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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH plot 70 SPIED Gypsies ..IE -- r f Europe is found in vac. path germ MATERIALS SOLD f HUN COMMANDER CULLS RESERVES GERMANY FIGHTING TO SAVE FRUITS OF HER ONE GREAT OFFENSIVE OF YEAR. CINATION TO THE GOVERNMENT. heiUA Occur Among fen Cases of Lockjaw Found to Are Points and Civilians, No Cases Infected. Been Have Developed Among Soldiers. Stupendous Tank Drive of General, Byng Has Wrecked the Plan of the Teuton High Command to Rest in the West. nation-Aid- e Washington. A suspected to create German agents by plot in the national tetanus of an epidemic here Sunday. army was uncovered with matter discovered Vaccine points were the intetanus germs containing struments of the alleged plot. as the Tom- -, Bingo-BynLondon. mies call him, now Is slipping ahead.! Less than two and a half miles nowl separates his army from Cambrai. The big British guns have begun th bombardment of Cambual itself. That town Is a surging sea of Teuton reserves, coming to save the day for the Teutons defeated. Germans Are Desperate. tank-swerags In the of the Hindenburg line, Germany is fighting to save the fruits of her on! great offensive of the year on which, she had staked all. From every part of the western front Ilidnenburg is drawing every available handful of reinforcements to restore the line that bore his name, the line that was to hold until Russia and Italy are disposed g, As a result the National company of this city, which Vaccine had first warning of the situation, attempted to recall 500.000 points which, it had shipped broadcast over the country, and at least 200,000 of which had gone to the war department for use in the national army. Thousands of these points had already been used in the national army, but so far no tetanus cases have been reported. Of the others, ten tetanus cases came the attention of the company which the points. Investbeen has begun by the departigation ment of justice. As a result of the tampering with the points other companies have been Vacnotified to inspect their points. cination has been suspended throughout the country pending such investito Immediately recalled gation. How the kaisers agents were able to develop their deadly plot is not yet known. Neither is the identity of the persons involved. Of the ten cases of tetanus reported among civilians, all were widely scattered. There were two in Memphis, two In Cincinnati and others in Florida and Michigan. BUMPER CROP IN SIGHT. Products Except Wheat and Few Cereals Will Go Above Average. Washington. Bumper world crops of corn, oats, potatoes, rice, .sugar beets and tobacco for this year by estimates of the international institute of agriculture at Rome, made public by the department of agriculture. Wheat, rye, barley and flaxseed, however, have fallen below the average of production from 1911 to 1915. The production of wheat in seventeen countries, not including the central powers, will be 1,868,000,000 bushels, 85.6 per cent of the average. Corn raised will amount to bushels, which is 41.1 per cent greater than the average production for the last five years. Other crops are estimated as follows: Rye, 147,000,000 bushels; per cent average, 92.2. Barley, 587,000,000 bushels ; per cent ' average, 96. Oats, 2,682,000,000 bushels ; per cent average, 113.9. Rice, 70,000,000 bushels ; per cent avAll aca-sho- five-ye-ar five-ye- ar 3,312,-000,00- 0 erage, 115.3. Flaxseed, 38,000,000 cent average, 69.8. Potatoes,-719,000,0- 00 bushels ; per bushels; per cent average, 112.4. Sugar beets, 110,000,000 short tons; per cent average, 106.6. Tobacco, 1,186,000,000 pounds; per cent average, 120.5. $ ' Youngest Admiral for Big Job. Washington. The youngest bureau chief and youngest admiral in the navy, ft'ederick R. Harris of the bureau of yards and docks, has been selected to succeed Admiral Washington L. Capps as general manager of the emergency fleet corporation. He is 42 years old and came from civilian life into the navy in 1903. Thief Runs Car Through Crowd. Salt Lake City. One woman is near death, four persons are severely injured and half a dozen others are nursing minor bruises as the result of an automobile thiefs mad dash into a crowd, supposedly protected by' a safety zone. The driver leaped from the seat of the car and escaped in the confusion that attended the crash. Naval Aviator Drowned. Washington. Herman Bose, an aviator attached to the naval station at Pensacola, Fla., was drowned Friday "'hen his machine became unmanag-abl- e and plunged into the bay, the navy department announced. Bose was Biding an exhibition flight before a test board. Auto Went Into River. Wash. Paul Lebow, a chauffeur, was killed and three army lieutenants from Camp Lewis were seriously injured when their automobile New o tire and skidded into the riverTacoma, - shell-rake- These mysterious people seemed to have foreknowledge of the coming of conflict for they made themselves scarce in the vast dan- ger DARIS. zone of Europe Where are the gypsies? have disappeared since How could they disappear from France, all frontiers being guarded? They did, replied the French official, smiling. Such was the result of my first inquiry, and such is the final word of a curious story. Editors in America asked me to discover what has become of the gypsies." The French foreign office sent me to the prefecture of p ilice, where I met M. Alfred Harduin, chief of the second bureau of the first division. ' ' ;i in' concentration , "Are the gypsles camps? I asked. Those belonging to enemy countries, yes, he answered, but almost none of them have any nationality; that is to say, their nationality could never be established. Such was the cause of the law of 1912. But hi. Harduin knows, officially, only Paris and environs, so he sent me to the ministry of the interior, department of the surete general, where I met the great Sebille, controleur-gen-era- l of the Judicial investigations services, whose eyes see over all France. The facts are the more curious," he admitted, because France was literally overrun with gypsies immediately before the war. Of forty thousand nomades on the lists of the interior thousand were Romanlchels twenty-si(Romanys or gypsies), and things had reached a point, in 1912, that France was obliged to make a special law to regulate them. Two rich and populous tribes, In particular, the Gorgans and the Yankos, seem to have made a 'considerable stir in the countryside with their fine horses, gorgeous house wagons, women, girls, bears, apes and a raft of children, dressing loud and living like princes. At Roisel, In the Somme, ran a Russian report, a tribe of gypsies (South Russia and Bohemia) molested the populations." They were rich and haughty. They wore brilliant clothing and ornaments Yet when a and had fine horses. French peasant would buy one of those horses his tail would come out, his glossy coat go ringwormed, his plumpsome teeth ness sink in, and even came out (says Farmer Cardon), being made of hardened bread crumb. As for gold (strange detail), they found a massive gold chain of ancient workmanship around the waist of the prince of the Gorgans, under his embroidered clothes, locked with a gold I padlock of which nobody had the key L.-I. "T. were On it engraved, and no explanation could be obtained. The prince said simply, Its a He carried a rich, family heirloom. cruel whip of rawhide, supple oiled leather and small lead thongs, more like a weapon than a whip, jeweled in its handle to the tune of some $6,000, estimated. Finally, among his personAmeral belongings were ican gold dollars of 1853 How could the gypsies get away I Insisted, when the war broke out? when all frontier authorities were on the lookout for enemy subjects and spies?" Instead of making a discourse the controlleur-genera- l told me a case of some time before the mobilization. A strong band of gypsies families) had penetrated from Frunze to Switzerland and, at x . sixty-seve- n 1 (Kakaras-ca-Kralovltc- h Moelleusullaz, were thrust back by the Swiss frontier guards. They asked to try Germany. We have papers from the German authorities at Berne to enter Germany, they said, because we are Germans. And, in fact, they produced such papers. Twenty days they remained on the frontier. Germany refused to receive them; but (on account of those papers) France gave them permission to try again, via Belfort and certain roads of the Doubs. "At Salins we photographed and measured them, said M. Sebille, and we tried to learn something of their families. They had as many names and nationalities as you please, a'nd papers, too (at need), more than you would imagine. Their old gypsy queen, eighty-fivyears old, called the Boule, or Mother Kakarasca, seemed to preside over ten families of other names, the Reinhardts, Heints, Gorman, Laga, Schernots, Meyers, etc. Emile Scher-not- s had a German workingmans book in the name of Kralovitch, a Bohemian ! on the 'Alsatian: fronAt tier, eight German gendarmes with You cannot enpointed rifles said : ter go For three weeks they camped ouftslde Belfort, supported by the French government being under arrest. Later they sojourned at Suarce (still at the expense of France), where to enthey claimed to know ter Germany, and asked to be allowed to break up and get through, wagon by wagon. The French let them go. And, now, look in spite of German frontier organization, they all actually got through into Germany Before mobilization there was so much complaint against them that a special law had to be made to regulate them. The law of 1912 had scarcely got to working when the war broke out and all complaints against the gyp: sies ceased! ' How? Why? The complaints stopped. That is all. The law of 1912 gave to the head of each gypsy family a formidable booklet, full of blanks to be filled up by mayors of each town or commune where they stopped and a number. This family number (printed on each blank) was repeated in white enamel on handsome black sheet-iroplates, as many as each band had wagons. Gift of the French government. They must be attached to the tailboard of each wagon, so that countryside gendarmes might jot them down, running, though the band be in flight! It was a beautiful system. It will make a good foundation, again, after the . e IJetIt-Crol- 1 by-roa- 1 : n war ... Often (It Is repeated) they were grand, in their way. They would sell fine horses to French peasants, cheap, horses which gave complete satisfaction. The Coesre, or prince, would order their copper utensils and kitchen wear to be repaired by his artisans for a trifling sum j and the work would be well done. They gave amusing shows, with trained bears and great apes and Their women, telling dancing girls. fortunes, bamboozled countryVvvives. Yet the same band, in another commune, would obtain all they needed by threats of fires; and small municipalities would buy them off, In considerable sums, to take themselves elsewhere. Then the war broke out and It all ceased. "None arrived at the Salntes-Marleon May 25 last, volunteered a minor A striking indication. police official. It Is, perhaps, the strangest detail of the story. Every five years (though you did not know It) the chief gypsies of - America sailed back to Europe before the war. Together with the gypsies of Syria, the Danube, Germany, Italy, Spain and all the world, they assembled outside a long fishing village s, pt d, in South France, on the Mediterof. ranean. While Hindenburg was in the act of There they chose the gypsy king. disposing of Italy, following his sudWhy there? Because a servant womBingo-Byn- g den smash on the Isonzo, an of Judea, In the days of our Lord his tanks came along and and Jesus lived the last years of her life the Hindenburg surprise in this French fishing village and became the patron saint of all the gyp- and now the Teutons are between this devil in the west and the unfinished sies. Italian job in Venetia. To draw reAlone, among the lagoons, with the serves from the Piave or Trentino antique village grown round It, rises enterthe venerable edifice which has exist- fronts would spell doom to the Bned the threat by there, prise already ed, in some form, since the dawn of It Italian resistance. Good of old King Rene Christianity. Provence gave It its present aspect in is a question of leaving the west front to take care or itself. 1443. German Troops Summoned. two and legend tell how of , History So from Verdun, from the Chamthe Marys of the Gospels were cast on .this shore by a tempest. The Gentiles pagne, from the Aisne, from Flanders, of Antioch had put them in a boat with- Hindenburg Is drawing troops, troops out sail or oars. They were women and more troops, perilously thinning who had wept at the foot of the cross his fronts in thosq sectors, in any of and visited the tomb and found the which Petain or Haig may strike a Lord had risen. Mary Salome and blow at any hour. That stupendous tank drive of GenMary the mother of James lived on this eral Byngs and Its dogged continuaspot with their Egyptian servant, wlro was wrecked with them and whose tion have wrecked the fond plan of the name was Sarah. Here they built the Teutoii high command to rest in. the church, died and were buried in it. west this winter and when spring cam And because of Sarah (she who be- to throw the huge came the gypsies patron), these sands, forces from Italy and Russia against armies. each year, and greatly every fifth year, the There will be no rest this winter, were strangely peopled. Over the roads came processions of is the message which Byngs men and bizarre vehicles, prehistoric stage guns are delivering every hour of the coaches, prairie schooners, gypsy vans day and night. It looks more and more and rich house wagons mounted and as if the Armageddon is to be fought surrounded by a dusky people. Some iu the snow somewhere between the had dragged for months, and some for North sea and the Vosges. years Three times May has slipped round RUSS REPUDIATES BOLSHEVIK!. since the war, said a minor official, and no gypsies have appeared at the Ambassador to United States Will Not Recognize New Leaders. Sts. Maries. In May, 1914, there were Boris Bakhmeteff, Washington. three thousand in the Russian ambassador to the United camp, while the Gitanos were less States, has formally repudiated the numerous but richer. Without quar- Bolshevik! government in Petrograd and announced that he would recogreling they met in not very good friendship, the Germanos being jealous of nize no control that seeks to break from the entente and make peace with the Gitanos newer, finer wagons. Was there any truth In the rumor, Germany. At the same time it was announced I asked, "that the Gitanos had made a find of some great treasure about that three of the ambassadors chief eight years ago, which all the gypsies aids have resigned to avoid having had been seeking for three hundred further relations with the. Bolshevikl and that similar action would be taken years? The French official professed Igno- by the leading naval and military memrance. bers of the Russian commission, who Did they really elect a king? came to this country with Mr. BakhThey elect a queen, said M. Se- meteff and who since have been tembille. Local opinion judges the elec- porarily attached to the embassy. tion to be a kind of play, as on Holy IDAHO CATTLEMAN KILLED Innocents Day ok. Twelfth Night . . . but as no order was given to penetrate to the crypt, of which the Romanich-el-s Runaway Engine Smashes Into Stock Train Caboose. are very jealous, exactly what hap. . . There is Granger, Wyo. H. L. McCaw, catpens is not known. no complaint. The pilgrimage amuses tleman of Filer, Idaho, was killed, two the peasants and brings sightseers and were seriously injured and eight others money. The crypt Is turned over to painfully hurt when a runaway switch the gypsies on the night of May engine crashed into a sheep train at What can we know? When the Donovan, a small siding on the Oregon chiefs go down the winding stairs to Short Line near he?e. the subterranean arched hall, what The engine, in charge of Engineer signs from Memphis and Thebes do Edward Curran and Fireman E. G. they mark on the wall? What sudden Gove, had been switching in the yards gleam of light (perhaps) joins the scat- at Granger when it Suddenly got betered descendants of the magnificent, yond their control. accursed race which pretends to know H. L. McCaw was killed outright. the future of the world? W. D. McFarlane of Emmett, Idaho, Not so united as all that . . and John Bloocli of Bancroft, Idaho, murmured an official. were seriuosly hurt. I do not bring the controleur-genera- l L. W. Dasmutch, Lewiston, Idahcffc, Into this romantic part of it. But I R. N. Coolson, M. Whitworth, K. Hatch have come across queer mentions of and George Ashton of Bancroft, Idaho ; The Song of Pharaoh, which they A. E. Kelley and R. H. Howell of Chessing down in the crypt, the reading of terfield, Idaho, and M. Roberts of Coke-villthe gypsy gospel, and the oldest magWyo., suffered minor injuries. ician who, each time, "foretells the future of the world for the next five Spaniard Denounces Germans. years." Madrid. Count Roman Did he foretell It in May, 1914? ones, responding to a toast at a banI suggested. quet tendered to him by the liberty One of the French officials equivo- party, declared in the presence of a cated politely. thousand guests that Spain ought to "They got away from the war, he associate herself with the entente alsaid. The gypsies disappeared P lies against Germany. His remarks Most people will tell you they went to were loudly applauded. Spain. . ever-stiffeni- Austro-Germa- n French-British-Americ- German-Aus-trian-Danubi- 24-2- e, er 1 |