The Fugitive and the Colonel

Col. James Hamilton Lewis returned yesterday after a brief visit to Port Townsend, en route from British Columbia. Concerning Colonel Lewis’ mission to Vancouver, he has taken great care to preserve the utmost secrecy. From a private source the Argus reporter learned that he had gone over there to confer with one J. E. Keenaple, a former resident of Seattle who is now living under an assumed name, and is a large property owner and respected citizen of our Canadian cousins' mainland metropolis—Vancouver. Keenaple is wanted in Seattle on two charges of felony, forgery and embezzlement, and against whom there are judgments in the Queen City courts aggregating $7,000. He is anxious to make amends for the past, pay up his old debts providing the indictments are quashed or not prosecuted. He longs for the fertile shores of the inland seas in Uncle Sam's domain. Mr. Keenaple would likely find that there are not alone indictments hanging over his head, but a score of brawny fists would pulverize him. He skipped with many hundreds of hard-earned dollars of loggers in this vicinity, and there are many shady transactions that he could hardly make amends for with all his ill-gotten gains.