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NEWEST BULLET.
Claimed It Pierces the Thickest
Kind of Armor.
LEAD COVERING DOES IT.
Fired From Regulation Army Rifle, It
Will Penetrate Three -Quarter Inch
Steel Plat* and Other Object* Beyond.
Could Go Through Thirty Man In
Row.
New York. —A new bullet, capable of
piercing armor as thick as that which
coTers the famous British "tanks" or
that used In making trenches on the
3*mme bomb aud bullet proof, has
been Invented and tested by the ord
■anee corps of the United States
■rmy. The bullet Is of only 30 cali
ber; but, fired from the regulation
army rifle, it will penetrate a three
quarter inch steel plate and other ob
jects beyond.
It is said that the bullet would be
able to pierce from twenty to thirty
men in a row. It has been tested
severely at the Sandy Hook proving
■BiaADIEB GENERAL OHOZIF.R, CHIEF OF
OBDNANCH, U. S. A.
grounds by the ordnance corps, and
the statements published concerning
Its efficacy are the results of actual
trials.
It has taken many months of ex
perimenting to develop the bullet,
which is exactly like the ordinary bul
let In appearance, but has an outside
covering of lead around the armor
piercing center of steel. This lead
casing acts as a lubricant in passing
the bullet through the steel and is
ripped from the steel core as the bul
let passes through a solid obstruction.
Only a small number of the bullets
hare been manufactured, and these
were made entirely in government
•hops. Fifty ordnance and engineer
corps officers were present when
these were used in the first tests. A
three-quarter inch steel plate about
forty feet long and twelve feet wide
was erected, and behind It were fixed
six silhouette targets in the semblance
of a soldier.
A detail of men from the coast artil
lery and ordnance corps did the firing.
The bullets would not pierce the steel
at 100 yards. At fifty, however, they
riddled the steel plate and the sil
houette targets behind it.
It is not believed that the new bul
let will be valuable or necessary In
ordinary infantry engagements in the
open. Its worth is said to He princi
pally in attacks on houses, steel shel
ters and other obstructions behind
which enemy troops are concealed.
Tests have been made to demonstrate
that the bullets can be fired from a
machine gun as well as a rifle.
SAW SIXTEEN BEARS.
Smith Killed and Got the Hide, of Four
of Them.
Wenatchee, Wash. — The best bear
story of the season comes from Mer
rltt, and H. B. Smith Is the hero.
Smith one day the other week shot a
bear 200 yards off, wounding It In a
foreleg. The wounded animal came
dashing down toward him and when
.wJthXn^lOO feet was brought down
with an accurately'aliriW^uW^hiKment
the heart.
Hardly bad Smith fired the second
■hot, according to the story, when a
second black one poked its head over
• log near by. One shot finished It.
Then bears began to jump all around.
Smith began a fusilade. He emerged
with four pelts. Smith said be saw
sixteen bears In all.
Electric Shock at Organ,
Woodland, Cal.— While playing the
organ at the Catholic church during
services Byron I>err received an elec
tric shock that rendered him uncon
scious. His bead had come In contact
with the switch operating the motor
\vhl( h supplies the air for the pipes.
Derr quickly recovered without the
congregation knowing of the incident
CHINA FINDS IT HARD
TO DISBAND ITS ARMY
Soldier* Lov* Their Job, and If Not
Paid They Loot.
Peking.—China's toughest problem
now Is how to disband the army raised
during the revolution. The government,
hard pressed for money, will have to
raise at least $30,000,000 to pay off the
800,000 men under arms, aud unpaid
soldiers are always a menace In China.
Coolies regard military service as a
very desirable occupation. Once en
listed it la difficult to persuade them to
retire. They riot and become extreme
ly troublesome if an attempt be made
to disband them without liberal pay
ment. The commanding officers are
frequently as mercenary as the sol
diers. When the government falls to
give Its soldiers what they regard as
adequate pay the troops frequently be
come bandits aud loot.
Each province has Its own military
governor uiid a distinct military organ
ization, presumably undor control of
the Peking authorities, but actually In
dependent lv most cases. Consequent
ly the I'eklug government is forced to
deal very diplomatically with the mili
tary organizations In the provinces,
particularly in the remote provinces.
HARVARD MAN FOILS
SUN WITH INVENTION
Presses a Button In Bed and the
Window Shade Goes Down
as if by Magic.
Cambridge, Macs. — Every morning
at 7 o'clock Henry R. Guild of Boston,
a Harvard senior, rolls over In bed.
Seven o'clock is H>o early for a senior
to (jet up, so Mr. Guild presses a but
ton and the shade at the distant end
of his chamber rolls down as If by
magic.
No rising sun Is going to make him
leave his bed unseasonably. Some
morning be may miss a four alarm
flre by pressing thf button, but he's
willing to take the chnnre, ho nssorts.
Getting up at 7 a. m. Is a hlprh crlmo
at Harvard, the same as admitting
Yale has a good football team this
year.
Henry Guild framed up a motor, at
tached to the curtain string and laid
wires to bU bedside. When the sua
throws its rays into his bedroom every
morning, weather permitting, be
presses a button and the curtain flops
faster than in a vaudeville theater.
Mr. Guild's next Invention probably
will be a trap door to throw tiresome
professors into the cellar by means of
a button that an;,- student can press.
Life's attendant inconveniences aren't
going to bother him while electricity
can do the work.
FIREMAN SAVES BABY.
Climbed on Pilot of Locomotive, Lifted
Infant From Track.
La Crosse, Wls.— Coon valley resi
dents are talking of applying for a
Carnegie medal for Fireman Peter
Hensgcn of the La Crorse and South
eastern. He was In a freight engine
cab when he saw v child in the dis
tance on the track.
It was down grade and the brakes
were slow to grip. Heuspen climbed
out along the footboard to the pilot,
grasped a rod and leaned down.
He grabbed the sleeping child with
his free hand and lifted her from the
track. The child was the little daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jacobson.
She had wandered away in the after
noon and lay down tired between the
rails and went to sleep.
NEW DIMES IN CIRCULATION.
$180,000 Worth of Coins Distributed by
the Philadelphia Mint.
Philadelphia. —The new ten cent
pieces which have been coined in large
quantities at the Philadelphia mint
were recently put into circulation for
the first time, about $180,000 worth be
ing distributed to banks and trust com
panies. They were Introduced simul
taneously In the western states from
the Denver mint.
The obverse side of the new dime
shows a head of Liberty In profile,
while the reverse side shows a bundle
of rods In the center and the protrud
ing battleax, symbols of unity. Sur
rounding the central design is an olive
wreath, denoting peace.
Tho new coins lire expected to be iv
general circulation with!n a few dayß.
Child Escapes Coyote.
Bend, Ore.—Attracted to the door
yard by an unusual noise being made
by her flock of turkeys, Mrs. Thomas
Merchant, living east of Bend, found a
coyote -runatiig U)V(.aq}J)er little girl,
who was playing in the yardTTfie anl-'
mat was frothing at the mouth and I
belleved to have been rabid. Mrs. Mer
chant had Just time to snatch her
daughter up and return to the house
before the coyote reached the spot
where the little girl was at play.
Ants Kill 8.c..
Oakland, Cal.—Dr. J. H. Callcn, who
bad two hives of bees, much alive, on
his Fruitvale avenue property. Is now
occupied In cleaning out two hives of
dead bees, victims of an unsuccessful
Ver-lun defense against a horde of ma
rauding ants. The evidence shows that
the ants attacked In solid mass forma
tion, carrying the bees' first, second
and third line of trenches and then at
tacking the entrances to the hives.
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ASLEEP, NOT DEAD.
Printer Woke Up In Time to Dodge the
Coroner and Undertaker.
Mount ricasiiiit. N. V. — Harry
Daugherty, a piinter, wns dead to all
Intents and purposes the other evening.
The members of the household where
he lived so reported (o nu undertaker
and the coroner. The coroner Immedi
ately notified the man's parents of bis
death and asked the relatives If they
wanted an Investigation made.
When the coroner and the under
taker, carrying a dead basket between
them, opened the gate leading into the
yard they met Dougherty, hale and
hearty, going to work.
Exhausted from a long day's work,
Daugherty had lulu down on the bed
for a nap when another member of the
household, seeing him, became fright
ened and, thinking him dead, notified
the authorities.
OPERATES ON RIGID JAWS.
Surgeon Uses a Cushion of Fat to Make
Them Work.
Philadelphia.—A patient whose Jaws
had been rigid for twenty years, who
had never learned to talk and who
had been obliged to obtain all his
nourishment through a tube, was the
subject of one of the many operations
performed at the various clinics here
ns part of the activities of the clinical
congress of surgeons of North Amer
ica.
The joints of the patient's Jaws had
hardened after an attack of scarlet
fever when he was only a year old.
Dr. W. Wayne Babcock laid open the
stiffened Joints, scraped away a hard
bony substance which was found cov
ering them and inserted a cushion of
fat taken from another part of the
man's body.
AUTO AIDS GUNNERS.
Makes Adirondacka Accessible For
Week End Trip*.
Utica, N. Y.—ln most sections of the
Adlrondaeks game is plentiful. More
and more earu year the automobile is
being used by gunners, particularly
those who live In the titles and towns
near the forests.
Thousands* of hunters are going Into
the woods for week end trips, and ma
chines are also used for the purpose of
taking the hunters from one good
ground to another. This of course re
lates to small guns, and it is surpris
ing how inuiiy good places can be cov
ered by this method of gunning.
The new law prohibits any gunning
from an automobile, but the machine
uf!**M>s-'N»e«^»vnennost recesses of the
forests accessible to the gunner who
has it car.
FLY SAVES BOYS LIFE.
Accidentally Discharged Bullet Only
Hurt Hi* Arm.
La Crosse, Wls.— A fly saved the life
of Carl Kaeppler, thirteen years old,
while be was hunting In the vicinity of
Swift creek with William Stelllck.
fifteen years old.
Carl felt something Irritating his fore
head and raised his arm to brush the
fly aside. At the same Instant Stelli-1;.
who was only a few pace! distant, ac
cidentally discharged a rifle lie was
carry ing.
The bullet passed through, the flesh.v
part of young [Caepplev'u arm and, al
though most of its force was spent,
struck the buy In the head.
Physician! said he probably would
have been killed had not nil arm been
in the way of the bullet.
COYOTE ATTACKS AUTOIST.
After It Was Run Over It Wanted to
Bite the Driver.
Jtenn, Nov.—That a coyote that will
attack the front end of any automobile
traveling thirty miles an hour, allow
himself to be run over and then get up
and attack the driver of the car who
out of curiosity stopped to see what
damage was doi.e must be mad is the
opinion of P. Y. Gillson, who enjoyed
this experience on Lakeview hill, near
Carson, the other night.
The coyote was game, according to
Gillson, but was so badly cut up that It
was easily driven off with rocks before
it bit any one. Gillson was accompa
nied on the trip by County Commis
sioner Henrich.
COUNTRY SHORT OF PENNIES.
Mints Working Twenty-four Hours a
Day to Relieve the Conditions.
Washington. — What this country
needs today Is more pennies, snys the
treasury department. To that end the
Philadelphia and S (l n Francisco mints
are working twenty-four hours a day
and the Denver mint sixteen hours a
day turning them out.
A lot of reasons are given for the
shortage, the chief one being the in
creased use of the copper coins, with
every dealer In everything adding a
penny every now and then.
Baseball an Element In Will Fight.
New York. —When Ernest <}. Wocrz.
millionaire brewer, on Mis deathbed
ceased to ask Whether tl:e Giants won
or lost, Katherine Haas, employed in
the household, knew a "great change"
had come. She tesflticd in the $2,000.
000 will contest before Surrogate Co
halan. in New York,
Old Woman Starts Ranch.
Sail iih. Kan.—Mrs. Minerva Con
way, seventy yearn Old, lins gone to
New Mexico, where she will settle on
a cliiim under the rights of a civil war
veteran's widow. She takes .'l2O acres
adjoining a claim her son settled on
two years ago. She will make It a
stock ranch.
Love and a Ring.
The story of one woman's pride and
devotion comes out of a Jeweler's shop.
A young man bought an engagement
ring. Apparently he was an impecuni
ous young man. At any rate he ordered
an imperfect diamond. In less than a
week his fiancee called at the shop
alone.
"la this a flawless diamond?" she
asked. "I want an honest answer."
She got It.
"I thought so," she said. "Poor fel
low! I don't blame him. He did the
best he could. I don't care for myself,
but I have friends who are good Judges
of diamond!!, and it would nearly kill
me for them to timi out that be gave
me a cheap ring. Will you take thla
stone out and replace It with a first
class diamond? He will never know
the difference. I will pay the bill."
The substitution was effected, and
that young woman is now proudly
showing ber ring.—New York Time*.
OFFER BIG PRIZE
TO AID SOCIETIES
National Apple Show Will Give
$100 For Best Food Display.
One of the women's clubs or aid so
cieties of the Inland Empire Is to hare
its treasury enriched to the extent of
$100 as the result of a new competi
tion announced for the women's de
partment of the ninth National Apple
show to be held at Spokane November
20 to 25.
A ensh prize of $100 is offered for
the best, most attractive and most use
ful display of food products prepared
wholly or in part from apples and
entered by women's clubs or ladies'
aid societies from any place in the In
land Empire.
Enlarge Women's Department.
In the arrangements for this year's
apple show great stress Is being placed
uiK)n the women's department, the
trustees believing that the homemade
by-products of the apple offer an In
creasingly important outlet for the
marketing of the northwest's orchard
products.
Five hundred dollars in cash prizes
are to be awarded to the winners of
00 contests in this department. In
each contest there will be first, sec
ond and third prizes of $3, $2 and $1,
respectively. In addition, four larger
prizes will be given lhe winners in the
contest for groups of apple dishes num
bering from five to ten.
Everything Made of Apples.
These contests will Include pies and
practically every dish that can ba
made from apples, such as unflavored
apple marmalade, apple marmalade
spiced, untluvored crabapple jelly, un
fluvored preserved apple*, preserved
apples whole, unflavored apple butter,
apple butter spied, pickled apples
plain, pickled apple* spiced, apple
elder, apple vinegar, apple syrup, ap
ple honey, apple chutney, apple Jam.
apple relish, apple delight, clarified ap
ples, coddled apples, crabapple pickles,
preserved crabapples, appie and quince
preserves, canned apples, candled ap
ples, dried apples, mince meat, mock
mince meat, uiitlavored apple jelly, fla
vored apple jelly, apple and quince
Jelly, apple and mint jelly, spiced ap
pie Jelly, jelly by combining apples
with some other fruit, jelly or other
product made from apple cores and
skins, apple Jelly with novel and un
usual flavor.
A corps of expert rooks has been
engaged to give demonstrations of the
numerous wiiys In which apples can
lie used in the homo.
Rid Your Child of Worms
Thousands of children have worms
that sap their vitality^and make them
listless andlirritable. Kickapoo Worm
Killer kills and removes the worms and
has a tonic effect the system. Does
your child'eat spasmodically? Cry out
in sleep or grindjits teeth? These are
symptoms ofjfworms and you should
find relief for them at "once. Kickapoo
worm Killer is a pleasant remedy. At
your Druggist, 25c.
•ilovcmbcr 17 1916
PHYSICIANS AND DBNTUTS|
DR. w. u.uanKii
Physician and Surgeon £££_
Office—Commerclßl'.Bt., Opp. Echo Office
Leavenworth, Wash.
Calls answered Night or.Day
DR.:«. VI. HOXIIT
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Learenwortb, Wash.
DR. J. STILLSON JUDAN
Physician Mid SurgwM
Office In LeaTenworlh Hospital
Phones— lit; R*tl4*nM, 111
Offloe Hours—lo to 11 a.a». •■«. M ».»■
Sunday! by »»»ol»lm.at
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
W. F. wniTßn
lawyer
Commercial Bank
Building Wenatebe*
O. B. Hugbei J. A. Mm
Sam Sumner
■ 1 UK bra, Nuoinar* Adams
Attorney! at Law
Columbia Valley
Bank Bldg Wenatekea. Wnk.
Fred Kemp ». I«. ■•>•»
KBRIP * BIKBB
Lawyers
Wenatobe*. Wi*.
080. G. HANNAH
Lawyer
p"ouBb°Bld«. Wenatchee, Vaih.
Orollar« * OnIMM
Lawren
Offlee o»mmer«lal Bask MMU|
PkoneMl
Wenatcb** - - Wi»Mm«—
B. J. Williams A K.OarMs
WILI AMS A 6ORBIN
Attorney! at Law
Wenatohee ■ waskl»ft««
LEWIS J. NELSON
ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR AT LAW
Notary Public
Suite 1 Elliott Blook
Office Telephone U
Residence Telaykone l!
LIATIHWORTH, Will.
K. a. vox
Lawyer—Notary Public
Office. Eight St. adjoining W»al«r<i
Art Shop
Leavenworth, WMblntm
JOHN B. PORTER
Attorney at Law Notary Public
810 Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Office phone ISS6 Res. phone in*
Wenittchee Wash
4* KNIGHTS of PYTHIAS
<^J Meet the second aid fourth
■WtJT m^ Friday In the moith In
Con^MjS Firemen'! Hall. Harry
2l»!£>§£r Warner, <!.<).; A.R. Brown.
•"*XSeSS* X, of R. and B. VUlMng
brethren cordially lnTlta*
tk F. & A. M. —Zarthan
W\\ Lodge No. 148 meet*
%^f§Bg^^ every first *nd lhit{l
jfes»Ooy( Monday of each month
/ N^Bp/\ in Masonic Temple.
E. Mohler, W.M.; Dr.
K. G. McKeown, Secy.
I"* THE COMFORTABLE WAV. I
West Bound Departs
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Mo. 43, 3.50 p.m.
So. 3, 3:30 a.m.
East Bound Departs
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So. 4, 3:25 p.m.