The Roupell Mystery
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CH A PTER X I I .— (Continued.)
Tim« waa precious with the detective.
He thought of the prieoner then languish
lug In the dungeon« of La Mazaa. He
put beth bills in his pocket, took up his
hat and arose from the table.
"Then I am to understand that madame
prefers to be cited to appear before the
tribunal. I think your witness' fees and
uaileage will amount to about one-quarter
•f the sum I offer."
Dither the threat or the sense of loss
It implied brought Mm«. Beausantin to
her senses. The little beady eyes dilated
again, and she put her hand upon the
door.
"Don't go; I will tell you everything."
"That is more like business." remarked
Caasagns. “Now tell me all you know.
Tou see 1 keep talth with you. Here
are your hundred francs.
The other
hundred are yours when you have told
your story."
“ I don't know much," said Mme. Beau­
santin. “I knew Monsieur Graham only
as a customer. He was a pleasant, civil
man, a little given to drink, I should
judge. I should say nothing but bis af­
fection for his little son kept him from
going to the dogs."
“His son 1 Was Monsieur Graham,
then, married?”
“Tou don't know much about him, evi­
dently. I know he had a son. It must
have been his son. He was very like
him."
"Do you think you would recognize
Monsieur Graham's portrait, if you saw
itr
The detective drew out the locket and
placed it before bee. Mme. Beausantin
took it In her hand, adjusted it to the
light of the shop window, and examined
it carefully.
‘T h is is the portrait of a very young
man. The man I knew was older than
this. Where did you get it? Tes. it is
the portrait of Monsieur Graham.
I
mould know it by several things. He had
« peculiar way of looking.”
“ What was that?”
“He looked downward, at a slight an­
gle, habitually.
He never looked one
■tralght in the face. He also wore an
eye glaas, like the man in the picture."
The detective drew out the second note
and balanced it dexterously between bis
fli
“Tell me where he lived, and this is
urs also.”
“He lived at No. 29 Rue de Santin.
estpi t I® an apartment house. The same
sncierge is still there. He can tell you
a si lore than I can.”
berdt M. Cassagne handed the other note to
(me. Beausantin, took up his hat, and
Misl |g<]ing the laundress good-day passed out
k a ito the street.
C H A PTER X I I I .
, The man in charge of the apartment
kouse at No. 29 Rue de Santin was a
short, dumpy man, of the name of Gug-
hatoff Though he spoke French fluent­
ly, Sven with the accent of a native, his
high Tartar cheek bones, his oblique
ayaat and gutters! intonation when unduly
excited, sufficiently attested bis Russian
origin
In Gughatoff, the Russian, M. Cas­
sagne found he had a far more difficult
person to deal with than the little laun­
dress, pliant by reason of her excessive
greed. With Gughatoff, whose political
opinions now constituted his whole life
motive, mere gain was a secondary con
•ideration. He devoted all his spare time,
wtdch was considerable, as his wife did
moat of the work, to the discussion of
politics. He was one of those men of
whom people say ; “He would sooner talk
politics than eat.”
The Parisian detective now felt that
while bis progress so far had been satis-
(actory. the greatest caution on his part
wSa-TPecessary. He had seen the most
likely cases ruined by too hasty conduct. :
He did not suffer himself to be unduly
oiated by the extremely satisfactory out­
come of bis interview with Mme. Beau­
santin. He went about his work with the
greatest deliberation. A man less a mas­
ter of his difficult profession would have
nt once excited suspicion, which would
have resulted in the Russian's closing
his mouth forever. M. Cassagne avoided
this fatal error by the very deliberation
with which he went about his work. His
first step was to find out the kind of man
he had to deal with. In two days, he
had possessed himself of all necessary
Information. On the third he continued
to Ingratiate himself with the janitor. In
regard to whose antecedents and pecu­
liarities he had been so careful to make
himself acquainted.
On the fifth day the morning train bore
the fistective away from Blois, the richer
for some very important information. He
had shown che portrait in tbs locket to
GoghntotT. and the concierga, liks Mme.
Bsnoaurtin had declared it to be the
portrait of the American Henry Graham.
In addition he had actually persuaded
•off that he had been all the time
pining in Henry Graham a spy of
Rnsian government: that be, Cas-
belonged to a friendly circle of
Vknach co-operative Nihilists having its
trters In P a ris ; that Graham had
at ons time a member of the circle,
that he was about to betray his late
aradee.
Gughatoff. to whom a spy
at a red rag to a bull, had greedily
alt wed this remarkable fairy tale of
i detective’s, especially when the latter
produced s skillfully prepared docu-
St In Russian which not only corn
ded him to ths offices of all good Ni-
Ists. but even gave a distinct account
[ s f th- object of his mission and minuteiy
(bed bis person for purposes of iden-
ktioo.
I— . Cassagne was the author himeeif
^ ^ B l s ueeful paper end had forwarded It
J ) days previously to D'Auhuron in
where It had been translated Into
before being returned to Blois.
1 happily the concierge was ignorant
|Ait deceit, and the plan had therefore
ed perfectly. Burning with hatred
the supposed spy. Gughatoff had told
be knew of hie late guest, which was
fellows:
[ Henry Graham bad resided in BM a
six or seven years, during which
ne he had had correspondence with two
Q
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persous only. Gughatoff knew this, be­
cause, latterly, Graham, for fear of cred­
itors, had rarely left his apartments, and
Gughatoff had mailed his letters for him.
The first of these persons was Mme.
Roupell, thus again establishing beyond
a doubt the identify of the Henry Gra­
ham of Biois with the dissolute brother
of the late owner of the Chateau Vllle-
neuve.
The surname of Henry Graham's sec­
ond correspondent had escaped the mem­
ory of the concierge in the course of
years. He was positive, however, that
her first name had been Helene, and that
she had resided at Belliers, a small village
in the department of the Loire.
This second correspondent had also
been a lady—« well-educated, refined
lady, he should judge, for he had been in
the habit of taking up M. Graham's mail,
and the envelopes had been fins and deli­
cately scented, aud had borne a crest and
monogram on the outside, such as were
only used by persons of rank.
As the train rushed aeross ths land
scape, Cassagne relapsed into a medita
tive mood. The thought recurred to him.
was this woman, after a lapse of so many
years, yet alive, and would it be possible
to find her? If Graham was the murder
er, as he now believed, the person most
likely to know of hie present whereabouts
would be this one— the woman who, in
ail probability, had been his wife. He fell
to studying bow old this boy could be
now. He calculated he must be nearly
thirty years of age. For old Gughatoff,
the concierge, had given the child's age at
about ten when Graham had left Blois,
and a little more than twenty years had
elapsed since, that time. If he could find
him. he perhaps might yet be in com­
munication with his father.
When Henry Graham had left Blois he,
too, had turned his steps in the direction
of Belliers. For Gughatoff had forward­
ed several letters to him at that place. It
was toward Belliers, therefore, that he,
Cassagne, must hasten, there to pursue
his investigations; but first of all he
would go to Paris. He must find out
what M. Lablanche had accomplished. He
must also receive the report of his as­
sistant. who meantime would not have
been idle.
The first thing M. Cassagne did upon
his arrival in Paris was to hail a cab.
Jumping In, he bade the man drive to
the apartment of his friend and assist­
ant, D'Auburon, in the Rue de Provence.
It was about noon when he ascended the
staircase and rapped loudly on the door
of the vestibule. D'Auburon came out
himself to let him in, rubbing hie eyes.
“I have been up pretty nearly all night,”
he said, yawning terribly. “Walt till I
get a bath. Then we will have some
breakfast.”
“Confound the fellow,” exclaimed the
impafient Cassague. “I never call on
him but be is either In the bath or just
about to taks one. It Is the one thing
against his making a good detective. He
is too fond of water.”
A minute afterward D'Auburon appear­
ed in a loose dreslng gown and Turkish
slippers, swinging two enormous Indian
clubs In a manner that threatened de­
struction to the chandeliers and orna­
ments.
While he was thus engaged, Cassagne
had arisen. He was walking restlessly up
aud down tha room. The splashing of the
water bad given him a sudden fit of shiv­
ering. The sight of hla friend wasting
precious time on what ha deemed a friv­
olous exercise, also irritated him. Sud­
denly his eye fell npon a card in the
receiver on the center table. It was a
very elegantly engraved piece of paste­
board. surmounted with a coronet em­
bossed in gold. Its inscription read :
‘T h e Vicomte de Vallar."
“Ah,” exclaimed Cassagne, "that’s the
man to whom I procured you the letter
of Introduction. Tou managed to get
there?”
“Tes,” replied D’Auburon, “and he call­
ed when I was out and left his card. A
great financier he is. President of half
a dozen big companies. He has made
one fortune and has twenty irons In the
fire, all of which he manages to keep re­
spectably heated------ ”
"Never mind him for the present," In­
terrupted Cassagne, Impatiently. “Tell
me of Chabot. above all. I want to know
what the prefect of police has accomplish­
ed. How many men has he got on ths
case?”
" F o u r!”
“Who are they?”
“Vongeot, Remoul, Villeroy and Cou-
tinet.”
"None of them Is np to much except
Vougeot,” mused M. Cassagne, to whom
tha detectives named »-ere well known.
“Vougeot is a pretty smart fellow. What
is he doing?"
"He la shadowing Chabot. So far be
k«e accomplished nothing.”
"Now tell me what has happened. This
man Chabot. Is monsieur le prefect still
serious in his belief that he is In some
way implicated in this crime?”
"Assuredly, but there is a more absurd
phase to it than that. Whom do you
think, in addition to Chabot, monsieur le
prefect has placed under surveillance?”
"Oh, I can't tall. Tha man In the
moon, perhaps.”
"No, not so bad as that. B at, deter­
mined to cover all pointa, I suppose, be
has placed a watch upon the movements
of ths American. Dr. Paul Mason. That's
not all. Poor, honest Pierre, the butler
at the chateau, a man whom yon yourself
examined and said wouldn’t hart a fly,
has also been included. It is positively
shameful to permit such bunglers *» La-
blanche to squander the secret service
funds in such fooleries. Anothsr fellow,
I understand, has bsen haunting the park
at Villenenve, and was nearly shot by
ons of the keepers, who took kim for a
poacher. They hauled him before the
mayor down there, and tba man had to
tell bis whole story to clear himself. The
prefect was raving when be beard of it.
He discharged him from the fores.”
"More bungling." remarked Caaaagna.
"Who was i t r
“Llttla Trlfflet."
■Hunt him np. Pay him well, and tall
him to keep his mouth shut Ha may
know just enough of tbs prefect’s plana to
be a vary useful man for as
what have you found about
sleur Chabot?”
‘He is an adventurer, one of the de
cayed gentleman class; belongs to a cou­
ple of clubs; has the entree into some
very good and also some very question­
able society. He has become affiliated
with the vicomte and his set only within
the last year or two. They are in several
schemes together. la tely he has been
making some money.”
"And the vicomte, you say, is an able
financier?”
“Very, I should say. He floated the
City and Suburban Messenger Company,
and was shrewd enough to withdraw be­
fore it went under. He is, as I told you,
president of the Mutual Credit Com­
pany. and a large operator on the Bourse.
He appears to have been very successful.
His wife, the ricomtesse, has doubtless
been a powerful factor in the making of
his fortunes. Ah, but she is charming.
You should see her. I t was her influ­
ence, doubtless, which secured the co­
operation of Monsieur Colbert-Remplin,
the banker of Rue Hauffmann, in that
deal. He was a haughty old fallow and
never would hare entertained the busi­
ness proposition of de Vallar if it hadu’t
been for the vicomteese. She sat next
to him at dinner. The next day the
prospectus of the Montalnbleau Charcoal
t'ompany was issued, and tbs name of
Colbert Remplin was on the board of di­
rectors.”
"Who told you all this?"
‘Told me? Why, I was there my sell.
They put me in as well. Ixx)k, here I am
in big type. S e e !”
"M. C H A R L E8 D’AUBURON,
“Capitalist.”
Cassagne'g eye gleamed with delight.
He felt proud of his pupil. He sat and
listened while his pupil rattled on, thinks
ing deeply, as was his wont. Presently
he pulled out his watch.
" I t is two o’clock," he said. "My train
leaves at three-thirty, and I have a few
matters to attend to before I start. If
you bars occasion to wire ma you can
And me at that address.”
He wrote upon the back of a card :
"Baptiste Gonlet,
“Care Police Headquarters.
“Belliers, Dep't of Loirs."
‘«niat will be my name for ths nsxt
two or three days; at any rate, as long
as I may find it necessary to stay at
Btlllers. Don't telegraph unless my pres­
ence la absolutely necessary. I leave that
to your discretion. Keep an eye on Mon­
sieur Chabot. aod procure a man at once
to keep track of Dr. Paul Mason’s move­
ments. Totally unnecessary, you say?
Not at all. He may be the deepeet villain
of them all, and hare called me in merely
to keep the other side Bom retaining my
services, thinking that by such a step ha
could beat secur# tha Impossibility of my
being put upon his own track.”
Charles D'Auburon lost sight of tha
sublime egotism of his leader in hie ad
miration of the manner In which ha left
no point uncovered. Hia movement» In
the case were to be compered to those
of e skillful general, who, before the bat­
tle actually commences, disposes of hia
men to the utmost advantage. What In
other men would have been vanity was in
M. Cassagne simply an expression of con­
fidence born of hia self-reliant nature.
(To be continued.)
W o u ld
R ath er
S tay
Sin g le .
An athletic young man, who waa on
tha way to get hla m arriage license,
found himself at last In a room «'here,
as a m atter o f fact, candidates for the
police force were being examined.
The moment he entered the room the
surgeon said, “S tr ip !"
"W h at's th at?” said tha astonished
young fellow.
“Get your clothes off,” replied the
surgeon.
He did so, and his chest measure­
ment waa taken.
Next the surgeon said, "Jum p over
this horizontal bar."
He tried the leap, but fall to the
ground.
"Double up your knees,” commanded
the surgeon, “and touch ths floor with
your hands.”
Again be tried and failed.
"Now run around the room ten
tim es.”
The young man rebelled. ‘T h a t I ’ll
n o t I ’d rather remain single.”
“Single?” said tha doctor.
“ Yes. single. I'd like to know what
all this has got to do with getting my
marriage license.”
And then his mistake as to the room
waa solved!
No C lrc u *
for Jo h n n y .
BIG LINE# MISSING
Mount Royal Witti 400 Passen­
gers Long Overdue.
OWNERS ABANDON ALL HOPE
Sailed
D ecem ber 7
fo r S t. Jo h n ,
From
Antwerp
N. B , and Not
Heard From S in ce .
V ictoria, B . C .f Ja n . 4 .— A private
dispatch from Toronto says the C. P.
R. has given up hope for the steamei
Mount Royal overdue from Antwerp
with_400 passengers.
No Word Received.
S t. Jo h n , N. B ., Ja n . 4 .— No word
has yet been received hete of the Cana­
dian Pacific lino steamer Mount Royal,
which left Antwerp on December 7 for
S t. Ju h n . having on board 304 im m i­
grants, m ostly Italian s and Jew s, be­
sides a crew numbering more than 100
men.
Ths Canadian Pacific officials in this
c ity , while expressing anxiety regard­
ing the vessel, stated today that they
believed the steam er proiifltdy had met
w ith some accident to her machinery
which bad caused her to d rift far out
of her course, and th at she would be
heard from in dae tim e a t some other
port.
May Have Gone to R escu e.
London, Ja n . 4 .— The non-arrival of
the Allan lin e steam ship Hungarian,
which sailed from Greenock, Scotland,
December 14, and is now a week over­
due at Portland, M e., leads shipping
men to believe th at she has fallen in
w ith the Canadan Pacific liner Mount
Royal, which is now long overdue at St.
Jo h n , N. B .
B O Y C O T T TH E E X P O S IT IO N .
S e attle Unions Disgruntled at Action
o f C om m ittee.
Way to Prolong Life.
Chicago, Ja n . 4 .— Dr. J . C. 8ieh «l,
a physician of th is city , annotfheed to-
day before the American Association
for the Adrancemi n t of Science that
he has discovered a method of generat­
ing energy within the human body. He
asserted th at electricity stored in the
human body can be released and made
to do the work of prolongation of life
through the additional v itality supplied
l a r k • Sedaeee.
to the human body working ae its own
“Old fk-adds and I are feeling mighty electrical generator.
ead to-day.”
"How 's that?”
All L e tt E x cep t T h re e
“I ju st eeked him to loan me $00 and
City of Mexico, Ja n . 4 .— Ramon
he said ha waa sorry, but ha couldn't Portas, second officer of the steam er
do I t ”
I Idem, has arrived at Vera Crux and re-
" W a lir
) ported that the vrseel sank in a storm
"W all, I'm sorry, too.”— Hot
m 'b e night of Decemlier 2, and a ll on
Pon*
board were I oat except three.
He
W ee
Im m une.
Vancouver
le A roused by L atest At­
tack of Ja p a n e s e .
Vancouver, B. C ., Ja n . 3 .— W h ile at
no stage did the fight between the
three city firemen and the Japanese
reach anything like the dim ensions of
the September riots, the incident has
revived the b itterest feeling. After all
the explanations and apologies that
have_been made, both civic and govern­
m ental, citizen" of Vancouver did not
believe it possible th at an attack 9uch
a* occurred could he n ade.
A ll three victim s are s till alive,
though at least two are disfiguied for
life. Young Frost, a fine-looking ath ­
lete, had his nose sliced off by one of
the sword-like knives of the Japanese.
The other men, though fearfully in­
jured. are recovering. McDonald was
removed to his home, w hile Anderson
is s till in the hospital with Frost.
The most serious feature in the pop­
ular view is that the Japanese section
is practically an armed camp against
the whites of Vancouver. Two thou­
sand men live together there, ready to
murder any one who makes the slight­
est disturbance. The present instance
is regarded as particularly flagrant, be­
cause the young men were in uniform,
with firemen’s caps, and for all they
knew the Jap s might have been as­
saulting policemen.
The truth is sim ply being forced
home to the entire city that the Ja p
anese here are barbarians enough to
murder on the slightest provocation.
Vancouver lias been a little ashamed of
herself since the night of the Septem­
ber riots, bat th e frightful attack is
just now being regarded in some quart­
ers as showing complete justification.
MAY S U E HARRIMAN
B onaparte S o o n to Issue Statem ent
on Raiiroad M erger.
W ashington, J a n . 3 .— ' ‘ W ith in '«
week or ten days the departm ent of
ju stice w ill issue a statem ent regarding
the ownership by the Union Paoiltc oi
stock of the Southern P acific,” said A t­
torney General Bonaparte.
“ I t had
been contem plated to issue tbe state­
m ent earlier, but the absence in E u r­
ope of special counsel employed by the
government has caused the d elay .”
W h ile the attorney general w ill not
adm it a t th is tim e th a t the statem ent
will be th e announcement of proceed­
ings against the Union Pacific for vio­
lation of the law prohibiting restrain t
of trade, there is excellent authority
for the statem ent th a t it w ill be.
The
departm ent of ju stice, according to one
of its high officials, has reached (he
conclusion arrived at by the In terstate
Commerce commission th a t the control
which the Union Pacific has obtained
over the Southern Pacific by the pur­
chase of stock is in violation of the law
and amounts in su b starce to the merg­
ing of two com peting railways.
Not only will the government pro­
ceed for a dissolution of the merger and
a restoration of the com petition which
prevailed before the Union Pacific
bought Southern Pacific stock, but the
courts will be asked, it is stated by an
official of the departm ent, to break np
the com bine under which the two ra il­
roads are alleged to operate th eir steam ­
ships.
Seattle, W ash ., JaD . 4 .— At a m eet­
ing of the Building Trades council last
night, the assembly voted to call upon
labor organizations everywhere in the
country to lend support to opposition
to the 1909 fa ir.
Action was taken
after the executive com m ittee of the
exposition had refused to incorpoiate in
the building contracts a clause specify­
ing that only union men be employed.
J . E . Chi 1 berg, president of the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, says:
“ A fter considering the demands of
the union, the executive com m ittee de­
cided it coaid not discrim inate. Money
subscribed for the exposition came from
a ll people. W e do not object to union
nor union m en.
We refuse to play
favorites.”
By the declaration of the opea-shop
policy, notices of which went into ef­
fect yesterday, causing the walking o at
of 160 employes in the m etal works of
th is city . Seattle is facing a general
strike which means th at at least 5,000
men will become involved, and at least
NIGHT RID ER S FIR E A TOW N.
$1,000,000 in building w ill be retarded
before a settlem ent is reached.
Burns T o b acco W arehou ses In Rus­
sellville and Wounds M en.
IN FLU X O F J A P S .
N ashville, T en n ., J a n . 3 .— A long
distance telephone message to the
Fifteen Hundred Com ing to Vancou­ American from R u ssellville, K y ., says
th at night riders visited th at town at
ver Fro m Honolulu.
The to­
Vancouver, B . C ., Ja n . 4.— The un­ 12:45 o’clock this m orning.
explained
arrival
of 300 Ja p a n ­ bacco warehouse of H . G . Work A Com­
ese in Vancouver yesterday and the pany and the American HnufT company
The
prospect of an influx of another 1,200 were dynam ited and burned.
within the next month from Honolulu planing m ill of Roberts A Brown and
three other sm aller houses were more
are the features of the O riental situ a­
or less damaged.
tion in Vancouver. W hy the 300 Japs
Many shots were fired, and It is re­
came to Vancouver yesterday is a mys­
ported th at two men, one of them a
tery. A il the morning they poured in­
commercial traveler, were wonnded.
to town from the coast logging camps,
Russellville is a town of about 4,0 0 0
and some even from the American side
inhabitants snd it Is the county seat of
of the boundary lin e.
The boarding
house keepers of Japtow n had a buy Logan county, which borders on the
tim e housing them . Last night there Tennessee line. It is in the heart of
was the usual crop of rumors that they the dark tobacco d istrict and but one
came in view of possible trouble, and county, Todd county, separates it from
officers of the A siatic Exclusion league Christian and Trigg counties, the scene
of the recent depredations in and
arer much perturbed over the event.
Fu rther details
Yesterday it was announced th at at around H opkinsville.
least 1,000 Japanese would come from were not obtainable at 3 o'clock (b is
morning.
Hawaii during the next three weeks.
Johnny—“Can I go to the circus,
pa?”
F ath er—"No Indeed, I
wouldn't
think of letting yon see such a degrad­
ing exhibition.”
Johnny— ‘T h e n won't you please
take me to the menagerie? Teacher
C oat o f New Y ear C elebration .
save we ought to see the an im als”
New York, Ja n . 4.— Men who are
F ath er—“W h a t! Pay full price to fond of figures say th at New York's
only half the ahow? I guess n o t" New Y’ear celebration coat $1,750,000.
At one restaurant that night receipts
A f t e r T w e n t y Y ear«.
were oyer $20,000, 2,000 qnarta of
M rs Hardappie (a t p lay )— "T h at champagne being drank.
I t is esti­
thar leading lady looks the same as mated th at the diners around town
•be did In tbe last a c t r
made away with 42,000 quarts of cham ­
Mr. Hardappie— “Yeaa, aud twenty pagne and 66,000 quarts of claret, not
years ere supposed to eiapee between to mention the barrels of other drink­
ables consumed.
Souvenir hunters
tbe lest and this one.”
Mrs. Hardappie— "Do te ll! And to were out in force and every hotel and
think she didn't wash her face one* restaurant lost great quantities of glass
in sll that time.”
#nd other ware.
“Aren't you going In bathing?”
asked Miss Pepprey.
“No," replied Cholly. “You know,
they say there’s a huge shark lurking
around the beach these days."
“Yea, but why ahould that alarm
you? They aay It's a man eating
shark,
you
know.“ — Philadelphia
F E E L IN G IS B IT T E R .
DEFENSI
Conference
fary of ’
ADJUTANT
Manning
of .
S ta te R e ser
o f Ceunc
Portland, Ja n . !
of the three Pan
W ashington and Ca
invited by the W a r l
W ashington, D. C ., 1
the earliest possible
je ct of coast defense.
A
ral W . E . Finzer, of Oregon, _
eral J . B
Lauck, of California, a n
leaving for the capital tomoirow, while
General Otis H am ilton, of W ashing­
ton, will start E ast Saturday.
The request from the W ar depart­
ment fot this conference is regarded ae
peculiarly significant, indicating the
government's determ ination to prep en
for any emergencies that may arise
from the West. The principal topic of
consideration at the conference will be
th at of training volunteer coast a itil-
lery reserves to man Oregon, W ashing­
ton and California fortifications. The
subject of perfecting the infantry regi­
ments of the three states in coast de­
fense operations will likewise he taken
up. It is assured that the meeting will
result in assignment of National Guard
troops to coast artillery work. The
three adjutant generals will very likely
return with the task ahead of recruit­
ing now coast companies for this ser­
vice.
For several month« Gen. ia 1 Oliver
has been iu communication with Gene­
rals Finzer, Lauck ami Hamilton on
the suhjtWt'-Of «bust defense. Only a
few days Tf„y,he submitted memoranda
from the oilier of artillery recommend­
ing assignment of the Oregon troops to
coast defense maneuvers in May, ea
well as the permanent setting aside of
certain infantry companies for heavy
artillery training.
This plan was not regarded by the
three coast adjutant generals as feasi­
ble. There appeared to he a disinclin­
ation among infantry commanders to
apportion their companies for artillery
work.
Conceited objection was also
made to the month of May for manenv-
ers, as it is difficult for the average
guardsman to leave h is business or
work a t th t busy tim e of the spring
rush.
\
I t Is known, however,
.< the W ar
departm ent w ill find it necessary to
offer more than a plan of coast defense.
The carrying out of such a plan will be
attended by mme or less expense. That
the states should foot the bills does not
seem ju st. It is believed that the gov­
ernment wili he asked flatly what ai-
can he given in the organization of rt
serves or the assignm ent of infantry a
ready organized
V IC T IM S O F JA P M O B.
T h ree Firem en Badly Irjurod at Van
couver, B . C ,
Vancouver, B . C ., Ja n . 2 .— Allan
Anderson, fireman, is dying and two
other youns men, also member« of ths
oity fire departm ent, are badly wound­
ed and in the hospital as the result of a
fight they had early th is morning In
the Japanese quarter with an over­
whelming num ber of ihe subject« of the
mikado. The fight whh the wor t in
the city sine- the Heptemiicr riots, and
indicates th a t Ihe J a p a n e s e a t «11
tim es ready for (rouble arid uiger lo
fight with th e ir long knives th at have
blades keen as razors.
Anderson, accompanied by J . Froet
and T . McDonald, was passing a Ja p ­
anese store, when Frost stumbled and
fell hard against the plate-glass window
front. The glass smashed and the frag­
m ents were s till rolling on the s dewalk
when a score of Japanese appeared from
the inside anil rushed at the trio of
whites. The firemen were in uniform,
with brass buttons and official caps, bni
the^Iapauese knifed them furiously.
Bad W ater C a u ta s F ev er.
Franklin, P a., J a n . 3 .— Charging
that a recent typhoid edipem ic was due
to the water supply, a number of resi­
dents of th is city are attem pting to col­
lect damages for sickness in their fam ­
ilies from the Kenango W ater company.
Suits were filed today by Rev. Irr.
Maurice Pen fie Id Fikes and Jam es B.
Borland.
The amount of damages
claimed is not stated in tb e petitions,
but it will be sufficient to cover the
charges of physicians and nurses and
other expenses, as well as rem uneration
for physical and m ental distress.
S te a l C h e st of N ickels.
Rochester, N. Y ., Ja n . 2 .— Two men
Stole a chest containing $2,859 from •
street car standing in front of the Main
street F.ast carbarns at 6 :2 5 o’clock this
morning and got safely away with it In
an autom obile. The stolen money rep­
resented the earnings of the Rochester
Railway com pany yesterday on what is
known as the E astern division. Ii was
being transferred according b custom
from the Federal street carbarns
the
S tate street office to be counted when
th e robbery occurred
Oft* s ate in
pu rsu it.
R ebel Against Zelaya.
Panam a, J a n . 3 .— Advices from Bo­
ca» del Torree say that passengers a rriv ­
i ing there from Blueflelda, Nicaragua,
' report th at the Mosquito Indisns have
risen against the governm ent of P resi­
dent Zelaya, who is arcnned by them of
being responsible for th e death of th e ir
ch ief. Conditions were considered so
1 serious by I he commander of the B ritish
' man-of-war cruising in
Nicaraguan
' waters that bluejackets were landed to
1 protect the interests of foreigners.
M ore Stotan Mail Found.
Waco, Tex , Jar-
—/Another large
hatch of m ail lias been found went of
here near where the firvt batch was left
by the pooch looter* Ch-Ht-nas n -.'b t.
It is estim ated that check«, money nr-
ders and drafts left ly*--g in Die guiub
where the pom-hea were opened will ag­
gregate $50,000
ft pec ¡a I government
officers -re working on th t -** e
Nome
two or U ir-e thO' -m d lei ra fr
iri-
' oua parts - t its United fttalea
in
the pouches
Grow th o f New Y o rk V aluss
New Y ork, Ja n . 3 .— Controller Metz,
in a review yesterday on the growth of
tb e city in th s ten years since consoli­
dation »a!d th at the seesawed valuations
of rsa I estate owned by tb s people had
advanced from $2 .5 3 2 ,4 1 6 ,8 1 9 in 1898
to $ 6 ,2 4 0 ,4 8 6 ,6 0 2 in 1907.
Torped o B o ats in Paris
P aris, B razil, Ja n . 2 .— The tor pc'*
boat flotilla which is preceding t>
tieshlp fleet to the Pacific, arrD
today from Port of Hpein
The flotilla, which hpd W
encountering luted fcr
one day on th p ra n b
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lo r .
oro, who is
i joint sens
■d of Linco
and
Yam I
reared in t
resided wit!
us he has be
?oro. He h
e lower hou
is chairman
;• at the li
: acquaintam
t will give hii
for th« dfvtric
: vote in th:
lei ted.
jin anent gam
ire discussed <
rest and Sirean
urdtr evening.
m
w a *..in e v i-
{estions regard-
t to be enacted
amended, were
:nt.
ers 1,J? the ftt-
ind resuItAd as
J. Go ft; Isec-
reasurer, Cl B.
shooting was
Sunday morn-
Ror
t
Tuth For
and by the
r County Com-
'eted a piece
beginning at
inmg to the
:nue, that is
at Mr. Todd
ua-
od road build-
cess.
i
è
the Christi
as a success,
vning of the
icipal feature
incheon that
ese was en-
ceedi © j j
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