The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1927, Page 7

OOGLE \S SUSPICIONS OF VAN HORN'S RELATIVES “HOROUGHLY AROUSED, BARNEY GOOGLE DECIDED © B ON THE ALERT FOR WHATEVER MIGHT HAPPEN — ( AS HE STARTED DOWNETAIRS To KEED WS ENE ON THE THREE VAN HORNS | BARNE Y | SPOTTED HOMERIC "IN THE ACT oF RIFLING THE DESk - Acearare 5urveys AND SPARK PLUG Mm# iy NES . SIR. AS LONG PANLTE DUTCHMA reat Biitain rights reserved \SKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1927. By BILLE DE BECK *EH' RING LP MY SHOE ERroM TE LeRaRy =88 [ CAREFULL QF (aY L“\,\ LE T THINK 4 q HE'S ) > UNCONSCI0LS AND T DONT WANT HIM DISTURBED NN . . \§ \‘\\3‘; —— N Less detalled Surveys o (Editor's in num attention tually carth Note: Exploring par field at to the unexplor unknown, ng tie tiact ed, of the which man” thme, rous have region regions, of there are quest over outlined in the iRg article, prepared for The Associated P National Geog many, despite follow by the jociety.) afe WASHINGTON ed New July YW Worlds plore. That is the plaint of some mod-| ern adventurers: who deplore the| fact that Columbus, the Cabots, | and a host of o eafavers in their primitive and poorly manned eraft of a few centuries ago took the joy out of e game of * rid hunting” leveiop | their uy nd| aircraft But perhap: from the there are that still explorers of today While there the United prope numerons 1 and left them to ¢ to-date steamboats with nothing to diseg in nearly every continent,| just around the corner! old explorers’ wts, | little known re beckon sively no areas inj| which can be, “unexplored,” nown patches of | land, perhaps traversed only once or twice in its history, and a few| that have never heen sur o, | may be found here and there on| the map. ! In the lake country along the nadian border th is about which little i Yuma and Pi counties and a portion of Maricopa Coun ty, Arizona, are yet to be the oughly explored. + A short time| ago Juan County in South-| eastern Utah, near Chaco Canyon| National Monument, upon which an expedition of the National Geographic Society has been working, included among these untrampled areas. A [.n'((ul part of ada, which more than twice as large as Pennsyl- vania, is almost devoid of human life, p: cularly the central uml southern portions of the State. Fewer than 80,000 peopie live in| the whole State. One has yet to travel by compass in pa of northern Michigan ahd Wiscon- sin. Canada has several blank places on her map, due to the lack of] verified information. Only vague _reports are responsible for many of the topographic marks to be found on maps of some areas ini the great dominion. Guess Rivers’ Courses Ungava Peninsula, on the east- ern bank of Hudson Bay, is little known, other than the fact that it has been made famous by the! ffact that it has been made fa- are 1tes a large! known, is " cept of the and basea, and lake {vicinity n Here outward fringes but on it small village its to h named dder ut 1s shown 3 probabilit than the work of sur Labrador has 1 years, en in during ntly for boundary disput ttled with Canada, till holds its natur in the beaten trail rec this colony rets ex vieinity immediate From ard to Dul nt I(n-l northeward from Lake lies a vast maps show s“which can onl the ve PLake east Atha area on which rivers be out itin most hyp fashion. yrihern K | Frovince, where ths Are pa between Hudson the varieus b \d Areti ns unmarked aphic symbol linad in rele The second t tem on the North tinent dr al geographers are orant xploring th Geological Survey h been working in the Mac kenzie River eountry hut its ef forts have been confined to water routes. There bout 10,900 square miles of w area in’the of the river, mueh of which is still unexplored and un mapped, Portions of fan Rockies in northern Bril Columbia have their secrets securely as Mt. Everest. Surve— Maps Alaska Alaska still holds untouched large area r land " that has withstood the various rusk that have helped put the tory on the map. The Endicott and Davidson ranges rise ahove the surroynding fringe of settle- ments on the Arctic Ocean the Yukow River. Bach summe |the United States Geological Sur- vey nips a chunk from the charted portions of Alasl much remains for whittlin interior of most of the an con which ntirely of nada n arc almost T par of lnn The Arctic islands are yet untouched by civi-| lization. While most of Mexico is well- known, there are some sections which have not been accurately surveyed. In Central America there are jungles and mountains that are yet to be traversed. The San Blas country of Panama, for instance, though passed over by American airplanes and penc- trated by a few individuals, still| holds secrets that are yet to be revealed. Honduras is busy along the Mosquito Coast but just “hbehind wmd Lake, ™ the Canad-| it { hunting natives to tell th as| al | and | \-f‘. \i‘! OR ot i - Fmr) Rough deneral, & skete hn'xaps ---fl_—__] Unexplored ; ernin nd unecivilized Ind white man has ye mile America nany South clud2 large and northwestern northeaste tory in portion rn re onthern the Vaupes region Certain route acro. fairly one portior nt of Colombia 1l-known whed areas are as soon leave terr, never trail tory is re been explot cadhunters El Ch between | lawaiting It hiti 1hout the a s adventn covers miles and is be constituted mainly of swamps and jungles, A few merchants who even today, as they re in the of the Phoenicians, are |the pioneer explorers of distant {and little-known ateas, ars abou the only people who have ever | visited the interior of the | lured there 318 | hgue of the Ynupur:..w source of tannin The Oriente, constituting the castern- portion of Eeuador, is in | hospitable in its climate | choked with jungles, and fe {the white men contact with helieved to er anare W days be s quebracro tree, an head world resources or even the al features of this unch himterland Portions of western and south | western China, Tibet and north 'ern India are just becoming |known through Kingdon Ward, ran explorer of the National Gep {graphic Society. ] Mongolia and the Gobi still have their secrets new discoveries area. far north |Siberia perhaps lerets of more any other part of the world. Nearly the entire northern part of the country is uncharted. Only a few weeks ago a mountain tow lering 11,000 feet was reported to have been discoversd mnear Irkutsk, one of Siberia’s largest 1 setilements, | Little Known Off Tiails “Dark” Africa Is still dark in spots. There are great portions {of the Sahara Desert about whieh practically nothing is known, not- {ably the Hank region, extending {from latitude 22 degrees to 36 dearees, near longitude § degrees west, its sa the m phy |ed Desert though e madc t of the des retains the virgin land t rt, mous 91.9.2 shape, which is that'it, in the northeastern fq_l:_t,lgu The area west of Kufra Ousis, Chaco, | the| ndj +1 tribes who he [ 1] NATIONAL GEU’ RAF 'l ic imbiqie n facy quajify In its br used to co which go 1ittlc that mast their natural feature 1imal known of ogranh n nd Ther where logist ont, i th port hotanists revel io where tl ire conje u count ani h the can thair h nd whe da nds eckor of ) ¢ unmole for ) and even year main month I'ne northern : districts of wratively notahle e northwest Australia are « unknown, althou journeys have heen m 083 tha deserts during the 30 year Only in the B ed by the railroads is the ¢ try well-known and tha sraphy fixed Continent Uninha New Guinea is% perl world's wildest “spot of miles of interior n never been exploved. Peopled | headhunters of the most say type, and pygmies, and of ethnological intere island probably offers regi for explor interesting may be found anywhere. An « | pedition recently returned Prc top Thou its ot the - Hl(‘ island with valnalle scient and thrilling stories of « Borneo, famons as tl the “Wild Man from ! alto has an interior | which offers many virgin fi {for explorers. The Calebes is ar jother wild island among those | thousands of islands off the southeastern coast of Asia and in the South Seas | There is one | wnich cannot habitant of | Barneo, great continent hoast a gle in and whose visitors can easily be counted, the vast An tarctic continent where Com mander Richard E. Byrd has m nounced he will fly. Less known ahout the Antarctic tinent than any other consider able portion of the ecarth's sur face. It supports only the 1 est of vegetable kind — mosges and licheng—and its ani- mal life is largely that of aquatic creatures that frequent jts shore The hube blind spot in the Arctic Ocean, the Beaufort area, has been: whulling appetities of explorers and : ors for vears. Whether Lnnl llw anywhere below its impenetrs lce and snow is a question zh t Sea lhu‘ in P strictly : | n i 2 § N ) { i * Plums [Three Dead as Resuit Disagreement, Chinese I VANCOUVER ension in the Ming Tang ist Society t in th w Morning 1 in a Bc X 9 ranks of th Chinese N Di | Kong | tiona culmingled ftices of th Chin that took paj Kam hooting of ‘twe ) of the new v Chinese from lmportant Wade tuto Industry I Decision Piil 1A 18on Au today taxable under th vate of 5 per The dec of far reachin uatomobile - CHINESE KILLED INDON, Aug. 9.—Thirty-thre killed and 150 ir collapse of open ) feet long, according ( digpateh cent ion impe n th industry an han ed a fhom structure was u - CHARLOTTE SOUTH Charlott wrived in 6 a today m Capt. ' port from and leit SOCIEWY |Skagway & for foll ex-|H. G {Jud m th R ynolds, L. B Wickersham for Van Taku ton fish were taken ! M. Basse's fish house and will be unloaded at the Canadian Fish ana By order of | Cold Storage company at Princ CHIER OF POLICE.! 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