The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-25
Ex'COngressman Murray Writes Inter
estingly Of His Voyage to South
America.


EXCongressman William III. Murray
of Tishomingo. who has gone to La
Paz, Bolivia, South America, to under
take an ambitious colonization enter
prise, will let his numerous friends in
Oklahoma know from time 10 time,
through the Ardmoreite, something
about his movements in the southern
republic. Appended Is n letter from Mr.
Murray, written on shipboard, which
makes interesting reading:
May 3. 1919. p. m, Lat. l3 N, Long.
81 w, caribbean Sea.
Editor Daily Ardmoreite:
We are some $50 miles from our des.
tined port OF Cristobal pronounced with
accent on "to'o, Canal Zone.
We are now passing in 10 miles of
land. II Is Providence Island, some Is
miles long, elevated 800 feet above the
sea: contains 272 inhabitants, but all the
land on It is owned by a citizen of the
Colombia republic, to whose flag it bears
sovereign allegiance. Leaves from
which bay rum is made are gathered
from this island. II rises out of the sea
Inv HI'Su ppNNNp ihilNs h' 'rii'i' -
we are told, are so rock bound that no
ships can approach II. The owner, how
ever, meets passing sail vessels in
small yacht to deliver mail and ship
produce.
Retracing our trackless voyage back
ward. ! recte the few incidents to be
gathered at sea, Upon rising this morn
ing all were in search of posted radio
messages from home, TO learn further
about the |. w. w and socialist May
day deviltry, which came to the ships
wireless yesterday morning, causing
great animation among all the pas
seugers Three United States marines
bound for duty on the Canal Zone eX-
pressed Il great wish to be up and at
these destroyers of civilization" All
had fears that more trouble had been
done than the radio message indicated,
| learned from Dane, who, with his
father, had spent six months in the
United States hunting land, now going
TO South America for the same purpose,
that he and his father had been eNten-
sive manufacturers and land owners in
Denmark and had sold, foreseeing the
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making it intolerable for men with eth
er property or family to live there.
All this morning and for two days we
have witnessed great flocks of flying
fish fitting about on the waves. They
rcmind one of wheatbirds in the mead
ow, except that they look white. Yes
terday we saw many seagulls. Some
said they never go far from land, while
others maintain that they are to be seen
midway of the Atlantic.
Every passenger on board speaks
English except the consul of Chile and
the elder Dane mentioned above. Most
OF them are citizens of the great re-
public to the North going to various
points Of South America.
Knew Congressman Carter.
Among them have met a DR.. Depew
and two others going en- route to La
Paz to mine for gold. DR.. Depew asked
me if knew Congressman Carter Up
on telling him for upwards of 90 years.
he replied:
I had the honor of entertaining Con
gressman Carter in Cuba some years
ago
~tHipllS pliiti HsiHS' iSNAf - ~ q S'Hi'P
girl from the Rocky Mountain states
going to live with her sister and broth
er,in.law in the cattle business, near
San Salvador. Paraguay. near the Bo
livian border. She had never been
there. nor had any idea where it is To-
Gated till / showed her one of my sew
eral maps.
also met an old woman and her
daughter from Michigan. going to a
mining town in Chile, up in the Andes.
Few of the passengers know any
more about the countries they are go
ing to than they could get from the
contents of letters received from friends
or relatives living down there When
| showed them maps and gave descrip
tons of the precise locality to which
each was going. they We're astonished
when l told them | had never lived
nor been there.
l met young man just returning
from the war zone still in the service,
who left Atoka. Okla, to enlist in 1917.
He is on his way to take charge of the
United States radio station at Cocasola,
c. z.
1t was most interesting to see the
pilots on the Mississippi river come
out of the darkness-these old 'river
dogs" who have spent their lives on
the river and know every dangerous
shoal, snag and shallow upon tin lit
tie electric canoes to show these ocean
steamers tall of them and their crews
20 the open sea. We passed out of the
river about 80 o'clock in the night,
and went by wrecked steamer ground
ed the day before.
Here the sea was at its worst, and
almost made me seasick. Soon over.
and we were upon a calm sea for all