FORMER KLONDIKER INVENTS
OWN WAY TO END HIS LIFE
CHICAGO.—Charles Mnyo. an aged
chemist in the employ of tlie Central
Asbestos and Magnesia Company, was
in the habit of doing conventional
things in extraordinary wavs. The
manner In which he died— a suicide,
the police say—was a fit climax to his
life.
Fellow employes went to Mayo's
room on the second Moor of the Central
company's plant when he failed to turn
out for work on time They found
him in his bed, dead.
Over the old chemist’s heart was
a tin horn of the sort dear to small
hoys and New Year's ev e celebrations
In the large end of the horn a tiny
revolver had been soldered The small
end had been cut away and flattened
To the trigger of the revolver was at
tached a cord, one end of which was
gripped in Mayo’s right hand.
Just one shot had been fired from l lie
weapon. Apparently it had penetrated;
Mayo's heart and killed him
Mnyo, who was about fin years old,
left a note of brief "hefiuests," scrawled
on three bits of paper, which li ft no
doubt in the minds of the police that
he had committed suicide The "Id I
chemist "willed” a small nuggei to
Henry Hebe, president "f the cotnpanv !
which employed him; another goal
nugget to Ernest Huehler. the vice pr«- {
sldent, and a silver nugget to Charles
Gutowski, a fellow employee.
The nuggets were souvenirs which
M yn had brought hack from the Klon
dike, where ho had spent mam years
and had many adventures
Somewhere in the Klondike, it is be
lieved. Mayo had buried a past Sev
era! times he dropped hints to his em
ployers and fellow workers that his
life in the gold country had heen some
thing more than strenuous, hut never
had he gone Into detail
These hints, together with Mayo’s
craving for solitude, had won him a
reputation as a man of mystery. He
was ono of the high sallied men on
| tiie corporation's pav roll when the
: magnesia company was taken over bv
!its present control n year ago and had I
j been retained Emm his new employers
Mayo got permission to live in a small
' loom on Hie second door of the plunl
and this be furnished at Ins own ex
1 pense,
Mayo left a brief note m employees!
of the company, in which he stated that j
two of his nephews recently were killed 1
in the European yvar and that lie could1
never forget their loss lie also stated j
that the war "worried him."
Mayo was the victim of a my sterious
assault on the north side about a veal I
ago and yvas struck on tiie head, suf- j
faring a skull fracture. He was in
tiie county hospital for a time and
acted so strangely when he lefl it that
tiie president of tiie company had him
jcommitted to the asylum for the in
sane at Kankakee. He was discharged
from that institution a few months
later. ITe would never discuss the as
I SRUlt.
j “So far as T know Mayo had not a
relative in the world" said Mr Rehe
i
“Only onee or twice did he speak to mo
of his affairs and then It was to re
count some of his adventures in the
Klondike He told his stories, though
with the air of one who Is withholding
the most Interesting details.
"From fragmentary remarks I gath
ered he had been educated in some I
German university and had a doctor's!
degree.
"The salary Mayo drew was mane
times enough to supply his needs
What tie did with the surplus 1 never
knew."
The police theorv accounting for
Mayo's use of the elaborate suicidal
contrivance Is that his hand was un
steady and he feared the bullet would
i ot reach a vital spot Rut the de
tectives do not explain In line with the
theory how unsteady hands have done
the rather delicate joh of soldering The
revolver In the mouth of the horn
A coroner's Jury returned a verdict
t hat Mayo committed suicide while
temporarily insane
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MALINES A SHELL OF FORMER
CITY OF MAGNIFICENCE
.U AGINGS -Barely lti.uuu of Malim-n
former residents remain in litis ruined
city and thousands who are still hole
cannot slay after tlie beggiuing ut cold
weather unless outside funds tire pro
vided to repair shattered roofs and
walks cracked bf the German lieid
suns.
Before the German invasion .Utilities
had tiU.uOu inhabitants and was an im
portant art and manufacturing center.
St. Kombuid cathedral, one of the most
interesting medieval church buildings
in Europe, dates back to the fifteenth
century und contained an altar piece,
which was one of Van Dyek’scinaster
pieces. St. John’s church and the
church of Our Gady contained paint
ings of Rubens The historic palace of
lustice was once the home of Margaret
of Aur.
Mahnos is half way between Ant
werp and Brussels, on the principle
stone road connecting the two great
cities of Belgium.
Excellent roads flank this central
Inghway on ihe east and west. It was
along this central artery and the two
ft nking roads that the Germans moved
against Antwerp, sweeping away every
obstacle which afforded a refuge to the
opposing Belgians.
Gike the most ancient cities, Malines
hns narrow streets. The main travel
ed street, along which nearly all traffic
moves in isisslng northward toward
Antwerp, is scarcely thirty feet wide!
from curb to curb and lias many turns 1
in it which made tile passage of ani
enemy exceedingly difficult. Stone and
bi ick business houses and residences
three or four stories, built in a con
tinuous line, stood along this street
Many of these were battered down b\
tlic German artillery and the debris I
filled the street so completely so iliai
only enough was cleared away in !
places to permit the passage of a single
automobile.
Where tire did not spread to the,
wrecked buildings, the mined storks
of merchants and the broken furniture
of their living apartments in the upper j
stories may still ho seen Such food
supplies as were useful for the army |
were taken by the German officers, ami 1
soldiers are still billeted in the houses j
which are still tit for habitation.
.Malines is intersected by several
arms of the river Py le and is practic
ally surrounded by a canid and wide
boulevard. Visitors entering the city
from the south are challenged by Ger
man soldiers standing guard at the
canal bridge, and are again stopped as
they enter the great medical stone
arch forming tho entrance to the main
portion of the old city
The historic cathedral stands in the
very center of the town, in a sort of
triangle. Its lo^er. *i least H'MJ feet
high, was evidently a turget for the
Herman artillery whose atm was not
sharp enough to bring down the mas
sive gothic pile of stone.
Corners of the tower were chipped
by shells, but the foundation and walls
suffered no serious damage However,
the main portion of the church was leas
fortunate. It stands in such a way that
it presented its entire south side as n
target for the approaching army All
the windows were riddled, the south
wall was hopelessly shattered, so had- i
lv shattered in fact, that It is feared
the entire main portion of the build
ing must be torn down. Ail the fur
nishings of the cathedral was buried
In the crushed tile, stone and mortar
from the damaged roof and wall
Factories along the river and canal
shared the same fate ns residences,
business houses and churches The
great railway shops were ruined Hat
factories, tapestry factories, woolen
mills and starch factories which fur
nished employment to thousands were
wrecked by artillery fire.
Trenches in the sandy beet fields
which flank the highway leading Into |
Malines and thousands of rifle pits
show how stubbornly tlm Itelgians re
sisted the Hermans. Many of the
trenches are so long they resemble
drainage, ditches.
AUSTRIAN DENOUNCES
HONORS OF BRITAIN
AMSTERDAM.—The Vossiche Zeit
ung' of eBrlin says that Baron Rudolf
t'arl Slatin Pasha, who lias been made
a privy councilor by the Austrian em
peror, has renounced his English ap
pointments and decorations.
Slatin Pasha was horn in Austria in
1857 and in 1878 went to the Soudan,
where he was appointed hy Gen. Gor
don as governor of Darfur. Later he
became British inspector general of the
Soudan.
A Berlin dispatch last. August said
he had resigned his poet in conse
quence of Great Britain’s declaration
of war against Austria. He was an
honorary major general in the British
army and a lieutenant general in the
Egyptian army.
In Great Britain he receive*! numer
ous decorations, including those of
Knight Commander of st. Michael and
St. George and Grand Cross of the
Royal Victorian order and champion
of the Bath.
Slntin Pasha was < routed a haron of
the Austrian empire in lOrtii.
You gat tho most and all tho vary
latest war news in tha Nugget.
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DAWES SEES PERIL IN
THE FEDERAL RESERVE
CHICAGO.—The Federal Reserve
hanks ore at the mercy of the Scere- j
tary of the Treasury and the President |
of the United States, who could wreck
the banks with a single draft, was the
warning sounded by Charles O. Dawes,
ex-Comptroller of the Currency, in an
address at the Union Dengue Club.
Tho panic of 1S37 is a historic il
lustration of tho danger of dragging
politics into the Federal Reserve sys
tem- said Mr. Dowes Unless the law
is amended an Andrew Jackson of the
future will strike prostrate the com
mercial edifice of the nation.
It's a long long way to Candle so
help the dogs along In going to the
ICermlss. Katurda\ night. T’.aaio hall.—
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WEATHER RERORT.
Nome, Alaska, April 8, 1915.
Temperance—Max to above. Min 3
below.
Barometer—29.83 inches.
Weather—Cleat
Wind —X. W. 11 miles per hour
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Nome to attend. Fort Davis will
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