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TTTE MORNING OREGONIAX. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1914. i itnr. mQTc cuni! LILUL IUHIU UllUSi POWER OF NEW GUN Modern Defenses Useless and Day of "Volunteer" Over, Patterson Says. WAR HIGHLY SPECIALIZED Correspondent, After Viewing Bat tlefields, Deduces That United States Must Build Up Navy to Avert Lund Invasion. By JOSEPH MEDII.L, PATTERSON. (Copyright. 1914, by the Tribune Company, Published by arrangement with tbe Chicago Tribune.) AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. Germany, Sept 6- I have just returned from a visit to Liege under the tutelage of the German general staff. . There were six corre spondents in the party and we were 1 told that we were the first newspaper men, German or foreign, who had been allowed to Inspect the captured forts. Liege is a fair city of --170,000, lying on both sides of the River Meuse. It la about 25 miles by road from this frontier town of Aix-la-Chapelle, or, as the Germans say, Aachen. The coun try between is fairly broken and wood ed, rising in many places to hillocks of several hundred feet high. The roads, of -which there are several, follow the low ground. The Germans marched along all of them. The roads are scat tered with small villages of one and two-story houses of brick and plaster with tile roofs. Houses Become Forts. In attempting to resist the advance of the German troops from Aix-la-Chapelle to Liege, the unfortunate Belgians, in stead of shooting from the hills and slopes under protection of the trees or concealed trenches, shot from the win dows of the little houses in the villages through which the troops were passing. The act of firing from a house con verts it Into a fortified place, subject to destruction by cannon fire and flame. So we saw many, many ruined homesteads in the 25 miles to. Liege and one could not help reflecting that the ruined houses probably belonged to the bold est, most enterprising and patriotic Belgians, while the houses which escaped destruction belonged to the most cowardly. . 'Cowardly," I think, is not the word; "sensible," perhaps, would be a better one, for it was evident that the Bel gians might as well have attempted to resist the attraction of gravity as to have resisted the German army. All those Americans who have been near will to win seem appalled by its seem ing invincible power. I never realized before how essential ly a subterranean affair a modern fort is. And the more recent ones in the countries of Europe are still. more under ground than those at Liege. The first one that we visited was Pontisse, northwest of the city. In area it occupied a rough circle about -00 yards across. It was on the sky line at the top of a hill, which is bad engineering from a military point of view. It makes too good a target. A fort should be part way down a hill. Furthermore, the country should be cleared of all landmarks, such as trees, houses, and so on, in the immediate vicinity. The ideal fort would be indistinguish able from the slopes in which it is hid den at a mile's distance. The same vegetation would cover its slopes, ana in front of it the land would be bare of anything but grass. concealed trenches and barbed-wire entangle ments for a distance of at least two miles on every side. The cannon would be of the disap pearing type. They would be loaded and aimed under-ground, then lifted by rapid motor machinery to the lip of the farth for a second te fire, and the force of the recoil would be harnessed to throw them back beneath the face of the ground. The observers who watched the effect of the fire on the enemy would not be in the fort at .all, but concealed in different places, perhaps at a distance of miles, and direct the tiro by telephone. Single Tower Out of B unities. The forts at Liege had only one J'tower" of observation apiece. It rose above the surface some three feet. It was circular, six feet across, and made of wrought iron. Its top was rounded. An inch telescope penetrated the iron Mdea, and the observer, of course, was stationed inside. Unfortunately, for night use, the searchlight was also in the observation tower, and so, when the German artillery at a distance of live miles hit this iron wart on the sky line, tnree reel oy tnree reet by six feet, with a shell, it put out of use the only observatory as to the effectNof lire and the only searchlight the Belgians liaci. The iron turret top3 were 1 feet across. '1 he turrets revolved on ratchet ted tracks in a wall of concrete. When the German shells struck exactly at the edge of the turret and dislodged enough cement and iron to wedge in between the turret and its containing chamber and jam its revolving, the guns in the turret went out of commission. .They could only turn as the turret turned. They were part of it. and their muzzles Were exactly flush with its sloping iron surtace. , Doscn Shots Demolish Forts. There is no reason to suppose that an impregnable fort can ever be devised but the forts at Liege, which to my lay man's eye seemed the acme of scientific military achievement, succumbed to the huge Uernian howitzers in a dozen shots apiece at least that is the story. When the German troops tried to Ftorru the forts on the tirst two days ot tlie fighting they found that not even the best Infantry can storm even medi core forts. Then they waited for the big howitzers, and as soon as they got going the tight was over. The biggest Belgian guns were only halt the size of the Germans . Another blunder the Belgians made, it appears, was to have guns of three different calibers in .their different bar rels, requiring three different sizes of ammunition 21 centimeter, 15 centi meter and 12 centimeter and conse quent confusion. Another blunder. I fancy, though per haps for a little country like Belgium It may have been unescapable. was that it bought its cannon from Krupp. Krupp workmen mounted them, and Krupp workmen undoubtedly brought & diagram of the whole business back to Germany and turned it into the gen eral staff, where it was tiled for future referepce. Place Left Like Broken Sword. To return to the subterranean aspect of this old-fashioned fort, it reminded me of being in a mine, where not a ray of daylight penetrated,, with -seven shafts just reaching the surface. At the top of each of these shafts are mounted a pair of big cannon, which are aimed and loaded by elaborate ma chinery. The passages underneath for the men and officers to move from place to place are narrow arched clefts of brick under 13 to 15 feet of earth. A few tunnels to the surface-a foot DAUGHTER OF BRITISH ARMY xxi vr nuuxi ruAi ax .liil-. "S " ''i ' -I. , V- v - Z . " -4m m y . . . - r ' r H- W" 'S ft MARJOH1E WIRK.tY square are supposed to ventilate these burrowings in peace, but in war they are closed by neavy iron hoods. It didn't seem that any artillery five miles away could make even a akin wound on Fort Pontisse. But what man has done, man can undo, and, when the new destructives arched across the beautiful green valley from the con cealed position on the opposite hills and fell upon Pontisse as unerringly as some boys, break clay pipes with a 22 rifle in a shooting gallery, the tun nels jammed, the watch tower saw no more, and Pontisse lay blind with a broken sword before the conqueror. It is horrible, but defeat is most hor rible When I traveled the road to Liege where the heel of the victor had trod aTid saw families of women sit ting in the roofless ruins of what had been their homes in the autumn sun shine. I wondered where they could sit when the winter comes. Day of Volunteer In Over. I would lyike to see the whole world disarm, but, until the whole world does disarm, I believe that he who op poses a great navy for the United States is a criminal traitor to his coun try. If ever a professional army like the Germans or Japanese lands on our shores we shall be as helpless be fore them as so many fat, juicy ca pons. In these days of universal service. modern weapons, and military ofgani- j zation the volunteer business is f in-1 ished. The man with the squirrefgun behind the stone-wall doesn't count any more. ' After Pontisse we were taken to visit Fort Loncin, on the wesfc The outer works of Loncin still remained. The outer works, like those of Pon tisse, are earthworks; then a cut shored up with brick, about 20 feet deep and as wide; then the works consisting of turrets, guns, underground passages, ammunition chambers, and so on, which are the inner fort. The outer works of Loncin still re mained; the inner tart had gone, and left in its place a crater of twisted cement and iron. The crater was 100 feet deep 'and 60 yards across, in the general shape of a funnel. What had hanpened was that one of the German 42 centimeter shells had broken through a ventilator shaft and burst in the entrails of Fort Loncin, near enough to the powder magazine to explode it. ' A hundred Belgians are still buried in the ruins. ' People Under Severe Restraint. After lunch we were gently but firm ly led to the military automobiles and sent back here, to Aachen (Atx). For tunately our automobile had a break down, and I was able to read some of the proclamations on the walls of the villages where we stopped. One, signed by Lieutenant-General Kloewe, military commandant of the district, said that all inhabitants must be in their houses at 7 in the evening: that all ordinary business in towns must be suspended until further notice; that the possession of any arms, or-the use of any telephones, telegraphs, carrier pigeons, or other signals would be pun ished by death; but that permission for field work outside the towns could be obtained. Another proclamation, siarned by the Burgomaster of Liege, said that a war indemnity of $1Q,ODO,000 had been levied against the province of Liege and that the amount would be assessed against the inhabitants in ratio to their wealth The German army has taken all horses. automobiles, and as much food as it needed, giving receipts therefor. These receipts may be turned in as part of the war indemnity. In this way the inhabitants lose their belongings Just the same, but in a more legal and roundabout way. Another proclamation signed by the schoolmaster of the little village where our auto stalled Bezire Hussey said that .the Mayor and the priest had been taken as hostages and would be exe cuted if any more shots were fired at the Germans by the inhabitants. In some of the villages half of the houses were utterly destroyed. Noth ing was left standing of them but parts of the walls. Undoubtedly many civilians died in this destruction: and many families that last month were prosperous face the world without a single possession. But that is war, and it is as legitimate . as War can ever be. BOER WOULD AID, OLD FOE South African Geriernl Arrives Join Sir John French. to BORDEAUX, Sept. 27. The Boer General, Francois Joubert-Pienaar, has arrived at Bordeaux to offer his sword to the allied armies. "I fought against General French in South Africa. Now I am going to fight with him," said the General to the correspondent. "I commanded Boer army opposed to him at Elande- laagte. where I received my baptism of fire in civilized warfare. . "I have offered my services uncondi tionally and do not know as yet how I will be employed but expect that it will be in an advisory capacity and that I will be attached in this manner, to General trencn a start. "The war will be long and - fierce. The German army, which -I know well, is the finest fighting- machine in the world, but we shall beat it in the end because our armies are something bet ter than a machine. t- - ' - f OFFICER WHO PLAYS LEAD- it . n i- V 4 . v AS KJTTY MAC KAY, SCOTCH PLAY QUAINT Kitty MacKay at Heilig Is Fas cinating Comedy. . ACTING UNIFORMLY GOOD Marjorie Murray Rare Lassie a) Kitty and Eleanor Duniels Makes Niche for Herself as Mas, of Calvlnistlc Conscience. KITTY MACKAY." Mrs. McNab '. Marie Stuart Til M.Voh MsrlnrlM Duvldson Jean .ilcPherson. .. Dorothy Campbell t Aneus McGregor Rule Pyott J Sandy MoNub James Finlayson May Durcan Kleanor iranlels Kitty MacKay Marjorlo Murray Lieut. David Graham.. .Paget Hunter Philip Grayaon ..Walter Crosby Mis. Grayson Harriet Rosa Lord Inglehart Wallaoe rsUlne - i Thomas ....Harry Rose I BY LEONE CASS BAER. "And I'm going to be' a Prlncess.sa really and truly .princess . forever and ever," sighs the reedlike voice of Kitty MacK. ay-Just before the curtain falls. 'Yes, a Princess," snaps the crisp. cool voice of Mag Duncan, her best friend. "A Princess ye'll bo, but E-n-g 1-i-s-h." Which to Kitty's stout little Scotch Presbyterian soul was as bad if not worse, than death. They came to the Heilig last night. gay little optimistic Kitty and her neighbor and best friend, Mag Duncan stuVdy Mag. with the stiff conscience and uncompromisNig viewpoint. Along with K.itty and Mag came the McNabs, father and mother and daugh ters, who had made of the little Scotch girl another Cinderella, and like til wicked folk in fairy tales, had taken the 'fa sent each month by her sup posed-to-be father and spent it for themselves and to dress their child and allowed little Kitty only rags. Kitty had begun to get used to kicks and beatings and starvation when the fairy Prince came along. He was the son of the Lord of the Inglehart and Kitty was to be taken at once to Lon don to come into her inheritance. On the happy eve of eloping with her sol dier sweetheart they are put asunder by a story the old Lord Inglehart tells his son, that the two axe half brother and sister. In the horror of it, the youth releases the girl and she returns to her old heme and the McNabs. But no author could let two such perfectly charming people chop off their life romance in such a sordid way and so it Is at the humble cottage, with the McNab clan nagging Kitty, we learn of her real parentage and that she is free to wed her Prince. A large and happy audience last night is indebted to tlve players who pre sented "Kitty MacKay" for one of the most refreshing and enjoyable come dies since "JBunty Pulls the Strings." The quaint, unobtrusive, but sure touch of the Scotch flavor of Jiumor Is in it.' , Its fascination evades analysis. But that it is present, evidences Itself in the telling results of laughter, and what is more, delightful amusement. Plot there is very little; suspense, none. Speech must be absolutely flawless. Bvery Scotchman who heard the brogue chuckled and murmured of dear Drum lochty that is, if he came from that Highland village. ' As for the acting, it is uniformly good. Marjorie Murray as the lovable Kitty MacKay is a. rare lassie. She brings out the heart of the girl when she begs her Prince to "take me, take me; Kleanor Daniels as Mag Duncan of the Calvinistic conscience, making a niche for herself in the hearts of folk who understand the spitfire, staunch and true, vinegary-sweet lass she portray ed. Her work is distinctive for an in nate .sense of comedy expressed as we'd all like to see ourselves playing It. Too, the artistry of Marie Stuart, as the scripture-revising Mrs. McNab, was a raasterpeice in sincerity to type. Wallace Erskine is distinguished in the role of Lord Inglehart, and James Finlayson as the bibulous Sandy McNab won attention. The sittings, three in -number, are pictorial treats, The first is the backyard of the Mc Nabs in Drumlochty on a washday, the second Is a drawing room In Lord Inglehart's London home, and the third in the McNab's sitting-room. The -engagement of - Kitty MacKay continues for. the week. Tonight th performance is in the nature of-e. bene fit, the proceeds of the ticket sale going to the British Red .Cross and Prince of Wales fund. VILLA REFUSES TO ACCEPT Resignation of First Chief De (Harfid Imperative as Ba sis of Settlement. GRAVE DANGER LAMENTED: Reply to Mexico City Officials De mands That Supreme Command of Republic Be Relinquished to Fernando Calderon. CHIHUAHUA, Mex., Sept. 27. The immediate resignation of Carranza as first chief of the constitutionalists is the only basis on which General Fran cisco Villa will agree to the settlement of difficulties between himself and Car ranza. .This was his'replv to messages of officials- in Mexico City who pro tested "against his attitude towards Carranza. Villa declared he never would accept Carranza as. head ot the republic His eply, as given out here today, follows: 'I lament the circumstances tnat ave brought about grave danger, but incerely protest that my sole ambition will be to arrange existing difficulties without shedding blood if possible. I emphatically declare, however, that the only move "that can bring about cessation of hostilities on my part is that Venustiano Carranza deliver su preme command to Fernando Igleslas Calderon so that, in the shortest pos- ible time, elections may be called. At the same time I declare I shall not accept Carranza as president or vice- president or president ad, interim of the republic. I shall prove the rectitude of my in tentions and the . disinterestedness which animates the force of this divi sion. Later the world will realize where rests true disinterestedness and where abortive ambitions." , CALDEROX IS LIBERAL IEADER Villa, Pending Reply, Does Not Halt His Onward March. EL PASO. Tex., Sept. 27 Fernando Iglesias Calderon, the choice of Gen eral Villa for president of Mexico, some months ago was mentioned as a possibility for the presidency during his trip to Washington, where he con ferred with American officials. He is at present in Mexico City, it is said. Calderon Is leader of the Liberal party. political organization which allied itself with the Constitutionalists' revo lution. It bad been announced that he would run at the elections. While an answer to Villa's proposal is awaited from Mexico City, "the Northern leader has not halted his movement of troops towards the op posing Carranza forces. As yet no conflict has occurred, it was said officially. It was declared by Villa officials. however, that they had assurances that Zacatecas, a strategic place to the south of Chihuahua, would be turned over to Villa's men without a fight. It was learned that a V ilia brigade was on the march Into conora, toe Western border state, to assist Gov ernor Maytorena in his attacks on the Carranza forces in that state. Another strong group of Villa men is moving into Coahuila, to the east. TEUTONS ABE SURPRISED GERMA.1 BRIGADES ATTACKED ON FRONT AXO S",ANIC Maltnea Bombarded In Return and Gen- eral Attack la Wged by Strone Forces on Front. LONDON. Sept. 28. The following official -statement issued at Antwerp esterday has been received by Reu ter's: . "Yesterday (Saturday) a detachment of German troops, comprising one brig ade of infantry, two regiments of cav airy, and two heavy and four light bat teries of artillery, was surprised on the march from Brussels to Termonde via Alo3t. Attacked on tne front and flank, they retired in disorder towards Assche. leaving in Belgian hands many prisoners, wounded and caissons. "Today (Sunday) apparently in re venge for this check. Malines was bom oaroed oy. long-range guns and our front between Malines and Alost was subjected to a general attack by strong forces. Toward Alost the Belgian cavalry division succeeded in taking the German left wing on the flank, and generally our troops maintained their positions. At Malines the railway station suf fered severely from the bombaFdment. Numerous ' houses are in ruins and others have been burned. A dozen civilians were killed and many wounded. H. B. BUCKHAM DIES SOUTH Former Professor at Monmouth Iksses at Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA, Cal.. Sept. 28 (Special.) Professor Henry B. Buck- ham, a prominent educator and former ly professor of pedagogy in the Man moutn. Or., Normal ' School, died here Friday. Professor Buckham was graduated from Vermont Lnlverslty and for 15 years was principal of the Buffalo, N Y.. Normal School. J. W. Buckham and a daughter reside in Santa Barbara. RUSSIAN CRUISER AGROUND "C Accident Occurs Kear Wreck of De stroyed German Warship. LONDON. Sept. 28. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Dally Telegraph in a dtspatcn aatea Saturday, says: "A Russian cruiser went -aground to day at (name of place deleted by cen sor), a Baltic port, while trying tb save wreckage from the German crui ser Magdeburg, which was destroyed by the Russian fleet- The grounded cruiser is one of the old type. Plan to Aid Widows Rejected. LONDON, Sept. 10. A suggestion by Queen Mary that soldiers' widows in England be taken to Australia as assisted immigrants has been consid ered by tbe South Australian govern ment. The Premier says that, owing to drought conditions and the falling off in the demand for domestic servants there would be difficulty In finding em I ploymenC GARHANZA EE! Double A SALE OF WELSBACH GAS MANTLES TODAY AND TOMORROW. 35o Mantles 23 30c Mantles 1) 25c Mantles. . .-rT v 15 20c Mantles.... 12 15c Mantles 10? WINTER GAMES AT NEW PRICES. oOc Authors, special, .33 50c Panic 27 $1.00 Affinity 50i WOOI1-LARK PLAYING CARDS Gold edges, telescope cases, a 50c quality for ...257 ?1 MA II PURE CANDY. Something new. "Mayhew Chew," pound 19 THIS! Wi;E W e taumug some re markable bargains in full Trained Pictures Landscapes, -Marines and Architectural subjects, particularly suited for offiees, schools and large rooms. !L UGS "Wood-Lark" Building, Alder at West Park 11 DIE ONE BY ONE Wounded Paris Actor Depicts Dash of British Heroes. . ALL TRY TO REACH FUSE Twelfth Engineer, Kusliing Through Space Where Bodies of Comrades Lay, Blows Up Bridge When German Fire Slackens. ; HAVRE, Sept. 26. Gaston Bossier, a private in the Sixth Cuirassiers, who is known in civil life as Darino. a well- known- Paris actor, tells a story which seems almost to eclipse the blowing up of the Delhi gates. Lying wounded in Normandy with a portion of his leg carried away by shrapnel, be relates it in true Gallic manner. He tries to rise and illustrate with gesture, but falls back groaning. "We were together, the Curiasslers of France and the English Royal Engi neers," he says,, "as we retreated across the Aisne at irioissons. The Germans advanced rapidly, trying to rush masses of soldiers across. Bridge aft er bridge had to be blown up. The German sharpstiooters were firing at us from a clumD of trees and the mitrailleuses were working havoc among the allies. Suddenly a party of English en gineers rushed toward a bridge. They lost heavily, but succeeded in laying powder sufficient to destroy it. Be fore they could light it all of them were killed. We waited while another party of young brave engineers crept near tne bridge, uney tooK to cover, dui the Germans got the range and contin ued a deadly fire. Kleven Killed i SuwcmIoh. "Then wc FrMwhmcn watched what we must remember to our dying day. One engineer suddenly dashed alone toward the fuse. He was killed be fore he reached half way there. A sec ond followed and fell almost upon the body of his comrade. A third, a fourth and fifth ran in succession the gauntlet of merciless German fire and met the same death. In' the same way each fol lowed his comrades until 11 had been killed. . "The German fire seemed to slacken for an instant, and in that instant the bridge was blown up, for the 12th man. dashing across the space lined with the bodies of his friends, reached the fuse and lighted it. Tbe bridge exploded with a roar as the engineer fell betore the German rifle shots." Bossier was a prisoner of the Ger mans for some time, but was rescued by the English. He told me details of German cruelties which he personally witnessed. He himself, although wounded in the leg, was dragged on his knees with his hands tied behind him, while the lancer thrust bis lance against his back. Drivers of trans port wagons often cut at him with their whips as he passed. Here is a story told to me by Private Bryant as he lay wounded in the hos pital ship: - Datea Not Thought A boat. "I don't Just remember the date. We have not bad time to think of dates lately. But it was lust over a week ago. We were somewhere in the neigh borhood of St. Quentin. W e had been fighting all day. We had picketed and watered our horses and late that mgbt thought we had seen the last of the Germans for a time. "In the morning, however, the Colonel gave orders to saddle. We jumped On our horses and at the same moment shells began to burst overhead. Our horses stampeded. The enemy's sharp shooters were already in position, and while we were recapturing our horses shrapnel, canister shot and bullets were making the air sing around us. - "The German artillery fire Increased in intensity. We began to wait anxious ly for our own Royal Field Artillery to get into position. It - was delayed by the fact that the battery horses were being watered. "Something had to be done, so we got the Maxims up, despite the withering fire. Our boys soon got busy. It would have done you goodto see how calmly and quietly the boys went about their work. "Our men realized the meaning of their job. It was to hold on until the artillery came up. In other words it was to pave the regiment from annihil ation. Within a few minutes they were sending 8000 shots in as many seconds among the Germans. Four Capture Eleven. "Then the artillery arrived. We had four guns against II for the Germans, but some ot those 11 were silenced. "It was not long before the boys were itching to charge. Almost before they expected it the bugle sounded and Stamps This Morning THAT LITTLE PAINTING JOB Needn't worry you. We've got everything you u they were off. "Hell for leather.' at the enemy's guns. "The net result of that little scrap was the capture of 11 Krupp guns and many prisoners." Unfortunately Bryant was left wounded on the field and was made a prisoner by the Germans. He lived for five days on bread and water, all that the Germans would supply hira. On the fifth day a detachment of French cav alry arrived, rescued the prisoners and captured the German troopers who were guarding them. Britishers , were ' taken to Peronne, where they were cared for by the French. Bryant told me that in the aotion at St. Quentin of an entire British battery engaged only 17 men were left alive. BIG BENEFIT ON, TONIGHT All Heilig Boxes Sold for Aid of British Warriors Wounded. The Heilig Theater will sparkle with philanthropical brilliancy tonight for the British Red Cross and Prince of Wales, fund -benefit performance of "Kitty MacKay." The Portland execu tive committee of these funds has bought the Heilig for tonight and will make the performance, the proceeds of which go to the British war sufferers, a social event of somber? importance. All of the boxes havo been sold and the advance seat sale presages a ca pacity house. Portland society girls of British antecedents will sell souve nir programmes and consular repre sentatives of Great Britain and her allies, and of friendly nations will be in attendance and the theater will be decorated in the colors of those na tions and of the United States. The proceeds will be sent to the gen eral fund in London, which now is growing to substantial sie, due to the benefits being given throughout the world and by contributions. The Portland committee consists of British Consul Erskine, W. J. Burns. J. G. Edwards. R. W. Hasty, A. A. Hall and J. U. Trant Marjorie Murray, who plays the lead ing role in "Kilty MacKay," is the daughter of an officer in the British arm)'. BURGLAR FIGHTS WOMAN Negro Steals Valuables, Police Chase and Stumble Into Gambling Game, Mrs. E. M. Howell, 1S1 Fourteenth street, armed with a revolver, fought a. duel with an unidentified negro, armed with a knife. last night at 11 o'clock, and the " negro won. After taking a diamond' stud valued at $200, a ring valued at $200 and 280 in cash the negro wrested the gun rrom airs Howell and escaped. Mrs. Howell was alone at the time. She shot at the negro several times. Mrs. Howell told the ponce that she had been robbed and that most of her valuables were taken. Motorcycle Patrolman A. L. Long rushed to the scene and arrived short ly after the negro had gone. In look lwr for him. Long went to a colored club at 108 North Ninth etreet. The officer, fearing the man would get away, dashed past the doorkeeper and Into the club. There he surprised some negroes gambling, arrested 10 of them and seized (26 as evidence. The man wh robbed Mrs. Howell's home had not been captured at an early hour this morning. KIDNEY AND BLADDER TROUBLE GO QUICKLY- WHEN AKOZ WAS USED John Mahan of Hotel Rainier No Longer Suffers From Distressing Ailments. John Mahan, retired farmer and cap italist, residing at the Hotel Rainier, says that two months' treatment of Akoz, the wonderful California medi cinal mineral, has about completely corrected his bladder and kidney trou ble. He writes: " "After suffering for five years from kidney and bladder trouble, 1 can say that Akoz has done wonders for me. My condition was made worse by my advanced years, having passed the 75 mark. I had all the distressing symp toms of the ailment Had to get up many times during the night on ac count of the trouble with my bladder. My entire system felt the effects of the complication. My hands had a palsied condition and I could not keep them still. The first few weeks of the treatment I noted great improvement After taking the mineralized Akoz water for two months I feel stronger than ever. The frequent calls during the night are now gone, and the ac tions of my bladder and kidneys are norjnal. My bands no longer continu ally shake and I feel better every way. I will gladly answer by phone or calls any questions regarding what Axoz aid for mo. If need and skilled men to tell you what you need. Paints, Brushes, Varnishes, Enamels, Fillers, Stains. 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Four of ficers and 86 men aboard tle revenue cutter Tahoma when she went ashore on the western Aleutian Islands last week have been picked up by the steamer Cordova and 6urvey ship Pat terson near Agattu Island. Advices re ceived today at revenue cutter head (juarters say the search now is for 23 others from the Tahoma, who landed from boats on islands nearby. The message added that the Taho ma's decks were awash, indicating that the ship would be a total loss. No de tails of the condition of the rescued men were given, but it was said they probably had not been compelled to face great hardships, inasmuch as plenty of supplies and clbthing wero The 60 refugees left the Tahoma in four boats. Boats from the Cordova and Patterson are searching the Inlets and coves of the felands In the vicinity of Agattu. . The Tahoma struck the reef Sep tember 21. She had aboard S3 per- sons, including nine officers, the crew and several members of a revenue cut ter shore party. She went aground approximately 90 miles west ot Kiska Island in the Aleutian chain. The Cordova was bound from Nome to Seattle, when wireless intercepted her and sent her hurrying to the Ta homa's assistance. The Patterson was sent from Unalaska. SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. 27. Officials of the United States revenue cutter service here say that when the Tahoma -was wrecked between Kiska and Agat tu Island a week ago today she had aboard nine officers and a crew of 63 men in addition to the crew of an un named vessel wrecked somewhere In the Somichi Islands. This crew the Tahoma rescued the day - before she, herself, met with disaster. Those who were on the Tahoma when she struck were obliged to take to tha whalebouts, as the Tahoma did not have her launch with her. It is said he had five whaleboats fully equipped for emegrency with sails, water and provisions. These boats are capable of carryin? from 18 to 30 .passengers and are able to weather tremendous seas. 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