Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-13


tugal. 1t was their wedding day. Al
possible precautions had been taken
against the terrorists, and the way
from the cathedral, through Lisbon't
streets. was double banked with troops
! while a squad Of two hundred mounted
troopers surrounded the carriage. SUD
denly the amazing thing happened
The automatic rifles of the troopers
began TO 60 off, as we'll as the rifles
of the double-banked infantry in the
immediate vicinity. In the excitement
the muzzles of the exploding rifles
were turned in all directions, The
slaughter was terri blo--horses, troops
spectators, and the king and queen
were riddled with bullets. To com
plicate the affair, in different parts OF
the crowds behind the foot soldiers,
two terrorists had bombs explode on
their persons. These bombs they had
intended to throw If they got the op-
portunity. But who was to know this
The frightful havoc wrought by the
bursting bombs but added to the con.
fusion; 1t was considered part Of the
general attack
And Emil Gluck chuckled and went
his way. He knew. But how was the
world to know? He had stumbled up
on the secret in his old electroplating
shop on Telegraph avenue in the city
of Oakland. 1t happened, at that time,
that wireless telegraph station was
established by the Thurston Power
company close to his shop. In a short
time his electroplating vat was put
out Of order. The vat wiring had many
bad joints, and, upon investigation.
Gluck discovered minute Yields at the
joints in the wiring These, by lower
ing the resistance, had caused an ex-
cessive current to pass through the
solution, boiling" 1t and spelling the
work. But what had caused the
welds?" was the question in Gluck's
mind His reasoning was simple. Be-
fore the establishment of the wireless
station, the vat had worked well. Not
until after the blishment of the
wireless station had the vat been
ruined. Therefore, the wireless station
had been the cause. But how? He
quickly answered the question. II an
electric discharge was capable OF oper-
ating coherer across three thousand
miles of ocean, then, certainly the cleo
trio discharge from the wireless sta
tion four hundred feet away could pro-
duce coherer effects on the bad joints
In the vat wiring.
Gluck thought no more about 1t at
the time. He merely rewired his vat
and went on electroplating. But after
ward, in prison, he remembered the in
cident, and like flash there came into
his mind the full significance of it. He
saw in it the silent, secret weapon with
which to revenge himself on the
world. His great discovery, which
lied with him, was control over the
direction and scope of the electric dis
charge. At the time, this was the UNI
solved problem of wireless telegraphy
as 1t still is today-but Emil Gluck,
n his prison cell, mastered it. And
when he was released, he applied it.
1t was Emil Gluck that caused the
errible German-American war, with
he loss of 100000 lives, and the con-
sumption of almost incalculable treas
Ire. 1t will be remembered that in |
939 strained relations existed be-
ween the two countries. Germany,
hough aggrieved, was not anxious for
var, and, as peace token, sent the
rown prince and seven battleships
N a friendly visit to the United
states. On the night of February Is,
h. seven warships lay at anchor in
he Hudson opposite New York city.
md on that night, Emil Gluck, alone,
With al his apparatus on board, was
ut in launch. This launch, 1t was
fterWard proved, was bought by him
rom the Ross-Turner company, while
1uch Of the apparatus he used that
light had been purchased from the
Columbia Electric works. But this
ras not known at the time. All that
'as known was that the seven battle
hips blew up, one after another, at
OCULAR, four-minute intervals. Ninety
er cent of the crews and officers,
long with the crown prince, persisted,
ermany believed that 1t had been
one by submarine, and Immediately
eclared war. 1t was six months after
luck's confession, that she returned
le Philippines and Hawaii to the
nited States.
In the meanwhile, Emil Gluck, ma
violent wizard and arch-hater, travel
his whirlwind path of destruction.
Q left no traces. Scientifically thor
Ugh, he always cleaned up after him
If. His method was to rent a room
: house, and secretly to install his
oparatus-which apparatus, by the !
ay, he so perfected and simplified
at 1t occupied little space. After he :
I'd accomplished his purpose, he care
lily removed the apparatus. He babe
ir to live out long life of horrible !
ime.
The epidemic of the shooting of New
ork city policemen was remark 2
la affair II haeomo ono ~ tho hnr. | u