Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-10-18

work is one of the best examples of the famous
master.
The beauty of this canvas has attracted thou
sands, and not few offers have been made to
purchase it, one of $250000 coming from New
York f1nancier Seven times thieves have at
tempted to cut it from it's frame, but each time
they were foiled by the vigilance of the priests
Four of the would-be robbers were captured and
serving terms have died in the pris
of Jalisco
In June, 1873, when the cathedral nearly
destroyed the section Of wall on which this
painting is fastened stood through all the quake
In June 1912, when crack than a foot
wide opened in the top of the wall above this
painting the cash downward almost to the
end of the mahogany frame and then divided
into two cracks or assures, encircng the can
vas, but touching it. The Indians believe
and the priests aid them in this belief, that moth
ing can harm ia santssma Vrgen de Guada-
lajara," and far the terrific tremblers have
failed to injure it in the least.
The canvas was given to the Guadalajara do
cese by the king of Spain shortly after the PENN
sular war as mark of gratitude for the large
sums of money turned over to the crown by this
branch of the church in Mexico and it was hid
den ten years in niche in the cathedral to keep
it from the French at the time of the occupation
of Mexico
"The top of the bowl of the crater beneath
Guadaajara," said Professor Garcia while here
lis approximately 1900 feet in diameter but the
L
quarter of a mile in width and how deep no
say.
THE composition of the escaping gases indi-
Gates that they coming from burning coal
and sulphur in molten state precisely the com
bination which the eruptons of Mount
Colima the only active volcano on the North
American continent, about 80 miles due south of
Guadaajara. Undoubtedly Colima which blows
off in regular eruption about the middle of
every September, is connected in some unknown
manner with the hot springs miniature geysers
and many dead volcanoes which cover the ter
ritory reaching from the southern end of the
Sierra Nayarit, about 60 miles north of Guada-
lajara, to the at Manzanillo.
Il would not care to prophesy, but I believe
that the annual fall eruption of Colima will see
some sort of disturbance here, though it may be
only heavy earthquakes and not the breaking out
of the volcano We ran diamond drills so deep
into the earth in the center of Guadalaiara that
they came back almost red hot no matter how
slowly we operated them. We lowered the best
thermometers into the holes made by these drills
and they recorded heat beyond the melting point
of lead
Eve analysed the gases coming from the ifs
suTes in various parts of the city and we found
that they not surface gases coming from
pockets in the earth and released by the earth
quake, but that they exhibited all the character
istics of gases which have been taken from the
vents of Colma and Porocatepetl volcanoes
Lastly we traced the scores of earthquake
shocks which felt here during the ten days
of stay and found that every one was
volcanic in its origin and not caused by the slip
ping of faults In the earth, as are some of the
coastal quakes of this country and the United
States. All were trepdatory that is to say. I'D
and down quakes usually local in character and
not oscillatory, most earthquakes which
extend over large section of the worlds sur
face
This first hint that the quakes were
volcanic-the confined over which the
tremors were felt Then the seismograph which
was brought here from Mexico City and set up
Indicated with its needle finger that the source
of the shocks almost beneath the city
I'VE knew the quakes were volcanic and con.