| Show CORNERED MALAD Parson Pollock has Secured a Controlling Interest Parson Pollock wore a smile that meant something yesterday He stood bolt upright as is his custom but there was a starchness and a steadfastness to his frame that would have been painfully rigid had not a very suggestive smile dallied over the lines of his fair mouth twitching at the corners and twisting a cynical Ive gotem meaning on ridges of his face It would have been an impertinence unpardonable un-pardonable to have suggested that any measly matter of a few petty thousand dollars was the cause of this hilarity of expression ex-pression There was something prodigious back and beyond all this mused THE I HERALD reporter and as he approached the parson that gentleman while always courteous acted af if he had no time to frivol away with an ordinary everyday newspaper man Pretty soon Larry J OConnell stepped into the secretarys office and he was greeted with an allaround shake that thrilled the entire sixfoot frame of the parson II Going to leave for the mine said OConnell running off his words in a hurry and turning around as if the train was pulling pull-ing down the back stairs of the exchange Be sure you do not miss it importuned the secretary as if his whole destiny hinged on OConnell making the train The sequel to all this was a little transaction transac-tion on the morning call by which James Pollock became tao possessor of 5000 shares of Malad stock giving him and his backers a controlling interest in the mine Larry OConnell is the foreman of the i mine and has been hanging about the city waiting for the Pollock syndicate to get the necessary shares As soon as they were had OConnell is crushed up to the mine which is in the Mineral Hill district near Hailey Idaho The MaladConsolidated is one of the best mining prospects in Idaho and the new owners are going to put enough miners at work to show up the mine for all she is worth and this is believed to be in the millions |
