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Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08

on their persons and with no possible
chance of relief until the following
summer.
Fortunately for us. there were a
few Indians living along the coast who
assisted us in obtaining shelter and
divided with us the small amount of
food, consisting of walrus and seal
meat, that they had been able to Sc
cure during the summer months. This
meat, although limited in quantity and
eaten raw, as there was no fuel in the
vicinity, enabled us to exist during
a period of nearly six months, at which
time we were rescued by a whale ship
and placed on board a revenue cutter
and returned to Mare island navy yard,
where many of the crew, seriously af-
hicted with the scurVy, which had
placed in the hospital.
Rewarded Indians
Congress rewarded the Indians who
assisted us to the best of their ability,
by sending them food and weapons to
assist them in securing food also the
owners of the whale ship that rescued
us, but up to the present time congress
has never recognized in any manner the
services of the men who, by respond
ing to the call for volunteers to hunt
for their lost brothers, sacrificed some
of them their lives and many OF them
their health, as many of them died
within short time after their return
to civilization.
''I am one of the ten survivors of the
Rodgers expedition, and with the
others l am endeavoring to have bill
passed by congress placing us on the
retired list of the navy, which was the
recognition Of service given the sur
vivors of tho Greely expedition in the
army appropriation bill about four
years ago.
Congressman Knowland introduced
such a bill at the last session of con-
gress, and we hope that it will be ia
Vorably acted upon during the coming
Mr.. DeTracey left yesterday on his
way home. He will stop en- route at
Folsom. San Jose and
other points.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
TELLS OF TRIALS
Of EXPEDITION
SURVIVOR OF RELIEF SHIP
VISITS CITY
Is Trying to Have Government Place
Brave Volunteers of Steamer
Rodgers on Retired
Naval List

H. P. DeTracey, one of the ter
surviving members of the steamer
Rodgers, which in 1881 was sent tC
the Arctic regions to search for the
United States steamer Jeannette, man.
ned by naval officers and seamen, has
been in Los Angeles a few days on a
visit.
His home is in Vallejo, Cal, where he
has lived many years, but this is his
first trip to Southern California.
Mr.. DeTracey is fifty-seven years
old, but he looks ten years younger,
Notwithstanding the many months of
hardships in the frozen north while
connected with the Rodgers relief ex-
petition.
"This dinner is not much like those
had for six months OH the extreme
coast of Siberia" said
Mr. DeTracey yesterday while seated
in the dining room of the Hollenbeck
Then we had raw meat when we
could get it. and several times I went
six days without mouthful of food,
as did the others in the party, and
every man. woman and child in the
Indian village In which we lived for
six months after our vessel had been
destroyed by fire.
Sent by Congress
"In 1881 congress authorized an eX-
petition to be sent to the Arctic re-
glons to search for the Jeanette, man
ned by naval officers and seamen,
which had been sent ,on an exploring
expedition two years previously and
which had not been heard from since
the Arctic ocean; also two
American whale ships, the Yigilante
and Mount Wolaston, with their crews,
which had been caught in the ice and
drifted into the unknown. Volunteers
were called for and a suitable vessel
purchased and fitted out and named
and manned by the volunteers
that had been accepted as suitable for
the extremely hazardous services re-
luired of them.
after cruising in the Arctic ocean in
search of the lost vessel and their
crews until late in the fall. the Rod
gers was placed In winter quarters on
he northeast coast of Siberia, where
she was totally wrecked by fire on No
gember 80. 1881, leaving the ships COM
Dany entirely destitute OF food and
with exception of what was
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
CHINESE FIGHT TO
GET CHOP SUEY
~ Assoclated P-ess.

PENSACOLA, Fla. Oct. 7.--Because
the ships cook would not provide them
with chop suey ten Cinnamon compos-
ing the fire room crew Of the British
the Arragonia wharf, made desperate
fight for liberty last night.
They were finally clubbed into sub
mission.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
RUBBISH INCINERATION
PERPLEXING PROBLEM
ALEXANDER cREMAToRY MAY
BE USED

How is the destruction to be accom-
plished of the papers and other rubbish
which is collected from the retail and
wholesale districts? This is the ques-
tion being asked by garbage collectors
who have been told that the city is pre-
pared to incinerate only small part of
the amount collected and who have re-
Gently been refused the use of the
dumping grounds which they have been
in the habit of using.
Under the direction of the board of
public works the city is collecting and
destroying only garbage. The down
town district is being left to provide for
the destruction of its refuse as best it
can. The collections. are made by pri-
vate contract. Before the destruction
of the incinerator by fire last June most
of this litter found its way there and
was consumed. Now the board has
decided that the city cannot be ex-
pected to take care OF this rubbish.
The complaint is made that the refuse
blocks up the furnaces and is difficult
to incinerate.
AS a solution Of the problem one Of
the members OF the board of public
works suggests that the Alexander in
cinerator be used by the merchants.
1t Is asserted that Charles Alexander,
who formerly had the garbage contract.
Is in a position to solve the problem,
and an appeal may be made to him.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08

The Herald will pay $40 in cash 70
anyone furnishing evidence that Will
lead to the arrest and conviction Of any
person caught stealing copies OF The
Herald from the premises of our pa
irons THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
THE CITY

Strangers are invited to visit the ok
hibtt Of California products at the
Chamber OF Commerce building. on
streets. where free information will be
given on all subjects pertaining TO this
section.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
ARRESTS MEN ON SUSPICION
No Crimes Charged to Prisoners, but
Officers Believe the Men to Be
Responsible for offenses

Detective Walsh yesterday after
noon arrested Caleb Hariston. Walter
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08

Everything you want you win flnd IN
the classified page-a modern encyclo-
pedia. One cent word.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
septuaaensrian Traveller

Among the many members Of the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce
who went ON the excursion to San
Diego Saturday possibly few of the
party have lived longer in this city
than Louis Roeder, sr. Mr.. Roeder is
a pioneer and has been member of
the chamber of commerce since its
organization Although over 20 years
of age he enjoyed the excursion as
much as any of the younger excursion
lists.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08

Homeless cnildren received and placed
IN homes for adoption, Apply Rev o
society. s34 bradbury building, Los AM
geles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
Woman Falls from Car

"OHVdU Tdls IToUl CaE
Manuela Gonzales, a Mexican wo-
man living at Watts, fell from Long
Beach car last night as II rounded the
curve out Of the Pacific Ele 3tric depot
on Sixth street. Mrs. Gonzales struck
on her head and 1t was feared that
she sustained concussion of the brain,
as she was unconscious for several
minutes She soon recovered how
ever, and with her husband took the
neXt car for Watts
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
Our Ted Room

on the fourth foor-open
from 8 to IL for breakfast;
II to 2::30 for luncheon,
and until $50 in the after
noon.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
zoe Flannelettes
l5c

Time for fanne1ettes, yet
long before you began to
think Of them we were
buying the very best we
could get, and here they
are: Arno1d's bookfo1d
super6ne in fancy stripes,
japanese designs, polka
dots and tiny figures on
light and dark grounds;
splendid for long or short
kimonos and house gowns.
They're close limitations
of real wool and most
stores ask zoe for them.
Here they are at 15c yard.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
VENICE. CAL.

and his staff of celebrated Physicians,
Surgeons and Specialists at his
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
New Cotton
Comforts
Underpriced

II x 7S cotton comforts,
plain backs, figured silko-
line tops, S1.50 instead of
$1.85. In specially light
weight, $1.75 instead of
$2.25.
Our fall stocks of down
and wool comforts in
sateen and silk covers are
now complete. Prices IS
to $32. SO.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-08
Sterling
Lining Silks

3O-111ch FauItIeSS Inning
satin, guaranteed, all col
ors, $1.00 yard. 36-inch
Skinner's Sa tin all
shades, guaranteed, $1.5O
yard. 36-inch all silk
satins for Innings, $1.50 yd.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04
To FARM GREAT SWAMPS OF THE COUNTRY
Bic Government Drainage Projects Are Expected to
Reclaim Millions Of Acres of Land Enlarge
ment of the Old Homestead Idea.
nY GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL

+ lions of dollars to the farmers and
settlers, who would occupy these lands
in small tracts, to have a perfect
system of drainage provided. These
extensive systems, however, especial
ly where they are interstate, seem to
be feasible for handling only by the
government.
The Stevenson bill places the en-
tire management of the work in the
hands of the reclamation service, and
the plan of operation follows close
lv the irrigation work now being done
bv that branch of the interior depart
ment. Government lands, coded In
dian lands and private lands may be
included in any drainage project, but
in each case the cost of the drainage
improvement is to be borne by the
owner of the land and no settler can
have drainage provided for more than
100 acres, thus insuring the division
of the tracts into small farms which
must be actually settled upon and
titled.
Drainage Work Already in Progress
This work the reclamation service
is qualified to do at this very moment.
While primarily an engineering bu-
reau it has in all its great irrigation
nroiects to deal directly with the far
mer. 1t must outline a comprehen-
sive drainage system for each irriga-
tion nrOiect. since there is as much
DANGER from too much irrigation as
too little. and to do this the service
has it's own farm and soil experts.
Some of the irrigation projects have
distinctivelv drainage features; in fact,
GRO almost as much drainage as they
are irrigation projects. In the hla-
matb proiect 1876, 900 acres, or more
than half of the area of the total pro-
inct is rich tule land covered by
ei0ht or ten feet of water, and is to
be drained and converted into over a
tboneand farms. The topographic
branch of the geological survey, OF
which the reclamation service is also
branch. has already run its lines
over many of the great swamp areas
Of the eastern states, and as soon as
the Stevenson bill becomes a law the
Geological survey engineers will be
11eadv to launch out into immediate
ACTIVITY in drainage projects.
would Start With Million Dollars
The fund provided for the bill would
no small as compared with the irriga-
tion fnnd-it would approximate halt
million dollars year and would
Start off with about 81, 1000, 600, the re-
ceints from the sales for the fiscal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04
ACROSS A BURNING TREsTLE.
Dashed a SeabOard Air Line Passen-
GER Train Excitino Adventure

Dashed a Seaboard Air Line Passen-
ger Train. Exciting Adventure.
How a Seaboard Air Line train
made dash across a burning trestle
is graphically told by a passenger.
This exciting adventure took place
three miles out of Americas few days
ago.
The trestle was burning at pretty
lively rate, and the engineer, catching
sight of the fame and smoke, brought
the train to a standstill.
Superintendent Fl. B. Grimshaw was
aboard, and made a rapid inspection
of the burning trestle, as result of
which the engineer was directed to
make the dash across. The passen-
gers held their breath as the train was
put in motion for the supreme crisis,
and shot across through the smoke,
everything getting over safely save
that the far end of the trestle gave
away beneath the rear trucks of the
last car. The end CT this car was left
suspended in air.
If the train had reached the scene a
few minutes later and had had reck-
less engineer at the throttle the con-
sequences would have been horrible to
contemplate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04
The American Farmer.

To-day more than forty million
Americans live on almost six million
farms. One bread-winner in every
three is a farmer. But from the Mis-
souri, to the Pacific the population
averages only three persons to the
square mile. Disregarding the in
creasing yields that will be reaped
from the arabic lands by raising the
standards Of agriculture, the irrigs.-
ton projects now planned alone will
support an additional population OF
$4,000, 600 on land now called outcast.
The prairie settler and town builder,
as we have glimpsed him, is, therefore,
a passing phase, chapter in titanic
evolution whose goal is not yet in
sight.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04

The man who can provide homes for
Industrious and strong armed citizens
is benefactor to the race. If Repre-
Sentative Stevenson of Minnesota can
push his swamp reclamation measure
to enactment into law he will be de-
serving of the praise Of not only this
but future generations. His bill is a
practical extension of the old home
stead idea, or rather, perhaps, an APP
pIcation to the vast areas of our
vast swamp lands of the idea embod-
led in the national irrigation law.
There are in the neighborhood of
OOOOO,OOO acres of swamp lands in
the United States, some 70,000,000 of
which have been surveyed, and the
great bulk would make splendid farms
the excess of the water we're drained
] of.
The Stevenson bill provides for the
beginning of the work of reclamation
Vi these areas. The measure is franz
gu after the irrigation law; it pro-
Woes that the receipts from the sales
~ public lands in the non-irrigation
states shall constitute drainage"
luna to be expended by the govern
nVDt In great drainage works; and
lOT'ner, that the cost of such drain
a8e snail be pro rated among the land
o71e1ted and paid back by the set
F'VrS into the fund, " to be used over
'5".A for additional reclamation
work.
would Create Thousands of Homes.
Inns plan Of developing the internal
ssoorces Of the country and making
O1es OF waste places is splendid in
''oPe, and appears to be entirely
'acucaole and profitable. Take, for
-s'anee' the single example of the
"-lp lands of the Kankakee river
'''1 IN Indiana and Illinois. Here
r some 100000 acres of the very
..Iest OF bottom lands, but subject to
s'-o| They are worthless except
,'''V' ney have beenreclaimed through
penSlVe private drainage works,
DsD Ihey have become worth 800
:" 'I'0 an acre. Yet it is estimated
17 government surveyors and en-
-ssES that the entire system could
.sI,ETcuVely drained at a cost in the
.snoorhood of $40 an acre. The
oan De said of the Red river val
IN Minnesota. These include the
Ds 49, grain and farm lands in the
invest, except they are frequently
'1O"eo' 1t would be worth mill
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04

The doors of your skin are standing
open, and Our New Discovery, the
great germ destroyer, is standing at
the door ready at your command to
come in and help nature win the bat
tie. Should the poisonous waste be
prevented from passing off through
the doors, death would ensue in a
short time, and this is why skin diseas-
es are so dangerous.
skin diseases are the sign of inter
nal filth and diseased germs, which
the skin is doing its best to throw off
v VOL body, and the worst thing you
can do is to try to make it disappear
bv driving it up, driving it in, instead
Of taking Our New Discovery, nature 5
great guaranteed h 8 anu ge' II"
of it. Sold By J. b. KenorlcK'
ooo oO0 Japs suffer from famine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04
White People Looking Southwark.

If you wish to buy small or large
farm for general farming, truck or
early vegeta BILE farm, fruit land, dairy,
stock farm, or timber land, for manu-
featuring purposes, or if you wish to
work land on shares, or for cash rent,
with seed, implements and a reason
abb amount of cash advanced until
your crop is harvested, with privilege
of buying land on easy terms, in
Louisiana, Arkansas or Texas, the
section now being highly developed,
write the Gould System immigration
Bureau, 4O7 Carondelet Street, New
Orleans, La.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04

year 1905 being included-but on the
other hand the cost of drainage would
not be so great as that Of irrigation.
The Importance of this work of
wholesale drainage, in order to pro-
vide homes for increased population,
is scarcely second in importance to
the irrigation work. 1t means that
tens of millions of acres of the most
fertile land Imaginable, which has
lain idle for ages, may be converted
from dismal and pestilential swamps
and useless Dogs into highly prosper
Gus homes, to become the garden spots
of the nation.
The Dutch have reclaimed vast
areas in Holland from the encrOach-
ments of the ocean. Thousands of
families live and farm below the sea
level, gaining their security by mag
niticent feats of engineering and per-
sistence. They now contemplate the
drainage of the Zuyder Zee, reclaim
ing some l, $50, 900 additional acres of
meadow land. American drainage in
most cases would be far more simple
and less expensive; it is simply a
question as to whether the nation will
see the wisdom of setting its hand to
this work.
Another Inland Empire.
In Florida the Everglades alone
almost solid muck beds-wOuld afford
an empire of 1000, 900 acres; in New
Jersey and Virginia are vast swamps,
among them the famous Dismal
Swamp. In Illinois, which is gen
orally regarded as a we'll settled agri-
cultural state, there are 1900, 900 or
more acres of swamp land: in Mlchl-
gan there are nearly 5000, 900 acres.
Fertile Iowa has about 1000, 900 acres
of swamp land. In Minnesota there
are almost 5000, 900 acres of rich sur
viewed lands and huge areas not yet
surveyed. Arkansas has tremendous
swamp areas which could be drained
and made habitable, and in ali there
is a swamp area in the eastern half OF
the United States which is equal in ex-
tent to the great agricultural states of
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, with three
or four smaller eastern states thrown
in.
If the Stevenson bill demonstrates
that the government can transform
swamps into fertile farm land and
that the settler or owner will pay back
to the government the relatively small
cost of the improvement, there seems
to be no reason why this work OF Gre
alton of value out of worthless waste
should not 90 on indefinitely and pro-
vide homes for millions more of rural
population.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04
This May Interest You.

No one is immune from kidney
trouble, so just remember that Foley's
Kidney Cure will stop the irregulari-
ties and cure any case of kidney and
bladder trouble that is not beyond
the reach of medicine. Sold by Ken
bricks Drug Store, Dawson, Ca, and
Fl. A. Wall, Brorwood, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-04-04

From all expert accounts, the Geor-
ola peach crop is good for several
more deaths.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-02-16
Polo Ponies.

About year ago when Sam Ban
croft, station agent at Pegram, was
back IN New York City he met a
wealthy gentleman who is a great
lover of the game of polo, which is
played on horseback The gentle
man informed Mr.. Bancroft that
they had difficulty in securing the
kind of ponies required for that
purpose. He said that good polo
ponies sold there readily at prices
ranging from $500 to $1,000. Polo
players want ponies ranging from SO
to So inches. high and weighing
from 900 to 1000 pounds.
During the past season Mr.. Ban
r>Soft has purchased l5 head OF
ponies 1of that class and now hai
three men training them on rancf
at Pegram. The men have a book
of rules and explanations on pol'
and every afternoon they give the
! ponies a few s'stunts" on the game
The ponies are well ted and groome'
, and they are said TO be as pretty a
: pictures. Mr.. Bancroft will shi
e them to New York City about tn
Z 5th of next month, and he is conf
f dent that he will sell them at fame
: prices.
7 He also bought the Charlie Rol
!. son spotted burro and will ship
t with the ponies Mr.. Bancrot
d wrote the New York gentlema
II about the burro and he replied
J, ship it, without fail, as burros wei
y great curiosities there and it woul
ID sell at big price.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-02-16

$50 or 500 at maturity. A medium
weight horse possessing good quail
ity will sell for a better price than
heavy weight horse lacking good
quality. Heavy weight and good
quality in horses can be secured
only by careful breeding extending
over . number Of years. A breeder
who goes after size and weight and
disregards quality will fail.
s'The most valuable stations are
those that get the best colts. Show
prizes and breeding qualities are'two
very different things. Show prize
horses are sometimes poor breeders.
The test of the pudding Is the eat
ing of It, The farmer will End 1t
to his advantage to use the horse
that ne knows to be good breeder.
If the horse is good show animal
and a good breeder SO much the
better"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-02-16

issued, destroyed the sense Of the
article and left our readers Iii doubt
as to what we were really trying to
say. The omission was due to the
fact that we did not read proof on
the article. AS we stated last week,
the above named gentlemen are
large railroad contractors, and the
shipment of material to them at
Thaync, which is IN the section
through which the proposed Idaho
& Wyoming railroad will pass.
gives evidence to the report that
this line of road Will be constructed.
We have heard of no further devel-
opments in the matter since our last
issue.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-02-16
Vote of Thanks.

Al the regular meeting of the
Gem of the Mountain Club last Sat
urday, the members on accepting
the report of the committee IN
charge Of the Art EXHIBIT, resolved
to tender q vote of thanks to the
talent of the city who assisted go
materially in making it success;
to the worthy president, Mrs. Rose
To the members of the committee,
Miss Hughes, Mrs. Spidell, Mrs.
Blaine; and also to Messrs. Rost
and Wright for help at the hall.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-02-16
A Valentine Dance.

There will be Valentine dance
at the l.. D. s. hall tonight and
the Amusement Committee promises
All interesting time for all who at
tend. A postoffice will be estab-
iished in one corner of the hall from
which valentines will be given out
to all who are SO fortunate as to
secure them.
On FRIDAY night of next week q
character ball will be given at the
hall, at which prizes will be giver
to the best sustained gentleman ans
lady characters.