The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-05
PIRATES ON BOAT
Captain Dallam, Visiting in
Hutchinson, Robbed in China.
Did Not Wake While Thugs
We're on River Craft.
SAVED THEIR LIVES.
Woman Who Screamed Stabbed
Almost to Death.
Chinese Cut Off the Heads OF
Prisoners.
SAVED THEIR LIVES.

u,
,o,-oj,e Of the screw propeller and the
wireless telegraph, the WORDS PlI az
and Jolly Roger" have almost ee
ont of existence with the eXceptloh "
their connection with a certain laliio"'
baseball club - G EYe;d
DaIlano. who are visiting Mr.. ana Mrs;
p. ]. Ieimbach here, the Woro mas al
of the thrills of it's use in those pl"o"S
tales of the Spanish main
Captain Dallam is an o1lcer Oh Lie
Twelfth United States cavalry ana up
,,n+iI this winter has been stauoneo
in the Philippine islands, he receiVeu
a leave of absence when the regiment
came home and he and his Wlre oeclueo
to return to America by the way u
China and Japan. 80. =,
Canton and Hong Kong. They rented
house boat and took trip up the river
Hang Chow There in that peautiul
lake which was first described py
Marco Polo in his book OF travels au
ventures befen them.
They had been told or the Chlnese
pirates and had seen heads sticking UP
along the village walls as warming.
Find Boat on Fire.
One day Captain and Mrs zDalian
went on a hunting expeuIloh VIII
marty of friends. There were plenty OF
Chinese pheasants and the shootlng
bouseboat they found the whole or the
interior in flames. An oil stove hdu
evploded and had set fire to the IN
terior. The flames were extinguisheo
h1I+ a glass door leading into the COM
panion way was broken py the heaI.
nv pasting heavy paper over IT. Cap
tain and Mrs. Danam intended 10 leaVe
an tha morning by rail for the coast. A
Chinese guard was in charge OF the
boat for the night. ,. 100,
THE next morning the housepoat was
q scene of confusion. The pirates which
s,varroed the river had boarded the
boat in the night and had noiselessly
made an entrance by cutting the paper
panel from the door by means OF
sharp knife. Everything of value that
was easy to move was gone Inc gudFo
was asleep at his post.
SIeep Saved Their Lives.
eft is probable that we would have
lost our lives if we had awakened when
the pirates were on the boat, salo
Captain Dallam in relating the ex-
perience. "a friend of ours awoke un-
der similar circumstances to ma
hldeously grinning Chinese pirate
standing over her with a barred knl1e
raised above her face. She gave cry
and the pirate began to stab her. She
put her head beneath the pillow The
pirate stabbed her until she was I'M
conscious. The doctor who finally saved
her life found 80 knife wounds on her
face and chest
''The Chinese authorities treat pirates
with no mercy. To be captured means
death. The heads are cut Off ana
placed in conspicuous places as warn
ing to their mates. II a chief is cap
tured alive, he is tortured to death. He
is slowly sliced to pieces, sometimes
the operation requiring several weeks.
Pirates live in Caves.
1.-THE pirates along some of the rivers
live in caves in the cliffs. An English
army officer of my acquaintance
thought he would like to look at some
OF the pirates and got permission from
the mandarin to go up into the hills
and explore the caves. The officer hal
come to China with the strongest Of
credentials from the British govern
nent so the governor decided that he
should run no risks while in his pro-
vince. On every day that the officer
would explore the pirate caves a de-
tachment would go to the caves the day
before and drive all the pirates out or
kill them off. The Britisher stayed
there several weeks before he saw any
pirates and found out what was being
done.
when I first went to the Philip
pines there was talk of the visits of the
Chinese pirates but they never came
after the United States was in COM
mand of THAT country A gunboat is
kept patroling the Chinese rivers and
hunting out these pirates.
1.-THE magistrate at Hang Chow later
recovered the things that We lost in
the houseboat and they were returned
to US. 1 suppose the poor pirate vino
was caught paid the penalty with his
life and his head is probably adjoining
some Chinese wall today,
SOLOMON MAIL POUCH MISSING
Postal Detectives Working on NTysteri-
Gus Disappearance of Sack.
Solomon, Kan, May 5.-Last Satur-
day morning No. 101, the fast main