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Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21
STARS PHOTO In
DEAD MANS HAND
TELLS OF TRAGEDY
By United Press Leased Wire

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 21.-Joseph
Goodrich, motion picture camera
man, turned on the gas in his room
and ended his life mere with the
photograph OF Olive Thomas, screen
actress, heid tight IN one hand.
Goodrich formerly was camera
man tor Miss Thomas.
IN Il note Goodrich asked his land
lord to forgive hun for the incon-
Ncnlence he caused and requested
LhaL he be cremateu.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21

The best treatment found for
puncture vine in Kings county is to
spray with stove distillatc and then
burn, all seeds being killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21

Orchards in San Bcnito formerly
propped are gradually being wire
hrieel, system meeting with gen
eral approval.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21

Farm women held "a poultry show
a. Wilbur, Washington, a. L. = 10
bIrds were shown.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21
Seek Monster of
Night After Two
Women Are Killed
BY United Press Leased Wire

TOLEDO. Ohio, Nov. q. - The
INST intensive manhunt in the an
mails of Toledo was underway to-
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21
SEE. SHATTERED
LOVE AFFAIR IN
DEATH OF HARTE
By United Press Leased Wire

PARIS. Nov. 2l.-Policc yester.
day found Richard Bret Hartc, SO,
of Philadelphia, asphixated in an
apartment here. They are investi-
eating on the theory % -"i"id
whito tho A-yrcrip~u
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21

fiashlight with which he can signal
vessels in distress or his home sta
ton. The whole coast is covered
with a network of telephone wires
for the use of the Coast Guard, but
each man is required to know the
interna II code and other sys-
tens al. gnalling. used in the
Coast Guard, for the emergency
when telephone is beyond reach
and he must signal the station
tower.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21
BOOKKEEPING!

Now is the time to study Book.
Keeping, Thousands of men and
women have done it and today
hold good jobs at good salaries
You can study i'll your own home,
during your spare time. For fuii
details write II. Mulbar, local
representative, mt o rnationai
Correspondence Schools, GA
Main Street " Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21

Last month the mill at Comstock,
NcVada. ran $500 tens Of ot2, re.
GOV crins 100000 ~ gold.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21
Allies Of Progress

When by night the sea lies heav-
ing like a tranquil, sleeping mon
ster, and when, aroused to fury,
it shakes the whole coast with
it's thunderous onslaught-in fair
weather and foul--the long coast
line of the United States is pa.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-21

" HIIN TIIC n .slVT Y
ing the death.
Harte, grandso,
author, Bret lla.
writer. The poll,
shattered romaifcc
tragedy
Evening star., 1925-08-23

= o many alarms have upset us
since we have entered the for
hidden land that we ought to be-
~ come accustomed to them. We
Evening star., 1925-08-23

spread after our passage near Men
kong and had only recently reached
the governor. who had dispatched
these two to inform his colleague and
order him to ascertain who we were.
Previous disquieting meetings had
had quick solution, but this one left
after 1t lasting terror. Zogon, where
we could have known our fate, was
still far away, and each day brought
the same question. Were we not walk
ing to our doom?
We reverted to the nocturnal
tramps. We had become again the
sacred game dreaming of the hunter.
One morning at dawn a batch of
pilgrims crossed US and stopped to ex-
change a few words. According to my
custom. I continued to walk slowly
ahead While Yongden was talking with
the men. When ne rejoined me he
was. more frightened than I had ever
seen him.
They are people from Riwoche," he
said. who knows if they have not
seen you when you went there with
Thobgyal? You are quite famous in
that region"
Riwoche was a place where I had
stayed twice during my previous jour
ney in Tibet from the iron bridge ;"
Our fear grew It grew great
er hour after hour. At the sight of
each group of men or women which
happened to be on the road we were
trembling, thinking of the ultimate
catastrophe. we expected soon Really
we were on the way to madness.
In that mood we reached a bridge
on the Nu River.
Let US take our chance" I said to
my companion. "On this side of the
stream we risk meeting old acquaint-
ances from the province of Khan. be-
Evening star., 1925-08-23

A STORY of John Philip Sousa
~ will go well in this set of mar
"A ratives about Washington mu-
4 4 sicians. The Rambler wrote
lonu account of Inhn Philln
Evening star., 1925-08-23

pilings (foreigners) from some of them
who had been to Lhasa or in China,
but they had never seen any, and
none had ever visited their country
Yongden boasted of having met two of
them In northern Tibet. and as for
myself 1 humbly confessed that 1 had
never caught sight of any.
One day from the summit of a bill
we discovered 1000 or 5000 feet below
US a narrow. glittering ribbon. 1t was
the Glamo M Chu, the upper course
of the Salwen.
We had heard that somewhere in
that region there was a place where
the river could be crossed by cable
outstretched from one bank to the
other. But as the passengers were
very few on that out-of-the-way path
the ferrymen lived far from the river
and came there only when they were
informed that a. number of people
meant to cross. We lone, poor pill
grims might have remained for weeks
in front of the rope but for the happy
circumstance that a lama had per
formed some religious ceremonies at
the house of a farmer on our side of
the water and was returning to his
monastery on the other side with a
dozen of his followers. So we waited
ter between picturesque rocks. The
weather was gloriously bright and the
temperature mild.
The crossing of a river hanging to a
cable was not new to us. We had done
it in other places, where two cables
we're used, a different one for each
bank. At this spot the departure was
from a point much higher than the
landing, and the passenger glided
swiftly, as in a switchback. There was
but single cable, fastened to poles
Evening star., 1925-08-23
THE MARKET PLACE AT LHASA.

cause that is the way they go to Kha
Karpo. We will also have to cross
Zogon, where maybe these lamas have
spoken about us, If even they are not
sent on our account. Here is a bridge,
and they are few in Tibet. This one
shows that there is trail OF some inn
portance on the other bank. The
Giamo Nu River flows in that direc-
ton. Let us try to reach 1t, and we
Will see then what can be done"
SO we crossed the bridge and bravely
climbed the trail beyond it without
knowing where it would lead us.
Our good luck brought us the second
day near an encampment of cowmen.
They gave us some butter and tsampa
flour of roasted barley, but did not
allow us to sleep in their hut. There
We're about 40 armed Inen assembled,
and I guessed that they We're prepar-
ing a robbing expedition, whose plan
was not, of course, to be discussed be
fore unknown travellers. Begging
around at other neighboring camps
produced quite an amount OF cheese,
butter and Isampa. After a night
spent in the open. we started. heavily
loaded but certain that starvation was
not imminent.
:: :; :: x
THE country we We're crossing had
= none of the charms of the Nu
valley. It was colder. often barren.
The trails We're difficult to find. and we
had high ranges to cross. The people
We're rough lot, but they treated us
well.
That region is unsurveyed. No in
formation appears about it on the
maps. The countrymen had heard
they told us about the existence of
Evening star., 1925-08-23

latlng most happy surprise. Look
what the ponpo gives usr'
manifested my joy in a way fitting
my assumed personality, with a wish
very sincere at the bottom of my heart
for his prosperity and long life. My
benefactor smiled at me and with
whatever inner jeer-anSwered the
favor of his smile with the most re-
spectful of Tibetan salutes-I put out
my tongue as far as I could extend it,
'Jetsunma' reverend LADY,, said
Yongden q few minutes later, you
spake truth indeed when you told me
in the forests of Kha karpo that you
would make them dream and see mi
RACES No doubt that fat fellow and
his retainers, who looked so long at
you, have been bewitched.'
y new alarm led us a few weeks
later to leave the pleasant valley of
the turquoise blue Nu River, it's nat
ural parks and evergreen, to throw
ourselves once more in the wilds.
= ): X x
On sunny morning we walked
~ leisurely on the bank of the river
when two lamaS, dressed in lay
clothes, reached us, coming from be-
hind. They asked about our country
and many other details for a rather
long time, and one of them stared at
me with peculiar insistence They said
that they We're in the service of the
Governor of Menkong, and We're car
rytng message from him to the Off
Ger residing at Zogon.
We both had noticed the way one of
them looked at me, and, as all people
in our circumstances would have
done, we began TO fancy the worst
things. Maybe some rumors had
Evening star., 1925-08-23
HOUSE WHERE JOHN PHILIP. sousA WAS BORN

in honor of which of these lmcles
he was given Philip as his middle
name. Neither do l know which of
his related Johns. he was named for.
There were Johns Trinkhaus and
Johns Sousa
Not long after John Philips birth
the Sousa family moved west on G
street southeast to a brick house on
the north side between Fifth and
Sixth. Two children. both of whom
died young. We're born there. One
was Ferdinand and the other Rosina.
May Z. 1856. Antonio and his wife
bought a lot, No l. Square 1919,
fronting one hundred feet on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, south side. between
18th and 18th streets southeast. The
lot was bought from John H. O'Neill
and his wife, Emily, the considera-
ton was one hundred dollars, the wit
nesses were Samuel S. Briggs and
Robert Clark, and the deed was made
to Antonio Soucca." Many persons
found trouble with the spelling of
"Sousa" when the family was new In
Washington.
x X y x
T BELIEVE that Elizabeth Trinkhaus
Sousa did not approve Tonys choice
of home site and they did not build
on it. IT was too far from the center
of activity on the Navy Yard. Penn
sylvania- avenue southeast was not
great white way. There was not a
gas lamp in every square-not a gas
lamp on any square. Herring-bone
brick sidewalks had not been laid.
The commons" came down to the
Avenue and stretched far north and
south of 1t. Cows graZed on the wide
way through which a wheel-track ran.
Two years later, that is in 1S58-April
30-Antonio and Elizabeth Sousa
bought from Samuel Armistead and
his wife, Margaret, lot II. square 903.
at the southeast corner of Seventh
and E streets southeast. Thomas E.
Venable, who owned most of the
square, subdiyided his holdings April
%, 1852, and in the surveyors Office
you can see the plat of Venables sub
division. He sold the lot at the north
east corner of the square-the south
east corner of Seventh and E streets
to Samuel Arnistead. who sold the lot
to Sousa. The price was 5000, and
witnesses to the deed We're H. G.. Muir
ray and James Gull.
A few days after buying the lot from
Armistead. Antonio Sousa and his wife
sold third Of it, facing on E street,
to Salvador Accardi for 5000 Accardi
was a workman in the Navy Yard for
Evening star., 1925-08-23

owners in the square We're James Nc
Farland, +. l. Robertson. Jacob
Marks, sr.; James Gordon. Jesse
Ergood, Martin Smith. Philip Beigler,
S. A. II. Marks, Samuel Nelson.
Francis Dennis, Thomas Walter, VIII
liam Richards, Mary Prout. Robert
Prout. Henderson Fowler. William
Hodges. Joseph Walsh, Thomas
Hutchinson, w. II. Cook, Z. NJ.
Combs. James r. Peake. -. RUPERT,
I. T. Phelps. John Lavessi, Robert
Neale and Samuel Arnold.
1t was a square built with home.
and changes in ownership We're not
frequent. Making "a rough calcula-
ton, the Rambler feels safe IN set
ting 1t down that the house in which
Sousa was born was owned by Jesse
Ergood or was on q small lot owned
by Malinda Smith.
John Philip Sousa was baptized in
Christ Church, three doors west Of
his birthplace. His mother had u
brother named Philip. and his father
Il brother named Fflipe. and / believe
that John Philip Sousa is not sure
Evening star., 1925-08-23

many years. He had but one leg. the
other having been lost IN action in the
war with Mexico. The deed to Ac-
cardi is dated May 8, 1858. A few
days after selling the east third Of
their lot to Accardi the Sousas sold
the south third. facing Seventh street,
TO James NJ. Dreen. The price was
$3.50. This left the Sousas owners Of
a third of the original lot, the south
east corner OF Seventh and E.
Antonio Sousa Salvador Accardi
and James Dreen each built a small
two-story frame house. Years after
John Philip Sousa became famous
his mother lived in the little house. A
fine house in q swell" neighborhood
was offered her. but the good hearted,
common n-sense woman would not leave
the home in which she had been
/ happy. and in which she reared her
children. The people in the neigbhor-
hood Were her friends and she had no
wish to get in a set which would have
had little use for her and Tony before
John Philip became a celebrated man.
Beg your pardon if l delay this
Evening star., 1925-08-23

Yongden was coming back. chanting a
lamaist Office. If he was returning
alone-a sudden hope, even a GER
tainty, flashed in my mind.
The lama was before me. A mock
ing smile on his lips, he opened his
hand and showed me a silver coin.
i''"1e has given me rupee as aims"
he said. Now let us be off"
On the top of the pass we turned to-
ward the house of the Lhasa agent,
now invisible far below US, and we
shouted gladly, "Lha gyalo" I heart
ily added wish for the welfare of
the kind-hearted official.
Once more we had succeeded But
we were far from having exhausted
this kind Of trial.
a few days only after that incident
we were again told Of a poneo. That
one was crossing the range which we
had just begun to ascend. The news
terrified us. No escape was possible
The path was cut in a steep slope that
did not offer any hiding place. The
coming official would see US both No
doubt he would question US.
These LhaSa men. of whom a large
number go to the English stations in
the Himalayas and even to India, have
many opportunities TO see white peo-
pie, and are much more clever than
the common folk of ca astern or north
ern Tibet in detecting them. Anyhow,
we could not escape the meeting.
We spent a few hours of terrible
mental agony, climbing that white,
sandy path, listening for a noise to
warn us of the dreaded apparition,
looking desperately 10 the right and to
the left in the hope that, as in the old
tales, rock or a tree would open sud
denly and shelter US till the danger
would be over. But, alas. no miracle
happened. Fairies and gods left us
apparently unaided.
TN the middle of the afternoon we
suddenly heard the jingling of bells.
Just above our heads on the winding
patch appeared well dressed, sturdy
man. followed by soldiers and servants
leading horses. He stopped, aston
ished at sight of us. According to Tt
betan custom, we threw ourselves hlIr-
riedly on the low side of the road to
show our respect. The official pro-
ceeded downward and stopped again
before IS, surrounded by his followers.
Nc began the questions about our
mo- Sr country. questions about our
10 ,hey and other things. When all
} a been said the ponpo still remained
Joking silently at us, as did all who
f., were behind him.
felt like needles piercing my brain,
so awful was the tension of my nerves.
Did these men doubt us? That silence
must be broken or something bad was
to come out of it. How could L? Yes,
j knew.
With the same chanting tone of the
Tfbetan beggars, only a little lowered
by, 1t seemed, feeling of reverence, 1
irnplored a charity.
"Kusho rimpoche, nga tso la soira
nang rogs nang!" C'Noble sir, give us
aims, please")
My voice broke the concentration of
the group. l even felt physically the
relaxation. The Tibetans had lost their
suspicious manner. Some laughed.
The good official took a coin in his
purse and handed it to my companion.
Mother" exclaimed Yongden, simu-
Evening star., 1925-08-23
Explorer, Reaching Lhasa,
Gets an Unexpected Reception
White Woman
OF Betowing Reprimnd Traveller
BY ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEI..

" o many alarms have upset us
since we have entered the for
hidden land that we ought to be-
~ come accustomed to them. We
ought to be. perhaps, but we are
not, and to be continually on the alert
proves most trying to our nerves.
Once, when washing our marmite in
A stream, a village woman noticed that
my hands are white "as those of a pill
tag" foreigner). Another time. while
N~ were drinking tea, few soldiers of
frontier post came with some peas
ants TO look at us. and I heard again
some women expressing doubts about
my Mongolian origin. cat that time |
called myself n Mongolian) Women
were the clevereSt to detect the small
est detail in my appearance that did
not seem quite Tibetan. We had come
to be Gather bold before men, but we
really dreaded these cunning. perspica-
cious country females, who had always
some remarks to air. Yongden cursed
them 10 times d day.
We were far from being in cheer
fuI mind that morning when begin
ming the ascent of path that led up
ward to the ridge that we had to cross.
We had just learned that a Lhasa Off
C1al was living in a house near our
road. Had we known 1t the day before
we would have travelled at night, but.
now that nothing could mend our mis-
take, we could only trust our good
luck
Nobody happened to be on the road
We left behind the dangerous house
NO one was posted there to stop us or
at least put questions and examine the
luggage of those who went their way
by that pass. We could already see
before us the skirt of the woods into
which our path disappeared. "Lha
gyalo"' (the gods swin!-eXclamation of
triumph, shouted especially on the
passesl, We would shout it loudly on
the next summit above the village.
once more we had escaped safely.
"Oi! Oh" :" villager ran
after us across fields. calling. You
must come before the ponpo" tchief,
he said when he joined us.
These were the very same words
that had been told TO me when | had
been stopped some months ago after
my hard journey in the SHOWS and the
crossing of the iron bridge" 1 be-
came cold.
With perfect collectedness, Yong
den mastered Immediately the situa-
ton as much as it was in his power.
lie put his load on the ground and
followed the man, chatting with him,
without having even cast a glance at
me, as If the idea that such an insig-
nIficant old mother as endeavored
10 look was worth being led before. a
kudak (nobleman) could never arise in
his mind.
x !: !; K
EFT alone, I humbly sat down
among the luggage. What would
be the end of the meeting? Were we
called as any other travellers might
have been or had the ponpo special
suspicion about us? 1 already saw my
self escorted to the nearest Chinese
border, prey to the curiosity of the
country folk. Still I did not think a
single minute of giving up the game.
L had taken the challenge and sworn
on the iron bridge" that a woman
would pass, and I would. But when
and how, if It was not today?
Time elapsed. I heard a kind of
psalmody. The sound grew louder.
Evening star., 1925-08-23

story for a minute while l lift my hat
to the memory of Elizabeth Trinkhaus
SoQSa. | feel that she was a sensible
and sympathetic woman. Her love for
the old home was deep, and attach
ment to her neighbors was strong. 4
man may be as happy at the corner Of
Common Place and Boulevard de
Plebe as on n corner lot at Primrose
Park or Nabob Terrace. OF course,
when man makes a little pile his
wife insists on moving into what is
called better neighbOrhOod" and
building. big house, generally with
a. big trust on it, eating grapefruit for
breakfast and talking of their fond
ness for opera and art. Perhaps this
is praiseworthy. We want to get on"
in the world, and especially to show
people that we have got on, and some
of us try to improve our minds by
study and observation, and come to
as good an understanding of the fine
and beautiful things of the world as
we are able. The Rambler sometimes
thinks that when a man becomes
prosperous he might be more happy
by making over the old home. putting
in up-to-date plumbing, tiling the
cellar and putting in swimming pool
raising the roof and making a roof
garden, setting aside one room and
collecting a good library, building a
conservatory on the back lot, and
| keeping in touch with his old neigh
bors and the friends of his youth than
by going. out among strangers.
X i x
THERE are persons who have a de-
= sire. which they call ambition, to
climb no matter by what means and
whether they can afford it or not.
There is something pathetic and fool
ish in the climber. A man, and par
ticularly his wife; want to butt in
among people who have more money
and have had it longer. These peo-
pie may be polite enough TO them,
with an air of condescension in the
politenesS which is more insulting
than downright rudeness. Generally
people who have been prosperous for
more than one generation are sus-
picious of men who have been reared
on corned beef and cabbage and
reached the state of asparagus tips
and mushrooms late in life. Perhaps
they don't like them because they
had courage, brains and luck to climb
out of the bitches without any an
cestors to save them from the labor
of swinging a pick or taking physical
exercises on a washboard.
However, there are persons who
The McCarthy weekly news., 1925-11-14
VIM. HENRY ARRESTED

Monday they repaired to the
to the homestead of VIM. Henry
on Sourdough Hill and found
enough evidence to swear out
warrant for his arrest for violat
ing the Fourteenth Amendment.
Mr. Henry was absent from the
premises at the time of the raid
and was not located for several
days being on a hunting trip to
the Chitistone.
The preliminary hearing
was held Thursday afternoon
before Commissioner Harwood
where Mr.. Henry plead Not gull
ty' and conducted his own defen
Sc and produced witnesses who
testified that certain apparatus,
which the officers claimed to be
a still used in the manufacture
of illicit liquor, was nothing
more or less than a shower bath
arrangement made by Mr. Henry.
Mr.. HARDWOOD found the evi
dence sufficient to bind over the
defendant to the Grand Jury
with bail fixed at $1,000. The bail
was secured.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1925-11-14
j. e. BARRET IN
SEVERE ACCIDENT

John Z. Barrett suffered
severe injuries to his face anG
mouth at the Green Butte Mine
Wednesday night while descend
ing into the mine.
1t seems that he had pushed
off the car and was going down
the incline when it reached the
end of the slack on the cable
and stopped with a jerk throw
ing Mr. Barrett forward and
striking his face on the rock
wall with such a force as to
cause him to bite his tongue
nearly off and cut "a cash in his
upper lip which required twenty
seven stitches.
4Drs. GILES pie and Bark well
worked on him for nearly TWO
hours sewing on the severed
tongue and patching up various
cuts. 1t is feared that he may
have permanent impeachment IN
his speech.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1925-11-14
ARMISTiCE DANCE

I he Arinistic Day dance
which was sponsored by the eX-
service men of Mccarthy and
Kennecot1 was held Wednesday
in the A. B. Hall, Mccarthy, an d
all things considered, Wds u pleas
ant and successful opening of the
social season
A snowfall the previous
night and the resulting cold snap
deferred many from attending
and the turnout was somewhat
disappointing but those who did
brave the elements were amply
rewarded for their trouble
Dancing was kept up until one
thirty A. Nj.
The school childrens' Junior
Red Gloss showed initiative by
putting UP d booth and selling
home made candy from which
they realized a considerable prof
it which will go to the Red Cross.
Large boxes of delicious home
MADE fudge and candy, dainty
packed and set off with pressed
leaves were disposed of by the
The McCarthy weekly news., 1925-11-14
INFORMATION SOUGHT

Inquiries have come to the
Governors office for information
in regard to the supposed drow
ming in 1918 of MELVIN DEM.
PSEY, in the Gulkana Rivar.
Any Information in REGARD to
him should be sent to the Gov
errors office, Juneau, Alaska.