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Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Sep 1912, p. 6

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â- Mil WPP m ft/ 0«m*Lh ±1 Return From Two Month's trip to,:i)^e and Visit to the Arctic fee &$*â-  j-^vW^jij.- :"?£:. ESKIMOS OR WHALES '- ; . ", .'. ^ i (i. ' fit,-; ,'• â- : Walter Burkhard, Brother-in- Law of ProfvJanie^ I. tsfW- * ner, Lost Hfe LHfe at â- y'^l'-" '.i-M^i l^o^SM^ HEART FAILURE THE CAUSE ;**'â- â-  Ftesh from * two months' fihiro* p pcau tour, ten days ef which were P «p«nt inside the Arctic circle* James A; Fatten, his son. Jack, and William lips have returned to BvanBtoa. ».w, Harris, who was alio a mem- of the party, is still in the east, will return within a few days. :h member of the party fe- that the' Warm weather, they found on their return to Btfcnston, was in great contrast to the frozen northlands that were vis- ited. They said they were glad to home, however. < the visit to the Arctic circle ruins of Walter Wellman's camp found in Spitsbergen, with a it tumbled down balloon shed in center. The ruins of the camp by Andre and party and desert- ifor a trip from whlctt they never ted, was another place seen by ill local party. £1 don't blame Wellman a bit tor back. It looks desolate to make any man want to back to civilization," said Mr. m "There are practically no people and no trees, grass or any- tbjfcjig, but just stones." § Finds Iceland Hospitable* eland was described as a very dl£*rent sort of place, and although treeless, a most hospiUble island. 1% ' Sari';#rayisco> Cat-' $I^SW^S United States navy submarine 1M' holds a world's record for depth Fri* day, alter diving 388 feet off Poftit IMablo in San Francisco Bay. Thfe sub- marine" remained at this depth for ten minutes yesterday, cruising at iripeeir of six knots, and finally rising ^; within nineteen feet of .the surface with tfie ease of a snorting porpoise. nBiii^j^i^isiB^ James B. Howell, left its berth Union Iron Works and cruised out (through theJ3olden Gate and circled a pilot boat eight miles out. It was on the return trip, while , _„. „r.,_ .__, . torougb tke deen^jrator;Jhtc^$w' S W mk looni ., Friday g 22 Ifyears ^oldf JameifL. Lardner, been said, that Mr. Patten de- Iceland femininity as lacking ij?p!*insnt»^- it's just another one of those stories," said the traveler. "If clothes are Any Indication I the people there have as much as elsewhere. A num- â- of them were.invited aboard ship ^ reception and dance and" djiesed for the occasion Just as they adhere In Bvanstpn. Furthermore, -.,. several of them spoke good English vear 'wdea psKefte I brother^ ol ^510 Mifbu&n stU^st, I^lattton^ end student last year nt Northwestern uni- versity, was stricken with heart fail- ure and went down in twenty feet of water; His body was recovered an hour later by several young men with whom he had, been Bwimmlng. Burkhard had been spending the summer vacation in the employ of the Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua system nnd for the past two weeks had been at Odessa, Mo., together with several other young men employed by the Chautauqua system. They had been going to a small artificial lake each afternoon for a cool plunge. - Following the afternoon perfor- mance Friday the party of young men left to Chautauqua grounds and ran to the lake^ * distance of half a mile. On reaching the lake they jumped in, while In a heated condition, and Bwam to a tower out In the lake a short die tance. After resting a few moments on the tower three of the party jumped off to swim to the opposite shore. Burkhard was one of the three. The other two young men were leading Burkhard by a few yards and, when within thirty feet of the shore, they turned just in time to see their ^companion go down. He threw up one hand and an agon- ized look was seen on his face. The young men grabbed a nearby raft and took it to the spot where Burkhard had gone down, to give him assistance when he came up. When he failed to rise; as most drowning peo- the^teamer Rio de :srejf^eai^ago£;;^ WliBlan* Si ^c^Mf^m^etts immm ZSiimM-^M?. )k SHOWN THAT COLLEGE HEAI$"PLAY m m 'I j -»" Elyria, Ohio, Sept. 12.â€"That Ober- lin college trustees keep In touch with the stock market, buying for the benefit of the college when the mar- ket is low and selling when this stocks shoot up, was brought out to- day In a hearing before O. B. Hase- rodt, Lorain county auditor, on the petition of Oberlin business Jment to compel the college to.payflaxes4$' its $1,000,000 endowment fund. Janks I*. Serance, treasurer of the college, said: "The college needs ail fiii money it can get, bo extensive are its charities. It is the business of the trustees to provide the money." Assorted mmm MANY PEOPLE WILL wm E haveb$< business ha words, cai were graduates of Danish univer- \P^ Te had expected to see Eskimos, when we asked about them the >le felt just as insulted as Chi- yj||MtM would if a stranger inquired ^ - if Indians infested the downtown dls- We also expected whales, but none. And during ten days in Arctic circle we never saw the it sun. It was bo light aU time the only way to tell the was by the call to meals, but night sun was under a cloud." t iland was not the only country During the two months spent te old world/Sweden, Norwajv ikd and France were seek .trips were made across Nor* and a mon>r trip froni Jiondon was one of the features asked in regard to the con- of the crops, Mr. Patten salrf: ate not any crops. The Ice- have a little hay and a few #ey ship ojB^Alllttle iaut- is spent water at the point was about twenty feet deep. After diving an hour the body was found fifteen feet from shore, it hav- ing been washed in by a slight under- tow. By this time there were two physicians on the scene and they worked over, the prostrate body. It was found th|t not more than a tablespoohful of water Was in his lungs. This, together with the fact, that he did not come to the surface after first going down led them to be- lieve heart failui $ was the cause. The small lake is fed by springs and two feet under., the surf ace the water water white MTji ^eated and exhausted condi- udbd the heart trouble. r, of the Bvanston aca- demye was at Odessa and when he le^rne^o*^ James U Lardner on the long dis- tance i?hone. Mrs, Lardner -and-.her sister, Miss Luella Burkhard, who had been visiting her, left Friday evening p ^^h^dy^Jio Trinidad, CoL, e» Burkhard's parents live. gineering s^ool a^ti^ university last semester and mtended leaving Odessa ' to com« to thtt dty to make .....for entertng Armonr inc^ stitute this fail. He has made his home with his sister, Mrs Le^daer, ^^Us^isiM^^sfjr vyi',*, been employed in Chicago. '" Previous to, his .eoniing to tt^ he attended the University of Colorado at B<>u#*i^ two y^^ member of the and had maiiy friends on the local campus/ The fujoeral was terday. â-  â- i.f'^^^fi?: The Rev. "Billy" Sunday, the Rev. R. A. Torrey, Melville Trotter and other evangelists from all over the United States will attend an evange- listic conclave to be held in Chicago Sept 18 to 20 under the auspices of the Moody Bible institute. Many lake shore residents are interested rh ^. _â€" *._. _ , th« servicesiv Some of the eubjeets to^ ^ the meni dove for him. The|be dTscluwelrat thf ~c<mehive |I^; "The Weakness o^fPresi|i^ Elvangellsnv" "How dan the try Be Awakened to a Sense of Their Responslbilityr *$&W Fat Arfelhl Eccentric or BitraordinaiT ^ ^ Beneficial in Promc^ng Tr^e: Bj>- vtvAto?"" -. ":^'..:-^v:;(,;: ""•" WHajttte I2t doing the elcaning, ""'"............. ....... ^g5 orej r up; .^iifl; g^isilii 'â- Vfi)'%^&? Mtm-M W\: WE*--:*.- â- '.'.â-  . ^:i» â-  ' â- 'â- it-' ".• .' 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