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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1920)
Bird Breeding Place Menaced Most Remarkable Refuge in the World in Danger From Hunters. MANY RARE SPECIES THERE Bird Reservation Is Under Control of the Department of Agriculture__ Protecting the Birds There Is Precarious Business. AVnshington.— Sticking out in the Pacific ocean 000 miles beyond Hono lulu is a group o f little Islands, the largest not more than two squure miles in area, and several of them barely rising above the waves at high tide. Yet on those islands are many hundreds o f thousands o f birds and among them are at least six species ! auk, they recall, was exterminated by ilshermen. The rarest o f all the species that exist only in the Laysnn group is a duck-like bird, excellent fo r food, and therefore most likely to be shot by fishermen. Rare Birds on Island. The species that nest there and no- j where else are the Laysnn teal, the little Lnysnn rail, the I.nysnn lioney- euter, the Laysan finch, the miller bird (a small warbler), the Hawaiian tern, and the Laysan albatross. Other spe cies that nest principally on Lnysnn and adjacent islands and would be in danger of extermination if molested there, are the red-tailed tropic bird, the black-footed albatross, the gray- backed tern, and the sooty tern. The number o f individuals o f the ex clusive species in 1911 were estimated to be: Six of the Laysan teal, perhaps 100 o f the miller bird, 300 o f the honey-eater, 2,000 o f the rail, 2,700 of CHILDREN OFFERED AS BAIL Pueblo S trikers Seek Release W ives A fte r Mayor Is Beaten. Pueblo, Colo.— Children as surety for ball is something new in Colorado. Five women were among those ar rested here following a riot In which Mayor Mike Studzinski was knocked down and severely henten by striking steel workers. Husbands o f .he wom en made frantic attempts to obtain their release on bonds, saying they needed the women to “ keep the home fires burning,” and one man, who could not raise the $200 bond required, took his three little children U f the police station and offered to leave them in custody as surety for his w ife’s ap pearance in court. The offer was re fused. Later the women were re leased on a cash Doud of $1,000 given by the strike committee. The rioting followed the attempt to reopen the Mlnnequn steel mills, closed since July. Austrian women stoned the workers who tried to enter the plant. HIGH HEELS CAUSE WHERE EX-SERVICE MEN ARE DISPLACING CIVILIANS of DEATH Pittsburgh Woman Mangled by Ele vator A fte r H er Shoe Catches In Door. Wholesale cuts In the number o f female employees o f the bureau o f war risk Insurance are part of the general plan of the bureau to bring all its employees under the civil service regulations. The pinces o f probably 1,000 o f the girls who have been permitted to resign will be taken by an equal number o f ex-service men who have qualified by civil service examinations. This photograph shows service men and girl clerical forces working side by side. Woman W orker Has Made Good Pittsburgh, Pa.— High heeled shoes dragged Mrs. C. Steffler, aged forty- two, to a slow death when she was crushed beyond recognition between an elevator cage and the shaft wall In the # North Park apartments. No. 204 East North avenue, where she resided. Wonderful Record in War Service Mrs. Steffler was hurrying through the hall going to the elevator when Is Shown in Statistics John Gibson, the elevator operator. In Just Compiled. formed her that he would carry her up after he had answered a telephone call. As Mrs. Steffler stepped into the waiting enr her high heeled shoes enuglit between the elevntor and the floor. In an effort to extricate herself she fell forward, grasping the cable N early 15,000,000 Women Drew Pay o f the cage which started slowly to de fo r Labor Never Before Performed scend to the basement, pinning her by Them — 700,000 Acted as between the steel cage and the wall. Volunteers in Liberty MANY TAKE UP MEN’S WORK RUSS REDS SELL CZAR’S GEMS Loan Campaign. Washington.— Statistics have proved Albatross Wings Piled In Old Guano Shed, Laysan Islands. Evidence of the Extent to Which Poachers Have Killed These Birds. The Wings Stored Here Were Evidently Intended for Shipping, but Never Had Been Cured. nitions, employed 10,000 workers, near ly all of whom were women. ~ That the women have made good has been definitely established. In one o f the munitions plants where 2,000 girls were at work the greatest out put made by two sets o f engineers were 15,000 complete sets o f fuses dally in two shifts. The girls turned - out 38,000 complete sets in the snme allze the possibilities o f women In period o f time. In another Instance men’s jobs, and within a week after where the work dealt directly v lth a the selective service act had been drill press the greatest production passed called fo r woman volunteers where men were working in teams wns to replace the men. Instead o f con 3,200 pieces each in nine hours’ time, fining the replacement to the fnmllles while that o f girls doing the same o f Its employees, It sent out an appeal work was 4,400 pieces each. to all stenographers, telephone opera tors and clerks, with the result thnt the clerical force o f their own estab DESCRIBES SIBERIAN MISERY lishment, which was essentially a war- producing machine, wns not In any Col. Teusler of Red Cross Says Filth way depleted, and within a few W as Cause of A rm y’s months women were operating electric Reverses. and steam locomotives, running motor trucks, operating steam winches nnd Tokyo.— That a chief cause for the cranes. Inspecting and ninlntnlnlng recent reverses o f the Siberian army lighting nnd telephone and other com wns to be found In Its unsanitary con munity service utilities, loading cars ditions, was the opinion expressed re and ships, packing In warehouse and cently by Col. It. B. Teusler, American cold storage rooms and handling de Red Cross commissioner to Siberia. tails o f transportation. Col. Teusler said that bad sanita T oo k Jobs of Men. tion, both In the army and among the In the operating department o f one population, with the agoDles o f starva o f the Enstern railroads 2,360 women tion, brought about extreme misery and girls took positions form erly held nnd a moral breukdown, which was es by men. In one of the lnrge Western pecially reflected In the troops, who cities more than 20,000 women re felt they had no support behind them. placed men who had been called Into The minds o f the population seemed service. Another American establish to have become almost benumbed and ment employed 5,000 girls In nearly all absolutely Indifferent to what hap the mechanical departments In the pened, or to the suffering o f others. operation o f making fuses. In another Col. Teusler added that although plant where uniforms were manufac such numbers of the people were starv tured nearly 3,000 women were em ing, there wns sufficient food, hut Inck ployed. Still another plant, a Mas o f transportation facilities prevented sachusetts concern manufacturing mu its distribution where most needed. Lenine Government T rading in H ol that during the world war nearly 15,- 000,000 women actually were drawing land Through Germ any to pay for their services. More thnTi 1,- Avoid Blockade. 000,000 of them never hnd done d day’s Amsterdam, Hollnnd.— The -Lenine work in their lives. The number of government in Russia, balked by the volunteers would add another 1,000,- world financial blockade from sending 000 to that total. money abroad fo r propaganda pur In the Liberty loan campaign alone poses, now is conducting an extensive 700,000 women acted as volunteers. traffic In confiscated jewels through There was a similar number in the Germany to Holland markets, accord ing to the Hnndeisblnd, which com united war drive. For the Red Cross ments on a charge that the com the total must have been millions, for this organization women who munist member Llsser o f the Am in sterdam council offered the Russian worked all day or who kept house all day, and who had an hour to spare, emperor's diamonds for sale. would devote that hour to surgical dressings, classes, refugee work or ministering to the wants o f those whose homes had been hit by the in fluenza epidemic. Then, too, stenog raphers, clerks and girls in office buildings would, at the close of the business day, offer their services grat is, to the draft boards or any o f the other countless bureaus organized for Albatross Destroyers Arrested. * --------------------------------------------------------------- — ------------------------------------------- the speedy termination o f the war. By way of illustration, this: One Beetle Causes No End of Trouble to day In 1909 the crew o f the cutter ing wire connections useless until the In actual figures the women whose (w ith direction given). Record will Telephone Companies in C a li Stefansson Discovers Supplies Thetis found an old shed absolutely bored places are found nnd repaired. services brought monetary remunera be found in house.” fornia. piled full o f albatross wings. A search The problem o f control o f this metal- Left in 1850 to Aid Ill- “ Lieutenant McClintock,” saya Cap tion w ere listed as fo llo w s: Mechan boring beetle is still unsolved, accord revealed the fact that 23 plume hunt ical and manufacturing, 2,000,000; ag tain Bernier, who was eommnnder o f Washington.— When telephone girls Fated Franklin. ing to the bureau o f entomology of the ers had landed on Laysan island and the Intrepid and second in command ricultural, 2,000,000; transportation, in California find their wires are United States department o f agricul had killed at least 300,000 birds. The 200,000; merchandise, 000,000; public to Captain Keilett, early showed his “ shorted,” a bug mny be on or In the ture, and It w ill be difficult to find a men were captured, taken to Honolulu, great activity by making sledge Jour service, 50,000; professional, 70,000; practical way. and form ally arrested. Since that time clerical, 700,000; domestic and per neys o f a hazardous nature across there is not known to have been any M elville Island from the locality In sonal service, 2,500,000; unclassified, repetition of such depredations, but which the Resolute and Intrepid were 6,750,000— total, 14.870,000. it is nlways Imminent. Food and Clothing Found to Be Alm ost frozen In near Dealy Island. H elp W in W ar. “ Immortals” Tackle Job The Just now many fishermen— largely In as Good Condition as When Those employed In the actual win tracings made by McClintock around They Will End in 2020 nationals o f countries other than the Placed There by M cClin the shores o f M elville Island and ning o f the w ar or in positions listed United States— are extending their op tock in 1853. Prince Patrick Island, on foot, added as necessary fo r the winning of the The holiday seasoD set the erations from Honolulu out to the re many hundreds o f miles to the coast war included munitions, 100,000; can French academy back two gion o f the bird reservation. Landings N ew York.— O f interest to all who surveyed under Belcher and Keilett. neries, 80,000; food, spice, drug, tobac weeks In the work of revising on the Islands are constantly Immi have heard the call o f the North and The calms established by hint be co and similar factories, 125,000; tex the French dictionary which, ac nent, and such landings would be n the lure o f exploration Is the an tween 1852 and 1854 are mentioned in tiles, 275,000; clothing factories, 212,- cording to the best estimates, menace to one of the most remarkable Beetle Bores Through Lead nouncement that Vllhjnlmur Stefans his reports with the pnpers found nt 000; hosiery and knit goods, 130,000; T h is will be completed in the year bird-breeding places in the world. The 8heathing of Aerial Cablea— Magni mnklng shoes, 95,000; genernl equip son found the abandoned cuche o f Sir Dealy island. 2020 or 2025. bureau o f biological survey, having fied Ten Tim es. ment, 600,000; shipyard nnd foundry Leopold McClintock, commander o f B u ilt H a lf Century Ago. The two holidays this year direct charge o f the reservation, Is the Intrepid, in the Arctic after a happened to fall on Thursday, It is probably one o f these cairns employees (the latter made holts nnd wire, fo r California has a wood-boring calling attention to the fact that dis lapse o f more than half a century. It that was discovered by Stefansson rivets, ran drill presses nnd worked In beetle that goes through wood and the only day o f the week on turbing the birds on Laysan or any of wns Sir Leopold McClintock, in com nnd built by McClintock more than machine shops), 100,000— total, 1,717,- also which the Forty Immortals as through alloyed substances the smaller islands is forbidden, and 000 . mand o f the ship Intrepid, who found half a century ago. semble. considerably harder than lead. The announcing that the reservation will This figure rep resen t only the wom traces o f the voyage of that unfortun Academy members began the Continuing, Captain Bernier says of beetle has put hundreds o f tele be protected, by whatever means are ate explorer Sir John Frnnklin. He M cClintock: “ His subsequent enreer en who already were mill-trained and present revision in 1878, 41 phones out o f commission hy boring necessary, for the benefit o f all the built a cache on M elville island, pre in navigating the waters In Lady does not Include those who left oc years ago. holes In the cables that carry the peoples o f the world. sumably between 1850 and 1854, when Franklin’s yacht Fox o f Peel sound,' cupations to assist in war work, nor wires. W ater enters the cables, mak Laysan, the largest o f the group, Is in quest o f tidings o f Sir John Frank Regent inlet, Rellot strait, King W il does It Include those who had had no one o f the most westerly o f the H a lin and the members o f his ill-fated liam island and around Montreal is previous experience In work o f afty waiian Islands. It has an area o f about expedition In the Arctic. land and Boothia peninsula are well- kind. two square miles, and within It. con In 1910, one-fourth o f all the wom Located by Stefansson. known. His brilliant achievements forming generally to the coast line, is The McClintock cache was located and discovery o f definite information en In industry were married, and more a large lagoon. This Island is one of by Stefansson, who reports that he regarding the fate o f Franklin point than 15 per cent were either widowed the most populous bird-breeding places found everything in almost as good to him as the most fortunate o f all or divorced. In 1918 the number of on the globe, literally hundreds of married workers had practically dou thousands o f birds resorting there to condition as when placed there In voyagers who pursued the most re bled and, with comparatively few ex 1853. Articles o f clothing he found markable search known in the his lay their eggs every year. ceptions, all had one or more depend Specialists o f the biological survey particularly well preserved and much tory o f navigation.” ent upon them fo r support. better In quality than the clothing of One o f the documents left by Mc call attention to the fact that the O f the number who actually have ostensible occupation o f fishermen today, and the food and supplies left Clintock In a copper (ube and under a replaced men no figures are obtaina In the Arctic cache by Commander pile o f rocks was found by Captnln does not mean that men may not be ble. The Bush Terminal company of very destructive to birds. The great McClintock and his men also were Bernier. Another wns found outside New York was one o f the first to re- well preserved, despite the severe o f K ellett’s depot probably disturbed not found anywhere else in the world. In 1911, one of those species was rep resented by six birds— all that were left as the sole means o f perpetuating the species, and they concentrated on a single little Island, where one man might kill them all in one minute’s shooting. That species— the Laysan teal—has fortunately increased until there nre, by estimate, thirty-five Individuals. For the United States department of agriculture, for a few years, has con trolled the Islands as a bird reserva tion— tlie Hawaiian islands reservation, It is called. But protecting the birds there is a precarious business. The possibility has existed always that one or more o f the rare species might be wiped out In a day. the finch, and 180,000 o f the albatross. Indications are that, while the teal has increased, the other species have probably decreased. The islands composing the reserva tion nre Laysan island. Ocean or Cure island, Pearl and Hermes reef, Lyslan- ski or Pell Island, Mary reef, Dowsett reef, Gardiner island, Tw o Brothers reef, French Frigate shoal, Necker island, Frost shoal and Bird island. 50 Year Old Cache Found Bore Into Telephone Cables RECALLS TRAGEDY OF ARCTIC NEW MORMON TEMPLE NEAR HONOLULU ■ - u ■ Invents Typewriter on Which to Write Music Wichita, Kan.— W ill Kansas wonders never cease? A type writer on which one can suc cessfully write music Is the In vention o f H. P. Flauth, a com poser o f this city. The machine is said to have 135 characters which can be written on, below or above the staff. The typewriter differs from the ordinary model only in that the printing surface o f the roller Is flat Flauth Is understood to have worked more than 18 years on the invention. > ■ ♦ weather known to prevail- In the Arc- Uc regions. Documents and a list o f the con tents o f a cache built in the far North by Commander McClintock and other data also were found by Capt. Joseph E. Bernier, In command o f the “ Arc tic” expedition o f 1908-1909. A tablet e r e c te d on Dealy island by Captain Keilett and Commander McClintock in 1852-1853. whose vessels were lost, also was found by Captain Bernier and re-erected, with his own tablet, on Pnrry’s Rock, commemorating the annexing o f the Arctic archipelago In 1900. On the tablet found by Captain Bernier were the names o f the ships navignted by the explorers— "H. M. S. Resolute, Henry Keilett. Esq., C. B., H. M 8 . V. Intrepid. F. L. McClintock. Esq., Comm. Wintered 1852-1853, S. 82 E. (tru e). Door o f Depot House from Its resting place hy a polar bear, fo r It bore the marks o f the paw o f an animal o f considerable size. Much o f the Information found In these documents was utilized by Cap tain Bernier while cruising through northern seas In the Arctic. Enjoyed H is Own Funeral. Hillsboro, Pa.— James H. Houser, seventy-five years o f age. Is all ready to die now. In fact, he has already burled himself. Believing funerals should be enjoyed while living, he has , had his staged here recently. Many friends attended. They sang “ Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and a lot o f other funeral songs after a minister deliv ered Houser's burial services. Houser has prepared his own obituary. The ceremony wns held at a church and at the Houser home. “ Thirsty for Words” Is Her Bigamy Defense London.— The excuses and palliations, brought forward In bigamy cases are monumental In tlwMr ingenuity, bnt I think this one from the north o f Eng land will take a prodigious lot o f beating. A girl was had up fo r a triple bigamy—surely oughtn't It be called trigamy when It'a three? Her mother was called fo r the defense, but all she could say In explanation w as: "She can’t help It, my lord. Bhe’s got a reg’lar thlrat for ’avlng the words spoke over ’e r l” View of the uew Mormon temple at Lale, on the Islund o f Oahu, near Honolulu, which waa recently dedicated In tha presence o f noted Mormon church dignitaries. This la the only Mormon temple outside o f continental United Stutee.