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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15
EDISONS KIN,
SAYS MILLER

Closely questioned In regard
90 statements he was said to
have made In recent lecture tn
seattle. DIR. Orlando Edgar NIL
Ter. lecturer on psychology. de
cIsrcd to Representatives Of the
Better business bureau. Friaay.
that he j. q second cousin by
marriage TO Thomas A. Edison
shown letter from Edison, N
which tho inventor denied ans
knowledge of relationship with MI
Ter. the latter stated that u was
to suppose that such was
the case.
Il dare say Edison himself has
never learned Of II. but tho fact re
mains that Edison's present wife Is
a cousin 20 my father" he declared
giibly.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15

ROME, Ga - Warden Freeman
scented a scent. He followed his
nose, and In a cell found 10 gallons
OF beer m0sh, and prisoners busy
over two coffee pot stills.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15
CUBWAY BEGGAR
~ HAD A FORTUNE

NEW yORk.--A decrepit woman
was arrested in subway station for
begging pennies. Police matrons
found 81 .3s4 sewed in her clothing
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15

from forest Hires biIiowed over
the Pacific Northwest again to-
day.
The whole region IL Spotted"
with bIsxes. many Of them of con-
siderable consequence.
Near Hood River. Ore. on th'
south side OF the Columbia river. I
fire Is moving on a four mile from
from the vicinity Of Wyeth toward
Green Point. Fully 800 men ar'
fighting this fire. which II rldinI
before a stiff soufberly wind. Cut
over logging land only has sufferes
NO far. aitho green timber IN threat
ened. according 70 reports from th'
front.
a fire II threatening the town
Of white Salmon. Wash. raging
below the high bluff which sep.
arstes the town from the Co
lumbia river. a south wind
may frise the flames over the
brow Of the bluff and ignite the
town. according 10 fears ex-
pressed by forest fire officials
here.
Flames are threatening three
small settlements near Monte
saBo. Wash. A wall OF flame
Is upresring within 100 rods Of
the town Of Aladdin. Wash. 100
miles north of Spokane. In the
northeastern part Of the state.
Soldiers from Camp Lewis liave
been detailed 10 fight fires In
the vicinity Of American Lake.
where camp buildings are
threatened.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15

Home Brew

nome grew
Greetings. folks, Don't the
approaching county elections lust
thrill yous
A number OF hats have been
thrown into the ring. and most Of
them need re.biocklng already.
We win enter tho race fer county
hrewmasier II the occasion is Sur.
fieientls urged.
THE FIRST SHALL. BE LAST
A score Of candidates stood In
limo all night In order to be first
to file st the county auditors
office. But none Of them was
first. County Auditor ID. 4. Fer
guson was.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15

Forest fires thruout the state. tenn.
porarily checked by large forces Of
men, again became dangerous Satur.
day. Timber IN all parts OF Western
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15
Let the
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take place. People come and
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and sell. The classified col
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urn TO the Classified and find
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15

LII GEE GEE. TIL OFFICE
vAMP, SEZ:
Kissing q giri thru n veil IL
like drinking cocktail under a
shower bath.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15

THAT A CENTRAL garage he es
tablished for city autos was recon
menced Saturday by Mayor Brown
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-15

The tfhr FrortsaE rANN y ruHuihk
= contest To determine the most
valuable man IN the Pacific Coast
league. We think the prize should
70 10 Walter Mccrriis. The show.
ing Of the Indians under his man
sEement made him red hot favor
ne with the fans In every other city
n the league.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Brides Love of Adventure
Led to Jungle Honeymoon

And largely IL was his prowess and
achievements which won him his bride.
Her interest in adventure was as keen as
his, the life of wild creatures to her as
fascinating. And this trip into Borneo,
risking fever, rlsking death from score
of hidden dangers and the possible hos
tility of natives untouched by civilization,
was by way of honeymoon, if you
please.
No white ribbons tied to the trunks that
went on this wedding trip. No pretty gray
travelling gowns. Khaki bloomers and
leather puttees for bride as well as BRIDE
groom. A high powered shotgun in her
hand instead of vanity case. sheath
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
THERE is the greatest forest in the
" world? The question was asked in
the forestry section of an orqani-

w HERE is the greatest forest in the
M world? The question was asked in
the forestry section Of an organi-
zation for the advancement of science at
a meeting held not so long ago. The i'm
portance of forests for equalizing the climate
and the rainfall of the globe was under dis
cussion, and the purpose of the question
was to show where the great forest tracts
of the world are situated
One member, replying ofhand. was in
clined to maintain that the greatest con-
Lawrence River, in the provinces of Quebec
and Ontario extending northward to Hudson
Bay and Labrador; a region measuring
about seventeen hundred miles in length
from east to west. and thousand miles
In width, north and south.
A Government official from Washington
reJoined that a much larger continuous area
of timber lands was to be found reckoning
from those in the State of Washington
northward through British Columbia and
Alaska. But he limited his statement to
North America, fo9 he s.Cded that, in his
opinion the largest torres. in the world oc-
cuped the valley of the Amazon, embracing
much of northern Brazil, eastern Peru,
Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Guinea; a
region at least twenty-ore hundred miles
in length by thirteen hundred in breadth.
Exception was Immediately taken to this
statement by several members who, In the
light OF latterday explorations, have COM
puted the forest area of Central Africa in
the valley of the Congo including the head
waters of the Nile to the northeast and
those OF the Zambesi on the south. Accord
ing to their estimates. Central Africa con-
tains a forest region not less than three
thousand miles In length from north to south
and of vast, although not fully known. width
from east to west. Discussion. In which the
evidence afforded by travels and surveys was
freely cited, seemed favorable to the defender
Of the Amazonian forests
Later in the day the entire question was
placed in another light by member who
was so fortunate as to be able to speak from
some knowledge of still another great forest
region Of the globe This gentleman gave
vivid picture of the vast, solemn tdigds and
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

its head and wound her with It's bony
jaws.
Finding this new victim inert, he pro-
ceeded with torturing leisureliness in the
matter of coiling himself about her body.
And she waited.
She felt the huge elastic body passing
with velvety suavity around her legs, be-
meath the knees, and slowly slide above her
thighs, around her waist, and only her
arms and head were free The wicked
head, with its keen and hypnotizing eye,
was drawn back. 1t was ready for the
and head.
Then she struck.
She struck as true as the Dyak she had
seen had struck at the smaller python.
She Struck as Strongly
As Had Her Mentor
1t was in the instant that she gave the
python its death wound that her husband
came crashing through the forest and be-
hind him half dozen of the men of the
party. He had no idea that she herself
had been in danger. The agony cry had
been that of man. It was man they ex-
pected to rescue. And it was big Martin
Johnson, hero of hundred, two hundred,
perilous adventures who came the nearest
to fainting as his wife staggered free of
the coils Of the jungle monster.
Now II is the religion of the Dyaks that
when one of them Is slain by python or
other jungle man killer the creature,
the very one which took the human life,
must be relentlessly tracked and slain.
Until mans kin have achieved this they
are In the shadow of disgrace and their
delinquency moreover not only keeps them
under the bane of Autock, the god of good
fortune, but all their tribal associates as
we'll. So the hunt is never postponed and
never abandoned.
Mrs. Johnson having so promptly
avenged the killing of their tribesman, the
Dyaks looked upon her as we might look
upon saint--a Joan of Arc. And that night,
with the python stretched its full length
in the glare of the huge campfire, came
prolonged native feasting,' dancing and
music in her honor, with the chorus of the
cries of strange, wild and ferocious beasts
in the blackness of the surrounding forest.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

~ UT of the weird, rank, dank jungles
of innermost Borneo white wom-
an, young, American. emerged re
Gently with six months of strange, hazard
Gus experiences behind her. She had
threaded the most dangerous lair of rep
tiles on earth.
And crowning this achievement was an
adventure of the widest, most thrilling
and perilous character. This was her fight,
single handed, with only sheath knife to
aid her, against a python.
The creature was monster of its kind.
1t was twenty-five feet long 1t was thick
as mans body. 1t possessed the strength
to crush the ribs of an elephant. And IL it
had not been for the sinking Of the poign-
ard of the courageous woman into the
jugular of the massive, 1oathsome creature,
she must have been found by the rescuing
party of Dyaks who beat its way through
the bush to her aid, dead, crushed to pulp.
Her fight with the python lasted but five
minutes. But it was tense, thrilling as
ever fight could be. And in the desperate
minutes of its passing there was lying in
her sight, literally at her feet, a horrible
warning of what her fate would be if the
struggle were lost.
Crunched, distorted out of all human
shape was the body of Dyak the python
mad just killed. The reptile had uncoiled
with hissings of deadly rage from this vic
tim to seek another. And it was only ex
pert knowledge OF what to do and where to
strike in such an emergency that brought
the young American woman out of the ad-
venture with her life.
The heroine Of this jungle tale of real
ity is Mrs. Martin Johnson. She is the
wife of the Indiana explorer who has
specialized in taking the movie camera
into the strange wildernesses OF the earth
setting the camera eye to penetrating the
Jungle.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

The cry was not repeated as she fought
and cut her way through treacherously
interviewer brushwood and ground vines
in the direction whence 1t had arisen. And
as suddenly she came upon the horror.
Eyes Popping From His Head,
Dyak Dies CHASTITY Death
It's tail circled once about the mighty
limb of great jungle tree, the gigantic
python held the crunched, collapsed figure
of Dyak in its tolls. The mans eyes
were popping from their sockets, his tongue
lolling far and hideously out and beyond
his empurpled lips. Still in convulsed
hand he grasped the knife that had been
too slow in transit to The python's throat
The victim had doubtless been taken
completely by surprise. The python had
dropped to the attack and dragged the
unfortunate off his feet in tragic amaze as
the hunter had unwarily walked in the
forest gloom.
"Its head hung low-within reach of
my lifted arm, yet so high that knew
could not strike with sufficient force to
drive my knife into making a deadly
wound" the intrepid woman explorer is
quoted as saying afterward. "And yet
must have tried to strike anyway for 1
could not have stood there inactive and
seen the hideous creature set about the
swallowing of human being, dead though
the man was"
But even as she considered this reckless
attack upon the monster, 1t dropped its vic
tim. 1t dropped the Dyak with sudden
ness unbelievably quick and fell upon him
and Mrs Johnson found herself facing the
coiling monster herself. To have turned
to run would have been useless. She knew
the creatures in their slithering way to be
wonderfully fleet, and the floor of the
jungle Is their natural carpet.
Desperately she remembered the exhibi-
tion the Dyak had given in camp. AS to
what agony she underwent in putting her.
self under terrific restraint. she has since
declared, she could never adequately de-
scribe. But she stood absolutely motion
less, lest the python should fay her with
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Heard the Death Scream
OF Big Snakes Victim

The hunt was, of course, in progress in
daylight, but it must be understood that
although the sun was bright in cloudless
sky, the thickness of the foliage of the
tall trees held the forest in twilight
gloom. Every step was taken in peril.
And suddenly directly ahead of her, Mrs
Johnson heard single, high, sharp cry
a strident scream. And she knew that un-
mistakably it had come from human
throat. But so high the cry that recogni
tion of the owner of the voice was not
possible She said she knew 1t for death
cry. She could not know but that 1t might
have come from the lips of her own hus-
band. But whoever 1t was. his agony and
danger were great. And her courage rose
to obey the call to the duty of rescue
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

The party had been in the jungle for
upward of two months. They had worked
their way full 500 miles into the wilder
ness. There had been evidences of the
presence of big pythons, but none had as
yet been sighted. The seven Dyaks, the
two white men with the party besides Mar
tin Johnson and the lesser natives had
spread in all directions. Their movements
were being directed by an expert Dyak
python finder. They were circling the
brush and beating into constantly narrow
ing circle, looking up the while of course
with unabating vigilance into the branches
of the big trees, the python's favorite hid
Ing place.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

live pigs in a sim
gle gulp. And larg-
er animals.
The python is not
a slow and deliber.
ate feeder as are
other reptiles of his
sort. He bolts his
food. His powers Of
fabrication and dis
tention are far and
above that of other
similar creatures.
He is capable of
swallowing a man
inside Of two min
utes.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29


attacking, crushing, killing man and
swallowing him whole
OF the seven native Dyaks who were on
the Johnson expedition there stepped for
ward sharp featured man. 1.-The in the
prime Of his years, his features aquiline,
his head narrow and slightly flattened at
top not dissimilar to that of the head of a
snake itself. He volunteered to perform the
extraordinary feat of allowing the nine foot
python to coil itself about his body and
grinningly asserted that he would depend
upon the swiftness of his arm and eye, the
keenness of his sheath knife, to kill the
python in that moment when the python
would put to work its deadly constructing
force.
"The tremendous reward of a dollar was
to go for the performance of this feat"
said Mrs. Johnson. "And Mr.. Johnson at
first declared he would not allow the ma
tive to take so great risk of his life either
for paltry or great reward. But the man
expressed such confidence in himself, and
the other Dyaks, while not undertaking to
perform the feat themselves, were so GER
tain that he could come safely through It,
that my husbands consent was finally won.
Bites as Well as Coils.
After Seizing It's Victim
"It was a wonderful spectacle to see the
1.-THE native deliberately set himself in the
path of the python and stand with smile
immovable while the reptile reared with
gaping jaws and wound itself slowly about
his body. 1t is, of course, true that the
python Is not venomous. But his power to
injure lies not only in his muscles of con-
striction, but II has also a borv structure
within its jaw sharp and dangerous as
teeth and with II in the throes of battle is
capable of inficting deep wounds on the
body of its opponent. II bites as well as
coils where the victim struggles.
"It was necessary, therefore, for this
Dyak IL he was to come out of the fight
alive-to stand absolutely inert while the
python reared up at him and took him in
its deadly coils. There was psychology as
well as physical action involved.
II saw the eyes of the man as intense
and alert as cunning as those of the snake.
could see when he sensed the exact mo-
ment to strike. The python invariably I'm
beginning its swallowing process seizes its
victim by the snout or head. AS its jaws
extend to take this hold IL starts the crush
ing. squeezing process.
"And just as the python in this case
settled it's coils to crush and put forward
its wicked head to lave that of the Dyak
with its saliva, just when we we're all on
the point Of screaming with horror his
knife flashed
ut went like CLINT of lightning across
our vision and pierced deeply into the
throat of the python. II struck true to the
particular aim-the jugular. And the man
stepped gracefully forward few minutes
later from the collapsed and relaxed coils
of the big snake"
And by way Of preliminary to her own
wild experience, so that she must have
had only too full and terrifying a realiza-
ticn Of what would happen IL she did not
send her knife true to the throat OF the
monster that would have slain her, she
witnessed among the lesser pythons the
process of feeding. Saw them swallow
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

knife instead of an orange stick for mani
cure. Though she makes confession of
one adjunct of dainty femininity not abb
jured She carried a powder puff.
The start of the expedition which was
to bring upon her the adventure of the
short but terrific battle with the python
was made from Sandakhan in Borneo, and
progress was made by slow degrees up
the winding Kinibatangan River. where it
was navigable, but again and again Its
rapids or the rock filled bottom of the
to marches through wild tangles, where
axes, hatchets. knives and fire we're re-
quired to blaze their pathways.
The dangers Of travel in the weird
region come not only from the pythons
draped warily and watchfully from the
limbs of the forest trees, almost merged
into the coloring of the foliage, poised to
drop upon whatever animal passes beneath.
Dangerous head hunters, tribes of vicious
pygmies hostile to the white man, have
winding Kinibatangan River, and far in
the interior exist little seen but known
tribes of humans still in that state of evo-
luton where they have tails7-tails some
of them as long as eight inches.
Tales of the existence of these folk are
not fiction. They have been actually seen
and encountered, but have been far too
timorous and wary to venture near enough
Holds Himself in Jungle
Far From Haunts of Man
Like the tailed creatures the python
holds himself to the secret recesses of the
jungles--the big ones. Smaller snakes,
nearly every breed of venomous reptile,
were daily encountered on the march. But
the pythons, the big, fully developed fell
lows that from tip to glittering eyed head
measure anywhere from twenty to forty
feet, have to be hunted for. They are
hard to fnd--only indefatigable battling
through the mazes Of brush and tangled
vinewood and close knit forests will bring
back the prize.
And then not always, as many bitterly
disappointed explorers can attest. Carl
Lumholz, the super explorer, once spent
two years hunting a python In vain. The
huge python Is scarcely known In modern
days in India. Borneo and Malaysia Is the
present habitat of the huge man-eating
devil coils" And hence the Johnson ex
pedition out OF Sandakhan.
What was to serve Mrs. Johnson as a
passport to life. the means of escape from
death. was an exhibition of python killing
she witnessed early in the Borneo journey.
This occurred in an encampment about a
hundred miles outside Of Sandakhan in a
clearing, in the center of which had been
Gagged and trapped the result of the days
hunt.
Among the captured was nine foot
python-a pygmy compared to that which
she herself was to encounter, but neverthe.
less Of a length and strength fully capable
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Odd Nature Facts of Unusual Interest

The Utah man told how three traps had been
set on each side of a trail, at intervals of a
couple of feet, and trap was placed directly
in the middle of the trail. The man who set
the traps hoped that when the wolf detected
the trail trap, which was purposely set in
careless manner, he would step aside, and
so spring one of the traps carefully hidden
at the edge OF the trail.
The mans disgust may easily be imagined
when one learns that, day or two later he
found that the wolf had stopped when he
scented the trap in the trail, but that instead
CT stepping either to right or left had care
fully backed out OF the danger zone, and
Lad then made a detour around the care
fully constructed snare and taken up the
trail again some fifty feet farther on.
II is impossible to run these wolves with
hounds on account OF the extreme roughness
OF the country, which leaves the rider miles
In the rear. and strings the dogs according
to their strength and endurance for several
miles along the trail.
A FULL grown wild duck Is one of the
Il most wary of all creatures, and many
are the devices of hunters in various
parts OF the world to kill or to capture II.
There is one method of taking wild ducks,
In considerable numbers, practiced in China
ciently unknown to Occidentala to prove OF
interest
The natives see that large numtcr of
calabashes or gourds. shall always be feft
floating on the water frequented by the birds
until they come to regard them as part and
parcel OF their resorts
The duck hunter chooses his time, and
putting one OF the calabashes, with holes cut
for his mouth and eyes, upon his head he
wades through the lake, taking care to keep
the whole Of his body beneath the surface
He cautiously approaches the unsuspect.r=
wild fowl, and, catching one of them by the
leg, pulls II with a sudden jerk beneath the
water, causing hardly more commotion OF the
surface than the duck itself when It dives
or splashes plunges for its food He
wrings Its neck under the water and fastens
II to his belt. Then he deals with another
and another in the same fashion until he
makes his retreat, equally unnoticed. with
whole girdleful OF captured wild ducks.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

A N Eastern man once wrote to an ac-
II quaintance In Utah. where bounty
\ system prevails. that he thought 1t
would pay to devote his entire time to hunt
ing wolves. The reply which he received ex-
plains why the heavy price Of SITS has been
put upon the head Of "the big brother to the
fox"
The Utah man wrote that unless one is
familiar with the habits of the wolf and the
country he frequents one cannot understand
how difficult II is to catch the creature. 1t
is almost impossible to poison wolves. for
the war Utah people have waged upon them
for many years has made them so cunning
that it is rare TO find one poisoned.
Their ability to detect traps Is uncanny