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Unlit for tie Musselshell Millions.
DY LEON LEWIS.
CHAPTER III.—(Continued.)
The quick, sham glance of compre¬
hension Hiram Skidder shot at him
escaped his notice.
“As you know,” pursued Jerry, “them
lands jine my hundred and sixty on the
east, and are wuth more to me than any
one else. I not only want ’em for a
rango for my cattld, but 1 think I might
sell a forty or two for a trifle to CoL
Whipsaw, one of my neighbors. ”
“I should think you might,” said the
merchant, smiling sarcastically.
“Of been kind to
me, Hiram,” continued the visitor, “to
give me the use of these lands so long
jest for the taxes, but we're both getting
old, and if you should die and your es
tate be divided, there might be no end of
trouble, and so I told Daisy I’d come and
buy these lands of you while she’s getting
rested a little from her long journey.”
“How much will you give me for my
half interest, Jerry?”
“Well, I thought three hundred dollars
might strike you as a fair offer, Hiram,”
replied the visitor, “and so I've brought
you the money ”
The merchant’s sarcastic smile deep
ened as his brother drew out a pocket
book which looked as if a considerable
. slice of the Rocky Mountains had at
some time fallen upon it.
“Don’t be so fast, Jerry,” he said.
“Now that here. I’ll show ,
you are you
the sights a week or two, and then we’ll I
go to Montana together. Nothing would
please have been me more living than all to those see how fourteen you J
years-"
Jerry waved his hand In nervous im¬
patience
“All that is very kind, Hiram,” he de¬
clared, “but business is business, and I
must get the little matter of the lands
off my mind before I can take a step
with you ”
The merchant surveyed him again In¬
quiringly, not a little interested by his
clothes, which looked as if he had taken
them from some scarecrow he had en¬
countered in his travels.
“I couldn’t think of selling you the
lands in this off-handed fashion, Jerry.”
he then said, Wait till I have looked
them over in person
“Nonsense. Let me have the deed
now.
“But three hundred dollars, Jerry?”
returned the merthant. \ou must re- !
member that these lands cost me five 1
thousand. Probably, too, I could make
better terms with Colonel Whipsaw than !
you can. Let's wait. ” i
“No, Hiram,’’protested Jerry. “There's !
no time like tho present. Give mo the j
deed now, and I'll make the payment
five hundred dollars. ”
“That’s more like it,” commented the
merchant, still wearing his quizzical
smile, “but 1 must have a thousand!”
“A thousand?” repeated Jerry, catch
ing at the remark as an offer.
“I mean a couple of thousand.”
amended the merchant. “I couldn't
think of taking a cent less. 1 really
couldn’t.” j
“Well, let mo have the deed now and
PH give you two thousand,” returned
the visitor, with evident eagerness. “Oh,
yes, I have the money right here,” he
added, surprising a peculiar look on his
brother's face. “Here it is!”
He drew out a large wallet and opened
it, showing that it was full of green¬
backs.
“YY>u surprise me,” cried Hiram, “I
thought you barely made a living in
Montana!”
“True. But what Is $2,000?”
“A mere nothing, to be sure. And
that’s why I won’t sell the land for that
Sum, now that I think more about it,”
declared tho merchant, I’ll hold the
property forever, Jerry, if I can’t get
the sum it originally cost me.”
“Do you mean it?”
“Absolutely!”
“Then I shall have «o give you the
amount, said Jerry. The fact is, Daisy
ls about to marry a man named Sam
Gaddler, who has nothing, and I want
him to have this property for a sheep
ranch, h ive thousand it is, then. Give
me the deed and 111 count you out
the money. ”
“Not to-day, Jerry. Give me time to
write to Colonel Whipsaw. Let me get
his opinion as to what the price ought
to be”
“The Colonel’s away, Hiram, traveling
somewhere in Europe,” returned Jerry,
getting more and more nervous every
moment. Hehas been gone a whole
year, and no one knows when he’ll be
homo again.”
“Then I must write to the postmaster
of Musselshell, or to some other person
who is on the spot," protested the mer
chant. “How do 1 know that these
lands are worthless? May there not be
.a gold mine upon them?”
He went on in this way until the face
of his brother was beaded with perspira- I
tion, and then thrust under his gaze the
letter he had received from Colonel
Hhipsaw. of Rattlesnake Ranch.
“Read that ” he said.
Jerry complied, turning all sorts of
colors, and finishing with a howl of con
sternation.
“And now tell me what this means,”
commanded Hiram
“It means-that there is gold there,”
panted Jeriy.
“An. 1 though so! Go on!”
“Jest how much leant say,” centin
ued Jerry, returning the Colonel's letter,
“but I am willing to r.sk $50,000 upon
your half interest!”
“I should want cash, Jerry!”
“I have it with me.”
“Besides I should want at least a
irtl ortj. Jerrj, forr^ announced the merchant,
*In fact. I won't take » cent less, now ,
that I begin to see what the situation of
affairs is. Colonel Whipsaw will doubt¬
less arrange with me for the property if
you don’t want it. For 8100,000, Jerry,
if you say so-”
“Well; I do say it,” interrupted the
visitor eagerly. “Give me the deed!”
“That's a big pile of money, Jerry.”
“Nevertheless, I have it with me,
Hiram. ”
“It doesn’t seem possible. Let me see
it.
The visitor produced the amount in a
not very bulky wad from an inner pock¬
et, with the remark:
“It’s yours as soon as you give me th<
dnnd. ”
The assurance served to lntensiry the
two red spots which had been rapidly
gathering on the cheeks of Hiram Skid¬
der. How angry he was that the false¬
hoods of Jerry had induced him to part
with his interest in a property now
shown , , by the offender _ . , s own actions to
be running up into hundreds of thou¬
sands.
“You have it, sure enough,” he ad¬
mitted, after a rapid glance at the
money. “And the grand question now
is, how did you come by it?”
“Stock-raising, Hiram—stock-raising. ”
The sneer with which the merchant
received this statement was simply sav¬
ll ‘ s ° muc h the more reason why I
should go to Montana before giving you
the deed,” he declared, I can become
a ‘stock-raiser,’ too.”
Ho took two or three turns across tho
floor, and then resumed:
“I was only joking in what I said about
selling. I’ve no intention of disposin -> r
of the property—not the slightest. No
offer can tempt me!”
This dec’aration worried Jerry Skid
der quite as much as a similar one from
Wynans had previously worried the
merchant,
“What! You’re going back on your
word?” he protested, after a long stare
of anger and consternation. I ought
not to say a word more on the subject.
But I told Daisy she should have tho
land for a wedding present, and I'm
willing on that and other accounts to
give you ten or twenty times what it is
worth, the more especially as I’ve just
sold twenty thousand cattle and don't
know what to do with the money. What
will you take, Hiram?”
“Once for all, isn t it?
“Yes, a final offer. ”
“Cash down, too?”
“Yes, cash down, Hiram.”
“Well, you may have my interest in
that Musselshell property for 8200,000,
“All right; I’ll take it,” said Jerry,
without an instant’s hesitation, produc¬
ing a second wad of greenbacks like the
first. “Give me the deed and I’ll hand
you the money.”
For nearly a minute Hiram Skidder
looked as if threatened with a stroke of
apoplexy. His eyes had a glassy stare;
his tongue lay motionless in Lis open
mouth. The veins on his forehead stood
out like skeleton fingers. The thought
that his brother had taken all this money
secretly from the lands which had been
so persistently decried, and which had
U ow been so fatally fooled away by
Jerry’s falsehood, was simply withering.
Rut ho managed to conceal in part the
tempest raging in his soul, and to re¬
mark, with forced calmness;
“I’ll get tho deed, Jerry, and let my
cashier draw up a new one. Make
yourself at home a few moments I’ll
be back soon.”
Wiping his damp brow vigorously, he
took his way toward Perry’s desk.
His senses were in a whirl. Just what
to do he didn't know. Perhaps he would
make another attempt to buy Perry out.
He was busy with all sorts of desperate
schemes for recovering his lost footing
when he reached Perry’s desk, only to
find that he was not there.
“Where is Mr. Wynans?” he asked of
the first clerk he encountered.
“He went out a little while ago, sir,”
was the answer, “but he didn’t say
where he was going or when ho would
return.”
“No? That's odd. Have you any idea
where he is?”
“Not the slightest, sir. ne said, how¬
ever, this morning that he should not be
here longer than to-day. ”
“Not longer-”
The words died away upon the lips of
Hiram Skidder, and an awful trouble
looked from his eyes.
“Gone?” he gasped. “Where can he
he?
“There’s a note on his desk addressed
to you, Mr. Skidder.” said the clerk. “I
noticed it a moment ago, and should have
brought it to you if you hadn’t made
your appearance just as you did.”
“A note!” cried the merchant; “let me
have it instantly!”
The note was handed to him. and he
hastily tore it open, reading as follows:
I beg to resign my position as cashier,
Mr. Skidder. I have taken the precaution
to have iny accounts examined by Mr.
Spoor, the well-known accountant, and he
finds then- quite correct. The balance ot
my salary you may hand to any public char
ity. If anyone inquires for me, you may
say that I am going to Montana to take
care of my wild lands, which have become
immensely valuable, and that my future
postoffice address will be Musselshell, Mont
I erry Wynans.
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chapter iv,
bad blood between them.
The reading of Perry's brief farewell
note gave Hiram Skidder a tremendous
shock, telling him that tho actual owner
of tho Musselshell property was for the
present beyond his reach.
What a mistake he had made in get
ting rid of it. At a very moderate esti
mate, what a fortune had slipped
through his fingers.
Nevertheless, like all men who are
wholly unscrupulous, daring, tireless
and capable. Hiram Skidder found a peg
on which to hang his hopes at that mo
ment of distaster. He instantly ac
cepted the suggestion of his evil nature
that he would eventually find means, no
matter how vile, dishonest, or murder
ous—in Montana, if not before—-to re
cover the ground he had lost He would
ye t be the possessor of the Musselshell
property. He would yet make all secure
by getting hold of Perry's deeds before
they could be put on record.
gone?” “ J P” he asked, ’£“5 haS as Mr soon as he could be ^ ;
find voice, thrusting the letter Into his
Docket.
“ITe went ont at the heels of your
niece, sir,” answered the clerk who had
ushered El lie into the merchants pres¬
ence.
“Ah, he did?”
The fact seemed highly significant to
Skidder, who was aware that Perry
had been a freiuent visitor at Ingle
heim. she left
“Did he speak to her before
the store?” he continued.
“No, sir. But he watched her in a
way which showed that he was following
her and that ho intended to speak to her
later.” disgust.
The merchant flushed with
“I see it all, ” he muttered, turning on
his heel. “ They've gone away to
gether. ” to realize that
It cost him a keen pang
he had given El fie the protection of
Perry Wynans by refusing his own.
“Fool that I am ” lie said to himself,
“why didn’t I take her to Hilda? A few
soft words would have made her my
friend, and she would now be in my
clutches ”
The situation was too pressing for him
to linger upon these sterile regrets, and
he nurried back to his brother.
His plan of action was decided upon.
“I find my cashier has gone out on
business. Jerry,” he reported. We shall
have to draw up the deed ourselves, or
go to my lawyer's. ”
“Oh, we can attend to it,” returned
Jerry, with anxious promptness. “It’s
no great task.”
Stepping to his safe, the merchant
produced his deed of the Musselshell
property and handed it to his brother.
“Sit near me and read it, Jerry,” ho
said, seizing a pen, “and do not read
faster than 1 can copy.” •
Taking their places at the desk, the
brothers entered upon their labor, Jerry
reading the old deed carefully and slow¬
ly, while Hiram proceeded to trace the
new one.
“That’s all right,” finally ejaculated
Jerry, with a long breath of relief.
“Somehow I fancied, Hiram, you were
intending to trick me,”
“How trick you?”
“I didn’t see how, but I knew you were
none too good--”
“The pot should never call the kettle
black,” Interrupted the merchant, smil¬
ing grimly, as he touched a call hell.
“Tbo notary will be here in a minute to
witness the deed, and I trust you will
have decency enough not to insuft me in
his presence."
A clerk appearing, the merchant gave
him an order, and a brief interval of
silence succeeded, which was broken by
the appearance of a notary.
“A deed to sign and deliver, Mr. Nor¬
ris,” said Hiram Skidder, without taking
tho trouble to present his brother to the
newcomer. “It’s all ready for our sig¬
natures. ”
The document was duly perfected and
handed to Jerry, who counted out tho
8200,000 agreed upon, and the notary,
after a few words in the ear of his client,
took his departure.
It would be hard to say which of the
two brothers was the most delighted at
tho transaction. Their mutual expan¬
sion was tremendous.
“And now for the other half of this
property, Hiram,” said Jerry, gaining
hi3 feet and securing the deed in his
pocket, with suppressed jubilance. “How
far is it to Ingleheim — to the home of
our brother-in-law, Chariest Tower, who
bought “About these lands with you?”
eighteen miles, Jerry,” replied
the merchant, who was in the act of de¬
positing in his desk the money which
had iust been handed him.
“There are trains every hour or two,
do doubt?” pursued Jerry.
ohnntth-« th *.® 1 A 7r f th ti !dn d B fc h> d
“Naturally, ” explained the visitor.
am going to Ingleheim to see Charley
Tower, the husband of our sister Mary
to buy his interest in these lands, and
I’ll frankly warn you, Hiram-”
“Oh, save your threats, Jerry,” inter
rupted the merchant, with insolent jubi
lance. “I shall make no attempt to
warn Tower of your coming or of your
errand. The fact is he has been dead
over a year!”
Jeremiah Skidder dropped heavily into
chair from which he had arisen.
“Really?” he muttered, seeing the
merchant was nerfectlv serious “Then
I shall have to deal with sister Mary,
that will suit me better; women are
easily wheedled!”
“But sister Mory is dead, too!” con
the merchant, in the same tone
with the same aspect he would have
in mentioning the price of a
of tape “She died last week ’
“Indeed? Then I shall have to deal
their daughter,” declared the
without the least expression of
?' “Let’s see_what was her
I’ve forgotten it. ”
“Her name name is is Rlfte blhe, ” said said the the merchant merchant.
she " as here an hour ago, asking mo
a little assistance, but I turned her
without a penny.”
“Then she don’t know the value of her
of course? Good! Capital! 1
can buy her out for a few hundreds!
hag 0 back to jneleLeim. 0 f
“The point is uncertain. In any case,
would do you no good to see her! The
you are seeking does not rest in her,
The truth is, Charley Tower sold
liklf of the Musselshell property some
or three years ago!” j 1
“Impossible!” cried Jerry, springing to
feet again and looking startled.
“The fact is perfectly certain.”
“But who bought him out?”
“Perry Wynans—my cashier.”
“For how much?”
“Four hundred dollars.”
“Four hundred!” gasped Jerry, turu
pale. “You cannot mean it!”
“I am telling you the exuct truth.”
“And you permitted it-”
“I didn't know any better at the time,
said the merchant, his face sud
lighting up with concentrated
and disgust. “You had been tell
us for years in your occasional let
that the lands were of no account, '
Tower and I were fools enough tc
you. ”
« A nd where is this Wynans?”
“He has started West, as you may see
y this landed letter ”
H , the farewe’J *pl?tle qI hi 3
ex- cashier to Jerry, who literally writhed
while reading it.
“Destruction!” he gasped, on reaching
the signature. “The fellow is posted.
The cat is out of the bag. Q . He’ll be in
Montana before I am. He’ll learn all
the facts In the case, I shall never be
abfe to buy him out—never! never!”
The very excitement of the old man
tended to make his younger brother
angrv, so terribly did it remind him of
what he had lost by the falsehoods and
deceptions heaped upon him.
“The iands are a prize, then?” ho
cried, his face livid with passion.
“A prize, niram?” returned Jerry,
carried away by his emotions, “They’re
the biggest thing on earth! We have
discovered tw r o gold mines on the prop¬
erty from which we have been taking
thousands of dollars a day!”
“And yet-” of maniac,
With a cry like that a
Hiram Skidder sprang to his feet and
caught up the chair in which he had
been sitting, swinging it aloft and ap¬
proaching his brother.
“And yet, you infernal rascal,” he
cried, “you have the cheek to come here
and offer me 8300 for a half interest in
all those present and coming millions!
Oh! what ought I to do to you-”
“Look out, Hiram! Don’t come a step
nearer! Put down that chair or I’ll yell
murder! • 5 ) cried Jerry, starting to his
feet and nimbly darting behind the mer¬
chant’s desk, I’ve only done what you
would have done in like circumstances.
Besides, I intended to tell you all about
it as soon as my title was perfect!”
“Wretched fool and knave that you
are, ’ returned the merchant, recovering
his self-possession and lowering his
chair, “you’ll never secure the least title
to a foot of the land in question—
never!”
Jerry Skidder looked aghast at the
violence of these denunciations.
“Why, you've just given me—
“A mere bait to catch my own. inter
merchant with grim and ,
rupted the •
mocking frankness. “The pretended
deed I have just given you is not worth
tne paper it is written upon. ”
“Why not?” been
“To begin with, the lands have
out of my hands nearly three years,” ex- j
plained Hiram Skidder, with visible joy
at the gall and wormwood he was serv¬
ing up to his brother. “You gave me
such reports of them that I was glad
to sell them to Wynans for seven hun
dred dollars. ”
Jerry not only tottered to his chair
again, but he lay there so faint and help¬
less that his brother began to find him a
source of amusement.
“Then you have sold me a piece of
property you did not possess,” returned
Jeremiah, his rascally wits beginning to
recover their habitual flow; “and I need
not remind you that such an offense is
punishable by a long term of imprison¬
ment. ”
“Pm probably quite as wise in the law
as you are, Jerry,” sneered the mer- (
chant—“too wi-e, certainly, to place my¬
self in the power of such a reptile as
you are capable of being.”
“Then what is that deed?”
“It is a deed to a fine piece of land I
have in Idaho, and for which I paid
about two thousand dollars,” explained
the merchant, his sardonic smile coming
back to his features. “While you read ,
tain, one thing as the I wrote event another, proved, quite that cer- you j !
would fail, in your hurry and excitement,
to verify what 1 had written.”
Jerry looked annihilated, but soon be¬
gan to bluster again.
“I’ll have you arrested for false pro
tenses and swindling,” he declared.
“No, you won t, o d man, assured the 1
right to ask you what I please for my I '
Idaho ranch, and you have no remedy
whatever, in either law or equity, from j
the momont J ob have P ald ov er
y T “TJ* over a minute, t
and you II see that t I am quite right. ”
tes A ed ftPP thatthe P 'JlP' 01 nt was § cou »f e t takea nance at '
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“ As to tlie two hundrel thousand dol
lars you have handed me,” pursued the
merchant, “it is merely a portion of tho
sum you have stolen from Perry Wynans.
You have never had so much as a ghost
a title to the lands in question. I
drop may in .add tho that bucket this to money hat is merely have a
w r you
caused me to lose by the lies and misrep
mentations you have been sending me
ever since Charley Tower and I invested
in that Musselshell property. You see,
therefore, that you have no cause of
complaint against me. You have sim
ply banded me my share of the boodle, ami
as taken from the lands of Wynans,
the less you say about all these proceed
ings the better it will be for you. ”
^‘ or nearly a minute Jerry Skidder
neither moved nor spoke. Then he arose
deliberately, with a pale, rigid face, and
stepped toward his brother.
“Here is your deed. ” he said, tearing
it in £ pieces, and flinging the vwfimS fragments
« the merchant merchant. “There » very little
H e.ihoo hat I a i ever na\e any call
to VIS1 t your Idaho ranch, r ortunateJy, ”
he added, in a tone of concentrated
venom, “I still have a footing on tho
Musselshell which will enable me tore
mam there, and for the rest I’ll take my
chances. As to the 8200,009 you have
stolen from me,” and ho slapped his
breast fiercely and defiantly, “it is, as
you say, a trifle—a mere percentage on
tlie sum I Have taken from the uew
mines while pulling the wool over you
with the story of my dire hardships and
misfortunes! Should you carry out vour
suggestion about visiting the Mussel
shell-”
“Oh, I shall bo there by the first
train!” assured the merchant, with a I
grim resolution that could not be mis-1
taken. j
“I will spend every dollar I possess or
can beg, borrow, or steal, if necessary squarely »
finished Jerry, “to have you
planted. And with this, a long good-by
and a good riddance ”
He faced about, with a glance at his
watch, and stalked out of his brother’s
presence and from the store without so
much as a single look behind him.
r [to be continued. . I .
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° F a11 th e nations of the earth the
women of ancient Sparta proved *
themselves the moat Wnir
OSCAR IN JAIL.
HK SUES THE MARQUIS AND 13
HIMSELF INDICTED
And Will be Tried on Charges Of
Nameless Crimes.
The suit of Oscar Wilde against the
Marquis of Queensberry came to a
sudden and unexpected termination at
London Friday, shortly after the third
day’s proceedings were begun in the
Old Bailey before Justice Collins.
Sir Edwin Clarke, leading counsel
for the plaintiff, asked permission on
behalf of his client to withdraw the
suit, and submit to a verdict of not
guilty in regard to the words “Posing
as a ” written by the Marquis of
Queensberry on the card left by the
marquis at the Albemarle Club for
Wilde, on February 18, and which
card formed the outward basis of the
suit.
The jury, under instruction from
Justice Collins, returned a verdit of
< t not guilty,” coupled with the state¬
ment that the justification set up as *
defense by the Marquis of Queensberry
was true in substance and in fact, and
that the statement complained of wag
published for the public good.
RECEIVED WITH APPLAUSE.
The verdict was received with ap¬
plause, which was not checked by the
presiding justice and the Marquis of
Queensberry was discharged from cus
tody and left the court triumphant,
smiling e and surrounded by J his friends,
Shortly afterwards, it was announc¬
ed that a warrant for the arrest of Os
car Wilde was to be applied for, all the
papers iu the case having been sub
mitted to the public prosecutor,
WILDE PUBLISHES A CARD.
Oscar Wilde has written a letter to
the newspapers in which he says: “It
was impossible to prove my case with
ont putting Lord Alfred Douglass in
the witness box against his father.
Lord Alfred was extremely anxious to
go into the box, but I should not al¬
low it. Bather than put him in such
a position 1 determined to retire the
case and bear upon my own shoulders
whatever shame and ignominy might
result from not prosecuting the Mar¬
quis of Queensberry.
Oscar Wilde was arrested later at
*he Cadogan hotel,
QUEENSBEBBY’s MESSAGE TO WILDE.
In an interview the marquis of
Queensberry said to a representative
of the United Press:
“1 have sent this message to Wilde:
“‘If the country allows you to
leave, all the better for the country,
but if you take my son with you, I
will follow y J OU wherever you jo go and
6noot , , > >>
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Froliman Strikes Wilde’s Name.
Mr. Frohman, of the Lyceum thea¬
ter, at New York, where Oscar Wilde’s
play, “An Ideal Husband,” is now
running, has decided, on account of
the termination of the suit against
Wllde > to bave tlie playwright a name
erased from all , tho bills and programs
of the theater. All their printing con
tracts have been canceled in order to
admit of these changes being made in
the advertisements also, No change
will be made in the play itself, howev¬
er, as the management of the Lyceum
hold that it is a clearly wholesome pro¬
duction.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
B Reports from all over the south for . the ,, pa t t
oMndus'ry iTe promEtte the
operation. There is a decrease establishment in pre
viously reported interest in the week
of new cotton mills. The list for the past
includes a cotton mill with a $159,000 capital capi
* atJRockingham, al Lancaster, N C., one with $ 50,000 100,000
at S. C., one with $ capi
tal ^McDonough, Ga., and otters at Alexan
mfintsof mill A™ rJmrf^ Shipments
and Wadesboro N. C of southern
iron to northern and western point* are in
creasing. The output of lumber is increasing
in some parts of the south, hut the increase is
not general, nor do prices change in favor of
ma nufacturers.
Among the fifty-three important, new indus
trieg established or incorporated during the
week were the Buffalo Coal and Coke Co., of
Fairmount, W. Va., capital $500,001); S150.000, a cotton and
compress at I‘alias, Tex., to cost
a $500,000 cornpres* at Dublin, Ga.; gas works
at Tampa, Fla., costing $150,000. and the Na
l l *P al „J Stra ^ Hat Co of Atlanta, Ga., with
capital. ‘*
tOrlaSdTF?^^ ,
a
at Ocala Fla. There is also reported a 515,000
cotton mill at Greer Depot, S. C.. a bleacbery
at Tenn., Brunswick, Ga., brick works at Chattanooga, Aberdeen.
and canning factories at
01 ive » Tex, and Sistersville, W. '*■
f‘ lectri ^l Plants will he established at hi vl "- > "
At!anta ( a Versailles, v
Charlottesville”*’ m i. flmfrtmr J *’ and
Va mills at
Hollandale. Miss., and Alexandria, Va.. an ice
factory at Cullman, Ala., and machine shop*
mines at Knoxville, Tenn., and’Houston, Hawesville, Tex. t by
are to be opened near
T’ W Ta Venn., Manufacturing San Antonio, con^ ^
oSlSSa ‘, -
Ala. and FernandffiL F?a a sho? Lctory plants* at 1
Brunswick, Fall Tex„’and Ga., ani woodworking N. C.
Mills, Thomasville. bn? .
Among new buildings of the week, Southii‘ are
nes s houses at Little Bock, Ark., ^
.
'urg, Tenm. and Houston, lev.,
9 a ;- PJ'at'anooga, Tenn., ^ n ‘’*R in , rs »t
Teim.) Mu Pleasant ’ Tex'-Tradesman fChattau^K ^ 1,
lx sometimes takes the moral con r '
age of a martyr to orercome little bid 8.