HONOIR DEAD HORSE
Sarah, .famous old gray mare mas
cot of the Texas American Legion,
“ain't what she used to be,” for she
is dead at Brown swood at the age of j
19, after having been a conspicuous
figure in Legion 'parades for several
years. About 300 persons, including |
the Legion band, turned out to give I
her military burial and Mrs. M. W.
Armstrong, president of the Texas
Legion Auxiliary, delivered the ora
tion.
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BOLIVIA JUNGLES
FURNISH THRILL
TO EXPEDITION
HAZARDOUS TRIP MADE BY TWO
WOMEN IN SEARCH OF AD
"“'VENTURE AND BEAUTY
LONGMEADOW, Mass., Jan. 12.—
Eating monkey meat and helping the
native girls to bob their hair were the
only two of the minor incidents of the
expedition into the jungles of Bolivia
from which Oscar de Lima Mayer of
New oYrk, Mrs. Mayer and Miss Ora
Ford have just returned.
Miss Ford, after arriving at her
home here, told of encounters with
savage tribes, dodging man-eating
crocodiles as well as snakes and tar
antulas, shooting treacherous rapids
on rafts and subsisting on turtle eggs.
The expedition was one in search of
beauty and adventure.
“You see,” Miss Ford explained,
“they told us that the valley of the
Beni River was very beautiful. In a
way it was disappointing. The trip
was harder than we had anticipated
and the gorgeous orchids they des
cribed for the most part had no bIosL
soms. They grow in profusion along
the river, but you have to go far into
the jungle to get the flowers.”
The adventurers started from La
Paz, the Bolivian capital, and crossed
the Andes on mules. Indian guides
piloted their rafts down the Matiri
river, carrying them safely through
precipitous rapids with whirlpools at
the bottom. Gnats and mosquittos
were too abundant for comfort.
“They kept up good teamwork,” the
young lady said. “The gnats gnaw
ed you till sundown; then the mos
quitoes appeared. The insects are
large and their bite is very painful.”
While navigating the Beni river in
a dug-out canoe the party ran out of
provisions, the 12 days which they ex
pected to pass in the jungle extended
to three weeks.
“For days,” Miss Ford said, “we
lived on boiled rice and the hard,
coarse brown sugar they call than
baca, and on turtle eggs. These
eggs are like hen’s eggs, only a little
better. You boil them or make an
omelet. Then the rice gave out and
■the Indians cooked us monkey meat.
It’s quite nice, really. It tastes like
rabbit and they grilled it over the fire.
“There were crocodiles in the river,
of course, and they were man-eaters.
When I shot mine there were four in
sight at once.
“We passed two savage tribes of In
dians but they did not trouble us. In
some of the Indian villages nearer the
cities the natives are fairly civilized.
But few of them had seen white wo
men before our visit.”
From the Beni, 'the party went down
other rivers to the Amazon and then
to its mouth. One of these streams
was Roosevelt’s “River of Doubt.”
The entire trip covered about 3500
miles and extended over three months.
Prohibition agents near Menom
inee, Mich., located a still by follow
ing the smell of moonshine liquor
four miles thru the woods.
Under a city ordinance of Port
Arthur, Tex., it is unlawful to eat
peanuts during a theatrical perform
ance.
An abandoned baby found by two
English coal miners had bank notes
equal to $6,000 pinned to its cloth
ig, with a note Tequesting that it be
baptized under the name of Victor.
Carlo Valentino of Brooklyn, aged
68, mired to his knees in a swamp
near Gravesend Bay and was held
all night, being found by children
and rescued next morning.
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Two life boats Smashed
On Good Ship Alameda
Two life boats were smashed in on
the S.S. Alameda, which vessel ran
Into the heavy storm which has been
sweeping the Alaska Gluif for the
past week. This was the report re
ceived yesterday in Seward. Yester
day morning the A^imeda was off
Cape Spencer, southbound for Seat
tle out of Seward.
Capt. and Mrs. Allen Are
Touring California Now
Captain Alexander Allen and Mrs.
Allen, well kqown in Seward, re
cently purchased an automobile in
Seattle and have left for California,
according to Captain Whitlam of the
U. S.S. Boxer, who visited them prior
to his departure from Seattle for
this port. Capt. Allen had not learn
ed how to drive a car, but Mrs. Al
len was quite an adept at it.
The Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean
skipper arrived in Seattle some weeks
ago with his schooner Donaldson,
which is now on the marine ways
in Lake Union, receiving a complete
overhauling. Mrs. Allen arrived in
Seattle from Nome on the Boxer,
previous to the arrival of her skip
per husband.
Among the holiday tragedies re
ported is the case of Mrs. Charles
Maheras of Lynn, Mass., who had her
husband arrested for beating her be
cause she wouldn’t simp early.
The thirty tons of concentrates
from the Fern Mine near Wasilla,
which arrived' in Seward last week,
was shipped south to Tacoma on the
S.S. Victoria.
Jack Harris of Kent, Ohio, aided
James Harrington, who was down
and out 16 years ago. Harrington
afterward made a fortune in oil and
recently died leaving Harris $9S,000.
Victor Lohman of Lake Elmo,
Minn., was thrown upon the pilot of
a locomotive which hit his truck and
was carried twelve miles before be
ing discovered, badly injured.
Fresh Haas and Johnson’s fine
boxed chocolates—Alaska Shop.tf.
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John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
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Next Door to Liberty Theatre
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
OGLE’S GARAGE
GASOLINE AND
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EXPERT MECHANICS
Phone Mad. 66.
Show Cards,
Posters,
Movie Slides,
Cartoons,
Advertising,
Publicity.
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Physioian and Surgeon
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Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
^ ill Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
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FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108-Seward, Alaska
Aaron £. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
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TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
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SYLVIA'S
Phone Adams 128