The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1914, Page 8

eae SR ' (Copyright, 1914, by Newspaper! ° . Enterprise Association) One night when rice was and the circle of dar shut down about our ft Fermin Majusay, the private Native Scouts who was my escort on t mountain, stretched out on his hypnotic flames “I am going to tell you about my teniente,” he said suddenly, “my Meutenant, who is dead six months He was a devil, that man } “I remember how he laughed at} Don Augusto. We were in a very bad province then, Al! the middle} of it was mountains wh ladrones | lived, and they came down to the coast and made people give them) food and money, and they stole! earabaos from the plantations and killed travelers, and sometimes they burned a town and took @ prett irl away. | ie ‘were sent there to catch them, and it was very hard work We chased them tn the mountains Jand killed some, but it did no good When we were in one place they Faided another, and when a man ‘guided us in a little while he was; ead, We knew what was the mat fer. It is always the say Th Jadrones are in the mountains, but fome man in the town Jeader, and be gets so rich Strong that everybody {s afraid of him. In that island it was a plant @r named Augusto de los Reyes. Three times my lieutenant arrest: | ‘ed him and sent him down to San Pablo, and ev time the judge gaid there was no proof, and he! > came back, and in a little while the witnesses against him were killed And the ladrones in the mountains always knew when we were com Sonia Le lie lis la sie “If our teniente bad been like} other white men he would have | up then. But he arrested Augusto once more. | remem ber the morning very well orderly that day, and we were in the guard-room looking at some ers, and a guard came fn, fin front and two behind, with this Don Augusto. He was a big > fat Bisayan, and we all looked at “him, and he looked at us and fied, and we didn't feel very for we knew what he'd like do to us. | “But the tentente laughed when “he saw him. He got up and shook with Don Augusto, and he ‘Buenos dias, Senor Don to de los Reyes.” Like that, ‘It is not long since See you again. game. Hi iy the mouth have the comedy of going there as my friend, the ¢ have him think.” de los Reyes. to make them understand.’ | he stopped smiling and talked | they could see us as we are, A slow—more as if he talked to ‘I could send you down Swiss Robin accused of giving) in San Pablo jail for three " Eeeen. ti you said there was no ‘ “Last week this innocent 7 one came back from his trial, an fode on a narrow trail, four men at- ed him and cut off his jand as he drew his revolver, and then Killed him.” But what would that amount to? “‘Byen if we tell him that all the enemies of the Senor Don Augusto! de los Reyes for twenty years have| gone that way, and that no one dares to be a witness against him) for fear of his revenge, the judge} ‘will not care about that. The judge) wants proof. So I shan’t send you! to jail again, my dear friend. I am| tired of It, too.’ | ground, for we thonght would let Don Angusto go again. And Don Augusto looked at us as if we were dogs—wanted to give and said: “I thank you very much “Oh, that teniente of mine was| devil! He got up and shook the smiled and said: ‘Adios, Senor Don| Augusto de los Reyes. We shall | Jose!’ home,’ the teniente sal not escape.’ “You know what that order laughed and said: ‘A pleasant J fourney to you, Senor Don Augusto yy de los Reyer if comedies.” #ary reports, and he wrote on them anything the matter?” “"The prisoner tried to eschpe, mi teniente,’ Jose said “*That was very foolish,’ my ten- fente said. ‘Where is he now, Jose? . @ Jose the river with shovels,’ the lieuten- ant ordered, and he tovsed Jose a pereta to by vino.” Fermin Majusay had forgotten everything elve in thinking of the man who was his hero, and the fire was | 1) | 4 -=God’s Little Devils slim stomach and gaved into the BY ROWLAND THOMAS. ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES SARKA. 1 was Rearly out I have news for And soon Don Isidro came up. the good-heartedness than a wife, Fermin, share my poor breakfast,’ my tent-| mean ente said, and Don Isidro sat down, | and they ate till I had no patience! But at last Don Isidro pushed If to come up, amigo. “That night while together In barracks and that chicken-hearted Jose himself and and drank vino out of a bottle we named our tentente el Diabiito | Little Devil | blanket again we whispere to} hy should he “He ia the pariente of Don Augusto, I sald lente looked the relative left because he w because we loved bim, {jest as Angel Bantiiling calle bis Chiquita—tiny she is big a# a carabao. I named him, and we were afraid “After Don Augusto was dead all that part of the province was good, so they sent us to another place. said. ‘I am very glad|Barang was the name of the town 1 hope you found | Where we went Gage ‘at San Pablo pleasant? |town: the people were good; we me, and I saw that tenlente mio, what is this wonderful he did not wish to hear the name news? of Don Augusto. frightened—he had eyes sometimes, know that? he said. “I would not tell him: | ways of knowing things—and he got very angry and struck me. made my eye black, but I did not He was my Hentenant, any , and he had been drinking. Next day I was glad of it, for Don! one—though For a minute I How do you, It was a better Don to knew how to/had nothing to do but drill ANU ciniied with after drill, often, my tenients took and said: ‘It is not bad, ose shoot we. him. h is tiresome hold an empty bottle for beer tn my Pete. Set hand—Iike that'—and the tenlente often. The judge 1s tired, too,! Would shoot {t from twenty paces in= that itn ee aach a bad With his revolver. eniente,| devil at everything, my tenler | Scores and scores we broke, And he took looked at my eye. Often, when he thought no one saw him, he looked Then I bad an idea. My ten- fonte was very short with me be- cause be was sorry, and Don Isidro) was so young {t was not hard to/| make bim think that I was onery/ Hoy, he wa: in. ‘Ah, he never hurt me. “The tenten' perce re oniy|™me to be his servant in his qnar- these judges Senor | ters, and | was very happy there It ts in Barang.” Majusay gazed tnto the ind his keen anima! face was softened tn the flickering light ag was happy there In Bar. Id aay | 208! ly one thing I did not ike ie tee sere ain. a cole sere |—that was Isidro Abelarde oa . whom |Abelarde was me Augusto de los Reyes town, the son of a rich haciendero, to the enemy, so that| Young and handsome. | came a friend of my teniente. They days he met me in the Plaza and| ‘I am very sorry tenlente struck you, he is a friend of mine, and I hope no harm will come to him heard that a Macabebe never for gives a blow, but I hope you will) “What a fool that young Isidro 1 looked at him and I sald; |'If a Macabebe forgives a blow ‘an forgives the death of bis partente, there Is no danger for your friend.’ “He looked at me very long and! hard, and I knew I had him. put his hand {n his pocket and pull. ed out a ittle paper sleeping: powder in tenlente will again If you do not wish it.” Tha: young fool knew nothing at| I took the paper | home and told my teniente, and we) gave some of the powder to a mdh Key, and he carled up and died very That was at night, and the jtentente looked at the dead monkey and the paper, and he laughed just |?) did the morning the guard led in Don Augusto. “Next morning I was putting the breakfast on the table, and my teni-| ente was standing at the window of the sala, looking down at the Plaza. And all at once I heard him law | not very loud, and he called (DENIES HE GAVE. EN STOCK PUBLIC SERVICE|: CORPORATION |RULE OUR CITY By EDWIN J. BROWN. For Corporation Counsel. ino pe and talk together for 4 ‘hours, and ride together, and I did en, 8 COE ety. ‘So te We Macabebes have enemies——all the other Fill are our enemies—and we have to be suspicious always gan to wonder why Isidro Abelarde wanted to be with my T do not ike tt ,that Don Isidro comes here. 4; Many Jast Sunday, as the Swiss Robin Pinos work while we citizens sleep. money to burn trive to control public officta’ the people ar ministration wi all—like a b he would his Complete Report of Market Today tices paid profacers and should re ortant cane, an | “All we soldiers looked at the| (corrected fat! our tentl-| appies ente was a fool, like the judge, and | ¥ cause where $12.00 y by J. W. Godwin & co) him my bayonet—and he smiled | Senor Teniente, for sparing me an-| other of the comedies. It is better|¢: i" for every one. Adios, Senor.” | Californta } Cal. radish entered into a stipulation with the |tetephone company for the xelf-evt dent purpore of alding the monopc heme to raise the tel hand of Don Augusto, and he| Yellow tu ~~BLETH That he gave 60 shares of stock | {n his company to Alden J. Blethen, jeditor of the Seattle Times, for an |editorial some time in 1907, nied yesterday by Charles Munday, co-defendant with Archie W. Shiels in the Alaska coal land cases, on |trial in the federal court He also told Prosecutor Townsend |he remembered nothing of publish advertisement tn the Times | that year in an attempt to well the| stock to the publte. TOUCHED FOR $43 Stopped a block from his home by @ highwayman last night, James | not meet again for some time, I|A think. I am very tired of it my-| wang 40 008 00 of In yolume @ our State Supreme Court our court said Cauliflower, erate ‘We all jumped, his voice was #0| Par different and the corporal of my | @*r!! guard stepped forward. ‘You will!’ be the guard of the Senor to his| ‘You will) need only your revolver’ Hel! stopped a minute, and then he said: | ¢ “Jose, be very careful that he does |© \¢ | rates are tn Has the legisiature verted in servloe comminsion thority to increase the rater spec fied In paragraph 7. ¢ N Prices paid producers Teant then? We all knew, and| Jose's face went like ashes—he was| gees A coward anyway—and he could! spr hardly say, ‘Si, mi teniente.” And|? that big fat pig of a Don Augusto, | {f° he dropped altogether as if he had | no bones, and he went down on his | ¢ knees. But my teniente only|? (Corrected Gatly by Perry Bros) legisiative acts wrant such powers are tional and void.” € upon the fairn thelr fairness te ad-| |robbed of $42. The robber kicked | |him and struck him with his gun|{ when he was tardy about getting |t) his bands up FUNERAL SUNDAY Rabbi Samuel Koch will offictate ts were made and admitted to| there was noth and a relief from) the monopoly ing left of the city's cane “And then he took the commis. | Be\«! all the time till Jose came back. | \ Jose was shaking and white and | Pork. 0° the teftiente looked at him. ‘You| are back quickly, Jose,’ he sald. ‘ts! pr Corrected daily by The Bradner Washington over to the t o'clock at the Bonney-Watson un |dertaking parlors, at Broadway and | KNOCKS CANAL jengineer, asserted in Der Tag that during the dry season there will not be more than 8 feet of water in the Panama canal, ross the river, mi teniente,’|..,. ~ me court, after “ Sergeant, send two men acrosa|! court judges de rates with the public servic 191 FEBRUARY | My tenlente pushed back his od hin clgaret cane to « one,’ he chatr and offer Don Isidro, “T “ said; ‘one long enough to last our talk out.’ Bo Don Isidro took an en trelargos, and 1 held a mateh for tenlente mio, I die of suspense ‘My teniente put the little packet which Don Isidro had given tffe on the table, and he le dro, And I think Don lwidro knew then that the game was finished Nut he was a brave one, | will way that, if he was a fool, He looked at the packet and he looked at the ten! ente, and he looked at me and said “Traitor!’ Let me urge you, my! friend,’ jand without excitement, for when that cigaret is finished, you will be fintuhed also” “Don Isidro’s hand shook a little but he was not afraid, ‘You are the winner again, asesino mio,’ he said ‘Have the traitor there bring some | water, and I will take the sleeping powder—when I am done smoking.’ ‘It Is againat the law,’ my tent ente sald, ‘to let you kill raelf. Fermin, tell Raymundo to buckle on his revolver and be ready to escort ; Don Isidro down to San Pablo. "MI tenlente,’ I said, ‘does one call @ Macabebe a traitor and ank him to kill his officer for nothing? “Get your own. revolver, then, | ‘he wald, { “When I came back Don Isidro's) cigaret was getting short. They both stood up, and the Nentenant) jaald: ‘Adios, Don Inidro. An enny | |Joupney to you, and a welcome in San Pablo. I need not tell you, Fer-| min, to be very careful that he does) hot escape Mac be a traitor for nothing. There is no late and cold A last ember of the fire flamed up, and Fermin Majusay turned his face quickly from the tell-tale light “It was a long story,” he sald, and “Bleep without fear,” he said. “No one will trouble us when I am here. (THE END.) ity of Beattie, throug? The 1. corporation counsel that but prac turned the people over to t pany on a point of Inw clding this case our supreme the hearing neither the com t (meaning the city) nor the defendant produced any convinein evidence t how elther the Ib-cent or the mm. furnished no. evi dence at all for the city and the ies case was allowed to mo by q as far as evidence of the facte was concerned, as the court the pubite t igations. and to that ex- tent may be eaid to have treated Its 1 « upon Its own mo- mtly concluded that igation upon ite ow called for, and was! the that the’ evidence produced city, which It treate Piainant, together with that produced up: ite own motion, did not show the new rate to be tinreasonable the following para- supreme court you forever as a man We do no ona | tende itn | tended fn th the city that the eviden | before the comminn to call for affirmative finding by the th he proposed | new rate ie unren. iginal rate is r or should brought other evi rhat rate | based upon such evi the opinion that the pursue the Inquiry beyond idence produced before it. by contesting parties, to-wit, th and the lighting company greater extent than jn Ite own ty of Seattle umilesion of Sheets, Pacific b, January Mr. Bradford, realizing the sertous| effect this decision in the above case would have on his campaign, and re alizing what a serio. reflection the court upon his (Bradford Inwver in presentin argue the Iaw further and Juatity his conducting of the case, which rehearing the court promptly dented THE THIRD CAs. The municipal street ratiway cas rt in our su) Hradford’s c one yea held up by Howard unt!! Mr. Hughes left that ated himaelf with ie who are fighting our ofty There appears to be no eody stipulation by Rradford tn Is case, The monopoly does not ant speed and Jim does not ap oar to, when the clty’s Interests re quire it, as shown in the gas and telephone cases. THE FOURTH CASE. The Seattle Electric Company owed our city over $12,000 for re aire to our water system ocd lack of equipment to care for elec tric currant which escapes from the Seattle Electric Company's tr In July, 1912 Mr urged by our elty mu vote for r Richard Wine the thr is DD. Ray Winfield for the ity counell EDWIN J. BR N For Corporation Counsel Y ‘ald Advertisement.) d then he smiled through the and waid; ‘Now for our news, at Don Int my tentente sald, ‘to rmoke slowly | | “So we went away—and my tenl-| jente never knew that I made Don} |Inidro carry along a spade I saw in} ———-|the guard-room. One does not call He brought {it to a}not good that he can pass the guard Don Isidro! Have the complacency | % at any time, like a white man, he means harm re wood, and it gets) loosened bis revolver in the holster. | an affirm. | was not by law required | the immediately # ating be-| fore the & urt In order to} in the corporation counsel's | »y damage from electrolysis, due to} ane Hermit | The excitement now brewing all over Alaska and the Yukon and in every min- ing camp in the world regarding Shu- shanna, the new Alaskan gold strike, is in itself sufficient evidence of the judgment and clear vision of the experienced Klondykers who, months ago, declared that "'" “«: > ese the rush to Shushanna next 0) 0 0 Wim anne spring will rival the greatest ~, gold stampedes in history, in- cluding the famous Klondyke . ie me gem of pr ey took out $70,000.00, as estima The Shushanna Mining and Trading Com- pany, Limited, the first big company to get in on the ground floor of the camp, having se- cured controlling interest in a proven property = [""" * "rine was susr herve me in the very heart of discovery, is already in. the inst geologica on two mall cress. In Alaska fn the eame harness. Active operations have commenced a ibe sone in all departments. . walel i The development of the property on Dite’ scgtent, corvers covery A bench, in which the Company owns controlling interest, is to be commenced imme- diately, a crew of experienced miners under The Célspany the direction of the Company's mining super- intendent having left for Shushanna, taking with them modern mining machinery which defies even the Alaskan winter to prevent the bringing out of the precious metal from the ground. The finding of a rich deposit on the property, from which nuggets have already been taken during the preliminary work, should send the stock of the Shushanna Miping 4! (0, °“‘icgr,of te Company are and Trading Company soaring. Vancouver In the Trading Department business has = *2::)..";; also begun in earnest. Tons and tons of all '2/ji:'::" kinds of provisions have gone forth in charge of the Company’s traders to stock up the Shu- uf 2 shanna Mining and Trading Company's store... img. of one share tn the "Can: at Shushanna and the various trading posts tof 2)eninty (of) ee be established at advantageous points along tng & Trating the trails. The revenue from this department will come in almost immediately. The Shushanna MMing and Trading Ltd, was incorporated Sep: mplin, secretary; Buchanan & Bull; Investment & broker, Donald Vancouver non antage ¢ big and many ities for profit In this latest mt profitable gold camp—Shu- shanna, Its profits will come from anking, transporte- legitima: eurest and quick- t. It ts am itve, Transportation Department are not idle. The : Company’s light-draught steamer “Shushanna,” foane meee which will operate on the White River, doing t+, folowing contract nas been z s entered § Gat h Oo- a regular freight and passenger busin as fT, between the Bhushan ot ie De soon as navigation opens, is being to Michae Raymond, the veteran navigator of northern = 10.001, ‘0 os paid in sock of the ta ge course ao bere, chase The revenue from all departments of the Ing Feady market to those who may Company's business will soon be coming im {7.0 aissonte wit accrue trom and the profits earned by each will be partici- asst ‘of the company. = 4 ompany has power to pay 6 com- pated in by all chesyhokders of Shushamna ammo) 8 fmm ge cces Mining and Trading Company, Limited. thaleaie of the company shares, Dat te at -presemt, propescd. to pay eal ait ae ae The Stock of the Shusbanna Mining ..°}:.::°s2.70gmz.crr . +s bt. Siren tee Dumpany oe and Trading Company, Limited, will 5 rors onon com e, F whieh. tee Drestein, any gremben' t be advanced in price on February 14 33iuz"s2"& & ree sate te pay any tnetalisoent whee. The stock of the Shushanna Mining and ‘S tetarare, bua anecment te Trading Company, Limited, is now selling at the low price of 15 cents a share. Because of the demand for the shares and the fact that the operations of the company have com- = : menced, the price will be advanced on Feb- {907.'. 205! rejeueit the niet ruary 14. 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