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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH for the day's needs, without setting Al anything aside for the future. though they know liow to make Art, they are too lazy and shiftless to cook food. When they kill an imlmnl. they simply surround R, tearing the flesh from the bones with their fingers, and gnawing It as they walk away. The most sought after fieth among the Seris Is that of t lie pelican, which Is found in large numbers on Aleut rut Islund (Bird Island) in l)ulno hay, an lidet of the gulf. The Seris hunt for pelicans at night with long poles havThe torch ing torches at the end. blinds the pelican, which Is then killed with a blow of the pole. Besides using the meat for food, the Seris use the skin to make robes. The chief gave me a pelican robe consisting of 12 skins, measuring about 10 by 3 feet. He showed great Interest In a leather coat, lined with alpaca, that I had brought back from Bolivia. Stroking It, he told me that be liked It and had no chat himself. I had been warned that the Seris were great thieves, and that If they liked anything very much they were likely to express admiration for It In just that way, and then to murder its own-- , er in order to get IL I spent a very uncomfortable few moments wondering, what I was up against, but If the chief had any designs for robbery and murder he abandoned them. Miss Rogers said the. Seris had no I Almost perpendicular over the Capitol building, culture, no religion, no civilization of photographer In an airplane made this unusual view., any kind to speuk of, and seemed to be a perfect example of a degenerate people that has almost reached extinction, with no hope of recovering. Heres an Unusual View of the National Capital to Wild Indians Tell of Hazardous Trip to Almost Extinct Seris in ' Gulf of California. J New York. Mias Natalie Rogers, In private life Mrs. Oseur le Lima Mayer, wife of a painter, who, with her tiusband explored the wilds neAr the Roosevelt river (the Itiver of Doubt) 7d the Aniiizonli.ii basin of South America in 1925, has recently returned to New York from unolher expedition among wild and warlike people. She told how she and Mias Ora Ford of Springfield, Mass., a classmate at Cornell university a few years ago, had made a trip full of hardships and dangers to visit the nearly extinct tribe of Seri Indians, wbo formerly controlled much of the west coast of the Province of Sonora, Mexico, hut are now confined almost exclusively to the tiny Islund of Tiburon (Sbaik island) In the Gulf of California. ' Miss Rogers and Miss Ford are believed to be the first white women to penetrate to the habitation of the primitive Seris, as they were said to he the first white women to reach certain parts of Bolivia in 1923. This time they went alone, with no white man to protect them, hut each carried a pistol. The copper-coloreIndians they found on Tiburon had never seen a white person before. AVe had been studying the Indian tribes in Arizona," when early in November we decided to go Into the Province of Sonora. We had heard rumors of the Seris as a very primitive tribe of Indluns on the Island of Tiburon,. and were especially interested because of the prim! tlve Indians we had seen in Bolivia and Brazil. Warned by Mexican Consul. The Mexican consul at Tucson ad vised us against going, because terrific floods In Sonora, the Yaqul Indian revolution, and the nature of the Seris, who had been reported to he cannibalistic until quite lately In their r.lriory. The railroad from Nogales (on the Arizona border) to the Mexican town of Ilermosillo (meaning pretty little thing in Spanish) was out of opera tton because of the flood, and we Imd to go by automobile over roads that were At Hernia-slllwe turned west for the coast. On this part of the journey we found no roads whatever and the whole country flooded. We got stuck many times, and finally had to abandon our car on our sixth day In Mexico. We left the cur with an American guide who had come with us from Arizona. After another day of walking am! floundering in water and mud, and wandering ail night, lost in a desert, we readied the coast. Here we found a few Seri Indians. Living on the mainland, they had seen white people before and knew a little Spanish. We had to convince them we were not Mexicans before they became at all friendly. Like the Ynquis, the Seris hate the Mexicans. We Induced the mainland Seris to take us over to the Island of Tiburon, where white persons ordinarily do not visit because of the cannibalistic record of the Seris. Their chief, whose Spanish name Is ('lilco Romero, and with whom we conimunicnted in Spanish, came over and escorted us to the Island In a primitive boat, made of a hollowed-ou- t log, with a sail and paddles, which they handled with beautiWe had a difficult ful seamanship. crossing of several miles, because of the terrific tides end currents. The Serle Do Not Work. We spent a week with the Seris, finding them the most primitive, backward tribe of Indians I have ever encountered either in North or South America. They do not work the fields. They are satisfied to kill enough game or catch enough fish - Parted Half a Century Ago When Man Went West to Make His Fortune. Sioux Falls, S. "D. When Victor Handley, a rancher .of the. Reliance district of the Missouri river section of central South, Dakota, returned the other day from Cunada with a bride, sweethearts of 52 years ago were united. When they parted In Canada more than half a century ago Hand-le- y set out for the United Stntes to make a fortune for himself and the sweetheart of his youth. He thought it would not be long untlj he could send for the girl who had won his e . nlmost-impassa- - 4' ble. i &. j - heart. He became a pioneer of the American West and found that he had Job, ulthough he tackled a man-size- d was a mere youth at the time. No one knows but himself how hard he worked In the effort to accumulate the comparatively small sum required to establish a home, so he could send for ids Canadian sweetheart. Indias Greatest Dam & -- Lovers Marry After 25 Years d of-th- Is Completed 0 i But tilings ran against him with the passing of the years untf he became rough and swarthy In the battle for a home and bride. After years had elapsed without his being able to accumulate enough wealth to provide a home for his Intended bride he came to the conclusion that she had wearied of waiting for him. In the few letters he wrote her during the early years of their separation be was ashamed to tell her he had not yet met with success. Then came the years of meager success and mature reflection. He re-- 1 cently mustered up enough courage to I write to his old home In Canada, and was informed that his sweetheart of 52 years ago had waited eight long years for him to send for her so they could be married, nnd had then abandoned all hope of hearing from her girlhood love and had married another man. This is the first picture to reach this country showing - No Wonder Army Officers Resign IN NATIONAL GARB Hears Sweetheart Is a Widow. The South Dakota rancher also was informed that her husband had died some years ago. lie lost no time In writing direct to his old sweetheart and the romance of 52 years ago was renewed. Recently they married and the bride has taken up her home with her husband on . his South Dakota ranch. They are said to be as happy as though the marriage had taken place when they were in the Cower of their youth. . '! vW; hr,?. If). ' p-- - , ?v . T-- yfs r London. Knocked down and run over by his own car, Dr. physiSidney Wood, slxty-twcian nnd surgeon, waved away those who went to assist him, and carefully examined himself. Dont trouble to move me to he said at length. a hospital, Leave me here because I know that I shall be dead soon. I cannot move my legs; my spine Is . . ' f" &; jH- - f; I - VAN SWERINGEN BROTHERS ARE MYSTERY MEN OF UNITED STATES cloister of elusiveness and taci- turnity. Cleveland classifies them as millionaires. but no one can be found who will give ' an exact estimate of Cleveland. Ohio. When men begin their .wealth. . to usurp the headlines in American Several characteristics distinguish newspapers the world usually knows the Vans"; a lot about them in short order what As far as Anybody knows neither they like for brenkfast and how they ever made a public speech. comb their hair and such tbihgs. be Interto consent never, They, nation-widBut the bright beam of attention which centered on O. P. and viewed. on When they transact business M. J. Van Swerlngen when they stara private tled the financial world with plans for the road," each travels in the Nickel Plate railway merger has car with a corps of secretaries and never been able to throw Into relief stenographers. They belong to few of the leading any of the personal things about clubs and take little part in Clevethem. The public has hammered in valir land .social life. Both are single and in their late at the wall of aloofness and reserve which the Vans, as Cleveland calls 40s, and they live with their two niHldou sisters Id a vast home lu them, have built about, themselves. Shaker Heights, Cleveland suburb, Xfcey direct their vast undertakings ... S g "m , He had cranked his car when It was in gear after attending a patient In Bottlsham, near Cambridge. An ambulance was called and before being lifted Into it Doctor Wood shook hands with those around him and asked for him to them to say good-bhis friends and neighbors. IBs diagnosis proved correct He died the next day. y The greatest dam of India, the Bhandardara, which was dedlca'ed recently by the governor of Bombay In Ahmednagar district Due to the construction of this dam much of the surrounding waste land may be recovered. R has taken sixteen years and eighty lakhs of rupees to construct this dam. e , yw f Of s fractured, In a 'y !: ih Doctor Fatally Hurt Diagnoses Own Injury. S- Dr. Juan Sacasa. revolutionary leader of Nicaragua, and cabinet Sacasa Is seated in the Center, behind the table, tl L-'- Personalities of These Powerful Factors in Railroad World Remain Secrets to Public. seut of tha government of the United States of America, the Madame Llpa, wife of M. Jaroslav Llpa, counselor of the Czechoslovakian legation In Washington, wearing a gown which belonged to her grandArmy officers stationed at Camp Meade, Md., say that war was never as mother, It Is the national costume of bud as living hi the ramshackle buildings they are forced to inhabit. With n Czechoslovakia. view to Improving the housing conditions of the officers and enlisted men of the army, Hanford MacNider (center), assistant secretary of war, and MaJ. CANTONESE LEADER Gen. B. F. Cheatham, quartermaster general, visited the camp and are shown at the entrance of the "beautiful mansion of one of the' officers. On the right Is Col. o. S. Eskridge. commundant at Camp Meade. SeJvation Army on the Job in China which was the keystone of their wealth.. They acquired the property In 1905, developed it as an ideal residence district, and bought the Nickel Plate railroad so they could have a down town terminal ,for a rapid transit line to their property. f U. S. Suggests Owl Traps to End Chicken Thefts Washington. Trap chicken stealing owls to prevent them from preying on poultry at ulght, the Agriculture department udvises farmers. The government points out that a good way to trap owls is to make a small platform about two feet square, nail It 6n the roof of a low building, and bait It with a dead chicken. Gopher traps are placed around the chicken and when the owl steps up to obtain his feast it Is caught. The department advises the removal of th(traps as soon as the offender is caught so that Innocent birds will not suffer. p' ' r - Its Portrait of Eugene Chen, minister 'or foreign affairs of t lie Cantonese of leader and the government, the Chinese Nationalist .Movement agnlnst foreign nations In Chios, Chen was horn on the island of Trinidad and was formerly a British subject and a barrister In London. Since the revolution in 1911, however, he been a newspaperman tn China. i the sufferers from the civil war In China. Tills picture shows starvPjig nuf area. being fed In one of the Salvation army's soup kitchens in the waf I I |