The Gate city journal., November 21, 1919, Image 2

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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON.
RELIEF SHIP HELD
UP BY ARCTIC ICE
plnskl's reputation, when Iten a coitpU
of et nings later told her the next
Wife’s Love Is Lost;
night he would have to be out all
Asks Tw o Minions
uiglit In his bout—a most unusual
thing—something Jumped up 111 ('arte
New York.— George la Loth-
line's throat and her heart beat In
rop, Sr., a Boston theatrical
fear.
manager and producer, has been
No man could have deduced that
Kimpinski had gotten lieu and Ids
sued for $2,000,000 damage* by
By WILL T. AMES
boat mixed up in liquor smuggling. Attempt to Reach Mission in Wales, the westernmost point o f the
Ruymond C. Keller, a New York
artist,
who alleges Lothrop
Any woman could, especially one who
American continent, about four hours
Northernmost Alaska
knew lien's streak of recklessness,
alienated the affections of June
west of Seattle.
(C o p y r ig h t,
15*19.
by
th «
A lc C lu r *
N ew s­
and who hud been reading lugger
Keller, to whom the plaintiff
Upon tills trip the vessel’s coal sup­
p a p e r S y n d ic a t e >
Again Fails.
stories.
was married on April 5. 1018.
ply ran low and tlie Bear had to put
There was no lone, black, rakish
Wherefore, as Ken's trawler chugged
Keller alleges In Ids affidavit
back from Cape Prince of Wales to
lugger. There was no cave, wind swept up to an anchorage three rods
that the defendant. weW know­
Nome for recouliug. Leaving Nome the
and spray washed, curved by the ero­ | from the shore where Klmpinskf’s
ing June Kell« r to lie Ills wife,
vessel begun Its journey to Point Bur­
sion of n million years of breakers I truck waited, on as dark a night h s
by gifts of money. Jewelry and
row. Kotzebue sound wus entered m.d
far Into the face of a cliff. There was , you can have when there are no stars,
other presents, estrange«! I"‘C
stop was niude at the village, where
no secret underground passage leading ami when Ken. with six of the oases Dr. Marquis Brings Back Pitiful Tales
affection from the plaintiff am'
tlie Society of Friends hud excellent
from the back of the cave to the ma­ piled Into his skiffboat, rowed ashore,
of the Havoc Wrought by Influ­
missions, and then the Bear went
gained it for himself.
nor house of the titled leader of the four coastguard gobs and a coastguard
enza— Whole Villages Are
north to Kivallna, where no mission
smugglers; there was no clash of cut­ lieutenant arose out of the hedge to
fields are established, hut which a few S'a-••••*• •••••••»• a
Wiped Out.
lasses; no band of bearded adventur­ greet him, and at the same Instant
missionaries visit at Intervals. From
ers really to lay down their lives two others stepped from behind the
Newport.—Turned buck by an im­ this point Dr. Marquis went lo Point adults were left alive, and sn> id vil­
fo r the swashbuckling, handsome young trees where they bad been watching
lages of twenty Igloos or so frith ul>
penetrable Ice-field within 0!) miles of Hope, which until recently was one of
chieftain.
Kimpinski for 20 minutes, and grabbed
his goal. Dr. John A. Marquis, general the most famous whaling stations In inhabitants frozen stiff. In -me case
There was a trawler, an Inshore the junkman by the collar.
one little girl and n baby ware found
secretary o f the board of home mis­ the arctic regions. From there the
trawler .‘10 feet long with a tiny cabin
"W e'll Just trouble you for the loan
sions o f the Presbyterian church of great hut futile attempt northward alive In a village. This eh1i<. '.nil kept
forward and a little glass hut like of your skiff, Travis," said the officer,
herself from freezing to d-f.tli by re­
was made toward Point Barrow.
a wee conning tower to protect the "till we bring the rest of that stuff the United States, was forced to re­
maining wrapped up in Bed with the
turn
to
New
York
without
reaching
Dr. Marquis on his return trip gave baby beside her. The n iidei.sed milk
steersman's head as he stood on the ashore ourselves. Then you can take
his
destination
at
Point
Barrow,
Alas­
special study to the conditions as left
cockpit door and ran his ship, en­ her and go about your business. You’re
which sustained her llfo she uls«> took
ka, the northernmost mission In the by the influenza epidemic. As a result
gine and wheel, quite alone; for she a very lucky chap."
to bed with her. There hu.l been nc
world
operated
by
the
Presbyterian
he
brings
back
with
him
pitiful
stories
was a one-man boat.
It was at the front gate of Caro­
fire in the villages for days and th«
church.
of
the
terrible
ravages
wrought
by
Ashore, at a spot where the river line Webster's home that they had it
temperature wus to degrees below
Dr.
Marquis
left
New
York
June
23
this epidemic umong the Eskimos.
road ran but half a dozen rods from out the next afternoon. Caroline,
zero.
Whole Villages Wiped Out.
the estuary, there was waiting a one- pule, but determined, inel Ken there nnd sailed from Seattle July 7 to
According to Dr. Marquis, the Eski­
Nome,
where
he
boarded
the
United
ton motortruck. And there was ns and talked to hlin over the barrier In­
In Nome alone, says Dr. Marquis, mos showed practically no resistance
States
coast
guard
service
steamer
tine a cargo o f contraband in the stead of swinging It open, as usual,
over 50 per cent of the Eskimo popula­ to influenza nnd went down almost
Bear, to reach Point Barrow, but for
trawler as was ever boated ashore in mute welcome.
tion wus wiped out almost overnight, without a fight. Among the foreigners
the
second
time
within
two
years
this
from any lugger or buttled over in
"I know what happened last night,”
nnd In other sections of the country the mortality was about the same as
doughty
little
craft
with
its
hardy
the durk by soldiers and blue-water she began, taking the situation by
whole villages of Igloos were swept In similar communities In the United
bullies, since custom houses, and their the horns. "It was I who Informed — crew was unable to buck the terrific away. In one town of 300 only thirteen States.
Ice
Jam
of
the
arctic.
For
eight
days
evasion, were Invented.
if you want to call it that.”
Travis looked at her as if she had the sturdy boat battled, hut finally on
Travis’ part In the transaction look­
August 15 It was forced to turn back.
ed easy. All he had to do was to struck him in the face.
The supplies for Point Barrow were un­
“ You !"
meet the tramp a mile due south of
“ Yes, I, Ken Travis; you and I have loaded at Point Hope, 350 miles south
Pucks and Drake«' light at ten o’clock,
take the 411 cases aboard, run into the been nearly three years trying to get of that town. From here It Is expected
sequestered estuary which was his a home together so as to start right. that sledges will be able to carry some
home harbor, anyhow, help the man It has meant just as much to me ts 1* of them to the needy people at Point
o f the motortruck load the stuff ami has to you. And In my way I've wofke I Barrow.
"Last year," says Dr. Marquis, "the
collect • $10 a case from the truck Just as hard for It as you have. But
If we ever do have a home together. Bear was able to get within 23 miles
driver.
Four hundred dollars for a night's Ben, it’s got to be one without a stain of Point Barrow, but the steady winds Harvard Professor Discloses Way triclty, and the long uphill toad Edison
had to travel before he gal'led recog­
work is a lot of money to a trawler. on It. It has got to be earned straight this year had forced the Ice masses
down farther south than they had been
to Make Food by Syn­
nition commercially.
And Ben particularly needed that $400. and kept straight.
As to the risk— “ Piffle!" said Kinipin-
“ I could have pretended not to krv*w for years.
Anent the production o f nutritions
thetic
Process.
Ice at Latitude 70 / 2 .
skl. Kimpinski. junk dealer, was the anything about that escapade of y-\«rs.
food in tlie laboratory Prof. Jsterhout,
“ Massive fields o f ice were reached
owner of the truck, and Its driver for Or 1 could have let It go and then
who Is in no sense n vis i nary, but
this occasion. " I f the government was pleaded with you afterward not to do when we were at latitude 70^4 degrees,
whose manner would indicate a prac­
looking for some one for a few bot­ it any r.iore. But that wouldn’t d>— Captain P. H. Uberroth, U. S. N „ in
tical hurdheaded business nan, says:
tles of booze, would they let a slilp- neither of these things would d »— charge of the Bear, declared the Ice
Several Ways to Make Sugar.
for me. You’ve got a wild streak in wns the worst known since 1826.”
“ Annlyzing food we learli ‘.hat the
Dr. Marquis went to Alaska to see Plan Worked Out In Laboratory to
you, Ki ii. that's got ‘to be driven out.
thrae chief components are lugar, fats
"So when I made up my mind that about the appeal from the people there
Reduce Atmosphere Into Basic
and protein. Until recently it was im­
you were getting Into this crool ed for the erection of a hospital at Point
Food Product— Other Ways
possible to manufacture sugar syn­
liquor smuggling—crooked it Is, B -a, Barrow and also to study the oppor­
of Making Sugar.
thetically, but now we have solved the
tunities
for
Presbyterian
mission
and
no matter what you may think -!
riddle In several different ways. Iron
went straight into town and saw the school work generally In Alaska, par­
New York.—During the present agi­ rust exposed to the prismatic rays of
commandant of the coast guard sta­ ticularly since the Influenza epidemic
the sun through water makes for­
tion.
I told them what I felt sure last year wrought such havoc. He tation over the high cost of living it
was going to be done, hut I wouldn't returns with interesting stories of the is interesting to note several recent maldehyde, since the rays of the sun
acting upon the rust ns a contact
tel! them w here nor who was probably t work and with pitiful tales of the ter­ discoveries made in the field of syn­
ngent, mixed with the carbon dioxide
In it, until they promised to let you rible havoc wrought by the "flu,” thetic chemistry. Dr. Winthrop John
go— and let Kimpinski gii, too. for the which in some sections wiped out Vunleuven Osterhout, Th. D „ professor of the ntr and water makes this power-
of botany at Harvard university, lias | ful chemical. From formaldehyde cer-
Information he could give them— If whole villages.
tin leaving Seattle July 7, Dr. Mar­ hlt upon a plan of making nutritious tain forms of sugar may be obtained,
they could only get the goods and get
Other ways o f making sugar syn-
af the,people higher up, the big men quis took passage to the Aleutian Isl­ food from sunlight, air and water.
Although this process of food malt- thetically are through the employment
behind the business. They didn't want ands nnd thence to Nome. At Nome
to make terms like that, but by and passage was taken on the Bear and ing Is as yet confined to the laboratory of ultra-violet rays, radium and elec-
hv they consented. Today the cou- for six weeks Dr. Marquis was on thi- stage Prof. Osterhout points out that tricity.
“ Part o f our research work at Har­
mnmlnnt told mo over the phone that government vessel. From Nome Dr. many discoveries remained some time
Kimpinski hud ‘come through' anil Marquis went to St. Lawrence islands in the laboratory stage before they vard's botanical laboratory has been
the men who are financing this truffle nnd thence to Siberia. Leaving Sibe­ could be placed on a commercial basis. to observe the process by whieli the
ria, the next stop was at the Diamede As an instance he cites the many plant transforms the enrbon dioxide
are going to the penitentiary.
"Ken, I don’t know how you're go­ Islands, and then to Cape Prince of doubters of the practical value o f clee- gas and water together Into sugar, nnd
inter into starch, either of which forms
ing to take this. Maybe you’ll think
can be preserved.
that n woman who will do n thing Ilk«
"So much for obtaining sugar. Pro­
what I did Isn't n goodenough pal to
tein Is composed of nmlno acids. It
tie up to. If you do, I can't help It.
has been found possible in the labora­
But If you come through that gate it's
-f—
tory to take the carbon dioxide of the
got to lie as a man who Is through,
air, water nnd nmmonln, which is also
fi r good nnd all, with every thought
found In the ttlr In small quantities, to
of getting an easy dollar by breaking
the law of the land."
Caroline un­
form n simple kind of protein. Now
latched the gate and stood hack.
through the combination of sugar and
protein, both o f which have heeu man­
And Kimpinski wasn't the only
ufactured in the laboratory, the neces­
smuggler who "came through."
sary fat is obtained, with tlie resultant
Ü.
nutritious food.
T h e Smugglers
REACH WITHIN 69 MILES
■4
SUGAR FROM AIR,
LIGHT AND WATER
HIGH LIVING COST BEATEN
WAR BRIDES AND THEIR CHILDREN
A
CONDOR'S REALM IS INVADID
Arose Out of the Hedge to Greet Him.
k
load of it go nlong the coast like n
peddler, nuiyhe? Sure, it’s tdl tlxed.
Everywhere It Is coming In. The coast
guards- slm w ! They can see noth­
ing; tlie wind Is Mowing hnndred-dol-
lar hills In their eyes!"
There seemed to he senso to this.
I f the government were, Indeed, ns
zealous in the suppression o f enntrn-
bnnd liquor as It was supposed to he,
would It he likely to concern Itself
with small fry like Ken. and still per­
mit a Mg ship to cruise the coast, drop­
ping off her Illicit cargo here and there
to fishermen, tugs and coastwise
schooners?
Surely It must he well
"fixed.”
And Ken was young and ad­
venturous; he didn't put much stock
In the eighteenth amendment anyhow
— and he needed the money; Caroline
nnd he needed It.
Cnroline was helping in the matter
of the bungalow, too. Site went Into
town five evenings a week and tnught
foreigners in the evening school. It's
strange how things happen, how they
dovetail: one of Caroline's pupils was
Kltnplnski's eldest son, n man grown
hut young.
Kimpinski came to the
school and called his son out into the
hail. Afterward, near the door where
Kimpinski had stood Caroline picked
up a crumpled telegram, addressed to
the Junk man and signed by an initial.
It said:
"T rv Benjamin Travis, trawl fisher­
man, Sandy Bay."
It was rather startling to Caroline.
Alao It happened that young Isadora
Ftnkelstein confided to Miss Webster
that Kimpinski was a bad ban. a law-
smasher already.
Now It was that Caroline had Just
been reading an old-time novel—one of
the lugger and cave sort—and as she
read It the thought had come to her
that the dashing handsome smuggler
hern must have looked a rood deal like
Hen. fto. with what she knew about
the Mysterious telegram and Klm-
Crossing of the Andes by Aviators Is
Annoying to the Great
Birds.
fm
The Andes arc becoming quite blase
V'
to crossings and the condors are un­
derstood to In* highly annoyed at th*
constant Invasion o f their private re v
idenecs at 15.000 feet or so of altitude.
Since Jorge Ncwbery met the fn e of
the eourngmus pioneer there «ave
been several sueeessful crossings. The
name of the former will always In
connected with the Cordillera with the
*
same melancholy cohhrlty that at­
taches to the death of Lord Francis
Several hundred wives and children of American boys who fought with the
Douglass and Mr. Hadow on the Mat­
terhorn.
British army arrived In New York from England ;o make their homes with
The most recent disturber ( f the their husbands and fathers In this country. Most of the war brides are British,
wild mountain solitudes Is a Chilean but France and Belgium are also represented.
military aviator. I.leut. Armnmhi Cor-
tlnoz, who descended at Mendoza after
leaving the military flying school ROAD BUILT OF EPSOM SALTS
ground of I.o Espejo. near Santiago
de Chile. He broke his propeller In Texas to Have Unique Highway Ten
landing and was obliged to wait for
Ml tee Long. Say State High­
spare parts and a mechanic.
way Officials.
Workmen Labor 14 Hours a Day
As he went up merely to attempt an
altitude flight nnd had no leave to
to Be Ready.
Austin, Tex.— A road of epsom salts
cross the frontier chain, the lieuten­
Is an attraction Texas enn soon hold
ant will he put under arrest on his
out to tourists, according to the state London Merchant Findi Empire la Re­
return, while heing given all credit for
cuperating Fastest of All
highway department.
his plucky achievement. Discipline I*
Nations.
Ten miles of highway out o f Rook-
discipline Buenos Aires Standard.
port la being surfaced with a material
London.— “ Germany is out again to
which analyzes more than one-fourth
Confusion of Names.
epsom salts. The material is obtained heat the world," said the s**nior mem­
Aunt Matilda came hack from town, from lints where constant evaporation ber o f a city firm.
proud of her n«'w pun-has«>. ft waa o f gulf water has left silt strongly Im­
“ I have Just returned from a visit
a "transformation," one of those front pregnated with salts, among which the | to our commercial connections In
plci-es of hair which nre reputed to epsom variety predominates.
Switzerland. I met there the chair­
make one look young. But Aunt Ma­
Highway engineers declare the mix­ man e f an important firm o f machine
tilda’s made her look more than young
ture forma an excellent road surfac­ manufacturers. He was obviously a
—decidedly "loud." If you please.
ing material, as the salts absorb 1 German, with his squnre head nn«l had
The tiniest piece went to tell moth
enough moisture from the air to keep | French, and for once I pretended to he
er. "Oh, mother, come here nnd see
the roads damp, free from dust and pto-German, and spoke with him in his
Aunt Matilda's confirmation,” shs
firm on the dryeat days. One trouble, own language.
railed.
"H e let the cat out o f the hag. All
however. Is th rl the road becomes
The high school nephew winked at
very slippery during wet weather, but the labor in the Schwarzwabt and In
hln chum. "She'd better «mil It her con
this Is overcome by adding a small pro­ South Germany, where the allies have
sternatlon. I think.” he whispered
portion of shell and regulating the no representatives, he told me. has re-
"Judging from the Impression It has
I fused to recognize the eight-hour day.
•lope of the surface.
created on me.”
The Great Obstacle.
“ O f course one o f the greatest «.!>
stacles standing in the way of the pro
duet ion o f food through this method
is in the present cost of making sugar,
which can only be manufactured ns
yet in small qunntitles. Our greatest
competitor In this Important field is
the plant itself, which thus far under­
sells the synthetic method.”
Prof. Osterhout, who has taught at
many o f tlie large universities through
out the United Statoa, nnd hns nttnir
ed an International reputation us a
man o f science, is a Fellow of ih«
American Association for the Advance­
ment of Science and of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. In ad­
dition to many other scientific and re­
search societies he has b«>en a profes­
sor of botany since 1913.
GERMANS ARE AFTER TRADE
"The men are working furiously,
without pressure o f any sort, up to
fourteen hours a day to be ready to
enter the world's markets again at the
first opportunity.
“This German chairman of a Swiss
concern simply chuckled with gl e
when he said:
*Our good German
workmen know their hands. The- do
not want this easy day o f eight hours;
they want wealth, and they will tiavo
It.'
“ Germany is recuperating after the
war faster lhan any otl er nation
simply because, instead of giving wav
to the reaction o f peace ami dcitminl
ing the impossible by m«-ans nf sing,.,
she Is working as hard as |, lmnR
strength and brain allow r«> regain ber
old i-ommerclal pinnacle anil ag i n i„
the pre-wnr Germany.
Germany is out to provide tin- , h.-ap
e«t world market, and am elgb i,
Industrial day will »pell -dl*a.-.l<-r r„
If w e «In >o>t w ake up."
IM B Iß EVENING
(3 4^n FAIRY
KLEES
AiQT
THE OPERA GLASSES.
“ Hello, other end,” said one end of
the opera glasses.
"Hello, other end,” answered the
end that had been spoken to.
“ I cun make things look so fur, far
away," said the end which hud spoken
first, which we will cull Tiny View.
“ I cun make things look so very
near,” said the other end, which wo
will cull Illg View.
" I can make things look so funny
and small,” said Tiny View.
"But I can make things look so near
und so large,” said Big View.
“ I like my part better,” said Tiny
View. "It is more Interesting not to
be able to see tilings so near, They
look more mysterious at u distance.”
“ I don’t know that I agree with
you," said Big View.
"W hy not?" asked Tiny View.
“ You would hardly expect me to,
would you?” asked Big View.
"I don’t see why,” said Tiny»View.
“ You wouldn’t want to be In my
place, would you?” asked Big View.
"Oh, no, certainly not," said Tiny
View.
“ Well, there you have it,” said Big
View.
“ Have what?” asked Tiny View.
"You like your way because It Is
your way and because you are used
to It,” said Big View, "and I like
my way because I am used to it. That's
the way we are.”
" I see," said Tiny View.
“ What fun I do have at the theater
or at the opera,” said Big View.
“ I have a good time, too,” said Tiny
View, “ for children like to look through
me and they like to say, ‘Oh, how fun­
ny the stage looks, nnd the p«?ople
look so small, and everything looks so
far, far away.’ It gives them fi quite
different Idea of the stuge u-.d the
people acting.”
“ O f course it does." said Big View.
“ Well, I like the work I have to do. I
like to make things seem near at
hand, to make them stand out clear
and plain."
“ But when things are far away. Isn't
It wrong to make them look near?”
* a
)
“ Children Like to Look.”
asked Tiny View. “ Isn't that the least
bit deceitful?”
“ Of course not,” said Big View an­
grily.
“ Oh. I didn’t mean to annoy you."
said Tiny View. “ I was only asking a
question.”
"It is no more deceitful than for
you to make them see things far
away.”
“ I suppose that Is so," said Tiny
View.
" I hadn't thought about it
that way before.”
“ You hadn't looked into the matter
closely enough,” luugheil Big View.
“ Well," said Tiny View, “ we're each
rather clever in our own way. You
can make things near which aren't
nnd I can make things look fur away
which aren’t so far off nt all.”
"W e're not clever,” said Big View.
“ Who is clever then, if we aren't?”
nsked Tiny View.
“ The one who made us,” snld Big
View.
“ Well, the one who made us most
hnve s«*en that we were going to do
our work properly nnd were the sort
of things he could employ.”
"T o be sure,” agreed Big View.
“ That is what we do, nnd what we
must always do— our work—properly."
“ W e do have such a good time,“
snld Tiny View.
“ That's why we should do our work
well,” said Big View.
“ W e should
show that we are grateful."
“ We’ll always be friends, won’t we?”
asked Tiny View.
“ Of course we will,” said Big View.
"I remember seeing u beautiful
dance once,” said Tiny View, "and all
the little tiny creatures dancing were
so lovely.”
“ I remember that lovely dance.”
said Big View, "but all the creatures
I saw were quite, quite Inrge.”
“ Ha. ha,” snld Tiny View, "we were
looking nt It from different ends, for
we are different, aren't we?”
“ To be sure,” said Big View, "but
we're both lucky, for we're taken to
theaters and operas and we see the
great singers an«I dancers and actors
and actresses and give folks great
treats— so they can look at things In
two most Interesting ways with th«
aid of their own perfectly good eyes I
And also by moving us to focus us just
right.”
ü
T
/
' A
Anxieua.
Walter— All right, sir. all right.
You’ll get served In time.
Diner— Well, rush it. I want to get
through this meal before tbs prices
rts« again.
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