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Show U. S. Sailor Starts Something in Navy ss set ashore, warmed arid fed, and it h a new outfit. But Coleman had started something. Since then every Christmas has seen a party on board the New York for the "neglected kids." Whatever port the flagship of the Atlantic squadron happened to lie In at Yuletlde invitations invita-tions have been Issued to the Salvation Salva-tion Army or other agency to bring the neediest youngsters aboard for a Christmas treat. Every year the party has grown. The second year It was a dozen ; the third year fifty, and last year, S00. It happened the New York was lying ly-ing at Bremerton, Wash., last Christmas, Christ-mas, and the Tennessee caught the Idea and entertained an overflow party of 100. Now there Is no knowing know-ing where It may stop. In Chicago the Bradley club, composed com-posed of old-time Allendale boys who are now successful young business men, decided to establish the Herbert Coleman scholarship to provide for the education of some other handicapped handi-capped boy at Allendale. Coleman has been ill in the naval hospital In Denver. He Is better again. T" ENVER. This Is the story of how Herbert Coleman started an epidemic epi-demic of kindness in the United States navy which promises to spread to every battleship left unscrapped by the Washington conference. Herbert Coleman Is an Illinois lad, who got his start at Allendale farm, where many a handicapped boy has been helped to make a new beginning under the sympathetic care and wise discipline of Capt. Edward L. Bradley. When he graduated he went to Great Lakes, and a little later found himself aboard the New York In Brooklyn. On Christmas shore leave, he encountered en-countered a mlto of shivering humanity. human-ity. "Needs fillln'," he said. The "fillln' " was done at mess. The gobs chipped In and the scrap World's "Farthest North" University OEATTLE. What, It Is believed, will be the world's "farthest north" university the Alaska Agricultural Agri-cultural College and School of Mines at Fairbanks, within a hundred miles of the Arctic circle will open Its doors next September, Charles E. Bunnell, former Federal Judge and now president of the Institution, announced an-nounced here. The college campus Is situated on a tract of land four miles from Fairbanks Fair-banks on the main line of the new government railroad, set aside by congress In 1915. The college Itself was formally established in 1917 by an act of the territorial legislature, and $60,000 set aside for buildings and equipment. The sum proved Inadequate, and In 1921 an additional appropriation of $41,000 was made. Most of the operating op-erating expenses will be met by the territory of Alaska, but $50,000 will be available from federal funds, according ac-cording to President Bunnell. The first year's curriculum will offer of-fer four courses agriculture, general science, home economics and mining under present plans. Special short courses In mining will be given to meet the requirements ot prospectors and others unable to attend during the full college year. The work of the college, President Bunnell predicted, Is destined to play .an important part in the development of the territory. There was under cultivation In the Immediate vicinity of Fairbanks last year, he pointed out, a total of 1,020 acres. This land produced 100 tons of vegetables, 1,006 tons of oat hay, 1,270 bushels of oats and barley, 3,516 bushels of wheat and 392 tons of potatoes. po-tatoes. The wheat represents the yield of 183 acres. This yield can be multiplied many times as more land is brought under cultivation through the application of proper methods. President Bunnell will remain "outside" "out-side" for several weeks securing equipment equip-ment for the school, and employing faculty members. Ucan Where Four States Come Together lines of the territory of Arizona in 1863. Visitors to the Mesa Verde National park, In the southwest south-west corner of Colorado, are always shown In the distance the "Four Corners," Cor-ners," as Ucan Is locally known. Travelers Trav-elers over the road running from Dolores, Colo., to Bluff, Utah, pass near the spot and ask about It. Just north of Ucan, on the Utah-Colorado line, Is the famous Hovenweep region, re-gion, which has been proposed for a national monument. This Is a picturesque, pic-turesque, uninhabited region containing contain-ing most Interesting prehistoric relics, including many large towers of various vari-ous shapes and kivas. The Inscriptions on the Ucan monument monu-ment certainly could be made Interesting. Inter-esting. The four states are a Jumble of land secured through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 from France ; the Mexican Cession of 1848 ; the Texas Cession of 1850, and the Gadsden Purchase Pur-chase of 1853. Moreover, Ucan Is close to the center cen-ter of a district abounding In natural beauty spots and natural wonde-s, Including In-cluding Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon and Zlon National parks, and Bryce Canyon, the Proposed President's Forest For-est and Natural Bridges National monument. UCAN, UTAH, COLO., ARIZ., N. M. There "ain't no such place" as Ucan except in the mind of A. T. H. Brower of Chicago, who thinks there ought to be. He suggests that there Is but one spot In the United States where four states come together; to-gether; that the four states are Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, and that the Initials of these four states spell the word "Ucan," which would do for the name of the spot. And he adds : "It would be interesting if a town could be established, having a public square equally divided among the four states, with some sort of a monument at the exact point of junction." Ucan has long been a spot of Interest In-terest to good Americans, though probably few civilized feet have trod it since the surveyors ran the He Offers to Die to Prove His Love jge. clUST FILL A CHICAGO. Professing a fervent love for Miss Doris Esheldy, his divorced wife and a co-ed at the University Uni-versity of Chicago who caused his arrest ar-rest because he annoyed her, Edward Graham of St. Paul offered to prove it by committing suicide before Judge Samuel H. Trude of the E:iglewood branch of the municipal court. "I love Doris, I love her sincerely," Graham told the Judge, "and to prove it I will commit suicide right here If you will fill a bottle with poison. Send me to the county Jail or anywhere. I want to go away and give Doris the chnnce she deserves. I have been holding hold-ing her back. I thought she loved me, but now I know she doesn't." Graham and Miss Esheldy were married four years ago in St. Paul. She divorced him shortly afterward, when he was sent to JalJ on charges of robbery. Several weeks ago he arrived In Chicago and began annoying annoy-ing the girl, she charges, while she attended the University of Chicago. He professed love for her, threatening threaten-ing to kill her If she refused to come and live with him. The girl avoided blm. Later he told her that he had made negotiations to aid a band of mull robbers, and as his reward the band had promised to kidnap the girl. Following his arrest on the campus of the university. Judge Trude ordered or-dered him examined as Jo his sanity. Dr. William Hickson reported that he was sane. Judge Trude fined Graham Gra-ham Sl'tX) and costs or six months in the house of correction, after the young man had said that he would not allow any one to pay the fine for him. After he has served his sentence, he said, he Is going back to St. Paul and let Doris alone. |