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8YN0PSIS.
Harding Kent calls on Louisa Farrlsh to
propose marrlHKa and llmla the hmiiw In
ifre-at exeltmunt over the attempted si
cMb of her sister Katharlnu. Kent
an Investlnntlon arid Amis that
Crandall. suitor for Kutliarlne, who had
been forbidden the house by llenenil l'"r
rtsli. Iiad talked with Kutlmrlnti over t no
telephone Just before she shot h.rseii.
A torn piece of yellow paper Is r?uml.
at sight of which Oeneral Karrlsh is
trleken with paralysis. Kent d",'"v.,;r"
thnt Crnndall has left towfr hurried y.
Andrew Klser, an ngi'd banker, commits
suicide about the same time as Katharine
attempted her life. A yellow envelope U
found In Riser's room, l'ost Office in
spector Davis. Kent's friend, takes up
the case. Kent Is convinced that Lran
dnl! Is at the bottom of the mystery.
Katharine's stranKe outcry puzzles the
detectives. Kent and Davis s-nreli Crnn
dall's room and llnd an address, l.ock
Hox 17. Ardwav. N. J. Kent Roes to Ard
way to InvestlRnte and becomes suspi
cious of a "Henry Cook." A woman
commits suicide at the Ardway Hotel. A
vellow letter ills.) tltir.-s In this ense.
Kent calls Louise on the long distance
telephone and finds that she had lust been
culled by Crandull from the same booth.
Took" disappears. The Ardway post
master Is tnissintf.
CHAPTER VII. (Continued.)
"Maybe that's why Rouscr has dis
appeared," suggested the constable
"He's been spending a lot of money
lately, Rouser has. Maybe he knew
the Inspector -was coming and was
short In his accounts."
"He couldn't have known It," I pro
tested. "The Inspector himself didn't
know he was coming, here until late
yesterday afternoon, and there isn't
any way possible that the postmaster
could have been advised of bis com
ing." The arrival of the substitute official
diverted the conversation. Miss Cox,
an unimaginative, unattractive wom
an of thirty, in a most matter-of-fact
way entered the building and took
charge.
"The first thing," she said as she
calmly hung up her hat and coat, "Is
for all you men to get out of here so
that I can sort the mall."
Even the constable moved toward
the door, Impelled by the authority In
her tone and his own respect for gov
ernment property. I determined not
to be routed so easily. It seemed to
me that the occasion afforded me an
excellent opportunity, not to solve the
mystery of the missing postmaster,
tut to work out one of my own puz
zleswho It was that had rented Lock
Box :7. i
"Miss Cox," I said, "as a personal
friend of post Office Inspector Davis,
who is to jo'.n me here In a few hours
In connection with an important mat
ter, and for your own sake as well, I
would suggest that I'ou should keep at
least two of us here as witnesses. This
Is government property. The postmas
ter has disappeared and some of the
government's property may be miss
ing. If your Inspection is made In the
presence of two witnesses there can
be no question about your statement
of the condition in which you found
things. I really think it Is a neces
sary precaution. I would suggest that
two of us, say the constable and my
self, be permitted to remain as wit
nesses." "By ginger, he's right," said the
constable, whose attitude toward me
at once became one of decided friend
liness. "Maybe I had," said 7 'ss Cox. "Vou
two may stay, but the rest get out."
With a narrow sense of duty she In
sisted on sorting the morning's mail
before she made any Investigation.
Meanwhile the constable and I dis
cussed the case. From him I learned
that Rouser, the postmaster, was a
likable young fellow of twenty-five or
six, who had held the office for two or
three years.
"The way he come to be postmaster
waB this: His father had represented
this district in Congress for twenty
years or so before he died. The old
man was an able citizen, but never
had accumulated much money, though
he gave the boy a good education,
Charlie, however, wasn't much good.
He was bright and smart enough, but
he seemed to lack the glt-up and git-
to-do for himself. After his father
died he lived on the little money left
him till It was all gone and then Just
drifted around, getting a meal where
, he could and his clothes growing shab
bier and shabbier. The women-folks
all liked him and was always trying to
find something for him to do. He'd
work if he had It, but he wasn't the
kind of a fellow to be teaming or gar
dening or trucking, and It was the
hardest sort of a job to find something
' that would suit him. The old postmas
ter died and the politicians was about
equally divided as to who was entitled
to the place.' .. They didn't seem able
to agree on no one. Then somebody
. suggested Charlie Ronser, some of the
women-folks I guess it was, and first
thing you rknow be had it
"It don't' pay much, only six hun-
dred a year, but Charlie don't drink
and don't etmble. so he's been able to
get along on that well enough, and be
ain't made a bad postmaster.' He's a
weak youngster and easily led, and if
he'd ever got into bad company I can
see his finish. 'Lately I've noticed he
seemed to be spending a lot of money,
though where it came from, tf the
books is all straight, is more than I
can Imagine." t -'.
"What't he been spending It fort
"Well, I noticed him the other day
' wearing a big diamond in his necktie
and he bought himself a gold repeater
watch and he's always hiring borses
at the livery stable and going oft for
drives in the eyenlng. One ' night I
seen him buy a round of drinks that
cost a dollar and ten cents. That's
vh-t I c :i spending." . . " --:
lie met with an accident on
1.
1
t I don't believe it
t r i f t along
i v : . :i horses,
.Inhmlnrt
and while Charlie wasn't athletic or
anything like that, I never seen the
horses yet he couldn't drive.
By this time Miss Cox had her mail
sorted and turned to us with: "It you
two gentlemen want to see what's In
the safe, now Is your chance. I'm go
lug to open it."
Everything Inside the safe was In
the neateBt order. She removed the
ledgers and put them on the desk, In
spected the cash-drawer of the safe
and made a tab of the amount. She
also carefully counted the reserve sup
ply of stamps, postal-curds and
stnmpcd envelopes, and added them to
her tally.
"rw for the dally cash-drawer,"
suggested the constable. "Let's see If
he's taken any of the cash."
"That's Just like a man," snapped
Miss Cox. "How are you going to tell
till I go over these books and see how
much there ought to be? We'll open
the cash-drawer after I'm through
looking."
There was nothing to do but wait,
and it was perhaps half an hour bo
fore she completed her calculations,
being often interrupted by callers for
mail.
"If the cash-drawer hasn't been
robbed," she said, "we'll find exactly
sixteen dollars and forty-eight cents
In it."
In the presence of both of us she
opened the drawer and carefully count
ed out Its contents. One five-dollar
bill, two two's, four ones and three
dollars and forty-eight cents in silver
and pennies were In the drawer.
"Right to a V" she exclaimed tri
umphantly. "I believe you two are
disappointed at not finding a shortage
Charlie Rouser may have his faults,
but he's honest."
"What's that there nt the back of
the drawer,?" asked the constable,
paying no attention to her remark.
The drawer, orie of those heavy
wooden affairs with a circular pocket
for silver, had been pulled out almost
to Its utmost length. Where the
money compartments fitted into the
back of the drawer a little space was
left, barely visible under the overhang
of the desk. It was at this particular
space that the constable was pointing.
Following the line of his finger, I
caught a glint of yellow, just as the en
ergetic Miss Cox gave the drawer a
hard jerk that brought it out to Its
full length. She reached into the slit
and brought out a ner.t package of
one-hunilreil-dollar bills fifty of tnem.
The three of us gazed at each other
in blank amazement.
What was a poor country postmas
ter on six hundred dollars a year do
ing with five thousand dollars care
lessly concealed thus?
Where did he get It?
Where was he?
CHAPTER VIII.
A New Clue.
So. lvis, I concluded, you see
that every tew clue points to Hugh
Crandall."
The post office inspector sniffed.
"What have the) done with the
dead woman's clothes?'" he asked.
want to see them at once "
I had been anxiously awaiting Davis',
arrival, not without some little Reeling
of triumph, to tell to him the startling
developments In the mystery since I
had left him hardly more than twenty-
four hours before at the ferry. I was
at the station awaiting him, and led
him at once to the little hotel j The
noise of his coming had been bruited
about by the village gossips, and as
his. fame had penetrated even to the
obscure Jersey village, there was a
curious crowd gathered at the station.
Somq of them even followed us as
far as the .hotel lobby, pressing so
close that private conversation was
Impossible. To avoid interruption, I
took him at once to my room and or
dered our supper served there.
While we waited for It I summarized
as briefly as 1 could the new features
of the case, beginning with my finding
the post ; office deserted, the name
missing'from Lock Box 17, the suicide
of the woman, the calling up of the
Bridgeport police, the testimony of
the maid that the woman had been
crying over a yellow letter, the dis
covery of the five thousand dollars in
new hundred-dollar bills in the cash
drawer, the coincidence in the initials
of Cook and Crandall that had first
attracted my attention to the missing
guest in the hotel, his peculiar con
duct the minute I mentioned the yel
low letter and his flight from the town
behind the fastest horse obtainable.
While I was only an amateur in
criminal investigation, I prided iriVself
that I had followed everything as far
as Davis himself could have done.
doubted if even' be, with all his
Bhrewdness, could learn the Identity
of the dead woman or could explain
what the postmaster was doing with
such -an unusually large sum, left so
carelessly hid in the cash-drawer. My
private opinion was that the money
was probably counterfeit and that
when we had solved 'the mystery we
would find that Hugh Crandall was at
the head of a band of skilful rogues
who were defrauding the government.
More than likely they had headquar
ters somewhere in the vicinity. Prob
ably with the connivance of the post
master they conducted some sort of
green-goods or other swindling game
through Lock Box 17. It seemed to
me more than possible that Crandall
taking advantage of Katharine Far
rlsh's love for him, had snared her
father into some nefarious scheme-
Such a theory would explain her sud
den break with him and might even
account for her father's terror at the
sight of the yellow letter that had re
vested to ber his error. The know!
edge of her father's plight, too, might
have driven her 'to try suicide, Old
Elser possibly was one of the gangs
dupes or agents who saw exposure
coming, through Katharine's activity,
and feared to face It. The one flaw In
my theory, it seemed tO'tne, was that
It in no way accounted for the second
woman's suicide, and In spite of Da
vis prophecy that .there would be
more suicides, I was inclined to be
lieve that perhaps, after all, it was
only a coincidence. Learning her
Identity, I did not regard as half so
Important ss to locate Crandall. I al
most wished that I had gone In pur
suit of him alone. I would have, felt
an unholy Joy in rounding him up single-handed,
while Davis followed oth
er minor clues. 1 felt considerably
annoyed that Davis apparently was
more Interested in learning who the
dead woman was than in discovering
Crnndall's whereabouts.
"I have no Idea what they have done
with the clothes," I said almost cross
ly. "I suppose they1 are still In the
room. The Inquest was adjourned un
til tomorrow morning. Maybe they
have been taken to the undertaker's
He came this afternoon and took the
body away. I forgot to rt-11 you that
Crandall called up the Farrlsh house
this morning and asked for Kntharlne
right from this very hotel."
"What did be say?" he asked apa
thetically. I repeated the conversation with
Louise word for word as she ht"J'
told It to me.
"That." tald I, "is definite evitUAce
that Crandall, the man whom w. sus
pect, was here In the place wi-ite you
sent me here under an assumed
name. What greater rrn.ii' of guilt
can you have, unless it ti actual cou
fesslon?" "The man you susre-t," he correct
ed with some aspe-ity, turning ab
ruptly to the wait', who had entered
with our supper.
"Tell the propr.otor to come up here
at onco," he said, "and tell him to
bring with him the garments worn by
the woman who killed herself."
If I had sent Malilon Williams such
an order I am positive he would have
"paid no attention to It, but Davis' was
obeyed. So quickly that It almost
seemed as If Williams had been listen
ing outside the door the landlord ap
peared carrying the black coat and
skirt the woman had worn. Perhaps
it was something lu Davis' authorita
tive manner.
"There's no use In your looking
these over," I said. "They were care
fully examined today, and there is not
a mark on them. The only clue Is the
letter 'S' on two blark-bordored hand
kerchiefs and a reurn ticket to
Bridgeport. She signed her name as
Mnry Jane Teller, but there Is none
of the Bridgeport Tellers who an-
She Reached Into he Slit and Brought Out a Neat Pa age of One-Hund.r
Dollar Bills. :
swers her description, nor are any of
them missing. I found out all that
long ago."
Davis was paying little attention to
my conversation. I doubted if he
Shanty men of
Strenuous, Genial and Virile i XP
That Has Not Changeo in
Seventy Years. i
rr .n ii agues of laborers, the east'
era Canada shantyman particularly
the French-Canadian wooasmeu m
Quebec province is the most strenu
ous, while at the same time the most
genial of workers.
Skillful in aU that pertains to log
making and the use of the ax, which
he has learned to handle from early
childhood, he' Is ever at home In the
forest and wilds. Like the Indian,
were he unable to find bis campground
before nightfall, he would assure you
that It Is not he, but the camp, that is
lost, for he la at home anywhere In
the forest, while cold and hardship
have no terrors for him, since be can
usually make himself comfortable in
spite of the worst conditions Imagi
nable. . , i "
Tracing the history of the shanty
man through the romantic legends of
the conteurs de conte, the Impression
was even aware that 1 haa poH
With email pocket tape "treasure he
was taking the various dimensions of.
the coat and skirt. He turned up the
hem of the latter and Inspected It as
carefully as if be expected to' find
name written there. He did the same
thing first with one sleeve and then
with the other.
"You say that she registered ss
Teller and that ' her handkerchiefs
were marked with an 'ST " be sudden
ly asked me. shew h.g that he bad
heard all I said.
Both the landlord rut! I answered
him aff!: atlvely. ,
"Where is the telephone?" ha asked,
"I want to call long distance."
There was a note of excitement i
In his voice thnt indicated to me that
he believed lilmsel' on the verge of
some discover.'', theugh what it was I
could not Imagine. '
Ho dashed away to the telcphono,
the landlord f -Kivv'Tg. I ate my sup
per alone and waited. -Tust as 1 was
finishing he mmo back into the
room, and, renting himself, began to
eat, apparently litdlffercv.: to the fact
that evert thing had grown cold In
the half-four he was absent.
"Wei'.'' I snld inquiringly, "did you
learn '.nythliig?"
He nodded nnd calmly finished
drilling bis cold coffee.
Expectantly I t there, waiting for
' im to go on. Ho seemed not to no
tice my Impatience, though It must
have been apparent, and waited until
ho had pushed back his chair and
lighted a cigarette. He always rolled
his own, and never before had I real
ized what nn Irritating operation roll
ing a cigarette can be made. It
Beemed to n'e that he was taking en
tirrly unnecessary pains to have the
ends twisted just so. Finally I could
brook no further delay, and burst out
with: "Well, what have you discov
ered, Mr. Inspector?"
1 supposed that he might have ob
tained a clue to where the woman's i
garments hud been manufactured, j
some tiny thread by which he hoped ,
to run her Identity to earth. Little1 ;
was I prepared for the startling dls- j
coveries he volleyed at mc, so tersely, ;
so concretely put that I could not j
doubt the accuracy f his Information.
"The woman was Sarah Snckett. !
spinster. She lived on a little farm
Just outside Bridgeport with her broill- j
er Robert, w ho Is somewhat older than
she. They inherited the farm from r
their parents and have lived there all ;
their lives. The brother Is employed
as cashier In a little country bank
about ten miles away. Every morning ;
be drives Into Bridgeport and takes
, ho tr-:n. When his sister left, two j
days t.,,0, he came with her to the ',
station. He evidently is not aware
of ber death, though he seems great
ly worried over her absence. He pre-
sumably expected her to return list
night, for he waited over several
trains. This ptorntng he was asking
the station agent if he had seen her."
(to be Continued.)
East Canada
is gained that those of the early lum
bering days were of the roughest and
moat formidable character pnysical
giants, with whom the shantymen of
the present day would be but miser
ably contrasted. From truer, though
less romantic, sources, It Is found,
however, that those old bushwhackers
could not chop more logs in a given
time than the preneat day lumbermen.
In fact, the whole system of log mak
ing In eastern Canada la, with few ex
ceptions, the same today as It was
some 60 years ago. British Columbia
Magazine. ..
A Reasonable Explanation,
"Well, my little man, have yon any
little brothers T"
"No." '
"Andjlttle sisters r '
."No." " ' .
"Aren't you sorry T" i . ' ,
"No." "
"Why aren't you sorry V.
"'Cause a box of strawberries li'
hardly enough to t-3 round in our
rashly now."
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Af THE LAUNCHING OF THE. BATTLESHIP NEW YORK
ft . ... m r . , ' S
FROM left to right President Taft, Secretary' of the Navy Geo. von U Meyer, Miss Elsie Caldor, who Christ
ened the battleship, and Miss Kathleen Fitzgerald, who acted as flower girl.
APACHES ARE FREED
Government to Select Reserva
tion in Wes for Indians.
Tribe Long Held Prisoner of War
After Conflict With Mexicans and
Americans Never Mixed
With Whites.
Oklahoma City, Okla. MaJ. H. L.
' Scott, representing tha war depart
ment, and Lieut. Ernest Stocker,
Anadarko agent, representing the de
; partment of the inteHor, were ap-
pointed to Belct the new homes for
the 269 Apache prisoners or war neia
by the United States govenment at
Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The last session of congress granted
liberty to these Indians, after holding
'them prisoners of war for twenty-six
' years, and the committ'ie of two will
! select for them an open reservation
j somewhere in the wea"., but the prob
! abilities are that their new home will
I not be within the boundaries of either
New Mexico or Arizona. A reBerva
i tion In either of those ntates might
j incite In the savage Apache Indians
a memory of tneir loreiauieia
ouests and defeats, within those
boundaries, and render their reimpris
onment necessary.
The Apache tribe is one of the rew
tribes that never assimilated the
white man's way of living, and since
the year of 1858 have not been on
friendly terms with any member of
the white race.
In that year one division of the six
hrnnehea Into which the tribe Is
divided, went from the eastern line of
Arizona, where they were ranging.
Into Old Mexico on a tracing expedi- j
tlon. When . near the outpost of the
Kas-ki-yeh they camped, and, leaving
tholr women and children, proceeded
toward Casa Grande. Citizens from
that town met them and entered Into
a treaty of peace with them, tholigh
the Mexican government had placed
a price upon their heads, paying $100
for a warrior. $50 for a squaw and
$25 for a dead Indian child. .
While In Casa Grande, trading,
Mexican soldiers took advantage of
their absence from camp and set up
on the defenseless women and chil
dren, killing all within camp. When
the warriors returned In the evening
the Mexican soldiers opened fire upon
them and the Apaches, being armed
with bows and arrows, were exter
minated, excepting Oerontmo, who at
that time was a young brave, and one
other Apache. In this massacre Ger
onlmo lost his wife and child, and.
according to hi own statement made
after he became a prisoner of war
of the United States, he swore eter
nal hostility to all Mexicans. -
Gerontmo returned to Arizona and
sought aid from the other five Apache
tribes, ; in seeking revenge dn the
Mexicans. The citizens of Casa
Grande sent him a disclaimer of all
knowledge ofN the massacre of his
people ejter they had entered Into the
, trading treaty with his band In Old
j Mexico, but Geronlmo could never un
derstand how it was tne citizens naa
no control over these acts of the
soldiers, and from that year until 1886
made annual raids upon the settle
ments within 300 miles of the north
ern boundary , of Mexico. -..;
The Apaches, while on their excur
sions to Mexico, ran oS some cattle
that vere In charge of white cowboys,
and shortly thereafter United States
troops made their appearances, and
the Apaches always professed to be
lieve they came In response to the
Mexican government's appeal for aid
In exterminating the Apaches.'
Geronlmo ' died about : eighteen
months ago, and most of the old race
FOG DQESNT RESPECT KINGS
Mow the Late Edward VII. Walked to
. Buckingham Palace by Light
m of Torches. ' ,
London. Recenty the king had the
experience of driving home from the
theater with torchbearers tramping in
front The Incident recalls the most
curious sight In a pretty varied Lon
don life.
Groping down St James street
Cir'T one f- y night about the middle
I of warriors had preceded him to the
grave, and now the general govern
ment believes the younger generation
can be once more trusted to run at
large on an open reservation.
The failure of the Apache Indians to
assimilate the ways of civilization
which finally resulted In their becom
ing prisoners of war, was no doubt
due In a large measure to the ascend
ency Geronlmo had over the mem
bers of his tribe, whom he kept con
stantly avenging the wrongs he and
his relatives suffered at the bands of
the Mexicans and Americans.
ELECTRIC WIRES IM HIS BED
So Sea Captain Believed and Fired a
Volley to Awaken Citizens In
Gotham Hotel.
New Tork. Charles Hoeser, a re
tired sea captain, blazed away with a
rifle and revolver from his window In
the Astoria. Neighbors called Police
man Mlndhelm. who made his way
cautiously to Hoeeer's door. The cap
tain confronted him, with the revolver
and rifle ready for action, a grizzled,
wild-eyed giant.
"Oh, you've come at last, have you?"
he said. "I've been trying to attract
a policeman for fifteen minutes.
Someone has pt't a lot of electric wires
and batterieB In my bed and I want
you to take them out. And I want
you tc arrest whoever , put them
there." "'
, Mlndhelm took-the captain before
Magistrate Leach.'in Long Island city
police court, who held him In $500 bail
for examination. The captain owns
tae house In which he lives and other
realty In the neighborhood.
HERCULES STEALS BIG SAFE
Porch Climber Tosses Strongbox From
Window of Residence In
Chicago.
Chicago Wllmette was visited by
a "Hercules porch climber," who en
tered the home of Albert Bersbach,
treasurer of the Manz Engraving com
pany, at 530 Washington street, Wil
mette, and with apparently little ef
fort seized a small safe and threw It
from the window to the ground. The
strong-armed robber was accompanied
by a medium-sized companion, who
was armed with a revolver to make up
for what he lacked In physical make
up. The latter stood guard ; at the
foot of a stolen painter's ladder, while
"Hercules" entered the residence. ;
"The robbers, one of whom was the
strongest and largest man that ever
visited this suburb, stole a ladder In
the neighborhood and entered the see
on'd story of my residence al about
6:15 o'clock last evening," said Mr.
Bersbach today. "The robbers are
evidently the same men who entered
my house less - than two weeks ago
and stole Jewelry valued at a couple
of hundred dollars. - The strength of
the man who entered the house was
amazing. He-took up the safe, which
weighs about 160 or 200 pounds, and
threw It to the lawn as If It were a
toy. 'v.. , . ':'-:' "i ;":'
i"My son-in-law, David F. Anderson,
was at home with. my wife and daugh
ter, and they thought tbey heard some
one upstairs. Mr. Anderson started
upstairs, and. on the steps assured
himself some one was In the house.
He went down to Inform some neigh
bors, and as he left the house he was
covered by a revolver held by the man
on watch, who raised his overcoat to
his -face to hide his features. An au
tomobile was awaiting them near by,
and they made their escape In it.
WW
of King Edward'i reign, I was sur
prised, writes a correspondent by a
great glare of torches, and there
emerged silently from the fog a num
ber of men, like footmen, bearing
torches, and behind them a group of
gentlemen In cloaks surrounding some
one walking heavily in the middle,
and another body of torchbearers
brought up the rear. -
Tbj personage In the. middle was
revealed by the torches as King Ed
ward and the party moved slowly and
silently down the street along the
SEVERE TESTS ARE REQUIRED
Seven Hundred Candidates for Aero
nautic Corps Must Undergo Rigid
Examinations In Paris.
Paris. The 700 candidates for
France's flying corps are to be sub
jected to very severe tests at the
physical examination ordered by the
ministry of war. ,
Among the requirements are per
fect vision, normal color sense, sharp
hearing and absolute soundness of the
organs of respiration and circulation.
1 It is specified particularly that, no
men who have to wear speciaci
shall do any flying, a rule made the
more interesting because some of the
world s most notable airmen, past and
preseM, wore or now wear glasses.
The windtdates are now learning to
fly Li the government, aerodromes,
soti of thorn as pilots of dirigible bal
locis. but the majority as individual
Kyoplane pilots. The test Is to bo
more severe for operators of aero
planes than for balloon aeronauts.
MAD D03 SPREADS RABIES
Horses, Cattle and Hogs Are Blttew
by Rabid Animal Near Hoi
den. Mo.
Warrensburg. Mo. A mad dog In
the farming community south of Hoi
den bit hogs, cnttlo, horses and mules
and Infected them with rabies. Six
bead of cattle belonging to one far
mer have since died of hydrophobia
and another reports the Iosb of ten
hogs. A score of other farmers re- '
port the loss of horses, hogs cattle
and mules. "The animals show un
mistakable signs of hydrophobia and
have to be shot In order to protect
other animals from Infection. " The
farmers are also exterminating all the
dogs.
-
Tue robber that entered the house was
a very daring follow, . He turned on
the lights while he worked and disre
garded the fuss made by our dog. The
safe did not contain anything of value
to them, but I think they were prompt
ed upon their last visit to return and
take the sale." V .
LOOT KK0WS NO LIMITS
Mlnneapolitan Is Charged With Steal
ing Everything From a Poliywog
In Alcohor to Bible and Ether.
Minneapolis. Loot, the variety ot
which is said to be the most marked
1 the history ot the Minneapolis po-(
lice department, according to officials,'
has been recovered by the police from
the home of Stanley Wartkess, who
was placed under arrest The goods.,
which according to the police was
stolen from a hospital and two hotels
where Wartkess worked, range from a
poliywog in alcohol t a Bible, and
from artificial flowers to ether, Silver,
linen and clothing worth $1,000 are
said to have been taken by Wartkess
while employed at the hotels.: - ;
BRIDGE TO BE MONUMENT
Minister of Belgium Pays $200,000
' on Structure to Stand as His .
Father's Memorial.
. Boston. Lars Anderson, minister to
Belgium, has paid $200,000 to the state
treasurer to build the Anderson bridge,
between Boston and Cambridge, near
the Harvard stadium. The bridge is
given In memory of ' Mr. Anderson's
father, Nicholas Longworth Anderson
of Cincinnati, graduate of Harvard
In 1869 and a brigadier general In the
Civil war.
Mall to Buckingham palace. The king
had been dining with. Mrs. George
Keppel In Portman square. ; It was
a curious sight to tee and made one
think of the London of Charles IL
Celluloid Collars Barred. v -
Bristol, Pa. The Philadelphia, Bris
tol & Reading Railway company hai
Just ruled' agalnBt conductors wear
Ing celluloid collars because several
have been burned by the Ignition ol
the collars through the blowing out o
fuses on the back platform.