INDIANA MAN
WANTS TRYOUT
AS RAINMAKER
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 27—D. O.
Marble, of Carlisle, Ind., wishes to try
his skill, science or secret communi
1 cation with nature, or whatever it is,
at rainmaking in the inland empire
hereabouts.
A letter from Marble has been re
ceived by W. F. Remans of the agri
cultural committee of the Spokane
chamber of commerce, in part as fol
lows:
“I am going to ask you to give me
a chance to show what I can do if
the local rainmaker fails to get the
rain. I believe that I am able to get
results in from one to four days after
commencing operations. I have often
got rain in one day when there was
no indication of rain and when there
had been no rain received for more
than a month.
“If you do not get the desired rain
I will do what I can and I believe
that you will get the rain within
four days after I start work.”
In the conclusion of the letter, the
K writer stipulates, how'ever, that there
shall be no penalty if he does not
“deliver the goods.”
Charles M. Hatfield, a California
“rainmaker,” has been working for
.-the last two months under a contract
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with the Ephrata Commercial club.
Rain came and sundry Ephrata folk
gave him credit for it, but he didn’t
bring enough to win the $3000 he was
to receive if he brought two inches
by July 10. It appears that Marble,
of Indiana, heard of Hatfield’s ef
forts and wished him to try Hoosier
methods of super-induced precipitation
there. Maybe the Ephrata commercial
club’s heart will soften so that it will
not insist on the letter of the con
tract with Hatfield, for since July 10 ■
there has been much rainfall.
But the destructive wind storms
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that came with the rain have bol
stered up a skeptical faction that is j
insisting that if credit be given to |
Hatfield for the rainfall after July
10, he also be charged up with the
destruction.
HatfieTd put up four tanks on the
shore of Moses lake in which were
certain chemicals the evaporation of
which was said to tickle the nostrils
and win the good graces of Jupiter
Pluvius.
The Indiana “rainmaker’s” letter
has been referred by the Spokane
chamber of commerce to the Ephata
Commercial club.
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The latest number of the Pathe
News, and an unusually good comedy
reel, add their share in forming a
good program for the screen fans.
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hospitals 20 miles apart planned for
Long Island will be handy for auto
mobilists and their victims. That’s
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WEST AFRICAN
WATER BEASTS
PORTLAND, Aug. 27.—Tales of can
nibals and of man-eating alligators and
sharks which infest the waters of
West Africa, together with bizarre ex
periences in African coast cities where
bananas may be bought for approxi
mately 70 cents a bunch and ordinary
shoes are at a premium, are related
by W. Biddle Combs, former Port
land boy and student at Reed college,
who cruised with the steamer Sagi
naw on a trip which touched at West
African ports.
Mr. Combs is the son of W. G.
Coombs, superintendent of the local
branch of the National Life Insur
ance company, whose headquarters
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are in Chicago. At the outbreak ofj
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the late war he enlisted in the navy
and received a commission as junior
lieutenant. Last November he sailed
from Portland on the steamer Sagi
naw, a ship built by the Northwest-j
ern Steel company of this, city, which
took a cargo of flour from Portland ■
to New York. Shortly after its ar-f
rival in New York, the vessel was!
turned over to the A. H. Bull company j
and was sent to the west coast of j
Africa with a miscellaneous cargo j
which included automobile trucks
and automobiles.
In his letter to his parents he told i
of his experiences at various ports j
in Liberia, Belgian Congo, and the
Gold Coast of western Africa. In a
letter dated from Accra, Gold Coast
of West Africa, he writes about the
cannibals in the city of Grand Bas- ^
som:
“I though that all or most all the :
cannibal tribes were killed off, but'
just about two weeks before we got
there they killed and ate six persons
in the town of Grand Bassom. It i
seems that the French government:
had brought about 200 of these canni
bal tribesmen from the interior down
to Grand Basso mand were going to
make soldiers out of them, but they
had been in town only a day or so be
fore they began killing and eating
people. They got six before the gov
ernment put them on a boat and
shipped them down to Dakar.
“These cannibals (I believe the
tribe is called Gourha) live about 500
miles back from the coast and they
don’t eat any meat except human
flesh. Our agent was telling us about
how they never bury their dead but
eat them, or sometimes dry the body
and eat it when the relatives come.
When a man’s wife is sick three days
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and he kills her. then he must divide
the body with her relatives. It they
live some distance away he must dry
the body and eat none of it until they
arrive; if he should eat any part of
her before the relatives arrive then
the/ can kill and eat him.
It’s queer but these people will
not touch any other meat but human
meat. If a cow or sheep is killed or
dies they bury it. The government
gave them some pork to eat and it
made them all very sick. Another
queer thing about them, when they
attack a man and try to kill him, if
tie kills one of them before they can j
kiil him they will leave him and take !
the dead man.
“The only man of this tribe that
vas in Grand Bassom was pointed out
to me; he had his teeth all filed down
to sharp points and his hair was :
slightly longer than the rest of the i
niggers; otherwise he looked the
same. I understood that all of them
file their teeth to points.”
The negroes of Liberia feel that
America >s their mother country, ac
cording to Mr. Combs. In a letter
written Lens Monrovia, Liberia, be
he says:
“This country, Iiberia, has quite an
interesting history. It was started
by American negroes in the 18th cen
tury and the qatives here, or rather
fne Americo-Liberianq as they call
thernse.ves (these are the descer.a
ants of the American negroes who
migrated to this placet consider the
United States as their mother country.
Their laws are modeled after ours,
aid so is their money system. Their
flag is just like ours only instead of
48 stars they have one big star.
“The American government is help
ing them revise their financial sys
tem and is going to put in a big dock
here at Monrovia. They have turned
the government over to the United
States to manage for the next 40
years and I believe that the United
States will help them to become an
up-to-da.te little country. The United
States has loaned them $5,000,000, but
our government tells them how they
can use it.
“I met the United States consul
(Dr. Johnson) today. Ke is a negro,
but a very bright man and an inter
esting talker. Liberia declared war
against Germany and a ‘sub’ was here
and fired on Monrovia, demolishing
the wireless station and a few build
ings.”
In a letter written from Belgian
Congo, Mr. Combs writes that the
Congo river is something like the
Columbia river in size, but is muddy
and the current is swifter. At Matadi,
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which is 120 miles from the mouth of
the river, the Congo is less than a
mile wide and very swift, he says.
“The hills here (Matadi) on both
sides of the river are very steep and
probably as high as Mount Tabor,
only they are not covered with trees,
just grass and a few small shrubs.
The town of Matadi is built on the
side of the hills and the streets are
very steep. There are a couple of
big warehouses here, some nice hotels
and two or three stores, also the rail
road shops for the Congo Beige rail
road, are here. The railroad is a
narrow-guage affair that runs from
here into the interior. The negroes
do all the work, but they are afraid
of the dark, so the road runs no night
trains.
“Saturday night, while one of the
little negro boys, who lives near the
dock, was in swimming just a few
hundred feet above our ship, a big
alligator got him. He gave one yell
and disappeared. They said this is
the first time in a number of months
that an alligator has been so bold. I
haven’t been in swimming only once
on this trip and the next day or so
they caught a big shark where I was
swimming; so henceforth I swim in
the bathtub—I can see bottom in the
tub.”
LONG BEACHITE
MINNEAPOLIS, Ang. 27—In res
ponse to a request by tlie mayor of
Los Angeles that residents write their
friends “back east” the truth about
the earthquakes, Mrs. Harris, of Long
Beach, Cal., formerly of Minneapolis,
promptly complied. She apparently
failed to consult the real estate and
climate boomers before taking her
pen in hand, although she agrees with
them to the extent that earthquakes
are not so bad if one only gets used
to them.
The letter just received from Mrs.
Harris follows:
“Dear Friends: The mayor of Los
Angeles is asking the people here to
write to our friends back east and
tell the truth about the earthquake.
Well, the shakeup they had at Los
Angeles July 16 was not so bad as
might have been. It just shook the
ends out of some of the big build
ings there, and shook down the chim
neys. No one hurt. They had three
shakes that day, and one the 17th,
and another one the 20th, so that
the 16th just raised right up about a
hhey say if you stay here a couple of
years you will get used to them.
“The one they had at Los Angeles
the 16th just raised righ up about a
foot and dropped down again. It did
;hat twice, and then started to jump
sieways. We did not feel this one
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■he last shake of that day. It sure
jives you a funny feeling. You do
not know what to do till it is all
)ver with, or 1 did’nt know I was so
scared that I could not run out of
loors. I do not want to feel another
me but they have them here every
summer some place.
“People at Los Angeles are leaving
is fast as they can get a house in
some other town. And some are go
ing back east. The people that drove
nut here with their car if they could
get gasoline enough to go they would,
but there is a gas shortage here just
to raise the price or to keep the peo
ple from going back east.
“They say the earthquakes are not
so bad as the cyclones you have
there but for'me I would rather take
the cyclone. The folks here try their
best to keep these things from the
papers back there, as it will keep
folks away from here. But if there is
anybody that wants to come here to
live, come and find out for your
selves. We are not sorry we spent
the money we did out here as we
sure found out for ourselves wrat it
is here. It is not what it is bragged
up to be.
“Well friends I have not the time
to write to you all, so I am send
ing this to the paper, and I hope you
all will get an eye on it. Minneapolis
could be very popular if it was
boomed like it is here. And they
would not have to tell lies about it
like they do here.”
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