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3 THE SUNDAY OREGOSIAy, PORTLAM), OCTOBER 25, 1908. 1 L,1 fill T R V Bii cox bxopetaiw W lo. THE CLEW OF THE II act jx n. rsv ix i II ir nst . Mis-TantCAs- .as.. Jaftsaaw ii iik ran niK mwm i Editor Not. On Gorernmwlt Orders" t a series of smrles that are Incidents In the life of a formerly !l-kiwn but now retired se-ret-stTvlre o(tl.-er. of lone ana faithful service Now that he l off duty, he haa ben Induced lo tell aoma of the more dramatic of hi many fascinating ex periences. In some there Is the love ele ment. In others there Is a mystery, and all lireathe a spirit of adventure. A com plete narrative Is told In each Issue.) "S OME years ago. before I became connected with the Lnited stales secret service in the Bust. I was engaged by a member of the Western Express Companies to do some special work for them." began Captain Dickson. My headquarters were In Denver, and the work, on the whole, was decidedly In teresting. One adventure In particular made me proud of my service for our company, although it was largely a mat ter of luck that brought about my suc cess In that Instance. I am a firm be liever in luck, for it plays an important part in every man's life, and it has fig ured to a large, extent in my own af fairs, I am free to confess. "A daring express robbery had been committed In the western part of the state, near the Utah line, by three men. The messenger had been murdered and the passengars throughout the train robbed of all their money. The holdup men secured something more than fifteen thousand dollars from the express com pany's safe and fully five thousand dol lars from the passengers. They took nothing but money, however, leaving val uable Jewelry, diamonds and watches with their owners, and Ignoring the par cels In the express car. This circum stance showed that the gang was com posed of experienced thieves.- for money Is the hardest thing In the world to trace. -I was notified of the robbery on the afternoon of the second day after It oc curred, and although I hastened to the spot whh all dispatch and made my ar rangement by wire, It was noon of the third day before I alighted at the nearest station. Here I had arranged for two horses and a prospector's outfit, deeming it best to follow the bandits in the dis guise of a miner, as the robbery had been made at a point near the mining region of Southwestern Colorado, and I expected to find the criminals at some of the numerous mining camps. -I have never been a believer in dis guises except as to clothing. All efforts to change the face with grease paints and wigs and the like only tend to at tract attention and direct suspicion to the man thus togged out. The casual ob server might not notice the deception, but the criminal, and especially the hunted criminal. Is no casual observer. He has formed the habit of noticing everything, and lie will detect the least false point In a man's appearance and shun htra as if he were afflicted with the plague. "A change of dress will work wonders in a mans appearance. If a man can wear other clothes than those life Is ac customed to. and wear them easily and naturally, he can more effectually dis guise himself by this means thifn he can with all the wigs and paints and whiskers In existence. "Coming across the continental divide I had suffered a slight attack of indl he Dorter after a flask e .hiLkv aikinc for a certain brand. whisky, asking for a certain prang. FAVORITE ELEANOR GATES, the author of the charming romance. "Cupid, the Cow runcher," and other realistic maga zine stories of Western ranch Ufe, Is making an interesting venture In horse breeding on her husband's plaoe In Santa Clara County. California. El Rancho de la. Rosas, which Is some 40 miles from San Francisco, writes John Gilmer Speed. In the New York Herald. Her husband. Richard Walton Tully. author of the Be laseo play. "The Rose of the Rancho." is deeply Interested in this venture and is giving his wife his earnest co-operation and support. The stud at EI Rancho de las Rosas has been carefully selected and In its be ginning consists entirely of purely-bred Arabs, those marvelous horses from the desert which are the base, the foundation of all safely reproducing horse types in ih. Ruronean and American world fore making her selections Eleanor Gates consulted the best authorities, and lhave no hesitation in saying that she is about as well informed a to the merits of the various Arabian families and strains as It Is possible for any one to be who has not had actual personal experience in Deserts Arabia. As we have these fixed types, these improved types, why revert to the ArabsT Because there is no fixed type In exist ence that did not originate and become tixed through the admixture of Arab blood. To put into each of these types more of this basic blood from time to time keeps virile and fresh this .com manding prepotency. It Is not suggested that the union of a thoroughbred and an Arab would produce a colt faster than the usual racehorse, or that either of the other types mentioned would have its peculiar and special excellence enhanced bv such unions. That is not the way in which Arabs are useful. It is the way. however, that Arabs have come into dis repute In the minds of those who gener alize from scant facts and come to quick conclusions from small knowledge. The French, the Germans, the Russians all use the Arabs In the way that they should be used, and that is by breeding from them collateral strains of their lixed types and then mixing them for the purpose of securing the fresh infusion of the basic blood. These people do this officially through their several govern ments. And that was what A. Keene Richards, of Kentucky, meant to do some SO years ago. when he took Arabs from the desert to his breeding farms In Ken tucky and I-ouisiana. He crossed his Arab stallions with thoroughbred mares, and the resulting colts had such sub stance and symmetry of conformation that as yearlings at the Kentucky fairs they won blue ribbons from all comers. It was not Mr. Richards' intention to race these colts, but he was persuaded by his friends against his own better Judg ment to do so. They were not fast enough to win against the horses that He returned in a few minutes with one of the diminutive little bottles custom arily sold on sleeping cars at a quarter a bottle. It was not the kind I had or dered, but the porter explained that this was the only brand of liquor the com pany sold, -and I had to be content with it. The label of the bottle stated that it was put up expressly for the com pany. "On reaching my destination I imme diately assumed the character of a miner and set about my Inquiry. There was little information to be gathered beyond what was contained In the ex press company's report of the robbery, of which I had a carbon copy. Satisfied that time spent here would be wasted, I set out for the scene of the robbery., riding a wiry little pony and leading an other on which was packed my outfit of grub and cooking implements and miner's tools. 1 "The place was a desolate spot. The road ran through a broad alkali valley which had not. at that time, been brought under cultivation by Irrigation. It was easy to pick up the" trail of ban dits and follow It across the valley In a southwesterly direction to the foothills of the Rockies, where the trail disap peared, the rocky ground leaving no trace of hoofprlms. "From this point on it was to be a matter of luck and guesswork. I be lieved my men had made for Telluride. Ouray, Silverton or . some other mining camp, but I was not rash enough to venture a guess as to which It might be at that stage of the game. These camps, with their rough, shifting population, offered capital retreats for criminals, and from past experiences I knew that my three rogue.s would. In all probability, remain In one of these camps until the excitement from the robbery had subsid ed, and then make for civilixation to spend their money. "For three daya I drifted at random through the mountains, following trails and paths, for there were no roads, en deavoring to pick up some clew or find the place where my party had spent the first night after the robbery. The hold up had occurred about noon, and, by hard riding, the three highwaymen could penetrate some ten or twenty miles Into the fastnosses of the mountains before it became too dark to travel farther. It was out of the question for any one to advance through that region after dark. I hoped to find the place of their camp, and felt sure I would do so by persever ing. "Late the third afternoon I stumbled on the ashes of a canipflre, and close beside It. among the firs and cedars. I found where horses had been tied. This was what I had searched for. and I felt sure that I would here find something of value. I camped a short distance from the place so I would not disturb it, leav ing my examination until the next morn ing, when I would have a good light, it then being too dark to attempt such a thing. "That night, by the light of my camp fire. I read again the report of the rob bery as given by the train hands. Near n.e .. ,t ... T la O I-' O FAD OF ELEANOR GATES IS HER BEAUTIFUL ARABIAN HORSES the last of it was the account of the had been bred for speed alone and were therefore regarded by most people in Kentucky as failures. Before the original Intention could be carried out the Civil War intervened and the Richards' experi ments came to an end. The older men In Kentucky la discussing the merits of Arab blood point to this Richards ven ture as conclusive proof that the desert blood has no merit. Mr. Richards never concluded his experiments or even tested any intentional results, so that the epi sode has proved nothing whatever except that neither the Arab nor the half Arab Is faster than the English thoroughbred, a something that everybody ought to have known before. It is by using collateral strains of the various types that the Arab can be Im mensely useful to the horse breeders. For 3500 years the Arab horses have been In the same environment, and during an that time have been Inured to hard usage and scanty feeding, so that as they exist now they represent a singular example of that hard rule of nature, the survival of the fittest. During all their long his tory they have been half starved during eight months of each year and not abun dantly fed or watered the other four. This in great measure accounts for the fact that they have not increased In height or weight, but, notwithstanding their lack of slse, they are very great weight carriers and can go Journeys day In and day out to which no other horses are equal. As individual horses under the saddle, and even in the hunting field, they are most excellent. Evidence of this does not come from the desert alone, but haa been proved in India, in Eng- msS&m 'As sleeping-car porter, who related, with evident grief, that he had been relieved of W.1S In silver and that the bandits had rifled the liquor cabinet of the buf fet, taking with them all of the whisky and a few bottles of the rarer and stronger wines. OBEYHAW " 'ELEANOR GATES lend and to a smaller extent In America. Lord Roberts rode the same Arab for 22 years In all his campaigns, covering an estimated distance of 60.000 miles, report ing himself that his charger never had a sick day or took a lame Btep in all his life. The exhibition of these Arab horses at the World's Fair was Interrupted by Are, and the gray stallion Obeyran. be sides several others, was bought by Mr. Peter B. BTadley. of Hingnam. Mass. Later he became the property of Mr. Ho mer Davenport, of Morris Plains, N. J., from -whom he was bought by Eleanor Gates. It would ordinarily seem a reck less disregard of conservatism to buy so old a horse as this for so long a Journey. And If he were an ordinary horse It would have been a hazardous purchase. But Obeyran has. enhanced his value im mensely by reason of the fact that he has carried youthful vitality into extreme old age. He haa been tested by the years and has proved himself abundantly worthy. He la extraordinary from what ever point of view. t .Another stallion that the mistress of EI Rancho de las Rosas secured from the Homer Davenport collection is the chest nut horse Mahruss, of the Seglawi Jedran family and Ibn ed Derri strain. This is a very remarkable horse In appearance and conformation, and is the show horse par excellence. Mrs. Tully did not select him. however, for his beauty, which Is remarkable, but for his breeding, which w t&? ' lK Hsv? THREW TNEjOOOP. M0E OPET . "Early next morning I examined the deserted camp of" the highwaymen. There was nothing but a bumcd-out pile of ashes and charred sticks and a few empty bottles. The bottles gave the clew for which I searched. The high waymen had certainly made their camp ,$lANOR. GATES-MRS KJCHAip W TUltY is remarkable also. He was sired by Lady Anne Blunt's Imported Mahruss, a Kehi lan Jellb, purchased from Abbass Pacha, his dam being Bushra, a Seclawi Jedran of the Ibn el Derri strain. It will be ob served that the younger Mahruss takes his lineage from his dam rather than the sire. This is the Bedouin custom, the mares being counted in breeding of more Importance than the horses. Though this is entirely proper, I think the Arab exag geration of the importance of the mares over the horses is a defect In their system of breeding, as it too frequently results in the using of inferior individuals as sires, merely because their blood la of approved families and strains. The young stallion taken to the Cali fornia ranch is a gray S-year-oId by Obey ran. dam Zitra, a Hamdani Simiri. which makes this youngster. Obey by name, a Hamdani Simiri instead of a Seglawi Obeyran, as his sire is I happened to be present when this youngster was first saddled. He marched off soberly like an old horse, cutting not a single prank, and ten days later he was completely bridle wise and guided so easily by the neck that he could be ridden with a halter, which, by the way, is the almost universal Be douin custom. This docility and intelli gence are of great value, as they do not In the least detract 'from the animal's high spirit and promptness to respond to whatever demand a rider may make. Among the mares taken by Mrs. Tully were Sheba, a Managhl Slagi, and her '.EZ2223D JEST TAZkT. Qf'TtfE' MME&6 here. Each bottle bore the label of the sleeping-car company and some of them were the diminutive flasks of which I had drunk one on the. trip from Den ver. There was not a scrap of paper anywhere else to be found. "Elated with my success. I made a EtEANOT? CATEb IM SADDLE foal by Muson, the "listening horse": Galphia, a Hamdani Simiri; Yimeta, a Kehilan AJuz; Markesa, a chestnut Seg lawi Jedran, and a baby filly of the same strain as Kehilan. These mares will be kept on the home ranch, a place of sev eral hundred acres, and their produce THE BAD EFFECTS OF HIGH SPEED British Medical Journal. Ttr SERIES of striking physical tests r has recently been completed in Eng land in connection with the automobile races. When S. F. Edge drove a car continuously for 24 hours at high speed he was thj subject of very care ful observation by Dr. L. P. Gibson. Mr. Edge was examined before and Immediately after the race and his sen sations when driving were carefully noted. Observations were made of his temperature, pulse and general nervous and physical condition. Specimens of his blood were also examined before and after the race. Before the race Mr. Edge for some time took all opportunities of long motor drives about the country and then one week's absolute rest from business and from any lengthy drives just before the race, to avoid stsleness. He took no kind of special training diet, only living very simple, taking plenty of fruit, cocoa, fish, vegetables, a moderate amount of meat and no tea. During the race he had fruit toranges. cZ&S&CW survey of the country and discovered a half-obscure trail leading farther into the mountains. I took up this trail and followed It as best I could until night fall. Often ' lost it, and sometimes I spent an hour or more casting about to pick it up again, as I have seen hounds baffled on the trail of a fox. About 3 o'clock that afternoon I found some thing that made my eyes sparkle. Shat tered Into a thousand pieces was the remains of one of the small whisky bot tles on a large flat rock beside the trail where It had doubtless been cast in a playful mood induced by its contents. Among the fragments I found the label of the car company. "It was the dry season and this was in my favor, for no rains came to ob literate the trail. For five days I fol lowed the bandits across the hiils and through the valleys, verifying my route from time to time" by fragments of broken whisky bottles along the way and at the places .where they had camped for a night. The buffet car must have been well stocked, for I found many botties in this journey. "The trail eventually came to a well beaten road, which, from my map, I learned was the stage and mail route from Montrose, the nearest railroad point to Ouray, then a rather insignifi cant mining settlement. I lost no time in getting to Ouray, for it was impossi ble to trail my men along this road, and I was sure they had headed for the mining camp. "Two days were spent at Ouray with out finding a trace of the three men. They had not stopped there certainly, so I took the trail to Telluride, a mining camp further on in the mountains. Tel luride was then a camp of 900 or 1000 souls and there was a bit of a mining boom on which daily brought new pros pectors to swell its citizenship, fatuous souls brought there by the greed of gold -a lure that never fails to attract vic tims in swarms. For three days I searched In vain through the saloons and dance halls and oilier plaoes where the rough miners congregated without finding a trace of my three rogues. That infallible sixth sense ef mine was doing its best to keep me longer In Telluride. although my judgment told me to move on to Silverton; but in the end my In tuition won the fight and I remained. One evening I was drinking with a raw-boned miner. The whisky was abom inable. The distillery wiiere it was made would never have recognised its product "in its present form. I complained of the poor quality of whisky and asked my acquaintance if there were not some Dei ter stuff to be found in the camp. He said there was not, at any of the bars, but that he had been given an amazingly good drink by a miner, whose name he mentioned. He said It had been in a little bottle which held just enough to tease one, but it was the best liquor he had drunk since he left Kentucky many years before. He licked his lips in pleasant memory of the drink. . "I almost gave myself away, so keen was my pleasure at this chance remark. "THE CHESTrJUT STA.LL.10r "MAHRUSS" will form the pure Arab stud, which will be enlarged by natural, accretions, the colts being used only to cross with other strains of horses. Few breeders of Arab horses have made a braver or more prom ising beginning. A few miles away from EI Rancho de las Rosas and in the same county of Santa Clara, Mr. and Mrs. Tully have leased the Guadaloupe ranch of 3300 acres. Here it is their purpose to estab- grapes. strawberries and bananas), with occasional drinks of cocoa and beef tea (very little), some chocolate and beef lozenges; he also took one grain extract cocoa, made up with chewing gum. every hour. He ate no so-called solid food at all. During the short stops in the race the chief cause of discomfort and ex haustion was bruising and backache from a light, not very comfortable seat fitted to a chassis from which a heavy touring body had been removed, the springs being too curved for com fort at high speed over a track worn in some places. After the race a few peas and .bread and a drink of water were takon, and he was in bed and asleep within three hours of the finish, slept well all night and was eating a good breakfast at 9 o'clock the next morning. The pulse, temperature and respiration were nor mal and he was none the -worse for the extraordinary and exhausting strain he had been through. His temperature before starting was 98. 4 degrees, pulse 74 of which figure I Is a sphygmographic tracing. At the Bieszzurr SOS w.g c&w&xr I inquired about the generous owner of the good liquor, with a show of indiffer ence I was far from feeling. He was a late arrival, it seemed, and lived in a shanty far up on the mountain-sido with two companions. The three were making a rather poor attempt to work a claim they had pre-empted. "Getting away from my loquacious miner-friend, I climbed the steep trail to the cabin and set about an investigation of it with great caution. The men were at home, and from the sounds issuing from Its closed doors I guessed they were having a rare old time that evening. I approached to the very door and lis tened with my ear to the planks to sounds of revelry within. The men were gam bling and drinking, and I could hear the clink of coins and the rattle of bottles and the ribald Jests with which they made their bets and gloated over their winnings and cursed their luck when they lost. I heard sufficient to make me sure that my much-sought bandits were In the cabin, although there was no direct men tion of the express robbery. "It would have been the rankest folly to have attempted their arrest without as sistance although I did tackle such a Job once In my salad days, as this scar will testify." and he pointed to an ugly wound at the back of his neck, partially covered by his flowing gray locks. "But that Is another story. I decided to call on the United States deputy marshal, a man of tigerish bravery, for assistance. There was no chink or crack in the door through which I cdlild gain a peek at the interior of the cabin, so I dropped down on my hands and itnees and crawled around to the back of the cabin where I thought there might be a window. There was a window, but it was closed with a heavy shutter, and I could not, find any point to peep through; but I did find something on the way around. My hand touched something round and smooth, and I clutched it involuntarily. It was one of the little whisky flasks. After I had left the cabin I struck a match and examined It. The label of the car company was still on It. "The deputy marshal was found at one of the dance halls and he soon summoned a reliable posse. We surrounded the cabin, from which still issued the sounds of revelry. The men were stationed at .every point about it Then the marshal and I rapped on the door. In response to our summons one of the miners staggered across the floor and threw the door wide open. We tripped him up and rushed over him into the cabin. The men were too drunk to make any resistance, and we captured them without a shot being Iirea. They were having a big stud-poker game, played with gold pieces and currency in stead of chips. There was some JSO00 or $10,000 upon the table. Strewn about the floor were many whisky and wine bottles. In a box beneath one of the bunks was a solitary pint bottle of whisky, the last remnant of the contents of the buffet car's liquor store. It was, as 1 said, a clean case -of luck." (Next week Captain Dickson will relate the story of "The Mysterious House Next Door.") lien a plant for breeding cavauy it mounts, using their Arab stallions for sires and selected range bred mares from Oregon as dams. To this plant will be added a famous stallion, Nejdram, im ported by Captain Gainsford, of the Eng lish army, to use as a polo mount. It was this horse, by the way, that Mr. Davenport proposed last year to use in a trial of endurance in a ride from the Pacific to the Atlantic, under the direc tion of the War Department. This con test came to nothing, as no one else seemed to care to participate. There wa much talk and bluster, but they were ail seemingly afraid to start. Bryan and Maryland. Baltimore American. Bill Brvan'a step is on thy shore. Maryland, my Marylan! He's knocking loudly at thy door. Maryland, my Marylan I He's tried to capture B,alt'mo,r" . With areuments none gained of ora, "Whose repetition only bore Maryland, my Marylan! Thou art no easy captured stats, Maryland, my Marylan! , . , To tain thee one must have some welgnv Marvland, my Marylan! No demagogic tales to date Will in her ardor keen create And lead her off from prosperous fate, Maryland, my Marylan. One cannot win her with mere craft. Maryland, my Marylan! At such endeavor she has laughed, Maryland, my Marylan! Though she has had of pleas a raft To vote for Bryan, she's not daft; Her sober thought is all for Tatt, Maryland, my Marylan! Let Bryan then do what he can. Maryland, my Maryland! Do what he may all else to ban, Maryland, nty Maryland! In states where Taft far leading ran. Where voters welched It. man to man. Thou wilt be found to lead the van, Maryland, my Maryland! end of the race his temperature was 100 degrees and his pulse, of which figure 2 is a sphygmographic tracing. 70. I take it that the slowing was due to exhaustion, that the blood pressure was low. due to vagus control, and that the residual blood In the left ventricle was increased in amount. This con dition of weak pulse may be accentu ated by the fact of the blood being "soaked up. as It were, by the lungs," owing to the long continued rapid movement through the air. Before the ride a specimen of blood was taken and examined for the tuber-culo-opsonic index (Index of resistive power to tubercular infection), which was found to be 0.85. Another specimen taken directly after the race gave 1.17. That the power of resistance to the tubercle bacillus should be raised after the long Journey Is very noteworthy, and helps to strengthen the opinion held by many of us that motoring is an effective treatment in some cases of tuberculosis, and that the gloomy prophecies of some anent the bad effects of great speed on the system were incorrect. -jim io7.o
