The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-03

III tS1S we 1uAu0 CQ0 Tip ITOm AIIlcS
t. to Easepe aying, but arrived Just to1 y;
s1 pors Were Suspicious. !,
tSteasland arrived insTangier July %
by the steamer Gibel from Gibraltar;
HeAapparentN made previous inquiries
regarding the; hotels, avoiding the large
and prominent ones, SUCH as Villa de
France, Cecil and sContinental. He
climbed the hill on which the quaint
Moorish town is built and entered the
city gate and walked to the Grand Ho-
ted Orientals This small, second-rate
place is on narrow street, so narrow,
in fact, that two donkeys cannot pass
abreast. It is perched on top of hill
the ranks Of dazzling white and light
blue structures that rise, terrace on ter
race, until the summit is crowned. It
is the resort Of Europeans, and, by q
strange coincidence, is the place where
an absconding railway man of Atlanta,
Ga.,.was captured. thru the efforts Of
United States Minister Grummere six
years ago.
:. Philip Sterwind, the proprietor, an
swered the Arab porter s hail and terms
were soon agreed upon. stensland reg
istered as ZIP Olsen, Norway He
was given room overlooking the sea
with a view of the Spanish shore in the
distance. For one 5day he kept to his
ROOM, complaining of a cold on the
lungs. The affliction was real, and for
q few: days he was a sick man.
! Thought Himself Safe. ~
Stensland evidently thought himself
absolutely safe from pursuit, or, like
the majority of fugitives, became care
less as soon as he set foot on foreign
soil. The. day after his arrival he
amazed Proprietor Sterwind by exhib-
iting, as Sterwind said last night, an
awful lot Of money and a great number
Of big bills Mounting a mule, with
small satchel in hand, Stensland rode
to. ,the Compton National d. Escompte,
where he said he wanted to make de-
post and open an account.
When he dumped $4,000 on the coun-
ter the eyes Of the clerk bulged out and
he called NJ. Gaurant, the governor, who
questioned the prospective customer.
The money was in American bills, Eng
lish banknotes and French notes. Stems
land. in answer to M. Gaurant's in
qulries, said he came from America, and
when further questioned as to why he
carried money, in such shape and had
no letter Of credit, said he thought he
would get the worst Of exchange and
concluded it was best to carry currency.
Banker Was Curious.
The deposit was accepted, but only
picious. Stensland's explanation Of
and M. Gaurant Thought he was doing
business with criminal Of some kind.
The French notes, especially, were re-
'garded with suspicion, the banker sus-
.pecting they might be counterfeits. He
was too polite to say so, but he shipped
the bills to Marseilles and Paris. They
came back in ten days guaranteed genu-
inc and then were placed to Stensland's
credit. 49,,
As soon as Stensland left the bank,
M. Guarant sent for Hotelkeeper Ster-
wind and. asked if he knew anything
about his guest, saying he thought there
was sonnet hing wrong. .Sterwind said
his suspicious also had been aroused,
circulars asking for arrest Of fugitives
and found nothing that would fit his
guest.
Thick with Hotel Man.
.sterwind, an Englishman, used to be
nd-in the early days was for years q
trader on the northern Indian and
Afghan frontier. He and Stems
land soon became chummy, and when
each learned the other had been in
India they became bosom friends;
>."He is fine man, ''said Sterwind to
Olsen, and myself, "and talked lot Of
sense. He said he came here to stay,
and before. he went away talked about
buying a piece Of property and building
He looked at several sites, but said he
would, not buy, until he got back from
his trip to SPAIN
When Olsen said Father is going to
start bank in Tangier,' Sterwind
thought he would do lot of business,
because he was such a fine fellow and
good business man.
Stensland became a conspicuous fig
ure in Tangier. This is not the height
boats from Gibraltar bring some vis-
itors, the. stranger who tarries over
three or four days is tho object Of some
interest. Stensland was smooth shaver
except for stubby gray mustache,
which had been growing since last
March. The southern sun had given
his. face a brick tint. His blue suit
Of a particularly bright hue, and patent
leather shoes, the only ones seen in this
Moorish town in years, made him a
marked man.
Friend of Dancing Girls.
The Oriental hotel stands just be-
tween the Mosque Dramakebir and the
Cafe .F'rancaise: Stensland gave the
mosque the cold shoulder, tho awakened
every morning by the muezzin in the
tower ringing the bell, as he faced
Mecca and called on Allah. But the
Cafe Francaise, the Cafe Imperial and
the Cafe Turkesque found good GUS
toner in him.. Every night he climbed
the. hills and wound his tortuous way
thru alley like. streets from one to the
other: Nine. Yvete at the Franchise
was a. favorite chanteuse and chummed
with Stensland at a small table,.
Vittoria, Spanish dancer from Seville,
who performs with exceptional abandon
the fandango at the Cafe Imperial. Her
PartlalltY for him aroused a feeling Of
jealousy in the breast Of an Arab chief,
who enjoyed the smiles of the danseuse
until Stensland appeared on the scene.
In the first few nights Stensland saw. all
that was to be seen in Tangier by moon
light or otherwise, and then settled into
q round Of cafe visits.
81 Every morning Stensland was an ear
y visitor to the big Soko, or Market
place: he always sat in one place, in
the shadow Of small arched gate,
where he viewed the wonderful kaleido-,
turbaned Moors and Arabs haggling
handful of grapes for a pound ,of lime
with which to whitewash their housed