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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH WESTERN SUITES WYOMING AND EASTERN COLORADO BLOCKADED BY WORST STORM IN MANY YEARS Records of Forty Years Standing Were Broken When Black Hills Inches Snow Had Twenty-fou- r Denver Midwinter scenes were general throughout Wyoming and Colorado as the worst blizzard of the year continued to block highways, threaten loss of much livestock and interrupt airmail service and railroad and motor bus transportation. This was the fifth consecutive day that the storm had raged over Wyoming, turning to apprehension the satisfaction of ranchers at more moisture for crops and ranges. It was the fourth day of snow and sleet in eastern Colorado. Despite the ferocity of the storm, which temporarily marooned many motorists and motor busses on the plains, only one death had resulted. H. T. Higginbotham of Stevenville, Texas' was killed when a motor bus struck him near Greeley, Colo. He was working on his car in the road, and snow obscured the bus drivers vision. The blizzard was the worst April storm in seven years at Cheyenne, where more than fourteen inches of inches snow had fallen. Twenty-tw- o was recorded at Sheridan, where roads were choked and busses stranded. There was no train service from Sheridan to the west, with a Burlington train held at Alliance, Neb. Chilean Coast Feels Large Tremblor Chile A strong earth Santiago, shock, lasting almost a minute, which stretch was felt over a thousand-milof the Chilean'coast took the lives of at least nine persons and caused the injurty of fully sixty more. The quake was felt over an area from Copiapo southward to Valdivia and caused prop' erty damage and injury in the cities of Bernardo Santiago, Valparaiso, Sa and elsewhere. Police reports gathered in Santiago in various parts of the city set the number of dead here at seven and the injured at fifty-five- , while two persons, a mother and her baby were killed in San Bernardo when their house collapsed. (Reports received in Buenos Aires said that it was believed ten persons had been killed by the quake at Mendoza! Argentine, in the foothills of the Andes and more than 100 miles northeast of Santiago, Chile. There reports said that fifty persons were injured and considerable property damage caused. The quake also was felt faintly at Buenos Aires, lasting three minutes, but apparently doing no e jcozr w&scorr&xcxAnD ozxs: car ri& fAZdvav 0lrzuzg TJSAttS By ELMO SCOTT WATSON VALLEY! What visions of horror those words conjure up In the mind of one who knows anything about this famous spot In southern California visions of an Inferno of heat and thirst, a narrow valley shut In between mountains and lying below sea level, the lowest point on the American continent; Ylslons of a white plain across which the heat waves shimmer and dance, of mirages of cool lakes which appear before the eyes of dying men to mock their thirst, then vanish, of a desolate, barren land, whose terrific heat literally dries up mens blood In their veins and drives them mad before they die ; a plague spot to be shunned by all living creatures. Such was Death Valley of yesterday. But the Death Valley of today Is different True, the heat and the thirst are still there, but It Is no longer a place to be shunned by roan. Instead, It Is now actually being opened to tourist sightseeing traffic and Is being advertised as a new playground"! And the Invitation for tourists to visit Death Valley comes from no less a host than the United States national park service. The following announcement was recently made by Stephen T. Mather, director of the park service : A hotel for the accommodation of visitors Is Just now being completed on the very edge of the desert, a few miles from Ryan. A magnificent view of the valley with its frame of Jagged mountains and fascinating colored cliffs may be obtained from the hotel. Arrangements have also been made for side One of the trips to various points of Intqj-es- t most striking of these is Dantes peak, where from an elevation of 6,000 feet the visitor may look Into Death Valley, which at this point lies 800 feet below sea level. Travelers will be able to get on a train In Los Angeles about 6 p. m. and reach the hotel the next morning. The new "playground has already been opened on February 1, to be exact but If you expect to visit Death Valley this season you will have to do so before May 15, for on that date the last tourist must be out of the valley. Hereafter the season will open In the fall, but always May 15 will be the "deadline. For Death Valley, pleasant as It Is In the winter, becomes an Inferno with the return of the summer sun and the temperature runs up as high as 140 degrees or more. As the familiar saying goes, "It Isnt the only In the case of heat, Its the humidity, Death Valley it's the lack of humidity that kills. The average humidity Is only .01 of 1 per cent will tell you that If you souse a blanket In a tub of water and pull one end out dripping, It will dry thoroughly while you are scrubbing the other half. Or dip your handkerchief In water and hold It up. It is dry In a minutes time. Jump Into water fully clothed and you will be bone dry to the last thread In half an hour. Lay an egg on the sand and In ten minutes It will be baked hard. Alfalfa cut In field is cured and ready for stacking In less than two hours. Yes, Its HOT In Death Valley! Death Valley got Its name during the Days of 49. In the spring of 1849 a party of emigrants 100 wagons strong set out from Galesburg, 111., for the California gold fields. Late that summer the emigrant train reached Salt Lake City, Utah. There they were told that the regular mountain route to San Francisco would lie beneath twenty feet of Sierra Nevada snow before they could reach the mountain passes. They were warned, too, of the awful fate that had overtaken the Donner party, most of which had perished of hunger when It was caught in a blizzard near Donner lake In northern California. But the gold seekers were Impatient to reach fielr goal and, Joining with other argonauts, they i t out under the guidance of John Hunt, who EATH black-walle- d Old-time- now-famo- contracted to take them over the old Spanish trail to Los Angeles through San Bernardino. Progress was slow and some of the emigrants became dissatisfied. Having heard of a short cut leading west that would save 500 miles of their Journey, they decided, over Hunts protest, to make the venture. The result was that shortly afterwards they found themselves In what Is now Death Valley, hemmed In by moun- tains through which there appeared to be no opening. ( In There the party split One group, 86 persons all, young bachelors from Illinois who called themselves The Jay hawkers," pressed on toward the mountains to try to find a way out of the trap. Some of them died of starvation, some of thirst and others went mad and wandered away to their deaths In the valley. In all, 13 of the 86 perished before they fought their way through to safety. In the meantime the rest of the party, men with families, had found a tiny stream and there they camped to rest But their food supplies began to run low. Their oxen began to die and their wagons to fall apart In the blistering sun. So the leader, Asahel Bennett sent two young fellows, Will Manley and John Rogers, forth to find a way out of this living hell. As they departed Mrs. Bennett gave Manley a double handful of rice half of all she had and silently pointed to the faces of her children. He understood her meaning. Upon the success of his and Rogers efforts depended the lives of all the emigrants. Then the party sat down to wait for the return of the two scouts. A week passed two three and still Manley and Rogers did not return. At the end of the fourth week all except Asahel Bennetts wife had abandoned hope. "They will come back," she maintained steadfastly. But they did not and the party resolved upon one last desperate attempt to escape They began stripping the canvas covers from the prairie schooners and making pack saddles upon their emaciated oxen. And then Manley and Rogers returned! They spoke but briefly of the days of horror spent In struggling from one waterhole to the next across the 250 miles of the Mojave desert, of the dead of the Jayhawker party whom they had found along the trail. But they .had found food and, most vital pf all, they had found a way out of the valley. They guided the party on the long climb to the summit of the Panamlnt range which frowns down upon the valley. As the emigrants reached the crest and looked back Into the trap from which they had escaped, Asahel Bennetts wife raised her arms In a gesture of farewell, "Good by, Death Valley I" she cried. And so It was named. of a Although this occurred century ago, echoes of this tragic event have beeh heard from time to time In recent years. As late as 1918 the two survivors of the Jayhawker party Col. John B. Colton of Galesburg, HI., and Lorenzo Dow Stephens of San Jose, Calif. met once more to talk over their thrilling experience, but the last living link with the on February 12, 1921, tragic past was snapped when Stephens died In Oakland. Calif., at the years. Last November, howage of ninety-threever, the story of the Jayhawkers was recalled dined and again when a crowd of danced in celebration of the opening of a new artesian well at Stovepipe Wells In 24,000-barrDeath Valley. It was on this spot that Manley and Rogers, the two scouts sent out by Asahel Bennett, on November 23, 1849, first sighted the waterhole and members of the party sipped from the tiny depression, where now a great volume of water gushes forth, the few draughts which gave them the strength to struggle on. Scarcely less dramatic than the story of the naming of Death Valley Is the story of how borax, which' forme the basis of an Industry that helped make this spot even more famous, was dlaoovered there. In the year 1880 Aaron Winters hunger-pinche- d three-quarte- rs e merry-make- rs life-savin- g ivffixr lived with his wife, Rosie, In a frontier home In Ash Meadows, a tiny oasis east of Death Valley. To their home one day came' a wandering prospector who told the Winters of the borax deposits In the state of Nevada and how a great fortune awaited anyone who could find more such deposits. Winters asked many questions, Including the question of how a person could know borax If he discovered It. He was told that the best test was to pour certain chemicals over the supposed borax deposit and then to fire 1L If it were bgrax the chemicals would burn with a green flame. Winters had made many visits Into Death Valley, and after talking to the prospector was convinced that there was borax there. So he set out Immediately, accompanied by his wife, and soon afterwards encamped on Furnace creek. In the marsh (which appears on Furnace creek In the spring) he gathered the most likely-lookin- g deposit That night he made the test as the prospector had told him. There was a breathless moment of suspense and then . Aaron Winters cried Rosie, she burns green I Were rich I" The borax Industry of Death Valley had come Into existence. The next problem was how to get the rich borax deposits out of the valley. Out of necessity came the famous team wagons which are Inseparably associated with the name of Death Valley. For years this unique transport system brought the borax wealth out of Death Valley. Then the modern tractor wrote finis on another chapter of American transportation one whose like the world has never seen elsewhere. That was written last year and it marked the passing of another era In the history of Death Valley. But borax Is not the only wealth which It contains. Gold was discovered there many years ago and it has been a favorite haunt for the e prospector, the lure of Its wealth being all the more attractive because of the dangers which guard It. Remember the picturesque Death Valley Scotty, whose find" there made him rich and who gained nation-wid- e notoriety by the freedom with which he "blew" his wealth? Even more picturesque was another prospector who became known as the "Good Samaritan of Death Valley." Lou Westeott Beck was one of the great number who rushed to Death Valley at the news of Scottys find. He nearly lost his life on Its barren wastes and when he finally escaped he resolved to devote his life to saving others from the fate which he had bo narrowly escaped In that dread region. Each summer Beck made a trip Into the valley of purple mist and great thirst, piling up rocks and placing signs on them to guide prospectors to waterholes, searching for lost travelers and guiding them to safety. For 13 years he did this work and during that time be and his companion, a Newfoundland dog named "Rufus, saved the lives of between three and four hundred travelers In the great American deserts the Colorado and the Mojave as well as- Death Valley. Then In 1917 Death Valley got him at last During one of his trips be came to a spring which he had always used and drank from it He offered some water to Rufus, but the dog refused to drink. The spring bad become Infected. After a terrible trip to bis home In Pasadena, where Mrs. Beck old-tim- - awaited their return, the Good Samaritan" went to bed ill and never rose again. The work which Beck Inaugurated has been carried on by the United States geological survey until Death Valley Is now supplied with enough sign posts bo that It Is safe enough to travel for anyone who will use ordinary common sense and not take foolish chances. Those who do not soon learn the truth of the prophetic warning of that "you cant fool with the desert. old-time- If you do she'll get you every time. And now the latest announcement of the United States park service means that even those who fool with her have better than an even chance to escape the dangers of this Tend of thirst three-months-ol- d Many Miners Freed from Danger Heres the secret of giving lingerie, stockings, etc., the most gorgeous tints. All tints are really colors. So use real dyes. Get an envelope of the actual dye powder at any drug store, for fifteen cents. Do your own diluting, which saves money and gives you the exact shade you want. Diamond dyes do perfectly beautiful tinting in cold water. 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At all drug and shoe stores Dl Scholl's Zino-pad- s Put one onrcK pain i goni RASHES (WINGand relieved and healed promptly a few applications of by Resraol Diving Dog Doris Pigeon of North Adams, Mass., has a diving dog. Brownie, as he is named because of his color, likes to go swimming better than anything else. Doris says that one of his best stunts Is to stand on his hind legs and dive into the watey. Brownie does all the other "dog" tricks, such as praying," sitting up, and speaking for his dinner, but Doris and her friends think that his diving stunt Is entirely different from anything else that dogs usually do. Washington Star. Henryetta, Okla All of the twenty-threminers trapped by water in the old Wise mine near here were rescued Thursday. Those in charge of the rescue work said that all the men had been accounted for and that not a one was hurt. The men were brought to the surface after being trapped more than eight hours ninety-fivfeet below the level of the jrround. The mine was flooded when high water of Coal creek poured into an old abandoned shaft, Sweet Pickup driving the miners to a high level The purchaser of a house In Cavof a mile from the some entrance. Rescue was brought about endish, Vt., received a bonus of twen' which ty pounds of fine honey. The house through vigorous pumping, lowered the water to a point where the had been unoccupied for several years. men could be reached through the He found the honey In the chimney shaft. Communication had been main- and was able to collect It in good tained throughout the day through a cable hole. e e three-fourth- s two-inc- h - Five Powers Deliver Note Shanghai, China Japanese reports from Soochow say that coolies and police have surrounded the Japanese consulate and business premises of Soochow, thus preventing the evacuamen and ten women. tion of thirty-fou- r The situation in the city is said to be growing worse. A naval wireless message from Hankow, dated April 5, says the Japanese were then erecting strong defenses around the concession and had mobilized their volunteer forces. A meeting of the military authorities and the political bureau of the nationalist government was held to discuss the question of what should be done regarding the Japanese concession. The result of the meeting, the message said, was not revealed. The political bureau is reported to be in favor of taking the concession by force, but the militarists are said to be averse to such action. Two steamers have left Hankow with 300 additional Japanese refugees. A Japanese destroyer is escorting the steamers down the river to Shanghai, whence they will sail for Japan. Only eight Japanese remain in Kiukiang, and these are ready to evacuate at short notice. Gale Sweep Over Two Coast Cities Paris An undetermined number of lives have been lost and at least four vessels wrecked along the coasts of Spain and Morrocco in consequence of the great storm which started Tuesday over the Mediterranean. Hundreds of fishing smacks are missing and it Is believed many fisher folk have been drowned. Dispatches through Spain estimated the material damage at pesetas, roughly J10,000,000. Several buildings were swept off the Gibraltar coast and the piers and village there are inundated. Electric Flu Cure Machine doctor named Tsinoukas claims to have Invented an electric machine which he asserts will kill the Influenza microbe In fifteen A , Greek ' The Derivation "Youve never been to India why do you call your home Simla? "Because Its simlar to every other house on the street. CHILDREN CRY FOR CASTORIR Especially Prepared for Infants and Children of All Ages . 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