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The Washington times., 1933-02-22
Hunter Trials at MiddIeburg

Today, many Capital horsemen and horsewomen went to
Middleburg, Virginia, for the hunter trials held the
D. c. Sands estate Those attending included members of
number of house parties being entertained throughout that
region celebration of the birthday anniversary of George
Washington.
Mr. Wilton j. Lambert will be chairman of the commit
tee the regular monthly horse show to be held at the
Riding and Hunt Club March "a at p.
Another show will be arranged especially for the Junior
"horsey set late in March, and the Society Horse Show
to be held Friday evening at the Riding and Hunt Club
will be outstanding event, eight classes will be
Prtwtz wife of the German Ambassadors Mile Fran
May daughter of the Belgian Ambassador and Nine
May; and Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins. Mr. F. Moran
McConhe, jr is chairman of the committee in charge.
Famous Virginia Horsewon1an in Europe
Mrs. Thomas H. Somerve who is master of the hounds
of the Montpelier Hunt of the foremost horsewomen
in America. She is the former Miss Marian DUPONT of
Wilmington Delaware, and her private pack, which she
established in 1927 and Of which she is justly proud
composed of twelve couples Of trcoored American fox
hounds
Mrs. Somerville now in Liverpool and she will at
tend the Grand National Steeplechase be held Ain
tree in which her horse rouble Maker of the most
famous in this country will be entered This horse which
was born and raised Mrs Somervle Virginia estate
won the Maryland Hunt Cup last year, the greatest and
most historic steeplechase held in America.
Mrs Somervies home at Montpelier Station is of
the most interesting in that region Part of it built
in the early Colonial days, and since that time several
additions have been made to it, 1t is delightful within
and without and reflects the charming personality of its
Mistress
The stables this estate among the finest in the
country, and here housed Mrs Somerve string of
thoroughbred She took her place as one of leading
owners last for at the American Hunt Race meets
her stable of ten horses sadded sixteen winners place
horSeS and three thirds out OF total of twenysix
The Washington times., 1933-02-22
Going Abroad

Mrs. C. V. Strong, wife of
the Advisor General to the
Disarmament Conference at
Geneva, accompanied by her
small son, Ronald, is sailing to-
day aboard the City of Balti-
more for Europe.
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In New York

Mrs. Nelson E. Perrin and
Miss Anne Perrin and Miss
Carnealita Perrin, of Washing
ton, are at the Westbu:y Hotel
in New York.
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Mrs. Johnson Hostess

Mrs. Paul EVartS Johnson en-
tertained at a luncheon today
at her residence in Sixteenth
Street, when her guests num-
bered IL. A Washington's Birth
day color scheme was used in
the decorations.
The Washington times., 1933-02-22
Dinner Last Evening

The Rev. w. Coleman Nevils,
S. j., president of Georgetown
University, was the guest of
honor at a dinner given last
evening by Mr.. George E.
Hamilton at Stone Ridge, his
suburban home.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland S. Nor
ris, of Philadelphia, Pa, are at
the Carlton for a brief stay.
The Washington times., 1933-02-22
Speaker Garner
Honored by
President

The President and Mrs.
Hoover entertained at dinner
last evening at the White House,
in honor of the Speaker of the
House of Representatives and
Mrs. John N. Garner.
The other guests included,
Governor John G. Pollard, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Bertrand
H. Smell, Representative and
Mrs Henry T. RaineC, RepreSen-
tative Ruth Pratt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adolph C.. Miller, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest I. Lewis, Mr.. George
Barr Baker, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerome D. Barnum, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Crowther, Mrs.
James F. Curtis, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, DR..
and Mrs. Gilbert GroSvenor, Mr..
George L. Harrison, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark Howell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul w. Litchfield, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cleveland A. Newton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur w. Page, Mr.. and
Mrs. Swager Sherley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arnold G. Stifcl, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph P. Tumulty, Mr..
and Mrs. French Strother, DR..
and Mrs. Joel T. Boone, Colonel
and Mrs. U. S. Grant, III, Major
and Mrs. Earl c. Long, Captain
Walter N. Vernon, and Colonel
Campbell B. Hodges.
The table was decorated with
Ophelia roses, freesia and glorio-
sum fern.
A musicale, to which addi-
tional guests were invited. fol
lowed the dinner in the East
room, when Miss Eunice Norton,
pianist; Miss Margaret Hal
stead, dramatic soprano; and
Mr.. Albert Spalding, violinist;
rendered a delightful program.
The Washington times., 1933-02-22

Sinderen Mr. Henry G. Vaughan and Mr. j. Spencer Weed
The National Capital Horse Show, an event of para
mount interest horse lovers not only Washington and
nearby Maryland and Virginia but much distant points,
will be held May TO- H. - and 49, at Bradley Farms, the
picturesque old estate the River Road where the farm
house of rough gray has such majestic setting It
overlooks beautiful rolling country which is we'll wooded
and in the distance, may glimpse the foothills Of the
The Washington times., 1933-02-22

New patterns, 212 yards long. styles
in beautiful reds, blue. black, white.
peach and green; some with ruffled
edges; some pleated edges and tie
backs. Let us show yOu.-StudiO of
Interior Decoration.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
Traces Found in Hill of
Mystery in Transvaal.

Cape Town.--Sensational finds of
golden ornaments and other relics
Of vanished native race have just
been made in the northern Trans
vaal at place called Mapungubwe
the Hill of Mystery.
The natives, it appears, long have
known of the Hill of Mystery; but
they feared the place. and never
explored it. Thirty years ago a
white hermit named Bernard Lotrie
lived near the spot. He had ac-
companied Doctor Livingstone IN
the famous journey to Lake Ngaml |;
and Lotrie undoubtedly climbed the
almost inaccessible Hill of Mystery.
But at that time there was no
suspicion that prehistoric settle
ment existed south of the LimpOpo
river, and Lotrie's stories of strange
discoveries attracted no attention.
Now that valuable relics have
been unearthed, men who remember
Lotrie have recalled his story of
q rich treasure chamber" In the
dense brush near the hill The gold
en- treasures already found have
whetted adventurous appetites and
the hunt is on.
Meanwhile, the Hill OF Mystery
is being guarded by police, while
party from the University Of Pre-
toria carries out scientific research
untroubled by intruders.
A Powerful Tribe.
The most valuable find was a
small golden rhinoceros. A very
small clan Of natives whose ances-
tors worshiped the rhinOceros still
lives In Rhodesia. 1t is regarded
as practically certain that the peO-
pie who inhabited the Hill of Mys-
terry and smelted gold there, were
"rhinoceros men,"
Discoveries have been made not
only on the precipitous hilltop of
Mapungubwe. but also in the sur
rounding country. The "hinoceros
men were evidently powerful tribe
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last act OF the drama. On the way Ee was forced
TO run the gauntlet at every village through
which he and his captors passed.
At Wappatomika the first of his miraculous
escapes came TO pass. For there he was recog-
nized by Simon Girty, the white renegade, as
"Simon Butler (Kenton had taken that name
when he fled from Virginia early in his career),
a cOmrade In arms during the Dunmore war,
and Glrty succeeded in winning over the Shaw
nees to freeing their prisoner But his freedom
was short-lived for a war party which returned
from an unsuccessful raid in Virginia demanded
that his torture proceed. Even Girty could not
prevail against them, but he did succeed In hav
ing the date for the torture postponed until the
gathering of all the tribes at Sandusky.
On the way to Sandusky the famous Mingo
chief, Logan, befrlended Kenton and spared him
some sufferings. but near Sandusky he was
again forced to run the gauntlet his ninth time.
Then when preparations were going forward for
burning him at the stake, again fate interviewed
AS the torch was applied to the wood piled up
around him. heavy rain started to fall and put
it out 1t was two days before the wood was
dry enough to try again. In the meantime Peter
Druiard, a British agent from Detroit, arrived
and ransomed kenton so that he could be taken
to Detroit for questioning by Gen. Henry Ham
ilton, the British commander there. Kenton was
he escaped and safely made the perilous journey
back to Kentucky.
AS for the story of how Simon Kenton, the
frontiersman, became the subject for famous
picture by two celebrated artists it came about
when Karl Bodmer, Swiss artist, accompanied
Maximilian prince of Neuwed to America to H.
lustrate the book his royal patron was to write
on Travels in the Interior of North America
1S32-1S34."
After Bodmer's return to Europe he lived for
awhile at Fontanebleau in France, where he was
a neighbor of Jean Francois Nillet. He told Mil
let some of the classic stories of the American
border especially that of Kentons Mazeppa ride
and Milet began to make drawings of Indians in
crayon and charcoal Eventually he and Bodmer
collabOrated in series of Autographs Bodmer
doing the landscapes and horses and Miet doing
the human figures, both Indians and white men
These were published in 1852 and one of them
was "SimOn Butler, or, Mazeppa American"
And this was another curious manifestation of
the fate which intervened repeatedly in the life
of Simon KentOn-that his last portrait should
be painted more than decade after his death
by foreigner, man who had never seen him
and who, noted for being the delineator Of quiet
pastoral French scenes, would be about the last
man on earth one would expect to portray an In
cident in the tumultuous life Of an American
frontierS,1an!
(S by Western Newspaper Union.)
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22

cry soon returned bringing with them his scalp
and they took turns slapping Kenton across the
face with 1t, exclaimng they did so, you
steal Indian hoss huh?' The Shawnees were In
an ugly mood for Daniel Boone had recently es-
capped from them and returned to Boonesbor-
ough in time to help beat Off an Indian attack
on that fort But now they had a captive who
was almost great a foeman as Boone and
they had no intention OF allowing him to escape.
They knew him for brave man and they were
resolved that he should show 'how brave man
can die" which meant that he was doomed to
the torture stake.
However they would wait until they had re-
turned to Chillicothe, where all the members of
the tribe could enjoy his death agonies. In the
meantime they would inflict upon him a long
series Of beatings, kicklngs and other cruelties,
always making sure that none of the injuries
should prove fatal SO as they started north for
Chillicothe there began for Kenton that "adven-
ture which for its momentous succession of per-
lis, transitions and harbreadth escapes has not
It's parallel in all the adventurous annals of
western border history.
1t would be impossible to condense all the per-
lis of those two months within the brief scope
of this article. so only the highlights can be
given The first one was his famous "Alazeppa
ride" which came the next morning after his
capture. Among tnelr recovered nOrSeS, the In
dians found wild, unbroken three-year-old and
on this animal they fastened their prisoner, ty-
ing his hands behind him and his feet under the
horses belly Around his neck they tied halter
with its ends fastened to the horses neck and
tail When this was done they released the
horse and gave it a sharp blow to start it on its
way AS they did so. one of them exclaimed,
you like Indian horse, huh? You ride one now"
At once the horse began to rear and pitch
to rid itself of its burden then started to run
through the woods. Bushes and brambleS tore
at Kenton's feet and legs and low-hanging
branches of the trees raked his face and body.
But his greatest danger lay in his being shaken
loose from the horse, for then he would be
strangled by the halter around his neck before
his captors could stop the fear-maddened ami
NAL However, he managed to hang on some
how and after a while the three-year-old ceased
its efforts to throw him off and quietly followed
the others.
During the next two days Kenton was again
and again tied on the colt but by this time it
had become more accustomed to him and after
a few plunges it quieted down and carried him
along quietly with the rest of the party.
Upon his arrival at Chilcothe the cruel pre-
Iiminares to his torture at the stake began. He
was forced to run the gauntlet the first of nine
he was to run before at last he was tied to the
stake. Then the Shawnees decided to take him
to their principal village, Wappatomika, for the
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
Discover Ancient Habitat
Of the Rhinoceros Men

in their day, for the bush Is I'm
pregnated with evidences of old hui
man occupation. Pottery and beads,
besides the gold and copper orna-
ments, have been found over a wide
area. A skeleton wearing a metal
helmet was among the most interest
ing discoveries
Il has been suggested that the Hill
of Mystery was the burying ground
o. the foreign invaders who carried
off tn gold from the ancient mines
Of Rhodesia Some Of the beads
and ornaments appear to be of
Egyptian origin.
There is a tradition along the
Limpopo that small yellow people
worked the gold and copper mines
near the river, trading with trav-
elers who wore white cloth around
their heads ana rode on camels.
For the reason already mentioned,
the scientists have had great diff
Guilty In obtaining native guides.
Every one who goes up that hill
dies" say the natives. 1--WE don't
kr ow why-but they die"
A Formidable Fortress.
The Hill of Mystery Is d mass Of
hard sandstone rising out of the
tropical bush of the Limpopo val
ley. II is the only hill In the neigh
,orhOOd topped with grass, and it
Is now clear that the rhinoceros
men carried hundreds of tons OF
earth TO the summit Of their secret
place. The sides are rugged and
overhanging and the scientists only
climbed it with the aid of ropes and
ladders. There Is one great Oblique
cleft in the rock. however. which
offers the least difficult path to the
summit The entrance to the cleft
Is hidden by trees and stranger
might never find it.
Holes were cut In this cleft By
the ancients. and once, no doubt,
there were wooden rungs forming
sort Oh ladder to the summit. AT
tho top of the cleft were bOulders,
evidently placed in p, tiOn so that
they could be toppled over In the
event Of an invasion This same
terrific form of defense was found
az other places where the cliffs
might be climbed The stronghold
of the rhinoceros men was impreg
nable.
No other walls were needed-in-
deed the only sign of building found
on the summit was a small stone en-
clOsure-possibly once the chiefs
residence-now occupied by baboons.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
Canada-U. IS. Border the
Result Of Many Parleys

sloner, Thomas Barclay of New
Brunswick, in 1917, and the "angle"
by direct negotiations between Dan
lcI Webster, American secretary of
state, and Lord Ashburton in 1912.
III these negotiations the king of
the Netherlands was called upon to
arbitrate. Although his award was
based on thorough investigations,
Maine did not agree to 1t and the
difficulties eliminated in the RES
took war" Of 1S3S-39. For this af-
fair the President was authorized to
call out the militia, but hostilities
were averted.
Difficulties also entered into the
fixing Of the boundaries west of Nj
agara. France first claimed the
Mississippi basin by virtue of the
explorations of La Sale; English
fur traders claimed the Northwest.
With the cession of Quebec in
1863 the situation changed, England
claiming what is now the north CEN
trail states. The northwest ordI-
nance of 1887 envlsioned the ambi-
tions of the young republic in the
vacant spaces Of the West. Lewis
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
UnfortiGed Boundary Is
5000 Miles Long.

Washington. - President Roose-
velt's recent reference to the Cana
dlan-United States border as a
boundary without Notifications en-
phasizes the unusual condition
which exists along the 3,000-mile
strip of land. Aside from patrols
of Royal Mounties at strategic points
and customs and immigration off,
cials and boats of the department
Of fisheries on the waterways, 1t Is
unguarded. However, it took more
than century of negotiations to ar
rive at this happy state of affairs.
The fixing of the boundaries, be-
gun In 1888, was not concluded un-
til 1908, and although there was
during the negotiations one or two
instances Of local uprisings be-
tween the settlers on both sides Of
the line, the final Issue was In no
case due to the display of force. Be-
cause of the faultIness of the only
available maps and the ignorance Of
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the negotlators regarding the topog-
raphy Of the country under dispute,
the marking Of the boundaries was
an extremely complicated affair.
A Dispute in the East.
The most dangerous of the from
tier disputes was the settlement of
the boundary between Maine, New
Brunswick and Quebec. This was
fixed by the treaty Of 1888, but not
completely settled for more than
fifty years. The treaty named as
the boundaries of the United States
such vague locations as "the north
west angle of Nova Scotia" namely,
the angle formed by line drawn
north from the source of the st.
Croix river" and the islands in the
Bay of Passamaquoddy which be-
longed to his Britannia majesty.
The identity OF the st. Croix
river was decided by a commission
In 1893; that Of the islands by an
agreement with the British commits
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22

and Clark. Gray and Astor, carried
the flag to the Pacific.
The electioneering cry in 1914 of
''Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" typified
che spirit of the time. but wiser
counsel prevailed.
Difficulties over Waterways.
Negotiations were entered into in
1916, and it was decided that the
boundary should follow the forty
ninth parallel from the Rockies to
1.-The middle of the channel which
separates the continent from Van
couver's island, and thence south
erly through the middle of the said
channel and of Fuca's strait to the
Pacific ocean,"
The many waterways along the
border-the Great Lakes, the st.
Lawrence, st. John, Richelieu, and
Detroit rivers-all have caused
many difficulties in the boundary
question. To solve them Elihu Root,
secretary of state, and James Bryce,
ambassador extraordinary at Wash
ington, brought about treaty which
created the international joint COM
mission. This commission, which
first met in 1912, consisted OF six
members, three appointed by the
President of the United States and
three by the king on the recon.
mendation of the governor-general-
in-council in Canada. It's decisions
have decided many troublesome con-
troverSies.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22

was the inspiration for famous picture upon
which two artists OF world renown collaborated.
The frOntiersman was Simon Kenton, or Simon
Butler, as he was also known. The picture was
TSimon Butler. or, Mazeppa Americain' and the
tro artists were Jean Francois Millet. the
r'-enchman famed for his 1.-The Angelus" and
The Sower," and Karl Bodmer, the Swiss. who
VS. one of the earliest and greatest painters
OF the American Indian.
fn the summer of 177S Col John Bowman,
commander of the fort at Harrodsburg KY sent
thIee men. Simon Kenton, Alexander Montgom-
cry and George Clark (not THE George Rogers
Clark a spying expedition to the Shawnee
Indian town of Chillicothe beyond the Ohio
river short time before this, Kenton and
Montgomery accompanied party led by Daniel
Boone on a similar spying expedition to Paint
creek-tOwn In Ohio, recaptured four horses which
ihe Indians had taken from the Kentucky set
tlers and brought them back safely to Logan's
Station.
So when the three men started out to scout
for Bowman, they took along quantity of salt
and some halters in case they should have
chance to capture some more Indian horses
Such a chance did present itself and on the
night of September O. 177s. they fed from Chilli
cothe, taking with them seven Indian horses
by riding hard all night all the next day and
the next night they reached the Ohio river on
the morning of September IL only to find its
waters so whipped up by a storm that they could
not force the horses to plunge in ard swim for
the Kentucky shore.
Despite the certainty of pursuit by the Tndi-
ans they resolved to wait there until the river
should subside instead of selecting the three best
horses and making their escape while there was
still time as Kenton himself later admitted they
should have done. The result that on the
morning of September Is party Of Shawnees
Jumped" them they were preparing to round
up the horses and proceed down the Ohio to
Corn Island where there was garrison of Ken
tuckians. Kenton the first to fall into the
hands of the eremy. Montgomery, coming to his
aid fred at tie Indians but missed and fed for
his life With some of the savages in hot pur-
suit In the meantime Clark dashed down to
the river. plunged in and clingng TO piece of
d'fstwoot. nnaHaged to reach the Kentucky
ss,1re
2hs Iu7lans vino sgd been chasing Montgom-
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
Bandit-Proof Bank
Door on Display

st. Louisa bandit-prOof bank
door, invented to prevent robbers
from entering financial institu-
tions either before or after busi-
ness hours, is on exhibition here.
The mechanism is chamber
Of bullet-prOof metal, just large
enough to accommodate one per-
son. 1t has two sliding doors.
When one is opened the other
locks automatically. Thus, an
employee enters the metal cham
Der from the foyer, closes and
locks the door behind him, then
opens the door into the banking
rooms by means of a secret COM
bination dial.
If anyone unfamiliar with the
combination attempts to operate
the dial, both doors lock and he
is trapped In the small room.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
This School Fines Its
Students Who Funk

Wichita, Kan.-There is one school
in this city where it costs to funk.
Traffic offenders hailed before the po-
lice court are paroled on order they
report to the drivers school. The
class Is in session one hour, two
days every week. At the end of
seven lessons an examination Is
given. If the student flunks he
must return to police court and pay
his fine. Otherwise he is released.
There is no cutting" of classes.
either
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-09-22
sy ELMO SCOTT WATSON

L WAS just 155 years ago this
month that a stirring adven-
ture befell a frontiersman on
the banks of the Ohio river,
the story of which not only
became a classic In border
history. but fastened upon
this froutiersman the title of
1.-The American Mazeppa" and
Evening star., 1933-02-19

]. Hubert Stevens, at wheel,
and Donald De Loria, after
winning the National A. A. u.
senior two-man bobsled title
on the perilous course at Lake
Placid, N. Y.
9 Associated Press Photo.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

At left: Firemen build an ice
palace. This burning building
was festooned with icicles from
hose water in a temperature of
13 below zero at Leavenworth,
Kans. @ Associated Press Photo.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

Interesting Mount Vernon. of President
whose 2olst birthday anniversary being by
Wednesday, At buildings
the north and below veranda showing The
Evening star., 1933-02-19

Mrs. Herbert Hoover greets men,
bers of the League of Republican
Women of the District as she attends
the leagues luncheon in her honor. At
left is Mrs. William Howard Taft.
g Underwood & Underwood.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

Rolling around Palm Beach.
Lily Damita, screen star, stops
her cycle chair to give the pho
tographers a break.
@ Associated Press Photo.