired arms no ruffled disposition. . You can iron with a smile while comfortably seated at your Simplex Ironer, . Let Us Give tou the Details'of Our Utah Power EVEEYTHINO ELEOTEIOAL FOE THE HOIXE as all he knew about the crime, and was sooa sent from the room. Only Miss Potter and tbo butler bow remained re-mained to be examined. Boche ,,: returned, t looking - mora ahamefaced than ever. -..Tib sorry, Mr. Bartley, bat I cant find aba one has seen the chauffeur, and he doesn't seem to be anywhere about tho place."..' ' ' seaaaaMe'eF-v'' -''. -mmmm - Ceatlaaed Kert Week KOTICI Or : aSSZSSXXHT rtW Fart Bltci - Irrigate Ceav paay, a eerperatlea, Principal alaca ef bs ilaets, Imerlcaa , Perk, Utah, Notlca Is Jaereby given that at a meeting of the board of director! of Tha Tort Ditch Irrigation . Company, a corporation, bold on the TUT day of December, 1121, aaseasment (No. 1) of two doUars ($100). per soar waa levied oa all outstanding capital stock and . all stock of the company which baa been subscribed and not issued, payable Immediately to Jarvie Aydelotta at tha Bank of American Fork. American Pork, Utah. Any stock upon which this assess ment may remain unpaid on Monday Pabruary Uth, im, will be delta- quent aad advertised for sale, and anless payment Is made before will bo sold at 10 o'clock; ar m. on-Wednesday Karen Uth. 12J, to pay .the delinquent assessment together with the cost of advertising and expense of sale. . W. 7J. "''Chadwlck, Presldeat : B. B. Korshaw, BecreUry. First publleatloa Jan; II, IMS. tast pubncaUoa PW. 10,'lltt. lonci to cszorrois ta The Fearth Jadlelal District Court of Oah, Utah CaaBty, i-i la th matter of the estate of Robert Crookston, , Sr4 deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at his reaideaea In American Pork, Utah County,: Utah, oa or before Ith day of March,- 1I2S. .'"i. ROBERT '," H, ' CROOKSTON, 3t Administrator of the astata of Rob ert Crookston. Sr., deceased. Clawsoa at Ellsmors, Attorneys for Administrator. 7' first publleatloa January I. 1121. Last Publication Feb. I. 111!.. 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