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ADAIR AND THE ATLANTA
IIBARBT'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. DA. SUNDAY. MAY 11, 1913.
Sarah Bernhardt Would Have a Vote
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SEEKING 1914 CONVENTION
Gate City Partisans Are Armed With
Abundant Ammunition in the Way
of Argument, and the Folks Back
Home Await News of the Victory.
HERE ARE TEN REASONS
WHY ATLANTA SHOULD
GETTHE1914CONVENTION
BECAUSE Atlanta is a city of almost 200,000 inhabitants, cov
ering 30 square miles of territory; is the capital of the
Empire State of the South, and wants to entertain the
Imperial Council.
BECAUSE Atlanta has ample hotel accommodations for at
least 30,000 visitors, and nigh-class boarding and apart
ment house accommodations for as many more.
BECAUSE Atlanta has the largest Auditorium in the South—
an ideal place for the Imperial Council sessions.
BECAUSE Atlanta is the greatest city in the East and Central
South, aptly and significantly dubbed “The Chicago of
Dixie.”
BECAUSE Atlanta is one of the most beautiful cities in the
nation—a city of lovely hemes, magnificent thoroughfares
and enchanting byways.
BECAUSE Atlanta’s manufacturing enterprises are more di
versified than anywhere cise in the South, thus affording
visitors a comprehensive viSw of the industrial South.
BECAUSE Atlanta, by voluntary subscriptions from its citi
zens of all classes, has raised an entertainment fund of
100,000, to be applied to the Imperial Council gathering.
BECAUSE Atlanta is the pioneer Shrine city in the South,
and numbers among its citizenship the flower of Georgia
manhood.
BECAUSE Atlanta’s fame as a convention city and a city of
marked Southern hospitality is nation-wide, and the Im
perial Council would be taken care of here as it seldom
has been taken care of anywhere.
BECAUSE the famous “Atlanta spirit” never has permitted
this city to fail in ally undertaking, and is a final guarantee
that the session of the Imperial Council will be a tre
mendous success if held in the Gate City of the South.
A Great=Great=Grandmother Her Ideal;
j .Sarah Bernhardt, who has returned to Amer- I
n . . ,. ica for her eighth farewell tour, ami looks as
t rench Actress, However, Abuses; young as ever.
peace, and we shall
will agree, j
Es selamu aJeikum!
Liberally translated, that means, “Wte
return with* the bacon!"
All of which Islam the truth, us every good Shriner
right off the reel.
Otherwise, may Nemesis overtake him!
So long as Forrest Adair hold' on to ihe rope, which never yet has
he turned loose before turning loose time, all will be well.
The Atlanta Shrine, Yaarab Temple, abundantly equipped either
for a frolic or a fight, but/altogether anticipating ihe former, arrived in
Dallas, Texas this morning.
It is there to attend the 39th annual session of the Imperial Council
of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of
North America.
It also is there to irrvite the Imperial Council to meet in Atlanta
;t year.
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The session of the Imperial Coun
cil opens in Dallas on Monday morn
ing, Maj 12, and continues through
Thursday, May 15.
It will be attended b\ approxi
mately forty thousand Shriners, and
their families. It will bring into Dal
las the biggest crowd that fine cjty
ever entertained, and it will be a
crowd fashioned of the flower of
American citizenship, from one end
of the nation to the other.
Yaarab Temple will lose no time
extending its invitation to the Im
perial Council to meet in Atlanta next
yea r.
The invitation will be backed by
an abundance of cordiality and assur
ance of Southern hospitality—and a
$100,000 guarantee fund, just to in
sure the putting of the little pot in
the big one when the Nobles come
to town!
Forrest Adair, Illustrious Poten
tate of Yaarab, heads the Georgia
delegation to Dallas.
All Shriners Know Adair.
Every wearer of the scimitar and
the crescent in this country knows
Forrest Adair, either in person or by
reputation. Wherever the red fez
of Shrinedom is known, there the
name of Forrest Adair is a household
word.
•Not a great while ago, Forrest
Adair began thinking about the pos
sibility of bringing i#*xt year’s Im
perial Council to Atlanta. The more
he though^ of th- idea, the better he
liked it.
Could Atlanta get it? Could At
lanta handle it, after it got it? Thus-
w Lr, most searchingly, did Forrest
Adair inquire of himself.
Having examined himself, cross
examined himself, and redirectly ex
amined himself, Forrest Adair hand
ed in a verdict of guilty—Atlanta
could do both things, and would!
Then be tailed in Nobles Robert
F. Maddox, Frederick Paxon, John
Hyndcs, and Jo- Greenfield, and he
asked them how about it.
The verdict of the Adair court of
Original jurisdiction wa- affirmed.
Xoble Maddox gave it as his opin
ion that Atlanta could do anything.
■ , ; . i \. n is ruled that Atlanta
would do anything it wanted to dc
and Noble Greenfield handed down a
decision to the effect that Atlanta
always had done everything it under
took. Noble Paxon said he thought
so to.
It was agreed that not less than
$70,000 would have to be raised, if
the invitation was to be extended. It
was not asked whether that sum
could be raised,—it merely was asked
In how short a time might it be sub
scribed.
It was decided to put a twelve-
hour limit upon Atlanta's most gen
erous enterprise.
Before nightfall of the following
day the sum agreed upon was sub
scribed, and more! In all it touch
ed the grand total of $100,000!
Hotels Are Examined.
Then Forrest Adair began to look
into the most vital* point in the sit
uation, once the possibility of invit
ing the Imperial Council had been
resolved into a certainty—the ques
tion of hotel accommodation.
Could Atlanta, with its 200,000 pop
ulation. properly care for some 50,000
visitors, and particularly of such a
character as a session of the Imperial
Council would insure?
To get at the exact truth of that
question required more than twelve
hours’ work.
Statistics, facts and figures, were
obtained from every hotel, and first*
class boarding houses in the city, now
operating, or that might be opened
to the visitors.
The result of this investigation was
mo^t satisfactory. Atlanta easily
can take care of the visiting Shrin
ers every one in comfort, and thou
sands in such extreme* of luxurious
ness as they may choose.
It now' remains only for the At
lantans in Dallas, * to press the but
ton. and bring hom.e the bacon!
Does anybody in Atlanta doubt that
Forrest Adair and his Nobles will
fail of that undertaking?
It were treason to suggest it! It
were a high crime and misdemeanor
even to hint it!
Have these people, bearing abroad
the enthusiasm, the honor, the pro
gressiveness of Atlanta, standing
sponsors for that far-famed "Atlan
ta spirit." which has moved mighty
mountains of obstruction in the pa-t.
ever failed?
Not that anybody ever lias noticed
—and these Yaarab Nobles of the
Mystic Shrinp are not going to begin
that unworthy and un-Mtiantaesque
business in Dana.
And what are sofne cf the rea
Our Cooking and Says American
Women Ruin Complexions.
The Philosophy of
The Divine Sarah.
My ambition is to be a great-great-grandmother.
The hope will keep me young.
I believe in votes for women, but I despise these
militants. They should be starved.
Your American food is abominable. You have
no respect for your stomachs.
The Cubists are stupid.
The American women neglect their complexions.
In a generation their faces will be mottled and
leathery.
A woman's life must have romance to be happy.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Sarah Bernhardt wants to
vote. But she would rather be a great-great-grand
mother.
With the illusion of youth clinging about her slen
der figure, she is again in America, 70 years old and
divine, braving the eighth “farewell” tour with a ready
laugh and a lightness of speech that she did not affect
in the days of yore. And she will laugh and laugh and
remain young, she declared to her interviewers, in the
hope that she will become a great-great-grandmother.
“The thing that shall keep me young and give me
love and joy of life is that hope." she sighed. "Ah, it
is too' beautiful. ’
And with that sigh the divine Sarah drifted from the
realms of levity into seriousness, and proceeded to read
to every woman her duty.
Woman Should Be Mother.
"The greatest thing a woman can do for herself and
for her country is to be a mother." she said. "And
think how much greater is her happiness to experience
with the same fr-^sh sweetness and hope and expecta
tion the coming of a grandchild and a great-grand
child. as I have done."
And. at that, they were talking about woman suf
frage at the same time. But it is greater to be a moth
er, she said.
“Oh. I believe in the vote for women," she explained.
“For all men and for all women. But not at the sacri
fice of the home."
And not, she declared emphatically, at the cost of
militant methods. With her eyes gleaming fiercely, she
said she would starve the insistent suffragettes who go'
to the extremest methods.
"I despise these militants.” she announced. “If 1
had my way I would starve them. Bi^t it is true that
women should have a right to vole. And they will, in
ten years. Wait.”
“I have nine men servants. 1 am their superior in
every imaginable way.”
She is. There was no doubt about it as she stood i
there, perfect in array, in complexion, in grace.
Cub Sighs, Too.
Even a cub reporter, a very young and pink man,
was impelled to sigh his admiration.
"How do you do it. at 70?” he asked.
The divine one was moved to appreciative laughtei
at the boy's unwitting question.
“Ah. you Americans," she said. “You are too gal
lant. like our young countrymen.
"But, to be serious,” she went on. “I think there is
no secret. If there is, l believe I should call it work.
Work and plenty of sleep. Cheerfulness. Properly j
cooked food, and not too mufth fresh air."
Then she proceeded to* express her very determined
views on American cooking and on American women. )
There was a tone of disgust ir. her silvery’ voice when
she talked of the great American cuisine.
"What is it you Americans eat that you call food?"
she asked. “It is abominable. No salt, no pepder;
all grease and little dishes that annoy one. You are
a groat people, but you have no respect for your
stomachs.”
"Perhaps,” it was suggested, “madame will honor the
United States by leaving behind the recipe for her fav
orite dish."
Great Bernhardt Recipe.
“By all means.” she laughed. “1 am a great cook.
Listen. I will tell you how to prepare sauvigne. Take
a sauvigne, which is a small sea bird, stuff it with
crushed larks, grapes, currants and juniper berries;
wrap it in grape leaves and roast it before a slow fire
upon a spit made from a willow wand. Let it be re
moved from the fire while the flesh is still pink. Use
Each Will Be 30,500-Ton Type
and Sister Ships to the Fuso,
Now Building.
ARMORED TO MAIN DECK
Speed of Vessels to Be 27 Knots
an Hour Faster Than Any of
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plenty of salt and pepper, and you have a dish fit for
the gods.”
The great one concluded her recital of this ethereal
recipe with an upward roll of her eyes, and a gentle
suepiration that was almost a sigh, and the general
attitude of delectable delight.
Then, with almost the same breath, she said that
the Cubists are stupid, and that American women neg
lect their complexions.
"Why are American women so neglectful?” she ask
ed. “Cream and pills are cheap. Not once a day. but
many times a day 1 cream or oil my face and mas
sage it. You see?" XVl she held her face to the light
proudly.
“Now I have notified that American [women drink
too piuch and eat too much. Cocktails, j highballs and
beer}are bad for the jcomplexion. Jn a generation the
faces of your women will be mottled and leathery.”
Then she completed her symposium of useful and in
teresting information.
I Never Marryf Younger Man.
nt to say, too. she added, “that no woman
should marry a man younger than herself. 1 think it
is a fatal blunder to do so, especially if the woman
has passed 40."
Valuable.
“There must always be romance In a woman’s life
if she would keep young and happy and useful. There
must be an intellectual response and a spiritual com
munity of souls as well as a human interest between
the woman who w’ould live her life fully and finely,
and that response must be masculine."
And with a wave of her band and that fascinating
smile which has kept her young at 70. the Divine Sarah
flitted away.
“I want
sons why the Imperial Council should
come to Atlanta next year?
Because there isn’t a Shriner in
the United States who has not heard
Of Atlanta, and who doesn’t know
that it is the greatest city of the
Southeastern section of the nation,
and who wouldn’t be glad to visit it,
either for the first time in his life
or the ’umpsteenth, as the case may
be.
Because. Atlanta is the most inter
esting city in the Southeast. Its lo
cation is ideal, from a climatic stand
point, for a May session of any body
of men. large or small, and particu
larly suited for th* annual gather
ing of the supreme organization of
the Shrine in America.
Because Atlanta has 35 high-class
hotels, capable of accommodating,
with ease. 30.000 transients, or more.
And because it has first-class board
ing houses that may accommodate
not loss than an additional 30,000
visitors. Besides these ample hotel
accommodations, there is railroad
yard room, in and very near the city,
where scores of Pullman cars may
be pa-ked, if desirable.
Because Atlanta has one of the
largest auditoriums in the South, with
a seating capacity of 8,000, wherein
every year the Metropolitan Grand
Opera Company, of New York, ap
pears in repertoire of complete pro
ductions. Atlanta Is the only city
in the United States, outside of New
York, that ever hears the Metropoli
tan Grand Opera Company, notwith
standing the fact that attempts to
have tin- concerts in other cities have
been made, time and again. This
auditorium may be used for tin- Im
perial Council session, if the beauti
ful new local Masonic Temple is too
small.
Because Atlania is a city wherein
the industrial Soiith ma> be looked
into by those who < are to take the
time more advantageous'*- than apv
qther Southern itv. Its industries
ar< more diversified, and its business
interests more general. It is neither
an "iron" city nor "cotton" city, nor
a “lumber” city specifically; but It ts
enough of ;!; these and more to
show what can be done in this section
in every line of industry
Because A’h nta is one of th*-
beautiful ci ies in toe world. It*
busin- heart of steel and its bus‘-
iing tnoroughfar^s a i.ci bus. many
have caused it to b' called t»ne "Uni
cago of the South,’ while its far-
famed Peachtree Street ha.* 1 been
compared time and again with Cleve
land’s wonderful Euclid Avenue, in
point of genuine loveliness and home
like appeal.
Citizenship Is Enterprising.
Because Its citizenship is the most
enterprising in all Dixie, and its
amazing and result-getting "Atlanta
spirit" has brought it a quality of
unique fame ns broad as the nation
itself. The Shriner® of the United
States will enjoy a visit to this
Southern city, a village literally shot
to pieces in the '60s. to-day the glory
of the Eastern and Central South.
Because its generous hospitality is
a happy and established fact that
always may be depended upon. If
the Imperial Council comes to At
lanta. it will want tc come again.
Everybody who comes to Atlanta
wants to come again—and soorfer or
later he generally does.
Because. Shriners know that Atlan
ta is the city that first brought
Shrinedom to the South. It was here
that the great order got its first firm
foothold in Dixie. Every Shriner has
heard of Yaarab Temple, and its
magnificent history. Every Shriner
who loves the order—and that i«
every Shriner who wears a fez —
knows that Yaarab has kept the faith
from the Infancy of the organization
to its strong manhood of to-day.
And because the Imperial Council
must know that a city responding
so readily to the ver> suggestion of
the (Imperial Council’s meeting iri
its midst next year Is necessarily a
city that will make the meeting a
memorable one.
Yaarab Temple journeyed from At
lanta to l>a!!.'js in a sumptuous spe
cial train, composed entirely of Pull
mans.
This train, dining car and special
kitchen car, is parked in Dallas, and
a portion of ihe party is quartered
therein for the Imperial Council ses
sion.
No more representative delegation
ever left Atlanta to attend a conven
tion or gathering of any kind any -
w here than the one now in Dallas
attending me Imperial Council.
Yaarab T<mpV numbers* among its
membership the highev tv nr of <it-
!zen* Atlanta *»nd Georgia boasts. >•«».
< l Cl> . profe-slonallv. or otherwise. Its
rod is made up vf L*»mkyD?. aigrwLuU*,
lawyers, brokers, ministers. physi
cians. editor!- 1 , manufacturers. real
estate dealers, capitalists, and lead
ers in every line of endeavor imag
inable. *
Its guarantee fund of $100,000 was
subscribed to by every class, rich and
poor, prominent or modestly obscure.
All Atlantans, whether members of
the local Shrine or not. joined with
enthusiasm in the movement to bring
the Imperial Council here next year.
Subscriptions to the necessary
guarantee fund ran all the wav from
25 rents to $1,000 each, and the 25-
cent subscribers were just as loyal
and patriotic In the love of Atlanta
as were the big fellows.
The delegation tn Dallas with that
invitation for next year is there
backed by a solid and compact cit
izenship at home, wishing its rep-
re-entatives abroad good luck, and
confidently expecting it to come home
with everything it went after, and
probably more.
That’s Atlanta's way. When it
makes up its mind, it makes it up
in every possible direction.
The Atlanta Delegation.
The Yaarab Special left Atlanta
Friday night, by way of the South
ern Railway, at l'» o’clock, and ar
riv'd in Dallas this morning at 5
o’clock. Short stops were made at
Meridian. Jackson and Vicksburg.
Returning, the Atlanta party will
leave Dallas Thursday night at 8
o’clock, arriving in Atlanta Saturday
night at 9:20. On the return trip,
a short but delightful Ode trip to Hot
Springs will be made.
Besides the official delegation from
Yaarab Tempi*. the entire Yaarab
Patrol, forty strong, and the Yaarab
Drum Corps, thirty strong, is in Dal
las. About 200 Atlanta Shriners ate
at large in Texas to-day.
The meeting of the Imperial Coun
cil of th»* Mystic Shrine in North
America 1* the biggest annual event
in Shrinedom. These sessions always
nre attended bv . ro\vd« running from
25.000 to ©0.000.
Atlanta, although <*ne of the vet
eran Shrine cities in the nation, never
yet has entertained ihe Imperial
f’ounoH. 1* ha *s gmr»* after that dis
tinguished gathering for next venr!
w ith character's! 4- determination and |
vim. however, and there seem* ;n h
little if any doubt 1 he inv itation |
i£ be
TOKJO. JAPAN. May 10—The Na
y Department ha« contracted for
three battleships of 30,500 tons each
to he built in Japan.
They will be sister ships to the
Fuso, now building in the naval
dockyards at Kure.
Squadron of Four.
When completed the new' Japan
esc battleships will comprise a hom
ogeneous squadron of four, of which
the Fuso. now under construction at
Kure. will be launched in the latter
part of this ye^r.
They will be. it is understood, en
larged and improved editions of the
Hiyei class, which goes into commis
sion next fall. The Hiyei class ships
carry eight 13:5-inch guns, but the
new ships, it is believed, will carry
ten of the same caliber. They will
be arranged in five two-gun turrets
on the fore-and-aft fine, so as to be
trained on either broadside, and the
second and the fourth turret will be
raised above the first and the fifth
so as to give a deadahead and dead-
astern fire of four guns. This ar
rangement of the turret guns was
first introduced in the American bat
tleships South Carolina and Michi
gan, and proved such a success that
It has been almost universally copied
by foreign nations.
Heavy Armor Belt.
Very little is definitely known of
the Fuso. but it is supposed that her
armor, in accordance with the Jap
anese practice since the Russian War.
will consist of a moderately heavy
belt, probably ten inches thick, ex
tending over nearly her entire length,
and carried clear up to the main
deck.
The ship is designed, according to
report, for a speed of twenty-seven
knots. This would make her faster
than any ship of the American navy
except a few torpedoboat destroyers.
Chicago Baby Scholar
to Study in Rome
Janet Urie, Daughter of Roosevelt's
Former Physician, to Enter Mon-
tessori School in Italy.
CHICAGO, May 10.—Little Janet
Urie, who la two years nl<i. and until
recently a resident of Hull House,
has sailed for Europe to stud; in
Rome. She is to have the most mod
ern training: that it is possible for
the daughter of progressive paijents
to have.
Miss Janet already ran lisp in
three languages, and when next she
sees her Chicago friends they expect
that she will talk Italian fluently.
Little Janet Is the daughter of Dr.
John Francis' Crle, former assistant
Surgeon General in the United States
Navy, and private physician to Theo
dore Roosevelt when the latter was
President. Her mother is the daugh
ter of William Dudley Foulke, author,
sociologist and progressive leader.
She is herself a woman of remarkable
attainments and will take a course of
training for educating her daughter
under the direct supervision of Mme.
Montessori in Rome.
The aim of the parents is to give
their daughter the proper start to
ward becoming the*most modern and
scientifically brought up Twentieth
Century woman. Both parents ar-
ompanied Miss Janet when she
sailed.
The Urie family expects to live in
Rome for at least a year, and prob
ably longer. If Miss Janet has not In
that time mastered all the fine points
In the Montessori methods of train
ing. her mother experts to have be
come sufficiently skilled to continue
the work in Chicago.
! Kisses No Mark
of Love’s Degree
Wife Considers Osculation Unneces- 1
sary After 20 Years of Marriage.
Received Many Postcards.
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, May 10.
The evidence In the divorce suit
of Andrew Smith, a wealthy fanner
of Island Creek Township, against
Mrs. Smith was heard before Judge
C. H. Smith to-day. Smith alleged
he had not been kissed in seventeen
years and his wife received too many
postcards from other men.
All’s. Smith admitted she probably
had not been as free with oscula
tion as when first married, but she
said shf* did not believe kisses indi
cated the degree of affection after a
couple had been married many years.
About 200 postcards, some bearing
printed messages, such as "I am
yours" and ‘Til not forget yuu,” were
offered as evidence by the husband.
The wife admitted receiving the
cards, but said that a printed mes
sage "did not mean anything." as a
written message would.
She said Smith had received cards
from women and she was “not a bit
Jealous.’’ She said Smith had treat
ed her cruelly, and added, “but I like
him pretty well.’’ They have been
married twenty years.
Kansas Coeds Yell
Loudest of Any
They Also Are One-Fourth Inch
Taller Than Average College
Girl, and Much Stronger.
LAWRENCE. KAN,, May 10.—
Kansas college girls should be able
to talk longer, yell louder and for a
longer time than any other girl stu
dents In the United States, accord
ing to Dr. Margaret Johnston, of
the department of physical education
of the University of Kansas.
The Jayhawker co-ed is also taller
and stronger than her Eastern sis
ters. The average Kansas girl is
about one-fourth Inch higher than
the Wellesley young woman. The
average weight of the girl at Welles
ley Is 116 pounds, at Kansas 117.
In strength and lung capacity the
Kansas girl reigns alone. The aver
age capacity of the German girl is
147 cubic inches; Oberlin girls can
inhale 141.2 inches of ozone and
Wellesley girls 150 cubic inches.
The Kansas girl tests 165, which
is far above the average for the
United States.
Home Bun Hits Horse
and Man; Wins in 9th
Wagon Is Wrecked, but Driver With
Sore Head Grins at Victory—Be
ing a Baseball Fan.
NEW' YORK. May 10.—A home
run batted out by a Paterson, N.
high school boy in a vacant lot won
the game for his team in the ninth
inning yesterday.
The ball went into the street and
struck Andrew 1 Van Ninwegen. of
Clinton Street, a baker, who was
driving by. It hit his head and
caromed off upon the back of his
horse.
The horse ran away, the baker fell
from his seat. |nd his wagon w^as
wrecked.y
The baker, a baseball fan, was un
able to find who had kno/ked the
ball, and didn't care when l/e learned
it had been a home run that won
the game.
DENNIS TOO FUNNY TO
BE GOOD NAME FOR CITY
DENNIS. KAN.. May 10. This
town has been trying to struggle
along under the handicap of its name
for more than 30 years, but <4,
hardly has grown in all that time.
Now a new generation of hustlers
has come along, and they have de
cided that the only way to get the
town anywhere is to change its name.
Rivals have always poked fun at
the twin, saying. “Oh, it’s name is
Dennis:” This has always been
good for a laugh, but it won’t be
any longer.
Signers for the necessary peti
tions are now being obtained, and as
goon as the petitions are ready they
will be sent to the legislature.
The townspeople, who favor the
name Fairfield, believe the change
will be made.
MOURNED FOR DEAD MAN
COMES HOME; SISTER FAINTS
SACRAMENTO, May 10.—R. S.
Kies, formerly of this city, arrived
here from Nogales, having been em
ployed near Madero. iri the State of
Chihuahua in Mexico, for several
years by the Madero Lumber <‘om-
psny as a night rider He was re
ported to hav* been killed in the
Mexican rebellion. and when he
walked into the presence of his s s
ter. Mrs. Cherie* Gaylord, she nearly
fainted. Kies -aid that he had been
shot three time, and knifed once dur-
jpv 1 4«• CJ£ i‘-~q !I.iojt.
SHEEP TO CLEAR LAND
OF MINNESOTA BRUSH
ST. PAUL, MINN., May 10.—If
special rates on the transportation
of sheep from central Montana to
Chicago via Bemidji, .Minn , can be
secured from the railways G. B.
Pope, Miles City ranchman, will ship
a solid trainload of ew’es for summer
grazing on the Minnesota brush
lands, according to a report received
by State Immigration Commissioner
Maxfleld from the Bemidji Commer
cial Club.
Following the recent meeting of
the Bemidji business men It was de
cided to raise a fund for the pur
chase of sheen in carload lots for
distribution snfong the Bemidji In
dians.
According to the estimate the sheep
will clear brush land for the cultiva
tion of clover at a cost of 67 cents
an acre.
WOMEN THREATEN STRIKE
UNLESS MICE ARE BARRED
ST. CLATREYILLE, O., May 10.—
The proverbial dislike all women have
for rodents, even the smallest of the
species, is responsible for a threat
ened strike among the women clerks
n the Belmont County court house.
The edict i(*»sued to the officials is;
No mice in the building, or we quit.”
In addition there has been a mark
ed falling off in the business of the
marriage license bureau, which is lo
cated in the court house. The build
ing has been so infested with., mice
hat many a bride-to-be has refused
o enter the building, even to aid her
lusband-to-be to obtain a marriage
i cense.
The officials 1n this department
ave indorsed the strike of the worn* n
nd hope to rid the court house of
GIRL OF SEVENTEEN* IS
CONVICTED OF ROBBERY
CHICO, CAL.. May 1U.—Myrtle Col
lins. the 17-year-old girl charged with
having robbed a companion in an au
tomobile at the point of h revolver,
and who was brought here from Oak
land. pleaded guilty before the Juven
ile Court.
She stole a revolver from ChaufT <r
William Lansdale while riding with
him. and used it to take $15 away
from him. She said she walked seven
miles to Durant and there hoarded a
train for Oakland.
She is said to he the sister of a no
torious highwayman who escaped
from the Oregon penitentiary some
time ago.
OF ’49 STILL ALIVE
MEET III RE1I0N
At Gathering Just Held in Cali
fornia Col. Colton Tells of Hor
rors of Death Valley March.
ONLY ONE WOMAN SURVIVOR
110 Wagons When the Party Left
St. Louis—Thirty-six Persons
Reached California.
DENVER, COL , May 10.—Only four
of the "Jayhawkers of ‘49.” a large
party of gold seekers, whose suffer
ings on the trail to California thrilled
the country in the days of the great
gold rush, are living to-day.
These four held a reunion In Cali
fornia the other day, not far from the
scene of their rescue, when they
staggered out of Death Valley, mere
shadows of the trackless desert there
months before. Colonel John B. Col
ton, whose home is in Galesburg, I1L,
but who has extensive property In
terests in the West, and who always
attends the reunions of the "Jay-
hawkers of *49." gave some interest
ing facts concerning this most disas
trous of Western pilgrimages her*
the other day.
The members of the party were
called Jayhawkers because so many
of them were from Kansas. Colonel
Colton and the Illinois delegation
started from Galesburg on April 1,
1849, headed for the California gold
fields. The Galesburg party had an
eight-ox team, and left to the tolling
of the church bell. A f^w months
later, while wandering aocut Death
Valley, with little hope of escape,
some of the members of the party
said they could still hear that bell
ringing. The party made the journey
to Omaha and westward along the
main highway of the gold seekers,
the Platte River.
Left Salt Lake.
On the advice of the celebrated
trapper. Jim Bridger, the party left
Salt Lake and travelled due South to
what was known as Little Salt Lake,
where other large parties were met.
it was decided to depart from the
travelled trail an : strike due West to
the. head of the San Joaquin River,
instead of going the roundabout way
via Los Angeles.
' A larger- part of the party agreed
to take the short cut, and 110 wagons
started westward from Little Salt
Lake. After a few day* of travel
the party came to a seemingly end
less gorge about 2.000 feet deep,
whose walls were about perpendicu
lar.
From this point the party entered
a trackless waste. Few, if any. white
men had penetrated Death Valley at
that time. The existence of such a
place was known only in Indian tra
dition. Soon the Jayhawkers cam/
face to face with horrors of which
they had never dreamed. Days and
nights of toiling across the dazzling
sands brought no relief in the form
of water. Occasionally the party
would come ipon some alkaline
water hole, but the cattle were drop
ping fast owing to thirst.
Horror N©vor Forgotten.
“The horror of those days and
nights in Death Valley will never
be forgotten by any of those who
went through it All,” said Ctdonel ,
Colton, who, as historian of the “Jay- /
hawkers of ’49.” has collected manyf
volumes of personal reminiscences of
the survivors. “I weighed more than
150 pounds when I begab that trip,
and w-eighed sixty pounds when I
was rescued. The others had lost
flesh in proportion. We were pois-
ened by alkali, and many of us be
came delirious. Four men died. Two
dropped by the wayside and gave
up the struggle. A third, an un
known Frenchman, became crazed
from thirst and wandered off into
the desert and was never seen again.
The fourth man died after we had
^tumbled upon the headwaters of the
Rio Santa Clara
“There was a woman with us,
and she bore up better than most of
the men. We called her ‘the little
woman,’ and we call her so to-day,
for she is still living. She Is Mrs.
Juliette Brier, of San Jose, Cal., and
«-hp remembers the events of sixty-
four years ago a* if they had hap
pened yesterday. How she ever lived
through those three months of suffer
ing none of us was ever able to figure
out. but she kept her courage when
the bravery of most of the men was
at a low ebb
Reach Fertile Valley.
"On February 4 Tom Shannon and
myself, who were slightly in the lead,
came upon a fertile valley. where
thousands of cattle were grazing
under the care of vaqueros We <aw
a gleam of red through the trees,
which proved to be the
great ranch house
upon th
known
roof of
We had come
estate of Senor del Voile,
* the Ranch San F’rancis-
quito. a cattle ranch some eleven
leagues square.
The vaqueros looked at us in
amazement as we staggered to warn
them. We looked like' so many walk
ing skeletons. There were thirty-six
of us left in the party, ami we were
all given every care and attention by
the kind-hearted proprietor of the
ranch. For two weeks we remained
there. until we gained sufficient
strength to proceed onward. Fvery
year 1 have made it a practice to
visit this ranch.”
Colonel Dolton, though well in his
eighties, is strong and vigorous. He
remained-, in the West and won a for
tune there, and became acquainted
with many of the dharaeters famous
in frontier history.
The first reunion of the "Jayhawk
ers of 49" was held in 1872 at the
home of Uolonel Coll on in Galesburg.
The la*t one was held at the home of
ADs Bviei in San Jose. The other
living members of the "Jayhawkers”
of the gold trail are L. Dow Ste
phens. of San .lose, and John Gros-
, up. who lives about forty miles from
that place.