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ferred to the committee of the District
of Columbia"
I'm the Senate. Friday, February
IL, 1862&Mr. Morrill, dot Nj. Morrill,
of Mainel from the committee on the
District Of Columbia, to whom was re-
ferred the bill for the release of GER
tain persons held to service and labor
in the District of Columbia, reported
it with amendments and submitted q
report. 1t was ordered to be printed"
I'm the Senate. February 20, 1862
(under the heading. slavery in the
District MIR. Morrill,: Il move to take
up the bill for the release Of certain
persons held to service or labor in
the District of Columbia, with view
to assigning a time for it's considera-
ton The motion was agreed to. Mr.
Morrill, moved that the bill be made
the special order for the following
Wednesday at o'clock"
At that time the Senate District
Committee was: j, w. Grimes. Iowa.
boarding at Mrs. Chapman's. 470 east
side of Seventh street. between X
and f; j. Dixon, Connecticut, Mrs.
Ulrich's, 446. corner of 18TH and G.
streets: L. M. Morrill,, Me-. ISL. south
side of + street, between 18th and
14th; b. +. Wade. Ohio, Mrs, Hyatt's.
S39 south side of Pennsylvania
avenue. between Sixth and Seventh
streets: II. B. Anthony, Rhode Island.
rs Pennsylvania avenue, between
Fifteenth and Fifteenth and-a-half
streets; A. Kennedy. Maryland. No.
o Louisiana avenue. between Four
and,a,haf and Sixth. and John b.
Henderson. Missouri. Metropolitan
Hotel.
The hill came hafora tha Sanata
Wednesday. March IL, 1859. Certain
committee amendments. were agreed
10. AS amended in minor ways the
first section OF the bill read: "That
all persons held to service or labor
Within the District OF Columbia, by
reason of African descent. are here
by discharged and freed of and from 4
all claims to such service or labor:
ana from and after the passage of
this act neither slavery nor invol-
untary servitude, except for crime,
whereof the party shall he duly con.
yicted. shall hereafter exist in said
District"
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Experience BrlEs Fauht
Danger ammyS lCaacoms- Wenth WaS

intricacy may well be compared to
the sinuous catacombs below the
! streets of Rome.
What say?" said Gates.
I didn't know what to say. A long.
drawn-out lecture in the captains
cabin was discouraging enough. but
to go down into the bowels Of. the
ship. where the oozing moisture of the
inner bottom mingled with the chok-
ing fumes of heavy paint, was. If any
thing, worse.
I've bit. Of that chocolate cake"
tempted my friend. And half a bot
tie of that last batch of Madeira we
got at Gibraltar"
X X X *
WHETHER it was the cake or not, l
W can't say. Tragic events that
followed have cleared nay memory OF
uneSsential details. But I Succumbed.
''I'Il be at the after port gun deck
hatch" told him.
We met at the hatch and then went
forward to the main lower section.
Quickly Gates led the way to small
storeroom where spare armatures were
slowed for the turret motors. He
pulled key from his pocket and
opened the door. Within was another
labeled with the numbers of the dou-
Bile bottoms into which it opened.
We unholted the door and de-
seconded. But first we took care to
close the door to the storeroom and
dog 1t down, in case any inspection
party passed that way and wanted to
take a look in.
Remember, we weren't breaking
any laws. And we weren't doing any
thing that we didn't have a perfect
right to do. But we were still in the
flush of our early EOS, which isn't
far removed from the boarding school
state Of mind. The very fact that we
were digging deep down into the vitals
Of the ship and going to have q bit
Of feed by the light Of an electric
torch lent a certain thrill to the coca
sion that only youth can know.
We clambered down some Is feet
of ladder. BY the Pickering rays Of
our torch we felt our way along the
sloping steel surface at the bottom
until we reached the level floor plating |
of the main section.
Then we crawled forward through q
series of plates that had holes in them |
just large enough to admit q human
body. IL the reader has ever looked |
into a big boiler he will have an idea
On small scale af the road we were
Gates carefully laid the electric !
torch on nearby shelf of steel, made I
by a projection in the plating. He /
brew out his wine and hts cake. He /
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sey, $3o6. go; Lydia Crusey. $21s; Julius
Crusey. $131.40; Frank Crusey, $3.50;
Martha Crusey mo value).
The Rambler has taken from the re-
port Of the emancipation commission
ers the names of owners Of six or
more slaves in the District and the
amount paid the owners. 1t follows:
DIR. Noble Young, slaves, $2,737.50;
Fanny b. Ewell. 8, $2,43o.90; Sally T.
9, $2.562.30; Charles Vinson, g.,
$2.956.50; Thomas Carbery. IL. 3d.
292 IS; John Davidson. Is. s4,270.50;
Martha Manning. 10, $2,05s.60; Sarah
Jones, Il, $3,525.90; Caroline Mackall.
Z, S2,562.30; Catharine Windsor, 8,
$1,S39.60; Sarah Davis of Abel. Z, ST.
211.40; Ann Scott, s, 1871; T. L. Alex.
ander, Z. $2,102.40; George McCeney,
IA, $3,963.90: Francis S. Walsh, Z,
Sl,270.70; Mary Z. Fenwick. 6, ST.
1880; Eleanor r. Lang, 10, $500;
Peter Won Essen Tor Vonessen). 20.
$5.226; Catherine Pearson, 81, So, 044.40;
James w. West and Eliza M. West, II,
$2,956.50; Margaret A. Loughborough,
8, S919.S0: Joseph n. Pearson, 3. ST.
1850: Fielder Magruder, s. $1.226.40;
Selby b. Scaggs, IS, $3,109.80: Harriet
Smith, s, $2.S47: Benjamin p. Smith.
7, $2.146.20; Charles r. Belt. Z. 3d.
1880 lone of his slaves. George
Bowie, was appraised at $657l: VIII
liam D. e. Murdoch, 8. $3,635.4o tone
of his slaves. William III. Lee, was ap.
praised at $3.50; Elizabeth Abbott. IL,
$3.197.40; George Mattingly, 10. 49,.
1913. 20; Elizabeth Birkhead, 8, 81, sos. SIS:
Frederick G. Hesse, IL. $3.920.1o;
Sarah Ann Greeves, IL, $1,565.S5 lone
slave. Nelson Jones. appraised at $3.50;
Susan B. Sheriff. 10, $3.394.50: George
w. Talhurtt, 16. $5,234.10 -four slaves
appraised as follows: Charles Lee.
s591.30: Milly Mathews, $5S9.40; Hen
rietta Brown, $525.G0. and Rose Diggs.
s547.50); William G. Stone, 8. $3,394.50
two slaves appraised as follows:
Cornelius Diggs, S613.20, and Polly
Peasants. $525.60l; John Manning. Is,
si.401.90 two slaves appraised as fol-
lows: Joseph Eell. SGl3.20. and Nelly
Ann, S569.40): Melvina Fl. Bowie, I.
$2,3871o lone slave, Lemuel Perry,
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garet w. Getty. $569.40. and Henry
Gillis, belonging to Jonathan Ride
nour, $591.30.
You have noticed the repetition of
the figure $613? My memory holds
the impression that a young, healthy.
strong and apt man slave for farm
work had a sales value of $1,000 be-
fore the Civil War, and I have the
thought that these 1913 slaves were
those which the Baltimore slave deal.
er. Campbell. testified were worth
81 600 in 1S59-60. Ny idea Is that
$613 was the scaled down appraisal
reached by the Emancipation Commits
sioners to bring the average price of
the 800 District slaves down to $500,
or within the $1,000,000 appropriated
by Congress. Some of the city slaves
had high value because of their skill
as cooks, buffers, laundresses and
housemaids. Some of the high-priced
man slaves We're artisans-black-
smiths, wheelwrightS, horseshoers and
carpenters. In the case of Columbus
Alexander's slave, Frank Diggs, APP
praised at $744.60, I imagine that he
was the butler and doorman of the
Alexander family, and In the case of
Ann Pickrell's slave. Samuel Collins,
appraised at $500, / imagine that he
was an artisan who was hired to
others at so much per month. These
are but surmises. and If you know the
facts you might write a contribution
to the rambles.
X
You may want a sketch of the
course in Congress of the District
emancipation bill. The following para.
graphs are from the Congressional
Globe:
In the Senate. Monday. December
10, lS6l--Mr. Wilson Henry wilson
or Massachusetts, asked and by unani-
nous consent obtained leave to intro
duce a bill Senate. No. 1888 for the
release of certain persons held TO
service and labor in the District OF
Columbia. which was passed to Sec
ond reading and ordered printed.
In the Senate, Friday, December
20, ls6l--0n motion of Mr.. Wilson. the
bill Tor the release Of certain persons
held to service and labor in the DIS
trlot OF Columbia was taken from the
table, read the second time and re-
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have also squatted invisibly nearby
and rubbed his hands in self-esteem
at permitting us to have what surely
he planned to be our last man-made
viands in this life.
Good, what?" queried Gates, with
his mouth full of cake.
Relaxed by the wine and wholly I'M
mindful of the peril that was closing
in upon US, / agreed.
Gates rose to his knees. He
couldn't stand UP. But he had to
stretch. His arms went wide. The
next instant we were plunged in dark
ness. Awkwardly he had knocked
the electric torch from it's shelf and
broken it irreparably.
ooh, for the love of Peter I cf1ided
him. Talk about your bull in a china
shop"
"I'm sorry"
II fumblad for the light. It's
smashed And you'll have to go to
the manhole and get portable. I'm
hanged IL I'm going to break my
bean scrambling around in this black
hole.'
After some discussion, in which
pointed out the justice of my argu-
fnent, he agreed to make his way to
the manhole and bring down the
portable lamp as far as it would
stretch. This would enable US to get
out.
Tor some 10 minutes I heard my
friend humping his way in the
general direction from which we had
come. Time after time he broke cut
into angry protests when he banged
his head or tender skin on the sharp
steel beams. Gradually his pu6ings
and paintings and complaints became
more distant. They nearly faded
away altogether.
Suddenly had fash of anxiety.
Hey, Gates" I called. You're
going too far. The marhole isn't
away down there"
1t was some seconds before his
reply came back. muffied: Il can't
find it. You'd better come along and
help"
That was about the third big mis-
take we had made, not sticking to-
gether.
We didn't know that one section of
the bottoms had recently been rebuilt
to open into another. And that
the second set had manholes that,
from the inside, were almost indis.
tfnguishable from the other plating
overhead.
Probably we both got a. little ner-
vous at the darkness and the trouble
that Gates seemed to have in finding
the entrance. We both began move
toward one another. No doubt that
we felt we could start over again and
soon find our way out. But such
was not to be the case.
We did q good deal of shouting
back and forth. But the sinuous bulk
heads that separated US and the air
pockets between them gave a weird,
unearthly tone to our voices and made
it very difficult to tell the exact direc-
ton from which they came.
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We We're lost. And we were scared;
far more scared than either would
ever have admitted. But we cheered
each other with words called through
the Stygian darkness, words of cheer
or of humor, mingled with curses at
the cruel steel beams which continual
ly hammered our heads and shins as
we crawled about.
Ii was not long before could feel
warm blood trickling down my nose
and my leg. This was not good, |
thought. In few days of this horror
every atom of strength and endurance
would begin to count.
1t seemed hours, but We finally
found one another. Since that bafeful
day I have loved and have married.
But never have I known a greater
thrill in the touch of another's body
than when ! felt the firm flesh of the
| friend who was buried alive with me
in that living tomb Of steel
$685.
WE were now more courageous and
" less frantic, when we could sit
| together and face, the awful facts. j
| suppose that a certain pride kept our
heads up; though if we had been able
| to see one another'S worried faces, IN
that lightless hole, we might not have
| been so reaSsuring.
| I'VE must stand watch" said Gates
| IF we stay by that manhole and
hammer ON it every 10 minutes, night
and day. then we will not miss any
one that. happens to come IN the
storeroom."
win any one come in?" asked.
Not likely"
| when were the last armatures
taken out?"
/ Only a week ago. That means it
might be two months at least before
| they'll need another"
[ could feel despair stealing over
me. What about the cleaning
Just finished dreamed Gates.
Might be three months before an
other came along"
If ever there was a hopeless out
| look, it was ours. We began to make
calculations. How long would the
water a day? How long would q
normal breakfast and a lunch of wine
and cake last?
| Gates asked another: what will
they think when they don't see Us
around?'
"They won't think of US as desert
ers, anyway" said l.. Don't you
think some one might have seen us
come down here?"
II doubt it. You remember how
careful we were"
| Abruptly we realized that we We're
wasting time. We should be at the
manhole banging away for help. II
ttook us a painful 20 minutes to find
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BY STERLING HETLIG.
~ DADTc Trua a.. ~


TN the plumb middle OF May, when
shacks On waste land sixirting
/ PariA are agreeable to live in, a
Il mobile brigade Of Paris secret
police nabbed, In such a howery
shack, the chief Of the pistolsros.
HaH France and all Spain were de-
manding that this man be discovered
and arrested.
~Pistolero'' means gunman par
ticularIy previous at the trigger. It
was d two years job to hunt, him
down; he had help everywhere. When
they found him, the thing was to
take him alive-and safely to them
selves. 49,
harbdring waste people on waste
land. They build with their own
hands, on the wide epe4a spaces round
all Paris where the city has 59st torn
down its old Notifications, a.. shack
with flowery garden patch and strong
stalced fence Nc rent to pay.
Very early that May morning two
high police inspectors knocked iound-
ly on the ,palinss. A man in his shirt
looked out. What do YOU wantz"
'sYoais are b sforeigner?'' yes, Span
ish-' :. I'VE are verifying foreigners
pepera Have you yours?" Certain
~. IN go and get them"
The Spaniard disappeared inside the
shack. A long time passed. Might
he not be preparing some desperate
defense? The police knew him to be
an extremely dangerous criminal and
wefe determined to take him.
~ ~ ~ u n ~
At last he reappeared He ap-
preached the fence. outside which
stood Cornnaissaries Galmadier and
Simon, and offered them some papers.
instantly his two wrists, stuck
through the fence to hand the papers,
were snapped together in thin steel
bracelets-the new American hand
cuffs, not the old French kind. And
the two police were over the fence and
held the athlete.
This extraordinary man. famous in
France and Italy as Valero Solamas,
was in reality Martinez Jimenez, born
in Spain OF an honorable family in
1892, and up to 10 an engineer student
OF the School of Arts and Trades. In
the shack, near his bed, they found
two big autonatics. cooked to be fired,
and a set Of perfected apparatus for
piercing burglarproof safes"
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much air and water, no food to speak
Of, and anywhere from a week to
three months before we might be
rescued. Death by thirst, starvation
or suffocation seemed staring us In
the face.
The first human reaction to fear Is
self preservation. If there is no straw
at which to grasp, the human yearns
for companionship of another of his
species. This desire gripped Gates
and me. We determined to find one
another
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Paris Police Nab Chief of Pistoleros,
Hunted for Years in Many Lands

I There were amazing kits Of jimmies
and other tools, some Unknown, like
special circular saws; a. "chignoIe" for
cutting thick metal and an enormous
and bizarre machine with extremely
heavy steel cutter like bill hook, with
which Jfmenez could open q safe
like a box of sardines."
The Surete Generate and list Mobile
Brigade OF Versailles had already dis
covered band of Italian, Spanish and
Polish anarchists specialized in bur-
glary. Of which Jimenez had become
chief. Previously in France and Spain
he worked with tragfcally. famous
bands. He was with Ramon Lopez,
all celebrated. He was with the mys-
terious "Ei Negro" in hurgiarfzing the
Talenees factory. near Bordeaux. in
1921. with murder. Two accnmplices
we're executed. but Jimenez got to
Spain, where he accumulated q dozen
death sentences, ell by default. Il
Among the alleged assassfnatfons
were those OF the Archbishop Of Sara
gossa and the Governor Of Barcelona,
along with the dynamiting OF the
Spanish Bank at Gijon. In September.
1922, Jimenez and accompliees at
tackled that train at Muerto-Nuevo.
near Barcelona, where, after killing
several employees, they got away with
200 600 pesetas.
Arriving in France In fight, Jfmenez
came as "Tha Pistoiero," who carried
not only his aufomatics but bombs;
in fact, they had bombed that train in
Spain. Three times the Spanish gov
eminent demanded his extradition, but
The Pistolero" was systematically
protected from discovery by his new
band OF Italian. Polish and Spanish
anarchists.
y \
SINcE 1925 these international burg
Cling anarchists, the most wide
spread, capable and systematizing
ever known. committed 200 important
robberies. with breaking-in and vio-
lence. Their profits not only kept
them in luxury and safety but fed q
propaganda fund for anarchist prin-
ciples and aided TO attract the best
new disciples. ready to become bur-
glars and assassins.
They attacked factories in the sub
urbs of Paris particularly. and got
much good cash money in important
railroad stations of the same neighbor-
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Comdr. Green Is a naval officer of I'M
usually wide experience. as well as
writer Wen qualified to tell a.. OF ,;S adve e9
defense. A graduate of Annapolis and
of the Naval War College ConIdr. Green
plosives. He was one of the American
officers attached to the British grand
feet during the World War.
The following article. the first OF a
series of three. recuunts narrowing ex-
perience that fell to the author shortly
after he was detailed to the first dread
nauEht in the United states Navy.
In addition to his distinguished Navy
service. which has taken him all over
the world. .Comdr.. Green passed, nearly
land EslSimos. and became an authority
on the people and conditions of the
Arctic regions. He is the author of is
books and of numerous short stories and
magazine articles
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ROB|NSON-AOPK|NS'
 HUNTING PARTY BACK
 FROM RUSSIAN RIVER
NO SHEEP WERE BROUGHT BACK AS FALLING SNOW oBScURED
 THE VISIBILITY

Primarily, the Hopkins Robinson hunting party went down to the Rus sian River country to get sheep spec imens. However it was also an outing and though not trophy was brought back after 10 days spent in the dis trict, the vacation was one which each member of the party will ever recall with pleasure On various occasions moose could have been bagged but they were not after moose but sheep. Then again they saw bear go over the mountain" in fact just before the hruin went over the ridge, against clear-cut skyline, the party is Of the opinion Mir Bear wiggled his stump of a tail in dirisive farewell.
 The party, which included Mir. and Mrs. Carl Robinson, Miss Mary McCon- nell and Leonard Hopkins, returned yesterday having left Bishops at 5 o'clock in the morning, arrived at the lower landing on Lake Kenai at a m. where they were met by Louis Bell then up the 28 mile boat trip to the end of the Seward-Kenai lake highway, thence by auto over A miles to Seward and home, ending a rather strenuous days travelling. The same storm which visited Seward yesterday and the day previous was also in full force in the Kenai region and in the lake yesterday the party got the full force of it.
 The first day going to Bishops place on Russian river from the lower land ing gave them their first touch or heinz close to nature instead of having their dunnage hauled in on an auto, which they were under the impression was operating but was not, they were compelled to pack in. Each or the men had a 100 pound pack and the Wo- men 35 pounds each. That night they camped at the lower end of Russian lake. but due to the insistence of MT. Bishop. "the most wonderful host they ever met" they returned the following dav and from that time on were his guests. And they made happy and congenial crowd.
 The day following, both with 3o-pound pack strappoi cn, Hor{ins land Robinson started out alter she 7p, but strayed away ia some manner from the route pointed out by MT. Pishop and became s+ncE when con- fronted with an unsu.tn jLrtable CHI rising out of a canyon So sack to Rishon's for more explicit inotruc- ticns. They started out again the next day and at the foot of t.>e ridge made camp, then each wit habout ten pounds distributed, about their persons. the bare necessities-no blankets or tent-up the mountain
 kContinued on Page Stx)
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.L0NE HOSTESS GREETs
 WOMEN BANK OFFICERS

HOUSTON, Texas, Oct 15. (R- When the National Association of Bank Women convenes in Houston for it's annual convention October 23- 27, lone hostess will greet the 190 members
 Miss Emma Leah Meyer, assistant
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LEcAL NOTICE
IN PROBATE COURT FOR SEWARD PRECINCT, THIRD JUDICIAL Dl- VISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA. In the matter of JOHN H. BROWN, Dece eased.
NO. 137. NOTICE TO CREDITORS


 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the undersigned is the duly appointed, acting and qualified administrator of the estate of JOHN H. BROWN, Deceas- ed; and, in accordance with an order duly made therefor, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE CREDI- TORS of and to all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit such claims, with the neces- sary vouchers, within six months after and from the date of this notice to the said administrator at his place of residence in Sunrise, Alaska, which the undersigned selects as his place Of business in all matters connected with the estate of the said JOHN H. BROWN, Deceased.
 Dated at Seward, Alaska, October 9th, 1927.
 CHRISTIAN AMODT, Administrator of the estate of JOHN H. BROWN, Deceased.
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cashier of the Guaranty National Bank of Houston, will do the honors.
LOCAL JURORS LEAVING

Among the local citizens called to the Anchorage term of court as jur- ors are Mrs. Elwyn Swetmann, Mrs. Lorange, Mrs. Moehring and Miss Mary Mcconnell. These, and others whose names are not known yet, de- part Monday for the Inlet metropolis.
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Seattle chocolate ana vanilla ice cream. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
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The Gateway leads-others follow.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-06
COUNTY Y. W. &. A.
MEMBERS DISCUSS
FINANCE CAMPAIGN

Imperial County Y.W,C.A. mem-
hers held their regular monthly meet
ing in this city last night. Mrs.
Robert w. Campbell presided, and
considerable routine business WAS
transacted throughout the evening.
Plans for the finance campaign
which will be put on during the
winter were discussed, and it was
announced that member of the ma
tional finance department of the
Y.W.C.A. will be here to assist with
the work, at no expense to the I'M
perial county organization.
Members of the nomination COM
mittee, which will report at the next
meeting on January = when election
of officers will be held, were ap-
pointed as follows. Mrs. H. V. Gray.
Imperial; Mrs. w. r. Parks, CaleX-
leo; Mrs. John Kavanaugh, Holt
Vile; and Mrs. Edwin o. Carter, FL
Centre.
Miss Helen J. Scott, general seere-
tary for the county, gave an inter
esting report in which the following
statistics based on her work wers
given. County and local board
meetings attended, five; high school
club meetings, five; grade school
club meetings, Is; recognition serv-
ices, three; committee work with
club chairmen, three.
During the month, Miss Scott
spoke seven times upon different
phases of China, appearing before