HOW AMERICAN
' IN FAR NORTH
WENT TO WAR
SPOKANE, May 15 (by Associated
Press).—From the silent reaches of
the far north to the tunnels under
Messines ridge is the route over
which a chance greeting from a fel
low trapper sent Leon Huston, an
American citizen who has just re
turned from overseas, where he
served with the Twenty-eighth Canad
ian engineers. Huston, whose home
formerly was in Livingston, Mont.,
recently visited his mother here.
While hunting, trapping and pros
pecting with a companion 300 miles
north of The Pas, the farthest north
railroad station in western Canada, he
met a trapper just returned from
“tho outside.” This man told Huston
that England, France and Russia had
gone to war against Germany.
“If there’s a war on we’d better
go,” he told his companion, and to
gether they traveled ten days by
canoe to The Pas. Arrived there they
discovered, that no men were being
recruited at that town, but were told
they might join the army at Saska
toon. Here Huston joined the Twenty
eighth engineers, then being organ
ized.
After fighting in Flanders for some
months, Huston was assigned to the
sappers engaged in tunneling under
Messines ridge, preparatory to plac
ing the hundreds of tons of explosive
that obliterated that barrier to the
allies advance. He was a “face man
which means he was working in the
extreme inside end of the tunnel, re
moving clay from the face to the
bore. Here, in an excavation four feet
high and two feet six inches wide,
Huston worked six hour shifts.
“I worked in six of the tunnels dug
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under Messines ridge,” he said. "The 1
tunnels were run In for a distance of I
1,800 feet and were 100 feet beneath J
the surface. It was so hot in that
hole a man could wear no clothes ,
except overalls, and then he was wet
with perspiration, during his entire
six-hour shift. We were off shift six
hours and on again for an equal time,
making 12 hours of the 24 digging the
dark blue clay.
"The tunnels were all electric
lighted and a small air supply was
pumped in through a hose. The man '
working at the face of the tunnel
would dig the clay away with a small ‘
shovel and pass it to the man behind
him, who would give it to another
man who placed it in sacks. Eight of
these were loaded on a small car and *
taken to the mouth of the tunnel. '
Three feet in six hours was consid
ered good digging.
••The Germans were tunneling from
the opposite direction, and we had 1
men detailed to listen for the sound 1
of their shovels. Frequently branch
tunnels would be run off the main
diggings and large timbers rigged up i
like battering rams and pounded
against the wall to mislead the Ger
mans. This ruse was not always suc
cessful, however. At one time we had
400 feet of tunnel blown up by them.
Then it was simply a question of
doing it all over again.”
HOPELESS CRIPPLE
GIVES RECITA HILE
LYING Oh S BACK
LOS ANGELES, May 15 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Arthur F. Fuller, who
has been crippled for nineteen
years that he must lie on his back,
gave a piano recital here recently be
fore a large audience.
Mr. Fuller, whose bodily ailments
keep him close at home and to whom
traveling is an impossibility, declares
tho inspiration of music gives him
physical strength to play a recital,
which he gives while lying at full
length before the instrument.
The celebrated K-W Spark Coils are
for sale by the Northwestern Hard
ware Co. 14"tf
Just arrived, a fresh stock of Hot
Shot Batteries at the Northwestern
Hardware Co.
Prices are coming down. So are
our ham and eggs. Now 50 cents at
the City Bakery. 2‘6t
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Big reduction in yarn at $1.10 per
hank at the Cordova Dry Goods Co. 7-3
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TORSE-RACING
CIRCUIT HAS
BEEN FORMED
TRINIDAD, Colo., May 15 (by As
ociated Press).—The organization of
he Colorado-New Mexico racing Clr
ult made up of representatives of
’ueblo, Trinidad, Rocky Ford and
Latin, N. M., was perfected at a meet
ng which was held at Raton. The
irganizatlon of this circuit has been
ittempted several time during the
ast few seasons but each time the
iponsors of the organization were
inable to secure concessions to make
neets such as the organization plans
i success.
The association was formed.for the
lurpose of providing racing ' pro
grams at a series of fairs to be held
luring August and September. The
program as outlined provides for a
lumber of running events with purses
if $150 to be offered for the three
juarter and mile events. The racing
-ules formulated by the Colorado
state racing commission were adopted
:o govern all races staged by the or
ganization.
The dates arranged for the four
:owns represented in the association
ire:
Rocky Ford, September 1 to 6.
Trindid, September 16 to 19.
Pueblo, September 22 to 27.
Raton, September 30 to October 3.
PARDON IS ASKED FOR
MEXICAN COLONEL
EL PASO, Tex., May 15 (by Asso
aiated Press).—The Mexican colony
here, at the suggestion of La Tatria
and La Republica, has started a pe
tition asking the president to pardon
Colonel Frederico Cervantes and five
others sentenced to federal prison for
violating neutrality laws. They cite
Colonel Cervantes’ military record,
the fact that he holds the French
Cross of the Legion of Honor and
other foreign honors.
PACIFIC COAST
LEAGUEDRAWS
BIG CROWDS
SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 (by As
sociated Press).—The outstanding
feature of the Pacific Coast Baseball
league thus far has been the remark
able attendance as shown by official
records. In this the coast league has
set a mark at which the major or
ganizations can shoot. It has not been
infrequent to find week day crowds
that compared favorably with the
Sunday and holiday crowds of war
days.
The ratio of population, the attend
ance figures show that Sacramento
has been one of the best cities on
the circuit with respect to the size of
the crowds which have attended the
games. San Francisco’s official figures
also show an encouraging increase in
numbers, and the same conditions ob
tain in practically every city on the
circuit where games have been
played.
It has been remarked both by the
crowd and the sporitng writers that
the increased interest in the games
has infested the players as well as
the spectators. A snap and vim is
being shown by the players which
was lacking last season and this is
ascribed largely to'lhe influence of
the large crowds. Accounts of the
games show that a large proportion
of them have been good, lively
contests.
As yet he teams have not shaken
down to the form and places in which
pre-season opinion placed them. Port
land, which has been rated as a first
division team, has not shown the pre
dicted form while Salt Lake City has
been a surprise thus far to the ma
jority of the early season prognosti
cators.
MASONIC MEETING
A regular meeting of Mt. McKinley'
lodge, No. 183, F. & A. M. will be held
on Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock.
Work in the E. A. degree.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY, W. M.
A. FEILD, Secretary.
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