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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-08
An Unknown Admirer.


August Lamp, who has made it diff
f1cult for the manufacturers of safeties
to find a market for their product in
Rock Island. has been swinging the
razor and pushing the hair mower in
| these parts for some years. He is d
quiet, capable. dignified craftsman. He
has saved his shekels and invested
them wisely. The result is that now
he could retire. if he cared to. and
could live comfortably on the returns
| from his holdings. But August likes
the exercise, Then welding the
shaver keeps his pitching arm in con-
dition. and that is something to him
August is not exactly bashful or shy.
but he has held himself noticeably
aloof from the fair sex during all these
years that he has been feathering his
nest. Doting mothers have in number
less instances set their cap for him as
desirable choice for their daughters,
but August has stood pat He has
| been tried by persuasion, salve and
f1attery. but he has stood the test
without a mark.
But he received a Christmas present
this year that has set his intimateS
thinking that all is not as he would
have them believe it is. The gift CON
sisted of miniature barber chair
with the workman standing over it re-
moving the adornment from the Gus
toner. Underneath the chair was
pretty little sentiment suggestive of
childhood the donor apparently being
one whom August thought great deal
of in the mud pie days
He bushes like a debutante when
you mention the present to him, and
you will observe that he is not
ashamed of it. either, and that it oc-
cupies a conspicuous place in his shop
in the Harper house block
His close friends would not be in
the least surprised any day now to get
invitations. They have about con-
cluded that August has begun to slip.
From GwendOIynne TO Pearl.
Dear Pal-Why, you poor child
You kEUw l am older than you and
feel that l should have the privilege
of talking plainly to you, Your
mother naturally ought to advise
you in matters of the heart, but il
strikes me that her favoritism towards
Dick is purely mercenary. You're the
grille who will have to live with him
if you marry him, remember. Then,
besides, Dick needs chaperon instead
of a wife. Him the head of a family
Perish the thought The first time
get close enough to him l am going II
step on his toes or kick him in the
ankle. Tom looks like man and acts
like one. OF course this business of
the financial question is to be con- |
sidered Tom is a producer. Dick is
not I'd be afraid to go out after dark |
with Dick I'd be afraid some one
would kidnap him-he is such a per-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-08

SIX Your Druggist a Free Peruna Almanac for 1910.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20
ON THE .AHTA\CM,

Wiley City growing. The first
child born in the city arriv ed
on the 14th, a son born to Mr.. and
Mrs. James Wiley.
The ranchers will begin cutting the
second crop of alfalfa this week.
The Ahtanum ladies' aid are to en-
joy trolley ride next week.
Mr.. Hiram II. Cole a veteran of the
civil war, showed his training and
courage of younger days. When
looking for a helpmeet he decided
that the best was not too good, and
at the place where many others had
failed he made bold, besieged and
took the citadel. Married at the All
tanum Congregational parsonage by
the pastor, Rev. owen Umstead, Mr..
Hiram H. Cole to Miss Lucinda Day,
of North Yakima.
Last week Luther Lindsay was
married to Miss Fanny Morken. This
aroused the old time spirit of the
youngsters and all the bells and pans,
horns and gongs and any other in
strument of noise and nerve torture
was employed to call out the newly
married about midnight. They had
two places to visit; tbs will account
for the lateness of the hour that
some arrived home. The noise was
successful They were introduced to
the bride.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20
TESTED AND PROVEN.
There is Heap of Soi&cc in Beng
Ablc 10 Depend Upon Il Well
Earned Reputation.

Form onths North Yakima readers
have seen the constant expression of
praise for Doan's Kidney Pills and
read about the good work they have
done in this locality. Not another
remedV ever produced such convinc-
ing proof of melt.
John Sells. 612 s. Second street.
North Yakima, WASH. says: "You
may continue to publish the state
ment | gave in praise of Doans Kid
ney Pills in 1907, for | still think
highly of this rem edy. When living
in Iowa, | suffered severely from Kid
ney complaint and could hardly at
tend to my work. To stOop. caused
sharp pains through my loins and at
times | could scarcely refrain from
crying aloud. No position | assumed
was comfortable and as my condition
steadily grew worse. ! became alarm
ed. Doan's Kidney Pills relieved
that attack and since moving here
] nave taken this remedy with the
best of results, procuring my supply
at F. l.. Janecks Drug Store. Doan's
Kidney Pills certainly live up to the
claims made for them"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20

until after election before diss .patinS
this vast public resource?
Timber Grahbcrs.
81 see that the timber grabbing In
terests are urging the election of 4
western Washington candidate to the
senate. | note, also, that all the
western Washington candidates are
in favor of dissipat.ng the forest re-
serves in the name of state conserva-
ton. AS | view it, this state seems
to have its hands full trying to con-
serve the resources it already has In
opposing federal conservation and ia
voring tate conservation both Wilson
and Burke are opposing Roosevelt
policies, are opposing President Taft
and are playing into the hands of the
special interests.
Warm Reception.
81 have just started out on my
tour of the state, but every place
have been I have been astonished
at the warmth of my reception. In
Tacoma last week | was very enthu-
siasticaly received. Here in Seattle
| have been besieged with callers
coming to assure me of their sup
port. AS most of them are strangers
to me, | cannot assume that this IL
in any degree personal to me, so
must attribute it to the principles l
have tried to represent, and to the
fights l engaged in in congress in my
efforts to further the cause of truly
representative government.
This fight is not a one summers
campaign. Whether | am elected or
defeated, it will go on, and it will go
on until it wins. Our opponents feel
the foundation of false public CONT
dence crumbling under them and be
tray by their desperate campaign
methods the desperation of their fail
ing cause. 1t is a fight of machine
politics backed by special interests
against progressive policies demanded
by an awakening public conscience.
This fight is the same throughout the
country. The machine forces defeat
ed the Roosevelt Hughes primary
election law in New York, and seek
to undermine the senatorial primary
law in Washington. And in New York
rs in Washington. the machine oper-
ates under the black hag of party
regularity, reading out of the party
all those who refuse to do it's bid
ding"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20


to give them up. Badger (who HAD
left the dead body OF Davidson), and
bunker, VINO had become separated
from Stlnes, craWled up the hill and
joined us. AS each man arrived we
ted nm cafefully with water and then
washed MS feet and made him go to
pea IN eNtemporized hunks when we
made from abandoned blankets which
we nad round
About midnight, when we were
trying To sleep we heard yell, which
we recognized as coming from Shines
We answered, ana, as the bonfire had
gone out, we 1T matches and thus
guided him into camp. He had made
the trip slowly and was not as eX-
hauSt"d as We had feared he would
be.
THE next morning our little party
started hack-nut over the lake. but
around it. once We found our road
tfrning into the troacherous mud,
which had caused our disaster of the
day before, and we promptly turned
back into the hlly country, making
a long detour, which eventually
brought us to a lone shack, where.
~ Yer iHutH SttItn we IbuHu II uIllh
fun of good water. This was after
we had travelled seven or eight miles
on empty stomachs N another day of
binding heat We found stove, and
by picking up coffee grains out of
the dust of the cabin. unearthing
lone potato and few beans. we made
as frugal a meal as | ever ate.
"Stines was not with us. He had
Jagged behind again, begging to be al
lowed to strike his own pace. He
had a canteen with him. and the last
we saw of him he was lying under a
sagebrush resting. A strange party in
an automobile picked him IN. and
after we had discerned the machine
and had waved franticaITy to its driv-
err we were also picked up.
after we had been taken back 10
our original destination on the west
ern shore of the lake. we set out the
next day to recover Davidson's body.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20
POLNDEXTER IN
STRAIGHT THLK
CTATEC BELIEFS

would have been proposed and would
probably have been adopted. The
house leaders refused to permit it's
amendment on the floor, and in this
| opposed them, as | have always op-
posed throttling Independent action
in congress
The men and the interests en-
gagged in the effort to turn over the
vast resources of Alaska to the
Guggenheims accuse me of opposing
the development of Alaska. 1t is the
Guggenhelms who are throttling the
development of Alaska. Alaska is be-
ing settled and deveIoped by the most
virile of American citizens. The one
hope and ambition they have in con-
nection with the territory is that it
shall be accorded self-government. I
favor self-government for the Alas
kans. The Guggenheims oppose it.
John L. Wilson oppose it. Judge
Burke opposes it. OF the support in
congress of the exploitation schemes
of the Guggenheims is regular, then
| am not regular, and 1 admit that
my opponents would be.
Tllrottling Alaska.
''In 1908 Roosevelt procured the
passage of a law making it easy to
patent coal claims in Alaska and to
combine these claims for purposes of
developments But that law forbade
the formation of Il coal trust and the
Guggenheims will not buy claims
granted under it. | favor that law
because l favor the development of
Alaska. The Guggenheims oppose It
because under it they cannot exploit
the resources of Alaska and charge
consumers three prices for Alaska
coal.
THE same interests now bitterly
assailng the administration of the
Alaska land laws are as warmly en-
dorsing the department which is ad-
m nistering them. If the laws arc
not properly administered they should
attack the department which is in
trusted with their administration.
The matter of issuing patents to the
Cunningham claims is now up to the
interior department. If the CLAWS
charges were false and the claimants
have complied with the law, why
doesn't the department patent the
claims? Can it be that a department
which boasts that it is administering
affairs according to law is waiting
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1s.-rhe
body of Charles Sprecher Davidson.
the young engineer who died of sun
stroke in the middle of the sun-dried
floor of BoraX lake in the Majave
desert last Thursday, was buried
there last Sunday, but there is little
reason why, with him, there should
not have been buried his six compan-
ions, who suffered the horrors of
heat and thirst in the binding alkali-
crystalizcd bottom of that 1reacher-
Gus sink.
one of the party, G. Herbert Mas
ters, constructing engineer of the Du
Pont de Nemous Powder company on
this coast, who was Davidson's col
lege friend and fraternity mate, and
who was one of the party of survey
ors who had this thrilling experience,
reached his Berkeley home yesterday
and the story he told of the suffering
of his companions indicate only too
wildly what a narrow escape the en-
tire party HAD.
The six men who accom- panied Da-
wilson on the Inflated expedition
through BoraX lake where Masters,
Norman shines. of 1884 Arch street.
Berkeley; David Bunker and Thomas
Graves, of 1927 Ridge road. Berke-
ley; Richard S. Bandger, of 1880 Eu-
cid avenue. Berkeley, and j. T.. Bray
and II. Lawrence, of Bakersfield, but
the two latter did not undergo any of
Tho privauons ~ the others. because
they We're at the time busted in taking
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20
ENGINEER DIES ON TRAMP
ACROSS THE LID Of HADES

of water on the other side at a
small mining settlement known as
Saltrange City. We took a lunch and
canteens of water, believing that, with
the Refreshments we would get on
return trip in the cool of the day
without any trouble. We had been
told, also, that we would find settlers
on the other side.
For the first two hours our trip
across the lake, which we made on
toot, we encountered no difficulty en-
Iept the constantly increasing heat
of the day. The floor of the lake was
not absolutely dry, and as we pro-
gressed we discovered the bottom
growing damper until at each step
we sank to our ankles in a sticky
white alkali mud The top of this
mud was crystalized, and 1t was so
hot that we felt it through our
shoes
Through the necessities of our
survey, our party was divided at the
outset. Five of us struck directly
across the lake, two others, shines
and Bunker, paralleling our course
visions and water. Those two men
lasted all that day without water, and
went that day and the next day until
noon without a mouthful of food.
After carrying the survey across
the lake, a d stance of approximately
two miles, Davidson complained of
the heat, suggesting that the survey
be given up for the day and all pos
sible effort made to reach the other
side of the lake, although the water
in the canteens was not exhausted.
To this we all agreed. Abandoning
the surveying instruments we set out
for the other side. 1t was then Il
O'Clock noon.
Davidson Greatest Sufferer.
1T was soon seen that Davidson
was the greatest sufferer from the
heat, but the deceiving effect of the
heat waves, arising from the lake,
seemed to indicate that, with the dls-
lance we had already gone, 1t was
better to push on to the other side
of the AXE. We supported Davidson
and encouraged him for possibly a
mile, taking frequent rests and using
the water sparingly
suddenly Davidson collapsed. sink
ing to his knees. We raised nm.
thinking that this was n temporary
weakness. But thu end had come.
For, as if he saw something ahead
Of him, he broke away from us. ran
fifty feet ahead and then fell Hat on
his face. When we reached him we
saw that all was over. He was laid
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20

SEATTLE, July 19.-"If the hired
claCkers of the resource-grabb bling
special interests and their stand-pat
senatorial candidates are getting any
consolation out of their efforts to read
me out of the republican party, they
are welcome to it," said Congressman
Miles PoindeXter this morning. MY
record will stand every test of party
regularity that the record of John L.
Wilson or Thomas Burke will stand,
unless it be the test of supporting
Speaker Cannon and the old house
oligarchy which was throttling indie
pendent action in congress and pig
controlling all progressive legislation
demanded by the people.
IF opposition to Cannon is a vio-
,ation of the rules of party regu-
larity. then l confess to being irregu-
lar; if support of the Aldrich oil
garchy in the senate is party regu-
larity, then l confess to a confidence
that Wilson will be regular in case
he is sent to the senate. Wilson has
frankly admitted as much. If the
people of Washington want the Oil
sarchy continued in power, they can
do no better than vote for Wilson in
the primary election.
Il notice that l am subjected to
newspaper attack because | voted
against the adoption of rule which
forbade amendments to the postal
savings bank bill. That bill should
have been amended in two important
particulars. 1t should have required
the establishment OF postal banks in
all postoffices instead of leaving their
establishment to executive discretion.
1t should have required the postoffice
authorities to keep the deposits in
local banks instead of permitting their
deposit with the big central banks. If
the law had been subject to amend
ment on the floor these amendments
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20

that las we saw the other side of the
lake. quivering always far ahead of
us, we gave up hope. Every one of
us suffered from delirium. We wept
when our last drop Of water went, and
questioned whether we would ever
pull ourselves out of that sink, and
we feared that we would leave our
skeletons to join the many we saw in
the course of our terrible journey.
II remember that we broke down
and cried like children. Shines, so
sure was he that we had reached the
finish, sat down and on tiny scrap
Of paper, wrote a farewell message to
his wife in Berkeley.
while we did what we could for
each other, we soon realized that
it was a case of the survival of the
tittest, and we made what ~ace we
could individually, one of us forging
ahead for a WHILE only to be passed
by the other-all making the best
speed we could for the other side,
where, as we had been led to believe.
water and human aid would be forth
coming.
Hot Desert Wind.
There was a strong hot desert
wind blowing with Tvs. and while this
was an aid, it caused several of the
party to lose their hats. / lost mine
and had to go half a mile out of NV
course in order to recover it. Shines
lost his hat. and made the rest of the
journey without it. How ne did it |
can't imagine.
1T doesn't look like a hard trip
only five or six miles-but anybody
who has gone through with ordeals
of the desert knows what those few
rests we conserved what strength we
had, although just to rest in this cald-
ron of heat was hardship great
enough to upset anybody.
II don't know how any one of us
staggered out of that lake. Graves
reached terra firma first. probably an
hour ahead of me. We learned after
ward that we We're the first human
beings who had ever crossed that
deadly bottom and lived.
when Graves reached the mining
settlement on the other side he sot
about looking for water. He found
a pipe line which led to dry resar-
voir. That discouraged him. and
when l arrived on the scene he gave
me the staggering intelligence that
the shacks We're deserted and that
our hope Of sucCor was vain.
couldn't believe this. Anyway. | set
ont looking for water. and, by study
ing the pipe and discovering a valve.
located pump and after that a well
Df va oh
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20

Mrs. S. Van Vliet has returned to
her home, North Third street. from
the hospital.
Mrs. Katherine Poyntz and daugh-
ter are taking a vacation of two
weeks in the upper Naches.
Charles Daudelin and Alfred Boz
win, contractors of Chicago have been
visiting in North Yakima and are
greatly pleased with the community.
A lumber yard is to be installed at
Zillah by the Cascade Lumber com
pany.
l.. \. Dash and family are camping
at Soda Springs.
L. G. Peck and family are camping
Mt Soda Springs.
\. Il. Boss has returned to Seattle
after It visit with relatives here.
H. Stanley Coffin and family have
removed to Pacific Beach for the
summer.
o. 5. Reed and Bert, George and
Newton Scott are on a two weeks
fishing trip into the little Naches
II. c. Lucas left North Yakima
Monday on trip to the sound.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Shardlow and
Miss Shardlow are to visit at Hoods
canal in British Columbia this sum
mer,
Prof. r. l.. Sallinger of Seattle is
to spend the summer with A. L.
Thomson of East Yakima avenue.
Miss Ruby Whitson has gone to
Namnl, Idaho, to visit Mrs. L. j.
Stiles, formerly Miss Mvra Hewlett of
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hatfield are
spending a couple of weeks at Seattle.
Miss Bess Spoon has returned to
North Yakima from vacation in
Colorado.
H. c. Clark of Mt. Morris, H.,
is in North Yakima visiting his son
II. r. Clark and inspecting his Mob
Hill property. a five acre fruit ranch
purchased some time ago. Mr.. Clark
is postmaster at Mt. Morris and is
serving his fourth term. He was
member of Co. Il, 37th regiment of
Massachusetts Infantry in the civil
war and is an ardent G. \. Il. man.
He is also considerable of A politi-
elan ana is greatly interested in The
Washington situation.
Another car has arrived for the
street railway company and is to be
used as a seeing Yakima" car ana
for private excursion parties. 1t is
ear which can be used either as an
open or a closed car and is particu-
larly wen adapted to the conditions
here.
Mrs. Margaret Larson, mother of
Mr.. \. +. Larson of North Yakima.
was injured in an automobile accident
recently at Albert Lea, MINI Re-
ports do not Indicate that any serious
results are expected from the acct
dent
Prof Harry sharpe and Mrs. sharpe
returned to North Yakima Saturday
from the east where they We're mar
ried recently at Carson City, Mich.
Mrs Sharpe being Miss Nina Il. Towne
tormerly of the North Yakima teach
ing staff. Prof. Sharpe says-he ex-
perienced unusually hot weather in
the east and that the Dakotas are
especially dry and greatly in need of
water if the crops are to be con-
served. He thinks North Yakima and
the Yakima valley better than any
thing he encountered in the east. Prof.
sharpe will engage in his church
music only until he reopens his studio
september LIST. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe
will make their home at Bonnie Brae.
a. G. Vail, of Selah, who was in
North Yakima Saturday, is prepar-
ing to pick apricots which he will har-
vest this season from trees planted just
- months ago. one tree Mr.. Vail
thinks, will yield fully 40 pounds of
fr,lit
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20

Surveyor Overcome in Attempt to
Relimit Borax Lake in Death
Valley Under Summer Sun
Buried by Fellow-Sufferers -
For First Time in History Death
Valley Sink is Crossed-Sur-
vivors Do Not Know if Scores
of Skeletons Under Foot Are
Real or Phantoms of Their De-
lirium.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-20
Local News

The state Bar association will hold
its annual meeting in Bellingham,
July 81 to 81, superior court judges
meeting at the same time. Represen-
tatives from the local association will
be in attendance.
L. A. Dash, was was in North Yak
ina Tuesday from Soda Springs, says
there are at least 125 campers at the
springs. Mr.. Dash killed a rattlesnake
On his way down.
Northern Pacific officials who were
N North Yakima Tuesday to meet
with fruit men II The afternoon
made an inspection of the new Don
aid line at Zillah.
Guy Allen, of the Yakima Title x
Abstract company, will leave on July
20 for months hunting and fishing
trip on the northwest coast. He will
join a party including George Candy.
formerly of North Yakima. in Sc
attic, who have chartered a boat in
which they will proceed as far up the
coast as juneau, Alaska.
II. c. johnson will leave this after
noon for a weeks hunting and fish
ing trip in the mountains.
County Councilman Mcdonald and
Lemay went out Tuesday on a trip
over the reservation and to the eX-
treme boundary of the county as far
as mount ADAMS making an lnspec-
ton of county roads.
Manager ~ ~ thompson OF inc
emporium, was removed TUESDAY
afternoon from ms nome TO lhe SAM
arium and is believed to be suffering
from Epholo' he mas oeen Ill LOT
several days
ne Union SUNDAY S'nooI OF scan
WILL give basket plcnlc on FRIDAY
al HARRISON grove. \ program OF
sports lhcloalhs BASKET oaiI game
oN sirlS, a paSeoaII game ana races
VIII De heId'
MISS Anna Hreennrook reported
10 ne seriously Ill at the Hanitarium.
T. d. hoIur'ug' ol TINS city Ip't
Yesterday afternoon Tor the east visit
ing the Aell"Ws'one National park
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