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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-05

air. II vas zone, rnen, ana wen done
1t was hard to realize. He turned to
the west, where for so long behind the
mountains had lurked an enemy. A
new era was opening; peace, disarma-
ment a quiet and prosperous land. He
had spent his years of war and women.
That vas cFer
When he returned to the study the
agent Kaiser was already there. But
Karl, big with plans for the fnture,
would have been alone, and eyed the
agent with disfavor.
"Well?" he demanded.
awe have been able to search tine
cliancellor's rooms, SIRE" the agent
said, "for the articles mentioned last
night-a card case, gloves, and a silk
handkerchief, belonging to the pris-
oner upstairs. He is Captain Larisch,
alde-de-camp to the crown prince of
Livonia."
He had expected Karl to be i'm
pressed. But Karl only looked at him.
Il know that" he said coldly. "You
are always just a little late with your
information, Kaiser"
Something like malice showed in the
agents face. "Then you also know,
sire, that 1t is this Captain Larisch
with whom rumor couples the name of
the Princess Hedwig." He stepped back
a pace or two at sight of Karl's face.
"You requested such information, sire"
For answer, Karl pointed to the door.
For some time after he had dis
missed the agent, Karl paced his
library alone. Kaiser brought no I'M
verified information. Therefore the
thing was true. Therefore he had had
his enemy in his hand, and now was
pledged to let him go. For a time,
then, Karl paid the penalty of many
misdeeds. His triumph was ashes In
his mouth.
What If this boy, infatuated with
Hedwig, had hidden somewhere on the
road Olga Loschek's letter? What,
then, if he recovered it and took it to
Hedwig? What if
But at last he sent for the prisoner
upstairs, and waited for him with both
jealousy and fear In his eyes.
Five minutes later Milky Larisch
was ushered into the red study, and
having bowed, an insolent young bow
at that, stood and eyed the king.
'I have sent for you to release you,'
said Karl.
Milky drew a long breath. II am
grateful, SIRE"
"You have been %interceded for by
the chancellor of Livonia, General
Mettlich, who has just gone"
Milky bowed.
Karl fixed him with cold eyes,. "But
before you take leave of u.s." he said
ironically, 81 should like the true story
of the night before last. Somehow,
somewhere, a letter intended for me
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hold your bag, Sc you can cllmp.-

hold your bag, so you can climb +
He caught her handbag from her.
and instantly something snapped In it.
The countess was climbing up the lad
der. Rather dismayed, Prince Ferdi-
nand William Otto surveyed the bag.
Something had broken, he feared. And
in another moment he saw what I'll
was. The little watch which was set
In one side of it had slipped away,
leaving a round black hole. His heart
beat a trifle faster.
I'm awfully worried" he called up
to her, as he climbed. "Tm afraid I've
broken your bag. Something clicked,
and the watch is gone. It is not on
the ground"
1t was well for the countess that the
colonel was talking to Hedwig. Well
for her, too, that the other officers
were standing behind with their eyes
worshipfully on the princess. The
countess turned gray white.
"Don't worry, highness," she said,
with stiff lips. 'The watch falls back
sometimes. I must have it repaired"
But long after the tour Of the RAM
parts was over, after ammunition
rooms had been visited, with their long
lines Of waiting shells, after the
switchboard which controlled the river
mines had been inspected and ex-
planned, she was still trembling.
Prince Ferdinand William Otto,
looking at the bag later on, saw the
watch In place and drew a long breath
of relief.
ITO Be C~ontinued.I
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-04-05
CHAPTER viii.
On the Mountain Road.

The low gray car which carried the
chancellor was on its way through the
mountains. 1t moved deliberately, for
two reasons First, the chancellor vas
afraid of motors. He had a horseman's
hatred and fear of machines. Second,
he was not of a mind to rouse King
Karl from a nights sleep, even to bring
the hand of the Princess Hedwig. His
intention was to put up at some Inn
In q village not far from the lodge and
to reach Karl by messenger early in
the morning, before the hunters left
for the day.
Then, all being prepared duly and in
order, Mettlich himself would arrive,
and things would go forward with
dignity and dispatch.
The valley of the Ar d%eepened. The
cliff rose above them, a wall broken
here and there by the offtake Of nar-
row ravines, filed with forest trees.
There was a pause while the chains
on the rear wheels were supplemented
by others in front, for there must be
no danger of a skid. And another
pause, where the road slanted peril
ously toward the brink of the chasm,
and caution dictated that the chancel-
Tor alight, and make a hundred feet or
so of dangerous curve afoot.
It required diplomacy to get him out.
But it was finally done, and his heavy
figure, draped in its military cape,
went on ahead, outlined by the lamps
of the car behind him.
He was well around the curve, and
the cliff was broken by a wedge of
timber, when a c%uriously shaped OBJ
ject projected itself over the edge Of
the bank, and rolling down, lay almost
at his feet. The lamps brought it into
sharp relief-a man, gagged and tied,
and rolled, cigar shaped, in an auto
mobile robe.
The chancellor turned, and called to
his men. Then he bent over the bun
die. The others ran up, and cut the
bonds. What with cold and long IN
action, and his recent drop over the
bank, the man could not speak. One
of the secret service men had q flask,
and held it to his lips. An amazing
situation, indeed, increased by the dis
covery hat under the robe he wore
only his undergarments, with a SOL
dier's tunic wrapped around his Shout
ders. They carried him into the car
where he lay with head lolling back,
and his swollen tongue ~protruding.
Half dead he was, with cold and long
anxiety. The brandy cleared his mind
long before he could speak, and he
saw by the uniforms that he was in
the hands of the enemy. He turned
sulkily silent then, convinced that he
had escaped one death but to meet am
other. Twenty-four hours now he had
faced eternity, and he was ready.
He preferred, however, to die fully
clothed, and when, in response to his
pointing up the bank and to his in
a~rticulate mouthings, one of the secret
police examined the bit Of woodland
with his pocket flash, he found a pair
of trousers where Milky had lett them,
neatly folded and hung over the branch
of a tree. The brandy being supple
mented by hot coffee from a patent bot
tie, the man revived further, made an
effort, and sat up. His tongue was
still swollen, but they made out wha
he said. He had been there since the
might before. He was of Karnia, and
a kings messenger.
81 was coming back from the bar.
rier," he said thickly, "where I had
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Forgotten

Il thought you said he was strict
1y honest?'
$50 he is"
But I loaned him $40 a month ago.
and he hasn't returned It."
THAT'S all right. I still think he is
honest. Perhaps I forgot to tell you
that his chief trouble is that he has al
poor memory" j
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
BRITISH CAPITAL
ALIVE WITH SPIES

noted for It's foreign clientele. They
were talking loudly and as is the way
sometimes with young men, somewhat
heedlessly, When. howeyers.a woman,
a total stranger to both Of them, sit
ting at the next table leaned over and
said: II wonder If you can tell me
where the squadron Is stationed
now; have friend there" the
youngsters were shrewd enough to say
they did not know and started talk.
ing about theaters.
There Is, of course, the wise dictum
that "those who talk don't know, and
those who know don't talk" All the
same it must be remembered that
London ia one great whispering gal
lery, and the most casual remark deal
ing with operations In France or else
where may be just the final check
wanted by the Germans to verify a
vast mass of information obtained
from q thousand and one sources.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

pline he sometimes complains about Is
heaven In comparison. The soldiers
get Sunday off at certain periods and
look forward to them because they
can visit home.
II have seen 1t happen time and
time again that officers kept some OF
the men in barracks, apparently mere
ly nursing slight grudge of a per-
sonal nature-perhaps merely to have
a bit of sport at the private's expense.
These same officers would think up all
kinds of punishments for their men,
often putting a fellow at some task on
his day off while several hundred
other soldiers were idle and could have
done the same work.
Just Keep Them Busy.
81 have seen officers order men to
carry water from the big barrels kept
in barracks, sometimes three or four
stories HIGH merely to give them O
task. After they had emptied the bar
rels they would be forced to carry the
water back up and fill them again.
"1 have seen privates put to work
on Sunday morning with bucket OF
water and a tooth brush and ordered
to scrub the floors.
IF n private does not shoot or march
as well as the officer thinks he should
he is certain to be punished. one
favorIte treatment then was to require
private to stand erect, then knee! tt
the ground, repeating the performance
for an hour or more. I've seen Off
GERS beat and kick soldiers who be
came exhausted from this task. II
frequently happens that three days
strenuous drill on bread and watel
diet follows"
HadlIch has taken out his first nat
uralization papers, and although regis
tered as an enemy alien, is listed IL
the aviation reserve corps and hope'
to be able to enter the American arm!
aviation section in the near future.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

Whoever II was that discovered
sleep decided that at leasl uut-,a.ru "a
n persons life was properly spent in
bed, and therefore, when the crowd
stops up until midnight it is healthy
and wise to remain under cover, or
anyway on the pillows, until eight
o'clock. The dancer or card player
Certainly we mean bridge and other
perfectly proper games) lingering for
the last one-step or the final hand,
until one o'clock should not be dis
turbed until nine. And so on, accord
ing to the accepted plan of health and
happiness. But taking the other side
of the argument--Or rather, reversing
the programmed the average person
retire at ten o'clock and rise ut SIX
Exchange.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
German Deserter Describes
Brutal Treatment inflicted
on Men in Army.
FATHER CRIPPLED FOR LIFE
Crimes viii Darken History of Kaiser
ism Forever, When People OF the
World Learn the Whole
Story.

Marion, O,-Curt Hadlich, q young
German mechanic employed in local
shops, one-time aviator In the German
army. soldier of fortune and finally an
American citizen, not only believes the
stories OF German brutality that nave
come from across seas but he thinks
when the whole story has been told
crimes that will darken the pages OF
the history of kaiserism forever VIII
come to the people of the world. They
win be told not only by victims but
by the very soldiers of the kaiser him.
self, Hadlieh thinks.
He Is a deserter from the German
army because of treatment he could
not stand. His father is life Grip
ple from the indignities even of peace
times.
"The German soldier is treated like
dumb animal" says Hadlich. "He
must grin and bear it--there is no ap-
peal"
Hadllch's story perhaps Is the more
interesting because he has Travelled
enough, seen enough and learned
enough outside the confines of Ger
many to appreciate conditions that ex-
| list there.
Father Crippled for Life.
/ my father is living example OF
the effects of German militarism," he
said. "After the war, If he still Is
living, expect to have him come to
this country to live as God Intended
people should live. He too can tell
stories Of how brutal German officers
are to the soldiers under them.
like all young Germans, he entered
military service when he was twenty.
One day his company was practicing
scaling. He had been III and was I'M
able to get over fence at which prac-
tice was being held. An officer struck
him with sword. He fell and his
arm was broken. It was not properly
cared for, and that arm has been use
less since.
"While was stationed at the forts
at Metz and Strnssburg ! saw things
happen myself that would make an
American soldier think that the disci-
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
USE BURIED COIN FOR BONDS
Moantaineers Of Tennessee Dig UP
Thousands of Dollars to invest
in Liberty Bonds.

Johnson City. Tenn Thousands OF
dollars in money that had been buried
by the mountaineers Of east Tennessee
was dug up recently and invested in
Liberty bonds. Gold and silver cur
rency was lifted from fireplace cor
ners, dug up from under the garden
trees and taken from the trunks OF hol-
low oaks. Some Of the money paid
for the bonds dated back more than
half a century. The third loan Is the
only one in which the mountaineers
largely participated.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
HELLO GIRL IS ANSWER TO
KAISER is LIBERTY BONDS

Cleveland, O.--Mias Mar
garet Hubbard. a telephone OPP
orator here who has not been
over from England long, lost her
brother, Lieut.. Il. J. Hubbard.
In action in Europe. Her an
swer was a Liberty bond pur-
chased from her small salary.
Then she heard that her young
er brother had also given his
life In the battle for democracy
In the battle Of Picardy plain.
II went right out and bought
another Liberty bond" she said.
THAT'S my answer to the kali
SER"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
Performs Patriotic Duty.

Hazleton, Pa.-The famous Buck
mountain, near here, will do Its bit In
beating the kaiser. The anthracite
coal which fred John Ericson's Mon
itor when II defeated the Confederate
ram Merrimac came from the ground
of Buck mountain and now that same
ground has been turned oyer to anna
teur war gardeners for the growing
Of potatoes.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
Americans Are Warned to Keep
Their Mouths Shut While
Staying in London.
GREAT Whispering GALLERY
Women Are Particularly Active In
Seeking information From Careless
officers---StilI Most cosmopoll-
tan City In the World.

London.--To young American fight
same advice Is good--that 1t is a wise
and patriotic soldier and sailor who
keeps his war information to himself !;
because, despite repeated warnings
about the dangerous habit of discuss
Ing military and naval matters in pub
lie, London restaurants and hotels are
still full Of chatterers. In the past
women have been accused OF being
possessed Of an uncomfortable pas.
sion for gossip, but 1t seems that men
are even worse In this respect.
Some Idea Of the danger Of random
talk about matters that should be kept
confidential and never discussed III
public may be gathered from the fact
that London Is still the most cosmo.
politah city In the world. The West
end Is crowded with male and female
adventurers from almost every known
country including Germany, and al
though every one Of them would swear
by everything that Is holy that they
are longing passionately for an allied
victory, there Is little reason to doubt
that some of them are spies, and many
undoubtedly are potential spies.
To give an example: Only recently
In one Of London's biggest hotels there
was quite little cluster of Russian
women. They were young and pretty,
had attractive manners, and were not
hampered by any chaperon. So they
soon found admirers in plenty-just
what they were after
Confined Attention to Officers.
Perhaps there would not have been
anything very strange about this but
for the fact that these young women
confined their attention exclusively to
officers, soldiers. sailors, and airmen.
They invariably turned the cold shout
der upon civilians, but no sooner did a
strange officer appear In the lounge
than somehow or other they man
aged to scrape UP an acquaintance
with him,
Another curious thing about these
women was that they rarely spoke to
any man for more than 20 minutes
or half an hour. Perhaps they would
have cup of coffee with him or
smolse a cigarette, but in few min
utes the women made some excuse and
went away.
Still more suspicious was the fact
that several of these Russian women
were seen to be constantly conversine
with a young Russian civilian. He
also was stopping In the hotel and ap
peared wherever he was seen with
them to be cross-examining the women
Eventually their behavior attract
ed attention, and they were watched
The next day they disappeared ant
have not been seen since.
Women Probably Acted for Spies.
OF course, 1t Is just possible thai
there Ia an innocent, or, at any rate
plausible explanation of these mys
FERROUS women. On the other hand 1
1t regarded as likely that they wer,
In the pay Of spy organization
that their part OF the business was t
collect information, which they hand
ed over to master spy, who In hi
turn sifted and checked the data h
received, and then In some way o.
other transmitted them to Berlin.
Only the other evening two younI
pilots were dining In q restauran
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
TELLS OF BRUTALITY
OF HUN OFFICERS
SAYS NAVY TOO SAFE
WANTS HUBBY IN ARMY

Pittsburgh, Pa.-"Tll sign a
release for him to join the army,
but not the navy. 1t is too safe"
So declared Mrs. John Bendth-
son, when she appeared in
court against her husband,
charged with nonsupport. After
much argument Mrs. Bendth-
son was convinced that the
navy was as dangerous as the
army and she signed her hus-
bands release.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

Lieut.. Stephen bons;.', IT., one OK
Uncle Sans airplane mail carriers
Lieutenant Bonsall Is the son of the
former war correspondent and veteran
newspaper man, who Is now a major
attached to the general staff of the
army
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13
Athletic stars Enlist.

Neutrality-suspicious. of former ath-
letic stars are enlisting for service
with the Y. M. G. A. to instruct and
help the American soldier overseas to
keep himself physically ct to fight
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-27

MA J. p. Rumnaush was tn
fCoutipued on Page Four.)
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-27
Col. Riepc. Neoada
Pioneer, Is Stricken

Col. Richard A. Riepe, formerly
one of the best known citizens of this
county, coming to Ely in the .early
days of the camp, died at his home
in Fruitvale, California, last Monday
after a short illness.
Mr. Riepe was 69 years old at the
time of his death. lie was born In
Germany and came to the United
States when a boy. Soon after ar
irving in this country he located IN
Nevada, his first business venture be-
ing in the restaurant business In
Phoebe. He served as a member oi
the 3tate legislature from Lincoln
county and was interested In many
lines of business in that section oil
the state. coming to Ely when this
camp was only beginning to be
known as a prospective mining COM
munity. He at once took up his resi-
dence here and invested in various
lines of business, real estate and min
ing properties. the Riepe building
at the corner of Auitman and Murry
streets being one of these.
Mr.. Riepe is survived by a wife,
to whom he was married about nine
years ago. a sister living In Cali
fornia, a niece, Miss Carrie Riepe oil
Ely, and a nephew. A. R. Riepe OF
the firm of Haley & Riepe In Ely
Although for the past several years
he has made his home in California,
Mr.. Riepe has retained many of his
early investments in Ely and made
trips to this district from time to
time. always taking keen interest
in its affairs.
Funeral services were held In
Fruitvale Thursday morning at
o'clock
A. r. Riepe and wife left Ely last
Tuesday to attend the services.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-27
MOUNTAIN LIONS
KILLED NEAR ELY

Two mountain lions of unusually
large size were killed within the
last forty-eight hours just short
distance outside the city limits Of
Ely. This is most unusual occur
renee and the hides of the feroeious
beasts attracted much attention as
they were exhibited along Aultman
street.
An Indian known as Young George
Adams, while engaged in chopping
wood up Murry canyon on Friday.
noticed three lions within a stone
throw of where he was working.
One of the animals walked To whore
Adams had left his lunch and
sweater and after deyouring the
lunch proceeded to tear the sweater
to shreads. 1t, is said the Indian
made a quick getaway to procure
guns and assistance, and soon after
with another Indian was on the trail
of beasts. They succeeded in killing
one lion Friday night and a second
one was landed yesterday morning.
One animal measured eleven feei
and is perhaps the largest mountain
iion ever killed in this vicinity.
The third is now being trailed in
the same locality.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-27
FOE. Convention
to be Held in Ely

At the last meeting of White Pine
Aerie No. 1906 F. o. e. the officers
for the ensuing years were Installed
by Deputy Grand President James
S. Bennett and matters OF consider
able importance were taken up.
One OF the most important mat
ters now under consideration is the
State Convention which will be heio
In Ely on the 3rd. 4th and 9TH OF
June. This is the first time that the
local Aerie has had an opportunity
to show what they could do on suei'
an auspicious occasion as that OF
state convention and 1t is safe to say
that the event will be made mem
orable one. I will be attended BY
prominent men from all over th'
state and the keys to the city VIII
be turned over to them. Presiden'
Henry Duncan Is now busy selectins
his committees and with Secretar!
Tambiyn 10 dsvotins much time {
working out tho numerous detah
Tor the great erent.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-27
FALLS TO HIS DEATH

James Heaney, "a years OF age,
met his death by falling about forty
feet In the concentrator building of
the Nevada Consolidated at McGill
last Tuesday morning. Just how the
accident is not known as there were
no eve witnesses. The deceased II
survived by a wife and an infant
daughter. as we'll as an aged father.
all of whom reside in Ireland, Al
we'll as three brothers, Patrick. John
and Frank Heaney. and three broth
ers-in-iaw, Michael o'Hare. James
Mc0overn and James Woods. al Of
whem ere employed s& Mco4ll
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-27
suCCUMBs OF HEART DISEASE.

The lifeless body of Tony Civeta
was found near the tracks of the
Nevada Northern railway about one
mile west of McGill at O'Clock last
Wednesday afternoon. After an in
yestigation by Coroner Collins an
autopsy was performed by County
Physician Richardson and II was de-
termined that the young man died
naturally from heart failure. The
body was shipped to Arlington. Ore
gon yesterday morning upon request
of the wife of the deceased.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-27

A letter received from William
Duddleson this week announces that
he has received his commission as
first lieutenant. "Bill' has been
acting In this capacity for some time
and has had all the responsibility
of the position but the actual COM
mission has now been granted.
Waldo Is now In the Harvard Radio
School undergoing a coourse OF
special training. He had his choice
Of this or nava. training and chose
the former.-