The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 11, 1900, Page 9

qunuucuuurzuuuuuuuuuunonnuc O a agflflu %ag, {AOVEMBER 11.1900 i Duao Cng (a) ?%0000000a00apoanoansa00aa” £ "\ MAGAZINE ' HALFTONE to be looking behind and saw the smoke of Gonzales' rifie. He guessed the truth ind two minutes later the abductor was caught in his cwn tr: nd the trallers were standing over dead body., There was weeping and wailing and Te Deums of joy in the neighborhood of the Dolores mine when the weary little band P a rose i f t lo . leep one, and as s f rescuers rode in at nightfall. Juan arcia had almost recovered from the blow, but his sister Lola was still grief- > had £ s 2 nan: 1 4 C onzales carried same > and that e abducti HE FAINTING GIRL, as was s Z\ND SWUNG HER € another rescuing llowing the tracks of the Garcia n Juan ia lying weak a One of men e the others, fol- Gonzales’ t ks, came in sight of were five of them against one m: h t advantage, ave to a bunch of away. From thes steal to e and so pick lan miscarried. At his first f the rescuifig party happened hinxing he meant to rescue s moment had come. He swung her his sa inted his horse and was off be excited crowd guessed his pur g as the people recovered their wits & e g party of three started in their head rode Juan of the girl. For almost s the trailed up hill and down never a’trace of the ab- ) the twenty-sixth day fig bers her lasted two T iree resc found Diablo ' le had skilifully built covering the d at every s scattered, shion, and from behind any de- them a goodeshot they two of the men before the second day. But as he was DlABLe's D TH. r the cave's entrance Juan EA7 ja saw his shadow on the rock and a guess at his posi*ion and fired. It as g ylose guess. The bullet struck the rock s the left of Diablo’s head, and fiying splinter badly cut his left temple. dazed by the tragedies that had come %o thick and fast. They carried her to the little flower- covered hacfénda where but a few weeks before she h the rose-twined grat Pedro Sanchez low. > garden be- Lola Sanches says she has dons with the pleasures and gayetles of life. Her three weeks’ Im nt in the cave will never be blotted f d. Thera are no convents take the vell. I gray garb of a nu watch by the bed In assuaging t ffering Lola S: griet. WILL RILL he would ¢ the Lon- attended the ers, had aa opportu: vaunted new Ing gun at wor besides its wagon. Wh munition wag sible; if wagon prece for a wagon a team of panied E of three wag into act: 2 abreast of both gallo ltmbers ‘ac ‘action re and 7 imm and make a shield gunners knee he fix In a rack bef t are now wh has simply who is kneeling load *“And now as to the g I co tery, the ndge, wh recoil is pa fired with blank parent is the runr brake, which coming into actlon, takes part coil, as well ( of the trall. Before the gun is trall is raised to an angle of for grees and brou This might be t k spade, but from the sound the fact that after the gun team I standing fast for some time the opera is repeated befofe again coming into ac- tion I am i that it is & mechanical means by which some pneu- matic buffer s loaded. This much is cer- tain, that once the trail has been rased, the brake adjusted and the spade ime bedded the gun carriage never moves again, though twenty rounds are fired in rapid succession. The gt ns baclk, In this the mechanism is far tn advance of the ‘spade action of the Vickers-Maxim carriage, in which both gun and carriage run back on the spade for several Inches. “The breech action of the French gun is a marvel of 1 The breech opens with a sin, ., the whole of the block revolving from left to right. The reverse action loads the piece, the motion of opening extracts the case and throws it clear. No. 3 opens and closes the breech in two motions, while No. § loads. No. 1 attends to the laying of the gun—once laid any alteration in range is made by turning a hand screw, to which is fitted an indicator and dlal. It would be possible to fire thirty rounds a mine ute with the utmost car But hitherto during the maneuvers no rapid fire has been attempted. The gun Is provided with a light bullet-proof shield, so that when in action the four men working the guns are under cover, while, as was stated be- fore, the Nos. 5, 6 and 7 kneel behind theif ammunition wagons and are aisa completely screened.” IT RRINRD BRTS AND RAWKS. The steamship Curityba, which arrived at New York the other day from Cuban ports, ha’ a weird experience with winged things on her trip up the coast. When she was off the town of Matanzas an off-shore gale, permeated with tropical wmoisture, piled the combers about her. On the blast came thousands of land birds and blg bats, Mate Bregman says the bats literally covered the ship, roosting on all the ralls. He says they appeared to be & ** cross between a vampire and a squirrel.” When the weather moderated and dawn came the bats were near enough to one of the Bahamas to venture leaving the ship. A bundred or more miles off Floriga the Curityba was visited by what the seventh mate, who Is English, declares was a flock of “heagles. The eighth mate says he be s they were “howls.” and the ninth mate positively asserts that they were ‘““awks.” What- ever they may be called, Captain Hoppe and his men captu of them, which, measure, according to the new ultra- marine reporter, wi ent out by the ship news exp yarn. “about elght feet fro: There were’ altogether twenty eagles or hawks or owls In the flock. The news collector at quar- antine reports the invasion of birds thus: “On Thursd when off the coast of Florida, two hawl exhausted, flew abgard the steamer and *d on the ves- sel's spars. One of the crew went aloft and secured the birds. On the following days a large number of birds were sight- ed; some flew near the stcamer. Captain Hoppe shot one, but failed to secure it, as it fell into the funnel and was burned In the furnace. All the birds appeared to be exhausted and had evidently been blown off the land. The two captured birds are hawks of the species commonly known as fishing eagles.” as a sp tned to b