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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

in OF thought the small steamer
wor' De equipped with the wireless.
c not fear, but an instructive dis
Ike, for O'Nelll, because he seemed too
alta Die and rather common.
Day after day thenceforward he sus-
pected that O'Neill was determined to
make friends With him. He was popu-
lar with all the other passengers, and
warburton judged that 1t piqued him
to find single person reluctant to
smoke and talk with him.
To avoid being considered singular,
and thus the subject of remark, War
| burton took on more sociable air. He
played cards in the smoke room and sat
in game with O'Neill.
Yet he always evaded o'Neill when
others were not present. The man, for
some indefinable reason. fretted his
nerves.
O'Neill could not be on his trail, he
| reasoned. since the bank officials
could have had no reason to suspect
Edward Blount; and before they could
have learned that he had left Gramer-
| cy Park the Victoria was out at sea.
All his bills had been paid, and the doc
tor had been advised not to return.
The keeper of the boarding house ex-
pected Edward Blount to come back
/ from the country within fortnight
It would take a week, he told himself
over and over, for the bank experts to
unearth his defalcation. It was simply
nervousness that made him dread
O'Neill
The same evening, during a card
game in the smoke room, the deck
steward brought O'Neill another wire
less message.
| O'Neill put ON his glasses, shifted his
cigar by rolling It between his lips,
glanced at the message, and then rolled
| 1t into a ball and threw it toward the
cuspidor. The Victoria would reach
port early In the morning, so the game
broke up early.
O'Neill went off first.
Warburton waited till everybody had
gone. Looking about him cautiously.
he stopped and picked up the ball Of
paper O'Neill had thrown away.
CHANGING again at the door and at
the portfolio. he Spread the message out
and read:
Get James Warburton, really Ed
ward Blount, for cmbezzlement. For
eign police notified. PINCKNEY."
Rolling the 81 eet Of paper again into
ball, he dropped It on the floor. Cold
sweat oozed from his forehead and the
palms of his hands.
He started with palsied steps toward
the door.
Suddenly 1t was pushed open from
without. O'Neill popped into the room
and slammed the door shut behind him.
All his affabillty had vanished. War;
burton could see only two fierce, black
eyes and the bulldog jaw.
"Ive got you covered" he snapped,
showing an automatic revolver. IT
want that gun out of your right-hand
pocket"
Whats the matter with you?" War
burton demanded angrily. What do
you mean by"
Gimme the gun" o'Neill growled,
and slipped up on Warburton, aiming
his own weapon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

sidere.: an employe careful. II lavish,
In the matter Of dress. Now he looked
like cheap foreigner WITH no notion
Of the value Of color from G. New York
view.
The man who was watching him
trailed the various cars Blount took
and the lonely streets he walked. For
all that he lost track of him.
Blount disappeared near the water
front and slept in the alley of ware
! house. The veteran on night duty did
not discover him because Blount was
srouched under a pile of refuse.
As boy Blount had played in this
locality when 1t was open country. The
man who was watching him knew
Brooklyn as one knows a dictionary.
One must always look In order to find
anything.
At in the morning Blount. carry
ing the small bag he had bought at a
| pawnshop on his way home the day
before he was reported sick at the
bank, strode calmly up the gangplank
OF the obscure steamer bound for Spain.
He had been registered as James War
tburton by telephone, knowing enough
not to use name suggestive OF his
own initials.
The steamer was backing out into the
bay when ho noticed passengers and
ia few sailors run excitedly toward the
prov OF the boat.
A belated voyager was being brought
to the ship on u tug. They took him
aboard on rope ladder.
Warburton saw that he was a strong
ly built. stoutish man, with heavy
jawed, pale face. and small, very black
eyes. This much he observed as the
tug drew alongside Then Warburton
went down TO his cabin and lay on
the couch, dreaming awake OF his
whole life.
An inexpllcable nervousness prompt
ed him to get up and take revolver
fiom his handbag. He put the revolver
In the outer pocket of his sack coat. He
brushed his hand across the cloth to
assure himself the weapon did not bulk
noticeably.
Some one knocked at the door. His
breath stopped for an instant; his chin
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07
A Little Sidelight
From Austrian Front

An interesting sidelight on the great
war in Europe that brings it closer to
home develops ont of a money order
sent from this city to prisoner of war
in Russia. The order was made out on
March s of this year to Anton Krepela,
brother OF Louis Krepela, tailor in the
establishment of d. Ii. Mosher, on State
street, and sent to Mishni, NOvgorod
/ Province, Russia, in the care of the Am
erican Red Cross, 1t is needless to say
that Louis Krepela was the sender of
the order.
But the money sent with such kind in
tent never reached the person for whom
it was intended and now it is held wait
ing orders from the sender, who is re-
quired to write new address in his
own handwriting.
Anton Krepela, the prisoner of war,
shortly after the war broke out, wrote
letters to his brother in this city tell
ing of the actual conditions then OBJ
tanning in Austria, their native country.
One of these letters the government
eonfiscated and as result young Kre-
pela was sentenced to two years in pris-
on for expressing his opinions. Then,
after doing three months time, he was
called to join the Austrian eolors. Aft
er the war, if he returns to Austria,
he will be required to serve out the
rest of his uneXpired time.
On October ~, 1915, he was captured
and later took sick and was cared for
in hospital at Kiev, Russia. When
he got well, he was sent to Siberia.
Later, as near as his brother can find
cut, he was taken to another deten-
tion camp. He was fighting in Russian
Poland when captured, and one of the
secrets of the marvellous Russian ad
vance is found in the fact that among
The Austrians are many Slavs as well
as the Russians and such Austrians will
not fight against men of their own
blood. They prefer to surrender and be-
come prisoners. With this condition of
things, the Germans mixed the Aus
trans with the Germans.
Letters recently sent to Anton Kre
pela have been returned, and as it takes
a month to 90 and month to return,
Louis is uncertain whether his brother
is dead or alive.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07
, A BUFFALO INSTITUTION
Known All Over the United States.

DR.. Richard c. Cabot, who is head
OF the Massachusetts, General Hospi-
tai, has been writing for the American
Magazine, April and May, on the sub
iect of Better Doctoring for Less
Money"
He says that "a new era has come
in the practice of medicine, but most
people do not know it yet. We have
begun to emerge from that stage of
medical work in which the doctor was
peddler selling goods from house
to house, into the more advanced and
sensible era in which the doctor stays
at his place of business, like anyone
else who has goods to sell, and the
people who want these goods come
to him. The shop where he has his
goods to sell is generally called a
hospital and he has associated with
him there a body of men and women
similar to work people, foremen and
managers of any industrial plant or
dry goods store. He has there some
beginnings of satisfactory division of
labor and specialization of function
Therefore, he can give the public a
much better article for less money.
"The article refer to is sound
medical advice and treatment"
This is just what DIR. Pierce has been
doing at the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo,
New York. DR.. V. NJ. Pierce has asso-
ciated with him DR.. Lee H. Smith. who
is vice president and head surgical
director and operator, and there are
dozen other physicians and special
lists, as well as four chemists and the
ha IL. AT.
medical attention. AS DR.. Cabot has
properly said, "When you 60 to
doctors Office you may complain of
nothing more abstruse than head
ache or a stomache-ache, vet for the
solution of the problem represented BY
YOUR suffering there may be needed an
N-ray examination, chemical tests such
as very few experts are capable of max
ing, the consultation of experts in
diseases OF the eye, the ear and the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07
TO THE PoLICyHoLDERs OF
THE PRUDENTIAL
INSURANCE COMPANY OF
AMERICA

Notice is hereby given that meet
ing Of the policyholders of The Pru-
dental Insurance Company Of America
will be held at the Home Office OF said
Company in the City Of Newark. New
Jersey, on Monday, the fourth day Of
December, lalG, at twelve o clock noon,
for the purpose Of selecting fifteen per-
sons to be voted for by the policyhold-
ers' Trustee as members of the Board
of Directors at the annual election Of
Directors Of the Company to be held on
the eighth day of January 1917.
At such meeting every polcyholder
OF tn, cnlroration who u or the age Of
twenty-one years or upwards and
whose policy has been in force for at
least one year last past shall be en-
titled to cast one vote in person or by
proxy.
FORREST +. DRYDEN,
President.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

keep their heads for that time. All
the night they prowl>d about in the
fog, and when, with the dawn and sun-
rise. came a wind that brushed the SEQ
clear, they saw no sign of the Vic
toria or the ship that had run her
down.
One man stood up and, with cry of
frightful blasphemy. threw himself into
the water.
That's the man I'm after! Let ma
get him!" o'Neill yelled. and wotdd
have sprung over the side II Warbur-
ton had not restrained him.
O'Neill fought like the maniac ha
was.
"Let the fool go overt" some one
shouted. IT'S one less mouth to feed"
Let him CO." the tillerman roared.
"or you'll so with him. Can't you sea
he's too strong for you?"
"I can't do it! 1 can't do IT." warbur-
ton cried out. II want to, but I can't
do it."
One Of the oarsmen tapped O'Neilrs
skull with his oar, and the detective
fell in a heap with Warburton on top
of hin.
Hes got wife and kids at home."
Warburton said, picking himself up.
and shook as with ague. He had He'd.
he knew.
Then he disposed O'Neill, who was
quite unconscious, as comfortably as no
could, and sat watching him as fath-
er watches a sick child.
Toward noon they were taken up by
ore of the large transatlantics. which
had learned Of the collision by wire
less. and was on the lookout for stray
ed lifepoats.
O'Neill, still unconscious, was placed
in the ships hospital with a!isht
fracture of the skull.
Three days later he recognized Wa'-
burton.
Say" OMAN began, "the doctsr
told me this morning that you're tho
fellow who saved my life. He got IL
from the Victoria men. And I never
knew you. What's your namc-oi.
holy heaven, know you now! Blount
-Warburton. Why didn't you stay
away?"
1--WE got to go back and pay my
BILL" said Warburton. Pm thief, all
right, but l couldn't be a murderer.
even If it didn't look like murder to
those on the outside. I thought I'll
begin my life over again when / ran
away, but found out that night in the
boat that / have to begin right.
"I couldn't even die that night.
though at first / wanted to, with this
strain. Good Lord! To think what
I've been through to find out these
things"
mot word about It while we're on
the boat" O'Neili cautioned.
MAY I stay little while?" Warbur-
ton asked.
"Sure! Smoke cigar!" O'Ncill as
sured him Hospitality at the oamo time
offering him one.
"You see," Warburton explained.
you ere the only person with whom 7
stand right. With the other people on
the boat I'm simply living n lie.
i've had to live that way so long.
too"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

The colliding vessel was standing by,
and both ships bobbled up and down on
the floor of tne sea like balls.
And over all the tragic wonder OF the
scene rose human voices in terror or in
command, and the hoarse. gloomy note
Of signal whistles.
Passengers were darting here and
there, cursing and screaming to God
and man to help them.
Warburton. still grasping o'Neil's
trembling hand, listened and watched
for some word or sign from the officers.
After all, this was good way out.
They had caught him. To live meant
disgrace. imprisonment-slow death.
Better quick one.
The sight of the sea reaching up all
about them with greedy arms, quite
inconsequently, made him think Of the
waters at home. He had seen Long
Island Sound in fury and had sailed
his little boat laughingly. What fun
ny thing the Sound was! What a tenn
pest in teapot the whole struggle OF
life!
Gee, the poor kids and me wife"
O'Neill continued to moan.
"Listen!" Warburton cried, wrench
ing O'Neill's arm.
An officer was shouting orders to the
passengers. At point of pistol he had
kerded them on the forward deck near
were standing.
They would be let down In boats and
on rafts-the women first, the crew
last. All must move in an orderly fash
ion and obey or be shot. The colliding
steamer would continue to stand by
and pick them up.
Members of the crew manned each
boat. O'Neill stuck close to Warbur-
ton with helpless dependence.
Now and then he would ask absurd
questions in moaning voice. "Can
you swim?" was one of them. "will
this boat hold all these peopN?" Or,
staring about at the fog that enshroud-
ed the sea, he would say: THE one
thing in the Whole world I'm scared of
is the water, and here 1t Is at my
throat! And that fog-it's choking
me!'
Some of the men cursed, some pray
ed. Warburton remained calm and ST.
lent. With stole impassiveness he
was trying to fathom why this trick
Of fate that meant dire tragedy for all
the rest should mean for him possibly
lasting happiness.
He saw the way O'NellI was going.
The detectives terror of the sea by this
time had driven him into sheer de-
lirium. He moaned or babbled by turns
of his wife and children; and he kept
hold OF Warburton's hand as if he him
self were a child. All idea of pursuit
and capture of Warburton seemed to
have been blotted out.
The master of the crew, who was at
the tiller, did his best to assure the
Passengers that they would be saved
IL they only strove to be brave and
quiet.
He explained that they were pulling
far off frem the wrecked Victoria in
order to avoid swamping when she
slipped to the bottom. In an hour at
most they would find the other steam
er and be picked up. Surely they could
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

! Copyright. The Frank A. Munsey Company.
~ N the day Blount realized the
III market would never turn right
for him In time--it would turn,
bf course, but not In time--he spent his
luncheon hour eating a frankfurter
sandwich on bench In Battery Park.
Il He watched the boats go out to sea,
the big fellows that. with smoke
lplumes trailing, seem inevitably bound
for a happier shore.
The frapkfurtsr had cost him five
cents. He was paying s15 g week for
board and room in Gramercy Park.
N miserable hall room It was. whose
window was Imprisoned by lofty wall
OF a new Office building.
And he had taken $4,000 from the
Merchandise National 80 cleverly In
Fix months that everybody believed
him the innocent and energetic nd
ward Blount he had always been.
With five of the twenty thousand he
had never played. The Ave he had
held sacred for such an emergency as
the present.
When he returned to the bank he
naw strange man working over the
books In the loan department The
next morning his doctor sent a note
to the president to say Edward Blount
was threatened with grippe and must
remain abed for few days.
The president wrote a cordlel per-
sonal letter urging Blount not to leave
his room without the doctors permis-
alon.
AT 10 that night Blount slipped out
of the boarding house and took a sub
way train to Brooklyn. He had no FAM
,ly In New York. no intimate friends.
Ihey would come to him. he had al
ways said when he had made lots of
money.
The man who was watching him
stood hidden on the platform.
Blount thanked his stars he had been
born In Brooklyn, and so could get
out OK the terminal and make hls way
roundabout to the Erie basin without
asking n question. He had shaved his
beard and dyed his light-brown hair
black
, AT the bars he had always been con-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

In second he snatched Warburton's
revolver from his pocket.
Now. act decent" O'Neill went on,
'and I'll save you all the trouble /
can. Nobody on the boat knows about
this except you and me-"
'The wireless man" Warburton
began.
He never saw that message. I get
all my instructions in cypher. I wrote
the message myself to see whether
you'd any ideas about me. Then I
wanted to have one last clincher that
L had my man right. You bit hard"
"supposlng you're wrong. You know
what that would mean" said War
burton.
"Wrong-when I saw you buy that
bag Of yours at pawnshop? Wrong
when if it wasn't for the bag wouldn't
have recognized you the way you're
made UP now? Wrong-when I fol-
lowed over half Brooklyn to the Erie
basin, and lost you overnight?
II took the chance coming aboard.
but I made sure you were on the boat
before we dropped the pilot. You're
a slick artist, though, for you had
things so fixed up at the bank they
couldn't give me more hold on you than
suspicion till today.
They've been keeping an eye on four
of you fellows, and 1t was looking bad
for the other three until you skipped"
Warburton smiled. He was aware
of his dexterity with accounts.
Now the thing for you to do Is to
shut up and obey my orders without
trouble, or with trouble. IL you like.
But you can't get away"
whats that?" Warburton yelled as.
with terrific jar, both he and O'Neill
were thrown into a corner like nine
pins.
They caught each other by the arms,
and stared at each other, awestruck.
The lights went out. Then they heard
q cracking of steel and woodwork and
the frenzied shrieking of human
voices.
Lord mighty" O'Neill roared in
panic rage. I'VE are run into, and
can't swim!"
"Quick! We must get out of here"
Werburton said. feeling his way to the
door.
NAV, ye don't" o'Neill said, grab
bing nls arm. ''Ye don't get away like
that"
FOOL" Warburton retorted. "Do you
want to stay in here and drown like a
rat? Give me your hand. We've got
to find boat or a raft"
For all the terror of the thing, War
burton could not repress a sense of ex-
hilaration at O'Neill's incompetency to
meet it. He could not swim, and, from
the hysteric questions he kept asking.
Warburton realized that O'Neill was
one of those landsmen who have an in
born superstitious fear of the water.
There was. too, ironic joy for War
burton in dragging his captor along to
safety or to death.
Gee, the poor kids and me wife!"
O'Neill began to babble tearfully.
In the dense fog that covered the sea
the Victoria had been struck amid
ship, where she lay open like a cake
with a piece cut out.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07
10000 Antelope Survive;
Once There Were Hosts

University of Oregon. Eugene, Oct I.
About ten thousand antelope have
survived the slaughter of former years
the wild animals and the stress of rug.
ged environment, and still remain ON the
low desert of southeast Lake and south
east liarney counties, according to Joe
Skclton, u university Of Oregon sopho-
more who this summer was one of an
official party OF three that made nm an
telope estimate of Guano valley.
The party travelled by ear from Kla-
math Falls to l.akevicw, then through
the Warner valley to Adel, then to Cole
man, Nevada, aud thence back into
southeast Lake county. To the water
holes of the antelope, the only places
where count WIS possible, it went by
horse. The party was sent by c. +.
Stone, of Klamath Falls, fish aud game
commissioner for southern Oregon, and
one Of the five fish and game commits.
sioners of the state. lite membership
was G. NJ. Ramsby, Il klamath county
game warden; Il 4, Cress, Klamath
Falls lawyer, and Mr.. Skelton.
Phil Barry, u Guano valley sheep
man of l2 years residence, told the
party that antelope had been increasing
for several years under the closed law
Nevada, however, has nm open season,
and many Lake county residents com.
plain that Oregon raises and fattens
these animals and that when they cross
the Nevada border, only few miles
away, they may be shot. A good many
are so shot, and some also are killed in
Oregon in spite Of the closed law.
Mr. Barry said his estimate OF 10000
WAS conservative, and other estimates
ran to twice that number. At ono time
antelope swarmed in the semi-arid re.
gion of south central Oregon, but when
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07
NO TRUTH IN STORY.

United States Army Headquarters,
Nogales. Ariz., Oct. 6.--prvate Charles
Call is now with his company.
In these words Brigadicr General
Plummer, commander os United States
forces stationed here today officially
discredited report circulated that
Charles Call, q. California trooper at
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

throat, and the study of the improve
ment or aggravation of symptoms at
different times of day and under diff
ferent diets and temperatures. This
study demands the conditions found i'm
Just such a hospital, and nowhere else
to be had without great expenses" 1t
is also true that the "famiy doctor does
the best that he knows how, and con-
sidering the difficulties under which he
works, makes wonderfully good esti-
mate of the nature of the patients dis
ease and the treatment to be admins
tered"
But as an accurate diagnosis simply
cannot be made in considerable num-
Der of cases without the cooperation
OF number of men, each expert in his
own field, what we ask the family
doctor to be is an 'all-around' specialist.
This he attempts, but one cannot truth
fully say that he succeeds, for the at
tempt is obviously an impossible one.
Medicine is today far too large and
complicated field for any one man.
no matter how wise and experienced.
to cover"
We have not the space to speak in
divldually of the professional men COM
posing the faculty of this old, world
famed institution, but will say that
among them are many whose long con-
nection with the Invalds Hotel and
Surgical Institute has rendered them
experts IN their several Specialties.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

Wedding Invitations, Announcements
and Calling Cards Printed at the Jour
nal job Department.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07

the closed law was put into effect they
had all but gone the way of the Ameri-
can bison
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-07
Advantages of Specialties.

:. BY thorough organization and sub
dividing the practice of medicine and
surgery in this institution, every in
valid is treated by a specialist-one
who devotes his undivided attention 10
the Particular class of diseases TO which
the case belongs. The advantage of
this arrangement is obvious. Medical
SCIENCE covers a field so vast that no
physician can, within the limits of a
Lifetime, achieve the highest degree OF
success IN. the. treatment of every
malady incidental TO humanity.