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Show ; NURSE FINDS PATH IN WEST Til! ! One Woe Treads Upon Another's An-other's Heels for Miss Alma Krieghoff. HELD UP BY ROBBERS Arriving at Vancouver, Is Arrested on Suspicion of Being German Spy. Bciug held up at the point of a sawed-off shotgun in Yellowstone park and arrested at Vancouver as a German Ger-man spy are some of the things that have broken the monotony of travel j for Miss Alma Krieghoff, a surgical nurse, who was at the Hotel Utah last ' night to collect her scattered com-' com-' posure before proceeding to New York. Miss Krieghoff looks to be 25 and : admits 30 3'ears,. "When seen last night ; she said that she had been through ! about seventy-eight 3ears ' worth of ex periences since she left her home in New York on July 1 for a trip to the fairs and a side jaunt through the Yellowstone. Tells of Experience. Wearing a Lady Guernsev hat trimmed trim-med with the fetching white monkey fur. Miss Krieghoff told of her experiences experi-ences in Yellowstone and on the coast. She said: I left m York on the first of Julv and jounced comfortably on a Pullman scat until we-- reached the park. We all piled into a stage and listened respectfully while the stage coach explainer told us that the bears wouldn't think of biting and that the geysers were always hot enough to boil cold storage eggs. We lurched around a bend and all made silly remarks about the landscape. Suddenly a man jumped out from the brush by the side of the road and made our driver stop. Confesses Excitement. r was so excited that I threw my sun glasses into the bag. He told me to ''come through' with moi:ey, and so 1 threw my vanitv nse at him. 1 was so frightened that 1 sair! "Excuse me." After he had scared us almost to death and tni;;?n ail our money he ran backward for a few feet and then disappeared. ''What about being arrested as a German spy ? ' ' Miss Krieghoff was asUrd. the replied. Do you know J have always been proud of being a German, but when 1 cot to Vancouver I did a verv i'oo!ir.h thing. 1 told every ho d y that my ramc was Chester and f even registered "Chester" at the hotel. The next day a letter came from Now York addressed to Miss Alma Krihcff, and it was posted on tiie bulletin board. T saw it and told the cierk that it was mine. He looked at the register and asked me why I registered as Chester. 1 j was cro-s to him ami just walked ' away -vyithont answering. I went ! to my room. In a few minutes a man. who said he was the house detective, came up. Sticks to First Story. He asked me a lot of questions about where I came from and whether or not my name was Chester. I told him it most cer- tainlv was. Then he went away. j In about an hour a man came bark i with him and said that he was : from the consulate. He too rpips-tionM rpips-tionM me and said that unless T could explain my dual identitv he would plae1 me under arrest. I broke down and cried and told him that T had changed my name to avoid the annoyance of nagging Britifh pettv officers. |