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CHAPTER III
I Continued. I
4 reistabl« was standing In th« garden.
T
had !•« h«l rhe highway
"Good old Vtilean. to wait for her !” he
at s' • » . • th « „ r I, at he w
. baie murmured. "Mil tight tor another day,
journeyed aerosa th» world to study a •nd keep • at iff bridle arra for one more
laboring monster, like l’elea in his pres­ day !“
eti’ atre«», but the Idea of the girl being
"It Isn’t really sah, you know," he
In tbe shadow of danger took all the found bourelf saying at breakfast, ’’but
relish from tbe work.
rock ground as fin» as n»at and shot out
"I should prefer to hear you dia-tire tbe t>) sirs'll thro-igh I'elee's vah««.''
treachery of volcano*« outsi-le of the fir«
"How Intensely
•one.” »he «aid, shivering,
"It's Ilka bury obrerv«d.
listening to ghost »tories In a haunted
"It's a graphic morning." aald Brren,
Vxaao.”
"ami I'eter is clrll« from a night of m.-di
"I'll tall yc- i th« ties! way out of If,
tation
I believe he haa made a covenant
be ■!«, I a re I
'I don't «ay that P«l«a Is with th« mountain."
about to r • and rend Nairn Pierre. but
Constable had met th« «ye« of the
1 want t
k« you all out to rea for a daughter, and found no bop« there. 11«
f«» d»>» ii.e Madai - will b«bav» b»r imd taken his unei« apart ami charged
pre". »t with »• i mi board"
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t
"I can't imagine anything finer, but
"I'reula,” the planter began gravely, nd
you knuw mother la uni a graceful aall dressing Mrs Stanabur/t "I'eter has ask­
•r "
ed us to spend a few days with him in
I
"I'nfortunately, an) effort of mine to th» Caribbean. i>n t«»ard tbe Madame
prevail Upon her might spoil matterà.' confess that I don't like th» way I'elee
Is acting, and th« beat is telling un us
Constable said.
"Oh, 1 don't think that,* she replied; all. Tha proapsi-t of a refreshing breath
"but it will I» something of a conquest of th« Trades is a mighty pleasant on« to
for any one to shake her trust In Pelre Ute. l»o«an't It sound so to you?"
'As • ap«slall»t in vol .-»news, I shoubl
Ntill. I'll do what I can."
"And I'll l>eg in work to-night ui>m think Mr Conatabla would find It Im
t'ncle Joey, By th» way. Mire Stan« IHiaslbl« to leave at such a time." the
bury,' h» added in a lowered voice. ■’don't elder woman answered smoothly. "Th*
you think that if I chose to stay her« in mountain nee-ls bia doctor more than ever
Faint I’lerre, your mother might consent how."
more willingly to try a few days on th«
"I have not yrt attained unto such a
Madame? Y--U know I'elee 1» more than scientific passion that I can forget my
•v«r interesting to me now
frivtide «ntirely,” Constable said ••rneatly.
"That would i»e entirely unthinkable,"
"For my part,” th» girl hastened to
•he replied hastily
»ay. "Mr Conatable's invitation Is Im
I'elee rumbled again, and the girl's fin
meiisely alluring."
gers tighten«,! upon hl» arm. Th« heavy
Mrs. Stansbury's eyelids
contracted
wooden shutters of the plantation bouse •ver so littl«. and she lingered upon th«
rattled In the windless night ; th« ground
upon which they stood «rented to wince a tang of pleasure in the utterance. "Tb«
at th« monster's pain Tlie man was con
Panther arrive« day after to-morrow
•cions <>f th« fragrane« of roaea and mag morning, with the New York mail.
1
noli a bloom» strove th« acrid taint of the would not under any condition think of
air. It was a« if. through «->uu- at range leaving Saint Pierre before re-elving Mr.
freak ot the atmosphere, a pressure was Stansimry'a letters.”
Constable staresl at th« far« ot the
•lerted ii|«»n the flowers, forcing a sud
den expulsion of perfume.
The young -laughter. lie read there terror of the
moon was a ellow, formless blotch in the mountain, and pity for himself. 11« a roae,
fouled sky
A sigh like th« whimpering .
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Itresn fuiirid h iu In bis room a few mm
of a sick child was aitdililr from th« ser
vauts' cabins Itehlnd th« big house
utes later.
"Peter." he said softly, "has It ever
■'You’ll plead with your mother to
night?” he whispered, as thsy walked occurred to you that the map of Europe
and th» history of I'ranre might greatly
back.
Mrs Stansbury was <>n the porch. Iler have been altered if our belovwi Joeepb
nicely modulated voice, as she s|«*k» fi­ ine had been gifted with a will Ilk« that?”
ber daughter, s'truek Constable with a
cold force. The women went I minors
CHAITKIt IV.
Breen and t'ncle Joey were In cotiversa
In th« Rue de Rivoli there was a little
tion. t'onstnlde drew his chair in th<- stone fruit shop. Th« street was «bort,
north end of the porch, and faced the narrow, crooked and ill pav«-l a cleft in
mountain a vast black beast rauchant Saint I’ierre's terrace work. Just aero«»
under th» dim stars Since h* had gated from th« vault-like entranre to the shop,
In that direction from the ship th* night th« whit«, scarred cliff arose to another
before, the whide purpose of his Ilf« had flight of the city. Between th« shop ami
change,!
Then lie had asked no sweeter the living rooms behind there was a little
favor of the Eat«a than to b« permitted court, shade,! by mango-trees. Dwarfed
to olsserve th* giant's struggle to contain banana .hruti« flourished In the shade of
th« fury of his fluids Now his thoughts the mangoes, and singing birds were cag
were magnetised by a new sulwtance
»d In th« lower foliage. Mim-e th« sun
th« Mtbstanc« of fear. Self, the tribune could find no entrance, the »hop was dark
of all his reckonings heretofore, had b*--n as a care, and as cool. Ona window,
lifted from hi« brain, as a familiar vol
an aperture l‘ka th« dean wound of
a thirteen Inch gun could tie called a win
nine Is lifted from its ca«e
"I knew it," he muttered. "I knew It dow, opened tn the north; and from It.
five years ago— that 1 should <"me back by th« grace of a crook In the Rue d"
here aoms day. look upon that girl, ami Rivoli, might be seen the mighty caliber-
become a raver like other men. To think ed cone of I'elee.
P«re Rabeaut's fruit was very good,
that I could stay away from her a year
and some of It was very cheap. The ser
s
He regarded the doubl« chain of lights vic« was much as you mad« it. for If you
out in th* hartwir tbe Madam« pulling were known you were permitted to help
In thia world there was no
at her moorings among th« l««ser craft, yourself.
like a lustrous «nipr.se in th« mulst of one of station too lofty to go to Pierre
dusky maidservants
Between the black Rabeaut's, you would nveet no on« there
mountain and the illumined ship atretched to whom it was not a prirllegs to say
a battle. It was his own particular bat "lton jour.”
"I'ons and sc* my birds,” th« crafty
11«. Ilia name wa« called from the lists
Ralieaut would say. If h« approved of
T<> win was to'run away. Th« old mas
taring complication was bia at last. Ye« you.
"Where do you II vs T* you might ask,
ter,lay a splendid > -ntribution to th« lin
perfect rrsmrds of seismology, such as being a stranger.
"In the coolest hovel of Saint Pierre,"
was now within hi* grasp, was Identified
with his highest ambition. To-day the was th« invariable answer.
And presently, if you were truly alive,
•af«ty of the woman lowered above It.
as th« dome of Ht. I’eter’s above tbe you would And yourself In the little stone
In du«
head of a tourist, lie was afraid of Pe­ shop, listening to th« hints.
lan. ltrven drew over to him and sat ■ ours« Noronia would appear In th« shad­
owy doorway and It would seem that the
down upon tbe railing
Mrd songs »ere hushed as sb« croased th«
"YYbat'a on your mind. Peter?"
court.
"A mountain.” said t'onstabl«.
Ilaln did not fall In th« night. and
If th« littl« stone shop were transplant­
Constable was abroad with th« dawn, ed In New York, artists would find It
regarding the white world and th» source and hav« difficulty In getting In and out.
of the phenomenon, with tha sketchy for the crowd o* nights. Thither Con
tints of «aril»«! ne-rnlng upon the hug* stable and Breen made their way on this
•astern slojie. He had slept little, and burning morning which Mrs. Ntansbury
that with bia far« turned to th« north. darken«! with bar deciaion. Tbe pair sat
He would Scarcely close his eyes before down in th« cherished coolness. Const alii«
a cortege of volcano«« would pass before at the little window, so that b« could
him, as In a dream all the destroyers look at th* mountain.
of history, each with a vivid Individuality,
"Breen, I dare not leave them here for
like th« typ«s of faces of all nations
tbe
I’antber
forty-eight hours, until
th« story of each, and th« sm«ar It had comes," Constat!« aald.
made of men and the works of m«n.
"Do you really think Pelea can't bold
Moat of them had gl,«n warning Pe- out that long?*'
|e« was warning now. His warning was
Const al« shook hie head -Impatiently,
written upon the veins of «very leaf, "I'm not a monomaniac at least, not yet.
painted upon the curve of «vary blade of Breen." he said, and his voles suggested
graaa. sheeted evenly white upon the tiles the world of pent savagery In his brain.
of «very roof. Gray dust blown hy steam "Th« ways of volcanoes are past the pre­
from the bursting quarries of tha moun visions of men. I do not say that Pel««
tain, clogging the gutters of tha city, and will Mow his head off thia week, or this
th« throats of men ! It was a moving millennium
I say I'm afraid for thia
white cloud In the rivers, a cha'ky shad­ girl. I say there are vaults of »xplo-
ing that marked tha hlghaat reach of the elves In that monster, tbe smallest of
hartior tide It aettled In the hair of the which could make this city look like a
ebildretg and complicated the toll of the leper's corpse upon th« beach.
I say
b«*« in the ne, tar cupn of tha rose*. With that the Internal fir«« are burning high ;
leaguwlong c«r«tnenta. and In a voles that that they are already fingering th« vital
cause I to tremble bis dwarfed cohort a. cap: that I’elee sprung a leak last night,
th« bills and morn«a. great Pelea had and that th« same for,-« which lifted this
cheerful archipelago from the depths of
pruUaimed bia warulug In the night.
< Ol XIY
SEPTEMBER
25.
tb, »«• Is pre-sing against lb« leak st
this lastsnt
I say that Vrsuvius warned
beforr hr broke, that Krahatua warned
and then «truck; that down th* ag«^ the«»
aa t rtj «ahe« aratterrd over the far# of
earth hate trembled befurw (h'.n< way.
IVIer 1« trembling now. aud there h a
wromau here whoar «afs'tj ia important
to nw
Mhe la two nt.Ir« away thi« too
I am a« power I. »• *« « titan tn
a «tr««-t ^<ht. with bls lady • arms atMtul
w M »hall I |
“Teter, there ia a abort cut,** Brern
•aid.
•Tell ma!" Constable urged.
*‘.kre you lealoua and < tong sou led?"
"Try rue "
At this juncture Koronis enter»,! th» Leas Important but Not Less Inter­
shop from th» littl« court of th* «»ng
esting Happenings from Points
birds, filling lb* eyes of th« Americans
\ dark, ardent, alluring fac« flesh Ilk«
Outside the State.
dull gold, mad« wonderful by the faintest
tints of ripe fruit ; eyes thst could melt
end burn and laugh ; a fragile figure, hut
A forest fire threatens to burn the
radiantly abloom, and as worthily draped
house at Ballston, N Y , where Grant
a, a young ¡-aim In a vine richly hlcw»>m-
died
Ing
M <i> h. vaguely, was Morvnis
She
made one think of a strange, regal flower
Forest lire» in Pennsylvania have
an etiwrionent of Nature, wrought In the ilready burned over 3ii,0OQ acres, and
most sumptuous shadow of a tropic rar are still burning
dan. Nhe was gone. Br*«n’a face bore a
A New York lawyer has just been
I drained look.
srrested for defrauding a woman
“An orchid?" he wht«per*>l "Will the
I visitation I-» repeated? I Hi I wake or many years ago.
Bleep?"
W B Me Yliisicr, of Omaha, has
"4>ld I'ere Rglseaut married a French been appointed land agent for the
Southern Pacific.
• woman." t'onstalde otwerved.
' N..i:I »apho« ot ih« island«, she must
Four out of a party of seven lost
' have I htii . slni-e I’ere Rat«aut do«« not their lives when .1 launch wa» wrecked
• • •
di-s ai.-d to father a sunr •». ' llrwu on the Long Island sound
id,!-4. his rye« I.Mt In th» shadowa of th«
The students of the Missouri school
court, from wbetu-e th« bird songs came.
for the blind have taken to roller
I’er, Rate-ant «as a worthy soldier ot
skating, and make quite a »ucce»»
Frauce, I hav» heard." said t'onstabl«. "I
of it
have never well th« mother, but every
I ong dry »pells have dried up m.<ny
year I have seen Noronia for a moment
like thia Nh« was but a child when ! rivers in the East, and forest fires
came first fiv« years ago but a radiant cover the whole Atlantic coast alili
»moke.
child «ven then.”
"Five year, ago.” Itreen ■nureil
The trans Atlantic liner M atirelam i
years ago I had not cease,! to p«lnt. I lost a propeller blade in a »turni, and
should have put her on canvaa.”
for hours lay helpless
There was a
Thee« was a ruotiwut of allene«, thea panic among the passenger»
foil,table said ir, a low voir*. "I must go.
Zia Iley, head of the Turkish secret
back. Tell me the shorter way."
"I'eter, you are a tuan. and she a worn police under the old regime, has had
an. Forgive me, but I know what ha, to flee the capital for his bfe. and »ays
sprung Into your heart in ths i-ast twenty he is coming to Oregon to live
four hours from the seels that have been
The battleship fleet has sailed from
there five years. Tell her tell har all Albany, Australia, for Manila
about those fit* years and th« one day
Von Buel -w declares Germany is in
what they hav« meant to you. and your
favor of peace and arbitration
dream of the future
If you tell her
A retired steel magnate of Nev
mightily enough, she will follow you to
th« Madame, aud cast no longing look be Jersey was shot and killed by his Con
hind ! I shall stay here for an hour or iidciiti.il clerk
two.”
Orville YY right w is ludly hurt «ml
t’onstabl« left the shop. He was very his companion killrd while making a
miserable, full of undirected wrath. N«v trip in his aeroplane
er in hi, life before bad there been a
A Swedish explorer has ju«t reached
time when a stiff shoulder, dollar«, an ath
Simla, India, after nearly a year spent
letie mind, or all three, had failed entirely in the interior of Thibet
to move an otsstacl« in bls way. Here he
Colonel Stew vrt has been ordered
was ground by Impotence absolut«. The
euggcation of Breen entailed su h a deep back to his lonely post at Fort Grant,
and vital thing that he dared not think of without taking the riding test
it, here iti the glaring day, with the pant­
Mrxiian
and
Japanese
sailors
ing crowd about him. It was against the fought desperately on a wrecked ship
very structure of hl, mind to act praclpi to escape fr<mi drowning, but all were
lately in thia of all matters, newt deli finally saved
rate
It is true that he meant Bow to
Letters have been made public
win I-ara Stansbury, It such a stately
citadel lay within range of a man ot hl, wrhii'h seem to prove that Senator
caliber; hut he bad vouchsafed to strike J H Foraker is in the pay of the
Standard (>1) company
only after a flaw leu Inreatmeut were
laid.
It is said alarming cholera reports
Breen did not return for luncheoi., have been sent out from certain cities
and the name of I'elee war not heard. In in China in order to get contributions
bl, room, afterward, fon,table fell asleep, from superstitious Chinese.
with his fare to the north. 11« awoke
J J Hill say» the day of cheap
out ot s horrid dream, in which black wheat is over, that the food problem
fingers were tightening, like a garrote, is a serious one, and that the govern
upon hi, throat.
It was th« ash and m^nt should be building schools oi
sulphur funws sgsin. I'elee was obscur­ agriculture as well as warships.
ed by the fresh fag
Instsntly. opoo
Taft will make three big campaig i
awakening, th« old thoughta and dreads
tours.
r«sume<l their hateful swing In his brain.
Chicago's population is placed al
The sight of the Madam*, lying out In tbe
harlior, her needle loom pointed like • 1.934 oflo by the recent school census
Mack, flesblesw finger acroag the smoky
Seattle banks will sell the bonds of
sunset, whipped him again to the arnse the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
of art Ion which luld no meana of ciprea
A Minnesota woman walked 35(4
•ion. Thoughts of the night th« locked
doors, the st III balla, the wall of ehll miles to visit the grave of her htls
dr«n from the native cabins, sleeplessness bind near Chicago.
without bo|M-, vigilance without meaning.
French troops routed a strong tribe
• nd thia new master romance shining far of Congo native* who trade in con
and bright and alone, like a bravo star traband arms and »laves.
above wind hurled clouds out of these
A negro was lynched for shooting .1
were moulded thoughts of little mercy, ••
the shadows grew long upon th« whiten­ white man in Louisiana, though th*
latter wavnot seriously hurt.
ing lawn.
A Baptist moderator in Kentucky
I’rlre'a mooda were variable that after-
Cion. Th* twilight brought esse again, died of heart failure when h-s son
and with the old freahneaa of evening was arrested for selling liquor.
came a glad hour of reaction. There wns
The French press is irritated by
a rippling wav« of merriment f-un tb« the German criticism of the Franco
darky qnartcre. and a wore of chll-lreti Spanish note regarding Morocco.
went blithely forth to l«th« In th« «ea
Chicago health officials found fish
Never before was th« rolatil« tropic soul
that had been stored Ifi months in the
so Imperiously evidenced simple heart*
warehouse of the Booth company that
which glow at littl« things, whore swift
failed recantly.
tragedie« come and go Ilk« blighting
Four crooked bankers arraigned in
wind«, which slay but leave no wound.
t'onstabl« was a«hame<l for the me judge Dunne's court in San Fran
rnent. Throughout the day his eyes had resco broke down and wept, and plead
fixed In stubteirn glouq upon a cataclysm. for a reduction of bail
I'p tbe stairway, airl^ as laughter, rame
A commission appointed to inves
a bright mcludy from th« piano. Ils waa ’¡gate New York's high buildings has
thrilled, and held, and hl« mind was stir- decided that they cannot be limited
red with Irndeniere
Nh« waa like her as to height, but restrictions provid­
island people, quick to ent«r th« grove« ing for light and air can be enforced
of serenity when thZ black cloul bad
Evelyn Thaw, reduced to poverty
blown by.
Could Breen bo light? he
thought. Th« suggestion appealed ro him will return to the stage.
now In a new high light.
Were >h«re
A Southern wotflUn led a mob of
not aome words which had never ,et Ivnchers against the assailant of het
found the ears of wonian from th« lipa of daughter.
man «ome key to Instant supremacy In
A Canadian Pacific strikebreaker »•
th« nndlerovered country of • lovely
Winnipeg nearly caused a riot by
woman's nature?
shooting one of the striker*.
(To bo continued.)
A practical joker at Windsor, Mo.
A MblgNm«.
toth hr<! off a car of p-reder. kilim,
"I 1 would like to see more mowing seven person* and injuring 30.
verse from your pen," «aid the ad-
Tbe president of the Chicago srh -ol
EVENTS OF THE DAY
I!»os
I CHOLERA
Qowi n n«nt
X<>.
II
IN ST. PETERSBURG.
May Hava Io Pro lalrn
Mar a Law.
St Petersburg, Sept 21 -Si Fct-
ersburg is m the deadly Rt-ltp of
Astatic cholera, which already ha* ex
cceded in seventy and number oi
death» the visitation of lfi#3. The
disease is increasing daily at an alarm
' ¡ng rate, am! unless the authorities
show in the future a much greater
degree of ability to cope with the
situation than they have in the past,
there i* every reason tn (car that it
will get out of hand
The govern
nient » threat to apply the provision-
oi martial law hi» driven the munici
pal official» to bend all their energies
to clearing the city of the scourge
The aldcrtnamc council Saturday
voted I33O.OOU t<> enlarge the hospital
space, to purchase and distribute dis
infest ml», the supply of which in St
Petersburg 1» well nigh exhausted,
and to expedite the interment oi
bodies, which has been notoriously
slow
'1 he
dc.idhousrs
arc
over
crowded and many corpses lie un
buried.
t’nder his authority, the prefect of
Nt Petersburg. General Drachcfllk ky
on Saturday prohibited the sale of
liquor throughout the city, including
the government vodka »hops, until
September 22. ami he ha» further or
dered that hereafter lhe *a!e of the
liquor shall be »uspended at 2 I’ M
on Saturday until I A M M-mday
This action has been taken in order
to diminish alcoholic excesses, which
very materially increase the liability
to cholera mi« ti--n ami the general
spread of the disease
USE PRIVATE TCHOOLS.
Mr». Ro.-««feller Say* Public Inatitu
tion» Are tor Poor.
Milwaukee, \V>«, Sept 23
Mr,
William Rockefeller, who. with her
husband, i» in this city, said yeaterday
that she believed the children of the
rich should be »ent to private rather
than to public »chools.
"All I have ever tried to be ¡1 jilt!
an ordinary mother," »aid Mr» Wil
ham Rockefeller, at the Flitter Hotel
"I have two «on* and two daughter«,
and
and
them up
the
use<l all
t he
think of
the
to make
them good average men and women
"I »id my boy« --o to public school»?
No; that would have been most »cl
fish in a city like New Yotk where
our schools are crowded
It is only
fair that parent* who can afford li
should »end their children to private
they
MAKE LAST STAND.
Nevada Only State in Union That Al­
low* Gambling.
Reno, Nev, Sept 22
The gambler»
of the I'nilcd States will make their
final stand for freedom in Nevada
next month. At that time a special
'• i n IS |O be held in Rrno to give
the people an opportunity to vote on
the question whether or not the gam
bling house* of this city should be
closed.
For six months the fight has been
in the making, each »ide making every
preparation for the contest. Nevada
is now the only state in the union
where g-iuibling
gambling 1*
is licensed
licenseil
M <n
tana legislated it out of existence
some tunc ago Armona followed
suit, and the toleration which kept
gambling going in Denver and Salt
Lake ha« been withdrawn.
Nevada <>niy remains, and nearly
every prominent gambler in the coun
try is now located in this state.
Firafightee* Loa« Oround.
Albany, N Y., Sept 22
Although
Xew York ha« one of the best
equipped loreat (ire fighting or
organixa
tion» in the country (rc«h fu ires are
being reported dailv from the Adiron
dark* and Catskill region»
Unlc*«
there i« a heavy rain «non the dam­
age may approximate that of the de
»tructive fires of HM>3, when over
450,000 acre« were burned over, en
tailing a Io»» of faooooo in »landing
timber, log« and nu'p wood
Ecery
effort i» being
_ ma, 1!« to hold the pres
In 133 towns in
ent fires in control
the Adirondack» and Catskill regions
?43 fire wardens are at work
Two Towns Wiped Out.
Chicago. Sept 23—Ixvng - distance
telephone mrssages to the Tribune
from Rhinelander. Wi«. state that
the towns of Daggan and Woodborosy
mirer.
board favors spuiking as the b*s have been destroyed by forest fires
"Do you mean something pathetic? method of overcoming the "frat evil " The tooo residents of th/ two town«
ire fleeting through the burn'ng
asked the poet, "or something about
So»-kho'ders in<| directors of th» woods to Rhinelander panic stricken
springtime moria T' — Kanaae (It/
Chi< »go Milwaukee A St Pau! rail
Many people of Woodborow are
Tliuo*
road arc coming to the Pacific coast missing
Missing Ship Aeon Wrecked on
isliind In Pacific.
Captain
Take» Engine From Ship's
Cargo, Fits Up Ship's Boat
and Goos tor Help.
Victoria. II C. Sept iv -Cabled
advices from Tanning island »tale
that tbe »learner Ae-n. which left San
I ranci»c<> July fl tor Aucland, via
\pia, and was considerably overdue,
wa- < .«med on Christmas island by
the strong current» »citing on »bore,
and became a total wreck
The ship'»
company. Ju in «11. t. -k to the boat»
and landed at a »mall settlement lac­
ing the lagoon, all safe.
There arc I tit women and two cliil
dren, mostly wivr» of officers of the
I nurd State» battleship squadron,
who took pavs.igr to join their hut­
bands in Australia, includ ng Mi, I .u
rick, wife of Chaplain Patrick, and
family
All are camping on Christ»
ma, island awaiting revue.
Itu Ae-'ii i» list on (he coral island,
partially lull ot water and wrecked
bey -ml all hop, ,.( salvage, but the
500 bag» of ni.nl iboard were likely
to be recovered
1 hr cargo included
- lllllon and 3.000,444X1 feet of redwood
and »onie gasoline engines
tine of
these wav tilted in a »hip» boat to
tike Captain Downie. the second of­
ficer and two engin.ers to Tanning
island, lying 14 mile» northwest, to
cable news of the disaster.
Nome -J the
im-n and general
merchandise was recovered and taken
ashore with the ship'» boat», and a
stork of water secured, the supply on
I hristmas island being poor
Cap-
tain Downie had a difficult lime
reaching Fanning island
I he engine
fitted in the «hip’s boat refused to
work, and the boat w is towed back
to Christmas ¡»land, where it was re-
fitted.
After
After a long trip he reached Fan­
ning isl.in-f tl , m rning
lhe crew
was treated kindly by the staff of the
Fanning island cubic station
lhe
steamer M muka, of the Canadian-
Yustrahan line, tortimately is miking
a call at Tanning island to land sup
plies <m her present voyage an,| |(
>hic Tuesday nest
It is expected »he
will make i call at Christina» i»lxnd
an.I take off the survivor» i>t the Aeon,
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. Io the
Manuka
Meanwhile
the
survivors
have
plenty of food and water, and there
” 'hr ter for the women in the house»
of a wot king camp of some pearl hsh
ertnen employed by a British com­
pany
I rom the day the Ae n left San
rancisco nothing had been heard of
her until the dispatch telling of the
"irty of the passengers on Christmas
• ’ and
ihi» island 1» located near
the eouator, about I 0.1 miles south of
It n<> ulii an.) . i .J ihi miles - mthwest of
Nan I lanci-t <>
It i> nearly 1 mo miles
northeast „( Apia, an.I it is supposed
that the vessel wa- disabled in her
machinery «ml drifted or in »ome
••ther manner managed to make the
is! ind in safety
Fanning island is
just south of Christmas island, ami
«oth arc British postetwionfl
( hristniax island has only a few in-
h ibitanl«. is off the track of even
wind jammer«, and is <-ne of the
world’» nio»t isolated spot».
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Wrights Will Not Giv« Up.
Dayton, O. Sept is
When g»ked
if lhe accident yesterday would deter
«ither Orville or hi» brother, now in
Trance, from further (lights, Lorin
)Y right replied:
Decidedly no
My brother* will
pnrstte th««e fests until the machines
re as nr irly perfect as it i* possible
to make them, if they are not killrd
m the meantime and we have never
fe't much apprrhrn- >n, knowing that
both h y« are cautious in the ex­
treme ”
The aged father of the injured man
i« it Orem« I'nrk Ind, and will not
l>e advised of the accident until morn­
ing
I orin Wright and his «ister,
Catherine, await w th much anxiety
the outcome of their brother'» in
juries.
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Two N»w Electric Lin«».
Spokane. Wash . Sept 19 -Two big
electric line« are planned to connect
this city with the Columbia River
near the mouth of the Spokane
It
’•»» b«en announced that jay P
(»rave» and his associates purpose to
run a line to Davennort. then north
to the Spokane and Columbia River»
N >w the Rig Bend Transit company
st te* that work is about to begin on
its line, which will extend from Spo­
kane to the big river
The Big Rend
Company his decided to increase its
capital »to. k fr<>tn 1100,000 to 13 000.
Ono
Upholds Ancient Law.
I nsinp Midi., Sept
1«
In an
opinion filed yesterday the Michigan
•upreme court sustained the constitu-
tioqality of th» mixmium freight rate
law of |s?3, which has been ignored
hy the railroads as obsolete and de-
m-umo-d by them a« unjust, unreason­
able and confiscatory.
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