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RILEY RODE INTO RAGING TORRENTRiley/’ the motorcycle globe trotter, who started out from Spo kane about three weeks ago to make his trip around the world, has gone as far as North Dakota. He has been having the time of his life, and several times came near ending his existence.All the way through the eastern part of Montana and to the Dakotas It has been raining heavily, the roads are bad and streams are run ning high. A week or so ago, while cutting through the eastern edge of Montana. “Riley,” bike and all went into a rushing torrent and were carried away. “Riley” got out all right and after considerable trouble fished his motorcycle out of the stream. He lost his kit of tools. Near the same spot a man’s team of horses were drowned hitched to the wagon, and even the harness could not be recovered.Detective Rob Briley, who has just returned from Fargo, N. D., where he was called on a case, met •‘Riley” at a hotel.been in jail more than a week, and still her happy day of redemption seems far away. What sort of legal or moral justice it is that keeps her, in her condition, in such a place as this and withholds from her the marriage protection Lais ure should and says he will give her? •Ruth Harris has no means ofproperly caring for herself and none to comfort her when she Is ill and dispirited; she must bear it as best she can alone. Her mother, who lives in North Yakima, has not vet come to her.The plain fare of the city prison :s her food. No luxuries, no dainty extras are there for her. She is under sentence as a vagrant, be cause she trusted not wisely.Ruth has found a place where she can stay till she Is made Wes ley Laisure’s wife. That has all been arranged and she can have comfort and attention in her hours of need. She can prepare like any woman must for the ordeal ahead. She will not run awav. But the * officers who hold her and Laisure have decided that there’s no need of hurrying matters.There are just 13 othpr w'oraen—three negro women, one Indian i
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Spokane Press
Spokane, Washington, US
Thu, May 27, 1909
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