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REFORMING A SAVAGE
After the Treatment He Became ouita
Gentlemanlv Chan

Gentlemanly Chap
In 4" Among the Primitive Bakonpoo -
1ohn ID: Weeks tells the story Of a
chief, Mampuya of KinkuzI, who
called on him at Wathen station to re.
quest that teacher be sent to his
town. :" He seemed a very quiet. gen.
tiemanly sort of man" saws Mr..
weeks, "and I was very much sur.
prised to hear that he had not always
been so deferential and modest.
Mampuya at one time treated tbe
people of his town in a verv con.
temptuous fashion and was always ex.
tortlng, on one plea or another. fowls.
goats and other goods from them.
AT last they could bear his extor.
tlons no longer, and so they bound him
securely, put him on a shelf in his
own house, built fire under him and
sprinkled quantity of red pepper on
1t. Then they went out and shut the
door closely behind them. The pungent
smoke filed the hut, and Mampuya
sneezed tremendously. He would have
died if there had been a little more
pepper on the fire.
AT last thy took him out of the
smoke and tied a stick across his chest
to his extended arms with the intention
of Furnishing him still further, but they
let him off on payment of fine and
many promises of better behavior,
which promises he has scrupplously
kept
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FEDS TO GET EARLY START

New York, Feb. 17.-Before leaving
here last night for Pinehurst, n. G.,
to join President r. b. Ward. OF the
Brooklyn Federals, President Gilmore,
OF the Federal League, announced that
ms league would try to get an early ad-
vantage over the National and Amer
lean Leagues this year by opening the
federal League season several days be-
fore the other major league openings.
Gilmore had a conference Yesterday
with Hugh MeKinnon, who is working
on the Federal League s proposed New
England auxiliary league. Gilmore re-
tused to make McKinnon 5 report pub
lie. "We will have a league uo in
that part of the country, all right. )"
said Gilmore. "McKinnon is going
back to-day to work further on the
proposition.
1t was declared on authority here
Yesterday that the Federal League has
abandoned any intention of coming into
New York City this season, and that
There would be no transfer of fran.
chlse other than that of Kansas City
to Newark.
Secretary John A. Heydler, of the
National League, announced YESTERDAY
that ne had received the signed con.
fract of Umpire Charles Rigler. this
completing the leagues staff of UNI.
plres for 1915.
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covaleskie to Go With Detroit

Shamokin, Pa, Feb. .17.-Pitcher
Harry Covaleskie received word from
Manager Hugh Jennings, of the Detroit
American League team, yesterday in
structing him to report at the training
camp at Gulfport, Miss, March 8.
Covaleskie is already at. work timber
ing up his muscles in order to start in
early preparing for the summer cam
paign. Harry Weiser, who is to be given
trial by the Philadelphia National
League team, was also ordered yester-
day to report to Manager Moran in
Philadelphia next Mondays to go to ST.
Petersburg, Fla, with the squad.
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suspend final ACTION
ON FUTURE OF TRl-STATE
Four Of the Six Clubs Represented Yes
terday and Final Action OH Main
tanning the League Another Season
Is Postponed-To Meet March 15

Philadelphia, Feb. 17.-With fou1
of the six clubs represented the Tri
State League at its annual meeting held
at the Majestic Hotel yesterday after.
noon, decided to suspend final action
upon the future of the organization uni.
til March 15, when effort will be made
to have every club owner in the league
attend this powpow to determine upon
the ultimate outcome of the organiza
ton
1t is well known fact that all the
clubs in the Tri-State League lost
money last season, and the owners
present at the conference admitted that
they had to face>a deficit at the expira.
tion of the playing year. However,
they are reluctant to let go their hold
ings and surrender the franchises for
which they were compelled to give their
money.
George Graham, president of the
league, in lengthy discussion of the
affairs of the organization, reminded the
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,otterhein. %: Willards. Is
White sox Leave For Paso Robles

Chicago, Feb. I7.-Thirty members
of the Chicago American League club
were making preparations yesterday to
depart for Paso Robles, Cal, to begin
spring training. The players will travel
in special train of six cars. Including
the players wives and friends of Charles
A. Comiskey, president of the club, the
party will number about sixty-fve.
Comiskey and B. B. johnson, president
of the American League, who departed
for the West a week ago, will join the
squad when it reaches Oakland, Cal.
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Hughey Jennings Starts South

Scranton, Feb. 17.-Hugh Jennings,
manager of the Detroit Americans ac-
eompanied by Mrs. Jennings, left here
for Gulfport, Fla, where the Tigers will
train this season. He will beat his men
there by about week. Hugh wants to
get into condition himself before the
players begin to report. He will devote
himself chiefly to golfng.
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AMEs BURRIS PRESIDENT
Duncannon Athletic Association Elect
Officers For the Year

Duncannon, Feb. Members OF
the Duncannon Athletic Association met
Monday night and elected the follow.
ing officers:
Ames Burris, president; David P
Ryder, vice president; Charles T.. John
ston, secretary-treasurer. Directors,
George Wahl, John Fissel, Henry
Charles, Frank Snyder, DR.. II. w. Nc.
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DR.KLUGH, Specialist
Physician and sureeo.

rhysicfan ana Surgeon
Diseases Of women and men, special.
private. specific. nervous and chronic
diseases. General office work. Consult
tation free md confidential. Medicine
furnished. " ork guaranteed. Charges
moderate. ~ years experiences.
DR. kLUGH, the well-known Specialist
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Modern Superciliousness

"My ancestors came over in the
Mayflower. "
Yes?' reioined Mrs. Cumrox "I
understand that the fare was really
quite low. But, gracious me, the boat
must have been terribly overcrowded. "
Washington Star.
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HIGHsPIRE ORGANIZES
Elected Directors to Manage Team For
Coming Year

Hishspire, Feb. 17.-Members of the
iHipghspire Athletic Association elected
the following directors to serve in the
baseball club during the ensuing year:
Lyman Bingaman, Dr. w. B. Kirk
patrick, Eugene Orris, j. o. S. Poorman.
Roland Matthias, Eli Ruth, Augustus
Barnieal, Elmer Waltmyer, Claude
Gross, Ivan Meffert, o. P. Green and
Elwood Ruth.
A meeting of the directors and play.
ers will be held on Tuesday evening.
rebruary %, to elect manager for
the baseball team.
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BEAT M1DDLETowN GUNNERs
Highspire Rod and Gun Club Win 94
to ~


lHighspire, Feb. 1.-THE Highspire
Rod and Gun Club defeated the Mid
dletown Gun Club in a 25 Blue Rock
shoot Saturday on the Highspire club
grounds. The FIVE leaders of both teams
qualified with total score of: High
spire, "a; Middletown, II.
The scores follow, each contestant
shooting at 25 birds: Howell, 23; Rus
sell, Is; Matheson, IA; Detweiler, IA;
Bradley, 13; Moore, 12; Yost, u;
Blecher, 1; Kreider, 8; of the Middle
town club; and Z. G. Hoffman, 22;
George Martin, 20; Shambaugh, 49,;
Frank Martin, II; Eshenour, II;
Abner Huff, 16; Frank Tillitson, 16;
Clayton Reigle, 16; Harry Fink, 15;
John Peifer, Is; Harry Kline, IA;
Aaron Shaffner, IA; Bamberger, 49,;
Joe Cover, IL; N. Green, IL; Charles
Breshears, 8.
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To Play at OherIin

The Methodist club five will meet
tne Neldig Memorials of Oberlin at that
place Friday night. A good game is ex.
pected as both teams are in good condi.
tion and haev been working hard for
TINS game. Between halves of this game
the Salem Lutheran five will meet the
Harrisburg All.Stars. WV
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Harrisburg

Substitution, Bucknell, Musser for
Murray. Goals from field, Rote, 5; Nc
Cord, 3; Beck, 8; Garner, 3; Musser, 2;
Ford, Bremen. Goals from fouls, Nc
Cord, 10 of IA; Garner, of Is. Ref.
cree, Brown. Time, Commute halves.
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Substitutions, Richards for j. Law
Ter, Noel for V. Monahan. Field goals,
M. Lawler, 4; P. Monahan, 2; Turbett,
/; j. Lawler, 1; Richards, 1; V. Mona
han, /; McCurdy, 2; Ed. Sourbier, 2.
Goals from fouls, NJ. Lawler, 2; Nc
Curdy, 5. Referee, Munson. Timer, Sam
Lewis 20-minute halves.
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PR. R.Y. M. G. A. Wins Easily

Lewisburg, Feb. 17.-Harrisburg p
R. R. Y. NJ. c. A. won easily from
Bucknell University here last night,
score 81 to 8. The lineup:
Bucknell Harrisburg
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=. and NJ.
Gettysburg.

Goals from fioor-Evans, /; Bremen,
Mountz, 3; Lobach, 3; Berger, 1;
Mahaffe, 2; Williams, s.; Campbell, 2;
lkeler, l; Turnbull, 1. Goals from fouls
Evans, 10 out %; Mahaffie, s out
OF 16; Campbell, out of 5. Time of
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Gettysburg, 33; F. and M. 30

Gettysburg, Pa, Feb. 17.-In the
closest game of the season, Gettysburg
defeated F. and M. last night 33 to
32. The lineup:
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halves, twenty minutes. Referee
WILL ARRE IT JOHNSON
Federal Authorities Plan to Bring Him
to This Country

Chicago Feb. 17.-Jack johnson,
the negro pugilist, who fed to Europe
after being sentenced to a year in the
Federal penitentiary for violation of
the Mann act, will be extradited and re-
turned to Chicago on charge of con
srlracy according to a statement yes
terday by Charles +. Clyne, United
States District Attorney.
The recent Supreme Court decision
IN white slave case, holding that a
conspiracy may be entered into to vio-
late the act, was cited by Mr.. Clyne as
authority for the statement. "The of
Tense for which johnson was tried, -
District Attorney Clyne said, sis not
extradita'5le, but conspiracy to violate
the United States law is. If the pugilist
is not returned through any of our vari-
GUS plans either before or after his
boxing match at Juarez, Mex, he will
be indicted for conspiracy, arrested
wherever he may be and brought back.
He may elude us and escape to
Europe again. but his freedom will be
short lived.
kenzie, B. Stiles Duncan, William ,Jen-
nlngs, Jr. Leo Warner, James Walters,
William Snyder, William Brown. Roy
Wolprit and Clyde Black.
Stiles Duncan, George WahI and
Charles Hunter were named as a com
mlttee to select grounds for the league
games this season. Ames Burris and
Charles Hiltner were appointed a com
mittee to meet with other delegates of
the Dauphin- Perry League at Harris
burg, February "a, to frame up the
schedule for the season.
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Central Pennsylvania League Meetins

Representatives Of the Central
pennsylvania League will meet in the
Paxtang Hook and Ladder house.
Steelton, tomorrow night to make
plans for the opening of the season.
New officers will be elected and two
more towns will be added to the circuit
according to the present plans.
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Lewistown Won From Hassett

Lewistown, Feb. 17.-Loretto Ly-
ceum defeated the Hassett club of Har-
risburg, by a score of % to Is here
Monday night. The lineup:
T,oretta I,vpeum Hassatt
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BERLIN CLAIMS GAINS

BERLIN Oct 4-The official statement issued this morning contains the statement that the French have captured of trenches northwest of Gvenchy but that all other attacks of local nature have been repused On the other hand the statement is made officially that have positions from the British north of LooS and from the French west of Vmy General news of unof
 cal nature indicates that troops have turned the tables and adopting offensive tactics larger scale than the Allies who have evidently at least for the present abandoned their general attempts The great offensive has been failure taken as whole and the Der lin newspapers declaring that the whole power of the allied nations of the west after weeks of prepara tOn were able to make greater impression the Ger front their is hopeleSs The loss of life in the British and French ranks is enormous and greater than the German losses if German correspondents are to be believed.
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U. s. WILL MAKE
 OWN MUNITIONS
GOVERNMENT TO ASK CONG RESS FOR HALF BILLION
 FOR DEFENSES.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-The United States will probably begin soon to manufacture it's own muni- tions of war and that the work to be done in this line and in other prepara- tion for defense is great is evident by the fact that congress will be asked for half billion dollars at the com ing session. The manufacture of arms and ammunition by the govern ment will be carried out on a great scale. The President, Garrison and Daniels have agreed on a plan to prevent the turning over of secrets to private manufacturers. Daniels says battle cruisers and fast ships are bad ly needed and he also says that the naval advisory board will meet the president Wednesday to formulate the program for the coming session.
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J. s. OFFICERS IN
 A HORRIBLE MESS
INDICTED FOR SELLING STOLEN UNIFORMS TO THE CAR
 RANZA TROOPS

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. "A disgraceful scandal has been appar- ently brought to light here by the in- dictment of several officers of the National Guard on the charge of stealing the uniforms intended for their own men and selling them to the troops of Carranza, the Mexican gen. eral. The officers charged with the crime are said to have issued an of ficial statement to the effect that the uniforms had been condemned and destroyed but those uniforms, accord ing to the charge, were really sold to the Mexicans. The same is true of other suplies and the total amount of the alleged embezzlement is twenty thousand dollars. To cover the dis crepancies the men now under arrest reduced the amount of the appro- priations in the books from one hun dred thousand to nine thousand but the trick was easily discovered.
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12OO MEN ARE
 NOW EMPLOYED
CHAIRMAN EDES OF THE EN- GINEERING COMMISSION RE-
 TURNS FROM ANCHORAGE.

William c. Edes, chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, re- turned on the Alameda this morning from Anchorage where he has been on an official visit The latter part of the week Mr. Edes, with Lt Mears and Dr. Stoughton, made trip about g miles beyond the Matanuska Riy- CT towards the coal fields, looking over the surveys. He says that owing to gcod weather he was able Co make the trip in two days and that the trip up there was very enjoyable one. Mir. Edes states that the number of men employed by the Commission at Anchorage on September 18th was little over 12 and that it is his be- lief that almost the same number are at work there at the present time
 The schooner Wellesley arrived in Anchorage late yesterday afternoon with load of bridge material for the construction of trestles and bridges up the arm. Mir. Edes says that a three masted schooner was also pass ed late yesterday afternoon, which it is thought was the Northland, another ship with a load of bridge material for the Commission at Anchorage, which was due yesterday.
 Mr. Edes says that the railroad track has been built out three or four miles from Anchorage and as soon as the freighter Seward arrives with a large consignment of new rails, of the 70 pound variety, work will progress rapidly in the extending of the road out of Anchorage.
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NINE MINERS
 BURIED A WEEK
SLIDE ENTOMBED THEM ON MONDAY AND THEY WERE
 RESCUED ON SUNDAY.

LONGFORK, Pa, Oct. 4.-Nine miners were taken out of the bowels of lh'. earth near this place yesterday after they had been entombed since the Monday previous. When a great slide occurred last Monday the men were hidden behind thousands of tons of coal and earth and all hope was about abandoned of ever seeing them alive. The work of digging went on, however, and yesterday, Sunday, the buried men were reached. All of them were found exhausted and some of them unconscious but all will recover. They are unable yet to speak of their experiences.
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WICKERSHAM TO
 VISIT HERE SOON
LEAVES FAIRBANKS OCTOBER 15 AND WILL PAY SEWARD
 A SHORT VISIT.

SEATTLE, Oct. 4.-James Wicker sham, delegate to congress from AL aska, will visit Seward on the way to Washington and will probably arrive in your town about the first of the month. Mrs. Wickersham arrived here on the MaripOsa enroute to the exposition and the east. She stated today that the delegate will leave Fairbanks October l5, and will make short stops at Valdez and Seward.
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PANAMA CANAL
 SLIDES BAD
EXPECT GREAT WATER WAY TO BE CLEARED, HOWEVER,
 ON NOVEMBER 1ST.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-The slides which have occurred in the Panama canal since September 21 have been the worst in the history of the great water way. The worst feature of it is that they are continuing and cost ing the government tremendous sums of money that, at least, put beyond the range of possibility any profit from the operation of the canal for the present. Large forces are at work clearing out the slides as fast as they come and it is expected that the chan mel will be all ready again by the First of November.
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PETROGRAD HAS SENT ULTIMATUM 10 BULGARIA
BIG ALASKAN
 STEAMER SUNK
BRENTWOOD FORMERLY HAROLD DOLLAR AT BOTTOM
 WITH $5OO,OOO.

SEATTLE, Oct. 4.-The steamship Graywood, formerly known as the Harold Dollar which travelled in Al askan waters, was sunk today with a cargo of ore and lumber that was worth half a million dollars. She was in a dangerous condition owing to gales when she was taken in tow by the Salonian from which she broke away and sank Sunday.
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LIEUT.. MEHAFFEY GOES
 BACK TO VALDEZ.

Lieutenant Mehaffey, of the Alaska Road Commission, left for Valdez this morning after looking over the road matters in this neighborhood. With Mir. Eide he gave the district a thorough looking over and had the satisfaction of going away with the knowledge that the people of the sec ton are more than pleased with the work done, considering the calls on the funds.
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ENGLAND SUFFERING

LONDON, Oct At is stated by the Manchester Guardian that there is hardly block in any city in Eng land which has not given killed wounded man as a re- suit of the great allied offensive movement of the past week but the paper goes say that the destiny of the British empire is wound up in the struggle on the western front and other general assaults must come soon The losses of the British the battle of LooS where they mostly engaged known to have been very heavy but regarded the price of thrilling success The number of the killed and wounded will probably be announced by ASquth in the house of commons.
 (NOte) LOOS, where the British did the most fighting in the recent offensive movement is probably the English spelling for Loo the river Yser Belgium It is long long way to Lens in France.
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ALLIES HOLD GROUND

LONDON, Oct. 4-The allied armies hold virtually all the ground taken by them last week In a few in- stances it is officially admitted the Germans have re- captured some of the positions lost by them. We organizing our newly won positions and dispatches from General French indicate rather than state positively that the general assault will be recommended soon again Bit ter local fighting is still proceeding at various points due to the effects of the Germans to recapure lost trenches The allies have had some success in ArOis but in other places in that department and in Champagne the results of the fighting are varying One Ofhe chief reasons for the Hull in the general offensive is the coming of heavy rains which have caked everything guns and all, with mud and make an offensive movement difficult
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Music PhOned
 Across Continent
Hand Clapping at Boston Also
 Heard at Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4.-The most extraordinary feat ever performed by telephone took place here today when an audience invited by the Producers Motion Picture company listened to the orchestra playing at a moving picture show of Carmen at Boston. The music was plainly heard by the new telephone arrangement and the audience also heard the clapping Of the audience three thousand miles away. The clapping sounded like faint tapping on typewriters.
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Big Moose Attacks
 Theodore Roosevelt
Swears He Had to Break the Law to
 Save His Life.

QUEBEC, Canada, Oct. 4.-TheO- dore Roosevelt made an affidavit here today that he broke the law by killing a second moose because the moose at tackled him and theratened to gore him. The law of the province is that a man is allowed to kill only one moose. Roosevelt was out for a hunt ing trip and bagged one of the ami mals. According to his affidavit he was on the way back from the hunt in a canoe when the second moose at tackled him.
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ROAD TO GILPATRICK'S
 FINISHED THIS WEEK,

In four days the wagon road will be finished to the property of John Gilpatrick in Moose Pass. Mir. Gil- patrick has arrived in town and joins all others in praising the work of the Road Commission in that quarter. He says the road is good enough for automobiles, and worthy of the great prospects now held out to that dis trict.
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TO ATTACK SERBIA

BUCHAREST, Roumania, Oct 4.-General von Mackensen has withdrawn quarter of million men and two thousand pieces of artillery from the Russian front and this force has arrived on the Serbian border TOT the great drive to Constantinope From German sources it is learned that this withdrawal is the cause of the u in the eastern fighting and that the attacks in the Pnsk region will proceeded with by the Germans at pres it's intentions during the fighting in the Balkans Our frontiers are protected by troops but it is hardly likely we shall make any offensive move.
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EVERY BLOCK IN EVERY ENGLISH
 CITY LOST A MAN LAST WEEK
RUSSIA SENDS ULTIMATUM

PETROGRAD, Oct. 4-The Russian minister was formally ordered last night to leave Sofia this morning at nine o'clock New York time unless at that hour Bull gara had severed relations with the TeutOnc powers and had expelled the representatives of Germany and Austria This is the manner in which Russia has sent its ultmaum and as Bulgaria has evidently decided to join the TeuOnc alliance she will of course refuse our terms and will be declared making the thirteenth nation to enter the great struggle.
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ALAMEDA ARRIVES.

The Alameda arrived this morning at 6:15 from the west, bringing the following passengers from Anchor age: Gaston Hardy, Ethel FOrgy, C.. E. Bade, Capt. A. E. Lathrop, E. J. Warner, D. Darling, w. E. Edes, B. H. Barndollar and Fred B. Tracy.
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ALAMEDA TAKES MANY OUT.

The Alameda sailed for the south this morning at 7:3O taking with her S6 passengers from this city. The passengers leaving here and whose names were not mentioned in yester- days Gateway, are: E. c. Niles, Wm. Aiken, Mrs. Wm. Aiken, R. R. Hunter, It. Mehaffey, c. W. Felch, A. Van Mavern, F. CloecOugh, Cader Powell, Ray Giddings and thirteen steerage.