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Thursday, January 4,-1923. Thomas to Ask Court For Change of Venue ,|.| T;i , nG. (Red I Thomas, Charlotte <alesiii:iu. "ill ask tor 51 change of . , when his case is called for* trial , , ut .xf week, is the report that 'from Charlotte., The Charlotte , * Tuesday afternoon said: ■Motion foi\ removal of the trial of. (L c i Ked i Thoniiis. charged with the '1,.!- of Arthur C. Allen, of Kan will be made before Judge \V, hb in < ’uncord Monday. -\ttenieys for Thomas, who is a , ,i utniitobile dealer, will argue to ;■ , t that the ease should be re , iToni Cabarrus county because t ]„. treling in that community. T!: phice rtf removal will rest with .]],• court. "Tlumias’ ease has been reviewed by i supreme Court of North Carolina the defendant has been given a " trial. Machinery for the new In: ;, „ni be set in motion Monday ,-sic first jiroposition to be put be.- die court will bo the motion for removal of another county. V formidable, array of legal talent u :jl au -.i in ,-tpear in defense of Thomas, w l„ ;l f the conclusion of the first trial, v a given I s years In the. State peni tc'up'io'.y by. Judge His Ray. Appear in'' iir the past will Ih> J. J. Parker "l j.;. T. Cansler. of Charlotte. M in, - find Armfield. IT. Lee Crowell uni John M Oglesby, of Concord. ‘ XHionias' defense at tlie first trial I - ,! mi his contention that Allen ap pi'oitelied- his car on a lonely road near Kai'iii i pel is in August. 1921, with the unaiid ‘Throw up your hands.’ Ti '-nias coiiteiided that he thought the ,ai u -a<. a Idghwayman and that he > : ,y, protect himself. -Tl'his 'tntciuent was Iwieked up by ii:, testimony df Mrs. Rolie.rt Lowe, u'no was in the automobile at the time ! ,k the shotijig.'' —rTlie'Charlotte obst»rver of today has \i i ya:\ kd baby girl BEHIND LOUISIANA WAR ! Governor Parker Aronsed to Do His! I tinii'i When Little Child Pleaded With Him to Bring Her Daddy Heme for ('hridmas. XV.-. nrleans. Jan. 2. —-A little blue-! . veil iiahy girl scarcely more than i liuvi- years Md is behind the war which | joint M. Parker. governor of Luoisiuua.; i- wooing tmlay against the. Ku Klux Klau. To her alone are, due the ex- j ]i< -,■> which are shaking the state and; tuition and arousing action against tliej hooded cohorts of the ‘•invisible em pire." She alone, if lie.r baby tongue j could do more than parttle or ller baby | lingers tjo more than scribble, could j tell and. write the inside story of the I M r Itoiige murders. >ae i> hack of the march and ’conn-! ti.ntiaivlf of armed troops which main-1 tain virtual marti.-fl law in Morehouse! ]>orish today. She is back of pistol- j bulging nips anti lightly slung riliesj 'and shotguns on the arms of scores of! Mirth'Louisiana citizens. Siie as back of ti e h.i’Mon of dynamite.• mysterious-j Jy exploded iliaf brought to the sur- j fst'-e of Lake la Fnnrche, the headless, i w irei ouini bodies of Thomas ltichards J and' Watt DanieTk. after " legal and' tnedicitl t;i!enf being assembled by Gov-1 (■riior barker so the lake be.d. Shej is back' of their four months’ rest in | tin- ooze place the responsibility for! Hull double niurder and the torture j u■ ii say preceded it. Slry. is back j <4 the seetind public hearing of this i sort in two centuries of Louisiana his tory when, oil January 5. men will gather hi the-' machine gun-guarded et'iirt house at lhilstrop to tliresji out the ease. This little, girl is Leota hichnnls. daughter of Thomas F .Rich , aids. oik- of the men tortured.and mnr dcVed by tire Mer Rouge mob. which (be Pinker asserts was nnide up by mt'niiiers of tin- Ku Klux J Klan and "eich daily developments substantiate. Promises Girl Her Daddy. Tii* l machinery which' started the < ti-up drive against the Klan in.this vests put in motion after Gov. Parker heard a tale of midnight mur of a mother's grief, of supine lo ' J authority arid at last swore, a mighty oath; when the little child ' ii,l! | o'i on his knee in his office at L, ■ a Itoiige am] pieided : -c ' T >ii t you please iiring my tladdy i'o'Kc for ( hristmas?” ! Ik* story goes back to the summer's ,j - ' ;vl!i'ti little Lt‘ola and her daddy, !' :,|, d. bi hand, going home. A 'loupe! men interrupted them. The}’ j Viiic hood' and masks. 1 " ,!! o with us," they told Richards, be Gtin muzzles enfArced 11 !'no< Aii cmidoyee of the Rieh ■ O' g-irage took Leota home. She bid rnjel! her mother what had liup- Put if was not until Rich ■ Pad been que>tioned, released and pj ,t i* l lie with a “warning'’ that Mrs. ‘'' m: L knew her husband had fal '!] ; ' :i ” die hands of the hooded ones* ' I" seeking evidence or eonfes '■ b> Lie attempts which Dr. B. M* K«»in. former mayor of the little .' ,: ’-'lor Rouge, s;sid had l>een <1 ' ' c's.-issinate him. Bhota only < II d masked men hud taken her Giddy invay. i'<‘ime hack that time. But ’ l !, , m y rime Daddy didn't come hack. ,!. v ift(r a niglit of terror on the '"l"Mer Rouge-road, when masked • " I de.d and robed men with flre ,!">k live men from the hundreds' ' ,! motoring from the good I x ".‘" N o eting .-it Rastfop, Leota’s (lady •>' "ne <>j the ti\ J e. The world knows I( " ! L i''' «'f tin* five lehirne.d. Watt ■T" ■' am! Richards did not. Days M| lj khis dl‘ search followed along Dr. Miller Hutchisoh is to Lead 801 l Weevil Fight Hut, ! " -Dr. Miller Reese j .it,,, / " *° r many years chief en ;,t( ij, Thomas A. Edison Labor-! ;,i ' J K “on selected to lead u | '11,,. ( 1 V ' ,H ’ .against tlie boll weevil in fields of the South. The M,..' v f' ndered Dr. Hutchison by >x hi.l 1 "* 1 n Cotton Association, t_, ! - !u ' "hueetiou with an Atlanta, t taxation. Lias undertaken to the following relative to the reqfiest for a change of venue: for the removal of the trial W O. (J. (Red) Thomas on the charge of murder is to be made before Judge. J ames L. -Webb at Concord Monday, according to statements here yester day, liis attorneys simply asking that the trial lie removed from Cabarrus county on the ground that there is too much antogonistic feeling that the trial be remoyed from Cabarrus to ob tain a fair and impartial trial. “The case has been reviewed by the Supreme Court and Thomas has been granted a new trial. The defendant I was sentenced to 18 years by Judge J. Biss Ray at the conclusion of the. first trial several months ago. At torneys for Thomas are: j. Parker and E. T. Cansler, Sr., of Charlotte; Miness and Armfield, J. Let* .Crowell and John M. Oglesby, of Concord. Wlyen the State Supreme Court sev eral weeks ago granted Thomas if new trial, the report became general here that a request for a change of /enue would be made, but local attorneys for the Charlotte auto salesman have . never given official sanction to the re-' ■ port. Mr. Maness. who is chief eoun , sol here for Thomas, has had nothing to say about the case, but from othe.r sources it lias been learned that a change probably will be asked. One Concord man stated this morning that • j he had been asked to sign nn affidavit >4 which declares that Thomas could not ‘ j get a fair trial in Cabarrus county, L but attorne.vs have nothing to say in > regard to such an affidavit. Sheriff W. K Mabry has been hand ed the list of persons wanted sub . ja.'turned by both the State and the “ defense, and he has been busy., this week serving the papers, according to ; reports here. with grand jury sessions, which indict ! ed nobody. The constituted’ autliori ! ities of Morehouse parish •seemed sin gularly supine and sinistej* whispers j crept about. No arrests were made, j “Nothing to report.” was the official J attitude. I Widow Takes Little Daughter to the Governor. Then one day Mrs. Thomas Richards, i who, in her heart, knew herself to be a widow, took a train with Leota to j Baton Rouge. Doors were closet! be hind them in the state capitol. With i tears streaming down her face. Mrs. t Richards told Gov. .Parker of the lone j line.ss of lung and bitter days and j nights: of the sinister whisperings that j come to her. “It was the Klan that killed iny hus i Imnd.” she exclaimed bitterly. “They'll do nothing about it in Morehouse ! parish. They killed him and they ’ killed Watt Daniels and tlte.ir Ixwlies ! are somewhere in Morehouse parish j today.” Little Leota. used to her mother’s I crying for days and nights, looked ; curiously about the room of the an- I cient fcuda!-lik(> building with its great I mirrors. And. as her mother sobbed, j she ran up to the map with the gray * hair. Gov. Parker, whose kindly eyes '! and quiet manner had won lier confl- J deuce. He lifted lier to his knee. It was j tlien T.cota asked tlie governor to bring ' her daddy back. There were tears ! now in the governor’s eyes. “I will, , Leota,” he said, simply. That was all. But. within" liis heart, he swore a mighty oath to keep faith with that child . Leota went home comforted. Had not the man with the kindly eyes' and comforting hands and lined face, said he would see to it that hex father would be home Christmas? Details did not bother Leota. She did itot know that the state govern ment provided only meager funds for special investigation, such as the case, required. She did Aot know that Gov. Parker, put of his own pocket, spent thousands of dollars to make the investigation thorough. She did not know that, in her native ,parish, under cover, investigators searched out the clews: that a special diver was brought from St. Louis; that special guardsmen were sent to\More lmuse parish with orders to kill any one who interfered in the search: that a body of men crept forth one night and exploded nearly half a ton of dynamite near tlie Eastland Ferry in Lake LaFourcJie, and that the. two bodies brought up wore identified as those of Daniels and Richards, her daddy. Loot a just played about, won dering what Christmas would bring and scrawling pencil lii%s which her" mother knew’ were words to the Ku Klux to bring her dady back. Pos sibly leota had forgotten the grave man with the kindly eyes. Bur the man had not forgotten. Judge Grady Sileut on Klan Affiliation. Kinston. Jan. 2.—Following liis in duction into office last night Henry A. Grady, new Superior court judge from t% sixth district, today sakl he. make no statement regarding his alleged affiliation vvth the Ku Klux K!an. His mood was in no wise antagonistic, but he couldn't, under stand wliy the public should take an interest in wliat he considered a pri vate matter, lie sakl. Now that he is on the bench liis | actions as a judge will be open to .criticism, he said, ‘‘Our people here arc satisfied.” he declared, referring to liis home, town of Clinton, where a banquet was tendered him last night. Gradyyhjts been called the chief <r ganizathin in the state. j raise sL\ooo.ooo to light the weevl. Dr. Hutchison said the ammunition to be used this year would l>e chiefly | calcium arsenate, sprayed on the cot ton blossoms in time to sterilize the eggs and kill the weevils. He ex pects also U> make u thorough tryout of his theory that the violet ray appa ratus may be made an effective agency tor exterminating the pest. - ' • To Pass Six Million Mark > In in This State! Charlotte Observer. AVitli approximately 5,500,000 spin dles in the North Carolina mills at present, David Clark, editor of The Textile Bulletin, and one of the 'best iinformed men in the south on indus trial matters in the cotton sections, predicts the passing of the 0,000,000 i mark within the coming year, in newt spindles for mills in this state. /The Textile Bulletin has just com pleted an estimate of the construction! that is going on and that is contem plated for the next year in the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma. Texas and Arkansas. The total, estimated spindles to be'added to the mills’ ca pacity in these states is around 800,- 000, while in the state of North Caro lina alone nearly 550.000 spindles will l>e added to the mills. • The Textile Bulleiin, in an early is sue, is bringing these facts to the at- j tent ion of mill machinery and equip- 1 inent men and comparing them with the lack of growth and expansion that is said to exist in the New England states. The estimates of growth and expan sion and new construction of the mills in the cotton producing states, prepared by The Textile Bulletin, fol lows : Forest City. N. ('. —The Appleton Mills, of Lowell, Mass., will build a 115,000 spindle 3,500 loom mill on ging ham. A large finishing plant will be included. Atlanta, Ga.—The Pepperel mills, of Biddleford, Maine, are endeavoring to buy a large Alabama mill, ff un successful they will build. Crawerton, N. C. —The Cramerton mills (formerly Mays) Mills) will add 50.000 spindles and install 2,300 looms on line shirtings. Great * Fall's, S. ('.—The Republic mills will add IJKH) looms. Greenville, S. C.—The Jtidson mills will add 1.200 looms. Greenville. S. (’. —The ’Mills lqill will ad 5,000 spindles. \ Calhoun Falls. S. ('.—Tlie Calhoun Mills will add 15,000 spindles and 400 looms. Newiierry, S. C.—The NewberryCot ton mills are considering a large ad dition. Montgomery. Ala.—The Kilby mills with 10.(MK) spindles and 300 looms is being completed. Vest Helena. Ark. —Arthur H. Lowe, of Fitchburg. Mass., has purchased the Goodman-lloward Yarn mills and j contemplates building a large ginglmin mill. INirterdule, (la. —Bibb Mi'g.\ Com pany will build 5.000 spindle coarse yarn mill. Belmont. N. (’.—The Acme Spinning! Company will add 10000 spindles. j Belmont. N. (’. —The Eagle Yarn/ mills will complete the construction oil their 10.000 spindle mill. ; Belmont, N. ('.—The Spinning comptiny will complete the! construction of their .10,000 spindle! mill. j Belimfiit. N. ('.—The Stowe Spinning company will complete the construe-, 1 tion of their 20,000 spindle mill. Bessemer City, ?>'. C.— I The Gambrill and Melville mills will add 4.000! spindles and 100 looms. Bladehboro, X. (’.—The Bladenboro Cotton mills will build an addition of 15,000 spindles. Cherryvilte, X. C. —Carlton Yarn mills with 5,000 spindles is being com plete* l. China Grove. X. C.—Tlu' China Grove Cotton mills with 15.000 spin-, dies is l>eing completed. Forest City. X. C. -Tlie Alexander] Manufacturing company will add 5.000 j spindles and 300 looms. Gastonia. X. (’.--The Ark ray mills will complete their 20.000 snindle mill. Gastonia, X. (’. —The Flint .Manu facturing company will complete their addition of 23,000 spindles. Gastonia. X. C. —The Groves mill will build a 15.000 spindle addition. - Gastonia. X. C. —Tlie lawny mills will add 30.000 spindles by moving tiie United Status Cotton mill from; Central Falls. H. I. Gastonia., X. C.—Tlie Ridge mills will add 4,000 spindles. Granite Falls, X. C. - The South ern Mitnnfacturing company is being erected with 4.000 spindles. Greenslxyo, X. C.-r-The Proximity Manufacturing company will add 30.- 000 spindles and IJHIO looms. Hillsboro. X. C. —The Eno Cotton Mills are planning ti large addition. Iweaksville, X. C. —A branch of the General List of Caliarrus Carolina Alumni. The-,following is a list of tin* Gener al 'Alumni Association of the ITrlYer sity of North Carolina in Cabarrus County : Barnbhrdt, Eugene Columbus. ,Ji\, Barnhardt. Mrs. J. .1. (nee Miss Helen Ingram Matthews), Biackwelder. Bu ford William. Boat. Joseph Clark, Brown. Earl Henderson, Brown. Eu gene Fishpr. Buchanan, Grand McDon ald, Buchanan. Sidney EH. Caldwell. Duuiel Greenlee,, Cannon, James Wm. Jr., Cuff non. Junius Boss. Cannon. Mar lin Luther, Crowell. James Lee. Jr., Crowell. James Lee. Davis. Isaiah Iv erson, Jr.. Dorlnnd. Chafe. Johnson,- Dprlund, Wm. Gardiner. Foard, Fred* erick C„ Foil. Wm. Archibald, Jr., Furr. Daniel Monroe. Gibson, Richard Pur.vear, Gibson, Will. Gracber, Eu gene Black, Ilarfsell, Joseph Alberf, Hartsell. Luther Thompson. Jr.. Ilart- Wll. Luther Thompson, Haywood; Fab ins Julius, Hendrix. Joseph Weft/,. IlooVer, Aubrey Ramseur. Hoover, (>l - Clyde. Jarratt, H. Augustus,-Jen kins. Wm. Adrian. Kluttz, Adam Ross, MacFadyeti, Pan}' Rutherford, Dr., Mcßae, Cameron. Means, Afton, Means. Gaston Bullock, Means, George Washington. Misenlieimer. E. A. Jr., Oglesby. John Montgomery, Overcash, James Oliver, Jr., Patterson. Fred Marion. Pemberton, Wm. David, Phil lips, Millard Brown, Pike. Joseph Wil liam, l’ropst, Garah Denson, Puryear. Henry Rhepherd, Rankin, ltichaj’d Brandon. Rankin. Samuel Wharton, Dr„ Reed, Ralph Augustus. Robertson. Judge Buxton. Sappenfield. Dewey Edward. Scott. Calvin Jackson, Smith, Alberf Lewis., Stallings, Daniel Mon roe. Tucker, Ephraim Collv, Wads worth. Wa. -Houston, White, Furrel, THE CONCORD TIMES Home Crest Carpet Mills, of Plnladol phin, is to be located here. Lexington, X. C.—The Erlanger Cotton Mills will add 140 looms. Lincolnfon, X. 0. The Melville Mfg. Co. No. 2, with 6,000 spindles, will lie completed. Lumberton, X. C. —H. B. Jennings i will erect dOO loom weaving mill. | Lenoir, X. C. —Nelson Cotton Mills with 5,000 spindles has been incorpor | a ted. Oakboro, X. C. —The Priscilla Spin ning comiwiny will install 15,000 of its proposed <KK) spindles. Itanlo. X. C.—The A. M. Smyre Mfg. company are completing a 15,(HH> spin dle addtion. Rockingham, X. C.—The Eutwistle slfg. company will build a 22,000 spin dle ami 400 doom addition. Rockingham. X. C.—lt is reported that W. B. Cole will build a new mill j of 20,000 spindles. Shelby, X. C.—Dover Cotton Mills to be erected with 10,000 spindles and .300 looms. Spindale, X. C. —'Spinners Process ing company are erecting large warp mercerizing plant. St. Paul’s. X. C.—Ernaldson Mfg. company will add 5,000 spindles. Troutman, X. C.—The Hall-Kale Mfg. company with 8,000 spindles is being completed. Troy, X. (\—The Smitherman Cot ton Mills will add 5,000 spindles and 150 looms. Blacksburg. S. (’.—E. It. Cash/will erect mill of 5,000 spindles. Taylors. S. C.—The Southern Bleach er}’ will lx 1 erected. Welford, S. —The Jackson Mills No. 2 will add 7.000 spindles. A ChattanoogU. Tenn. —The Standard- Coosa-Tlmtcher company are* adding 10.000 spindles. » Chattanooga. Tenn. —The Dixie Spinning company have let contracts for the first 20,000 spindle unit of the 100,000 spindles they expect to in stall. Knoxville, Tenn. —The Cherokee Spinning company will add 300 ging ham looms. McKinney. Texas.—The Texas Cot ton Mills will add 390 looms. _ New Braunfels. Texas.— r The Plant ers and Merchants Mills are being completed with 10,000 spindles and 300 looms. Danville, Yu. —The Riverside and Dan River Mills who recently complet ed a 30.000 spindle addition will add | 40,000 additional spindles. Columbus. Ga. —The Swift Mfg. Co. will add 100 looms. Dalton, Ga. —The Elk Cotton Mills will add 7,000 spindles. 1 >Fries. Vn.—The Washington Mills ! will add 10.000 spindles, j Red Springs. X. C.—The Red j Springs Cotton Mills will add 10,000 ! spindles and 300 loiuns. 1 Stanley, X. C.—The Lola Gingham .Mill with 250. looms is being erected. Clover. S. C.—The Hampshire Mills i are being erected with 20.000 spindles, j Corsicana. Texas. -The Corsicana Xli 11s are being erected with 20.000 ; spindles. j Waco. Texas. —The Miller Cotton Mills will :übj 2.000 spindles. Alta Vista, Yu. —The Alta Vista 1 Cotton Mills add 13,000 spindles and 300 looms. Sands Springs, Okhi.—A cotton mill is being organized by R. H. Kagi. Mooresville. X. C. —The Mooresville Cotton Xlills will add 5.000 spimlles. Woqtlruff. S. C.—The Woodruff 'Cot ton Mills are considering a large ad ! dit ion. Chattanooga, Tenn. —The Woodruff j Cotton Mills are considering a large ! addition. Chattanooga. Tenn.—The United Hosiery Mills are planning to erect a 10.000 spindle yarn "mill. Roanoke Rapids. X. C.—The Patter son Mills are adding 250 gingham ! looms. Macon. Ga. —The Me Lin Cotton Mills with 150 looms is to be built. Griffin. Ga. The Lowel Bleacher}' South is being completed. Gastofiia, X. C. —Th<‘ Ragan Spin -I'ning Mills will be erected with 10,000 I spindles. Belmont. X. ('. —The Linford Xlills. Tnc.. will complete the construction of tlieir 16 000 spindle mill. Fort Worth, Texas.—W. M. Massie and assistants are planning the erec tion of a 20.000 spindle mill. Spindale, X. <\- The Stonecutter Mills are adding 275 looms. Chattanooga, Tenn. —The Magnolia Silk Mills have been organized by It. B. Davenport. White. Robert Benjamin. Williams. Claude James. Wolff, Miles Hoffman, Yates. Wm. Henry. Morrison, Harry K.. Cline. Fred Herman, Green. Worth, Bun.von, Smith, Cleveland Lafayette, Barrier. Henry Webster, Wifcieepff, Clarence. Father Runs Over His Own Daughter. Lumberton, Jan. I.—A horrible ac cident occurred at McDonald, Robe son county, Sunday afternoon when Grace Greyard. three-year-old daugh ter of T. S. Greyard was rutTWer and killed by a Buick automobile driven by her father. The child was in the front seat of fhp car witli here father. He was backing the car when the door came open and the child fell out. flhe front wheel of the car passed over her body before/it could be stopped. She only lived a short time. The' funeral was conducted this afternoon. ri V With Our Advertisers . ' Fisher's is making exceptional re ductions on wraps, coats and furs. New ad. today gives price particulars. The iMt,i/cns Bank and Trust Com pany carries a new ad. in this paper each day. The ads. are written for your benefit and wfH prove of inter/st and protit to you Ts you read them carefully. fail to read new ad. today. In the days of Oliver Cromwell Christmas was an illegal festivity in Finglaftd. It was Cromwell's idea that it was a superstitious festival, and he forbade it to he celebrated. He also ordered all holly and mistletoe to be destroyed, regarding them as plants of the Evil tine. As a matter of fact, little notice, was taken of the order, and most people celebrated Christmas as usual. pPP&4> SPBUjCE'" Tigagf WSdisonJiamalL" BEGIN HERE TODAY 1 BEN DARBY, a prisoner, Is paroled to an oM friend of the Darby family because It is proven by a noted alienist that Ben is a vic tim of amnesia. The old friend, EZRA MELVILLE. takes Ben oa a journey to the Yoga River to lo cate on a rich claim left by Ezra’s dying brother, HIRAM MELVILLE. In Seattle lives Jeffery Neilson, leader of Ray Brent and CHAN HEMINWAY, notorious crooks. They plan to steal the c,aim left by Melville and locate., there before his brother cast ar rive. Brent is in love with Neil son’s beautiful daughter, '• BEATRICE, who repulses him. When Ezra and Ben arrive at the north woods,* the latter’s memory suddenly returns. On the road to Snowy Gulch, where they wero ta procure supplies and call for FENRIS, pet of the deceased Hir&m, Ben and Ezra rrfeet a frontiers man. While Ben is otherwise en gaged Ezra learns from the trav elerl that Neilson and his gang have started toward Hiram's c.aim. Not wanting to endanger Ben s life, Ezra suggests that Darby go alone to Snowy Gulch, leaving Ezra to travel toward their destination. At • Snowy Gulch Ben finds Fenris to be a wolf that has Just broken loose and stands ready to destroy a beautiful girl. GO ON WITH TIIE STORY - ' The fangs were bared, gleaming in foam, the hair stood erect on the powerful shoulders; and instantly Ben recognized it* breed. It was a magnificent specimen of that huge, gaunt runner of the forests, the Northern wolf. He knew this breed—-this savage, blood-mad, fierce-eyed creature that turned, snarling, at his approach. Fenris was only a fellow wilderness creature, a pack brother of the dark forests, and he had no further cause for fear. “Fenris!” he ordered sharply. “Come here!” Kls voice was com manding and clear above the ani mal’s snarls. There followed a curious, long in stant of utter silence and infinite suspense. “Down, .Fenris,” Ben said again. “Down!” Then slowly, ateadily, Ben moved toward him. Watching unbelieving, Morris saw the fierce eyes begin to lose their fire. The stiff hair on the shoulders fell into place, tense muscle relaxed. Ben stood beside him now, his hand reaching. “Down, he cautioned quietly. Suddenly the wolf crouched, oowering, at his feet. Ben straightened to find himself under a wondering scrutiny by both Morris and the girl. “Good Lord, Darljyl” the former exclaimed. "How did you do it—” Suddenly Ben reached and took the wolf’s 'head between his hand. Slowly he lifted the savage face till their eyes met. The wolf growled, then, whimpering, tried to avert its gaze. Then a rough tongue lapped the man’s hand. And now, for the first time, Ben found himself regarding Beatrice. He could scarcely take his eyes from her face. He knew perfectly that he was staring rudely, but he was with out the power to turn his eyes. Her dark eyes fell under his gaze. “There’s nothing I can say—to thank you,” tho girl was murmur ing. "I never saw anything like it; it was just as if the wolf understood every word you said.” “Old Hiram had him pretty well trained, I suspect.” The man’s eyes fefl to the shaggy form at his feet. ‘l’m glad I happened along, Miss—” “Beatrice Neilson. I live here.” Neilson! His mind seemed to leap and catch at the name. Just that day he had heard it from the lips of the merchant. And this was the house next door where dwelt his fel low traveler for the morrow. “Then it’s your father —or brother —who’s going to the Yuga—” “No,” the girl answered doubtful ly. “My father is jilready there. I’m KIDNAPPED MAN LEAVES v SPYKER THROUGH FEAR Teegestrem Returns, Sorrows Money, and Leaves Gmiu^ry.—Witness in Murder Case. Bastrop, La., Jan. I.—After a day of exhaustive investigation. Sheriff Carpenter of Morehouse, tonight an nounced that lie believed that Harold Teegestrom, 19 year old timekeeper at a enrlMin plant at Spykeir. La., who was kidnapped Friday night, Mas alive and had fled from this section through fear. , From reports of the incident pieced together it seemed that 1(3 unidentified men appeared at the plant's “bunk honse,” called the youth to the door, seized him and placed him in one of the automobile waiting outside and drove oft' into the woods. Whether the men were masked has not lieen learn ed. What occurred in the woods lias not been disclosed but Tirgestrom manag ed to escape from bis captors and yes terday readied the home of HeifVy Jones, saw mill man. and excitedly asked him for SSO with which to de part for an unannounced destination. Jones .said he let him have the sum and Teegestrom departed. He told Jones he laid been taken to the woods but 'did not swy Mbit had hap pened. ] -- Joues leached Bastrop today and re torted the occurrence to the sheriff. Teegestrom was to have testified in the open hearing and trials in con nection with the Morehouse kidnaps pings awl murders. While considered an important stlite wilwiss, T. J. Burnett, former "deputy sheriff, in jail here on a murder charge, declar ed he could prove uu alibi for August! 24. the night of the outrage, by the young timekeeper of the Southern Car- ■ here alone—” . , ThenMhe gray eyes lighted and a smile broke about Ben’s-lips. Few times in had he smiled in quite this vivid way. “Then it’s you,” he exulted, "who | is going to be my fellow traveler to morrow!" • ' CHAPTER VI * Hitting the Long Trail BEN found, rather as he had ex pected, that the girl was not at all embarrassed by the knowl edge that they were to have a lonely all-day ride together. The frontier had taught her to judge men. As. daylight broke they started out, down the shadowed street of the little town. y _ | 4 "The last we’ll see of civilization for a long, long time,” the girl re minded him. The man thrilled deeply, “And I’m glad of it,” he answered. “Noth ing ahead but the long trail!” At the very headquarters of Poor Man’s Crbekywhere the stream had dwindled to a silver thread between mossy banks, Beatrice and Ben made their noon camp. But it was not to be that this “THERE'S NOTHING I CAN SAY—TO THANK YOU,” ; THE GIRL WAS MURMURING. | journey shoulfi hold only delight for Ben. A half-mile down the river he suddenly made a most momentous and disturbing discovery. He had stopped his horse to reread the copy of Hiram Melville’s letter, intending to verify his course. His gaze came to rest upon a fanjiliar name. , Look out fc for Jeff Neilson and his gang,” the*lettcr read. “They seen some of my dust.” At firsf he did not glance at Bea trice. Slowly he folded the letter and put it back into his pocket. “I’m going all right,” ,he an nounced. He urged his horpe for ward. "It seems to me we Imust be head ing Into about the same epuntry,” Ben went on. “You see, Miss Nell son, I’m going to moke my first permanent camp somewhere along this stil stretch.” "My father has come to the con clusion that It’s really worth pros pecting. He’s in this same country now.” “I suppose I’ll meet him—l’ll like ly meet him tonight when I take you to the cabin on the river. You said his name was —” “Jeffery Neilson.” Ben’s thought flashed 0 to Ezram. The recovery of the mine had been the old man’s fondest dream, the last hope of hio declining years, and this setback would go hard with him. But there would be certain plan ning, when they met again over their camp fire. And there' were three of them allied now. Fenris tho bon plant where Burned was a lore-, man. The sheriff today recalled that Teeg-i estrom had publicly declared Burnett I was at the carbon plant ion August 24. Burnett A>l<l newspaper men at the jail Friday he could prove an alibi by the plant's records. - Although there had been reports that the records were destroyed by the mysterious party, officials of the plant; announced today the reejords Mere in- \ tact. Victor Teegestrom. prjominentr* citi zen of Monroe, is assisting the <-ivil authorities and Federal agents in lo cating his son. The sheriff said he did not know whether the youth Mas han dled by friends or enemies of Burnett. The incident added another chapter to the book of startling events being written ben* ?Hiieh already include a masked and robed mob stealing five men from a public highway; of pun ishments grounds wen* two Mere un mercifully flogged and two beaten to death and horribly mutilated; of l*od ies lK*ing wire ltoiuid. weightedl with iron and throffii into a lake; of the governor of the state per sonally entering into the investiga-j tions: of troops, divers and volunteers , dragging lakes and swauips searching for the\bodies, of mysterious dyua-j miters blowing them to the surface: of arrests of prominent men and the promised’ arrest of others: of coufes-, sions involving 45 men; spf charges that the Ku Klux Klun vas retfpousi ble for the deeds. and of counter Charges; and of ui»eu hearings and trials to commence. Sew' Year's day w#ir celebrated", quietly here and at Mer Rouge. AU j business was suspended and but for • the presence of three companies of | state troops and federal agents, there were no outward signs the comm uni-*; PAGE FIVE wolf had come into his service. CHAPTER VII The Wolf Scents Death AS twilight darkened to tfce full gloom of the forgst night, Ben and Beatrice rode to a lonely cabin on the Yuga River — one that had been built by Hiram Melville years past. They had seen a light ed window from afar, marking tlje end of Beatrice’s hard day’s ride, “Os course you won’t try to go on tonight?” she asked Ben. “You’ll stay at the cabin?” “There likely won’t be room for three,” he answered. “But it’s a clear night. I can make a fire and sisep out.” They halted at last: and Beatrice saw her father's form, framed in the doorway. She hastened into his arms: waiting in the darkness Ben could not help but hear hia welcome. Many things were doubtful; but N there could be no doubt of the love that Neilson bore his daughter. "But why so many horses. Bear trice?” he asked. “You —brought some -one with you?” “He’s a prospector—Mr. Darby,” the girl replied. “Come here, Ben— and be introduced.” Ben had already decided upon his course of action. He knew perfect ly that it would only put Neilson On his guard if he stated his true posi tion; and besides, he wanted word of Ezram. “I may have a wrong steer, Mr. Neilson," he said, “but a man I met down on the river-trail, out of Snowy Gulch, advised me to come here/ He said that he had some sort of a claim up here and that his brother left him, and though it was a pocket country, he thought there’d soon be a great nish up this way.” * • "" “I hardly know who it could have been that you met," Neilson began doubtfully. “He didn’t tell you hia . name—” “Melville. I believe that was It. And if you’ll tell me how to find him. I’ll try to go on tonight.” . "Melville, eh? I guess I know, who you mean now. But no—l don’t know of any claim unless it’s over east, beyond here. Maybe further * down the river.” Ben made no reply at once; but his mind sped like lightning. Os course Neilson was lying about the claim: he knew perfectly that at _ that moment he was occupying one, of Hiram Melville’s cabins. "He hasn’t come up this way?’* Ben asked casually. t “He hasn’t come through here that I know of. Os cttui'se I’*n work ing at my claint—with my partner^ —and he anight have gone through without our seeing- him. It seems rather unlikely.” “He told’ me, ini the few minutes that I talked to him, that hia cabin was somewhere close to this on©— l thought he said up this creek.” “There is a cabin up the creek a way,” Neilson admitted, “but it isn’t the one he meant. It’s on my claim, and my two partners are living in it. But when he said near to this one, he might have meant ten miles. That'S the way we northern men speak of distance.” <■). Ho said his farewells to the girl, refused an invitation to pass the night in the cabin, And made his way to the green bank of the stream. Four hundred yards from the cabin—obscured from both by the thickets—he pitched his camp. Ben made his fire and unpacked his horses. He confined his riding horse with a picket rope; the others he turned loose. The he cooked a simple meal for himself and the gaunt servant at his heels. When the night had come down In full, and as he sat about the glowing coals of his supper fire, he had time to devote serious thought to the fate of Ezram. * Impelled by an urge within him self Ben suddenly knelt beside his lupine friend. He could not under stand the flood of emotion, the vague sense of impending and dramatic events that stirred him to the quick. He only knew, with a knowledge akin to inspiration, that in Fenris lay the answer to his problem. “Fenris, old boy,” the man whispered. “Can you find him for me, Fenris? He’s out there some where —” the man motioned toward t the dark— “and I want him. Can you take me to him?” (Continued in Out Next Issue) 1 ' *•- - : , ties were passing out of a year of j tragedy Into a period that Was shroud i ed in mystery. j Preparations u*ere Iwing completed for the open hearing to begin Friday. Sixty-Eighl Millions in Property' to Fay Tax. Rakfgh, Jan.„ 2.—iSiicty-eigbt mil- C; lions in property will pay t£xes as I the result of the United States Su ; premfe court's opinion today in the railroad taxation cases deckled In every detail in North Carolina's favor . and franchise taxes of $210,000 will \ come in the wake of that mandate. ' * Attorney Genera! Manning and Governor Morrison were a delighted pair and Sidney Alderman, of Greens boro. who argued the case In the Su preme court, is the Hon of official dom tonight. Os al! the men who pre sented that issue, his grasp was re garded firmest and the highest court took notice of his presentation. The carriers are expected to come grace fully across. k Poison Ram Gets Many. Cleveland. Jan. I.—-Deaths from I>oisow liquor-during 15*22 showed a marked increase over previou« >cars. ' Coroner A. V. Hammond, of Cuya ! hoga county announced tonight. | Deaths from this cause totalled 7T. Os 1922 traffic deaths in the county. 135 occurred in Cleveland. 4n 1921 traffic accidents here resulted in 152. deaths. Negro Finley is Jailed. charlotte, Jan. 1. —Cuarles Finley, iregro, who, according to police, as. t ' sorted li? had been hiding in a imrn on the Newell road near Charlotte s.uce he killed another negro last Tuesday night, was in jai! here today, warm ,j*m and well fed for the first time*in ai moft a week.
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