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ITO build a fire." says Sam, lis impossible. There is nothing to burn.
Nor is there any other protection from the sub-zero temperature, Or from
the icy blasts of wind that sweep the mountain all through the night"
They climbed for two more hours-and by that time they
yer all but exhausted. They stopped to rest IN a ledge of rock,
and suddenly a terrific avalanche roared past them nOt a hundred
yards away. 1t was eleven oclock-he deadEne for mountain
cimbers-the time when they a for cover if there wa any
cover to u to.
THE Slide says Sam, 'crGsed the path of the trail we had made
III bodies would now be repos1ng or some glacier under that thousand
tons OF rock and ice. We didn't dare travel after that From then until
three o'clock W sat huddled or the ledge expecting every moment to
be carried away by ar other avalanche. AT three we started out again,
trying to find the lost trail. We didn't find it-and to make matters
worse. the SUI was sinking rapidly and it was getting colder by the
kecond"
Took Refuge in a Cave.
The situation vas serious. Sam and his companions decided some
hing certainly should be done about it. But what: None of them knew.
chance on being alive in the m ,rning. Three men rse to find a suitable
place to dig in, but two of t. EN- lay still en- the ice-too exhausted to
move I.
With difficulty the othsrs got them to their feet. Practically
carrying them, they move0 o acre S a glacier, looking for a cave.
Although they didn't know it then, it was that move that saved
all their lives.
They found a cave and huHdled into it. They didn't dare go to sleep.
they'd freeze to death. Their food supply had run out by that time. and
The snawng pains of hunger added to their intense misery. The suffer-
the morning they Jaw five back figures moving across the ice toward
them.
The black figures were five professional guides. Down in Ma cugnaga
someone with a pair of powerful binoculars had see them a. they
pushed cross that last stretch Of glacier. The guideS-nen of remark
able endurance-had climbed all night long to reach them before it
was too late. They literally carried the five men down the mountain and
rushed them to a hospital, where n member of the party had a leg
amputated. another a hand, and a third, all the toes off both feet. But
luckily for Sam Johnson, the sawbones didnt have to DE- any work on him.
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Miss Ruth Collins.

Miss Ruth Collins.
MI. ana Mrs. M. l.. Hawks en-
tertalned at a dinner Sunday
honoring their son, Clyde, who
leaves Ior BOzeman ILLS Week
to enter Montana state college.
Guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Engle of Billings, MIR. and
Mrs. H. L. MARROW ana SOIL,
bruce, MI. MarIoWS mother, Mr..
and Mrs. H. E. Smell and Mar
ian and Wallace shell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Louk and
son, Ernest Dale, spent Tie
week end with Mr.. LoukS par
ents at Grow Agency.
Earl LeSSara aid children
were Hardin shoppers Satur-
Gay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Strobbe
and family motored 10 Billings
saturday.
Mi. and Mrs. G.. A. Masters
called on friends in Hardin on
Saturday. Mrs. Masters nau Just
returned from an extended VS.
1t with friends in the western
pdII VI MOIlIdlld.
Ford Davis drove to Billings
Saturday, accompanied by Ben
Dewitt.
Jake Sinner and a party of
friends motored to Billings on
Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. David Zier spent
Sunday evening visiting at the
nome of Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
KernS.
Mrs. James O'Brlen and son,
Leonard, attended the Parish
dinner at St. Joseph S cnurcn
in Hardin Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. John H. Pickard
of Hardin drove to the Warman
school Sunday, Wnere they were
guests of their daughter, Miss
nellie Yvette Pickard.
Bishop O'Hara of Great Falls
and the Rev. Walter rltza.u,
S. j., were visiting at the St.
AaVleI Catholic church and
mission school Sunday.
Miss Elizabeth Punke and
Miss Ruth Collins gave a dance
at the Warman school house
Saturday evening.
The three All clubs in the
community. Poppy Brownies,
Future Farmers and Me Wasa
Check Asheda Casha, took part
in the Achievement Day pro-
gram in Hardin Saturday. The
Misses Betty and Pauline Zier
gave a demonstration on the
care of the sewing machine.
Several awards were won by
the clubs.
The Misses Patty Jensen, Bet
ty Bell and Peggy Joyce Baker
spent the week end at the home
of Miss Beth Martin.
Mr.. Anderson was a Sunday
dinner guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Mccarthy.
Miss Pauline Schaller had
dental work done in Hardin on
Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. James O'Brien
motored to Billings Thursdty.
Their daughter, Miss Stella o.
Brien left from there for Great
where she will attend COL
lege.
Miss Marian Smell attended
the meeting of the Order of
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Rainbow in Hardin Tuesday
evening, and was an overnight
guest OF Miss Mae Peck.
Word was received here that
Mrs. E. L. Robbins, formerly of
this community, is seriously i'll
at her home near Roman, Mont.
The new officers of the st.
Xavier Home Demonstration
club held a meeting at the
home of Mrs. James O'Brien
Wednesday afternoon. Plans
we're made for the years work
and social activities. Those
present were Mrs. o. E. Robert
son, Mrs. M. l.. Hawks, Mrs.
Jesse Schwend and Mrs. Alex
Fox. At the close of the meet
ing Mrs. O'Brien, assisted by
her daughters, served refresh
mentS.
Mrs. Schuyler Del Camp and
children drove to Dunmore
Tuesday to visit Mrs. Del
Camps father, A. M. Sway,
who has been seriously i'll, and
who was leaving that evening
for the Mayo clinic in Rochest-
er, MINI.
David and George Zier have
new trucks to use In beet haul
ing.
Maurice Strobbe drove to Bill
lingS Sunday.
Johnny Meyer was in Hardin
Tuesday.
Several young people from st.
Xavier attended the dance at
Warman Saturday evening.
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Mrs. JOnn Keno VlSlCed mel
daughter, Mrs. Dick Willitt and
family in Hardin Saturday.
Mrs. Anne Deichl received a
message that her son, Joe, is
quite i'll at Gonzaga college in
Spokane, Wash.
Mrs. Fred Perry of Rotten
Grass shopped in Hardin Sat-
urday.
Henry Fox returned from Ida
no recently with a trucklOad of
potatoes.
Ben Dtvitt of the sugar farm
Went to Billings Saturday to
visit his sister, Miss Florence
Dewitt. Sunday Mi. Dewitt and
! Miss Dewitt attended a family
reunion at the Ak ranch.
Mrs. Jay Lee called on Mrs.
Paul Schaller Saturday morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Smell, MIR.
and Mrs. Bob Taylor and Colleen
and Leroy Barnes visited in
Billings Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Steele
d11o oO11, o111lC, lCAG
for a tour of the western states.
They plan to make their home
near Salmon, Ida.
Jake Sinner spent the week
end at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Pete Gable and family in
Hardin.
MIR. and Mrs. J. A. Lessard
and Mrs. Lester Rice and chill
dren, Erlis, Dona Marie, Kitty
Beth, John and Alton, visited
trends in Hardin Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Zier and
Dorothy and Gene visited MIR.
and Mrs. Frickle near Hardin
Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. Harry Martin
visited their daughter, Miss
Maxine Martin IN Hardin Sat-
uraay.
M. L. Hawks was a Hardin
business visitor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Braaton brought
their son to Hardin Saturday,
where he received medical
treatment for an infected hand.
Carl Schuppe was honor
guest at a dinner Thursday CIV
en- to celebrate his SiXtieth
birthday. Decorations 'Here in
keeping with the occasion, the
center piece on the dinner table
being a large birthday cake.
Guests were MI. and Mrs. Joe
Zleler and son, Joey, Manuel,
Carl and Victor Schuppe, Mr..
and Mrs. David Zier and chill
1ren, Betty, Pauline, william,
Ruth, Marian and Phillip Zler.
Rodney Mcmillan returned to
his home on the sugar farm
after a tWo-weeks' visit in Mis-
SOula.
Mr.. and Mrs. Connie Nolde
and family and Miss BETTY
Punke picnicked and gathered
wild grapes Sunday.
John Simon and Miss Katie
Fox OF Soap creek we're married
IN Billings Tuesday of last week
The bride was attired in a rasp-
berry gown, with matching &C
c~eSSOrieS. After a SHORT honnu-
moon trip, the couple will make
their home IN the o.s I,,,u w.
ley.
b Mrs. Dolly Cooper and Mrs,
Ann Diechl motored to Hardin
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Stella Maarts of Beau
Was was a week end guest Of
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MYSTERIOUS MALADY
KILLING MANY DUCKS

A mysterious malady-suspec-
ted of being alkali poisoning
has killed thousands of ducks
in eastern Montana during the
last few weeks, according to an
nouncement by State Game
Warden, James A. Weaver.
Heaviest toll has been on Fox
lake in Richland county and
Medicine lake in Sheridan
county.
Crews of WPA workers are
burying the dead ducks-1,3 S5
were found on Fox lake in two
days - and transporting sick
ducks they can catch to other
lakes, streams or rivers. Even
hawks that fed on the dead
ducks were killed by the disease.
An autopsy by the state live
stock sanitary board produced
no conclusive results, but it was
said alkali poisoning is suSpec-
ted. Water in the lakes has
been low for years and heavy
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St. Xdvier News
Mrs. II. E. Smell

Miss Nancy Mccarthy left
Tuesday for MlssouIay where
she Will begin her senior year
in the state university.
Mrs. Paul Scnaller snOpped in
Hardin Tuesday.
Miss Edith Collins of Absaro-
kee spent the week enu with
her sister, Miss Ruth Collins,
of Soap creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Taylor
ana children, Thelma kuJn,
Phyllis Mae and Robert, Jr.,
motored to Pompey's Pillar,
Whele the spent Saturday with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Oblander.
Sunday they l1ent on to Wor-
den, where they were dinner
guests OF Mrs. Taylor's aunt,
Mrs. Paul Gahagan, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Zier were
dinner guests Of Mrs. Tiers sis
ter and family in Hardin Satur-
day.
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deposits of alkali have formed
1long the shores. With this
years high water Level. the ak
al as submerged and satur-
atcd the water, it was said. The
fish ard game department, the
state livestock sanitary board
ard the federal biological sur
vey have ioineo forces to solve
the problem.
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Owl Creek News

Miss Sarah Conover of New
YoIn Wv, and her sister, Mrs.
@lchalu Rush of New Meltoiu'
Conn, spent several dayS ytSlI-
4Ig L4Ie LICK Fisher family. Iney
lleA Ey plane from New YORK
City to Sheridan, Wyo.
Mss Jean kUmllne hent thru
Ee.,Wstoue National park a
short time ago with MI. ana
mrs. AlIan Romine OF Hardin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Lining
have been helping at the DICK
FISHER ranch the past two
weeks. Mr.. FISHER has a very
promising altaI1a seed crop ana
started tnreSnlng Monday: Gene
herman OF Sarpy creek has
been engaged to uo most OF the
tnreshlng OF alfalfa seed on
Little Owl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Brown and
family of Arvada, WJo., visited
at the jim Brown nome last
week end.
mr.. and Mrs. Jack O'Brien
of Clearfield, Pa, enroute TO
Yellowstone National park and
the west coast, spent several
Gays visiting at the John Rice
nome TINS week. Mrs. OBrlen
and Mrs. Rice we're boarding
scnool friends in Virginia.
Due to the Abandonment OF
the upper Little Owl creek
scnool, Norma, Jack, George
and Virginia Rasmussen, chill
dren OF MT. and MI George
rasmussen of Dry Beaver, are
DONG light house keeping IN
haru4n and attending the Har-
din schools while hoger FlSner
son OF Mr.. ana Mrs. LICK FISH
er is boarding at the Edwin
Miles home and going by BUS
to the Looge Grass ScIlool. The
Little Owl creek bus is well
lOaued again this year, hauling
thu teen StuuentS al present.
Miss Jean kOmlne Is boarding
in Lodge Grass again TINS year
ana Attending the Lodge Grass
high school.
lurs. Grover Harris and dau-
ghLers, Mary and 10 of the Bear
oreek ranch have taken an
apartment at the MOTHS smith
home IN Lodge Grass in order
that Mary and 10 may attend
the schools there.
Mrs. Lloyd cook Of Youngs
clecA ana her brother, Gene
Patrick OF Tulsa, Okla, visited
at the Dick rlSner home sun
day.
It's roundup time" on Owl
creek. Among JnoSe VINO shipped
cattle from mere last week we've
Jim Brown, Harold Suit, Edwin
Miles, and Charles Sherod. MIR.
suit has shipped again since
then, and is at it again, round
ing up matador steers for Ar
mOur and company. All good
beef steers are shipped to the
market while the others are
sent to Fargo, N. D., to be put
Ola feed. Mr. Suit has already
Sl4lppeu about loUU head.
N4r. ana MrS. Edwin Miles and
daughters, Ruby and Nadine,
accompanied by Mrs. Robert
Lggart of Gray Blanket creek,
spent Saturday IN Sheridan,
shopping and attending to otn-
er business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Peterson
and children and MIR. and Mrs.
jim Brown spent Sunday after
noon at the Charles Sherod
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Fisher
were Friday evening dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Miles.
MISS Ruth Collins, who form
ely taught the upper Little
Owl creek school was a week
end guest of Walter Miller and
family.
Hardin business callers in
Guided Mr.. and Mrs. Dan RO-
mine on Friday and MIR. and
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Lost and Cut Off by Avalanche.

By nine o'clock that peak didn't cen any nearer than it had at
seven They knew they were lost then-and they were thoroughly fright
ened. They were at an altitude of about twelve thousand feet. and a
night spent in the intense cold at that level was pretty sure to be fatal
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to Rushford in the east end of the
village.
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are of the Oxheart variety. She
read in a newspaper that a woman
who had raised a 1 a pound toma-
to measuring II inches in circum-
ference claimed the title Of cham
pionship tomato grower. Can any
one beat Mrs. Bauch's record?
Northern Minnesota Farm
Yields Popcorn And Peanuts
INTERNATIONAL FALLS-Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Peggar's farm west
of Loman might almost be called
an agricultural experiment station,
judging from the number Of unus-
ual products grown there. Just to
show what can be produced in the
north country, the Peggars brought
some samples Of fruits and vegeta-
bles they raised this year to town
for inspection. Unique products of
their fields are popcorn, peanuts
and a vine pear which may be eat
en- raw or treated like cucumbers.
George Peggar, a brother, isn't far
behind as a gardener. He produc-
ed serpent cucumber with an ag-
gregate length, If Strengthened out,
of more than SO inches.
Bus Driver Aids
Border Patrol
CONGRATULATIONS Jonck-
owski, OF Browerville, who drives a
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LIBRARY
BOOK SHELF
A SOUTHERNER DISCOVERS
THE SOUTH
JOnthan Daniels
By Be1nice Fi,,neSdn

1.-THE South has been wanting dis
covery for long time," writes JON
athan Daniels, the brilliant young
Southern liberal who is editor of
the Raleigh News and Observer.
Natives and foreigners, first de-
pended upon to present the South,
broke it instead into fragments of
local colors as diverse as the cheeks
of colored girls, all the way from
chalk to chocolate. Perhaps it re-
mains fragmentary. But as one,
But as one, Southern as far back
as there have been Europeans in
the South's lost woods and waters,
set forth to find out"
1t was last spring that DR.. Dan
iels climbed into his car and drove
on highroads and back roads from
Maryland to the Gulf. Travelling
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Looking Back
Through Time
Excerpts From The Herald Of
Thursday, October 5, 1915
Items Of Interest 20 Years Ago

The O'Gara Hardware Co. has
rented one of the stores in the Pen
dergast block on Third Street and
will take possession as soon as re-
pairs are completed.
Mrs. Percy Hansen and little son,
Jack, returned Sunday evening
from a three months visit in
New York state. Percy Hansen
and H. F. Schmitz have rented the
Eliza Brown home on Pine Street
and are taking possession this
week.
Last Sunday a surprise party was
given in honor Of Adelaide Nathe,
the occasion being her fifteenth
birthday anniversary. Those pres
ent were: Erma Peters, of Mel
rose; Olivia Robischon, Genevieve
Vogel, Hilda Sieben, Veronica Paul,
Lucy Schwartz, Bereba Gaspard,
Margaret Gaspard, Clara Kessler,
Anna Frank and Juliana Nathe.
C. s. Allen has finished up his
elevator work in Dakota for the
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season and returned to his home
In Sank Centre.
Elmer Paske, who Is firing on an
engine out Of Melrose, was up to
visit his parents over Sunday. He
returned to his duties Monday.
L. p. Parsons, Of Northern Kan
dota, has his barn well under way.
1t being built both comfortable and
substantial. Carl and Albert Eek
berg, of Sank Centre, are doing the
work.
G. e. Beidleman, Of Lyman Prai-
RE, has purchased q new tractor
with which to assist In his farm
work, as he has rented the Wruck
farm.
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HIGHWAY COSTS
w BILLIONS

Highway costs in the country
totaled $1,000, 100000 for 1886. with
more than half Of the total going
for new construction. approximate
ly one-third went for maintenance,
while bond interest and miscellan-
eous costs used UP the remainder,
according to report Of the Mime
sofa Taxpayers Association.
While in 1921, the county and
local governments received moro
than two-thirds of the total highway
income, in 1886, fifteen years later,
these local units received less than
one-third, and the state govern
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bus for the Greyhound Bus Lines
between Fargo and Winnipeg, Can
ada, had an experience recently
that proved quite profitable for
him. The Border Patrol notified
him that q man wanted in Canada
had succeeded in crossing the bor-
der and gave him the description
Of the man. believing he might at
tempt to take the bus somewhere
on Georges route. When the bus
stopped at Grand Forks, George
recognized the criminal as he came
toward the bus. George accepted
his ticket and punched 1t, ushered
him into the bus and Immediately
locked the bus door. He next mott
fled local police, who arrived on
the scene in a few seconds and ar
rested the criminal, who had tic
ket that was to have taken him
to the state Of Georgia, in his at
tempt to escape. AS a result of
Georges quick thinking and action,
the Border Patrol gave him check
as a reward for aiding in the cap
ture Of the man.
And How That
Cop Could Fight!
ELLSWORTH-One Of the best
stories in a long time comes to
light! 1t seems that four represent
atives of law and order in Sioux
Falls decided to have a party one
evening and picked night club on
the outskirts of Luverne, Mimi, as
the scene of their recreation. Every
thing was going along fine until
one of the patrons of the place
didn't like one of the visiting po-
liceman's neck-tie Cor something)
and became unbearable when he
thought the man in civilian clothes
wouldn't fight. But there he made
a mistake-for the Dakota cop in
vited him to put up his dukes and
proceeded to knock the tar out of
the offender, while his three broth
er officers kept the crowd at bay
and kept it from becoming a gang
fight. We are told that when the
officer finished his voluntary assign
ment there was no one in the crowd
who cared ito make something Of
it, and the four finished their par
ty with no further distraction.
Hit Silver Fox
On Highway No. 72-
BAUDETTE-Whi motoring up
from Blackjack recently, Carl Win
jun and Lorentz Hegstad, of that
city, ran over a silver fox on high
way u, a few miles north of Was
kish. The animal apparently was
not badly injured, as the young men
were unable to find any trace of it
when they got out of their car to
investigate. 1t is not often a silver
fox is seen in that particular part
of the country, but motorists have
the opportunity of seeing many 9th
err forms of animal life in the vast
stretch between Baudette and Was
kish.
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lments took over two-thirds percent.
There has been an increasing de-
lmand from local units In the state
for greater percentage Of the
total, since It IL felt that the alloca-
ton OF such funds to local and coun-
ty roads would ease the burden Of
local taxpayers, would improve
local roads, and would establish
more definitely the rule that those
who use the roads should pay for
them, rather than straight county
and Local tax levies for such pur-
poses. the Minnesota Taxpayers As
ISOLATION points out.
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Farmers Spend Five Hours
In Tree To Escape Flood


PRESTON-A tree against which
their car was swept by the raging
Rush Creek saved three Fillmore
county residents from drowning
recently. Crawling out of the sub
merged car, Cigrud Slattum, his
son, Ralph, and Leonard Simmon,
Highland Prairie farmers, made
their way up tree trunk out Of
reach of the rising flood in Rush
Creek, pouring into the Root river.
For five hours the three men re-
manned in the tree watching the
flood roll by. Enjoying their plight
was Carroll Hanson who was an
occupant of the car when the three
tree-sitters and he dared the flood
waters to see IL the road was pass
able. Hanson was rescued from
the car by firemen by means Of a
rope before the rapidly rising water
made further attempts unavailing
The others waded along a rope to
the safety Of higher land when the
waters subsidized. The mishap oc-
Cured when the men tried to drive
their car over the bridge approach
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through Virginia and the Carolinas
he studied the Industrial and labor
situation. In Mississippi he invest
igated the Delta Cooperative Plan
tation, and in Arkansas the Dyesse
Colony. He travelled not merely
between Washington and Williams
burg, Lookout Mountain and Vicks-
burg, but from tobacco to Tenant
farmer, T. ". A. to pellagra, old
ladies in empty big houses to
crowded tenement families in Birm-
ingham and Atlanta. He found
views as different as Beale Street
in Memphis and West PAGES Road
in Atlanta, life as different as the
high aristocracy Of $50 Red the
Rose" and the squalor OF Tobacco
Road" his effort was to discover
the true South between those ex-
tremes.
Writes the author: Mountain and
Piedmont and Coastal Plain, rode
i'll lay on my belly in the Arkan-
sas dust and changed tire on the
hottest summer day. talked with
governors and professors, with lab
or leaders and industrialists and
uplifters. They told me solemn
things, true things maybe-but ]
also talked with hitch mixers and
tenant farmers, hill billies and Del
Ia planters, poets and bartenders.
These told me the South"
1t Is this South that Jonathan
Daniels has written into this book.
The result is neither an apology
nor a hymn of praise, but a witty,
sane and penetrating evaluation of
the past and present of the South,
and an intelligent effort at finding
the direction of its future.
A FUNERAL IN EDEN
Paul Mcclure
Time: The present.
place: Kaitai, weird little trop-
ical island that rose up out Of a
purple sea like an old witch's hat.
People: A queer group of men
and women, all with shrouded
pasts-except for the irrepressible
DR.. Alicia Murray, who looked more
like a movie star than doctor.
Over these refugees from life rul-
ed George Buchanan who called
himself-and who strangely enough
was-Sultan of Kaitai.
Plot: Quite naturally, perhaps, in
truders from the outside world
were frowned upon. SO when the
mysterious Goulburn anchored in
the harbor and demanded hospital
ity he got not too warm a welcome.
Within a few days he was really
unpopular, and then one morning
he was found dead on the beach.
That was just the beginning
Author: Austrian by birth, an ex-
pert on international relations, a
lecturer of note, who recently has
taken to writing mysteries just be-
cause he wants to.