Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 4, 1913, Page 7

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Little Hope of Discovery—By Moving Around the Corner One Can Van- Ish Completely, Declares ‘a Veteran Detective. London.—The disappearance of the Memphis “millionaire,” Joseph Wilber- force Martin, in the hidden depths of London has served to remind the whole world that the British capital is in many ways the best hiding place that anybody can utilize. The city is so vast that the police can only investigate any case on well understood and well defined lines. A smart man learns these lines. He does not rush to the railroad depots to get knocked down by an auto and conveyed to a hospital. He does not take too much to drink and secrete himself in a police cell. He merely changes his name, his clothes and his address, and if he does not provoke feminine curiosity he is as safe in London as he would be in the desert of the Sahara. The best proof of this will be found in the fact that on the day that J. W. Martin disappeared in London some- where about fifty other persons van- ished. A similar number were lost the day before, and a similar number the day after. But no outcry was rafsed on the subject. As I was told at the police headquarters: “London does not boast or shout about its mysteries. It is only when sqmething really dramatic happens and there are shrewd folks like the Americans concerned in the solution that a real big stir is made. Then one realizes with a start of surprise that somewhere about 20,000 men and women disappear every year within that puzzling conglomeration of towns and cities to which is given the magio name of ‘London.'” An outery was raised over the disap- pearance of Antanas Vedegris, a wealthy Lithuanian, who came to Lon- don on business in January, and on the 17th of that month visited a friend, a priest, and has not been seeh since. Yet he was a man of forty, could speak English fairly well, and had a physique that few “toughs™ would care to tackle in the daylight. He had about $10,000 in his possession and facilities for obtaining more money if he wished to do so. Some time ago two girl students took rooms together in the west end. One night they were hanging pictures and they found they had run short of nails. “I'll go out and get some,” one said. She went, just ar she was, with- out hat or coat, to a little store round the corner, while her companion set about preparing the evening meal. The girl never returned. Inquiries showed that she did not visit the store, and she has not been heard of since. ! .London has cloaks enough to ‘hide us all,”, ‘Sherliker contends. “If you, want to disappear all you need do‘{s. to move around the corner. Very few people in the metropalis are on speak- ing.terms with those who live in the: next flat or in the next house. There have been several osses In recent: years .of policemen having resided in the same block as men who wepe: {wanted for some notorious ctime, aud, here is an instance on record of a ealthy ex-convict who vanished, as- sumed a disguise and another name. became a property owner and actual- ly leased a house to the judge who some years before had sentenced him to penal servitude.” DANISH STUMPS COPY READER Philadelphia Writer Wanders From English Into His Own Native Tongue. New York—Comrade Bill Thomp- eon tells a story of bad writing that ranks with the Greeley classics, When he worked on a Philadelphia paper Julius Kaufman, a Dane, wrote very clever, forceful, pungent editorfals. Kaufman's English was impeccable, but his writing was impossible. It seemed to have been done with a bent pin and an asphalt mixture. George Kennedy was the only man on the copy desk who could read it. One day Ken- nedy came to Thompson, shaking his head. “It's all off,” he said. “I've lost my punch. I read this thing of Kaufman’s with perfect ease until I got halt way through—and then I stuck. 1 don't know why. The second halt of his stuff looks just Jike the first half. But I can't read it.” Thompson took that manusecript over to a corner. By and by Thomp- son came back with lines of etrain around his mouth. “Put it up to Kaufman,” said he. “Either he’s gone flooey or we have.” S0 when Kaufman came in they gave him his manuscript and told him to go away somewhere and find out what it meant. By and by he came back, beaming. “It wass easy,” said he. ‘“The sec- ond part I haf yoost wrote in Danish.” Old House Has 365 Windows. London.—The late Lord Northamp- ton owned one of the show places of England in Compton Wyngates, in Warwickshire, one of the finest exam- ples of a half timbered house to be found in England. It is a splendid specimen of Tudor architecture, with battlemented towers and mullioned windows, and has been preserved in- tact from the days of Henry VIIIL, whose arms appear over the gateway. No two of its chimneys are allke and there are 365 windows. ‘ 1% - - ROPIPRS RIS, ISt \y (e = . - JAVHAWKER'S TRIALS .Survivors Live Again 52 Death Valley Days. ] Of the First White Persons to Cross the Desert in 1849 Only Four Are Now Living—Bolled Ox Hide for Soup. Ban Francisco.—Of the hardships endured by the “jayhawkers of '90,” as the survivors of the first band of white people ever to cross Death val ley are now called, little has been told. The memories of 52 days spent in the sands of the Mojave desert, with boil- ed ox hide for food, and water as an occasional luxury, however, are kept alive by the Jayhawkers' society, whose four members, one of them a woman nearly 100 years old, hold year ly meetings. These meetings, preceded by a din- ner, take place on the anniversary of the day in 1850 when the remnants of the party left the desert behind them and wandered, more dead than alive, into a Mexican rancho in the valley of the Santa Clara river, near the pres- ent site of Newhall, a southern Pa- eific station on the route to Mojave. At the home of Mrs. Juliet W. Brier, the only woman of the party, who brought three children under the age of ten years with her on the journey, the remnant was held this year. She now lives at 94 Myrtle street, Santa Cruz. Col. John B, Colton of Gales- burg, lll.; L. Dow Stephens of San Jose and John Grosscup of Laytonville now compose the rest of the Jayhawk- ers. Only three were present, as Mr. Grosscup has been unable to make the journey for a number of years on ac- count of ill health. Absent in body, he has been present in spirit, sending a letter ¢ach time, which is read at the dinner, ; In 1849, when the party started for California, Illinois was a frontler state, and west of there Indianas were practically the only inhabitants. By the time they reached Salt Lake and the Mormon settlements practically all their cattle had been stampeded. The desire of the Mormons to have some one break a wagon trail to south- ern (California led them to advise the jayhawkers to head for Los Angeles, says Colonel (olton, and the start across the desert was made against the advice of Kit Carson and other noted plainsmen. Hearing of the hardships of the Denver party, how- ever, they hesitated at taking the route over the Sierras, and so, after waiting for six weeks in Salt Lake for the desert to cool off, they started southward. | Captain Hunt of the Mormon bat- talion of the Mexican war was en- gaged to lead them at a price of $1,000 for 100 wagons. Nearly 290 persons were in the party at the beginning. They soon found that they could eat the flesh of their cattle, and so a diet of oxen was begun, to continue until ithey reached California. These poor 'animals, scarcely more than skin and bones, were killed regularly, and the skin bolled until it was eatable.' Pos- sibly a paflful of blood was secured from each, and this made a blood pud- ding. By boiling the entrails, a dish on the order of tripe was made, There ’ was no other food. 1 . Three out of five water holes they reached contained alkali and so had to be passed by. Men and oxen alike dropped In thelr tracks, never to rise ' again. According to the account of Rev. Mr. Brier, husband of the “lit- | tle. woman,” one man was left behind, unable to walk, and the party too weak to assist him. When “Provi- dence Spring”’ was reached they went back to look for him--he had crawled four miles on his hands and knees be- fore he died. A second wandered away insane, a third fell dead without a groan, another staggered into one of the springs on the route, and died with the first taste of water on his lips. When his veins were cut open, a watery fluid bearing a faint resem- blance to blood flowed out. BOOT TOO TIGHT, SNAKE IN IT After Returning to Farmhouse From Feeding Chickens Woman Makes Unpleasant Discovery. Junction City, Kan.—Mrs. Grover Fllby, wife of a farmer near Skiddy, raises ducks. Mrs. Filby also has a pair of rubber boots that she wears when attending to her charges. When not in use the boots are left lying on the porch, In the morning, when Mrs. WMiby slipped them on, she noticed that one of them was rather tight, but did not pull it off to investigate, as she sup- posed that the children had stuffed paper or rags into the toe, as a joke on her. She looked after the ducks and re- turning to the house, pulled off the boots. From the tight one dropped a snake. 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