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Ready to Try Niagara Falls Again If li Is offered sufficient money, Bobby Learn, the Ofty cilne ycnr-old dare devil, may nicnln undertake tu ahM Hit Mugara Kullx. lto tuys lit mny um the itis'l barrel In which he imrforined Mil Hunt ou July 20, 1011, aot) on which lit U iltllng lu the hotuiral). EXPLORE LITTLE KNOUANDS Expedition to Visit Channel Group in Pacific Off Coast of California. RICH IN HISTORIC LORE Islands Are Within 82 HI let of Call, fornla'e Shore, Yt Less Than 60 Persons Annually Vlilt Them Discovered by Cabrlllo, tnn Fmneisco, An expedition of dentine ttuili'iita hei'ii mnde np In California ami Oregon to explore thoroughly H10 channel Islands o(T Hint pint of the count In California known as Simla llnrbura and Ventura coun ties Murine (he next nit months. The party, miys the Dearborn Independent, la to he sustained by Hi 11 11 turd unlver ally hugely ami tu a leva extent hy several di'iHiniliiiillntiiil colleges In aoiithfrn California. Anthropological nml nrchueologlral students, who have spent several weeks curb on those In lands, guy they arc one of the very richest fields for work In Hint depart ment of knowledge on llio Pacific const. The chnnni'l Islands constitute Call fornln'a only archipelago, with the possible exceptions of the rooky and Bounty Fanillnne Islands. They have been objects of romance, legends, curiosity and myalery f;ir a genera Hon. The Islands are within 82 miles of Cnllfornlu'i shore, yet nro iiufrcqucnt ed anil years roll hy villi visits to them of less than BO persons annual ly. Kneh Island has Its own pnrtlru 1 it r strange, uncanny trmlltlons of the tribes of red men, nml each tins the countless trnees of tin neenpntlon ly thousands and thousands of Indians. Discovery of Channel Islands. When Juun Itndorlgnci Cubrlllo, the Portuguese nnvlciitor, anlled np llio const of California In 1512, he stopped for 1 day or two nt ench of the channel. Islands, and hla records VETERAN FIGHTER AT 13 - 1'hnlo bv Mltrit NwipaiMr John Doloclnskl, aged thirteen, who has Just arrived In America from Po land, where he spent two and a half years In the Polish army. lie has been In more than a dozen battles. ) i r M taMaT f ew, r fnlon ' S J sa . i'ir, !,1 V bear testimony that on the Inlands of Simla llartiam, Catallnn, Clemente and St. Nicholas there were a "vigor. 011s and lusty race of natives, who tlironjfi d the shores of tho little baya and headlands," and gated In mute wonder at the while nulled ship of the navigators. Today the Inlands stand as they did more than 350 years ago, but the na tives are only memory, represented hy Immense quantities of atone Im plements, barrels of fine wampum and cart load of human bones, Petrograd Is 'No Man's Land' Once Gay Capital of Russia Is Now a Nightmare of Hor ror and Death. HOUSES WRECKED FOR FUEL Death Gtalks on Every Side, Waiting for Winter to Aid In the Grim Work of Mowing Down Thousands. Paris. A graphic, eye-witness de scription of tho fearful conditions ex isting In Petrogrnd Is given by the Fin nish lied Cross In an appeal Just Is sued to the Ited Cross Societies of the World. It Is accompanied by docu ments prepared hy Professor Zelder formerly bend of the Petrograd Ited Cross, but now a refugee In Finland, Tho documents tell the story of the agony of a dying city. I'etrograd's present population based on the food cards, now Is from 600,000 to 000,000, and the Conner cnpllul of the czars Is described as having shrunk to one fonrth Its pre-war size. The report sa; s , "Death stalks on every side, waiting for winter to uld In tho grim work of mowing down llio silent, hungry Blck, and dying by thousands. With streets and houses choked with til Hi that Is already aprcndlng spotted and Inter 111 It I cut typhus the cold wenther will finish the task with pneuinouln and abdomln:il typhus. Wreck Houses for Fuel. "The fuel situation was never so hud. Wooden houses have been torn down for fuel, Tho material Is distributed equally among the popula tion but during tho night the more active citizens steal the quota of wood from others. "Attempts to repair the streets, which are full of holes, owing to burst ing water pipes, failed because the wood blocks used for pavement had been stolen during the night for fuel. "Lighting Is allowed only two half hourB each day, and then not nil houses nre supplied on the lines fur nished hy tho authorities, Kerosene costs 450 rubles. There nre no can dles. Most homes are In darkness. "There Is no menns of transporting things by waterway, because the barges were long since demolished for fuel. The railway transportation Is devoted almost exclusively to the dis tribution of flour. Only 200 persons are permitted to leave Petrograd dally by passenger train. "Workmen receive half a pound of bread dally; sometimes other food Is given, The prices of foodstuffs con tinue to rise to Incredible heights. Many products have almost complete ly disappeared from the markets. "The mortality has reached a star tling rate, owing to the lack of food Rt. Nicholas Islam! lies 80 miles lis mcdlnicly opposite the tittle city of Sun lliieiinveiiliira freretilly railed by the more modern and easy name of Ventura) and Is the moat Interesting of all the channel Islands from many points of view. As fur back as the memory of any person In Southern California extends, hundreds of white skeletons have dotted the valleys and hiii.idea, Hlriinge utensils of serpen line sandstone and steatite are found there among the human hones, and the Island and Its erstwhile Inhabitants have a history so curious thut It Is dlf flcult of comprehension. In lfc'15 the Fruin'lscnn pndres In the Kanla llurliura mission, learning (hat there were lint ID of the strange and almost extinct human nice then living there, determined to rescue them from tho Island. They went over In I Sloop and succeeded, as they thought, lu gel In. S all on hoard. At the last moment an Indian wom an relumed for her child, and, one of the frequent storms of the channel Is lands springing up. the rloop was driv en away without her. The sloop wenl on the rucks off Point Conception and all were lost, 6t Nicholas. St. Nicholas Is 10 miles long and four miles wide at the widest point. Its topography shows nearly level plateau, wllh an elevation of 800 to feet. Two-thirds of the surface la covered with drifting sand, and the remainder grows a species of nutri tious grass and moss, on which a thousand sheep And pasture. As fur as the eyo can trace there are barren levels with Innumerable circu lar depressions, showing whore primi tive dwellings once stood. Not a ves tlgo remains of the materials used In the construction of these mneherlns Hundreds of shell mounds are scat tered about and are foui.d to consist of astonishing numbers of molluscs, the bones of every species of fish found In the channel, skeletons of seals, sea el ephants, whales, sea otter, the Island fox snd various aquatic birds. An examination of some mounds dis closes all sorts of curious utensils stone conking pots, ollas, mortars, pes tles, drills, bone needles and flsh hooks, shell bends, charm si ones, pipes, cups and a few arrowheads, spear points, and swords made of bone. The absence of many weapons proves the peaceful attributes of the Islanders. Small Imitations of boats and fish caned from crystalllred talc and serpentine also show rudimen tary knowledge of the art of sculp ture. and the Insanitary conditions of houses and streets. Fat has left the majority of the population long ago. At present the muscular tissue Is con sumed. The faces of (lie people have tuken on a vrnxllke color. City of Ghastly Horror. "In order to fill their stomachs with something, tliey drink different substi tutes for tea uud coffee, or great quan tities of plain water, resulting In puffl ness and dropsy, which change the ex pression of the face so that even old acquaintances are unrccognlaible, 'There Is no fuel, no hot water or baths, no Janitor, doorkeeier or serv ants for cleaning yards, streets, build ings, or for the removal of garbage, "Petrograd .a facing a dreadful phantom of epidemics. Thousands nre already dying every month of spotted, nhdomlnnl, and Intermittent typhus, dysentery, Spanish Influenza, small pox, pulmonary diseases, jjnger and exhaustion. "The hospitals are overflowing with dropsy victims, mostly women, elderly men and children," JAPAN IMPORTS GERMAN DYES Gets $1,000,000 Worth of Product Dur Ing August, Says Report to De partment of Commerce. Washington. - Japan Imported $1,01X1,000 worth of German dyes dur ing August, according to reports re ceived hy the department of commerce. Although their wile has been retard ed by the business depression which has prevailed In Japan Importations continue, Importing firms fulfilling con tracts made before prices slumped, The department nlso was Informed that the Japanese government has token steps to halt the transfer back to Japan of funds held In other coun tries for the purchase of Imports. As n result of n decrease In the de mand for Imported goods specie to the extent of $10,000,000, which had been reserved In America was returned to Japan during July by exchange banks, the department was advised. Sunflower Grows in Trunk of Big Maple Mlddletown, N. I. A curios ity which Is attracting ninny per sons In the yard of Sirs, Mary O, DeWltt here Is a sunflower growing out of the trunk of a Inrge maple tree some distance from the ground. It hns a stem three feet In length and a flower In bloom the size of a saucer. A bird Is supposed to have car ried the seed Into the tree, whore It sprouted and took root In the bark. Salvation Army Dedicates New Training School &mJ$L$k, V?ry v , j, -: , -,ti Commissioner Thomas Kstlll of the army ofllrers. The college Is one of the train there. The building wus formerly Would Protect Alaskan Eagles Audubon Society Urges Halt in Destruction, Due to 50-Cent Bounty Law. BIRDS OF, FREEDOM LIBELED Official Cites Instances of Mistaken Bird Campaign In Asking Suspen. slon of Bounty Law 12,000 Killed Since Law Enacted. New York. American eagles In Alaska frequently kill full-grown deer, and are devastators of sheep and other live stock, fur-bearing animals, domestic and wild fowl, salmon and other food Dsn, according to Alaskans who have been writing on the sub ject to T. Gilbert Peurson, secretary of the Audubon Societies National as sociation. Mr. Pearson has been directing from the New York offices of the associa tion an agitation to Cave the American eagles in Alaska by removing the price of ,'i0 cents a head, which was placed on their heads by the Alas kan legislature In 1017, which mode them outluws because of their sup posed destructlvcness. The accusers of the bird of freedom In Alaska have made out a very black prima facie c&se against him, but the bird experts of the Audubon societies generally be lieve that the eaglo has been convicted on hearsay evidence and without much of a trial. Ity way of giving the bird his day In court, the department of agriculture has sent a scientist to Alaska to make a close study of ways and habits of the defendant. Tho number of eagles killed In Alnsks sjnee the bounty Inw went into effect Is not less than 12,000, accord ing to estimates loday, C. D. Gar field, secretary of the Alaska Fish and Game club, In a letter to M.'. Pearson In August said: "A vast difference Is noted In the numbers cf these birds showing In south-eastern and western Alaska, and it Is safe prediction that, if the slaughter continues for a few years longer, the species will become prac tically extinct In this country." Aska Suspension of Bounty, According to Mr. Penrson, one sec tion or another of this country Is nl ways working Itself up Into a witch burning zeal against some particular bird, which usually proves In time to be not only Innocent, but benefi cial. . "Of course, human beings are more Important than birds," he said, "and their concerns nre entitled to first con sideration. If the charges against the American eagle were all proved, the bounty law would be justified. Hut there have been so many mistaken slaughtering campaigns against valu able or harmless birds that we are ask ing in this cuso a suspension of the bounty law until the study of the hab its of the engle, which have been un dertaken, show whether he really de serves slaughter or not. "A few years ago there was an nntl-meiidow-lnrk campaign In California. Speeches were made In the legislature to the effect that they were ruining the grnpe crefp In some sections. For a time It seemed as If the meadow lark was doomed, but a careful Inves tigation of the origin of the outcry agnlnst tho lark showed that It all started with tt statement of a farmer that he had seen a lark sitting on the grapes. "New Jersey had a similar period of hysteria against the robin, which was alleged to be destroying the cherry crop. There was a great propa ganda In Arkansas and Texas for a time because of the untrue charge that they were destroying rice fields. "One of the most exciting cam paigns of persecution against a lib eral bird stffrted along the gulf const In 1918, when It wns alleged that the brown pelican was destroying food fish at the rate of nearly a million dollars , 'I " 1 "' 1 prim n in 1 n 1 ...jun n.wi 1 in ji mm Salvation army dedicated tho new Chicago training school for Salvation army'a three largest In the United States and more than 125 students will the borne of Joseph E. Tilt, wealthy Chicago shoe manufacturer. a day, and as It was put In one In dictment 'every day they consumed more food fish than the people of Texas got In a yar. Mistakes Campaign Against Gulls. "The assailants of the birds placed their numbers at 1 million and started the slogan: 'Kill the pelican or the kaiser will get you." They appealed to the federal food administration to aid In destroying the bird to save the fish. By co-operation between the federal and sttte authorities I under took an Investigation of the habits of the bird and made a cruise with a party visiting all but one of the Is lands on which they were supposed to breed. This showed that, Instead of numbering a million, their number could not exceed 65,000. It also showed that they lived exclusively on menhaden, a fish not eaten by ht mens. "One of these periodic flare-ups against birds actually left a deep mark on the development of the country and Is truly an historic episode. It Is re counted by E. H. Furbush, state ornithologist of Massachusetts, that the Inhabitants of Southern Harbor a great many years ago becsrae alarmed at the great flocks of gulls which con gregated there to eat the heads and remains of the fish which were thrown Into the water. It Is a frequent charge agnlnst the gulls that they destroy food fish, but the fact is that they are almost exclusively scavengers. The anti-bird fever spread over this com munity and gulls were slaughtered un til they were exterminated. Then what happened? The tons of flshhead and refuse thrown Into the water was washed up along the beaches, causing stench and sickness and making the place uninhabitable. It ended with the Southwest Harbor people leaving the region almost in a body and found ing Eur Harbor, Me. One of the few communities, on the other hand, to appreciate and remember benefits they have received from birds are the Salt Lake City Mormons. "When they first settled the vicinity of Salt Lake, grasshoppers came on them, like the plagues of locusts, set tling on the ground In myriads and threatening the complete destruction of their crops. Then the seagulls came out of ihe lake, eating the Insects by the millions, even lighting In the yards and making their way Into buildings to catch them. They ex terminated the grasshoppers and saved the colony from fsmlne. And very recently there was unveiled In Suit Aerial Acrobat Leon Ferguson, a daring aerial acrobat, was killed while performing on the wing of a plane less than 100 feet above the ground, at the Sonoma fair, Santa Rosa, Cal. Pilot Schmidt, who accompanied him on the flight, received only n scratch on his head. This photograph shows the wrecked plane and Pilot Schmidt being lifted from machine. Lake City a beautiful statue In honor of the seagulls. "With the history before us of so many mistaken crusades against birds we feel that we ought to make sure that we are right before attempting to exterminate the bird which Is the emblem of our freedom." Letter Upholds Bounty Law. One of the letters upholding the bounty law of Alaska- Is from Wright Wenrich of Juneau, who said: "Strange as It may seem to yon, most of ns here shoot the American eagles whenever we can, whether bounty exists or not, feeling that every eagle killed means the annual saving of many, many valuable, or at least harmless, birds, beasts and fishes. W feel as a man has a right to feel when a public service bas been performed. At least the lives of many Innocent creatures bas been spared. j "now many eagles exist In this ter ritory, comprising u area equal to a fifth of the United States, I would not venture to estimate. On August 2 I was discussing the salmon propa gation situation with the man In charge of the territorial fish commls-' slon's work at Ketchikan, Alaska. Among other things he told me of see ing eagles in flocks numbering 500 along the salmon spawning streams. The birds were busily engaged In pick ing out the eyes first, and then flesh-. Ing the bones of the salmon so killed. Nor were these spent salmon, for they had not recently entered the streams. I do not doubt bis story. Then, too, many other men have estimated the number of eagles seen In favorable lo calities along the salmon streams at even greater numbers. "Another phase of the situation wt brought to my attention by a carefully observing forest ranger, who has been in this section many years that the eagles are becoming gunwlse and gunshy. Others have observed this fact So have I. "A second phase seems to be de velopingthat the eagles seem to be congregating In out-of-the-wsy places, where they &re not so apt to be dis turbed. The places where they go, and where man never goes, are cer tainly numerous enough In Alaska. "It Is because we know them to be so numerous and to be taking such heavy toll of ducks, grouse and other birds, fur-bearers, fish and even full grown deer, that we feel they should be reduced in number until the harm they do is negligible. "As I write I have before me notes of ten Instances, where eagles have killed, not only fawn, but full-grown deer.. Should tho occasion require It, I do not doubt I could secure hun dreds of affidavits to the effect that eagles have been observed killing deer, How many deer they kill out of sight of human witnesses can only be sur mised by those who are In a position to comprehend the vast unsettled areas in Alaska." Meets Death