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Show c. Promp Courteous Telephone Service is what everybody wants. Get it by using "The Phone that talks.' Utah Independent Telephone Co. IWffffffffffiVl 1$30 June 24th to July 10th, inclusive For the round trip to Los Angeles, good returning to October 31, 1909. The Elks Excursion To the land of Sunshine, Bathing, Boating, Deep Sea Fishing, Motoring through the Orange Groves. For The Gew of the Liquor Bottles Edited by William J. Bacon A True Story of the Secret Service, as Told by Capt. Dickson OME years ago, before I be- came connected with the United States secret service, in the east, I was engaged by a member of the comwestern express panies to do some special work for them." began Capt. Dickson. "My headquarters were in Denver and my work, on the w hole, was decidedly Interesting. One adventure In particular made me proud of my service for our company, although It was largely a matter of lurk that brought about I am a my success in that Instance. Urin believer In luck, for it plays an Important part In every man's life, and it baa figured to a large extent In my own affairs, I am free to confess. "A daring express robbery had been committed in the western part of the state, near the Utah line, by three men. The messenger had been murdered and the passengers throughout the train robbed of all their money. The hold-umen secured something more than $15,000 from the express company's safe and fully $5,000 from the passengers. They took nothing but money, however, leaving valuable Jewelry, diamonds and watches with their owners, and Ignoring the parcels In the express car. This circumstance showed that the gang was composed of experienced thieves, for money is the hardest thing in the world to p tract. "late the third afternoon t stum- bled on the ashes of a campfire, and close beside it, among the firs and cedars, I found where horses had been tied. This was what I bad searched for, and I fell sure that I would here And something of value. I camped a short distance from the place po I would not disturb it, leaving my examination until the next morning, when I would have a good light, It then being too dark to attempt such a thing. "That night, by the light of my campfire. I read again the report of the robbery as given by the train hands. Near tho last of It was the account of the sleeping car porter who related, with evident grief, that he had beeji relieved of $6.15 In silver, and that the bandits had rifled the liquor cabinet of the buffet, taking with them all of the whisky and a few bottles, of the rarer and stronger wines. "Early next morning I examined the deserted camp of the highwaymen. There was nothing but a burned-ou- t pile of ashes and charred sticks and a few empty bottles. The bottles gave the clew for which I searched. The highwaymen bad certainly made their men. They had not stopped there tainly, so I took the trail to Tellurlde, a mining camp farther on In the mountains. Tellurlde was then a camp of 800 or 1,000 souls, and there was a bit of a mining boom on which daily brought new prospectors to swell Its fatuous souls brought citizenship, there by the greed of gold a lure that never fulls to attract vlct ns In swarms. For three days 1 searched in vain through the saloons and dance halls and other places where the rough miners congregated wltliout finding a trace of my three rogues. That Infallible sixth sense of mine wsb doing Its best to keep me longer in Tellurlde, althonugh my judgment told me to move on to Silverton; but In the end my Intuition won the flght and I remained. "One evening I was drinking with a miner. The whisky was abominable. The distillery where it was made would never have recognized its product In its present form. I complained of the poor quality of whisky and asked my acquaintance If there were not some better stuff to be found In the camp. He said there was not, at any of the bars, but that he had been given an amazingly good drink by a miner, whose name he men tioned. He said It had been In a little bottle which held just enough to tease one, but It was the best liquor he had drunk since he left Kentucky many years before. He licked his lips in pleasant memory of the drink, "I almost gave myself away, so keen was my pleasure at this chance remark.. I inquired about the gen raw-bone- d , "It would have been the rankest have attempted their arret without assistance although I did! tackle such a Job once in my saladi days, as this scar will testify," and Mr pointed to an ugly wouud at the bach of his neck, partlully covered by bla flowlng gray locks. "Hut that Is another story. I decided to call on tho United States deputy marshal, a maa of tigerish bravery,- for assistance There was no cliluk or crack In the door through which I could gain a peek at the Interior of the cabin, aa I dropped down on my hands and knees and crawled around to the back of the cabin where I thought ther might be a window. There was a window, but it was closed with a heavy shutter, and I could not find any point to peep through; but I did find something on the way around. My hand touched something round and smooth, and I clutched it Involuntarily. It waa one of the little whisky flasks. After I had left the cabin I struck a match and examined it. The label of the car company waa still on it "The deputy marshal was found at one of the dance halls and he soon summoned a reliable posse. We sur rounded the cabin, from which still Issued the sounds of revelry. The men were stationed at every point about It. Then the marshal and I rapped oa the door. In response to our summons one of the miners staggered across the floor and threw the door wide open. We tripped him up and rushed over blm into the cabin. The men were too drunk to make any resist ance. and we captured .them without fully to - . ( "I was notified of the robbery on the afternoon of the second day after it, occurred, and although. I hastened to the spot with all dispatch and made my KENNETH C. KERR, District Passenger Agent, arrangement by wire, It was toon of the third day before I alighted at the 169 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. nearest station. Here I had arranged for two horses and a prospector's outfit, deeming it best to follow the bandits In the disguise of a miner, as the robbery bad been made at a point near the mining region of southwestern Colorado, and I expected to And the criminals at some of the numerous mining camps. Office Phone No. 43- "I have never been a believer in All disguises except as to clothing. W. O. Creer Bids'.. Spanish Fork, Vteh efforts to change the face with grease dewing MacKine paints and wigs and the like only tend to attract attention and direct suspl-sioruns lighter than any INO. PHONE CfFICB HOURS 10 TO 1t A.M. ftSSIOSNCS NO. 4S. to the man thus togged out. The other. . . t TO 4PM. OPPICB NO. 43-casual observer might not notice the deception, but the criminal, and especially the hunted criminal, Is no casDR. A. G. STODDARD lasts longer titan any ual observer. He has formed the other. habit of noticing everything, and he IN WV. 0. CREER BUILDINO will detect the least false point in a man's appearance and shun him as if SPANISH PORK, UTAH be were afflicted with the plague. is more beautiful tnan "A change of dress will work wonother. If-"- a any ,' ,1' In a man's . appearances ders W. E. man can wear other clothes than those he Is accustomed to, and wear them Quarantine and City Physician lias less vibration easily and naturally, he can more efOfTlce at City "Drug Store fectually disguise himself by this than any other. means than he can with all the wigs Spanish Fork and answered from calls Creer paints and whiskers In existRid?. Uipbt ence. Next to the Bell Telephone office. is .easier to operate "Coming across the continental dithan any other. vide, I had suffered a slight attack of W. Indigestion. I sent the porter after a flask of whisky, asking for a certain Office t! WerM Drof Ce. BaOdieg makes a more perfect brand. He returned In a few minutes one of the diminutive little botwith stitch than any other. Spanish Fork, Utah tles customarily sold on sleeping cars at a quarter a bottle. It was not the Residence at Jas. M. Creer'i, Second kind I had ordered, but the porter exWrrd. ' Independent Phone 42-is the best of all complained that this was the only brand bined in one. of liquor the company sold, and I had to be content with it. The label of FREE SEWING MACHINE CO. the bottle stated that It was put up CHICAGO it ILLINOIS expressly for the company. 0tUciao "On reaching my destination, I ImCYE8 TESTED 50LDBY CLA8SE3 PROPERLY FITTED mediately assumed the character of a miner and set about my Inquiry. There Office at Residence was little Information to be gathered SPANISH FORK. Phone, Ind. 38-beyond what was contained In the express company's report of the robbery, of which I had a carbon-copy- . Miss Satisfied that time spent here would ' Teacher of be wasted, I set out for the scene of the robbery, riding a wiry little pony riANO, ORGAN AND THEORY OK MUSIC and leading another on which was Saturday For particulars apply at the home of packed my outfit of grub and cooking MRS. THOMAS CREER Implements and miner's tools. Each Week of is x.x "The place was a desolate spot. The road ran through a broad alkali valButter Paper Day & ley which had not, at that time, been JESSE E. 8. brought under cultivation by Irrigation. It was easy to pick up the trail If your order is Contractors and Builders of Comof bandits and follow it uciuks the valley In a southwesterly direction to the plete Homes placed before foot-hill- s of the Rockies, where the ESTIMATES GIVEN FREE that date your trail disappeared, the rocky ground leaving no trace of "From this point on it was to be a paper will be matter of luck and guesswork. I believed my men bad made for Tellurlde, ready Saturday ROTARY PUBLIC Ouray, Silverton or some other mining at 4 p. m. camp, but I was not rash enough to venture a guess as to which it might a lrrlf tt4 r.rmi low InterMf-pec- lal p be at that stage of the game. These tlooi of partial payments-OIBt retldeaoe, on bloek eeat of camps, with their rough, shifting popSPANISH FORK, UTAU. ulation, offered capital retreats for criminals, and from past experiences The Cough Syrup thai I knew that my three rogues would, rida the system of a cold in all probability, remain in one of by acting as a cathartic oa tha these camps until the excitement from the robbery bad subsided, and then ATTORNtY-AT-LAbowels is t make for civilization to spend their FKOVO Telepaoas n z money, fJtatfM Bundlsf "For three days I drifted at random through the mountains, following trails nd paths, for there were no roads, endeavoring to pick up some clew or FASHIONABLE And the place where my party had spent the first night after the robbery. The hold-uhad occurred about noon, and, by hard riding, the three highwaymen could penetrate some ten or 0n Block North el Bank, tpinlth Fork.Utik twenty miles into the fastness of the mSunatlns before It became too dark to travel further. It was out of the M. JEX-FLORI- ST for any one to advance question Freb Flower supplied for all occa- Bees It lis original laxative cough syrnp, through that region after dark. I sions. Funeral designs kept oa baod contains no opiate, gently moves the to And the place of their camp, bowels, carrying tbt cold eS through the hoped and filled to order. and felt sure I would do so by channels, Guaranteed nataral to givt All kinds of Furniture Repaired. sntiaiaouoD or money refunded. Residence two block North of Foundry Spanish Fort, Utah full particulars ask your nearest Salt Lake Route agent or write to Dr. C. O. SCOTT 0 DENTIST Slogans n A. tsPFREE Warner Dr. tiPFREE , Dr. J. Hagan 1. Dr. iFREE Ml IPFREE tFREE J. Fred Potter ORAN LEWIS Agnes Engberg Johnson Braithwaite hoof-print- SAMUEL CORNADY Money Loaned Go-o- p. A. B. MORGAN, LORENZO THOMAS TAILOR LAXATIVE p COUGH SYRUP R. World Drug Co. r ..iv r Each bottle bore the camp here. label of the sleeping car company, and some of them were the diminutive flasks of which I had drunk one on the trip from Denver. There was not a scrap of paper anywhere else to be found. "Elated with my success, I made a survey of the country and discovered a trail leading farther Into the mountains. I took up this trail and followed It as best I could until nightfall. Often I lost it, and sometimes I spent an hour or more casting about to pick It up again, aa I have seen hounds baffled on the trail of a fox. About three o'clock that afternoon I found something that made my eyes sparkle. Shattered into a thousand pieces was the remains of one of the small whisky bottles on a large flat rock beside the trail where It had doubtless been cast in a playful mood Induced by Its contents. Among the fragments I found the label of the car company. "It was the 'dry season, and this was In my favor, for no rains came to obliterate the trail. For five days I followed the bandits across the hills and through the valleys, verifying my route from time to time by fragments of broken whisky bottles along the way, and at. the places where they bad The buffet-ca- r camped for a night. must have been well stocked, for I found many bottles In this Journey, "The trail eventually came to a well beaten road, which, from my map, I learned was the stage and mall route from Montrose, the nearest railroad point to Ouray, then a rather Insignificant mining settlement.' I lost no time In getting to Ouray, for it was impossible to trail my men along this road and I was sure they bad beaded for the mining camp. "Two days were spent at Ouray without finding a trace of the three half-obscur-e THREW W mD0O? MD erous owner of the good liquor, with a show of Indifference I was far from He was a late arrival, It feeling. seemed, and lived in a shanty far up on the mountainside with two companions. The three were making a rather poor attempt to work a claim they had preempted. "Getting away from my loquacious miner-friend- , I climbed the steep trail to the cabin and set about an Investigation of It with great caution. The men were at home,' and from the sounds issuing from its closed doors I guesaed they were having a rare old time that evening. I approached to the very door and listened with my ear to the planks to sounds of revelry within. The men were gambling and drinking, and I could hear the clink of coins and the rattle of bottles and the ribald jests with which they made their bets and gloated over their winnings and cursed their luck when they lost. 1 heard sufficient to make me sure that t bandits were In the my cabin, although there waa no direct mention of the express robbery. much-sough- a shot being ing a big 0PH. Tbey were havgame, played with gold pieces and currency Instead of chips. There was some $8,000 or $10,- -' 000 upon the table. Strewn about tha floor were many whisky and wine bottles. In a box beneath one of the) bunks was a solitary pint bottle of whisky, the last remnant of the contents of the buffet car's liquor store. It was, as I said, a clean case of luck." stud-poke- (Copyright. fired. r 190$, (Copyright by W. O. Chapman.) Great Britain.) . In Played on Ancient Instruments. At a concert which took place la the large hall of the Royal' museum at Stuttgart, recently, at which the king of Wurtemberg were and queen present, no Instruments were used save spinets, clavlcembolas and pianos of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The most Interesting of these were the one which waa once owned by Johann Sebastian Bach, and another on w hich Queen Louise of Prussia learned to play. Pittsburg Man Is "Loaded" Perfect Fiend to Quote Statistics, cording to Writer In Harper's. Tbe Fittsburger can carry more Ac fig- ures of large denomination on his person without your suspecting their existence than any other citizen of the United States. He Is a reservoir of decimals and statistics. He must have ample Justification, however, before he turns the spigot, but when he does there is a torrent no man can stem. If provoked and inclined to extend talk he can himself, in a oil you so full of miscellaneous Indus e triesnatural e, gns, steel rails, petroleum, steel pipes and sheet metal, fire bricks, tumblers, tableware, coke, pickles, and nil that sort of thing that you will begin to feel like a combination delicatessen and hardware store. I have not begun to enumerate tbe different data 1 have collected on thle subject, as I have no desire to make the reader feel small or to lose In himself. As I have pointed out before, the Pittsburg, or the man who to undor the Influence of Pittsburg, must be provoked before he burdens --- C. It While, In Harper's. tie-plat- cimft-denc- e -- |