The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06

equivalent to 40 cents. Then Wu-Shen
dried his eyes and kneeled and Kissed
the bottom Of Wardlaw,s trousers. ,.,
Wu-Shen's tears and wiplnS OF ms
eyes and prostratlons on the ground
melted Halketts heart. as 1t did ward
laws.
Go" he said 1--WE will do nothing
that a friend Will not do provided the
ammunition be found u,,,
Then Berbage and Wood and little
Ford who had been measuring, brougnt
their heads together at point about ten
yards away and Berbage turned TO Hal
| kett and cried OUT
I'VE have located the point of depart
ure sir
Haikett not noticing whether 1t was
| their picks and himself seiZing one began
digging furiously, al the officers seeing
this followed his example Every maii
wanted to be the first 70 strike the Tin
| boxes They dug steadily for hall an
| hour then a sailor smiling silently hand
ed his pick to Halkett IT,, .,
other stroke and IL will hit the top.
| Haikett made that stroKe aho ~ Ia. Ia
tied upon tin Then all icl! TO woTR hi.1 hns
was lifted out and there were tiers ana
tiers OF other tin boxes all around It, ,,,
II requires hard work TO dig ana ,,,a nIe
ammunition boxes. and Ilaikett conciud
ed that n couple OF hundred coolies %onld
do the job In an hour Wardla%, the.e-
fore with two sailors. went OF IN tn9
fields where the coolies were laborins ana
shouted out that q wage equivalent 10 Ten
cents would be paid for two hundred men
who would be reedy the next nornipH Ia ~
8. lift out the ammunition boxes SHu ioe'o
them upon the bullock carts.
This brought four hufidrcd In an almost
inconceivably short time and from theIi %
Halkett selected, TWO hundred OF tne s apiS
hodied Not a man looked surprised:
every one OF them knew what was Dulitu
. on that piece of ground. but they e%pect-
ed a different crop TO spring from SUe'
. That night Halkett and Wardlaw slept
the night through without once waxing.
The next morning by sunrise the "a "a
boxes were out and lying on the ieveI
and the coolies squatted around waltlnS 5
> for the arrival OF the bullock carts, a
rOnner had been sent out ana DrouSnI
, back the information that the bultccks
. were trottlng on their way a Httle az
4 ter sunrise the long string OF carts az! :.
c rived and the loading began. fialhS..
Y distributed the equivalent OF twenty
American dollars In small Chinese coins
. | TO the laborers and the procession starteu
3 on its return to Kiang-Ho.
4 II was barely II O'Clock when the long
line of bullock carts drew up on the
Q shore and the ammunition boxes "ere
: transferred TO a string OF n1tivS 1unhs
a which the VuItures launch towed along
It side the ship. , /,
n vivid moon was hung in the heavens th'
e Vulture lifted her anchor. her engine:
v began pulsating and she tnrheu mel
. nose toward the open sea BY way o.
a nartlng sslutation she swept with hel
c mccarthy glaring searchlight the river
e the harbor. the town of Kiang-Ho. ant
= the beautiful house and gardens o
=. In the state apartment Of that house
:! lIghted with two candles, sat In his gGee
r. carved chair inlad with gold and ivor!
a and moaned while Wu-Shen tried l.
= From Cheefoo the commander OF tn
j. United states dispatch boat Eullul
i, wired to the commander OF his Majesty
: tornedo boat Number Two as follows;
"a "Found four million rounds of fXed am
> munition at Kiang-Ho. VIII discharg
l. at Chefoo. -; ,;os,,..
And the commander OF his ma1esty
= tornedo boat Number Two telegraphe'
ID back TO the commander OF the Chi'e'
states dispatch boat Nulture;
,e .You be damned.