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next morning. hot and dusty. He
had been riding hard and his horse
was played out. He announced that
he had passed the rest of our party
on his way up from Sac LUZ and.
according to his calculations, we
could expect them in three days time.
Our herald of good tidings was also
the bearer of alarming news. 1t was
for that reason that he had ridden
fast. A troop of revolutionaries was
reported moving up from the south
and he had come post-haste to warn
the inhabitants of this far-away
fazenda of the danger that threat
ened. The commotion caused by the
news was tremendous. There was
no need to urge these simple country
folk to seek cover. They scuttled off
like rabbits into the brush. abandon
ing their shacks and all they possessed
to the four winds of heaven. AS for
us. we lost no time in preparing for
state of siege.
Downright 1927
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5000 mile expedition
NV through the heart of the
Brazilian jungles; through
-a the green hells Of ANA
zenia," as the forests are sometimes
called. We have achieved our mission;
we have retraced the River of Doubt,
made famous by the explorations of
the late Theodore Roosevelt in 1914,
following his trail along its danger
beSet course.
For years the River Of Doubt has
been the subject of geographic contro-
versy. When Col. Roosevelt reported
that il;s expedition had put on the
map a river more than 900 miles long
Slightly longer than the Rhine and
little shorter than the Ohio the dis
pute was launched. And it has con-
tinued ever since.
In some quarters the River of Doubt
was looked upon as a joke. There
are people who still believe it is a
myth. and / have heard it said that it
received it's understanding name
because Roosevelt was not sure
whether it ran up hill or down. Doubts
ebounded.
The primary object was to clear the
atmosphere, so to speak; to check up
on the ColoneIS route, see the things
ards he had braved. We are now
able to report that the river exists as
Roosevelt described it in the account
Of his journey, and that there are
thrills aplenty to be found in this
little known part of the world.
In the course of our journey we met
with adventure of every variety. We
encountered bandits and hostile In
dams who threatened our lives.
Astride mules, we rode for several
hundred miles across the dismal Plan
alto Of Brazil. a highland country
forming the major part of the State
of Matte Crosse. 1t was hard going,
riding northward day after day with
herd of pack bullocks kicking up
clouds of dust in the glaring sun
shine or else slipping about wretch
eddy in a sea of mud with torren-
tial downpour soaking one to the skin.
Unpleasant as all this was, our de-
scent along the river was worse and
required two months of unremitting
toll.
To me, the River Roosevelt (such is
now the name of the River of Doubt
has become a living thing, with a
character all it's own-and a very bad
character, at that. l have come to |
know it intimately in all it's moods. |
MY anu L OH III IT'S
rapids, we staggered along it's rocky |
shores, we carried cargoes on our
backs until we were exhausted. We
were bitten by ants, pestered with |
bees, harassed by flies and driven al
most insane by the bites of innumer
able insects. How Col. Roosevelt's eX-
petition, even with it's first-class
equipment and backed by the re-
sources of the Brazilian Government,
ever got through is hard to say How
my expedition escaped unhurt and
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got clear of the jungle's claws remains
a mystery to me.A
Yet here / am in civilized surround
ingS having done what l set out to
do and seen all the things i had set
my heart on seeing. Barely go days
ago / stepped out of a fragile canoe
on to a river launch, which carried
me to Manaos. 1t hardly seemed cred
ible that in the last few months
have seen so much and Travelled SO
far.
Besides, / have accomplished an
other of my objects-to place on rec
ord in the library Of the Roosevelt
Memorial Association pictorial survey
of everything pertaining to the trip
Roosevelt lost all his films and most
of his photographs in the river.
was more fortunate, and although one
small parcel of films came to grief,
many thousands of feet of remarkable
material were brought back in safety.
X X X
TT may be asked how | know that
- the route followed conceded with
that Of the Roosevelt Dondon eXpedi-
ton. That is easily answered. Two
of the men / employed We're also with
the 1914 expedition. They had helped
drive PACK DuilOckS across the central
plateau to the River of Doubt. Once
we had embarked on the river, there
was not much chance of going astray.
With a copy of Roosevelt's book in
hand, | followed his movements day
by day, checking up his observations
as I went.
We found his old camping grounds
where he indicated them to be. In
Vulnerable tins left by his party were
living about. Many trees bore marks
of the surveyors ak, and in several
places we encountered large trunks
feIled across side streams to act as
bridges. So many and manifest were
the signs he left behind that even
after an interval Of 13 years we could
almost have followed him blindfolded
Only on one score did l find Col
RooSevelt's observations erroneous
He predicted a great and immediate
development of the area through
which we passed. Instead of progress
] noted retrogression. Light motor
trucks carried Roosevelt's heavy
equipment from Tapirapoan to Utia-
RITZ. We found the road abandoned
and extremely difficult even for bull.
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Wide World Phoi

the canvas canoes The part radio
played was more than interesting; 1t
was almost phenomenal. Fully 80 per
cent of our success was due to the
folding boats. From first to last, our
trip was an amending grind to keep
going, and it terminated in a race be-
tween time and food. Had we delayed
by the roadside, our stores would have
given out and we should have been
hard pressed to keep body and soul to-
gether. Our food supply did fail in
the end, but at time when it did
not matter. We had won the race,
and it was the canvas boats that car
ried us to victory.
Two alternatives were always before
us-first, to go slowly and as we went
to hunt for game; second, to use up
what provisions we carried and hasten
forward with all possible speed, so as
to reach settlers from whom more
food could be obtained. l chose to
take the latter course. Had l done
otherwise, the mems power Of endur-
ance would have failed long before we
reached any source of food. SO closely
did we calculate that the day we met
river we had consumed our last ounce
of meat and our stock of rice had
failed.
X X X X
THE expedition had the unstinted
l. support of the Roosevelt Memo
rial Association and Of the New York
Geological Society. With the good
wishes of these two organizations
solidly behind us, we sailed south on
July "a, last year.
Some time was spent in Rio de
Janeiro arranging matters with the
government and going over all those
uninteresting preliminaries so essen.
tial to the welfare of an expedition
into foreign lands. We met Gen. Ron
don, who made the 1914 expedition
jointly with Col. Roosevelt and found
him rather pessimistic. He said that
we had come at the wrong season of
the year, and it would be advisable to
spend six months in Rio before start
ing. But such a plan did not fit in
with our ideas, and we hurried for
ward as quickly as possible.
The expedition consisted of three
white men besides myself. First came
Ramon da Paz, a Pole, who spoke
every language under the ssun. We
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lock carts. Places on the telegraph
line where Roosevelt stopped were in
many instances deserted and new ones
had not since sprung up.
A slight advance of something over
two kilometers up River Roosevelt
had been made by the rubber men.
and slight increase of activity on its
lower reaches was also noticeable.
Outside of these two insignificant
changes for the better, all others las
civilized progress) were for
the worse.
The outstanding features Of the eX
petition centeTed in the wireless and
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BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.
. HE fact that the end of the col
lege year has come is cele-
brated by having what Is called
Il commencement day. This

J" HE fact that the end OF the col
lege year has come is cele-
brated by having what Is called
Il Commencement day. This
is the great day in all the
colleges.
The professors walk in professions
in their colored hoods. The orioles
have nothing on them. The green
grass of the campus is alive with
light and many hues. In the Great
Hall the girl graduates come up for
their degrees, carrying bouquets Of
flowers, like brides at the altar of
learning. The oldest living graduate
(who never dies) is there again. nod
ding over his stick as he tries to
follow the speeches.
The Graduation day speeches have
been going strong for unaccounted
decades. They are or ought to be a
good index of the way in which our
higher learning is developing.
Let us drop in and listen to the
Graduation day speeches in any great
college Of North America, as it is
likely to be in 1850.
GRADUATION DAY SPEECH OF
THE PRESIDENT.
IF the College Course Keeps Getting
Longer and Longer)
The president, in his valedictory ad-
dress, spoke with deep feeling, and
was frequently interrupted by the
sobs of the graduating class. They
had now been together, he said, more
years than he cared to count. They
had come together as young men,
they had spent the energetic years of
their middle age together in these ven
cradle halls, and now with advancing
old age it had become absolutely neces-
sary that they should graduate before
they died.
He felt that it was hard indeed to
part. He could not but contrast on
this occasion the organization of the
college and the new meaning that
graduation from college had acquired
with the almost unbelievable condition
of things he could recall as actually
existing in his youth. In those days
men graduated from the university
after perhaps no more than eight or
nine years of study.
He himself had actually seen a. col
lege degree given to a mana bril-
liant man, he admitted-who had
spent only six years at the college.
Under such conditions education was
necessarily slipshod and incomplete. 1t
was customary, as he remembered, for
men to go no further in comic sec.
tions than page $50; as to what came
after page $50, there had prevailed
regrettable indifference.
He was glad to say that he could see
men seated before him this morning
who had done the entire book. CAD
plauss9 In earlier days students We're
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GRADUATION DAY SPEECH OF
THE TREASURER.
IF College Finance Keeps Getting
Stronger and Stronger.)


Stronger and Stronger)
The treasurer of the college in pre-
senting the annual report called atteA-
ton to the increasingly heavy eXpen-
ditures that the college was called
upon to meet.
The budget of the current year
showed an expenditure of $2O,O0O,000,
for which the current revenue was in
adequate by 100000. The students
fees, in accordance with the settled
policy of higher education, had been
progressively reduced until they now
stood at only 25 cents a year.
He doubted whether they could be
reduced further, and was inclined on
the contrary to think that the time
might come for considering a 30-cent
fee. Meantime. the net result of the
years finance was a deficit of So ,000,-
900.
The treasurer paused at this point
in sthe reading of his report, and it
was evident that the announcement
had struck something like despair
with the entire audience.
After allowing this disastrous pro-
nunciamento to take it's full effect, the
treasurer went on to say that he was
happy to announce that through the
kidness of Mr.. Guttlerocks. the bene-
factor to whom the college already
owed SO much, the entire deficit had
been paid off.
The cheers that greeted this unex-
pected announcement showed how in
tense had been the strain of the def
icit, and what tremendous and uni
versal relief was felt.
The treasurer went on to say that
CT n f1nfk nj he
college finances were on such an ex-
cellent footing, since he had, if he
might use the expression, balanced"
his budget, it was only legitimate that
the college should look around for
further expenditure.
He would add that the board of trus-
tees had already so looked around.
and that for the moment they could
see nothing. But his hearers would
rest assured that they would find
something 1f need be. they would
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The Ricer Of Doubt has been a
sfYeGnt Of mystery erer since Theodore
Roose reIt made has tcay dotcn it in 1917;
Commander George NJ Dgott a noted
explorer. has Just completed trip
through the Brazilian Jungle and dotcn
The yiCer foHoIcinO R0oSeCenS frdu.
He has 1critten fire articles describing
the Tipid adventures he encountered in
The course Of has iourAeV.
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College Courses May Some Day Develop
So That GraduatiOns Will Be Abolished

He felt that in turning these veneer
able gentlemen out into the cold world
the college was performing an un-
grateful task. He shuddered to think
of what might happen If a Bolshevist
should get hold of one of them.
The trustees were engaged, how
ever, in looking around for new things
that could be studied. 1t was felt that
there must be something left if one
could only find it. In conclusion. he
would like to ask the audience to step
out quietly, as he observed THAI some
of the senior graduates were asleep.
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BY G. NJ. DYOTT.

w YE have just returned from
A| a 5000 mile expedition
wv through the heart of the
v Brazilian jungles; through
the noreen bells of ANA.
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Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31
BIG ALASKA
 APPRO ROPRIATTON
TO BE PASSED

The largest appropriation in the Alaskan amounts of the Department of the Interior, is assured passage in tlte Senate and House, a total of $780, 920, according to Washington dispatches. The Educational appropriation of last year has been increased $2O,OOO for erection and upkeep of five new schools opening in Sep tember. The medical appropri- ation is practically unchanged,
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31
BODY OF MISSING
 MAN IS FOUND


 Dispatches say reports that Indians have discovered the mutilated body of a white man on the shores of Lake Becha- rolf have been confirmed by white investigators. It is be- lieved the body is that of Charles Nelson who disappear ed three years ago.
 Nelson left a fishing village to cross the lake which was
 overed with scum ice. A few
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31
THEFT CHARGE FILED
 AGAINST KETCHIKAN MEN

Arrested by Federal Prohibit
 2 vents on moonshin- ng harge, Art Ca l on an l .agE Eceploeg Ketchika,. cung men, were later form. charged win larceny. The Wo men were arrested by dry 2 rents who reported seizin. 300 gallons of mash and con. siderable whiskey,
 During the raid, the officer, noted articles in the camp cor. 'a5nonding to descriptions ot
 oDerty taken a short time cfore from the cabin of one Murray Johnson. This led to an investigation and filing of the larceny charge against the men.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31
3RITISHER WILL
 ACCOMPANY WILKINS

Hughes Duncan Grant, form 2r British naval officer, is as- 5ociated with George H. Will kins in the latter's second DO. 'ar expedition, press reports
 ay.
 / It Is said the party will use two Stinson planes, capable # 1,500-mile range, with 73- soot wing spread, and also a Fokkcr monoplane. They plan to fly 500 miles northwest of Point Barrow. The party leaves 5eattle for Fairbanks on Feb ruary 12.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31

Y. Inouyc. 9 Ketrhikan Japa- '7@~e a~d S2ly Shields, of the
 me nlace wee recent" ar rested in Seattle on a Mann 'at hGrg2 after they had c5 Eotohi'1an and registered
 Seattle Hotel az man ard 7T;fn Tho Jap, who is married ard the father of two chil lren.
 f Ketchikar, where he wa employed as restaurant cook supposedly enroute to Japan lie is said to have attempted to purchase a ticket for the Shields girl on the same boat. but was refused and then gave
 he money to the girl to pur- chase a ticket on the next boat. Possession of the ticket by the
 ii c2isad her mother to go to United States Commissioner Kehoe for aid. She was allow d to proceed to Seattle, how ever, after Seattle officials were wired to be on the loo,;- out for Inouye, who met the girl as expected and proceed ed to a hotel where both were arrested after registering as man and wife. The Jap was held for the Grand Jury wi:'l bail fixed at S2,500 and the girl was held as a material witness.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31
days later his boat was found upturned and frozen in the ice. He had not been on friendly terms with the Indians.

The store and warehouse ol Sam Dublin at Wiseman was destroyed by fire a few days ago with an estimated loss of 94O,OOO. The destruction of he establishment wiped out 5he only local source of food
 npIy and the residents are " dapehdent on the town of les for supplies.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31
$150,OOO. The reindeer appro- .priation has been increased
 $5.OOO to $17,52O.

Nine cases of scarlet fever were reported in Fairbanks a few days ago. The homes of the sufferers were isolated tO prevent a spread of the con tagion.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31

A bill introduced recently by. Senator Stansfiold would make it possible to obtain patent on treas of public land in Alas
 a, not in excess of five acres.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31

J. A. Williams, pioneer resi-
 ent of Alaska and the Yukon,
 ied recently at the goveri1-
 ent hospital in Anchorage as
 result of a complication of i'mants, aged 64. The deccas- ed had char~e of the electric irht plant in Dason in K'on, dyke rush days and was known 70 old timers as Electric Light" Williams. During late COTS he has reai'ed in the Fairbanks and Talkeetna dis 'ricts.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31
FEW LAND PURCHASE BILL

Delegate Sutherland intro 'uced a bill to permit Amer-
 0 purchase unreserved 9e,ic lands in Alaska for 50 per acre.
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-01-31

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 MyAer Mercantile Ce. Gaaware; cTooker7- HyAsr Mercantile G. Gs@ass-
 HyAeT Dy0T Co. CarA RosaRs-
 Malemate Cigar Store. N01tAerp Peel Hall. DxUGe->
 KyAe Rrug es. @AfTias-
 Ryder Dairy necarseal, SupaIies- HSAer Mercantile Co. RzRIesives-
 HalnsR River Dock. Co. Hu&-
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 HyAsx Grocery. Hyder Mercantile Co. Crsaa ceeAs-
 Hydsr GreceTy.. Ryder Mercantile Co. GAs kRgiAss-
 HyddF Machine Shop. h0tels-
 Golden Gate Hotel. Hardwaro-
 Hydsr Mercantile Co. Jewslry-
 Nuggst Shop.
 Hyder Drug Co. LAHAdEy- Portland Canal Electric MAeAine Shop Hyder Machine Shop. Meat Markets- P. Daras & Go. Netary Puklie- Mkaest Bl.e. Plumbing, Steamfitting- Hyder Machine Shop. Printia0--
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 Northern Pool Hall ProfessieAAl- Ernest Blue, Attorney. PA0to SsRpIies- Hyder Drug Co. RestaqraAts- laeal Cafe
 Qaiek 1snnch Silver Grill &smAkers Supplies- Melauute Cigar Store. Northern Peol Hall Ryder Drug Co. Ryder Mercantile Go. 9oldea Gate Hotel SRAtioasry-
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-12
Deterrents Of Crime

Cochise county is keeping discouragng
by providing Again last
week two their pnentay days after
they had stolen automobile
In writing this Child
one Of the foremost investigators
in criminal breeders of astonishing
fecundity'
Last city. a population of soooooO
there 342 there
s6s murders with population
II murders in Milwaukee population
The crime in London
and Milwaukee because the
which follow after
why is New delays
in trial. and the frequent miscarriages o justice
discussing
flows Milwaukee 80 miles the
Milwaukee Common prevail
wisconsin -
having jury proceedings are SO prevalent
becomes the inqutorial bound
placed calendar Immediately granted
dispatch view of getting the facts
for the
mo stays granted unless the
finds preuda and issues its certificate doubt
Only three granted ten years"
justice
county.
The matter appeal with
has point where
has been Wisconsin but
clngng common
that at least speed
from operating in their jurisdictions.
gunman Chicago quoted saying do not work
in Milwaukee because their
in
give
county n operations.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-12
Don't Sell Country Short

corporations billion class,
warning H.
anywhere
country
Of
that followed general growth
corporations
railroads listed
the New
1914
doubtedy subtract considerably
affecting their earnings
distribute prosperity.
billion richest of all corporations this
dollars
company $1SOOOOOOO
capital investment
No company complete
the tandar
criticize privilege
interesting to companies
only privilege
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-12
SUPREME COURT
RULES AGAINST
STRIKE RIGHTS

WASHINGTON, April IL. (R)-La Dor
unions and their members may be en-
Joined for refusing to work when
their acts constitute a restraint of
interstate commerce, the supreme
court held today in a case brought
by the Bedford Cut Stone company
and % other corporations against the
Journeymen Stone Cutters Association
of North America, it's local unions and
their officers.
The national and local stone cut
ters' unions required members to re-
frain from working on unfair" stone
and the Indiana Limestone companies,
affected by the order sought in fed
eral courts to enjoin enforcement,
contending that it restrained inter-
state commerce in violation of the
federal antitrust laws. The lower
federal courts refused the injunction
Justices Holmes and Brandeis dis
sented.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-12
Obstruction Removed
To $8OO,OOO Phoenix
High School Building


FHOENIX, April Ii (P-The last
legal obstruction in the way o.
starting construction on the $4,000
Phoenix high school stadium were
removed today when the supreme
court of Arizona affirmed the decision
Of the Maricopa county superior
court, holding that the bonds voted
for the stadium were valid.
Suit was brought over a year age
by Captain j. l.. B. Alexander for a
restraining order to prevent the sale
Of the bonds. Alexander alleged that
illegal votes were cast in the cleo
ton, naming as grounds for his COM
pIaint that some so per cent of the
votes east We're voted by persons
who were rot taxpayers.
The board of education of the
high school will meet soon it was
announced today by Amos a, Belts,
chairman OF the board to select an
architect to prepare specifications
for the stadium. Tentative plans call
for a structure seating 10000 per
sons.