STRANDED INDIANS PUT ON
FEATHERS TD KET THR
LONDON--The assorted company
which presents itself at tin* heachpiar
ters of the American residents’ relief
committee resembles a congress of na
tions. Negroes. Japanese, Chinese.
Hindus and Arabs are among those
who show papers proving themselves
citizens of the United States and who
are trying to get home.
The first rush of applicants for aid
was made lip chiefly of tourists, hut
later began the stream of Americans
who had resided in Europe for some
time and were employed in the various
countries affected hv the war. Many
negroes who had been engaged as mu
sicians nniT entertainers were tnsiant
ly thrown out of work and sought the
help of the American government.
Actors, circus performers vaudevil
lians and all sorts of entertainers found
themselves in a similar plight.
Chief Lewis Peer of the Cheyenne
Indians anti his company of braves,
wlm were delighting Austrian crowds
with their reproduction of "Custer's
I.ast Stand," came to grief at I.ihaeh.
where the circus with which they were
engaged was forced to disband, and
after several weeks of interviews with
German and Austria! officials, who I
were suspicious of the red men. the\
finally made their way to London with
tales of hardships which rival tin
stories of pioneer days in W’vominu'
Only by putting on all their fe.ith i>
and war paint were the Indians aid*
to establish their identity thoroughly
and make their wa v through the vv t r
zone. In ordinary clothing thev bed
nothing but trouble and merely pro
pressed from one jail or compound t<*
another. Rut buckskin suits decorated
with beads and crowns of turkey
feathers stamped them as real Ameri
cans and speeded their passage
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WILSON PHONES SAN FRANCISCO
FROM WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson inaugurated the first trans
continental telephone system by speak
ing directly to President .Moore of the
Panama-Pacific exposition in San
Francisco. With Mr. Moore, Alexander
Graham Hell, the inventor of the tele
phone, and President Vail of the Amer
ican Telephone and Telegraph eompan.s
were on the wire.
“It appeals to the imagination to
speak across the continent," said the
President to Mr. Moore. “It is a fine
omen for the exposition that the first
thing it has done is to send its voice
from sea to sea. I congratulate you on
the fine prospects for a successful ex
position. i an confidently hoping to
take part in it after the adjournment
of congress. May I not send m\ greet
ings to the management and to all
whoso work has made it possible and
made it the great event it promises .”’
The president also spoke to Mr. I Jell
and to Thomas A. Watson in San Fran
cisco.
Bell Talks Across Continent.
XFW Y<>UK. Alexandei Graham
Hell, inventor of tin* telephone, sat in
the office of Theodore N. Vail, president
of the American Telephone and Teh
graph company and talked across the
continent to Safi Francisco.
It was the first time in the history
■ »f telephone construction that the hu
man voice hml been carried b> wire
from nee m to ocean.
\t the San Franciseo end of the wire
was Thomas A. Watson, who heard the
first word ever* spoken ov er a tolep • a*
wire in Boston in 1X75. Mr. Bell was
'lien at the other end of the win as
now.
After the first sueeessful inteivha ngo
of messages in the m ean to oeean con
versation the original instrument used
b«t Ween tin* two fort v years ago was
cut in on the* circuit and I lie voiees
still were distinct.
CARDINAL GIBBONS S£tS £ND OF
WORLD COMING VIA WAR
I !A l/l'l Alt )UK, Mil. It looks as if the
scriptures are being fulfilled ami the
end of the world is approaching, fardi
mil Gibbons said recently. The pre
late made the statement during a gen
eral discussion of the war.
"The news coming from Kurope is
terrible,” he declared. ”lt awes me. it
is beyond our realization. We cannot
grasp its magnitude or what it means
It is terrible—horrible, indeed.
“Does it not look as if the scriptures
are being fulfilled? 'Nation shall rise
nwiinsl nation, anil there shall be sor
row Ihroushout the world, wbieli will
in a sian that tile end is near 7" he
was asked.
"Ves. it does." ho adn.Itted. "Think
lor a moment what this war means if
you ran. I cannot. When one life is
lost mi hoard sluii all the country is
stall led. When the Titanic sank with
more than 1,000 of its pass, tieers the
world was horrified.
"That was a thimt that oeiijjrred only
once. Loss of life in meat numbers
«<< • ura only once in n while. Hut now
in this greatest war of the world h in
dreds nay, thousands of lives are
ing saeriticcd.”
WE CAN DO I T.
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W. J. WILLIAMSON. Prop...
SECTION FOREMAN
KILLS A WOLF
SKAGWAY. -.las. Rourk. the section
foreman at Glacier, on the W. ]*. &
Y. It., one night hearing a great racket
among his dogs ran out from the house
to see what was the matter and found
them engaged in a tight with what he
at first took to be two strange dogs, but
on catching hold of the hind legs of
one of them in order to separate them
he found he had tackled a wolf.
Thanking his lucky stars that he
had not got mixed up so that he could
not let go, ho at once released his hold
and made for the house where he got
his rilie and soon made short work
with one of the invaders, the other
making ids escape.
Rourk sent the body of tin* animal
he had killed down to Skagway on the
train the next day. it was a, rather,
peculiar looking beast, weighing about
forty pounds and having a pelt almost
the color id' a red fox with a long
bushy tail, ending in a launch of black
hair.
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*’< il’ENlIAGEN,—Germain reported
here on what appears to be good
auhorltji to lie building at Kiel fifteen
small submarine.! of a new type, which
will he used for reconnoitering the
home coast in the Baltic Si a. Each of
the submarines, it is said, will carry a
crew of eight men.
NEW ZEPPELINS BEING MADE
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GENEVA. Count Zeppelin arrived at
Friodrichshafen recently to hasten the
completion of two Zeppelin dirigible
balloons which are building, fine of
them will he ready In a few days, it
is stated.
WOMEN PLAY IN POLO CONTEST
SAN DIEGO, Cal. For the first time
in many years women participated re
cently in a polo game on the Coronado
field. The teams were designated as
the first team and second team, re
spectively. The first team won by a
score of 3 to 2.
The players, who are prominent
sodall.i in their home cities in various
parts of tlio country, handled their
mounts and mallets with great skill.
Miss Eleanors Hears of Boston, wide
ly known as an athlete, and Miss Louise
Fleisehmnnn of Cincinnati, playing
against each other, were the stars of
the contest.
Mrs. C. C. lttimsey, daughter of the
late E. IT. Harriman. and Miss Kathe
rine Hteele also played. Each team
carried men players as "hacks."
FEW HORSES FOR AUCTION.
NEW YORK.—Scarcity of light har
ness horses marked the midwinter sale
just closed at Madison square garden.
The March auction was orginally
scheduled to fill out four days, hut not
enough trotters and pacers could he
found for sale this year to make up
two full days of business for the auc
tioneer, who sold the last horse cata
logued last night. <*nly one animal
among nearly four hundred offered
went to four figures in the bidding.
This was Bose Knight, a two year old
fllly of 2.trt sliced. Hhe was struck off
fill’ $3,0110 (,i George W I.iovill Ilf
I inston,
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