American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-08-24


In the bottom of each car lay at
least FIVE modern magazine rifles.
Timing their progress to reach a GER
tain point at a certain moment, they
moved sedately through the twilight
and the darkness, attracting no atten-
ton.
Between seven and eight these cars
came together in a lonely stretch Of
countryside adjoining the valley OF
Powder Town. The driver Of each re-
ported to Kato personally, then parked
his car in the fields by the roadside.
Checking off each arrival on a COM
pact tally sheet, Kato at length extin-
guished the pocket iash-laDp by which
he had worked, and-having consulted
his watch-gave the word to march.
At precisely twenty minutes to eight
o'clock the last file Of armed japanese
trotted past him and disappeared in
the gloom.
He delayed before following only
long enough to plant a small rocket in
the earth and touch a match to Its
fuse.
Spearing up into the night on a
/, course which kept it invisible to the
inhabitants Of Powder Town, the rocket
broke at an elevation which permitted
, it to be seen from the valley Of the
~trestle.
, At sight of it, Baron HurOki, stand
4 ing on the porch of the Japanese farm
house, uttered an inarticulate sound Of
satisfaction, pocketed his binOcular
a and, going into the house, took up thu
telephone and gave the number OF thu
Ritz-Carlton in New York.
At eighteen minutes to eight PATHS
Charming paused in the act Of com
pleting her toilette for dinner to an
II swer the telephone.
YES. :" she called. This IS Mis-
Charming. Who are your
Out of the mystery of the night
IS voice responded in accents oddly ia
J. miliar yet oddly unrecognizable:
IS "Your men have mutinied in Powde
l. Town. They are r%iotinG and shooting
up the town. Captain Parr and other
If are besleged In the office building o
y Mil Number Five, in momentary dar
ger Of being blown up"
a The voice ceased abruptly. Their
hi was the click OF a receiver hung VI
K. The girls distracted efforts to get tn
Il connection renewed failed utterly. l
Sc panic she threw the instrument froI
is her and began to teal off her frOck.
Fetch me a travelling suit" she o.
l-.-a - -..sl mTn,a- a.NT - -
o. railroad and tell them to have my trai
~ ready for immediate service. I'm g
lie ing out to Powder Town as quick
ASST can"
Twenty-three minutes later 81
oy boarded her special at Jersey City.
al As the train pulled out of the yal
ny a furtive little japanese lodged awe
between the tracks, left the yard, ar
'te seeking the first saloon addressed hir
- self to the telephone.
Having received definite word TIL
Patria was on the way, Baron Huro
hung up. left the japanese farmhous
and superintendent the setting off OF
great rocket.
~ This last, rising to a great heigl
at high speed, was plainly visible
81 Powder Town when it exploded.
KatO saw it-he had been waltz
for precisely that signal-and scraI
"a bled to his feet. Applying a whist
to his lips, he blew a single blast. Il
al mediately the field in which he hi
# been lying at length became people
81 with the shadowy shapes Of his cou
trymen.
A second blast set them in motto
ri In utter silence but for the rattle
requirements and the thudding
their feet, they bore down at doubl
quick on the unsuspicious little tov
which they had surrounded in d
darkness.
In three minutes more the vangua
Of the raiders debOuched in the ma
street OF Powder Town and charged
9z It, shooting and b%ayOnetting all
their path.
ri Taken completely of their guard
who had, for that matter, no reas
TO anticipate anything of the sort, {
terrorized inhabitants fed before Il
general assault like leaves before
great wind.
In five minutes the Japanese we
in complete and undisputed possessi
Of The town and were firing its hous
The glare of those flames agaiI
the sky was ~synchronous with the CO
ing Of a bugle in the main yard of I
Claiming factories. The first refuge
had just arrived and begun to ga