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Show Miniature "Empire" on Island in Salton Sea Recently we called, says Harry Carr, in the Los Angeles Times, on Captain Davis on Mullet Island In the Salton sea. He has an amazing little empire. Mud geysers spout steam high into the air. Wild goats climh over the rocky hills of his estate. es-tate. The pools beneath his mud geysers are drug stores. The Salton Sal-ton sea is a vast lake of medicated waters. By executive order, Salton sea has been made a refuge where fishing Is not permitted. The waters have been stocked with bass. Captain Davis says that the pelicans got all the bass the first day. On the other hand, the pelicans have stocked the sea with mullet, a strange, greasy, unpalatable fish. Davis says that the mullets hibernate in mud and were brought in by pelicans incased in mud pellets. He has a little museum ; among the relics is a small Bible whose flyleaf fly-leaf states it was presented in 1857 by the countess of Suffolk to Stur-ges Stur-ges Tomlinson ; it was found by the side of a bleached skeleton and the weather-beaten remnants of a wagon near Mullet island. Another relic recalls a tragedy. A man named Donaldson was traveling in a covered cov-ered wagon across the desert and his water gave out. Leaving his two daughters, he struggled on to find a water hole. When he came back they had shot themselves. He went in to Yuma; told his story and killed himself. |
