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Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-24

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The Feed
And Fuel Yard

Ell. MAIN s43 354 OLIVE AVE
BALED ALFALFA HAY, WHOLE
MAIZE, MESQUITE WOOD, WHITE
FINE sAwDUsT, KINDLING.
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ROYAL BLOOD
IN HIS VEINS
Man Who Bucks Lumber at $3.50 Per
Day is Descendent Of
Napoleon.

LOS ANGELES, April 14-But three
i'm overalls marks today the transition
of the stock of Napoleon from France
to California. Here 1t has reappeared
in the person Of William Gordon, who
claims to be a grandson OF the con.
quering Corsican Gordon, who is 65
years old and gets $3.50 q day for
bucking lumber, had added confirma-
ton to the statement of the Oritten-
den Memorial Society OF San Fran
cisco, and several experts In geneol-
ogy, that real Napoleonic blood flows
in his veins.
Gordon's story bares another ro-
nance of Napoleon, which bloomed
even while he was a prisoner at ST.
Helena. The grandmother through
whom comes his royal connection was
a Scot. he said, of the name of Cor
don She was matron Of the French
hospital on the island of Napoleon's
exile. Her story and Napoleons and
his own, were told by Gordon as fol
lows.
my father was born in Edinburgh
November II, 1918, where his mother
went from ST. Helena when she learn
ed she was to become mother He
was called John and was known by
her family name of Gordon. He was
a ieweler, and soon after his marriage
he emigrated to America, going tc
New London. Conn | was born there
in 1S47. In 1871 my father went IL
San Francisco, where he died in 1885
! was his only son.
81 was % years of age when / wa:
married in New London to Anna FL
nina Winchester. She came from thu
Scotch Boswells and we think she tor
has a strain of royal blood After m,
marriage | lived in San Francisco 70
seventeen years. have been employ
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FROST ACQUITTED
BY THE JURY
Was Charged With Being Head of
$4,000, 900 Alaska Land
Fraud.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO. April 14.-Albert C..
Frost, former president OF the Alask-
an Central railway company, declared
today that he would not push the
completion of the road through
Alaska, though he was acquitted yes.
Iterday by jury before Federal Judge
X. NJ Lands of the charge of heading
la $10,0O0,OOO Alaska land fraud con-
spiracy.
THE road will not be completed"
said Frost, unless there is change
in the governments conservation
POLICY
Frost, who formerly was the presi-
dent of the Chicago, Milwaukee Elec-
trio railway company, was indicted
with George M. Seward, Chicago
broker, and former vice president of
the same road; Pierre G. Beach, Chi
lcago lawyer and former secretary OF
the company; George A. Ball. Muncie,
Indiana, glass manufacturer and
financial hacker of Frost. and Frank
Watson, of Spokane, Washington.
who directed the location of land
claims in Alaska. on the charge at
tempting to defraud the government
lby use CT dummy entrymen.
The defense is to be congratulated
on having achieved most extra
ordinary victory was Judge lands
crisp comment when the verdict was
read.
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Not an Experiment

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den Smith of Michigan, recommended
drastic changes in the laws relating to
ship construction and system OF
vigilance that would expedite the
handling of passengers in time OF
peril.
Among the ill-fated passengers on
the ship that went down were some
of the prominent figures of contem-
porary life. There were Colonel John
Jacob Aston, Major Archibald w. Butt.
Francis D. Millet, the artist; William
T. Stead, Journalist and philosopher;
jacques Futrelle, novelist; Benjamin
Guggenheim, merchant; Charles Mel
Vile Hays, railroad president: Isidor
Stratus, merchant and philanthropist;
John B. Thayer, railroad vice-presi-
dent; George d. Widener, traction
magnate; Henry B. Harris, theatrical
manager; Clarence Moore. sportsman;
Arthur Ryerson, lawyer; Frederick
Sutton, merchant; and the gallant
skipper, Capt. E. ]. Smith. These are
but few of the illustrious names and
the story Of how each man died is a
romance of itself
One of the most thrilling experien-
ces of the disaster was that of Col
onel Archibald Oracle of Washington
who was sucked down in the vortex,
carried up in the swirl In time to
seize bit of wreckage and was saved
His death short time ago is believed
to have been a direct result.
Following the disaster, hundreds of
damage claims were filed against the
Oceanic Steam Navigation company,
controlling the White Star line. To-
morrow has been fixed by the court
as the final day for reception of these
and 1t believed the total amount
asked will exceed ss,000,000. From
this list the name of Mrs Madeline
Force Astor is absent, but Mrs. Har-
ris seeks $1,000.00O for the death Oh
her husband and Mrs. Futrelle, $780,
600. Many of these claims, though
some are sordid, reflect thrilling
lights of the catastrophe
With one year gone, with investiga-
tions by America and Great Britain
ended, the one fact stands out-the
unsuitable" had sunk and man had
again failed to conquer the sea.
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craft ground into the iceberg off the
Newfoundland grand banks, four days
after she started on her first trip.
The night was clear, the sea smooth.
1t was 11:46 ships time, or 10:13 New
York time. The orchestra was play
ing on the decks, the women of the
first cabin were lingering in the light
and warmth and gaiety of the dining
rooms where there was music ana
bubbling life. The men were smoking
their goodnight cigars. In the sec
ond and third cabins, there was like
joy, with the prospect Of home" or
new land" but a few hours away.
And then came the towering berg,
the belated needing of repeated warn
1ngs that ice was in the vicinity, the
grinding crash and the icy sea. The
whole tale has been often told-how
brides were torn from husbands; how
children were put into boats by fren-
zied parents who hoped their little
ones might be saved even though they
persisted themselves; how the men,
save for few shameful exceptions,
stood back and waited for death while
the women We're given first place in
! the life-boats; how the musicians
I struck up Nearer, My God to Thee"
and played it until the wafer smoth-
| cred their melody; how the Carpa-
thia, rushing to the rescue, stood by
| and gathered UP survivors, how rela-
tives in New York, in agony of ankle
ty, besieged the offices of the White
| Star line for the news that was three
/ days in reaching land This disaster
stands out grim and awful today
i though the world has again been
shocked by tales Of cyclone and flood
that have exacted great toll of life.
The Titanic, launched May 81, 1911,
/ represented the best that marine ar
chitects could build She was built
I for capacity, comfort and speed. She
was 1925 feet long, 926 feet beam,
was of 1926 tons register and cost
I s7,500,000 She carried 2,223 persons,
1 including the crew.
Of these, 1.517 were lost and 7O6
were saved. OF the 329 first-class pas
sengers, 1919 were saved, or 60 per
cent; of the 2S5 second-class passen-
gers, 119 were saved, or AZ per cent;
of the ITO third-class passengers, 1854,
or % per cent, We're saved; Of the
crew, % per cent were saved.
Whether or not this ocean horror
might have been avoided had owners
and officers needed the repeated ice
warnings of other ships soon ceased
to be important. The question after
the official investigation by the Uni
ted States senate, which ended May
IS, 1912, was whether such catastro-
Plies could be avoided hereafter Aft
err days of investigation. the commits
sion headed by Senator William AL
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THE UNSUITABLE VESSEL
Today Is First Anniversary Of the
Most Frishtful Sea Tragedy
of the Present
Day.
THE TITANIC.

And this" the dark Ironic spirit
Knocked
AS it beheld the proud new lofty ship
Upon its wostering way across the
sea,
This is thy latest, greatest miracle,
The triumph of thy science, art and
That skill thou'st learnt since forth
the Norsemen Jared
Across these waters in their cookie
shells.
In lodging back and forth 'twixt storm
and sea,
Until at last, in this thy master work,
Thou'dst go In safety and In pride,
and boast
Meanwhile of thine unparalleled
achievement,
Thy victory DER my wanton will and
whim!
Ho, Little Man, behold! I'd not waste
cen
A tempest on thy paragon. but thus,
Upon its first glad, confident adven-
ture,
With but a cast-off fragment of my
store
OF power-thus to the bottom Of the
For evermore, with this thy latest
marvel
And with thee. Ho! Ho!"
That awful laugh
Rang through the dreadful reaches OF
the void.
But 10! The calm and all-suff1cient
answer
Of our intrepid northern race! With
lips
Drawn tight, they look with clear, dry
eyes on doom,
And so confront the end, there in the
night
That was to have for them no plying
dawn.
(Their kind alone of all intelligence
feels PITY
THE women and the children first,
We stay"
No cry, no whimpering; and there,
Up there upon the dark mysterious
bridge,
The grizzled captain, chief of all
those victims
OF It's sublime, stupendous, bitter
Joke,
But the exemplar of that race which
knows
How to aspire. achieve, and dare Its
wrath,
/ And in the hour of failure, how to die.
Courtesy of Collier's.)
NEW YORK, April 14.-Just year
ago-more than 1000 persons were
joyful that they had a share in the
maiden voyage of the greatest boat
the world ever knew, playing tennis
on deck, floating in the tempered wat
ers of a swimming pool, dining in
luxurious salons, chatting in drawing
rooms more regal than kings palace
and listening to the worlds finest
music. Then came a crash, darkness,
| death heroism, cowardice, the man
ming Of lifeboats, the escape of those
who could get away from the sinking
| hulk-features the last moments Of
! the Titanic as she sank April IA,
1912. and the most frightful sea trag-
edy of all time was enacted.
1t was late in the evening when the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-14
PEOPLE SHOULD GUARD
AGAINST APPENDICITIS

Keokuk people who have stomach
and bowel trouble should guard against
appendicitis by taking simple buck
thorn bark, glycerine, etc, as com
pounded in Adler-i-ka, the German
remedy which became famous by cur.
ing appendicitis, A SINGLE DOSE
relieves sour stomach, gas on the
stomach and constipation INSTANT
LY because this simple mixture anti
septicizes the digestive organs and
draws off the impurities, Wilkinson
& Co., Druggists, 422 Main St-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-14
Immigration Question.

SAN FRANCISCO. April What
to do with the immigrant" is the key
note of the Pacific Coast immigration
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Why He Was SO Late.

What made you SO later
q met Smithson."
well, that is no reason why you
should be an hour late getting home
to supper
q know, but l asked him how he
was feeling and he insisted on telling
me about his stomach trouble?"
did you tell him to take Chamber
lain's Tablets?"
Sure, that is what he needs" Sold
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Association which opened its conven-
ton here today. That the people at
large do not take enough interest in
the welfare of the foreign homeseeker
and that the alien is too often misun-
derstood and treated with suspicion
are facts that will figure in the papers
and discussion.
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ed at various jobs here but / have al
ways made an honest living, and am
satisfied and happy"
Gordon is keeping at his daily labor,
ever since his alleged connections
have been made known Necessity
compels this. even should he wish TO
enjoy any glorying In his illustrious
ancestry.
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1o5 Years Old.

PHILADELPHIA, April 14.-Mrs.
Ann Elizabeth Magill, believed the
oldest living member of the Baptist
church In America. today celebrated
her 105th birthday. With her today
were three great grandchildren and
five grandchildren. She was instru-
mental in founding the Fiftieth Bap-
fist church here forty-fve years ago.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-28

Clellan. Admiral Porter. William H. Seward Pres
ident Pierce, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ste
phen A. Douglas. Archbishop McClosky. not for
getting the famous OF President Lincoln.
So much for the other boaster.
Many OF these portraits were shown at the
Chicago Art Institute exhibition. having been
loaned by their owners. notably the Queen Eliza
beth of Roumania. the Lincoln the Grant, the
Clay. the Calhoun. and others While his vigor-
GUS handling and strong effects made him par
ticulary successful with public men, he yet had
equal success with the feminine character, as
may be noted In the Queen of Roumania and
other noted women: and of the most
markable pictures of the late exhibition is that
of Girl With Pitcher" which was painted at
one sitting. at the studio of Baron Gros. in Paris
in 1885. when he but twenty-five years of
age. the color being marvellous. something like
an echo, it might be said. of Thomas Couture,
The portrait of Franz Liszt sitting at the
piano. with rapt musical expression. is the
List that the world -knows-the musical and
general world: the "LisZt Holding a Candle" be-
trays rapt religious expression, quite another
expression, such this wonderful artist could
discern and depict: the painting showed the
great musical genius during his temporary re-
ligous madness. SO to speak. when II will be
remembered he renounced the world, and de
clared he would end his days in monkish in.ti-
tution which of course he did not do but came
forth again the musician par excellence.
The romance of the two artists is really quite
a remarkable one. and the paintings they have
produced illustrate most grandly the lives of two
earnest boys who were inspired by the high mo-
tives that urged each to most honorable ca
reer and made the dreams come true" that were
born OF the boyish boastings
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-28
NAPOLEON AND LETTER I'M"

Both Napoleon / and Napoleon Ill attached
most, superstitious Importance to the letetr M"
Marboeuf was the first to call attention the
genius of the young Bonaparte at the military
college. Marengo was Napoleon's first great vic
tory. Melas was the name of the general whom
he superseded in the command OF the French
army in Italy.
Morsier was one of his best generals. 1t
Moreau who betrayed him Murat, King of Ma
pies. was the first martyr to his cause. Marie
Louise shared the eliminating point of his sue
cess Moscow was the scene of his greatest dis
aster, and 1t was Metternich who defeated him
in the field OF diplomacy.
No fewer than six Of his field marshals and
twenty-six of his best generals had names begin
ming with M" and Maret. Duke of Bassano was
his most trusted confidant- His very first battle
was that of Moulnotte. and his last that of Mont
Saint Jean. subsequently and more universally
known Waterloo.
Among his victories were those of Millesimo
Mondorf. Montmirail, Montereau and Montmartre
His first chamberlain NJ. de Montesquieu
His last residence in France was at Malmason
He surrendered himself to Captain Maitland of
his British majesty's ship Beilerophon, and his
attendants at St Helena were Montholon and
Marchand
The superstition attached by Napoleon III to
the same letter may be accounted for by the fact
that his wife was Countess OF Montijo that his
most intimate friend the Duke OF Morny
and his most dreaded enemy Mazzini The most
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-28
LAST CANN|BAL KING
Ruler of Ashantee Is Now a Pris-
oner on Island Of Maize.
Oeposed Eater Of Human Beings Had
Palace In South Africa Construct
ed Of VIctims' Bones-British
Caused His Downfall.

Victoria, South Africa.-The Sey-
chelle Isles, on Africa's Indian sea-
board. have of recent years been turn
ed into a political prison for those
deposed cannibal kings whose king
doms have, on one excuse or another.
been added to the dominions of the
British crown. At present there are
three political prisoners of note on
the Island of Mahe-King Kobanga
of Uganda, King Assibi of the Gold
Coast and King Premper Of Ashantee.
Though all of these ebony royalties
were enthusiastic patrons of the cook
ing pot, King Prempeh is by far the
most notorious and the most inter
esting personality of the three, for 1t
was his palace at Kumasi that was
neat picket fence made from the leg
and arm bones of the people he and
his tribesmen had eaten.
Owing to an error of judgment in
selecting a British commissioner as
the piece de resistance for one of his
feasts. an expedition was sent to
Ashantee, the country annexed to the
British empire. and its ruler forced to
exchange his skull-walled palace in
Kumasi for a four-roomed tin-roofed
cottage in the outskirts of Victoria.
the capital of the Seychelles. Here.
surrounded by the huts of the chief
tains who accompanied him into exile,
he lives on the meager pension grant
ed him by the British government.
Clad in the flaming cotton robe OF
red and yellow, which is the West
African equivalent of royal ermine.
worn over q pair of very soiled pa
jamas. his majesty received me on the
veranda OF his little dwelling in the
presence of the constable, who guards
him and who acts as interpreter when
the kings very scanty store Of Eng
lish gives out.
Now am not an entire stranger to
the ways of the Lords anointed, but
this audience with Prempeh of Ashan-
tee was one of the most remarkable
experiences that l can recall. In the
1rst place. the mercury had crept up
and up until it lowered in the neigh
borhood of 100 degrees in the shade
Of the house: in the second place. the
sons of the king che told me he had
AZ in ALL had crowded into the tiny
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-28

glorious feats of arms by the French army dur
ing his reign were the capture OF the Malakoff
and the grim Mamelon during the Crimean war
His most famous field marshals were MacMahon
Duke OF Magenta and the Duke of Maakoff.
The great victory of Solferno, in 1859, took
place on the banks of the Mincio. and the cities
Of Mantua and Milan played an important role
during the campaign. The Mexican war and the
execution of the Emperor Macmillan caused his
power to wane perceptibly; Malmesbury WAS the
name OF his most intimate friend In English DO
litical life. Sedan which witnessed his fall is on
the banks of the Meuse The surrender of Metz
rendered his restoration to power impossible and
Motke the name of the man to whose geniut
he chiefly owed his defeat.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-28

room until the place fairly reeked
with the smell of perspiration; in the
third place, l was at loss what to
talk to his majesty about.
After an awkward pause. during
which the king shuffled his feet un-
easily. and I wiped away rivulets of
perspiration, he said something in
Ashantee to one of his attendants.
who shortly returned with a tin tray
holding a bottle of whisky. a siphon
Of luke-warm seltzer, and a couple of
very dirty glasses. After another
long and uncomfortable pause, the
king asked me II wouldn't have
something to drink. Taking It for
granted that Prempeh's capacity for
drink would be as outre as his choice
Of food, l poured his beer glass full
to the brim with whisky, giving to
myself the drink sanctioned by civi.
lized custom.
In my country" said the king,
leaning forward and speaking in the
broken English which he had ac-
quired from the government chaplain,
bad men sometimes try to poison
king, SO king turns drink other way
round" and suiting the action to the
words. he turned the tray SO as to
place before me the beer glassful of
whisky. have never been quite GER
tain whether or not there was a twin
kle in the eye of that simple-hearted
cannfbal when he literally turned the
table on me.
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GOOD NATuREp AGAIN
Good Humor Returns With Change to
Proper Food.

For many years / was a constant
sufferer from indigestion and nervous
ness. amounting almost to prostra-
tion." writes Montana man.
MY blood was impoverished, the
vision was blurred and weak, with
moving spots before my eyes. This was
a steady daily condition. l grew ILL.,
tempered, and eventually got SO nerv-
Gus 1 could not keep my books post
ed. nor handle accounts satisfactorily.
/ can't describe my sufferings.
Nothing l ate agreed with me, till
one day l happened to notice Grape
Nuts in grocery store, and bought
a package out of curiosity to know
what 1t was.
Il liked the food from the very
hrst, eating 1t with cream, and now I
buy 1t by the case and use it daily.
soon found that Grape-Nuts food was
supplying brain and nerve force as
nothing in the drug line ever had
done or could do.
1T wasn't long before was re-
stored to health, comfort and happi-
ness.
Through the use OF Grape-Nuts food
my digestion has been restored, my
nerves are steady once more. my eye
sight is good again, my mental faculties
are clear and acute, and have become
30 good-natured that my friends are
truly astonished at the change. / feel
younger and better than have for 20
years. No amount of money would
induce me to surrender what / have
gained through the use of Grana.N .Nuta
food" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich. There's n rea-
son" Read the little book, 1.-THE Road
to Wellville." In pkgs."
Ever read the nbove lctterf A new
one nppcnrr from time to time. They
nre genuine. true, md fall of human
Interest. Adv.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-28
Automobile Aroma.

Farmer Hiram was mending the
front fence when an automobile
whizzed past. emitting trail of blue
smoke from its oil-choked engine.
Farmer Hiram's hand went to his
nose. When the car had disappeared
far down the lane and the smell had
died away he ventured to address the
hired man.
Sam" he said, they may be swell
city fellers an all that; but they GER
tainly was smokin' some vile see
gars."