Show BUTTE MINER IS Is' KILLED WHILE KINGS KING'S SERVI t 1 Man Whose Fight With Jeffries Was Vas Fi Fia Proves Courage When He Faces Shells ani Bullets Was Fond of Adventure By J. J A. A R. R A lot 1st of good men have died in the trenches In Franca Fani I suppose it goes too that a a. lot of no count lobsters ba have havel 1 in the road when a bullet or shell was fighting for the rf way The people who live live far far away from the scene of tl death Ruf Rt riot th pass oil nil on v v. v the r rV V merits 1 T Tf of the ones who die t fj t U v v. v v a cm UIL LII an introduction to the thing I want to talk about It has bearing bearing bearing bear bear- ing on the story that has filtered through from France that Jack Munroe was killed In the trenches In northern France or Belgium The story goes gocs that Jack died like a 1 gentleman Anyhow Its It's pretty generally admitted that hes he's dead And so far tar there have been no ac account accounts ac- ac counts count from the front that Jack lack showed any trace of ot yellow ello when he received od tho the ticket that sent him be before before be- be fore oro his God Cod And he wasn't wor worrying any Wanted Trip Heres Here's a 0 letter he sent R. R Ed Edgren ren who wrote for tor THE TUB TELEGRAM I not long before he hp died Canadian Expeditionary Force ActIve e Service Jack Tack Munroe No 1769 Battalion p P. P P. P C. C L. L I. I Rest Dear Bob You Bob You will be surprised sur sur- to hear from me mc In this dismal land Jand of or rain snow mud and war You will sa say ay surely I didn't come here hera to stay when stay hen there are arc so many wild unconQuered unconquered unconquered lan lands in Canada But thA lift hull moose the bear the wS looked too easy tuny when the 1 German same samo running mj loose I TV was os man many beyo the frontiers of ot th the Cana la north when war broke but out heard the call Im I'm Im i s. Tomm now No Xo 1769 in 3 l were not many ahead of me didn't come here bec thought John Bull needed KB me isel 1 b heat beat at the Germans but r I rather dull along the front T Ti much sameness in running ii t rapids and chasing the m moose eA A other reason was wasl I 1 wanted anted to Kimy tf Ki my favorite collie Bobble Bobbie Burr Bun Buna Burra a little trip abroad S So here hue are While In England they r him in quarantine and I wagi as I wouldn't have him stay itay such mud as we had hd to star alar I J We Ye are not in Germany yet tt b we are on our wa way Praises Navy When hen wo left Canada mi ma thought John Bull BuI BulJ was Will stung the price he paid for his drei dm But nut John vaa waa nothing hut but sawing wood in dc de ly 11 earne earnest t and this was the me mel od 01 of his Ills sawing When 31 n Continued on pa page e 3 3 I. I JACK MUNROE Continued from sport page pac Canadian troops horses cannon and other war equipment In thirty six transports and antI troops came from flom the other side aide of or the earth eaith In four eighty transports with all the war equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment needed for that many men not a man or a boat was wis lost lost lost- just as ns if It it was wan in time of or peace When m my battalion passed through Canada we were wen given credit for tor being th the finest lot of oC men ever seen in those places Naturally we thought the tiring firing line lino for or us at on unto unco co and a n chance to live up to our rep But W we were v sent to ta Salisbury Plain In Instead Instead In- In stead tead and we were there a month before John knew we had arrived Then we v were moved tip rP p an old place called Winchester ster twelve t miles from Crom the sea and there he let us UR see all aU the wounded return and hear all the stories and I suppose wondered that we didn't faint taint He then gave gave- ui WI a n. better gun Kun un and a n long sharp bayonet and the practice In killing men necessity necessary In wartime wartime some some real effective work we never knew There are men here from all ends of at the earth many of ot them to fight just Juat for tor the excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment of ot the thing A few days day ago I passed our sentry Smiling Bill I said How would QuId you like liko South Clark Clarl street Street now Bill Z Id ld rather have second Forty street and Broadway said Bill Jack Leslie a a. Yankee soldier of ot otI I the Philippines also marched I with i i us ut us Uncle Sam ma may may- feel a ns n's as s proud of t us as J. J B B. We are arc all an fighting the great cause of ot civilization and andI I we must win The breed w will ill win I The ol old Bull Dog may pet get et a n few tew scratches at first but the longer longCr he fights the better hetter he gets England Engrand Eng Eng- land rand has a l million and n a halt half of ot otmen men training In England besides what she has here hrc at the front Well Veil old scout I wish you were with 1 me a few days day da just to see sec seethe the fun un Ju lust t now I J must say goodbye e I hear the bugle sounding soundIng sound- sound Ing fall C lI In in so fO I must out and keep kep m my place In line 1 Your our old pal JACK MUNROE That letter brin brings s us down to something some- some thing we do not as a arule rule like to dis- dis cuss CUM Was Vas Jack Munroe scared when he met Jeffries But suppose we do discuss it for tor a moment I have known great reat swimmers who would att attempt what appeared to the layman the Impossible to save a n I drowning person I r have known soldiers of ot fortune who v would dodge dodS' a fi flat fist t fight thc they were wert men who had I heard bullets and shells sing Courage is always tentative tentative tentative-or or rather relative The man who faces the i Ja raging aging sea might run at the first shriek of or a It shell Nobody knows why hy Jeffries beat heat Munroe At all events e Jack Munroe If Ir the newspaper accounts are true tiled died like a gentleman This Is I a mining country countr Jack Tack Munroe 1 was a miner Suppose we ne take It H for or granted that Jack was game and give three cheers for Cor him DO YOU KNOW KNOW- A flock of ot pigeons roosting on the town clock at Winsted Ins ted Conn caused It to ran run slow show Topeka Kan hotel keepers have gone sone on record as favoring ta fat tat men menas menas menas as guests on the ground that they are better natured than thin men |