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Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
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Renault Earns Right :"
Meet Dempsey; Can't
Hit Hard

NEW YORK, November 3.-With
defense against q right hand up
percut as helpless and ineffective
as the "patty cakes of an in
fant, young Floyd Johnson passed
clear out of the heavyweight reck.
oning last night
Jess Willard started Johnson on
the down grade last summer when
he stood back and smeared the game
youngster with right uppercuts as
he charged furiously into him.
Jack Renault, heavyweight cham
pion of Canada, did the same thing
in Madison Square Garden last
night and he knocked him out with
only 30 seconds to go in the fif-
teenth and last round.
He was out in his corner for ten
minutes and was in such bad shape
that doctors were rushed in to
bring him around.
The bout was designed and
promoted with the view of finding
u new opponent for jack Dempsey
and if Ren;ult is to be the next
one to meet the champion 1T is to
be hoped for the sake of Renault
that the meeting is purely a social
one.
In the tenth round johnson was
cut OH his feet but with blind cour
age impelling him he came back
and won the eleventh round. But
the twelfth started his end and it
was Il sad finish to his career.
Renau1t is Il good boxer and
always has been, but he cannot hit
hard. Tom Gibbons would annihil,
ate him. Harry Wills might end
Il meeting with a tragedy. Firpo
could beat him with his left hand.
The bout only proved last night
that Dempsey Is all the more secure
in his championship and it show
ed beyond doubt that the leading
contender such as they are, are
Gibbons, Firpo and Wills. John
son is through now when he should
just be starting.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
ATHLETES HEAD
SCHOLARSHIP
ELIGIBLE LIST

\ SAN FRANCISCO, November 3.
Football does not entirely ruin
the scholastic standing of college
Students il was indicatSd TODAY
when lists of oligibles for Rhodes
scholarships were given out bv the
University of California and Stan
ford University.
Webster Clarke, for three years
star guard on the University of
California varsity was named on
the California list. Dudley De.
Groot captain of last years Stan
ford varsity, headed the Stanford
list.
These students will compete with
others from western colleges and
successfully candidates will bcr,sent
to Oxford University, England, lin.
der scholarship hcqucsts left Am
crican Universities by the late
Cecil Rhodes.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
New Ford Factory
Near St. Paul to
Be Model Plant

DETROIT, November 3.-All ma
iors decisions covering the con
struction of the Ford Motor Com.
pany S plant to be erected along
the Mississippi River between Min
neapolis and st. Paul have been
made and details just announced
here give the first information re-
garding the magnitude of the new
Ford project.
II Hydro-electric plant, steam plant
and manufacturing and assembly
| plant constitute The three important
buildings with interest centcring
chiefly about the hydro electric
development since it represents the
company S most extensive undertak.
ing of this kind.
The dam where the power will be
developed is 574 feet long and was
completed by the government in
1915
The power house will be 100 feet
long by n feet widc and 4S feet
above the foundation. Four wntcr
wheels of 800 horsepower will be
installed, which, in conjunction with
four vertical generators, will under
normal conditions produce approx
imately $4,000 horse power.
The immense manufacturing and
assembly plant will be erected on
AN imposing site on the bluff 100
feet above the water level. 1t will
front on the Mississippi > River
Boulevard and will be faced with
stone on three sides and so designed
as to present Il most attractive APP
pcarance.
The building will be one story
high, l,720 fee: long and 600 feet
/ wide and will have. more than
100000 square feet or % acres of
floor space.
Ruilroad tracks, will, of course,
enter the building, but Il transpor-
tation feature will be two tunnels
leading underneath the factory
from river dock to elevators
which will carry freight directly
into the building, This anticipates
/ Il new era of river transportation
on the Mississippi.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03

FOR RENT-2O0 acres of the very
best land; so acres plowed and
ready for lettuce or eantaloupes,
for cash. Address F.. c. Schulz,
Becker Ranch, Bonds Corner, Ca
lexicO. 1t3
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
NEW SCHOOL MANUALS OUT

The new manuals for use IN the
public schools of Imperial county
have been received by County Supt.
Coe, and are being sent out to tllc
principals of all schools in the
county. Later, as the remainder Of
the shipment is received, addition
al copies for the use of the teachers
will be available. These manuals
contain 90 pages of information on
the course of study used in the
county schools, and are put out in
neat looscIcaf binding. They are
supplementary to the manuals put
out by the board of education in
1920, and cover varied subjects from
the "threc RS" to fire prevcn-
tion, patriotism, manners and NOR
ais.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
Lost or Found

ESTRAYED-3 Jersey and l Hol-
stein cows. l.. Il. Harding. 4
mile south McCabe school on east
side of canal. Gen. Del. Ell Cen
tro. 29t6
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03

FOR SALE-Fordson tractor with
new factory motor equipped with
extension grousers spring seat,
swinging draw bar, attachment
price $3.50. Phone 63. 3ltf
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03

erecting signs on the outskirts of
the county directing autoists tow
ard Grass valley. with the words
z Prospecting Detour.''
Reason for such I'm idea is good.
The city is rebuilding many high
way; stone and quatz from many
of the larger gold producing mines
near here is being used. Rain wash
ing the broker stone releases what
gold is present. Residents have
been panning'' for the metal, like
old timers, and are said to have had
GOOD RETURNS -. -. - u. -.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03

FOR SALE-Parlor Grand Piano.
Excellent condition. Terms. f.
Needham. 451 He'll st. soto
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
PANNING OF GOLD
ON COUNTY ROADS
GOOD OCCUPATION

GRASS VALLEY, Cal, Novem-
Der 3.-ThousaEds of dollars worth
of gold has been ''prospected' by
Grass Valley. residents from the
old county roads during the recent
rains. -l
w. e f. = e. iLers arn consiIeriili
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03

FOR SALE-Or exchange, for Mail
st. property, 10 room modern
house. Write i. o. Box 747, +
Centre. 2t6
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
ALL TURFDOM IS
AWAITING RACE
RESULTS TODAY
Zev and My Own Will
Decide Who Is
Champion
BY FRANK GETTY

LATONIA RACE TRACK, Ky,
Nov. 3.--For three thrilling minutes
this afternoon the pulse of the
horse world will be attuned to the
frantic drumming of aspiring hoofs
the best of champions.
Then king will be crowned with
all the honors old Kentucky show
ers on the best of the sport she
mothered.
Zev or Ny Own or one of the less
Wanted contenders in the turf
event of the year, the Latonia
Championship will be hailed con-
queror of his class.
At dawn bit of fog hung over
the Kentucky hills but there was
no threat of rain.
The warm Kentucky sunshine that
has favored race goers this week
was struggling into position for
the event Of events.
Zev was favorite. The wickercd
maws of the mutuel machines gaped
before flood of greenbacks to be
wagcred on Harry +. Sinclair S colt.
Thousands in the throng today saw
Zev win the Kentucky derby :;
other thousands witnessed his i'm
pressive triumph over the pick of
Old England; his victories in the
Witbcrs and the Belmont were re-
called.
Ny Own, beautiful bay colt own
ed by Admiral Cary r. Grayson,
was rated second best. Rialto was
third choice with In ,Memoriam s
prowess stoutly held fourth by the
western horsemen, but little real
money was in sight. All four
horses were in condition bcfitting
the race. Special trains stopped at
the track.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-03
Fer SaLe-MtScell1neOus

FOR SALE-20 fine oak pedestal
restaurant stools. Phone $50. Next
to Bclvedere Theater, Brawlcy.
sits
The mirror., 1923-12-13
OUR WESTERN EXPLORERS
Selected

VXNHAT was the west? Who first ex-
" plored it? What did they find?
Since the two Americas were
discovered by means of voyages from the
eastward, everything was west at the be-
ginning, and everything was unknown to
Europe. Really the first western explor-
ers were the native Indians, who for ages
followed the rivers, crossed the passes and
gazed at the peaks. Their knowledge,
however, was sealed book till Europeans
came and returned home to publish their
discoveries to the world.
The first of the explorers were the Span
iards. Ponce de Leon was western ex-
plorer when he landed in Florida; so were
Pineda when he sailed past the mouth of
the Mississippi, De Soto when he reached
the great river at more northerly point,
Coronado when he made his way north
ward into the region of Kansas and
Cardenas when he looked down upon the
Colorado River from the top of a gorge
that seemed "two or three leagues deep"
After those first explorations the Span
iards showd little further curiosity about
the interior of North America. The Eng
lish also were slow to look beyond the
Appalachian Mountains; and so it was
not till about 1870 that the Virginian ex-
plorer Colonel Wood crossed the divide,
"for the finding out the ebbing and flow
ing of the waters on the other side of the
mountains" and saw the New River des-
cending into the unknown west.
The French settled at the mouth of the
St. Lawrence, the only great river in North
America that flows eastward from the in
terror. They easily followed up the valley
and for hundred and fifty years were
the only explorers and discoverers in that
region. They followed from one Indian
tribe to another, made themselves familiar
with the mighty rivers and returned to
write accounts of discoveries that aston
ished Europe. A hunderd years before
the American Revolution the French had
discovered and traversed the chain of
Great Lakes, the river system north to
Hudson Bay and a considerable pait of
the Mississippi River. Later they made
their "farthest west'' in the expedition of
Verendrye, who in 1743 pushed from the
Missouri southwest up some river, perhaps
the Bighorn, till he saw "the shining
mountains" over which he thought it
would be easy to pass and thus reach the
Pacific. His was the first discovery of the
Rocky Mountains.
The French were wonderful explorers,
strong of limb, stout of courage, expert
boatmen, skilled trappers and hunters and
successful in gaining the good will of the
Indians. 1t is hard to say whether the
colonizers, the fur traders or the mission
aries were the bravest and the most stead
fast-whether Champlian or La Sale or
Father Marquette did most to open up the
West.
Only one Englishman, Carver, is known
to have pushed beyond the Mississippi be-
fore the Revolution. He stayed for time
on the plateau between the Mississippi and
the Missouri rivers and heard that the
"Oregon, or River of the West" and the
"Messorie" (as he spelled the great river
Missouri) headed near each other BY
The mirror., 1923-12-13
A BOOK REVIEW
By Mr.. H. B.

HAT the natives of the New Indies
are cannibals and animal worshipers,
is the statement of DR.. Foo Ling. the
noted missionary and explorer, in his re-
Gently published book, "Wild Tribes Of
Manhattan and Adjoining Provinces."
(Kid Ding &, Co. $3.50 net).
ARRIVING at New Yak, the principal
city, after tedious voyage" writes Dr..
Ling, II secured lodgings at one of tho
numerous inns for travellers +. The en-
closed courtyard was filled with the motley
of humanity that makes up the kaleido-
scopic spectacle of life in the picturesque
Occident. Merchant princes, money lend
ers, peasants from outlying districts,
thieves, assassins, braves, government and
private spies, medicine men, witch doctors,
dancing girls and their masters jostled and
rubbed shoulders under the glare. of the
quaint glass lanterns. Bazaar maidens
peddled sweetmeats and the national drug
tobago -. from the eating places
came the strains of barbaric native music"
The moral condition of the natives is
very low. Polygamy, polyandry and con-
cubinage are rather the rule than the ex-
ception. II was not impressed by the
beauty of their women, continues the
doctor, skinny, scrawny creatures, their
nakedness scantily covered by few rags
and the skins from dead cats, rats and
skunks :. their faces heavily en-
ameled, according to the native ideas Of
beauty, which gives them hideous ap-
pearance, similar to that of fever flushed
leper. Their coifures are very elaborate,
their natural hair being cut off and replaced
by enormous piles of dead Chinamen's
hair, the fibre from ooconut husks and
puppy dogs tails. The pitiful creatures
seemed to be suffering from malnutrition
and exhibited feverish restlessness /
attributed to the pangs of hunger. Bony
women are considered very beautiful by
the natives and all women over twenty
five are subjected to rigorous course of
semi-starvation. Cooking is naturally
lost art among the natives of New Yak
and the population lives upon all manners
of queer, tastelss dishes prepared in huge
pots and sealed up in individual iron pots
until required. Their food is frightful and
only after a taste perverted by long in
diligence in it can one eat it without re-
pugnance -. They are very fond of
live maggots which they raise in put
relying cheese. They even eat the intestines
of dead animals -"
The condition of the women is deplorable.
The upper caste women are forbidden
to bear children under the pain of ex-
pulsion from the communal dwelling until
the child either dies or attains the age of
eighteen when the taboo is removed. Even
the discussion of offspring is forbidden a.
being indecent and immoral
The good missionary won the friend
ship of young sheik and it was through
this high spirited youth that DR.. Ling
gained an insight into the ritual of the
animal worshipers. ~ could scarce for
bear laughing" says the doctor, "at the
appearance of my friend the sheik His
hair was plastered to his head with heavy
grease, giving him the look of drowned
rat" page 4, OoL ~
The mirror., 1923-12-13
Saltwater, Minnesota, Thursday, December 49, 1923

that route it seemed possible to reach the
Pacific.
In 1888 all of the country east of the
Mississippi was taken over by the new
United States, and twenty years later
Louisiana was annexed-a purchase that
extended the new republic to the farthest
westward headwaters of the Mississippi.
1t is amazing that so little was then known
of the Far West. Not till 1892 was the
mouth of the Columbia River discovered
by the Yankee sea captain Robert Gray.
Years later the maps showed the "Stony
Mountains" or "Rocky Mountains" which
were known to run north and south as the
spine of the continent, and beyond them
laid down mythical river, Buenventura,
flowing southwestward and emptying into
the Pacific somewhere near the Bay of
San Francisco.
The obvious task of the explorer was to
cross the continent, and the most direct
way seemed to be to follow the Missouri
to its source, find the nearby headwaters
of the Columbia and go on down to the
western ocean. AS matter of fact
shorter route might have been found by
going west up the valleys of the Platte or
the Arkansas and thence across the Great
Basin, in which was no Buenventura.
The Spaniards had actually worked out
a third roundabout route across the con-
tinent-a route that went up the Rio
Grande, skirted round north of the canon
of the Colorado, passed Utah Lake few
miles south of Great Salt Lake and then
crossed the desert southwestward to the
Pacific Coast near the present site of Los
Angeles. The first actual overland cross
ing to the North Pacific was made by a
bold Hudson Bay trader, Mackenzie, who
in 1898 followed up the Peace River to
its source and came out on salt water
probably not far from Alaska.
As soon as Louisiana was transferred
the United States government took steps to
explore the northern and middle sections
of the West; but it was more than forty
years before the interior geography of the
country was known. 1t seemed for long
time impossible to realize that between the
Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas
lay a great interior basin that had no
drainage either to the Atlantic or to the
Pacific.
The most enthusiastic explorer of the
period from 1908 to 1906 was Thomas
Jefferson, who never saw even the Ohio
River. He was the soul of the western
movement. Before Louisiana was trans
ferred he induced Congress to make
slender provision for an exploring party
under the leadership of his private secre-
tary, Capt. Meriwether Lewis, and the
equally bold and able Capt. William
Clark. They were ordered to ascend the
Missouri River to its headwaters and
thence, realizing the dream of Verendrye
and Carver, to cross the mountains and
explore the Columbia River to its mouth.
On May IA, 1904, with party of forty
three men they started from the junction
of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers;
and on September %, 1906, they reap
peared in St. Louis.
Few men in the history of the world
have made such splendid discoveries and
gone through such stirring adventures.
The party wintered at the Mandan viii
lagos on the upper Missouri a thousand
miles above St. Louis; the next spring they
The mirror., 1923-12-13

started up the mysterious river. The heads
of the expedition and several others kept
journals which are among the most fas-
cinating narratives ever written. They
padded and poled their way up the chan
mel of the crooked river to the Great Falls,
never before seen by white men, passing
large tributaries such as the Musselshell,
the Milk River, which the Indians called
"River that scolds at all the other rivers"
and Maria's River, named for Virginia
young lady. More than year after they
left St. Louis they "frst caught a distant
view of the Rocky Mountains, the object
of all our hopes and the reward of all our
ambitions"
They worked on upstream till they
reached the spot where the river divides
into three forks, which they called Gala
tin, Jefferson and Madison. They turned
off westward before reaching Red Rock
Lake, which is the farthest source of the
Missouri, crossed the continental divide by
the Lolo Pass, one of the most difficult in
the mountains, and on the other side struck
the upper waters of the Columbia. Even
tually the two largest branches were
named Lewis and Clark Forks. The in
trepid men pushed on to the mouth of the
Columbia, wintered there and returned
home by about the same route.
The year before Lewis and Clark re-
turned Lieutenant Pike was ordered by the
government to go up the Mississippi and
Find its source, and in the winter of 1906
06, while Lewis and Clark were living at
Fort Clatsop on the Pacific, he reached
lake that he said "may be called the upper
source of the Mississippi River" Twenty
five years later Schoolcraft and other bet
ter explorers went nearly forty miles far
-ther into the interior and fixed on Lake
1tasca as the source; half century later
the head was traced by Chambers and
others nine miles farther into the wilder
ness to the tiny Lake fernando de Soto.
As soon as Pike came back he was sent
to find the source of the Arkansas. He
knew that there was great range of
mountains out there, but was nevertheless
astonished one day to see far to the west
ward what looked like blue cloud; as
they advanced it proved to be mighty
mountain standing on the edge of the
plain. He afterwards vainly tried to climb
it, and to this day it bears the name of
Pixies Peak. He was the first to pass
through the Grand Canon of the Colorado
and to strike the head of the South Platte
River.
Following on the heels of Lewis and
Clark and of Pike, during the second era
of exploration, 1928 to 1916, came many
private and public explorers who gradual
ly cleared up most of the mysteries of the
broken and mountainous country south of
the Missouri and north of the Platte River
and far up into the Rocky Mountains.
The boldest and most efficient explorers
for many years were the fur traders.
Without any government appropriation
and without soldiers they plunged into the
wilderness and came. out bringing large
packs of valuable beaver pelts and buffalo
robes. Some of the most adventurous of
those men were French and French half
breeds from Canada. who seemed to know
neither fatigue nor fear.
In 1910 John Jacch Astor formed fur
company ard sent cut men who discovered
new and easier roads to page =. GoL ~
The mirror., 1923-12-13

XXNHAT was the west? Who first ex-
" plored it? What did they find?
Since the tyUo Americas were
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-10
PAN-PACiFlC CONGRESS
 TO MEET NEXT APRIL

SYDNEY. \. & w, Jan l0~The Pan.P Pacific Scientific Congress will be held in Australia next year, as the federal government has agreed to the proposal, providing the cost to .he commonwealth does not exceed 5000 pounds Eminent scientists from the United States and all other Pacific countries are expected to at tend, according to the Australian Na- tional Research Council, which is sponsoring the congress.
 It was explained that the last con ference. held in Honolulu. decided thlf the next meeting should be held in Australia in 1923 if the Common wealth government would agree to act as "host.' Sir Edswomh David urged strongly that advantage should be taken of this opportunity to ea- able great American scientists to visit Australia. and his appeal was sucee ssfnl. Among the questions 10 be discussed at the conference are the problems arising from pests in wnelt and fruits. diseases in sheep and cattle. the blowlly, the tick. hook-worm malaria and other dis eases of the tropics and semi-lropics.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-10
IF RHEUMATIC
 EAT NO SWEETS
Says glass cf Salts helps to overcome Rheupatism
 acid.

Rheumatism is easier to avoid than to cure, states weli-known authority. We are advised to dress warmly. keep the feet dry, avoid ex- posture. and above all, drink plenty of good water and avoid eating sweeta of sil kinds.
 Rheumatism is caused by body waste and acids resulting from food fermentation. II is the function Of the kidneys to filter this poison from the blood and cast it out in the urine: the pores Of the skin are also q means of freeing the blood of this impurity. In damp and chilly cold weather the skin pores are closed. thus forcing the kidneys to do double work; they become weak and sluggish and fail to eliminate this waste and acids. which keeps ac- eunulating and circulating through the system, eventually settling i'll the joints and muscles, causing stiff- ness, soreness and pain, called rheumatism
 At the first twinges of rheumatism get from any pharmacy about four ounces of lad Salts; put a table spoonful in glass of water and drink before breakfast each morn ing for a week. This Is helpful to neutraliZe acidity. remove waste matter, also to stimulate the kid neys, thus often ridding the blood of rheumatic poison.
 lad Salts is inexpensive. and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice. combined with lithia, and is used with excellent results by thousands of folks who are sub- jeet to rheumatism.
 advertisement
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-10
EUGENE O'BRlEN AT COLISEUM TOMORROW

Sealed Hearts," the new Selznick picture. starring Eugene O'Brien, which comes to tho Coliseum Theater tomorrow and Friday was written by Edmond Goulding. The screen yer sion is by Eugene Walter the noted dramatist The play tells the story of a father and his adopted son who love the same woman and Is said to be one of the deepest and most intricate dramas the Selznick star has yet attempted.
 The father is an industrial mag nate whose whole life has been de- voted to his work. To carry out his life's ambition he has adopted and reared the son Of former friend. At length the father meets q young and pretty girl whose family urges her to accept his offer of marriage Ind for a time the husband and wife and adopted son attempt to live hap oily under one roof.
 But, try as he does to restrain his young wife's affections, the older gentleman finds that the two young hearts have gone out to each other.