Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-20

tp. for we hadn't expected anything
- soon. look Of disgust passed over
his face.
This Il all Greek to me- he said.
ns he turned towards me. 4 cant
make anything out Of g.
+" Take u duyn. anyway. whether you
understand II or not cried. for I was
beginning 10 get excited I saw that
my former suspicious were proving corr
rect and all that was needed was 10
have the dispatch written out 80 that
I could translate H. Take II down and
spoil II out lust ~ II Sounds to you.
whether you understand u or not IN
do the TRANSMITTING
For about nve minutes he worked
about ne hard ~ man ever worked.
TITS hrows were knitted like whipcords.
ana I could 500 that he was having
his face cleared.
"'1ta coming In English now. aud
rs easier he cruwcd as be- pushed his
pencil across the paper. That's aii.' aud
he handed the sheets 90 me.
u Wish you could have seen the fncrs
he gave me. Talk about your cipher
coded. They would have boon Sign
board print Ia comparison To- the stun
that met my eyes.
MIXTURES or MANY LANGUAGES.
y took tho paper ana rat down To
study u over. ~ itSt I thought ! would
never be- able To- make head ur tail
out % the afnlr The English ut the
rhd ala not hclp me. for knew that II
Wa merely blind. I thought over
all the Indian languages thar I knew.
but mono met tho requirements. Then
] tried u IN Spanish. In the hope that
some Of the Texans might have given
II Ia Mexican dialect. iut that was no
go, ~ last u happy thought atruct me.
! had learned the barbaruua ganurk
that La AL r.
Canada. ! dug out little NJ the mes.
sage. and after that the rest ~ u was
Easy. II was n mixturu ~ French, In.
dian ana English. and made about the
worst conFlpmeraiiun In H. present
phonetic form that could BE- Imagined
"soun ! raw that the Federal gnv.
eminent had 20 conteul with one II the
most deeply laid pl0tr that had ever
threatened II, II was conspiracy that
struck TO the very lie II the executive.
! wrote the translation ~ the dispatch
out and gave u. together with the mart
that was In English. t. the operator.
with instructions 10 deliver u 10 NO one
but the President himself.
Then went on 10 the South n was
a DANGEROUS thing a. do. q foolish one
IN fact. OF course I ran no rick ~ any.
one Knowing me personally but the
story had to tell was most imprpbn o
bic one. SIN I passed the lines aud
went around for "a day or two before
was picked up. In that time learned
enough e. verify the dispatch. one day
! was arrested. They asked me where
! was from. and told them I was from
Mexico, and had come up heir with
the Intention OF buying some land
| They did not believe me Tor minute.
| They searched me Thoroughly. but they
did not md q thing. They examined my
clothes 20 Fce " they had been made In
the north. There they were fooled too.
They had been made In England. Then
they turned me over 60 the tender mcr.
Giles OF some Texan troops The Tex
ans talked to me In spanish. aud they
soon found out that ! knew more than
they did. Then they questioned me
/ about the geography OF Mexico, ana
about the public men In the province
said hailed from. I could have writ.
ten book upon the subject. And they
| did not got me there. Finally they
| turned me over 10 the officer who had
put mo In their charge.
SUBJECTED uE WAS 4 SPY.
"'we think that the man II a spy
they said. ~ they Elared at me. sal
he tells such a straight story that he
seems 10 be sort % a fool. He either
| ought TO be taken out and shot right
away. or else he ought 10 be- turned
loose. Now. we don't think that a mar
ought 10 be shot simply because he Il
n ruspicious character. and 20 W.
wash our hands Of him. You can do
what you please with him.
/ THE officer who was holding me VA,
puzzled. ile kept me FOR week. and
had me watched like a hawk Thor
they decided To turn me over 20 Tho
/ Union forvea, They sent squad oi
about twenty men with me under finr
OF truce. The men had orders To shoot
me n the least sign Of recognition
/ passed before they released me. The
FIRST regiment We struck was one from