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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS ANDREW JENSEN, tlon th Publisher SPANISH FORK doubt The annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was held in Salt Lake City last week, State President Mrs, E. E. Shepard presiding, Thomas E. Taylor, a bookkeeper, fell from his bicycle, in Salt Lake City, striking his head on the pavement, his skull being fractured. Ills recovery Is doubtful. The experimental dry farm at En terprlse produced four different va rletles of raisin grapes this year, that equal in size and weight some of California's best production. A big section of the Pahvant val ley waa added to Utah'a domain last veek when the 43, tract In the Oasis Land A Irrigation company project was thrown open to entry. Mrs. Anna W. Perkins, who died at her home In Salt Lake City on October 2, was one of the oldest citizens .of the state. She waa In her 98th year, and had lived In Utah since O J How Carlton Clark Solved a Strange, Weird Mystery in the Western Country. Twas Britisher whose favorite tipple has won him. in the far east, the opprobrious title of fault-findin- "V hotel, drunk er crazy er somethin, and never showed up uo more. No sir, I reckon there's a devil awaitin' at thr bottom of every one o' these here holes with a hook. Why, even the swattles, that's the soldiers, you know, what's detailed out here, like that fellow over there, to see that the tourists don't carry off none o the formation, they couldn't no more be dragged out here at night than you could get a cow puncher to herd sheep, It was all Innocent enough at dinner. But my dealt, drawled the husband, you surely cawnt believe all that beastly roL Cawnt a fellow have capable of killing me Just as you did those other women. "Great guns, she's making for the formation! It's suicide, I whispered. We reached the edge of the treacherous sea of alternate limestone and (Milling water. There, already far out uMin It, was the woman dashing blindly and heedlessly along with Instant and awful death on either side of her. Behind her the man picked his way carefully and cautiously. And so in Indian file we started, following Hughes and picking our way gingerly between the spurting jets of steam. The woman had stopped her head- - ft 1 cCL ff' J Yoon and foolish of life had been reading fiction, not the te MWhCn a real 'ord In th of Snlvely met me and hand in marriage I wa. agonized fear. The man threw up his hands and disappeared as If the earth had swallowed him up. Veritably it had, for when w rushed to the spot where we had last seen him we found only the boiling, swirling waters of The Devil Well." Thank God!" she exclaimed. I fear it Is wicked to feel so, but It la better than suicide for me or hanging for him. The absence of Lord Snlvely would be a difficult thing to explain at the hotel and none of us relished the Idea of an Inquest with Its consequent delay, to say nothing of the Incriminating colors with which suspicious enough to believe great match. I i E u JJji We went first t world and the future looiej a time, but the dream was J? pelled. Suspicion began to nty happiness when, instead 3 ceedlng at once to his ancestral In Surrey as he had promised. denly packed In an hour and hurried return to the United $ On the passage home I found h luggage a newspaper clipping that me thinking all the harder, ft , the story of some villain In En& who, under various names, vu , pected of marrying a number of . en, securing possession of th, wealth and then murdering then" "J. Frederick Bannister was it tot Interrupted Clarke. Do yoi b Sexton, I rather suspected froa t first it was him. He was a sort English Johann Hoch and went k a number of aliases. Yes, Bannister was one of names used and the description in paper fitted him so perfectly t! struggle as I might against the ir thought I could not get it out of mind. He knew of my wealth i knew the safe deposit company which it was kept I determined draw It out secretly and place It ei where. I had secured the papers it, with the suddenness that marked his movements, he told me w going to the Yellowstone. I bad opportunity to place the bonds n where, so closely did he watch me am now convinced he knew 1 1 them on my person for our Joe was a constant series of quarrels o the question of my placing all my tune In his hands that he might deem from mortgage his ancestral 000-acr- e gjj J J 5 tates. "During one of these quarrels, b the time we reached Chics? charged him directly with the c!i?P I had found In his luggage. His look of terror and anger told me shaft had struck and then he bead the same Inscrutable, oilyr villais & t before. But I knew the truth and: knew that upon my wits alone res' the safety of my fortune and my When you gentlemen entered t train I studied you closely. Thet learned Mr. Clarke's name and It at once familiar to me because Richard King, whom I knot d well, had told me of your wonder work and how you had rescued and her husband from the wiles ft' worker of black magic. I knew I trust you. You received the note I Hpt It e og M h n sta-Uo- n through the crack In the wait of Clarke, directing the disposition fortune In case of my death!" "Yes, I received it all right.1 swered Clarke. "But now I ba'JIt happiness to be able to restore Its rightful owner living. We found the commandant t mouth a most reasonable etoff-fully satisfied with our PT( readily acting only the promise, keep would I assure you, that we I advised of our whereabout wls powers above him should quire more closely into the The - stage company also treiI with marked consideration in that we should resume our Interrup tour as their honored guests a Snlvely, or Miss Hathaway, man-wa- s Ttem rmw upm mm -- TN Vi ... His Telepathic Suggestion Tells of Strange Condition of Affairs Detective Proves Worth of His Theory When Man is Confronted Master Mind Finally Triumphs. HE man waa English; that evident at first glance. he was of that ubiquitous type of sneer-Ing- , nO station to the cavmry there colonel if ,Thl plan Bleep of which we hVLV V vantage. le"dtotu, And now, Ladr Clarke, wh k were I stowed away In th s morning, perhaps your story and we can (to ldvl to the future. Tot Please do not call ly," Answered the That name was m?iUe henceforth I am ' content I Alice Hathaway. and If It would only prolT foolish American f1''1 g)ri feel that 1 have not Lc lives My father died when I was one of the f ted States Zinc organizer. fore his death he had hie stock Into bonds. lti l child and I suddenly found the possession of the bow,?' you have now. That wu 1 f"d f tho By FRANK LOVELL NELSON "Llmejuicer." The worn an well, we had more difficulty In classifying her. The accent and the clothes were English beyond the possibility of the most char itable error. But the piquant, sad face, the soulful brown eyes, the cheeks of dark but wholesome and even color, the full red lips, the small and delicately molded features, these were legacies perhaps of French an cestora, more likely tokens of that conglomerate strain now called the American type; hut English, never. As she came opposite my elbow she raised her head and gave me a look full In the eyes, a look ao full of helpless appeal that It startled me. Our drawing-rooconnected with the stateroom of the English couple by a door ao that the two might on 1850. occasion be thrown together en suite. John Q. Packard, who built and I looked down and saw the corner equipped the public library In Salt of an envelope appear. I called Lake City at a cost of $150,000, do- Clafke's attention and we watched It nating It to the city, died at his home until the entire envelope, a long, white near Santa Cruz, Cal., on October 1, one, stuffed ao full of papers that it at the age of 86. went under the door with difficulty, The agricultural exhibit from the lay on the floor at our feet state of Utah won the magnifleeut Our pretty llason progresses," $2,000 silver loving cup offered by whispered Clarke. There Is a billet W. R. 11 ears t for the best state agri- doux for you." I hastily seized the envelope and cultural exhibit at the Sixteenth National Irrigation congress. emptied Its contents on the reading During the past fiscal year $168,922 table. And then Clarke and I stared and gaped in helpless and Idiotic aswaa derived from the sale of public landa In Utah, which amount, after tonishment. Before us. lay bonds of making deductions for expenses, will the United Zinc Corporation to the he turned Into the reclamation fuud value of $750,000. With them was a single sheet of to the credit of that state. What was thought by some of the note paper with tho crest of the Los employes to be an Infernal machine, Angeles limited at the top. Clarke received at the office of the mayor and I read It silently. 'To Mr. Carlton Clarke: I am tak In Salt Iske City, proved to be a box of apples, sent the cltya chief ex Ing what I believe to be the only course to save these papers and my ccutive by an admiring friend. The Sanpote Valley railroad, from life. By the time we reach Old FaithManti to NephI, waa formally taken ful Inn I hope to devise some disposiover by the Denver A Rio Grande on tion to ask you to make of them. Until then guard them well. I know I can Thursday, October 1, and It will in the. future be known as the Sanpete trust you? Destroy this note at once. Lady Ethelbert Snlvely. Valley branch of the Gould road. After breakfast at Yellowstone stawater Logan's supply system is to tion the next morning our entire party, be enlarged. A tract of land about CO, were loaded Into about numbering Elx miles from Logan canyon la to be the big M.-for the stages purchased and a mammoth reservoir drive to the Upper Geyser basin and constructed which will greatly ug Old Faithful Inn. Clarke and I had a ment the water supply of the city. surrey to ourselves In charge or one Secretary of Slate Tingey has Is- Bo Hughes. Bo" being Yellowstone sued a call tothe banks for quarterly slang for driver. We also traveled reports on the condition of business That is, we were relieved special. for the last three months with these from to the regular schedule adhering Institutions. There are laid down by the stage company. state banks and three private banks. We reached the Fountain lunch Des Moines, Iowa, secured the next and the Lower Geyser basin In biennial convention of the Unite advance of the rest of the party and Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- Clarke to his duty sufficiently ers of America on the second ballot to walk roused out with me over the formataken at the Salt Lake convention, oy a vote of 142 against 131 for San tion. as the acres of limestone deposit made by the geysers Is officially Francisco. and technically known. Here again The late Henry Barrett, one of the we met my lord and lady when the most popular members of Battery C, of the tourists came up, and were rest Utah Volunteer dlghtt amillery, has been honored by the erection of a hall grouped reverently In a circle to watch for the comfort and recreation of the the . Fountain geyser play. Lady Snlvely clapped her hands In glee as United States troops at Camp Keith the boiling water, throwing clouds of ley Mindanao, P. 1. Frank Donaho, a young man, seething steam, shot 50 feet In the air. The shadows of the western snow-peak- s whose home is at Ellsmore, Kan., were lenghtenlng when we drew while beating his way east on & Rio In advance of the rest of the up. party, Grande freight train, at Wellington, six miles east of Price, was in some again by virtue of our ''special, before the log portals of that wonderful way thrown under the moving car piece of forest architecture, Old Faith and one leg was cut off. ful Inn. At the close of last week the Ogden I was assigned to room 17 and Fruit, Growers association, since its Clarke to room 18. Lord AND and Lady organization about a month ago, had Snlvely followed us and drew No. 19. shipped 104 cars of fruit to the east- Whatever the destiny that bound us ern markets. The shipments, which together It seemed unbroken. In most part have bi't'n havo peaches This would be a dangerous pluce a beastly also contain d plums, pears and apflipping In his bag without to travel about on at night, Bo," I being a bloomin ples. crook? Haven't I While duck hunting north of Salt said to Hughes as we clambered up brought you out to this beastly hole Lake, P , J. Ouelette had a narrow es- and down the mounds of calcareous and given you everything you between bottomless pools of wanted?" cape from death, sinking Into a deposit, treacherous quicksand bed, being held boiling water, peering down Into the Yes, with my own money, Interprisoner' for an hour and u hau ami growling, sulphurous depths of the rupted the wife. "Lion and the Cubs Finking up to his armpits before help "You know I couldnt stay In Lonthreading the carue, in the person of a passing treacherous and precipitous sides of don another day with the beastly hay hunter. the "Grotto" and feeling beneath our fever on, Alice. Now, what coming The phonograph has been Intro- feet the hollow crunch of the crust have you done with those pupera?" duced into the public schools of Salt that seemed but a thin partition be"Yes. I knew you had searched my tween the beautiful world above and Lake City, for the purpose of pronun luggage, liar. Dont give yourself any elation of foreign words In the teach- the regions of the Inferno beneath. false hopes. You will never see them "You're mighty right," answered ing of surh languages. The Innovaagain. I never knowed of tion was made by Professor Miles of Hughes. but one "Then " The sentence was lost In the German department of the high man that ever come over here at a hiss of rage. school. nteht and he wandered out o' the "Oh. yes. I know you are perfectly fifty-seve- 2Mammouth i. Iride of tine Yellows tome UTAH STATE NEWS 1170,770. .torr4,.4 ArriS0! J High license hai driven the Ratoons out of buslnesil in Modena. During the year there were 0,446 publle land entries made In Utah, embracing 468,428 acres of land. Five carloads of prunes have been sent out to eastern toiark'ts from Willard, and there are about that many more to be shipped, It Is estimated that over thirty thoufland ducks were killed In Salt Lake county on the opening day of the Utah duck season. Held's band of flult Lake enrrrcd of! the prize at the band contest at Albuquerque during the meeting of the National Irrigation congress. The Four County fair held In Ogden last week proved a success In every way, from a financial standpoint, attendance and general Interest The Denver chorus won first prize In the contest at the Eisteddfod held In Balt Lake City, the Salt Lake chorus being awarded second place. According to the annual report of the commissioner of pensions there are 1,047 pensioners in Utah, receiving annual pensions amounting to straight Without thZaMnim4 Ingle one of fenj!01 waa quietly All proceed in the! ,h4t UTAH 1 which had Yenow,tone,W0 whose ' D5JPPl? PS P APr MW SWUOhFD tfM. long ffipht and was kneeling n the formation as If prayer. C speduplifted bands we saw the glint of polished metal. Behind her the husband crept with arms. ( loser and closer outstretched he she seemed unmindful of bis came but presence Were we to witness murder clde prevented? I, was hard or a sl' to tel Ue could do nothing but stand and await the denouement Idly To cry out. to advance, would be but to the precipitate tragedv. t'lurke dropped on one knee and drew a ra f. fnl bead on the advancing m Hughes did the sumo. As for ' was too fascinated for action Suddenly there was a scream of - b. - V - - VMiiLti livl -- V DS w yonthia hpf K at Granger bound for the eask low passengers no doubt little that she carried with her Ing king's ransom. rlirt "Do you know," remarked after we had resumed our Big "women are always unreason ,he PVf,n,IJ of the she night8 Buth! f really wanted to make manifestly there herself why did she wantr ,fo & of a mu s most on death tlon with certain of her to do it with a pistol As the question involved Ion. When we w r that dates from Adam' lbS . unas necessarily remained Hatha vMrr We never saw Mis j f 6 had Clarke s pluyod ou each ni . . twice but year Ut an B0 celve each the Interest upo to hi 1 . throughout the rentur!eIWw-l"ln,alne-l worth of bonds of the hal on the formation be,n 1 Zinc Corporation. I suppo stand In our names. e,R eend ub the Interest? they -fuur.it '1 ;h sure neither of UR ! conacio Ing earned any Bitch cnw cle '"ir iliP three-quarter- P; (Copyright, by W. O. Mi |