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power to see with accuracy; make 1t, in
deed, an unfailing weapon.
With all this in mind, it is not hard to
Lawrence Muth, of Los Banos. California,
the full story of which has only recently
become known.
It was on the fourth morning of last
April that Sergeant Muth, with three
marines was accommodating in the vicinity
of Mount Michel. This is a mountain at
whose base, on the west, is Las Cababas, a
typical Haytian village, in whose narrow,
dirty streets the children roll among the
dogs and pigs, and whose squalor the gor-
geous flowers of the hibiscus and the bou-
gainvillia accentuate. There is a road
from Las Cababas leading over the top Of
Mount Michel; 1t is little more than a thin
trail between the dense masses of the trop-
zeal jungle.
There had been reports Of bandits in the
neighborhood and Sergeant Muth and his
little patrol we're scouting.
They passed through Las Cababas while
night still lay black in the valley At day.,
break they were at the top Of the rise.
Suddenly out of the tangle ahead of them
o few men darted. The four marines
opened fire and pursued. They had not
gone a hundred yards before a whitening
volley raked them from both side and the
rear The fleeing men had been decoys to
lure them into an ambush. And had the
aim Of the Haytiahs been anywhere near
equal to their opportunity the four Ameri-
cans must have been riddled Immediately.
AS it was, Muth fell, shot through the
stomach and head
Stone, u. s. M. c., the next in command,
tried to lift the body of Muth to his horse
bullet grazed his neck and struck his
rife. Stone, though stunned, landed upon
bis feet. He raised his damaged gun and
fred. The weapon exploded, binding him
The two remaining marines swung him
across his horse and, believing Muth dead,
retreated down the trail. They fought
steadily until close to Las Cababas. How
effectively the bodies of ten of the bandits
found later were evidence.
At the village they managed to get word
OF the fight to Lieutenant,C Colonel Little.
who was at town named Mirebalais, some
twenty miles away. Twentyfour patrols
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The sergeant was not dead!

The sergeant was not dead!
Benoit, having assured himself of that
swung his war machete and chopped Muths
head nearly off. Then he called his lieu
tenant, one Francingue, who had completed
the murder. Benoit then had ordered his
men to rub their sights with parts of the
head to ensure the accuracy of their fire
when they shot at Muth's comrades!
Then" this prisoner said, "the white
mans heart and liver were taken out of
him and cooked and passed around. Benoit
said that whoever swallowed them could
not be hit by white mans bullets or cuI
with white mans bayonets. Benoit and
Francigue ate heartily. But now they are
dead. Is 1t that they were wrong? Both
knew vodu! How could they be wrong?
Yet both are dead"
The case of Pilot Clarence e. Morris, of
Buffalo, New York, was quite similar.
Pilot Morris belonged to Squadron e,
First Division, Marine Aviation Force.
Accompanied by Lieutenant McFayden, u.
S. M. c., he engaged one late afternoon of
November last in a reconnaissance. They
were COmpelleu 10 mdhc q ioICSu IhuulHS
in a clearing north Of village called
Maissade-their plane having become dis
abled. Just outside the clearing was a thick
grove Of palms. The lieutenant left Morris
in charge of the plane, starting to walk of
for another village named Hinche, where
there was an American military post. The
palm grove was dark and forbidding. When
he had gotten little way off the lieuten-
ant heard the sound of drums close by. He
paid no attention to them. There was, In
deed, no reason why he should have; drum.
ming is as familiar a sound in Hayti as in
the Congo. He went on. He reached
Hinche at o'clock in the morning-about
eight hours after he had left Morris.
There he reported and patrols and an
other plane were sent out to look for the
pilot from Buffalo and the disabled ma
chine.
They found the machine. Its planes we're
stripped and Pilot Morris was not with
Il. When he had left II was apparent that
he had taken with him the Lewis machine
gun and three drums OF ammunition that
went with II. Until that afternoon they
searched.
No, trace OF Pilot Morris could they find
And they wondered why the flying boats
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~ the two million In the American army sent
abroad In the late about $4,000 soldiers were left
the battlefield But in all these cssustiss there
nothing which approaches the distressing death
of three American Marines in the little armed force which
the United States Government has recently sent to maintain
order in the distracted Black Republic of Hsyt on the
island Of San Domingo only about hundred miles
from Florida.
This devoted and efficient force drafted from American
vessels in the harbor of have had to
face only the smbuscades guerilla warfare and tresch
Of the black bandits and rsvouionists In the Island but
captured sometimes slaughtered human saeri
fees and their bodies cooked and eaten accord
ing the babarous ritual Of the Voodoo priests who hide
In the mountain wilderness Of Hayti.
The United States Navy has maintained more or less
of force Of marines shore at different parts of the
island for six years. and during that period 10 not known
just how many In American uniforms have been offered
up sacrifices The report Of the Navy Investigating
Committee which recently returned from Hayt names
with eircstantsl detail the of least three Ameri
soldiers who fell victims to the religious fanatics who
practice voodoosm.
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were sent out to recover Muth's body and
punish the blacks. 1t took them four hours
to reach the top of the mountain. They
fought guerilla warfare all the way up.
At the very peak they found what was
left of the sergeant.
Now the meeting of the Naval Board of
Inquiry, at which the testimony regarding
this occurrence was brought forth, was
called to dig into certain charges brought
against the marines of edging off into
eternity by means of the bullet few of
these same bandits-a general complaint
that our marines were sometimes pretty
rough with the blacks.
These savages in Hayti do not fight by
the rules of civilized war, and the British
army, contending with somewhat similar
conditions, inspired Mr.. Kipling's famous
ballad of which the second verse reads:
"a Snider squibbed In the Jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men Of the First shikaris
Picked up their Subaitern dead
With big blue mark In his forehead
And the back blown out Of his head"
What the First Shikaris did to those who
blew out the back of their Subalterns head
may be read in the balance of Kipling's
poem. II all the directors to Kipling, and
also those who thought the Haytian BAN
dts were being treated so badly that the
marines ought to be investigated, could
have been gathered around what had been
left of Sergeant Muth and had seen what
his brother marines saw, they might have
had different ideas.
They took the body back down the
trail-through the Towering Jungle. They
took toll Of the bandits as they went.
twenty-five OF them they slew as body.
guard for Muth, Just as the Shikaris did
for Kiplings Subaltern. They heaped the
coffin with hibiscus and orchids and sound
cd taps over Il at Port-au-Prince while the
President OF Hayti and his Cabinet stood
beside It with bowed heads.
at was all right to kill Muth," said the
marines. THAT was war. But why did
those savages mutilate his body7"
Some days later prisoner was taken
and he told them why. Their leader he
said, had been black named Benoit.
While the three marines were retreating
under fire Benoit, he said, had examined
Muth.
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wings had been taken.
but nothing else.

wings had been taken.
but nothing else.
Patrols we're sent
out In all directions.
Natives living in the
n eig h b o r hood and
market women In the
nearby towns were
questioned. None Of
them could tell-or
would not tell-what
had become Of the
white soldier. Reluc-
family, two days later,
the search was given
up. A week passed.
Then a black came in
to camp and surrend-
cred.
'"The white bat!" he
said to the ; sentry.
"The white bat! I
know what happened
him"
The sentry took him
to headquarters. $.
"The white bat!"
repeated the prisoner.
81 know what was
done to HIM"
But the officer in
charge knew more
than the sentry did Of
Voodooism. He knew
that in the rites Of
that unholy worship
the bat-the vampire
bat Of Africa-had a
part nearly as promi-
nent as the snake!
And he knew that the
frightened black was
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A Ia recent session of the Naval Board
n of Inquiry held at Port-au-Prince.
= = San Domingo Island, to investigate
the conduct of the United States Marine
Corps in their occupation of Hayti, 1t was
testified that three members of the corps
had been murdered and eaten by native
bandits = .rl
The three marines-Sergeant Lawrence
Muth of Los Banos, California; Aviator
Clarence E. Morris, of Buffalo, New York,
and Henry Lawrence, of Mound Valley,
Kansas-were killed at different times and
at widely separated places in Hayti, the
westernmost of the two Republics that
form the island. While the bodies Of
Lawrence and Morris were entirely con-
sumed, only the head, heart and liver of
Muth were taken.
Hayti, as everyone knows, lies just to the
cast of Cuba; you can dimly see its shores
on a clear day as you sail past Cape Maisi.
The idea that three American soldiers
could be victims of cannibalism at this
very threshold of the United States was
received by the majority of readers with
incredulity.
Further details of the testimony taken
before the Naval Commission are set forth
here and leave no room for further doubt.
They reveal also that the barbarous feasts
we're not held to satisfy any hunger
for human flesh but were rites of the SER
pent worship called Voodooism, which
was originally brought from Africa by
slaves imported by the French. whose
descendants now form practically the en-
tire population of Hayti.
The ceremonies and superstitions Of
Voodooism as practiced and believed by
almost all Haytians, both high and low,
will be described further on. To make
clear Immediately the motive for the
slaughter of the marines 1t is only neces-
sary to say that the worshippers Of Woo
doc believe that in devouring a human
sacrifice they take in something Of the
power of the god which has accepted that
sacrifice. With this portion of the divin-
ity they also acquire, they believe, certain
desirable qualities of the victims them
selves. When children are eaten, with
each mouthful they absorb the spirit of
youth that was in the child, thus adding
years to their lives.
Particularly priced Is a white sacrifice.
The dominant qualities of the white man
are recognized. Followers of Voodooism
and kindred faiths believe that these quail
tiles dwell in their bodies and that there
fore when they are eaten the desirable
qualities are eaten also.
Thus t. Is that 1t is not because Of any
more delicate or pleasant iavoring OF
white body that the white is sought for by
the cannibals, but for its powers. They
have even marked out where these de.
sirable qualities dwell.
In the heart lives courage, they believe
hence eating the heart gives the eater the
courage that infused IT. by eating the liver
they acquire sagacity and cunning, as we'll
rs immunity to edged weapons. II Is curl
Gus that the ancient Greeks believed the
liver TO be the seat of the soul-or intellect.
The Voodoo worshippers also believe that
IL white mans brains be rubbed on the
sights Of a rife II will impart to the gun a
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LEGAL NOTICES.

S~~~~ ~--~~~-~~-~
CERTIFICATE IN RE CHANGE OF COR
porate name Of Monroe Clothing Company
TO William Harris Clothing Company This
Is to certify that at duly held meeting Of
all Of the stockholders OF the above entitled
corporation, and a duly held meeting In
accordance with law. OF the directors Of the
above named corporal alton, q resolution was
passed unanimously at each OF the above
meetings TO change the name OF the above
corporation from its present corporate name
To that Of william Harris Clothing Com.
pany.'
Corporate SeaD WILLIAM S. HARRIS.
HAROLD ZEEMAN, President
Secretary.
District Of Columbia. SIS:
!. Martin ]. Mcnamara. a notary public
In and for the District of Columbia do hero
by certify that William s. Harris. party 70
the above certificate bearing date on the
10th day Of September. 1921 and hereto
AFFIXED, personally appeared before me In
Sald District. the said William s. Harris be-
ing personally well known to me as the p4r.
son who executed said certificate as nresi.
dent. and Acknowledged the same To he his
act and deed.
Given under my hand and seal this 18th
day OF September, 1921
tNotarial Seal.) MARTIN ]. MCNAMARA.
Notary Public. D. G.
City OF New York, State OF New York, IS
e., sem notary public in and
Iol the city OF New York, State Of New
York, do hereby certify that Harold Z4eman.
party to the Sbove certificate bearing dste
on the It'll day Of September, 1921, and
hereto annexed, personally appeared before
me me In said city and Hte. the said Harold
Heean, oeins personWy wen known to me
as the person who executed said certificate
as secretary, and Acknowledged the same "a
be his act and deed
Given under my hand and seal this eth
day Of September, 1921
tNotarial Seal.J CELIA BERNSTEIN.
!. Co, Notary Public, No. 4s9.
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ILdIIdII 44ONOI -ANS0L N11E]1-'
German make: BASES; fancy front
Price. $50 RoBINs0N.s. 1908 G st nv.
IEPTTY TRUMPET, sIvER-PLATED,
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,,sIr5inr war tar. $3.50. RoBISsoN's
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REAL ESTATE LOANS.

TTIssT LnRTGAGE LOANS AT PREVAIL
ing rates made N D. O. improved properly.
some -no1ey avstiable for home nuilder..
LOUIS r. SHOEMAKER. 1901 New Yors
ave. ~ Main lloe- 100
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ON v ST. Nm. n. CAP. Nw.-Rec. hall q
6r-. h.w.h-, Ami. front and rear porch.
larg. lot; Q real bargain. $500. A. N.
WIIDMAS. 9th q n sts. NV. y. et06
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

III. AVE. BKIGHrwooD- seai-astsrssd
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for quiek sale: $3.50 wTLDNAN q Co.
sth 4 u. trsuklln etoe
Isr ST.. HR. ADAMS NV: $500; ma.
b.. G.m.L. al eond-. gar. space: terms.
HARRY L. CHEW. Coat. Trust Bsdg u.
i04o.
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t'ne JOHNSON 1905 st Nv.
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R0BINSON'S, 1906 G st. NV.
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Washington, d. G, Aug. 2.-Repre-
sentatives of organized labor IN
Hawaii sent here to oppose Legislation
under which Chinese coolies could be
admitted to Hawaii, to help relieve me
agricultural labor shortage sestltleu
before the house immigration commit
tee today that their expenses had been
paid by Japanese.
Willot Chiffon who came here WIN
George w. Wright, president of the
central labor union of Honolulu, when
questioned by Representative Free, Re-
publican of California, declared Jap,
anese merchants on the island, had
contributed 1880 so that they might
personally oppose admission of the
Chinese and hat he had split IL
"fifty-fifty' with Wright.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, was
present when MIR. Free developed that
the japanese chamber of commerce OF
Honolulu, acting on a request for help
decided IL would be ''unwise for the
organization 20 contribute. hut that in
dividual members could do so. Earlier
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Leo Stanley. Gunnisou, Colorado
Stable OF runners.
Judge Scobey. Parlin. Colorado
Stable OF runners, huckers and Roman
racers.
Non Means. saguache. Colorado
Stable OF runners.
Tom May. Bob Feeney. and Jack
Barger. Debcque. colorado-Stahlo of
runners.
". Z. Woods and John Looncy OF
Horse Lake ranch-Stahie of runners.
Lon Burns and tho out ridin Lee
ottsrhach Of Aiamosa. Colorado. with
his big bunch Of runners and general
utility horses.
The three days program begins to-
day. This years stampede promises to
be one of tho most interesting enter
tainmcnts OF tho west.
1t has been suggested that Pueblo
county people who are going TO the
Monte Vista Stampede or going any
where else for that matter. secure from
tho state fair office in the onera house
block some Of those banners for their
cars TO wear.
Manager Beaman who returned from
visit down the Arkansas valley yes
tsrday. goes 10 tho san Luis today and
viii take In the big Monte Vista show.
Monday the county commissioner
Of Otero. Prowers and Eiowa counties
ordered the preparations for the great
est displays they have ever had ~ tho
state fair. Tho exhibits will rcpressni
everything grown in the ground. as
| we'll as pantry stores live stock
poultry. womeus fancy work. art. etc
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OF CANON
CITY DAMAGED

city fro siren ~ csse Of danger from
flood vsters Sinclair with Jaller oil.
son maintained an al niEnt patrol
along. river banks, loveeH and In tho
bottom land wet Of Irving Place
At II. so Captain sibclair reported
that water had overflowed Dry Creek
and that 200 hundred acres west Of the
Santa Pc tracks were under foot Of
Furfsce water.
High powered automobile were hsld
~ readiness 1t the city police station
al night 70 rush to any reported
scene Of emergency. I, was consider.
m that there wss NO extreme need NJ
maintaining stationary patrols 20 No
extra officers were called for special
duiv.
Members Of Troop r and Battery a,
Colorado National guard. reported hv
telephone for duty hu' were told thero
was no inmeiia'n need Troop { had
irrt finished drilling ~ tho county
court house wien tho first word ~
hiRh water reached Pueblo Nanv ~
manned IN thar uniforms IN case they
should be needed for flood duty.
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INCREASED DEMANDS
FOR STORE ROOMS


pointed out which is under long lease
at 1925 a month, and tho agent stated
that he has a standing offer Of $500
a month for II.
"All this goes To prove" asid one Of
tho weil-balsnced cool heads of tho
city Yesterday. that Pueblo Ia not only
going to be a bigger and better city
than over before, but that the higness
and greatness In coming 90 much
fsHter than NO old timer have anti
cira,.d, tina, ~ we don't got hufy md
take advantage of our opportunities.
people from the outside will and va
viii wonder at our lack Of foresight"
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|JAPS SEEK BUSINESS CONTROL
IN HAWAII; OPPOSING CHINESE
Merchants Pay Expenses Of Labor Men Who Appear
In Washington To oppose Coolies Abundance
To Islands

Mr., Gompers told the committee, that
the federation with which the central
labor union of Honolulu is affiliated.
would not issue. charters requested by
Japanese labor groups in this coun-
try.
Thruout the hearings on pending re-
lief legislation, spokesmen for the sugar
planters of Hawaii. have asserted
that the Japanese gradually were gain.
ing business control on the island, and
that thy were secretly opposing tempo
rary lifting of American Immigration
law which would permi, flow OF labor
needed to meet the shortage in time to
save future crops.
Delegate Kalanianose, sponsor of the
bill before the comn-'ttee declared IN
"a statement tonight that control OF
Hawaii had been Japan's objective for
many years.
DO the American people need addi-
tional evidence" he asked, that the
economic control of the Hawaiian Is
lands. is fast slipping from us after
tcday's development before the house
immigration committee when the op-
ponents OF n measure for Immediate
relief. representatives Of organized
labor in Hawaii admitted reluctantly
that funds which brought them to
Washington had been secretly sub
scribed by Japanese in the territory.
Failure of congress to waive re-
strictive immiEra ton for Hawaii. he
declared, VIII mean what the Japanese
forthwith will state .,unlicly that the
United States is afraid to exclude
Japanese. afraid to admit Chinese"
In statement tonight Mr Gompers
dec.ared the proposed legislation
which would make possible importa- :
ton by sugar planters of Hawaii Of
approximately fifty thousand Chinese
coolies in bond" was a proposal
brought forward for the benefit of
great corporations, and for the ex-
ploitation Of humanity"
The American people" he said.
ought to rise in overwhelming pro-
ties. and resentment against this mi
quitous proposal
1T is.'' he added AN act Of shame
and disgrace Tor any American to adj
vocate poonars, bond labor, slave
labor. anywhere under the American
flag"
Honolulu. T H, Aug. 2,-CBy the
Associated Press )-Twenty-one Jap
anese many II them prominent. were
indicted here today on charges Of
criminal conspiracy in connection with
violence incident TO the strike OF sugar
plantation workers. last year.
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noa a. III. opening o, tho association

noE at IN. opening Of tho association
a, the state capitol today
President EnmerHpn stated that Il
Is not a question of expenditure. re-
duction in most states today but Of
revenue incrrap,. and indirect method
Of taxation In most giccestful Tho
question Of meeting with tho National
Association Of state Auditors and
Trassirors was Coruidered and tho
chair was empowered to appoint a
representative Of tho secretaries organ
izstion to attend the next meeting Of
the auditors and tressurerH and pre-
cent to thom the proposition of con
solidation OF the associations. Gov
ernor Joseph ". Dixon welcomed the
delegates
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Springfield. Mo. Aus. 2-in blowing
the safe Of the Charity state bank at
Charity. near here, yesterday. the rob
borS used so much explosive that tho
safe was blown out thru tho rear Of
tho building. The safe door was
blown out thru the FRONT Of tho build
ing. and the structure was sc, on fire.
burning to tho ground
Officials OF Tho bank said last night
there was no clue as to tho Identity
of the robbers and that II was impos-
sihls TO say how much they obtained
az everything N the building was de-
siroyed.
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