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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-16
Terrified Citizens of Mexican Town
Make Use of Stars and Stripes
in Hopes of
Safety.
THREATS TOWN
Rebels Called and clz.p, WI, ~.
80 - ~ "'ou' 0ea' on- Across the
- A' ''e United
'''es
[Gate city LEASED Mire serrice |

lGate City Leased Wire Service.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 15-How
the rebels at Alamo got the goat, of
GOV Celso Vega of Lower California,
was a tale brought today to Tia
Juana directly from Enseneda where
gatllhg guns are in the streets and
the town is in terror of imminent at
tack
It is tale of the telephone. Several
! tlmes within the last twenty
hours the rebel chiefs at Alamo called
up Gov. Vega by telephone, kindly in
forming him that they We're coming
to take him prisoner and to sack the
capital At first Vega was alarmed
then he realized that. in addition to
being threatened, he was being
laughed at, and furious, he ordered
the wires cut.
The last message received before
the wire was cut ordered Vega to-
send provisions to the rebels at Alamo
at once. This concession, the rebels
declared, would postpone the attack
for several days.
Vega refused to send the rebels
so much as bean. They are said to
be suffering from hunger. An attack
on tnseneda is imminent. Vega today
refused the American consul an escort
to go to Alamo to ascertain the con-
ditions OF the American women and
( children imprisoned there, declaring
1he needed all of his men In the CAPT
I tai.
The revoIutionists at Alamo are now
said to be 200 strong and all itching
! for fight. One or two prominent
Americans who have reached Tia
Juana from Enseneda say the rebels
/ will march on the city within forty
eight hours. Advices from Enseneda
today were that the Mexicans have
taken protection under the American
flag. The residence of United States
rfo rdet ny Meyican troops with their
/ field guns in such position that the
rebc,s VII fire upon the American
4 flag = they attack the town.
All Tho stores in Enseneda have
raised American flags and have the
emblem displayed upon the counters
as additional protection. Apparently
there is feeling of hopelessness in
the hcseieed city
Twelve mounted Mexican soldiers
! We're oaptmeG by the insurgents last
nighe. Runners arriving at Enseneda
/ TO-DAY reported that the insurgent
forces mad cne hundred men canped
/ or the hills close to the city. There
4 is also q machine gun. The Mexicans
/ have aDout zoo soldiers to defend the
city as well as an unknown number of
( Mexican marines.
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Chicago Wins.

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CHICAGO, April 15.-The Uniyer-
sity of Chicago this afternoon, de
feated Northwestern University 5
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Indiana Game.

La FAYETTE, Ind, April 15-Per-
due Uniyersity's baseball team this at,
ternoon defeated Depauw, 5 to 8.
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Battle at Bsuche

Ell PASO. Texas, April s. With a
desperate battle between the Mexican
federal and insprgent forces raging at
Bauche, seventeen kilometres south
of Juarez, all doubt that juarez viii
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THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON April 15.-Forecast
Tor Iowa: Fair Sunday warmer in
north portion; Monday far, warmer
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An Easter
Message

Easter flo W
ers evidence the
existence of the
life asleep at
this time. Fields
scared by frosts
carpet t h e M
selves in green
Gardens nuded
by blizzardly
blasts put on
gayest blossoms.
The process is a
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History Collection.

WASHINGTON. April l5.-The col
lection and compilation Of contempor,
ary history throug hnewspaper and
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local observatlons.

10 pm. 30 q d NV Clear
River above low water of 1864
feet I tenths
Change in "a hours, fall tenths.
Mean temperature, As.
Highest temperature, 80.
Lowest temperature, 81.
FRED z. GoSEW1sCH,
Observer.
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Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-06-30

much with a rife: and he remenbss>
ed the deadly revolver shootin he
had seen upon the body OF the bear.
Also, he would have to go into the
dark. with the freight behind him
No. 1t wouldn't do. He must wait
Well. he could afford TO wait-much
better than they could.
Reluctantly he rose. turned his
broad back to the gale, and began ma
king his laborious way back to the
cave.
1t was high time. His face was
frozen already. The intensity of the
cold had already rendered his rife
useless. for the whole mechanism OF
the breech was frozen fast His STRAIT
agem had failed in its ultimate inten-
ton. for nature had laid her great icy
hand upon the board and for the pres
ent declared the game a draw.
Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-06-30
SYNOPSIS.

Fhinp cayley: accused of !. crime ,s Of
army ns@ IN h' grace a. u and ii. INJECTION for
perfset. dyiss %aeh,ns %sls Soaring
Sfl .hnped s rsen hs hs ne the
assassin's hand. Mounting again. he. dis
yacht In the he bny
sirI on an leo noe. He learns that the
girls name is Jeanne Fielding and that
s4plorer. A party from the yacht Il ma ma:
! ana. ma .iot ne e: sS ana
n hiding e on sh o. coast ~ies giant ?Sf
man named Roscoe. had murdered Fielding
.nd hii Two ,a sftsF the %, e an
sess saar q ts ",i Ety.
s. capture. the yacht and e,saPs With .
owner Of the yacht. about the visit Of the
ety,man and shows him the stick lett oy
S.kiSo throw hHE -s asSsa used a to shoot
s:srehipIg party with a sprained ankle sha
c.yley is accused Of the crime but Jeanne
eeiisves him INNOCENT. 4 relief party goes pes
love for jeanne She rows ashore and
enters an abandoned hut. and there finds
her fathers diary which dseioses , the - ss
han returns TO the hut and sees Jeanne.
He IL intent on murder. when the sky
man swoops down and the rufhan nees
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
to read; The yacht disappears and Ros-
GOES plans 10 capture II are revealed.
Jeanne's only hope Is in Cayley. The
seriousness of their situation becomes ap-
parent to Jeanne and the ky-man: Cay
ley kills n polar bear. Next he finds n
clue to tho hiding place of the stores.
Roscoe 10 about to attack the girl when
he Ia sent fleeing in terror by the sight
Of the sky man swooping down. Measures
are taken to fortify the hut
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That's why / sent you into the hut
II occurred to me that he might be
following the bear. and that the light
ed windows might give him chance
for a shot at one OF US. No matter
what superstitious fears he has. he
could hardly be too much afraid to IRE
at us from n safe distance. II we hap
pened to offer a fair mark"
But We must have offered him that
a hundred times in the last weeks.
that is. II his rife had anything like
a modern range"
That bullet Is certainly n modern
piece OF ordnance" said Cayley. IT'S
soft-nosed and steel-jacketed."
He laid II down on a shelf and went
into the storeroom to wash the stains
OF the encounter from his hands.
After ALL" he said. Its only one
more mystery. and | don't know Il 1t
one more can make any great differ
ence. Not In our way Of life. GER
tainly''
Both tried to stick to that view OF
It and. for the present. to dismiss
conjecture upon the new topic from
their minds. but they did not succeed
very we'll. The idea that forced itself
upon them. in spite OF their attempt to
discredit II. was that Roscoe's acQui-
sition OF a modern. long.range weapon
with ammunition to match did not
date back to the murder of Captain
Fielding. nor to the disappearance OF
the Aurora, but that he had found the
weapon. BY soms strange chance. only
very recently. perhaps within q day
or two. II was . disouietinG thought.
at best
1t was time for Cayisy To turn in
and for Jeanne to begin her svsatng
watch alone. but before that happened
they paid an extra amount Of attsn-
ton to the security Of their DOM and
windows
II was q little before IL O'Clock
when Cayiey came out OF deep sleep
to md her bending over him. shaking
him by the shoulder and crying out
his name.
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eSHChAS W.ROSSER
- coPra'cnE 1910 ~ The SUCCESS CO

none of Cayley's shots could have 40
counted for. he explored with prao-
tised hand.
Watching him as he did SO, tho
girl could see that he had found some
thing unexpected. something which
surprised him greatly. And there
was more than surprise. There was
alarmed urgency in his voice when he
spoke to her. He offered no explana-
ton. Merely told her to go into the
hut and make fast the solid wooden
shutters over the windows. He would
come in and would tell her what It
was all about. in a moment
The girl had hardly finished the
task he had given her. when he came
In. In his blood-stained hand he was
holding out something for her inspec-
ton.
Conquering a feeling Of repugnance,
she bent over the hand, cast one
glance at the thing It contained and
then started up and gazed. wide-eyed.
into his face.
"A bullet!" she said. "But-but we
thought that Roscoe wasn't armed
not with fire arms, mean"
Cayley nodded. But this seems to
be pretty good evidence that he is.
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faltered, 1t is true. and his knees
trembled beneath him. and yet. SLOW
ly and with many pauses he made his
way forward.
He was horribly afraid all the time.
but curiosity WAS all the while over
powering fear. He was not more than
200 yards away when Cayley alighted
beside the girl.
At what he saw then. Roscoe
whispered oath. and rubbed his eyes.
The light which difused itself from
the open window OF the hut was not
much. but It was enough to reveal the
fact that this great man.bird. this
golden-winged spirit which had kept
him in terror for his own sanity all
these months. was taking Oh his wings
and folding them up into . bundle. in
as mattsr-of-fact a way as II he were
furlins an umbrella. He stood there
now, Just an ordinary human figure
OF q man: the very man. In fact. that
he had seen before and would have
killed long ago had II not been for his
ovsr-masterins terror Of the thing
with wings.
He presented . fair mark now, and
was In easy range. but Roscoe was too
thoroughly astonishsd to ssiss the op-
portunity. and In . moment II was
gone again. The two figures shrank
into the shadow Of the hut. and the
nsxt moment the light disappeared.
FOR q moment. an occasion Of
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what once had been a shirt, sufdced
to put 1t into commission again.
Then, with the rife over his shout
der. he staggered out of the cave.
With his nrst glance abroad. he
started. His devil was being kind to
him today. There could be no doubt
of that Only. was he being too kind?
Roscoe wondered a little uneasily.
For. shambling along the ice, through
the thickening twilight. not 100 PAGES
away. was a big bear. Roscoe was
tired Of walrus meat. The thought of
4 bear steak made his mouth water.
Three years disuse. however, had
made his marksmanship somewhat
uncertain. He fred too soon, and
though he did not miss. the only ef-
feet his shot had was to make the
bear turn about and 60 shambling
down the glacier toward the beach.
with ungainly haste. Roscoe hurried
after him. and fired two more shots.
Whether they hit or not. he could not
tell. Certainly they did not serve to
check the bears fight. Tho next mo
ment he had rounded the corner Of
tho cliff and disappeared down the
beach in the direction Of the hut.
Roscoe hesitated. but only for =
moment: then. with an oath, he set
out in pursuit. It was not SO much
the protection which the rife afforded
him that was responsible for this new
courage as It was that the mere feel
Of it in his hands brought him back
in touch once more with the every
day matter of fact world. and made
his visions and ghosts seem a little
unreal.
1t was fully dark down here in the
shadow of the cliff. The numbering vel
low shape Of the bear was indistin-
guishable against the icy beach. That
didn't matter. for he could follow
along we'll enough by the bloody
tracks the wounded beast had left.
The last OF the twilight was still in
the sky. and half his glances were
directed thither. looking for some
thing which he told himself could not
possibly exist. except in his own
fancy. yet fully expected to see never
the shadow Of Cayley's great
wings. And at last he saw It i'm
In the lower air. like brood
ing spirit. Just above the tiny square
Of light which marked the location Of
the hut.
Roscoe abandoned his pursuit of the
bear: all thought OF It, in fact. was
gone from his mind: but he did not.
as on a former occasion. drop down
prone upon the ground. his face buried
In his arms: nor did he turn and fee
like one hag.ridden up the beach. He
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articulated themselves into a perfect
ly clear perception OF Roscoe's plan
The other way! The other way"
he cried. motioning Jeanne back
through the storeroom. Into the
cave. He Is waiting for US outside
That's why he fired the hut Quick
We must save all we can"
And SO It happened that Roscoe
waited In vain. He saw the blaze he
had kindled reach its fiery climax.
and then in spite Of the icy gale which
was tanning It, die down into an
angry. sullen. smouldering glow. But
no man appeared to furnish a mark
for his waiting rife. and no woman
was delivered defenseless, shelterless.
into his british hands.
The failure OF his plan brought
back q moment or two OF the old sup
erstitious horror, but his mind was
braced against It now and did not
readily give way. Somehow. the fall
ure must be countable-humanly &C.
countable
Al last he solved this mystery, too.
partly solved It At least. for he re-
membered the ice cave back Of the
hut His frst impulse. whom he
thought OF II, was to attack them
there and now. to charge in over the
red hot Goals of tho hut and settle
matters once and for all.
He WAS sane enough TO see that the
advantage would bs all against him.
In eioss ouartsrs he could NOT do
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rage against the two who had bafied
him and enjoyed immunity from him
SO long. almost led him to attempt to
break into the hut then and there. and
settle matters; but his saner common
would almost inevitably be against
him should he attempt 1t.
He was still entertaining this no
ton, however. when a luminous idea
occurred to him. Around on the far
side of the hut, the west side. which
looked toward the headlands, was a
good-sixed heap of fire-wood, which
Philip had not been able to find
room for inside the hut Roscoe had
with him a flint and steel and
quantity of tow. He never travelled
without them.
With infinite precaution against
noise he began laying a IRE against
the windward wall Of the hut. Squat
ting. with his rifle across his knees
ready to use in case Of an emergency.
he methodically whitfield a quantity Of
dry splinters on a few OF the sticks.
ignited them and carefully nursed the
blaze. until. under the rising wind. It
grew to the beginning Of a fair-sized
confagration. Then. catching up his
rife. he slipped around the other side
Of the hut. crouching down not more
than 20'paces away. and waited.
Already the fire was burning finely
and the silhouetted outline Of the hut
was plain against the glow Of it.
His plan was a good one. The peo-
pie inside the hut would have no
choice and. probably. no thought. but
Of escape. When they rushed out. a.
they almost certainly would. bewild-'
cred and confused, and plainly visible
to him against the glow Of the IRE be-
hind them. It would be easy. from the
safe shelter Of the darkness. to shoot
the man.
1t was only. indeed. by the merest
hairs breadth that Roscoe's plain
failed to work. The instinct Of es-
cape by the nearest way from a burn
Ing building is almost irresistible. and
It led Philip and Jeanne to the very
edge OF the destruction. which Roscoe
had planned for them.
Cayley had his hand upon the bolt
of the great door. whittier he had
sprung when Jeanne's cry had awak-
ened him. before the saving second
thought stayed him and held him
frozen where he was. For perhaps
i've seconds he stood there. while the
OF the unexplained bullet hole
he had found in the body OF the great
bear. and the belated observation that
the fire, which was destroying the hut.
must have been started outside OF 1t.
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Philip had been enjoying. he was,
again. the very man who. during those
long years of exile, had dominated
crew and captain OF the Walrus and
bent them to his will.
He was returning from the ledge
along the crown OF the glacier. when.
on the day OF this discovery. he found
that his accustomed path was inter
rupted by a new issure in the ice: It
had occurred since he had come that
way in the morning. and was too
broad to leap across. So he was forced
to descend by the rougher and more
difficult track which lay along the
moraine.
Before he had gone three PAGES
along this track his eve made out
something. just OF his patch and lit
tie below 1t. which caused him at first
to utter a snarl OF anger. but led him
the next moment to give a Wild bias
phemous yell OF JOY.
The great fssure which had opened
in the ice had done. in an instant.
what the party from the Aurora had
failed to do after hours OF hard labor
1T had yielded up the body OF Perry
Hunter. which. during all these
months. It had kept imprisoned
Strapped across the dead mans
shoulders. Just where he had carried
It in life. was a rife and around his
middle a belt full Of cartridges.
The next instant Roscoe was bend
ing over the body. Jerking savagely
at the frozen buckles which resisted
his impatient fingers. But they were
not to be denied. II they were clum-
". the hands were strong.
II was not ave minutes later when
Roscoe. rifle and ammunition belt in
bis hands. was hurrytng on toward his
cave once more. The body lay just
where his dssecrainG hands had left
It.
The rife was uninjured: that he had
seen At . glance. though Of eourss,
all the mechanism Of its bresch was
frossn fast But q half hours hard
work with cleaning rod and rsSs Of
Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-06-30
CHAPTER XIX,
Roscoe.

Roscoe.
Roscoe had never been able to clear
up his doubt as to Jeanne's identity.
nor to solve the mystery Of Cayley's
appearance in the air. The doubt
and the mystery tormented him worse
than any final conviction could have
done. When he thought, as he some
times did. that the cause Of all his
terror. the thing which kept him
penned up here in the cave and de-
MED him access to more than the fur
tive edges Of the beach, might be Just
a rather defenseless human couple,
man and woman. and the woman
beautiful. young. alluring-when he
thought Of all that he would 60 on
into transports Of rage. which left
even his gigantic body limp and ex-
hausted. II that were the situation.
he might have killed the man weeks
ago and taken possession of the
woman.
The thing that kept him sane was.
in itself, = species of insanity, the pas
sion for gold which had led him to
murder Captain Fielding. Every day
he tramped up the glacier to the gold
ledge and there. while the light lasted.
he worked. cutting the precious metal
out Of the rock. and with infinite labor
beating 1t pure.
As the weeks and months dragged
along. this UNMARRIED routine more than
compensated for the solitude and the
terrors his superstition thrust upon
him. and gradually restored him TO his
old normal formid ahIo brutal aaJf
On the day when he made the discovery
that was to terminate the long series
of golden days which Jeanne and
Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-06-30
CHAPTER xvIIi.-contlnued.

The sentence is that you shall be
frightened with a bear story. There's
big one coming down the beach aft
CT you this very moment. and you're
TO surrender the revolver to me and
stay under arrest in the hut until aft
er ] have killed him
She did not need to be told that he
was in earnest. in spite OF the smile
that went with his words. She turned
about quickly and looked up the
beach. sighting along Cayley's arm as
he pointed Even in the deep twilight
she could already make out the sham
bling figure that was coming along to-
ward them on all tours.
why does he move in that queer
sort of way?" she whispered.
They had shrunk back into the
shadow OF the hut, the girl actually
inside OF the vestibule and Cayley on
the doorstep.
Hes been wounded. When I was
overhead ! could make out the blood
stains on his side and he was leaving
. track on the Ice.
Wounded in a fight with another
bear"
No. that's not likely"
She asked no further explanation.
but slipped into the hut. The next
moment she was back with the field.
glasses.
While you're attending to the
bear" she said in whisper. iii just
keep watch up the beach for-for any
one else
The past weeks had made one dif-
ference in her attitude toward Cayley
which she was now aware OF, as she
contras:ed her sensations on seeing
Philip step forward, out OF the shelter
OF the hut. to confront the bear. with
those she had experienced when he
had set out on a similar errand once
before. She knew him now. and she
had no fear for him. The feeling
that thrilled her now was nearer akin
to pride than anything else.
Cayley fully justified her confidence.
The course the bear was taking would
have brought him within 20 yards OF
their doorstep. When he FIRST caught
sight OF Cayley he stopped. in two
minds. apparently. whether to be
hunted or 10 do the hunting himself.
Then. as Cayley advanced upon him
rather slowly. he decided, Kissed at
him enormously and reared up.
He was already badly enough
wounded to have taken all the fight
out OF any other sort of animal, but
half alive as he was. he cost Cayley
four cartridges Three OF those shots
CAyley was reasonably sure must have
entered a vital spot The first one
took the bear between the eyes as he
was rising The second was fred into
his open mouth. The third was prob
ably detected by the massive fore
paw which he was holding across his
body, In the attitude OF a boxer. The
fourth shot. however, penetrated his
throat and probably smashed one OF
the two first yertebrae, for 1t seemed
70 bring the monster down all in a
heap. where he finally lay still Cay
isJ could have reached him with his
TOO.
Good shooting" said the girl quiet
~ from the little vesubule.
He reloaded the revolver. letting
the empty shells drop UNDECIDED on
shs Ice at his feet. He gave the weap-
% back to the girl. and bent over the
esaR.
Tn loss interested in what / did
% HIM" he said. than In what he got
from the enemy who FIRST attacked
hm-
The light was almost gone. SO that
an he could SEQ were two or three
irregular dark stains upon the white
Eng. A wound in the hsnk, which
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Get up Quickly!" she said when she
saw that he was awake. Philip. the
hut's on nre!"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-01-19
SKUNKS KEPT this
BOY At COLLEGE
Out Of Their Skins He Got
An Education.

Trapping skunks in Summer to
meet college bills in winter is not
one of those suggestions offered 10
NEEDY students in the colleeg cat
alogne. Nevertheless a freshman in
an old New England College is earn>
ing his way by this rather startling
form of hustling.
In all four years at the local acad-
envy the question of where to find
the requisite funds for his college
course was an important one. Bell
hopping" and kindred jobs
were considered more or less
fayorably, until one day the sched-
ule of a fur commission mer-
chant fell into the hands of the stu
dent He then learned that skunk
skins would bring from 81 to 81 a
pelt Spurred on by visions of a col
lege diploma, the boy started skunk
farm Like the 'Pied Piper Of Ham
elm he planned oherd his cap
tiyes in a large pen.
First, he built many special box
traps in which to catch the animals
without manning them. Next, he con-
structed a house of detention, from