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Show "V PAGE TWELVE. 1 HE JOURNAL. LOGAN CITY. CACHE COUNTY,-- U Saturday, June 3, 1922. TAB The Mint Mystery of sk;iue) Burns' Greatest Cases, v Itg ' always reckoned (officials in the Mint, and been t;rKM ,ult 'townwn-1- j - :t ata' : Burns that only work-- T UUpitvait; iUer. aiu! nvw Vi ii that the great safe in a could sealed envelope, he himselfllid officials minor of the ity .therefore, the consternation fcave hadabsaLLtdy.. nothing!- not know the combination. The when the Secretary ofrthe to do with the rob- eombination of the locks of the whatever Treasury learned that there vaults were always lett in as a was a $30,000 shortage at one bery. hands as possible to guard of the,-The Superintendent of the branch Mints. the secret leaking out and the: against fine a official, was be done! Mint not could The thing the sealed examined Burns him! about made This huge rum was in gold more inquiries and was satisfied that it himself satisfied ;veloPe he more the six in bags, heavy eagles, with. had not been each bag containing $5,000. that he was net the man con. He then turnedtampered all his energiThat such a sum could be cerne(j es the towards the only cashier, the baffled Mint superintendent It taken before any of the showed cf the Mint completely how the man in the whole Mint who knew it, officials ine! knew the combination which that there was a serious money had been stolen, would open the massive doors the guard-- i trusted official told Burns: in deficiency the vast treasury that j guarding of I the a ha of ve "System gold checking; tag and checking within. He found out that stored in the United States which I thought was absolute- - lay find out be done, and you can imagine, r 4 T y m major-superintende- . en-dou- " Vi i Treasury, which naturally made the Treasury officials jumDV, for if such a thing is possible, unless the thieves were at once captured, nothing could stop them from repeating the theft 0 over again. The toss of. was nothing compared with the kiss of seccarf of confiden- y 0 that the s. had come into Newt Bureau, Ine where he was, and he Had often seen him change completely. The assistant lived in the suburbs, and he did not have time to get home and back again if he wanted' to put on .evening dress. TTunTsTnquTre(1Lifthe-assista- nt brought his dress sulit in a suitcase. He did, and took them away answered again afterwards, the watchman. Some years afterwards Burns commenting on the case said: That was the missing link I wanted so badly. That suit (case supplied it. For several nights this clever assistant had actually changed in the mint office, and had gone out to a theatre or concert, or something of the kind. But that changing so obviously in front cf the watchman, and then the taking out of the suitcase' with his dress clothes every time was merelv- to blind the watchman when he wanted to carry out the gold in the case- - So accustomed did the watchman become, in fact, to the assistant coming and going with his bag that he actually - BUier-intenden- ts forgot all about it.. -- In the CourseAff his further1 inquiries Bums made the remarkable discovery that twice previosly The man he suspected had held government positions in other parts of the country and that he had teen discharged because of ingenious thefts. They were so ingeniously planned that the governments leg--officials were reluctantly compelled to state that the chances of successful prosecution were mail. The assistant superintendent had received his appointment at the Mint on the recommendation of a number of wealthy and influential peoto ple. whom Burns decided make a few inquiries about. In every care he found out that thev were political grafters. Burns then preoared concrete evidence, prpving the guilt of the assistant superintendent of the mint, and not until after a trial and tw'o disagreements by the jury did the United States Department of Justice obtain a conviction of the man. He was sentenced to nine years al hard-feug- ht miss-han- With --R- ides Assistant Superintendent! The very first interview- - Every day hundreds are injured and killed in travel accidents. There is no avoiding it. In IheJiumLand rush of traffic, trains will be wrecked, automobiles smashed, street cars wreck- g ed. Perhaps tomorrow you may be riding on one of these vehicles when the accident occurs perhaps you may be the next victim. If destiny has marked you out you cant avoid it. 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And the transportation facilities; it would be better for the consumer, because he would have more assurance of getting surpUes at the stable prices throughout the blood; graduated into merchant princes and men high in the professions the prideful, boastful, loveable Creole aa a man of affairs. Prices tied up the banking facilities in the Corn Belt and made it ,im-- , for thi. fanner to feeding operations ? in j has written an enchanting cities The author "'ll-wa- y and in the nor-- 1 Gas 'mains tale which we take unusual pleasure in would end to end, placed rhe.- He had been ac-j- if reprinting as a aerial for the readers of jd to feel j.nat when he .equal in mileage nearly ofthree the 1 good crop Wstt of . his times the' circumference v The, Journal uc - - , .... 5 weri.ovi.F- collapse in commodity fin-.ye- 'vhiy V il iqd-Wu-t- L. . I - DEATH denly found that they were GOOD JOKE ON DANISH KING only beginning. He was not in ; position to finance the market-i- Monarch Jumped Too Quickly to Conclusion That Eskimo Was of his commodity over a SAY&i EXPERT . Actuatsd by Loyalty. not could 'He ' , longer period. . (Continued frotu.,Pflf$e eve) get even his usual accommodakins of tions in the way cf funds for An numbing storyvisitof tothe(Iwnlmid went peiitnark's the live stock industry wgs de- - thi1 purchase of,' feeder stock, tas recently thkl hy M. Aiisuiird of the erflk cidely acute.' flThei: bCfid atid ili began to look as if there milsb to members of the were being laiprlfl&d find young were unUh cluh lo London. bnjydark days ahead. stock not ready Toy jmaifc. was as apmat-hhiAs the ro.uil ,VnCli( fcOME FIGURES being sent to the btcek, endanireenlaml-dark speck became visible to ( means meat What our future it agritulture on the oien sea. It proved to be supply. gering But the Act gave the corpora- to be in a position to spread the suJltary Eskimo In bis Hale cwjuk tion adequate funds and auth- marketing of its output over (native canoe). The Eskimo came on deal and bis loyalty lu bavins braved of board to with rirne the is ""problem epritxl longer ority ed by the difference in the out the ierlls of the aea In such a frail On a comprehensive scale, assured hint the warmest of welduring the past four of five look for the Com Belt farmer craft comes. The king presented him with adhas1 War when authorized the months it in October, 1921, a anil, what the Eskimos most cigar invances on live stock aggregat-If- n Finance Corporation began highly prize, a rifle. secUnder in tensive that operations nearly $60,000,000. On lauding, the king described the the law, loans may be made for tion, and in- February, 1922. Incident to the Dunlsli commissioner a per tod of not to exceed one when those operations had had t Isa and asked him who the year and these loans, in proper time to make themselves felt, j mini was. cases, be extended for an addi- In October, com was selling at The iniiimliu.li.iier, In accents of hor tional period of not to exceed country elevators in Nebraska ror, replied : The man's an escuied He broke prison yesterday, . two years, thus giving the and Iowa at about 20 cents a convict. canoe ami put to sea. We stockman time to carry through bushel. In February it' had ris- stole a he had been drowned." thought inneccents and reports en to fifty hia operations without the dicate .that farmers were getessity of sacrificing his breeding animals. ting the equivalent to eighty One outstanding development, to ninety cents for the corn already an accomplished fact, through livestock. Is the establishment of new five The man who is irt a hurry to love and adventure stack loan "companies in the sell is. at a great disadvantage. Mystery, suites. And this has been the custo- in the land of Creole delight! principal The corporation has encouraged mary plight of the agricultural - the bankers and business men producer As soon as be has a in' these communitiea ,to form crop he is under pressure to such' companies, each with sub- sell. Either he has to meet a stantial capital,- in order to note given to cover his last make its resources readily and productive effort, or he needs effectively available in the ready money to buy supplies and equipment for his next opT eration. For one reason or anIN THE CORN BELT . In the Corn Belt, mjtny farm other, the necessity has been era make it a regular practice almost imperative to market to buy young live stock, and his output as soon as possible feed and fatten them with corn after harvest By H. BEDFORP-JONEAt harvest time the national and other field products; in oth er words, to tend their crops to market is crowded, ?o to speak, If you fovs dear, old New Ormarket on four feet Normal-- ' with farmers anxious to sell. leans and who that has ever ly, about eighty per cent of the Products are abundant - and spent much time there does not? or low. Six Unted States the in prices relatively com grown you have a treat before you is fed to five stock. And this eight months later, when the in this story; for in additioj to-roa pleasing, process takes time. For . in- consumer is beginnig to think mance which introduces tha stance, it requires from eight about supplies for the rest of Graa and tho to ten months to fatten , one-- the year, prices are up and the gsyeties af Mardi most charming characteristics f steers for market, and farmer usually has little to yetr-ol- d a people of Latsn descent, you as a year. The sell. It would De better for the t calves as long are taken into tho inner life of farmer he could his full if of hia barns with spread ..farmer, the modem city. over a time considerable perlonger marketing corn, needs, You see a city which "has run he if he is going to turn it into iod, because in the long in outward form with changed would for more getprobably beef, pork or mttton with its aristocracy in tha times, tw-his crops; it would be better ', The corn crop in the last lineal descent from chevalier the it for because railoads, years has been extraordinarily of France and dona of Spain, the total . production wwld mean a more even use of one might almost say princes of large, . superintendent ( lly 1'KRTKVAIj by the International Jr FARMERS NEED MORE TIME stand- other. There was just one pos- was always open, evidently left sible chance that someone else open purposely. The watchman besides the cashier had learned could see into the office from Finally the inquiry narrowed down to one man, the former cashier who had a year before been appointed to the position of Assistant Superintendent, which position he now held. This mans original appoint- ment' was made on the recom-t- o mendation of some of the most influential men in the country, and the discovery of the ing gold had been (made by the ; vvas ing behind the lock when he he mint on several occasions was setting the new combina- after hours. The watchman .related how the assistant used tion. The detective was certain to come in to change his clothes that the excashier had seen the during the evening. He changnew combination, somehow' or ed in his office and the' door the thief. j ' $30.-00- ton-siliti- $30,-00- i d, missing in gold was "lade he was away form the Mint with an extremely severe attack of That in it elf had made people suspact hijn strongly of knowing all about the robbery. But the more Burns investigated the cashier the more he became convinced that was not discovery , of-th- e to the position only a year beEvery department each day had to report the amount of the fore and that the very day the of the coins, bullion, etc., that had passed through their hands, and these accounts were checked daily with the amounts which were known to come into the Mint at regular intervals. Each ce. day these accounts were sent to affair this time Washington, where they were At the same took place Burns was in the independently checked, and at Secret Service, and the case was least twice a year outside made visits and checkturned over to him for invesof precious metamount ed once the visited at He the tigation. scene of the theft, and made al and coins the Mint had in its safes against the amount statquite an extensive inquiry fore he revealed his identity. ed in the books. . The more Burns looked at it He wished to eliminate, if possible, all persons who could be the harder seemed the puzzle proved innocent of the affair. However, he was certain that would thus be in a position! the theft had taken place in the concentrate all his invest!- - vault where the coins were gations on the few remaining! kept, and he asked the super-- , officials who could not, off intendent how many men had convince, him. of. their jtbe combination of the locks of . (the vault doors. . guiltlessness. The Mint official informed He started with the highest! Burns held with the former the combination. Whoever had rtishier of the Mint convinced get away with the. gold, Burns him that he was the man he 'reasoned, must have been a was lokirig for. thief of superlative and Burns made inquiries and it would not have been skill, a particl-arl- y then held another interview, difficult thing for him to with the cashier of the Mint, obtain numbers off the cashier, Was the former cashier though the latter felt sure they actually present when you set could not have seen. In fact. the tumbler of the lack as he Burns became certain of his instructed wou when he turnpd suspicion of the previous cashthe office over to you, asked ier and de cided to pursue the ' clue still further. Burns. The cashier told Burns that Burns then got hold of the it was so, but he cuuldnt pos- outside watchman, and him pretty closely letsibly spotted how I set them, to ting him think that he, was He explained he added. Burns how he had some diffi- strongly beof suspected culty at first with them, as he ing concerned in the loss couldn't get the tumblers to gold. The watchmen was sar-Cwork properly. and finally, after having Burns then inquired of the searched his memory back pret-;twell he admitted cashier where the other man that some was at the time, and was told months before the assistant cross-examin- the cashier had been appointed ly infallible. 122, (Copyright, 1 I Subject to Terma and Provisions of the Policy FOR IX)SS OF LIFE Life (in Travel)....,..,.. $1009 Both Hands $1000 Both Feet $1000 Sight of Both Eyes $1000 One Hand and One Fot $1000 One Hand and Sight of One Eye $1000 Either Hand $ 500 Either Foot $ 500 Sight of Either Eye $ 500 For disability, due to Public or Private Conveyance Accident, 13 weeks or less, $10" a week. $250.00 for loss of life by being struck or knocked down or run over while walking or stand-in- g tm a public highways Identification Feature . 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