Show STRANDED JN IN THE 10 DESERT S equipped ship rests on sands bordering the colorado river er ad 1 1 tl ih a there doea does not seem to bo be much use for a ship la in the desert country of california borders bor clera on tha colorado river yet travelers in that region may mav see there a veritable phlp of the desert fa ra from any body of water aber capable ot of boating floating even a mu ran may bo be found a big stern wheel steamer accustomed to pi div up and down the river carrying pais n gera gers and freight she ha been lying there since once last september stranded bigand dry on an the binds winds a mile and a liala from tho the stream e present course this strange condition of affair affairs has come about simply bacanto the colorado a mighty stream but ono one of the must treacherous of rivers chose to cut a new now channel for itself in the early tall fall colico or warning one night last september the 1 I 1 viso 1 capt J IV daution Dab tion tied up to the shore a couple of miles above needles awaiting telegraphic orders she was load d with passenger and supplied and as s travel Is sometimes leisurely pursued on the colorado all hands turned in for is good night s deep sleep between 3 and 4 oo lock capt babson as aroused by indiana indians who warned him that for some reason the river waa was ailing falling rapidly and at him to pull out into midstream as a quickly na as possible 1 ahls I hi tho the captain tried to do but the water had bad already gone down so low that his 1 I row stuck fast in tho the mud when hu ho rot got up tip steam and tried to turu his paddle and move out into ua I 1 gable water and there ho he has over ever since becoming realura I to tha tho situation perforce and hoc hopefully fully awaiting the flood water that comoe down do V n at the time of the melting a 0 tho the colorado and incoming INy oming snows a june uy by this freak tho the colorado Colora dc 0 river which Is always accomplishing somo unusual feat has annexed to california a strip of land from train thieo fourths to a mile wide and AN i ii four miles long this kind of land aaueda tion Is going on all tho the time along the colorado which Is the official dividing line between california and arizona sometimes arizona steals from california Call furnia and sometimes the state steals from the territory but this la Is the first time on record that x bleamer bas been held up as pledge tn in the transaction |