The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-04

AOoPCnucuI VI Iu6 OHllSu GTeSS
BERLIN, Aug. 4.--German police cir
cles are chuckling heartily over
story that is being told at the expense
OF an official of the foreign office. Just
4 who started the yarn on its rounds, or
how much truth there was in it when
| 1t started, doesn't appear. But here 1t
/ is:
A certain wealthy resident Of
Buenos Ayres with passion for hunt,
ing, Dom Pedro Lopez by name, re-
Gently imported some stays from Ham /
burg. The Dom's ample estates were
i already stocked with stays from Eng |
land and other countries, and to dis !
tinguish the various breeds 1t was his
custom to call them by their nationali-
u ties. The consignment in question
was therefore known as Germans"
J Wherefore the establishment, as we'll
! as Indignation of patriotic German
telegraph operator who heard the fol-
: lowing message going over the wires
: from an outlying station miles from
: Buenos Ayres, may we'll be imagined:
J German killed and eaten; we shared
his body; 1t was simply delightful"
!, Not knowing that the message was
' from Dom Pedro informing his son of
{ the successful termination of three
\ days hunt, the operator, totally unap-
V preciative Of the delight that anyone
= could feel in masticating one of his
o fellow countrymen, promptly reported
. the incident to the German consul.
q The latter passed the information
: along to the German ambassador who
4 after making hasty inquiries notified
v Berlin. The foreign office official
q who received the ambassadors des-
V patch, SO the story goes, forthwith
cabled a reply instructing the ambas-
sador to make peremptory demand Or
- the Argentine government for full par
p ticulars of the outrage and immediate
= punishment of the cannibals, on pain
= of severance Of diplomatic relations
y between the two countries. The Ar
gentine government was completely
. puzzled but forthwith started an in
pestigation. Meantime Dom Pedro and
his friends were blissfully continuing
70 their sport in the remote forests, ut
u terly ignorant of the international
l. commotion, and 1t was not until a
is fortnight later when they returned
1t home that the true facts were reveal
y ed Transatlantic explanations duly
" followed, and a near-war was happily
u averted.
er 1t is not safe to mention photog
a. raphy in the hearing Of Berlin munich
m pal officials just now. The reason is
le that the authorities have Issued de
Up cree requiring all cashiers in the EN-
ploy of the city to come and be photo
I'd graphed In order to facilitate the trac
n ing of future embezzlers."
sl- The 1900 officials are righteousl.
n indignant at the reflection on their in
le tegrity, while any future embezzlers
I'D among them naturally are averse t
providing their superiors with a mean
is of tracing them If they ever shoul'
of find it necessary to holt To max
ed matters worse the municipality ha
tn voted payment to the official photog
wv rapher at IA cents a head. Even "fr
ture embezzlers" object to such
oh valuation, and the whole of the 1,S0
he have thus far flatly declined to ste
ot up and look pleasant for the benefit c
sv- the government kodaker. Wholesal
ed regulations and dismissals are Their,
he fore in order.
The reason for the PRONUNCIATION {
the obnoxious order is that Berli
was recently victimized to the exteT
of $3,75O through the defalcations {
cashier who managed to make
tie clean getaway, and also because {
ne the discovery Of minor Humber
en- scandal at Charlottenbnrg, where
ne trusted official departed with $t250C
'rk Of other peoples money.
APP The Charlottenburg official, Har
REESE, and his wife, according to the p
nd lice, victimized several hundred pc
m sons whom they had induced to pa
ly. with their savings on a 10 percel
asst Certainty Riese had been In tt
'as municipal service for "a years, ar
wn when he made formal application fl
pension and ostensibly purchase
est an apartment house in which he Ell
the his wife lived everybody imagine
1t that he was retiring upon compete
ear cy. He disappeared soon after r
ors linquishing his post, and complain
which began to reach the poll
les. caused an investigation. Inquiries d
Ing closed the fact that several years al
to- Riese's second wife, who was mu'
younger than he, impaired to sele
tor circle that her husband could invest
at certain sum with sure return of
~ percent, and possibly 20 percel
Early investors were duly paid the
10 percent, and the Rieses' cliente
steadily grew. Then, when the b
sums began to roll in the pair we