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Show 100.(15!) BUIIOKvEICS'" . CALLED . AN ARiViEB GUARD' Secretary Shaw's Iowa Foot Accidentally Causes Commotion Com-motion in Treasury Department, y:r WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Secretary Shaw, went, over to the Treasury department depart-ment to read some of his letters. He took, a friend from Iowa with him. The Secretary found one letter that Interested him. He leaned back in his chair to read it As he leaned back he threw one foot up on the corner of the desk. The friend from Iowa sat looking out of the, window. ' Half a minute after the Secretary put his foot on the desk an excited man with a big pistol In each hand burst Into the room. He looked around and pointed both pistols at the friend from Iowa. "Don't shoot!" yelled the Iowa man. as he put both hands high In the air. "What" shouted Mr. Shaw, kicking his chair over and making a wild lefep for the other side of the room. " What' s the matter?" Inquired the man with the pistols. "Is this man tryjng to rob you?" and he pointed suggestively with one of his pistols; "No! No!" shouted Mr. Shaw, from his vantage point on the other side of the room. "That's no robber. That's my friend. There's some mistake!; The Secretary was right. There was a mistake. When he put his foot on the desk he pressed a button that calls a watchman to his office In a hurry, and the watchman came In a hurry. Just as he was expected to. |