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dition Of the road: the bridges. the en-
bankments the cross-ties. the miles Of
steel unreeling under the drumming
trucks, and the object lesson was still
To disheartening extent. the Red
Butte Decentralization had involved the
permanent way. Originally a good track.
with heavy steel. easy grades compen-
alignment the roadbed and equipment
had been allowed to fail into disrepair
under Indifferent supervision and the
short-handing of the section gangs-al-
ways an impractical directory's first re-
trenchment when the dividends begin to
fail. Ldgerwood had seen how the bal
last had been suffered to sink at the rail
joints. and he had read the record Of
careless supervision at each fresh swing
OF the train, since 1t is the section fore
curve by working 1t back. little by little,
into the adjoining tangent.
Rejecting upon these things. Lidger-
woods comment fell into speech over his
cup or coffee and crisp breakfast bacon.
About the first man we need is an en-
g1neer who won't be too exalted to get
down and squint curves with the section
Bosses" he unused, and from that on he
memory card-index for the right man.
At the summit station, where the line
leaves the Pannikin basin to plunge into
the western desert. there was a delay.
Lidgerwood was still at the breakfast
table when Bradford. the conductor.
black-shirted and looking, in his SLOUGH
hat and riding leggins more like a horse
wrangler than a captain Of railroad
trains. lounged In to explain that there
was hot box under the 266s tender.
Bradford was not Of any faction of dis
content, but the spirit of morose insub-
ordination. born Of the late change in
management, was in the air, and he
spoke grufhy. Hence, with the flint and
steel thus provided. the spark was prompt
ly evoked.
Were the boxes properly overhauled
before you left Copah?" demanded the
new boss.
Bradford did not know, sand the man
ner of his answer implied that he did not
care And for good measure he threw in
an intfmation that round-house dope ket-
ties were not in his line.
Lidgerwood passed over the large impu-
dence and held to the matter in hand.
How much time have we on 2O1?" he
asked. train 201 being the westbound pas
senger overtaken and left behind in the
small! hours OF the morning by the lighter
and faster special.
Thirty minutes here" growled the lit
tie brother Of the COWS: after which he
took himself off as If he considered the
incident sufficiently closed.
Fifteen minutes later Underwood fin
ished his breakfast and went back to his
camp chair on the observation platform
of the service car. glance over the
side rail showed him his train crew still
working on the heated axle-bearing. An
other to the rear picked up the pas
senger train storming around the climb
ing curves of the eastern approach to the
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CHAPTER III.
A Little Brother Of the Cows.

Cresswater gap. SO named because the
high pass over which the railroad finds
its way is anything but a gap. and. save
when the winter SHOWS are melting, there
is no water within a days march, was
in sight from the loopings Of the eastern
approach. Lidgerwood, scanning the
grades as the service car swung from
tangent to curve and curve to tangent
up the steep inclines, was beginning to
think of breakfast. The morning air
was crisp and bracing, and he had been
getting the full benefit Of 1t for an hour
or more, sitting under the umbrella roof
at the observation end Of the car
With the breakfast thought came the
thing itself, or the invitation to it. AS q
parting kindness the night before, Ford
had transferred one of the cooks from
his own private car to Lddgerwood's serv-
ice. and the little man. Tadasu Matsuwari
by name. and subject of the mikado by
race and birth. came to the car door to
call his new employer to the table.
1t was an attractive table, well appoint
ed and well served: but Lidgerwood. tenn
peramentally single-eyed in all things,
was diverted from his reorganization
problem for the moment only. Since early
dawn he had been up and out on the
servation platform, noting, this time with
the eye of mastership. the physical con-
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DISGUST WITH AUTHORITIES.
Half Hearted Attempts to Check
Cholera in St. Petersburg.

Foreign correspondence OF The Star.
ST. PETERSBURG. September %. 1910.
The disgust and impatience felt here.
and daily expressed in the newspapers.
at the half-hearted and Intellectual at
tempt of the authorities to stamp out
the cholera have been considerably in
creased by the discovery that vessels
loaded with grain from Odessa. where
there is plague as well as cholera. are
allowed to enter St. Petersburg without
any medical inspection or sanitary pre-
cautions whatever. Such a vessel has
been discharging Odessa grain on the
Quays of the Neva for several days past,
having naturally brought with 1t some Of
the rats of Odessa, which are being ON
cially exterminated as far as possible in
the latter town i'm order to prevent the
spread of the infection
The sanitary regulations of the port Of
st. etersburg appear to be those of the
time of Peter the Great, 200 years ago.
but without Peter the Greats genius and
energy in dealing with emergencies. The
Novoye Vremya declares that the dead
bureaucratic Journalism, official careless
ness and the medieval habits Of the un-
cultured population have entered into a
conspiracy to sow Russia with the seeds
of disease and destruction.
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GERMANY'S SUPERIORITY.
Has Five Drydocks Capable of Ac.
commodating Biggest Warships.
,spondence of The Star.


BERLIN, September o. 1910.
The official North German Gazette gives
prominence to a bulletin of the German
Navy League proclaiming German SUI
peri6rity over other naval powers in gen.
eral, and Great Britain in particular. in
the number of docks she possesses ca
pable Of accommodating warships of
Dreadnought proportions.
Germany states the bulletin. "rela-
lively leads in this department of naval
activity, the Importance of which, con-
siderable enough in time of peace, is Of
extraordinary magnitude in case of war.
The German navy possesses five COM
plete dry docks capable of taking the
largest vessels-two at Kiel and three at
Wilhelmshaven. A floating dock of ca
pacity of 10000 tons is under construc-
ton at the Howaldt works at Kiel. In
addition to these admiralty docks there
are the privately owned kaiser dock at
Bremerhaven and the Blohm and Voss
INSTRUMENTATION floating dock at
Hamburg. There are also under con-
structiOn a second dock at Bremerhaven
and a thirty five-thousand-ton floating
dock at the new Vulcan works at Ham,
burg.
The British navy possesses in home
waters only one single war harbor with
adequate docking facilities for Dread
noughts-namely, Davenport. which has
three large docks. The only other ad-
miralty dock capable of taking a Dread
nought is at Portsmouth. True, there are
seven private docks, but. with the single
exception of Hebburn. on the east coast,
all lie in the industrial and navigation
centers of the north, so that the channel
and especially the east coast are COM
paratively denuded of docks Two
thirty-two-thousandto floating docks
are building for the government-one at
Portsmouth and one at Sheerness-and
four dry docks CHaubowline, Portsmouth,
and two at Rosyth on the east COAST,
while a large dry dock is planned at the
mouth of the Humber.
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TORTURED BY STRIKERS.
Experience of Paris Locksmiths Who
Refused to Quit Work.
reign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign correspondence or Inc star.
PARIS, September %, 1910.
We were taken into the house, tied to
a post and kicked and beaten till we
nearly tainted. a man stabbed us with
large fork. another held knife to our
breasts. and We promised. under compul-
sion to obey orders
This testimony was given before a Paris
magistrate by number Of locksmiths
who were tortured by members OF the
locksmiths' syndicate on strike because
they refused to leave their employers in
the lurch and continued working after
the strike had been declared.
The men were hunted down by twenty
strikers. kept without food from in the
morning till at night, and after being
tortured were marched down to the
Bourse du Travail where they were put
on a platform TO face room full of 1000
strikers.
The strikers threw at the wretched
men everything they could lay their
hands on, struck them with their boots,
spat in their faces and maltreated them
till they swore allegiance to the lock-
smiths syndicate.
The ringleaders in these proceedings
were arrested and two of them have been
imprisoned.
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WI OPPOSES THE CUE.
Memorializes the Throne in Favor Of
Its Abolition,

demonstrating the throne at Picking
in favor OF abolishing the cue, WI Ting
fang. the former minister to Washington.
has explained how he happened to take
that attitude. In his memorial, the text
OF which has just reached Washington
Mr.. WI says Chinese residents in North
Central and South America have been
Knocked and teased by foreigners until
they implored him to seek an imperial
edict giving official sanction to cropping
the hair and changing their costume to
accord with western ideas
All through Mexico. Peru and Cuba,
where he visited minister he found
the Chinese sincerely loyal and patriotic
but eight Or nine tenths of them had
Invested themselves of their cues or
had secreted them by coiling them on the
tops of their heads. They told him they
had found the hanging down of the
cues was inconvenient. soiled their
clothes and endangered them In many
factories and mills. The minister ad-
monished them for changing their cos
tune. which he regards as a sacred part
OF the government institution. but agreed
as to the bald facts" concerning the
cues. the elimination Of which he prays
for.
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understand that he would refuse the job
If 1t were offered to him.
Why should he refuses" demanded
THAT is where my wiretapper fell
down; he couldn't tell
chance for me?"
"Oh. on general principles. guess If
it was an even break that he would re-
fuse, it is still more likely that he won't
stay after he has seen what he is up
against. don't you Think"
Hallock did not say what he thought.
He rarely did.
"Of course, you made inquiries about
him when you found out he was a pos
sible: I'd trust you to do that. Gridley.
What do you know?''
Not much that you can use. He 10 out
OF the middle west: q young man and q
graduate of Purdue. He took the civil
degree. but stayed two years longer and
romped through the mechanical. He
ought to be pretty we'll UP on theory.
you'd say"
clerk. What he'll need In the Red desert
will be nerve and good gun. II he has
the nerve, he can buy the gun"
But having the gun he couldn't always
be sure of buying the nerve, Ell?
guess you are right, Rankin: you usually
are when you can forget to be vindictive.
And that brings US around to the jump
ing-off place again. OF course, you will
stay on with the new man-if he wants
you tor
Il don't know. That is my business
and none Of yours
It was bid for q renewal Of the quar-
rel which was never more than half yelled
between these two. But Gridley did not
lift the challenge
Let it go at that" he said. placably.
But IL you should decide to stay, want
you to let up on Flemister.''
The morose antagonism died out of
Hallock's eyes, and in its place came
craft.
''I'd kill Flemister on sight. II had the
sand: you know that, Gridley. Some day
1t may come to that. But in the mean
time"
I'm the meantime you have been snap
ping at his heels like q flee dog, Hallock;
holding out ore cars on him. delaying his
coal supplies. stirring up trouble with his
miners. That was all right up to yes
terday. But now it has got to stop"
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WILL HUNT BIG GAME.
German Crown Prince Will Go After
Tigers and Elephants.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.


BERLIN, September q, 1910.
Further details Of the journey which
the crown prince is to make to the far
east have been made known. AS at pres
ent arranged the prince will arrive at
Ceylon early in December and will spend
few days there. The date Of arrival
in Bombay has been fixed for December
IA. The stay in India is calculated to last
we'll into February. The crown prince
will visit some Of the native princes and
will take part in tiger and elephant
hunts.
February IA he will leave Calcutta for
Bangkok and Singapore, and from Sing
apore there will probably be an excursion
to the Dutch possessions In Java. About
the middle Of March his imperial high
ness is timed to arrive at Hongkong:
Canton. Shanghai, Kiaochao and Picking
will follow, and April 25 visit will be
paid to the Emperor of Japan at Toxic.
Early in May he will begin the home
ward journey over the Siberian railway
and arrive in Berlin a fortnight later.
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MURDERER ELUDEs CAPTURE.
Posse of $50 Gendarmes After Slayer
of Three Persons.
,reign Correspondence of The Star.

VIENNA, September q, 1910
In the neighborhood of Grosswarde, in
Hungary. a search after a murderer is
being actively carried on. The details
connected with the affair are of so ro-
mantle character that they remind one
Of that not yet very remote period when
Hunga~y was termed the paradise OF a
band OF robbers called the Betyaren.
Some days ago a man named Emerich
Vitalis. a ruined landowner, murdered
and robbed his mother-in-law and shot
dead two gendarmes who tried to cap
ture him. He then disappeared and $50
gandarmes are still pursuing him. They
have surrounded district of 1900 square
yards. in which they suppose the man is
concealed, and have examined every barn
and grain loft, but without success. The
other evening the gendarmes were fired
at from a garden. They replied with a
shower of bullets. 1t is hoped that Vitalis
will see the uselessness of opposition and
surrender himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-03
MILAN MUSEUM ROBBED.
Thieves Conceal Themselves il
Sforza Castle Before Closing Hour.
espondence OF The Star.

Foreign Correspondence or The star
MILAN, September 23, 1910.
Thieves have broken into the historic
Sforza castle here and piliaged one of its
five museums. From the precious relics,
they stole 80 gold coins of rare value.
some of which date from the imperial
age and the reign of Berengarius. besides
an irreplaceable series illustrating the
numismatic history of Milan in the days
of the dukedom and of the Ambrosian re-
public.
They ripped out the jeweled inter from
the gorgeous tapestry of the banner Of
St Ambrose. which has been borne in
civic PROFESSIONS since the sixteenth cen
fury, but luckily the original gems had
been removedsand glass limitations sub
stituted
There is no trace of the culprits. who
are supposed 10 have concealed them
selves in the castle before the closure Of
the museums, which both day and night
are VIGOROUSLY understaffed.
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Election Results in South Africa.
,ore,en CORRESPONDENCE Of The Star.


JOHANNESBURG, September 10. 1910.
The results Of the elections in the outly-
ing constituencies are still coming in, but
most Of them are Of safe ministerial seats
and there is no longer any question as
to the general position created by the
elections for parliament. A substantial
nationalist majority is assured. The Botha
government will meet parliament with a
following of approximately sixty-seven
which means a clear majority of thir-
teen 1t is declared that the Unionists
already number thirty-six. without counting
the large number of independents in Nata
and two or three in Cape Colony, who are
likely to act with them when parliament
meets Four labor candidates have been
successful. all on the Rand.
The bare figures however, give an in
ADEQUATE account of what both parties
regard as the unexpected strength of the
opposition in the new parliament.
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CHAPTER II.-Continued.

A silence settled down upon the upper
room. but Gridley made no move to go
Out in the yards the night men were
making up westbound freight. and the
crashing of box cars carelessly kicked
into place, added its note to the discord
OF inefhciency and destructive breakaRe.
over In the town dance-hall piano
was jangling. and the raucous voice O,
the dance master calling the figures came
across to the Crows Nest curiously like
the barking of distant dog. Student,
the barking voice stopped, and the piano
clamor ended futilely in an aimless tink
ing. For climax pistol shot rang out
followed by a scattering volley. It was
a precise commentary on the time and
the place that neither Of the two men in
the headquarters upper room gave heed
TO the pistol shots, or to the yelling up
roar that accompanied them
1t was after the shouting had died away
In confused clatter of hoofs, and the
pistol cracklings were coming only at in
tervals and from an increasing distance
that the corridor door opened and the
night dispatcher's off-trick man came in
with a message for Hallock.
It was a mere routine notification from
the line-end operator at Copah. and the
chief clerk read 1t sullenly to the master
mechanic. .--,.-
Engine 26e. Williams. engineer, and
Blackmar. fireman, with service car
naught one, Bradford, conductor, will
leave Copah at 1901 am. and run spe-
cial to Angels. BY order Of Howard
Lidgerwood, general superintendent"
Gridley's pivot-chair righted itself with
snap. But he waited until the Off
trick man was gone before he said.
"Lidgerwood. Well. by all the gods.'
then, with a laugh that was more than
half a snarl, There is a chance for You
yet, Rankin"
why. do you know him?"
mo, but 1 know something about him.
I've got. line on New York. the same as
you have, ard I get hint now and then.
know that Lidgerwood had been con-
sidered for the place. but ! was given to
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BANK NOTES C0UNTERFEITED.
Chief Wilkie Warns Against Imita'
tons of Western Issues.

Chief Wilkie Of the secret service has
given notification Of the appearance of
further issues of counterfeit national
bank notes. evidently being made of a
gang of dangerous counterfeiters. This
latest discovery is a counterfeit of the
ten-dollar note of the Ell Centre National
Bank Of Ell Centre. California. The
note has the same general appearance
as those that have appeared upon other
banks.
Of the Citizens National Bank of Ala
mosordo. N. NJ. has also appeared, but
is not considered dangerous.
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CLUB MEMBERS TO FIGHT
CHARGE MADE BY POLICE
Deny That Gambling Was Per-
mitted at Royal Ath-
IetiC Rooms.

William Hammerly. president of the
Royal Athletic Club of 2011 Georgia
avenue who was arrested following a
descent on the clubs home early yester-
day morning by the police of the eighth
precinct, and who was subsequently
charged with permitting gaming anC
conducting poolroom without a license.
entered pleas of not guilty in both cases
before Judge Aukam in the Police Court
today He demanded trials by jury and
was subsequently released under three
hunred-dollar bond in each case.
The police say the clubhouse has beer
under surveillance for several weeks
upon suspicion that dice playing and
other forms of gambling were going on
with the cognizance of its officers. The
sight Of fifty or more men entering the
club late Saturday night caused the po-
lice to make a raid About :; O'Clock
Yesterday morning the patrol wagon
with Lieut. Judge. Ssrgt. Bean and Po-
ncemen Benham, Holmes and Sweeney in
II, was driven 10 within two blocks of
the clubhouse and the men proceeded
from there To tho front and rear doors
of the place on foot.
Police Gain Admission
With the exits well guarded. Lieut.
Judge and Serst. Bean climbed ladder
TO tho second floor and entered the place
through one of the rear windows
The unusual hour of making the raid
and the number of men taken away by
the officers from the clubhouse aroused
the neighboThood. BY the time the patrol
wagon started with its last load to the
station house the streets were lined with
people who had risen and dressed them
selves and come out of their homes to
see what was going on
Members of the club today rOUndly de-
nounced the action OF the police. They
deny that gambling is permitted in the
place and say they propose to fight the
charges against Hammerly to the end.
Collateral Forfeited in This Case.
The second gambling case Of the
day in Police Court was that of Charles
H. Whitmore, arrested with about
thirty companions in the Painters and
Decorators Hall. 9TH and D streets,
raid engineered by Sergt. Lehman and
first precinct. Whitmore forfeited $25
collateral.
The police say the defendant and his
companions were engaged in playing
poker when they entered the place. 1t
required two trips of the first precinct
patrol wagon to carry the alleged par
Elephants to the station house. After the
members of the party had been ques-
toned for about half an hour, Whit
more was formally charged with vio-
lating the gaming act and his associ-
ates released with instructions to ap-
pear in the Police Court this morning
as witnesses for the government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-03

Albert w. Miller, a prominent farmer
of Hayfeld, Frederick county Va, died
being FASTENED by grief over the death
of q son two weeks ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
MAN PERMITTED TO VISIT
SISTER IN TINGLEY HOME

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21.-George L.
Patterson, who obtained a writ of ha-
beas corpus for his sister, Mrs. Julia
p. Quinn, alleging that she is restrained
of her liberty by katherine Tingley and
others, at the Point Iona Homestead,
gained an important point at the hear
ing in the superior court today.
Judge Lewis directed that Patterson
be allowed to visit his sister at the
Homestead and that he be permitted to
see her alone When the case was
called Mrs. Quinn told of her life at
Point Iona.
"Will you state whether you prefer
to stay at Point Iona or leave there?'
asked Patterson's attorney.
Il much prefer to go with my broth
err was the reply. II prefer my home
because would be supported there as
1 should be-"
"Then why don't you go with your
brother?" asked the court.
"Other arrangements have been
made" was the answer.
DIR. L. r. Wood, a physician living at
the Homestead. testified it would not
be for Mrs. Quinn's interest to be given
her entire liberty at present.
The hearing was continued until the
2Sth instant Counsel for Patterson
asked that in the meanwhile Mrs.
Quinn be removed from the alleged re-
strain of Mrs. Tingley's agents. This
the court refused, Judge Lewis saying
that while Mrs. Quinn appeared capable
Of knowing what she preferred, he
would allow her to remain in charge
Of Mrs. Tingley or her agents pending
further testimony, but with privilege to
her broher to see her in private at the
Homestead.