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/Me '<"• "r-,'i £3*"gAi *«.» * 'I ",f ' rV y^giZfif* •#$£'>•"•£:>: "mTTEVRY J't ArNDEAT.ER, MTTEXItT,' llifc!̂ T^V:W'-isi" '#?• • *'^yfe'.ffij:" :^K"'T-v-'^f"- %S5g;a^ppRsi8 A Ml flMMIIMIIMM>ll»M»»IM»»»»M>ll»l>M>»MMlMMj • * . i *1 d » The Exploits of Elaine | \ Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama By ARTHUR B. REEVE The Well-Known Nocelist and th* Creator of th* "Craig Kennedy" Stones Presented in Collaboration With the Pathe Mayers and the Eclectic Film Company Copyright, 1914, by tbe Star Company All Foreign Rights Reserved i#" i,:»' ••• SYNOPSIS. with which to bribe those wiiom he wished to get into his power. It was Long Sin's mission to carry oat this scheme, so he packed the money into a bag, drew his coat more closely about him and left the room. No sooner had he gone than the sec­ retary hurried into the room, paused a moment to make sure that. Long Sin was not cpming back, then hurried over to a cloBet near by. From a secret hiding place he drew out a small bow and arrow. He sat down at a table and hastily wrote a few Chinese characters on a piece of paper, rolling up the note into a thin quill which he inserted into a prepared place in the arrow. Then he raised the window and deft­ ly shot the arrow out. Down the street, back of the board fence, where the .final conference had taken place, was a rather sleepy-look­ ing Chinaman, taking an occasional pufT at a cigarette doped with opium. He jumped to his feet suddenly. With a thud an arrow had buried it- Self quivering in the fence. Quickly he seized it, drew out the note and read it. In the Canton vernacular it read briefly: "He goes with muek-»on§y." It was enough. Instantly the star­ tling news overcame the effecj of the dope, and the Chinaman shuffled off quickly to the Tong headquarters. 'if:.;'• I'f! Sji- " U' U ^ f ' Tfca New York police are mystified by a Bvflep of murders and other crltnog. The principal clue to the criminal is the warn­ ing letter which Is sent to the victims, sisn^d with a "clutching; hand." The lat­ est victim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor Dodge, the insurance pr< siik'nt. His daughter. Elaine, employs Cmig Ken­ nedy, the famous scientific detective, to try to unravel the mystery. What Ken­ nedy accomplishes is told by his friend Janieson. a newspaper man. After many fruitless attempts to put Elaine and Craig Kennedy out of the way the Clutching Hand Is at last found to be none other than Perry Bennett, Elaine^s lawyer and the man she is engaged to. marry. Ben­ nett flees to the den of one of his Chi­ nese criminals. The Chinaman forces from Bennett the secret of the where­ abouts of 17.000,000. Then he gives the lawyer a potion which will suspend ani­ mation for months. Kennedy reaches Ben­ nett's side just After he has lost con- •etousness and supposes him dead. - SIXTEENTH EPISODE THE CRYPTIC RING. Kennedy had been engaged for some­ time, in tbe only work outside of the Dodge case which he had consented to take for weeks. Our old friend, Dr. Leslie, the coro­ ner, had appealed to him to solve a very ticklish point in a Tong murder case which had set all Chinatown agog. It was, indeed, a very bewilder­ ing case. A Chinaman named Li Chang, leader of the Chang Wah Tong, had been poisoned, but so far no one had been able to determine what poi­ son it was or even to prove that there had been a poison, except for the fact that the man was dead, and Kennedy had taken the thing up in a great measure because of the sudden turn In the Dodge case which had brought us into such close contact with the Chinese. I had been watching Kennedy with interest, for the Tong wars always make picturesque newspaper stories, when a knock at the door announced the arrival of Dr. Leslie, anxious for some result. "Have you been able to find out any­ thing yet?" he greeted Kennedy eag­ erly as Craig looked up from his mi­ croscope. Kennedy turned and nodded. "Your dead man was murdered by means of aconite, of which, you know, the active principle is the deadly alkaloid aconi- ttne." "There are several "treatments for aconite poisoning," ruminated Ken­ nedy. "I would say that one of the latest and best is digitalin given hypo- dermically." He took down a bottle of digitalin from a cabinet, adding, "only it was too late in this case." •-r- » • » • • * * Just what the relations were be­ tween Long Sin and the Chong Wah Tong I have never been able to deter­ mine exactly. But one thing was cer­ tain: Long Sin on his arrival in New York had offended the Tong, and now that hiB master, Wu Fang, was here the offence was even greater, for the criminal society brooked no rival. In the dark recesses of a poorly fur­ nished cellar, serving as the Tong headquarters, the new leader and sev­ eral of his most trusted followers were now plotting revenge. Long Sin, they believed, was responsible for the mur­ der, and, with truly Oriental guile, they had obtained a hold over Wu Fang's secretary. Their plan decided on, the China­ men left the headquarters and made their way separately uptown. They rejoined one another In the shelter of a rather poor house, before which was a board fence, in the vicinity of a fashionable apartment house. A mo­ ment's conference followed, and then the secretary glided away. Wu had taken another apartment nptown in one of the large apartment h'bnses near a parkway. • There Long Sin was now engaged 1n making all possible provisions for the safety of his master. Anyone who had happened to glance up at the roof of the tall apartment building might have seen Long Sin's figure sil­ houetted against the sky on the top oi the mansard roof near a flagpole. I He had Just finished fastening to the flagpole a stout rope which stretched taut across an areaway some twenty or thirty feet wide to the next build­ ing, where it was fastened to a chim­ ney. Again and again he tested It, and finally with a nod of satisfaction descended from t^e roof and went to the apartment of Wu. There, alone, he pavsed for a few minutes to gaze in wonder at the cryp­ tic ring which had been the net result so far of his efforts to find the mil­ lions which Bennett, as the Clutching Hand, had hidden. He wore it, strange­ ly enough, over his index finger, and as he examined it he S^IQO£ his head in doubt. Neither he por; his' master had yet Ipeen able to fathom the significance of • tile ring. • Long Sin thought that he was unob- served. But outside, looking through tbe keyhole, was Wu's secretary, who had Ptolen in on the mission which had been set for him at the Tong headquarters. Long Sin went over to a desk and ^ a secret box in which Wu had ... jj^aced several packages of money Long Sin was making his rounds, visiting all those whom the glitter of Wu's money could corrupt. Suddenly from the shadows of a narrow street, lined with the stores of petty Chinese merchants, half a dozen lithe and murderous figures leaped out behind Long Sin and seized him. He struggled, but they easfly threw him down< The half dozen Tong men seized the money which Long Sin carried and deftly stripped him of everything else of value. It was the day after he return from Aunt Tabby's that Kennedy cailled again upon Elaine to find that she and Aunt Josephine were engaged in the pleasant pastime of arranging an en- tertainment. Jennings announced Craig and held back tbe portieres as he entered. "Oh, good!" cried Elaine as she saw him. "You are just in time. ^ I Was going to send you this, but I should much rather give it to you." She handed him a tastefully en­ graved sheet of paper which he read with interest: Miss Elaine Dodge requests the honor of your presence at an Oriental Reception on April 6th, at 8 o'clock. "Very interesting," exclaimed Craig enthusiastically. "I shall be delighted to come." He looked about a moment at the library which Elaine was already re­ arranging for the entertainment. "Then you mhBt work," she cried gayly. "You are just in time to help me buy the decorations. No objec­ tions--come along." Among the many places which Elaine had down on her shopping list was a small Chinese curio shop on lower Fifth avenue. They entered and were greeted with a profound bow by the proprie­ tor. . He was the new Tong leader, and this uptown shop was his cover. Elaine explained what it was she wanted, and with Kennedy's aid se­ lected a number of Chinese hangings and decorations. They were about to leave the shop when Elaine's eye was attracted by a little showcase in which were many quaint and valuable Chinese ornaments in gold and silver and covered with ivory. "What an odd looking thing," she said, pointing out -a nobbed ring which reposed otythe black velvet of the case. "Quite odd," agreed Kennedy. The subtle Chinanian stood by the pile of hangings on the counter which Elaine had bought, overjoyed at such a large sale. Praising the ring to Elaine, he turnted insinuatingly to Ken­ nedy. There was nothing else for Craig to do--he bought the ring, and the Chinaman proved his ability as a merchant. From the curio Bhop where Elaine had completed her purchases they drove to Kennedy's laboratory. We were In the midst of planning the entertainment when a slight cough behind me made me BtartHhd turn- quickly. There stood Long Sin, the astute Chinaman who had delivered the bomb to Kennedy and had betrayed Bennett. We had seen very little of him since then. Long Sin bowed low and shuffled over closer to Kennedy. I noticed that Elaine eyed Long Sin sharply. "I am in great trouble, Professor Kennedy," began Long Sin in a low tone. "You don't know the Chinese of thfys city, but If you did you would know what blackmailers there are among them. 1 have refused to pay blackmail to tbe Chong Wah Tong and since then it has .been trouble, trouble, trouble." Kennedy looked up quickly at the Rime Chong Wah. Tong,- thinking of the investigation which the coroner hud asked him to make into the out- dor. He and Long Sin moved a few steps away, discussing the affair. Elaine and I were stiU talking over the entertainment. She happened to place her hand on the desk near Long Sin. My back was toward him and I did not see him start suddenly and look at her hand. On it was the ring--the ring which, un­ known to us, Long Sin had found in the passageway under Aunt Tabby's garden, of which he had been robbed. Long Sin decided to recover the ring by stealth. Elaine was still talking enthusiast tically about her party, when Long Sin turned from Kennedy and moved to­ ward us with a bow. "The lady speaks of an Oriental re­ ception," he remarked. "Would she care to engage a magician?" Elaine turned to him surprised- "Do you mean that you are a magician?" she asked, puzzled. Long Sin smiled quietly. He reached ovtr and took a small bottle from Ken­ nedy's laboratory table. Holding it in his hand almost directly before us, he made a few slight-of-hand passes and, presto! the bottle had disappeared. A few more passes, and a test tube ap­ peared in its place. Before we knew it he had caused the test tube to disap­ pear and the bottle to reappear. We all applauded enthusiastically. "I don't think that is such a bad idea after all," nodded Kennedy to Elaine. It was the night of the reception. The Dodge library was transformed. The Oriental hangings which Elaine and Kennedy had purchased seemed to breathe mysticism. At the far end of the room a platform had been ar­ ranged to form a stage on which Long Sin was to perform his sleight of hand. Almost everybody had arrived when Elaine turned to the guests and intro­ duced Long Sin with a little speech. I shall not attempt to describe the amazing series of tricks which he per­ formed. His hands and fingers seemed to move like lighting. He had finished and every one crowded about him to congratulate him on his Skill. His only answer, however, was his inscrutable smile. "This is wonderful, wonderful," I repeated as I happened to meet Elaine alone. We walked into the conserva­ tory while the guests were crowding around Long Sin. She seated herself for the first time during the evening. "May I get you an ice?" I suggested. She thanked me, and I hurried off. As I passed through the drawing room I did not notice that Long Sin had managed to escape further congsatu- ah Ice from the waiter and was going in the direction of the conservatory. There he found her._ , "Won't you take this ice?" he asked, handing it to her. "It is very kind of yon," she said, "but »l hare already sent Walter for one." Kennedy insisted and she took it. She had already started to eat It when I appeared in the doorway. Kennedy laughed, rather pleased at having beaten me. "Never mind, Walter," he said with a smile, "I'll take it. And er--I don't think that Elaine will object if you play the host for a little while' with Aunt Josephine," he hinted. Kennedy, however, was not alone. Back in the palms in the conservatory two beady black eyes were eagerly watching. Chatting with animation, Kennedy tasted the ice. He had taken only a couple of spoonfuls when a look of wonder and horror seemed to spread over his face. He rose quickly. "A" cold sweat seemed to break out all over him. His nerves almost refused to respond. He took only a few steps, began to stagger, and finally sank down on the f l o o r . . . . » Elaine screamed. , ' , We rushed in from the IfBrSry and drawing room. He had fallen near the fountain and one hand drooped over into the water. As he fell back he seemed to have only just enough strength to withdraw his hand from the fountain. On the stone coping, slowly and laboriously, he moved his finger. "What's the matter, old man?" I asked, bending over him. There was no answer, but he man­ aged to turn his head, and I followed the direction of his eyes. With trembling finger he was trac­ ing out, one by one, some letters. I looked and it flashed over me what he meant. He had written with the water: "Digitalin--lab"-- I jumped up and almost without a word dashed out of the conservatory, down the hall and into the first car waiting outside. "To the laboratory," I directed, giv­ ing the driver the directions, "and drive like the deuce!" „ Fortunately there was no*one to stop us, and I know we broke all the speed laws of New York. I dashed into the laboratory,' almost broke open the cabinet, and seized the bot­ tle of digitalin and a hypodermfc syringe, then rushed madly out again and into the car. Meanwhile some of the guests hqd lifted up Kennedy, too excited to no­ tice Long Sin in his hiding place. They had laid Craig down on a couch The Two Chinamen Are Surprised to See the Mystic Kmy ori Elaine's Fingor. and were endeavoring to revive him. Someone had already sent for a doc lations of the guests. Just then a wait­ er passed through with ices on a tray. I called to him and he stopped. , A moment later Long Sin himself took an ice from yie tray and retreat­ ed bat k of the poftieres. No one was about and he hastily drew a bottle from his pocket. On the bottle was a Chinese label. He palmed the bottle, and anyone who had chanced to see him tfould have noticed that he passed it tw« or three times over the ice, then, lifting the portieres, entered the draw­ ing loom again. HR had made the circuit of the rooms in such a way as to bring him­ self out directly in my path. With a emil* he stopped before me, rubbing both hands together. "It is for Miss Elaine?" he asked. I nodded. ' By this time several of the guests who were fascinated with Long Sin gathered about us. Long Sin fluttered open a Chinese fan whicfy he had used in his tricks, passed it over ray hand, and in some incomprehensible way 1 felt, the plate with the ice literally dis­ appear from my grasp. My face must have shown my surprise. A burst of laughter from the other guests greeted me. I looked at Lon? Sin, half angry, yet unable to say anything, for the joke was plainly on me. He smiled, made another pass with the fan, and instantly the plate with the ice was back in my hand. Meanwhile Kennedy had been -mov­ ing from cne to ancther of the guests seeking Elaine. He had already taken tor, but the aconite was working -quickly on its victim. I scarcely waited for the car to Btop in front of the house. I opened the door and rushed in. Without a word I thrust the anti­ dote and the syringe into the hands of the doctor and he went to work immediately. We watched with anx­ iety. Finally Kennedy's eyes opened and gradually his breathing seemed to become more normal. The antidote had been given in time Kennedy was considerably broken up by the narrow 'escape which he had had, and, naturally, even the next morning, did not feel like himself. In the excitement cf leaving Elaine's we had forgotten the bottle of digitalin. Kennedy looked rather wan and peaked, but insisted on going* to the laboratory as usual. "Do you remember what became of the bottle of digitalin?" he asked fumbling in the closet. Mechanically I felt In my own pock ets; it was not there. I shook my head. "I don't seem to remember what be came of it--perhaps we left it 4here In fact, we must have left It there." "I don't like to have such things lying around loose," remarked Ken nedy. taking up his hat and coat with forced energy. "I think we had better get It." Elaine nad spent rather a sleepless night after the attempt to poison her which had miscarried and resulted in poisoning Kennedy. To keep her mind off the thing, she had already started to take down the decorations. The telephone rang and Elaine an- swerjed it. Her face showed that something startling had happened. "It was Jameson." she cried, almost dropping the receiver, overcome. They all hurried to her. "He says that Mr. Kennedy and he were visit­ ing that Chinaman this morning and Mr. Kennedy Buffered a relapse--is dying there, in the Chinaman's apart­ ment. He wants us to come quickly and bring that medicine that they used last night. He sajrs It is on the taboret in the library." It was only a matter of minutes when they pulled up before the apart­ ment house wnere Wu had taken the suite from which Long Sin had tele­ phoned the message in my name. To­ gether Elaiiie and Aunt Josephine hurried in. • • * • * <. .£ * • . Kennedy went directlythe la6oratory to* the Dodge house. I don't think I ever saw such an expression of surprise on anybody's face as that on Jennings' when he opened the door and saw as. He was aghast. Back of him we could see Marie. She looked as if she had seen ghost. "Is MISB Elaine in?" a«ked Kennedy Jennings was liven too dumfouhded to speak. "Why, what's the matter?" demand­ ed Kennedy. Then--er--you are not ill again?" he managed to blurt out. "Ill again?" repeated Kennedy. "Why," explained Jennings, "didn't •Mr. Jameson Just now telephone that you had had a relapse" in the apart­ ment of that Chinaman, and for Miss Elaine to hurry over there right away with that bottle of medicine?" Kennedy waited to hear no more. Seizing me by the arm, he turned and dashed down the steps and back again into the taxicab in which we had come. • • • • * * * In Wu's apartment Long Sin was giving his secretary and another Chi­ naman the most explicit instructions. As he finished each nodded and showed him a Chinese dirk concealed under his blouse. Just then a knock sounded at the door. The secretary opened it, and Josephine and Elaine almost ran in. Long Sin rose and bowed with a smile. Where is Mr. Kennedy?" demand­ ed Elaine. Long Sin bowed again, spreading out his hands, palms outward. "Mr. Kennedy? He is not here." Then, straightening up, he faced the two women squarely. You have a ring that'means much to me," he said quickly. "The only way to get it from you was to bring you here." Aunt Josephine was standing with her back to the door leading into an­ other ropm. She happened to look up and saw the secretary, who was near her and half turned away. From where she was standing she could see the murderous dirk up his sleeve. She acted instantly. Without a word she summoned all her strength and struck him. The secretary stumbled. Elaine," she cried, "look out! they have knives." Before Elaine knew It Aunt Jose­ phine had taken her by the arm, had dragged her into the back room, and, although Long Sin and the others had rushed forward, managed to slam the door and lock It. The Chinamen set to work immedi­ ately to pry It open. While they were at work on the door, which was already swaying, Aunt Josephine and Elaine were run­ ning about, trying to find an outlet from the room. There seemed to be no way out. Even the windows were locked. I don't know why they want the ring," whispered Aunt Josephine, -"but they won't get it. Give It to me, Elaine." She almost seized the ring, hiding it in her waist. As she did so the door burst open and Wu, Long Sin and the other Chinamen rushed in. A second later they had seized Elaine and Aunt Josephine. • • • • • • • Kennedy and I dashed up before the apartment house in which we knew that Long Sin lived, leaped out of the car and hurried in. It was on the second floor, and we did not wait for the elevator but took the steps two at a time. Kennedy found th§ door locked. Instantly he whipped out his revolver and shot the lock in pieces. We threw ourselves against the door, the broken lock gave way and we rushed in through the front room. No one was there, but in * back room we could hear sounds. It was Elaine and Aunt Josephine struggling with the Chinamen. Long Sin and the others had seized Elaine and Aunt Josephine was trying to help her just as we rushed in. With a blow Kennedy knocked out the secretary While I struggled with the other Chi namen who blocked our way. Then Kennedy went directly at Long Sin. They struggled furiously. Long Sin, with his wonderful knowl edge of jiu jltsu, might not have been a match for six other Chinamen, but he was for one white man. With mighty effort he threw Kennedy, rushed for the door and, as he passed through the outside room, seized * Tong ax from the wall. Afraid of the wonderful jlu jltsu, I had picked up the first thing handy; which was a taboret. I literally broke It over the head of my Chinaman, then turned and dashed out after Long Sin just as Kennedy picked himself up and followed. I caught up with the Chinaman and we had a little struggle, but he man­ aged to break away and raised his ax threateningly. A shout from Kennedy: caused him to turn and run down this flight Qf stairs, Kennedy closely be­ hind him. In the main hall of the apartment house were two elevator shafts facing the street entrance, some twenty-five or thirty feet away. Through tbe street door the janitor and two or three other men were running in. They had heard the noise of the fight­ ing above. Escape to the ^street was cut off. We were behind him on the flight of stairs. Long Sin did not hesitate a mo­ ment. He ran to the elevator, the door of which < was open, seized the elevator boy and sent him sprawling on the marble floor. Then he slammed the door and the.elevator shot up. Kennedy was only a few feet he- hind, and he took in the situation at a glance. He leaped into the other ele­ vator, and before the surprised boy could interfere shot it up only a few feet behind Long Sin. It was a wild race to the roof. Long Sin had the start, and as the eleva­ tor reached the top floor he flung it open, dashed out and through a door up to the roof Itself. A second later Kennedy's elevator stopped. Craig leaped out and fired his last shot at the legs of Long Sin as he disappeared at the top of the flight of stairs to the roof. He flung the revolver from him and followed. Without a moment's hesitation Ken­ nedy threw himself at Long Sin. They struggled with each other. Finally Long Sin managed to wrench one arm loose and raise the Tong ax over Ken­ nedy's head. Kennedy dodged back. As he did so he tripped on the very edge of the 'roof and went sliding down the slates of the mansard. Fortunately he was able. to catch himself in the gutter. It was the opportunity that Long Sin wanted. He started across the rope, which he had, stretched from the apartment house to the building across the court, with all the deftness of the most expert Chinese acrobat. By this time I had reached the roof, followed by the janitor and the ele? vator boys. V Kennedy yras now crawling up the mansard, helping himself as best he could by some of the ornamental lron- worlo Long Sin had reached the roof on the opposite side as we ran across In the direction of the taut rope. A moment later he turned and bowed at us mockingly, then disap­ peared behind a skylight. Kennedy did not stop an instant. "You fellows go to the street and see if ybu can head him off that way," he cried. "Stay here, Walter." Before T' knew It he had seized the rope and was going across to the other building hand over hand. It was a perilous undertaking Kennedy had almost reached the other roof when suddenly from behind the skylight stepped Long Sin. With a wicked leer, he advanced to the edge of the roof, his ax upraised. I looked across the yawning chasm, hor­ rified. Slowly Long Sin raised his ax above his head, gathering all the strength which he had, waiting for Kennedy to approach closer. Kennedy stopped. Swiftly the ax descended, slashing the rope at one blow. Like the weight of a pendulum Ken­ nedy swung back against our oVil building, managing to keep his hold on the rope with superhuman strength. • There was a tremendous shattering of glass. The rope had been Just long enough to make him strike a window and he had gone crashing through the glass three floors below. I dashed down the stairs and into the apartment. Kennedy was badly cut. "Help me, quick, Walter," he urged, moving toward the elevators. Meanwhile Long Sin had quickly dived down into the next buildlng^gA few moments later he had come oucrfn the ground floor at the rear. Gazing about to see whether hokums followed, he" disappeared. * * • • • • • Back in the apartment Elaine and Aunt Josephine were Just- about to run out when the two Chinamen who had b3en knocked out recovered. One of them threw himself on Elaine. Aunt Josephine tried to ward him off, but the other one struck her and threw her down. Before she could recover they had seized Elaine. With a hasty guttural exclamation they picked her up and ran out. In­ stead of going downstairs they crossed the hallway, slamming the door behind them. As Kennedy and I reached the ground floor we saw the janitor and one of the elevator boys on either side of Aunt Josephine. "Elaine! Elaine!" she cried. "What's the matter?" demanded Kennedy, leaning heavily on mo. "They have kidnaped her," cried , Aunt Josephine. Kennedy pulled himself together. "Tell me, quick--how did it hap­ pen?" he demanded of Aunt Joseph- in"It was the ring," she cried, hand­ ing it to him. Kennedy took the rfng and looked at it for a momejjt. Then he turned to us blankly. All the rooms were empty. Elaine had been spirited Away. (TO BE CONTINUED.) LEES: 12 OEM ;l£;$ BRHTI8K 1VC8SEL LIMPS INTO, EENpTOWN A FLOATIMQ SHAMBLES. . . . CAPTAtN JWD 11 OTHERS Oil r Si Anglo-Californian With Cargo tfy" Horses for-Army Shelled by Qer- ^ , Wireless and Upper £.' r„ i^ .... -k Masts Shot Away. London. July 7.--The big British steamship Anglo-Califomian limped Into Queenstown harbor a veritable - floating shambles after having outrun a German submarine. Her wireiesp. apparatus, her bridge and upper work®;, shot away, her funnels pierced and! j her docks littered with dead and d^ „ . j tng, she accomplished the feat. ? I She was laden with transport mals for the British army--a cargo dp/fe; horses shipped from Montreal, j The commander, who brought hflQfcV,. | through the hail of shot, shell and rifle ' flre--Captain Parslow--paid for thlf j achievement with his life. He rf^-- I mained on the bridge amid the inferos until blown off by a shell. The ofl^v cer who assumed his post found hl»,'.: \ body with one arm and one leg «hofc>.; away. The others of the crew who shared?;i> his fate, were, like the :aptain, horrt.. bly mutilated. The dead number 18.V Eight others were desperately wonn^' ed. The Anglo*Callfornian is a staunch* steel ship of 7,333 tons, and is owned by the Nitrate Producers' Steamship company, Ltd. She was built , three years ago and is 450 feet long. i While the crew was largely British, Americans and Canadians were in' charge of the cargo of horses. The attack on the Anglo-Californiajs began almost twenty-four hours b* fore she reached port and continued four hours. The submarine signaled:; a command for h<tr to lay to. In­ stead, the captain e;ave the order ft*# steam ahead, and the most dramatic struggle of the submarine blockade ol the United Kingdom was on. Reports of the sinking of five more merchant ships, were received in Lon? dpfe . TRAINS rflT' (UJTOS; 7 DIE Fatal Accident at West Detroit, Mloh^ and Another Near Farming- dale, N. J. i ... • Detroit, Mich., July 7.--An automo ­ bile in which eight persons were rid­ ing was struck by a fast west-bound Wabash passenger train at Greene avW* nue, Just Inside the city limits of Weirt Detroit, Sunday night, and three of« the occupants were killed, while the others were injured more or less seri­ ously. The dead are: Joseph Faby#* zak, flfty-four; his wife Nettie, agdjf forty-two, and Olga Ewinesky, a twefc- ty-year-old girl. 4 Farmlngdale, N. J,, July 7.--Fotfr members of a T.renton family met death on the Asbury Park-Farming- dale road, a mile from here, on Sun­ day when an automobile In which thjy were riding was struck by a New Jer­ sey Southern train. Robert MayeTv his wife and daughter, Ethel, twenty- one, were killed outright, and Herbert Mayer, thirteen, died while being cai|« veyed to a hospital. HUERTA JAILED; 0R0ZC0 GONE Juarez May Be In Hands of Escaped Mexican Before Many Hours# It El Paso Report * ,/•, El Paso, Tex., July 7.--Gen. Vfictotla- no Huerta, who has been out on $15,- 000 bond since his arrest, was re-ar-1 rested on Sunday on a new federal warrant Issued at San Antonio. He Is now locked In the county Jail here and a military guard probably will he placed about the building to thwart _ any possible attempt to escape or at­ tempts of friends to release him. It was admitted that Htferta was re­ arrested to prevent the possibility of his following the footsteps of Gen. Pascual Orozco, who apparently has forfeited his bond and escaped acros# the border. A message received here said that General Orozco was at Val­ entine, Tex., and intended to croM the border into Mexico and lead a fqree against Juares. VICE-PRESIDENT THREATENED Marshall Declares He Has Received Dozen Anonymous Warning# In Last Six Weeks. St. Louis, July 7.--Thomas R. Mar­ shall, vice-president of the United States, has been threatened with • death in more than a dozen anony­ mous letters which he has received during the last six weeks. Vice-presi­ dent Marshall made this statement on Sunday to newspaper men here. Tower Falls, Twelve Hurt. Rock Island, 111., July 7--A light tower 60 feet high tin which scores of people were perched viewing an ex­ hibition by Aviator Miles Collapsed Exposition park, causing serious In­ juries to a dozen persons. - , V- ..p •A: .-;v^ "V: '% HAY BECOME A POT ROAST :'jpHne Melanesian Tribes Still Regard , the White Man as a Most Tooth- ££ -i v some Delicacy. w- • -t-- hC;;'i-Tb0 Ifelanesians are a race who '* have shamefully suffered at the hands 9t the white men in the past. At oue time the scum of England, Aus- tiralia and other countries carried on •p, the slave trade and piracy among the natives to such n§ extent that in r •; spurn • Ulasdat tt iww . almost •• ' • '• hopeless to be able to preserve the race. Their tribal wars, cannibalism, bead-huntins. and infanticide must also be added to the totals as causes of extermination, but even these have not nearly been so destructive as the white man's pernicious influence. The consequence lias been that the natives have grown distrustful of white men. Even today, in spite of the many re­ forms which have been brought about by the enthusiastic band of mission­ aries who have taken up the work of the/'qutftyr bishop/' som? of the na­ tives in the islands are cannibals and, head-hunters. They still believe that It is necessary to eat some important personage in order to gain strength and power. When two tribes tight, the chief plan of campaign is to kill the enemy's chief, and when he is slain the cus­ tom is for . the victors to make a meal of him. By eating so powerful a man they think they will gain pow­ er themselves. It is this belief which makes the position of the white man extreme danger at times, for they look upon white men as very power­ ful, and one can never be quite sure that their desire for improvement may not have, to say the least, unpleasant results.---World Wide Magazine. Senna Drug Trade Diverted. The export of senna from Egypt has been prohibited except to the United Kingdom and France. This measure is expected to center in London the trade in this useful purgative drug, among the Melanesian natives one Ql \ The United States has been Importing 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 pounds of senna leaves yearly. The Alexandrian senna commands the highest price, the March, 1915, quotations in New York city being quoted at 35 to 40 cents per pound for whole leaves. The Tin- nevelly leaves from India are quoted at ,16 to 17 cents, while pods are priced at 6 to 7 cents per pound. The EgyWian senna leaves are derived froinM^assia acutifolia, which grows in ISuBaa and Kordofap, while the In­ dian on Tinhevelly leaves are derived from cm* augustifpli*. f • • > • . - ^ Some Persuader. Ow. Hugh L. Scott, who went un­ armed and brought a Piute outlaw into camp by the gentle art of persua­ sion, is a man who could come home from the lodge at one o'clock in the morning and persuade the missus that h$ bad been to lodge. tV 'I A Kindly Suggestion ^ She--"They sold such cheap tufaf# at the bargain 6ale today. He--Yes, and you were ess ; Cheapest things cold, Cholera Epidemic 8prea4it Paris, July 7.--A dispatch to the Havas agency from Geneva states there were two cases of cholera in Vienna, five in Moravia, three In Si­ lesia, two In Cracow, four In Yavprow «Hd twenty-eight in Valovitch. .•!, . . Roads to Get Rate Ral^';^|^:^ Washington, July 7.--The railroad® traversing what is known as "West­ ern Classification Territory" will re- . .. celve pract'cally all of the advance In rates for which tbey asked, it was announced unofficially here. • 4* U. 8. to Lease Million Washington, July 7.--Grazing lands i£?'- in the Crow Indian reservation in 'Montana will be leased for another three-year period, the Indian OfllQe announces. More than i,000,000 acres ^ ^ are indudei|-|n U»e tract. •