| Show CHIEF GETS A CURIO n a Hello bile In iii Form or 01 Shell Wills A 11 On the tho desk deak In the oCco of Chief Chiet of ot Police Pol co Tom D Pitt reposes an nn interest Interesting las ing In In the tho form torm of a n brass shell known at ot a I 2 I pound C t or a I two pound l and six ounce shell ah I According to the story told loli Chief Pitt Pit by b u a I soldier hll r hit Iri the tho Fit Fifteenth Ff Infantry which recently returned from frol tho the Philippines tho the shell shel hues hiis a moat most interesting history An Art officer nt or tho the Fifteenth told toll Chief Pitt that tho the shell was a n rare ono one anil ani nn 1 that tow existed to today toan day an It Is I of Spanish h make mullo and ani was vas cap capable able of I great creat destruction H It I came from train froma traina a small gun un boat which with wih others othol Je n sunk In a n Inke lake near Minila A lone hoOd time before Dewe put the tho Span Spon Spanish ish lah fleet loel out of ot 11 at Manila tho the utilized ut I MIl the thus lake lale as a n point of ot rho Tho hotly body of water vater Is in only 13 18 miles from the Uio cont ott line lino Ino but has hns tin ni ele ale elevation of 2000 20 feet foet The Tue lake Inke Is 18 20 o miles milea mi eo long latin 1011 and 15 11 Ji mie mileS 4 Tho The transported to thu point by mule trains toms several small smal gunboats each of about M 0 0 feat In Iu length and III each one currying carrying two 01 or three email gnus gumuls throwing tho steel projectiles from the tho 26 shells The Tue boats E were worn but together on the tho lake lako und anti 11 1 tim the th guns puns were lined to 10 terrify the tho na nn natives natives tives Inhabiting the lw surrounding country hol Admiral Dewey Dowey cut cult tutu lw cabin calit at 01 Manila and also alHo sent pout pent tho the Spanish war warships Wll ships to 10 Jones locker tint tho Spanish officers in of the tho gull HUl boats bOltl on the tho smal Inke became terrified and led every Cen boat at tending sending tile the boats bUitH to the tho bottom bOlom however they tho coy cov elv orel eel them Mn the machinery suns guns with wih b tl lead A lucia holo WOK was WA chopped chappell In tho tIle bottom of ot each ech boat haat and alit nil all al wore were sunk stink This admit action on 01 the part of at the Spaniard ls wile was by b officers of t tho the Fifteenth I nut with the uio I of ot the hOlt wore wor located lo railed Il lie repaired and dail put In to h the tue U S The ill Ih tl use by navy nevy und lul acre w ro found ennuI to j hi In I it sooth good con eon ii tien and s tho I lie it taut ni then wn we WI also 1190 looi found to tn b bs In good huJe A 1 taw few were found slid and appropriated hy bt 11 time the Ono flu of tf the lie wad WU to 10 fi Ral Salt lt Lako by hy a f Soldier In the tha and win WI to Chief Pitt |
