The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-22
CREATES WAR ALARMS.
Lighthouse Man Celebrates Sons Birth
by Signal Gam Attacked.

New York, Jan. 22.-Watling island
lies among the outposts of the Ba-
l-hamas. Probably it won't be recog-
nized under that name, but as San Sal
vador, which used to be the landing
Eplace of Christopher Columbus before
our historians began to get scientific
and revise the Biographies. Now 1t IS
British territory and inhabited by
many negroes who are troublesome at
times, a few officials and most of all by
a lighthouse keeper named Jones to-
gether with his newly welded wife
It was late in December that
steamer from England locked at
Kingston. Jamaica. It's captain made
his way to the government building
and reported:
Something's wrong at Waiting
island. Lighthouse flying N j. That's
Help; I am attacked in the interna-
tional code
And you didn't stop and help?"
said the officials
His majesty's mails" answered the
skipper, briefly.
The officials at Kingston consulted.
with much shaking of heads. The
blacks on Watling's island must be
turbulent, they declared Since there
was peace among the nations, IN J,
in all common sense. must mean rls-
ing against the whites. The officials
consulted their charts of Waiting
island and grew still more grave
Either the whites had withdrawn to
Jones was cut off and surrounded,
holding the rock with his slender force
and keeping the light burning.
GunbOat HuFFies TO Rescue.
The story was sent to New York,
whence it was cabled to Nassau, where
Commander Todd of the British navy,
who is in charge of the lighthouse ser
vice of the Bahamas, has his head
quarters. The commander got out his
little steamer, loaded it with every
s1-,5aT
mand and ordered all speed for Wat
ling island. 200 miles away. All Mas
sau saw him start and speculated un-
der its breath on the uprising on Wat
ling island.
It was the next morning that yam
kee schooner out of Portland, Me,
whose name was not stated in these
infOrmations, made port at Nassau.
did YOU make out Waiting island ~
was the first question they asked the
Yankee captain when he stepped
ashore.
For the first half minute of his re-
things which will not be published
here. His conversation gradually ex-
purgated itself, and he went on
Il made out some signals on the
lighthouse, and says to Bill, my mate.
Amt that IN J p and Bill he took the
glass and says, That's N ]" as plain
as the nose on your face.
PrestOs Twas Only a Baby.
Look it up says /, remembering
that IN j. means suthin about dis
tress And Bill says, 'Godamighty,'
Help: I am attacked; the niggers,
says Bill. Well. it want none of my
busine ss. but lays to-and hell of a
time I had-and gifts out my boat. my
old shotgun. Bills rife, and all the re
volvers we had aboard. I see by my
glass there want no danger on the
seward side. So we pulls up. Moth
ing doing till we gifts to the door of the
lighthouse. when down comes the ex-
purgated passage keeper, looking as
pleased as a bug in a rug.
g What's the natter says I.
. sNothing's the matter says he,
but come on in. You're the first white
man ashore since it happened. There's
two bottles of wine inside that I've
been a-savin' for it, says he. Come in
and have one with me-
Well what's that IN ]" hoisted
for2' says I.
For my first and only son, Ma
thanie1 Jones, says he. Born Wednes-
day.
And here again the speech of the
Yankee skipper sunk to lower octaves-
These advices come by mail. When
they were written. Commander Todd
had not vet returned from his wild
goose chase, so that no one in New
york may know until he returns with
what words Commander Todd r. N,
spoke to the father of Nathaniel Jones,
the infant whose coming caused the
wild alarms.