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Show Book Is Heavily Inlaid With Gold. On the front cover is an artistic likeness like-ness of the former empress, done in oil on Ivory. This is framed with gold filagree work. Inside the book, as Indicated by the testimony of Captain Lester, are the names of German-Americans who contributed contrib-uted to the "cause" and the amounts of their contributions. The contributions-run contributions-run from a few dollars up to 510,000. and the total is said to go beyond the $100,-000 $100,-000 mark. Each page is elaborately decorated dec-orated "with artistic penwork in the form of scrolls and pictures, and in each instance in-stance the page is inscribed with some expression of loyal sentiment. The book was designed to be presented to the kaiserin after the war, and it s understood that those whose names appeared ap-peared therein were to be rewarded by some expression of personal favor from the empress. An exclusive local srtory of the arrest and internment of Wackorow at Fort Douglas was printed in The Tribune of j July fj, 1917, the day after the prisoner j was delivered at the local compound. Details De-tails concernining his activities and the cause of his arrest were printed at that time upon information obtained from Los Angeles. |