Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-18

stores and return here She Will give
us enough fresh potatoes to last until
we arrive at our final destination al
San Francisco.
"The trip has demonstrated that the
Atlantic fleet can go to any part of the
world, If coal is provided. The rest
will be easy. I may say that all taken
together, the men and officers of the
fleet have not regarded the present
cruise in the same remarkable sense
that the general public has. With them
it merely has been a days work-noth-
ing more.
However, they are all graitfied at the
successful conclusion of the cruise tc
date. 1t merely confirms our expecta-
tions."
Much disappointment is expressed
throughout the fleet over the failure OF
the expedition to rescue the American
sailor, Jeffs, from Indefatigable island
The fleet passed within about forty
miles of the island, and the Yankton
was sent in to make the search. The
landing party from the tender searched
all habitable portions of the island for
two days. Remains of camp fires were
found in several parts, but no trace OF
the sailor was discovered.
In one place a razor was found with
Jeffs' initials on it. 1t is the belief OF
the men on the Yankton that the ma
rooned sailor has been rescued by some
passing vessel. Search was made fol
any possible place where the man could
have concealed himself before perish
ing, but it was without result. The
Yankton proceeded to Acapulco and is
expected to reach Magdalena the first
part of next week.
Target Practice
Target practice will occupy proba-
bly, three weeks. There will be no bat
tie practice, that being.held in the fall
of the year. Preliminary practice is
limited to two ships, the Kansas and
the Vermont, which have not yet fired
all of their guns In practice. All will
engage in record target practice. There
will be four ranges. and four ships fir
ing at a time. The RATS for the tar
gets were finished this afternoon and
were being towed out to the grounds to
the southeast of where the squadron is
anchored.
Yesterday and today three or four of
the ships, including the Georgia, Rhode
Island, Kansas and Vermont, were on
the range laying out the lines and an
choring buoys for the attachment of
the targets and for the guidance of the
ships. The frames of the targets were
towed out by a tug. The canvas COW
ering which forms the targets will be
put in place in the morning. The shoot
ing will then begin. 1t is likely that
the fleet will leave here between April
5 and TO- Stops will be made at San
Diego, Los Angeles ports, Santa Bar
bara and Santa Cruz.
At Los Angeles ports where the fleet
will be divided into divisions of four
ships each to be anchored off Long
Beach, San Pedro, Redondo and Ven
ice-Ocean Park, and Santa Monica, it
is not unlikely that the fleet will first
steam in single line formation up the
coast along the line of the various ports
and then divide. This would make a
splendid naval pageant, which might
be witnessed by the people of all of
those cities. Again, upon departure,
the fleet probably will form in single
column and sail north, repeating the
parade. Simultaneous salute. such as
was given in some of the South Ameri-
can ports, may be fired.
Magdalena Small
The little town of Magdalena has not
grown to any appreciable extent be-
cause of the fleets visit. 1t is about
the same size that 1t mas been Tor years
past. 1t consists of row of small one
and two-story whitewashed houses,
located on the northern shore of what
is known as Man-of-War cove.
The houses are back from the beach
some fifty feet and extend for perhaps
1000 wards along the shore. Mr.. Heney,
a cousin of Francis J. Heney, the as
sistant district attorney of San Fran
cisco, is the only white man in the
place. He has resided here for the past
eight years as local manager for COM
pany controlling 4,120000 acres of land
which fronts partially along the bay.
young woman, cousin of Mr.. Heney,
and her mother, reside with him. The
remainder of the population is entirely
Mexican.
There are normally about 115 persons
in the place. On the ranch horses and
cattle are raised. The cattle are killed
for local consumption. Water is the
great problem. Ordinarily it is brought
from many miles inland. and frequently
is furnished to Mr.. Heney by the war;
ships in the harbor. The ships convert
the salt water into fresh water and af-
ford an adequate supply.
On the day before the arrival of the
Atlantic fleet the steamer Curacao,
from La Paz landed thirty eight Mexi-
cans at Magdalena, and the question of
food and water for them was a serious
problem. Mr.. Heney solved it by Sc
curing a supply from the ships.
Governor Sanginez and his official
party are quartered at Mr.. Heney's s
residence, which is the most pretentious
Within the past two days two or
three new buildings of temporary