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Show DANIELS SOLVES BLACKHAND NOTE Washington, March 14. "Black-hand" "Black-hand" desperadoes. It was thought for a time, were on the tracks of Secretary Secre-tary Daniels of the navy department, but navy officials today are chuckling over the matter. When th sei reiarv hurnc-d into bis j office late yesterday he found on his I desk a black hand epistle scrawled in red Ink and bearing the imprint of a smudgy palm and four fingers and thumb across the linos. The note rca d "Leave S 10,000 on the old stump. or you die " The secretary studied the ultimatum cloBely for a moment and then called in his secretary. "Were an: of my sons here-" ho inquired He has four. The secre-tarv secre-tarv acknowledged, that two of the boys had called and had made free use of their lather's office In his absence. ab-sence. "I thought so." said the secretary laughing The young rascals," he added, and plunged into the mass of papers oti his desk. |