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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
BUILDING A LIFE.

To have q beautiful old age
you must live a beautiful youth,
for we ourselves are postsrity,
and every man 10 his own an.
osstor. I am today what | am
because ! was yesterday what I
was.--EIbert Hubbard.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
Exhihit Of Student Work

Exhibit Of Student Work
There win be an exhibit OF high
school students work at the high
school building Thursday afternoon,
from 2:3o to $50. The exhibit will
include work done In the domestic
science. domestic arts. manual train
ing and art departments, Some OF the
articles made by the students will be
offered for sale by them. These must
be left on exhibit. however. until
$50. The public is invited TO attend.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
PRICE OF MATCHES IS
INCREASED AT MARYSvILLE

Marysville, May lon account OF
the war, the price of matches was
raised today. From five cents a box
"parlor matches" jumped to two
boxes for Is cents.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

Don't fSil to let the young lady
show you what can be done with Chi
Namel at the Rogue River Hardware
either on Wednesday or Thursday OF
this week. TAO
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
BRITISH MONITOR SUNK

London. May 1.-THE British
monitor M-30 has been sunk, Admiral
DeRobeck reported to the admiralty
today.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

Music Club Tonight
The last concert OF the season by
the Music club will be held at the
Commercial club rooms this evening.
commencing at Sis o'clock. It prom
ises to be one OF the most entertain
ing concerts ever given by the popular
organization.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

Free demonstration of the uses OF
Chi-Namel at the Rogue River Hard
ware on Wednesday and Thursday of
this week. 749
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
NOTICE ELECTION BOARDS

Would request that all Election
Boards meet tonight at the Court
House, at 1880 p. m, to hear in
structions relative to the numerous
changes that have been made in the
Election Laws.
749 E. L. CoBURN.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
Clark 4 Holman, Undertaken
Licensed embalmers. Phone so II

Operation ON the Eyes
r. w, Clarke, manager OF the
Rogue River Water company. Is con-
fined to his home following an opera
tion upon his eyes. DR., Bywater was
in charge Of the case. and he says
that Mr., Clarke win soon be on the
Job again with eyes as good as new.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
FRIDAY MORNING. o TO 10 A. NJ

The May Breakfast will be served
in the parlors of Bethany Presby-
terian church. 749
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

Called to Mctiford--
Deputy Sheriff John Denison, B, F
Banks and Geo, Jester are In Med.
ford today MS witnesses called to give
evidence before the grand Jury.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
Letterheads at the Courier.
Clairvoyant-M MEDIUM

The future can be foretold IL
You will consult La'Vera, the
noted Medium, who is in your
city for a short time. You will
have your life told to you bet
ter than you could have told It
yourself. She gives never
failing advice on all affairs Of
life. Tells you Of changes,
losses, fires, mines, mortgages,
sales, love, courtship and mar
riage, in fact tells you every
thing you are In doubt about.
La'vera Is located In rooms In
the fremont hotel. Her Office
hours are 10 a. IN. TO o p. m.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

Eastern Star Tonight
There will be a regular meeting OF
the Eastern Star tonight, at s o'clock.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

Englewood Dairy, Phone 222---
The pure milk dairy seat
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

Grants Pass pennants---
Twenty cents each, two for 50
cents, at the Courier osiiee. $50
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

LOST--Small leather purse contain
ing S. gold piece and some silver,
between Mirths' and A street on
SIXTH or between Sixth and Seventh
on A street Finder please return
to Courier Office. care No. 943. Re-
ward. 750
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17

PUBLIC STBNOGRAPHER, Masonic
Temple. Office phone 174-J, resi-
dence 341-R. Miss Harris. 1888
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-17
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Evening star., 1916-08-06
THE GlLA MONSTER OF SOUTHWEST

tern were worked out on them in large
yellow and brown beads. Hans Gadow
says that the skin of the upper sur
face is granular, with many irregular.
bony tubercles which give it an ugly.
warty look. The specimen represented
in the National Museum Is about foot
and a half long, and its four well de-
veloped legs end in big feet, each of
which is armed with five strong. heavy
claws. The tail Is short and thick, the
head heavy and the neck is nearly as
thick as the thickest part of the body.
In the matter of the teeth. Gadow says
that they are loosely attached to the
inner edge of the jaws. that each tooth
is grooved, and that those of the lower
jaw are in close vicinity to series of
labial glands which secrete a poison
the only instance among lizards"
The National Museum gila monster is
in close company with a few other
lizards. especially those large and
strange lizards called iguanas. Some
of these iguanas, from distant parts of
the world, are about three and a half
feet long, and have such well developed
legs that they are quite tall. There is
a larg family of the lizard order of
Iguanidae. and it is said that in Brazil.
Guiana and neighboring localities the
average length of these lizards is about
four feet. The iguana's food consists
almost entirely of fruits. fungi and
other vegetable matter. 1t has large
Evening star., 1916-08-06

head and wide mouth, with prominent
teeth.
Along the whole back, from the head
to the tip of the tail there is a crest
of pointed scales very much resembling
teeth. The toes are furnished with
sharp claws which enable this animal
to climb trees with great facility and
it can swim swiftly through water
with a strongly marked serpentine mo-
ton.
Many of the natives of the countries
where this lizard is found eat it's
flesh and consider it a delicacy. 1t is
said to taste like chicken. The eggs
of this lizard-the female lays from
four to six dozen at batch-are about
the size of pigeon eggs and are also
eaten by the natives with strong
sense of pleasure. The eggs are laid
in the sand and are hatched by the
heat of the sun.
There are in this world more kinds
of lizards than an ordinary man can
count. 1t is said that at a moderate
estimate the number of species now on
the earth is about 100, and they are
found as far south as the south
ern tip of Patagonia and occur in the
north to the point where the subsoil is
always frozen. The variety of forms
and the number of individuals increase
toward the tropics, and in those lands.
where 1t is always summer. they arc
very plentiful
Evening star., 1916-08-06
copyrighted. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter,

copyrighted. 1915 by Frank G. Carpenter.)
DAWSON, Yukon Territory.
-HE wonders of the ancient world
were seven in number and they
III were all within a short dis
4 tance of the eastern end of
the Mediterranean sea. They were the
Pillar of Pharos, on which the light
burned near Alexandria: the Pyramids
at Cairo, the Colossus on the Island OF
Rhodes, the statue of Jupiter at
Olympia, Greece; the Temple of Arte-
mis- at Ephesus. not far from where
Smyrna now stands; the mausoleum at
Halicarnassus. on the same coast not
far away. and the gardens of Semira-
mis-, at Babylon, in Mesopotamia. the
land for which the Turks and the
warning nations of Europe are, now
fighting.
The wonders of the modern world
are seventy times seven. and they are
to be found on almost every part OF
the globe from the diamond pipes be-
low the equator in southern Africa to
the gold workings in the perpetual ice
of the Klondike, under the shadow OF
the north pole. I have already writ
ten something of how the icy strata
are thawed by steam points and how
the sprinkling of gold scattered
through them Is saved by the dredges.
/ have shown you how a great river
valley is being lifted up and turned
over to a depth equal to the height Of
q three or four story house and how
from the Icy wastes which the indi-
vidual gold miners had thrown away
as worthless is now pouring stream
of gold into the rivers of commerce.
This is the work in a nutshell. The
story of the work in its details is even
more wonderful l shall mention a
few of them in this letter.
First, let US look at the great ditch
gouged out of the ice-frozen strata by
the Yukon Gold Company. When the
Guggenheims bought what were sup
posed to be the exhausted creeks of the
klondike from which the miners had al
ready taken out millions, they found
they had to have water to work them
and that with a fall so great that 1t
would tear the earth to pieces when 1t
came through the pipes There was
none available excepting in the Tomb
stone mountains. seventy-odd miles
away The work of getting it meant
the carrying of this river over pre-
cipitous peaks, across frozen morasses
through vast ravines, down stupendous
valleys and then lifting it again over
Evening star., 1916-08-06

Canadian Klondike Company as wen
have great warehouses filled with
everything needed for carrying on their
operations. They have a number OF
each part of every machine that they
use, and repairs for electrical equip
rnent steam equipment, and every pos
sible sort of machine shop and foundry
for repairing broken parts upon notice:
1t is the same with the supplies OF
food for their men. They are bought by
the ton, and that with regard for the
demands of the miners. One has to un-
derstand the working force to know
how to order. For instance. the first
importation of groceries was based
. on the demands of the Guggenheim
mining camps in California. The
Evening star., 1916-08-06

electric plant running throughout the
winter, and that Notwithstanding the
temperature at times falls to 70 degrees
below zero. 1t is so cpld-here IN the
winter that If you should attempt to
run a spraying machine such as is used
in an orchard the water would turn to
snow before it fell to the ground. The
thermometer keeps down to zero, or Tar
below that for the most Of the winter,
and after the cold weather sets in the
land is ice-locked until spring. Some of
the streams have seven feet OF ice over
them and many freeze solid. Neverthe-
less Mr. Bowie has been able to turn a
branch of the Klondike river into a
great ditch six miles in length and drop
it down upon turbines with a fall that
would create electricity to the exent of
10000 horsepower day in and day out
the year through. The amount he is
actually using is only 5000 horsepower,
but the equipment is such that 1t could
be easily increased by the adding of
units.
There are many electric plants of
this kind in the world. but none which
is moved by water in such temperatures
as freeze the soil and gravel every
where to seven feet deep, or where the
rivers run above strata of perpetual
ice. How did Joe Boyle solve the prob
lem? He did it by marrying the COM
mon horse sense for which he is noted
to his genius for practical invention.
He knew that the waters Of the Yukon
and the Klondike flow under the ice all
winter long and that there Is a space
between the water and the ice over
head.
Mr. Boyle concluded that it was this
dead air space that kept the running
water from freezing. 1t was on the
principle of the double walls of an ice
house or of the thermos bottle. The
only thing necessary was to make ma
ture furnish the bottle. This Joe Boyle
does. He fills his ditch to the top and
allows nature to freeze a sheet of ice a
foot or SO thick upon it. He then drops
the water for a depth of two feet and
has still a running stream of four feet
Evening star., 1916-08-06

United States miners are fond of coffee
and this was sent with the supplies oy
the thousands of pounds. IL lay III
the store. These Canadian miners
would not have 1t. They drink tea IN
stead of coffee. and have tea for break
fast and dinner and tea for supper as
well. Another popularity was the
-four needed by the baker. IN tne
United States we use the same nomr m LOT nts
bread and pastry. The Canadian wants
a hard wheat flour for bread and a
soft flour for pastry, and the COOKS
cannot do without them.
During my stay here l have gone
through the Guggenheim warehouses
Tbev include a number of buildings
made for the purpose. One structure,
which is kept at three or four degrees
above freezing, is devoted to perlsnaple
stuff, such as condensed milk ana cream
and all kinds of vegetables. II con
tains also rubber goods which are ar
fected by frost. Another building mas
a temperature far below freezing. rms
is the cold storage plant Meat IS
bought in large quantities, ana tne an eup
plies for the winter are brought down
the Yukon on the hoof, and killed ana
frozen before the winter begins. Ihere
are no thawing spells In TINS part ~
the world, and such meat keeps Until
spring.
At the same camp I visited the sta
bles of the Yukon Gold Company. ihey
have stalls for eighty horses and are
about the largest in this part OF the
world. The stables are of wood nav
ing double walls lined with paper 70
keep out the cold. Long rows of steam
pipes run back and forth over the
heads of the horses and these are kept
hot throughout the winter. The horses
stand upon board floors well above the
ground and every care is taken to give
them the most healthy conditions They
have electric lights that are turned on
a part of the day In winter.
Next to the stables Is a warehouse In
which the feed for the horses is Kept.
Evening star., 1916-08-06

that it can be thrown against the icy
hills at a pressure of over 400 POUNDS
to the square inch, washing down the
sands containing the sprinkling of gold
dust and adding thereby great treasure
to the wealth of the world.
The making of such a ditch in
country like Panama would be easy
compared with the work here where
Jack Frost is king. Much of the ditch
had to be thawed out and cut from the
perpetual ice. New methods of road
building had to be devised for the
swamps and men and machinery had
to be assembled far in the interior of a
country which until lately was thought
inaccessible to all but the most daring
arctic explorers. The supplies from
the United States had to come a thou
sand miles over the oceans and then
be carried five hundred miles more over
the mountains and down the Yukon to
Dawson. AT Panama they could have
been landed by ships almost within
sight of the works. Here the ma
chinery had to be taken In pieces and
dragged by horses and dogs through
almost inaccessible wilds.
People who have never done work IN
Alaska or along the Upper Yukon. can
not appreciate the difficulties under
which these men are successfully lapor. -.
ing in getting from 80 to so cents
worth of gold out of each two-horse
wagon load of ice-frozen earth. That
it is done at all is wonder; but 1t is
a greater wonder that it has been done
at a profit which runs high into the
millions Altogether, in the netghbor-
hood of s2O0,000,O0o worth of gold has
come out of the valley of the Klon-
dixie and the beds of the creeks that
flow into it; and of this almost half
has been won by this sort of mining.
The work is the carrying on OF
great manufacturing establishment sew
eral thousand. miles from the market
and the same distance away from sup
plies 1t is in country that is frozen
tight more than half the year, and
where in the summer it takes weeks
or months to get duplicate parts Of the
machines from outside. The work Is
such that the continuous running OF
the machines means profit and the
breaking down of a dredge means a
loss of thousands of dollars If it can.
not at once be repaired. Duplicates OF
everything must therefore be on hand
and supplies of all kinds of machinery
ready to make instant repairs.
The Yukon Gold Company and the
Evening star., 1916-08-06
SOLDIERS OF ALL ARMIES
GUARDED AGAINST DISEASE

lasted twenty months, the number of
Japanese alone in killed and death
from wounds averaged 54 per thousand
a year. Disease claimed 27,142. or 20
per thousand a year, a showing no
better than that made by the Germans
in the Franco-Prussian war.
AS one searches the records of his
tory the situation of the soldier of the
eighteenth century and the first two
decades of the nineteenth century
seems to have been especially unfor-
tunate. A military-medica authority
has written:
sick soldiers of an earlier day re-
ceived no attention whatever. If the
wounded received any care it was from
comrade or from the women who
followed in the wake of the army.
Then the barber became the army
surgeon, when there was any, to give
way later to monks Napoleon paid
little or no attention to sick and
wounded In the Peninsular campaign
about 10000 French soldiers We're
killed in battle in Spain and about
100000 died of disease. In the Rus
sian campaign of 1912: of 100000 who
crossed the Dnieper in June scarcely
10000 returned in December. Bullets
killed some. to be sure. the deadly cold
claimed others. but the great majority
perished of disease. The 1913 cam
s, strous. OF an army of 100000 that
le. Leipzig in October only a few
fras. entary battalions followed the
eagles cross the Rhine in November.
The tota. ruin of this army was due
to sanitary neglect. Soldiers died of
disease by thousands, scattered among
the villages along the route from Ger
many, leaving pestilence in their
wake"
AS a result of anti-typhoid inocula-
ton typhoid has been practically ban
ished from the American as we'll as
other modern armies. Striking results
are shown in connection with the
United States Army maneuvers in Texas
in 1911. At San Antonio there were 12.-
SOL soldiers and all were vaccinated.
Among all there was only one case of
typhoid. Up to September 30. 1911. 3d.
$40 were vaccinated, and among these
only twelve cases Of typhoid were re-
ported, with no deaths. Among civil
populations in close proximity to these
troops there were many cases OF ty-
phoid with the usual percentage Of
deaths. Germs have been more deadly
than bullets. The figures on the war
of the Union. and all previous wars Of
any length, teach the same truth, that
disease is more deadly for the soldier in
the fold than are bullets.
A foreign observer has said that
Thanks to vaccination. typhoid fever
is becoming a negligible element in the
military organisation. The United
States Army leads the world in the ex.
tent to which this preventive Is used,
and France Is foremost In this regard
among European nations.
Evening star., 1916-08-06

~ ISEASE has been the scourge OF
II u armies throughout the history Of
- the world, but this danger has been
remarkably reduced within the past few
years, and there is good reason for be-
lieving that military sanitation has all
but eliminated the danger of casualties
from those dread diseases which have
heretofore taken such toll of soldiers
typhoid, typhus, malaria, dysentery and
yellow fever
A report of Russell A. Alger, then acting
secretary of war. on the mortality Of
American soldiers in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, shows that to September 80,
1898. 345 soldiers were killed or died OF
wounds. and that 2,485 had died OF dis
three volunteer soldiers sick to one reg
ular and that the percentage of deaths
among volunteers was twice as high as
among the regulars. In report made by
said: Il am of the opinion. also. that the
haste with which volunteer regiments
were organized and mustered Into serv-
ice was responsible for much of he sick
Of camp life. 1t was, however. tyr hold
fever which broke down the strength It
the commands generally"
The two greatest scourges Of modern
armies IN the neiQ nave been typhOlO
fever and dysentery. Smallpox, once one
of the great menaces, has been con-
quered by vaccination. and incubation
against typhoid has removed the terrors
of that disease, but dysentery remains.
and also measles. said to be especially
dangerous under field conditions. Cholera,
If once it secures a foothold among
armies, Is one Of the most destructive dis
eases, but camp sanitation and the better
and cleaner conditions under which troops
live in the field have reduced the danger
Of cholera.
Things have materially changed for the
better with troops in active service. In
the Crimean campaign 230 out of each
1000 British soldiers died annually OF
typhoid fever, dysentery and other in
fectious diseases. In the Franco-Prussian
war. 1901, the annual death rate from
disease among French troops was 140.8
per thousand among the Germans, 24.5
In the Boer war, lasting two years
and eight months, STA British SOL
diers. in force having an average
strength of 208.326. were killed in bat
tie and 2,10s died of wounds, a total OF
1882, or about II per Thousand a
year. Disease claimed 1870, or 1888
per thousand a year, which was almost
double the number slain by Boer bull
let's. The total death rate was SO per
thousand year. and the total wastage,
including invalided, missing and pris-
oners, amounted to 40 per cent Of the
total strength Of the army annually.
Nearly per cent Of the total strength
was constantly sick.
In the Russian-JaDenese war which
Evening star., 1916-08-06
Carpenter Describes Mining Wonders of Far Mort

or more further down. The dead air
space above keeps of most of the frost.
and in order to add to the heat ne IN
stalls electric heaters in the bed OF the
stream, which aid in keeping the water
from freezing. These heaters each rep
resent units equaling about one hun
dred horse power. There are compara-
lively few of them in the six miles or
ditch. They do not raise the tempera-
ture of the water. but they aid in hold
ing 1t Just where 1t is 1t is the same
water falling that furnishes the cleo
tricity. Indeed. the water warns ITSELF,
1t makes me think of a man standing
out in the open and violently swinging
his arms to keep himself warm
Invent out yesterday In an automobile
with Mr.. Boyle to North Fork. thirty
miles UP the Klondike valley, TO where
this electric plant is situated. The ditch
is thirty feet wide. about six feet in
depth and six miles in length. The
water flows through the ditch and
drops down through great pipes. with a
fall of 220 feet on the turbines. and 1t
keeps the latter moving all the year
through. AS we looked at the ditch, I
asked Mr.. Boyle how he got the idea
of electrically heating the ditch. He
replied:
THE idea came to me one morning
at breakfast We had toast and eggs.
and were browning the bread on an
electric toaster. AS l looked at IL L
thought that we might employ the same
principle in keeping the water from
freezing. / then got my men to take
a lot of telephone wire and make a
gigantic toaster something like a
woven-wire bed spring. We had this
properly insulated. and dropped 1t into
the ditch. 1t was connected with the
electric plant and the problem was
solved" FRANK G.. CARPENTER.