lly Lands in Jail.

The body of the article Hazel read in what a sob sister would describe
as a state of mingled emotions.

William Wagstaff is a mining gentleman from the northern wilds of
British Columbia. He is a big man, a natural-born fighter. To prove
this he inflicted a black eye and a split lip on Paul Lorimer, a broken
nose and sundry bruises on James L. Brooks. Also Allen T. Bray and
Edward Gurney Parkinson suffered certain contusions in the melee. The
fracas occurred in the office of the Free Gold Mining Company, 1546
Broad Street, at three-thirty this afternoon. While hammering the
brokers a police officer arrived on the scene and Wagstaff was duly
escorted to the city bastile. Prior to the general encounter in the
Broad Street office Wagstaff walked into the Stock Exchange, and made
statements about the Free Gold Mining Company which set all the brokers
by the ears. Lorimer was on the floor, and received his discolored
optic there.

Lorimer is a partner in the brokerage firm of Bray, Parkinson & Co.,
and is president of the Free Gold Mining Company. Brooks is manager of
the Acme Advertisers, and secretary of Free Gold. Bray and Parkinson
are stockholders, and Wagstaff is a stockholder and also manager of the
Free Gold properties in B. C. All are well known about town.

A reporter was present when Wagstaff walked on the floor of the Stock
Exchange. He strode up to the post where Lorimer was transacting
business.

"I serve notice on you right now," he said loudly and angrily, "that if
you sell another dollar's worth of Free Gold stock, I'll put you out of
business."

Lorimer appeared to lose his temper. Some word was passed which
further incensed Wagstaff. He smote the broker and the broker smote
the floor. Wagstaff's punch would do credit to a champion pugilist,
from the execution it wrought. He immediately left the Stock Exchange,
and not long afterward Broad Street was electrified by sounds of combat
in the Free Gold office. It is conceded that Wagstaff had the
situation and his three opponents well in hand when the cop arrived.

None of the men concerned would discuss the matter. From the remarks
dropped by Wagstaff, however, it appears that the policy of marketing
Free Gold stock was inaugurated without his knowledge or consent.

Be that as it may, all sorts of rumors are in circulation, and Free
Gold stock, which has been sold during the past week as high as a
dollar forty