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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1926. NUMEROLS i PEARS N U, 5.. 61 Here Have Height of Over 14,000 Feet San I'ranclsco, April 1 (P~Th recent renaming of numerous high peaks by the United States geogr phic board has disclosed that the are 61 peaks in this country more than 14,000 feet high, Of these, 47 are in Colorado, 18 in California and one in Washington, The Slerra club, known organization some nationally nded rroctions and ¢ high places in the mountains, and many o | have been aceepted as o ta compiled by the Sierra s brought out some Interes penk, Mt Whitney, 1 has the lowest place, T 250 feet below sca fevel. In Call- fornia there are moro than 60 un- ramed peaks rising *above fect, according to the United § Geological Survey. e are also E0 named peaks totwe more than 13,000 fe 501 feet, alko ath Valle S istarts with twelve ’Mvnllmma | work, The stars will have bungulows of Spanish design while furnished duplex buildings of the same archi. tecture will house other player amount of production Prisoner Shows One Way | To Obtain a Private Room Pressburg, Hungary, April 1 (@) When the police arrested the for- mer Rumanian deputy, Theophil Barescy for embezzlement, they found t they had their hands full "l!\ the truest se¢ of the term, | The prisoner's proportions voirdupois were so and generous that {when he was to he w hed, accord {ing to the prevailing qustom for pris- foners held on remand, the were promptly smashed. Not a single cell door proved large enough to admit a person of his di- | mensions, As it was not deemed advisable to sten the prisoner to a tree out-of« {doors, or to confine him in the pris- on garage, the arden gracionsly fered to have ace in his private artment partitioned off for the de- fendant's interment until he should | Le brovght up for trial, + | LONDON HAS AIRPLANE CLUB Tondon, April 1 () ihs in London i owners of private a To the many 1ded one for ift. The elub members Dossess aeroplancs of their ov it is 1§ ied that fly O will be promoted and prizes offered ANCIENT RECORDS OF MARINER CODK Boatmen Always Searching for Lost Data Anchorage, Alaska, April 1 (#) Efforts are being made by boatmen | plying Cook Inlet to locate records deposited by Captain Cook hundreds | of y tabl inlet. It is believed these ara in tho hands of members of the old Russian colony ahout Ninilehik, preserved by the natives followlng their discovery of the stone monn- ment erected by Cook on the occa slon of his first visit to th rs ago on Point Possession, a and jutting into upper or large - | watorway bearing his name. Howe ppers aptain in an old Ind ook's historic ows: aptain Cook nchor near K It his ship to nai It th first time ti aboriginles had ever beheld a safling vessel, They de clded to send one man in hi birch canoe to e or o the strange craft, to ascertain if its mis. was [ were | slon was hostile or friendly. el Wwas Instructed to give a signal with | el furs his paddie 1 hostile | When the natlve came close to| the schooner, Captain Cook by signs prevailed on him to come aboard | H where he was shown piles of goods and finally dreased out in fancy clothes, He was made to derstand that all the Indlans co trade | r hale Indian 8 a marvel ssod for | @ such things an dothers In ex-|that today would command a king's to oxpla yod the invitation to trad » Indiang loaded thelr e and barter costly eea otter, experior taken out to the [ ment stood ar r and swapped for goods, | Indians, It 1l days were consumed in the [ memento o wetions, the conclusion of the In Cook sailed to Point Tos sesslon, dlsembarked and erected a large stone cairn, In which he de- | | ransom were 1 wag visited by many [than a was cherished appeared, the white The Indian chief century, and as a first man's believed it When land A trading. the tides begin to rip at the he earlier Russians cutting a the bank. | from serfdom and ave the they wero re- | Tnlet, moved and taken to what s ment, woes | Ca begun, To records now SRS YRS WS UNRILF RIS R IRIURI AR NI For years this monv-| down from chief to chlef for ‘more then = dis- eventually came in to possession of who eseaped settled on. the Nothing is left of the monu- Tixeept for the hazy memory r, marten, mink and other furs posited records of his voyage and|Ninilchik where they were handed | of location held by the olden Indians | | The m ains of Colorado, 47 of | hose p top the 14,000 foot | Leight are .more rounded in con- formation and much easier to elimb than these of California, which are d contain more per- nall glacie state of ngton's one of extreme height -— M. | v 14,408 feet—is claimed by | aineers to be the most dom- nd beautiful of all. 1 ited States Geological Sur- States Coast and | ves the ten high- the United & ve of Alaska, with thelr follows: Mt. 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