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y y- *> v* * . ;* >? ef->; p ^';H; vswg?* ^7?'^*$/# .. .. J, f*l m*mmmim*kmmm *$¥*pP I JOHN DICKINSON PSotcgra^j 6? FRANCES LA FOLLETTE Natural Wonderland in Indiana on Lake Michigan Should Be Saved for the People fetTEXRY. IT,T.. ANTED: The bunes National parkin the sand dunes of Indiana on the shore of Lake Michigan between Gary "and Michigan City I The middle West has visited the playgrounds of the people In the scenic West--the national parks of the Rockies, 8ierras and Cascades. It has found them good. It has fallen In love with the national park Idea. Now it is asking: "Why not a national park right here, Instead of half way across the continent?" For there is not a scenic national park worthy of the pame between Rocky Mountain in Colorado and Lafalyette on the coast of Maine. So Indiana, Illinois and Michigan want a national park, and they have picked out the dunes as the right place for it. How they are going to bring about Its establishment is a big question. The proposed park area Is all under private ownership and is held at speculative prices on the chance of a second Gary being built at the head of Lake Michigan. Even lit actual values it would cost about $2,500,000 to buy the 13,000 acres most desirable for park purposes. The scenic parks of the West were taken from the national forests and the public domain by congress. To date there is no precedent for the appropriation by congress of funds to purchase a national park area. Lafayette was presented to the government for national park purposes by the owners of the property. Congress has no national park policy. It dillydallies with national parks as It does with most other things. It Is now generous with appropriations and again niggardly; for Instance, It gave Yellowstone $334,000 and Yosemlte $255,000 In 3919 and kept Rocky Mountain, with twice as many visitors as both parks, down to $10,000. Politics enters largely Into all national park legislation. In the Sixty-fourth congress the Interior department supported ,the bill to enlarge Yellowstone and the bill to add to Sequoia and change Its name to Roosevelt. The agricultural department, because the proposed additions would be taken from national forests, and therefore from its control, opposed both bills, beating the former in the senate and the latter In the house. So there Is no telling what congress will or will not do in the matter of national park legislation. Can congress be Induced to appropriate money for the purchase of private holdings for national park purposes? This question has been put squarely up to congress by two bills Introduced at this session. One calls for the appropriation of a million dollars or no for the purchase of Mammoth cave, Kentucky, Had its environs for a national park. The other provides for the establishment of the Mississippi Valley National park on both sides of the Mississippi in southwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Iowa. Here the two states own the land under the river, the federal government controls Its navigation, part of the proposed area is a Wisconsin state park, some of the land will be donated and the land to be purchased by the government has been appraised at a very moderate price. Can congress condemn private holdings for national park purposes? Nobody seems to know. Most lawyers would say off-hand that the state of Indiana can condemn the dunes for state park purposes. And presumably the state of Indiana could transfer the land to the federal government The national park service has been looking into the question of condemnation. It is advised that the government can condemn private holdings inside of national park boundaries--in fact, a bill Is pending to condemn 160 acres In General Grant National park which the owner will not sell for a reasonable price. As to the condemnation of patented land outside of a national park the national park service is yet undecided. Condemnation of the dunes has been udvocated by private individuals and by the press. The creation of Lafayette National park has established this precedent* The federal government will accept suitable land presented to It for national park purposes. So, while other questions are being thrashed out, the Indiana, Illinois and Michigan federations of the General Federation of Women's Clubs are engaged In a campaign to raise sufficient money by subscription to purchase the dunes and present them to the government for • national park. r<£4A^ There Is no question that the Indiana dunes are worthy of national park honors. October 30, 1916, \k public hearing was held In Chicago by the in-' terior department In pursuance of a senate resolution. In September, 1917, a printed report by Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park service was issued. This report eliminated from consideration all of the dune country except a strip along the shore of Lake Michigan about a mile deep between Miller's In Lake county and Michigan City. After describing the dunes with considerable enthusiasm, Director Mather says: "Assuming, without further description of actual conditions in this dune country, that the sand dunes of Indiana/are equal to those In any other section of the country; that they are the most accessible dunes; that they possess extremely interesting flora and faunae that they offer unparalleled opportunities to observe the action of the wind and its influence on the sand and plant life; that the Lake Michigan, beach is beautiful and offers bathing facilities for a multitude; that the recreational uses of the region are myriad, should they, ,0r a large section of them, be preserved for present and future generations? If they should be preserved, are they worthy of Inclusion In a national park? And if they are worthy of consideration as a possible national park, would It be practicable to establish them as such a park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people?" Be answers the first two questions emphatically in the normative. He says this region should be preserved to the people for all time and that it is worthy of national park honors. As to the third question, he thinks it one of legislative policy to be determined by congress, Inasmuch as the dunes are not public lands, and private lands have never been purchased for national park purposes. He thinks tlie park should contain from 9,000 to 13,000 acfes, extending 15 or 20 miles along the lake. He finds that options secured by speculators vary between $350 and $600 an acre, with one tract of 2,900 acres held at $1,000 an acre. "Manifestly," says Mr. Mather, "none of theaa lands are actually worth $350 an acre at this time. A figure less than $200 an acre probably represents the actual value of the average tract of land not under the Influence of urban values, due to proximity to cities. Practically all of the lf.rger holdings must be purchased in their entirety. I believe that 9.000 to 13,000 acres of dune lands can probably be secured for park purposes for approximately $200 an acre. The purchase price of a park of the size suggested would therefore be between $1,800,000 and $2,600,000." The proposed Dune National park is really a wonderful place. In the first place, the dunes are an uninhabited wilderness. The fact that there Is an uninhabited wilderness within a few miles of the center of population--In 1910 at Bloomington, Ind.--and at the very doors of Chicago, the second city of the nation and the fourth city of the world. Is in itself a marvel. Incidentally, the dunes are within a few hours by rail and automobile of 20,- 000,000 people. This makes them unique as a public playground. Again: The dunes are a different world from the monotonous flatness of the Chicago plain. They are a country of hills and bluffs, gullies and valleys. There are all sorts of Interesting variations: Little lakes, streams, bogs, meadows. The bluffs above the beach are Imposing. The beach is a wonder--b^oad^ smooth, clean, free from rocks and stones and quicksands, sloping very gradually Into deep water. There is probably no finer freshwater bathing beach in the world. Don't think of the dunes as heaps of bare sand In a desert. They are exactly the reverse. They have water, trees, shrubs,' vines, flowers, grass, birds and small wild animal life. The truth is that the dunes are a great natural propagating garden with a most astonishing array of trees and plants and flowers. This garden is packed full of flora from the Lake Superior region, the Atlantic coast, the middle South and the western prairie. It seems to have almost everything in the plant line from cactus to cranberries and from pines to tulip trees. A list of only the most characteristic and important plant species numbers 208. * To the ordinary visitor probably the spectacle of the "walking dunes" Is the most Interesting. Here he sees land In the making. Here today Is a towering dune crowned with flowers and plants and trees; tomorrow It Is gone and where it was le a great blow-out of glistening sand, with Its steep sides strewn with dead trunks exhumed from an ancient graveyard of a previous forest. Today there is a deep gash In the bluff; tomorrow it« place Is taken by a very lofty heap of white sand that has come up, grain by grain, out of the lake, on which grasses and plants and shrubs and treelets are already struggling for a foothold. Today stands a forest on the edge of a shallow pond; tomorrow It Is a cemetery, with even the treetops covered by sand marching In from the beach. The accompanying map and diagram show? where the material that builds the dunes is coming from and how It gets there. Lake Michigan has been taking material from the west shore and depositing It at the dunes for a period reckoned at about 5,000 years. Previous to this period th€ level of the lake was 50 or 60 feet higher than now and the discharge was toward the Mississippi al a point near where now are the dunes. When th« ice-gorge or glacer which prevented the discharge of water Into the St. Lawrence was removed and the lake drained Into the Atlantic Instead of th« gulf, the level dropped, the present lake current* set In and the building of the dunes was begun. Public land surveys made In 1835 and sounding! of Lake Michigan furnish the data for these estimates: During the last 5,000 years the water* of the lake have washed away about 500 square miles of land from the shore extending from the Indiana state line northward Into Wisconsin. Where this land was Is now water from 30 to AC feet deep. The old shore line extends out from three to nine miles; then there Is an abrupt drop of several hundred feet. This Is an* unparalleled erosion; It Is accounted for by the softness of the shore, which is largely composed of material that was ground very fine by the glaciers that deposited It. It is estimated that 7,000,000 tons of soil is taken yearly by the lake from the shore north of Chicago. So there is plenty of material for building operations at the dunes. These facts suggest this interesting question: What will happen to the dunes when the tupply of building material stops? And stop It will, and that comparatively soon. For the shore north of Chicago will in a few years be pretty solidly settled by people who have money to spend to prevent further erosion of the shore. In fact, erosion has already been, stopped over long stretches, and In many places the shore has been built out. The time Is coming when the west shore will be protected from erosion by piers and breakwaters. The supply of building material for the dunes will presumably stop. Perhaps then the dunes will 6top "walking." Let us hope that long before that time the Dunes National park will be a people's playground, dedicated to public recreation forever. X x. St Marias Famous Horses fc.: The horses of St. Mark's are four •^famous bronfce horses that have stood for several hundred years In a lofty |?osition over the main entrance of the treat cathedral of St. Mark's In Venice. . Shortly after Italy entered the war the fiorses were taken down and removed .;'Jo a place of safety to prevent them from being damaged or destroyed by Austrian airships or warships. The history of the bronze horses dates back to before the Christian era, when they stood on a triumphal arch In Rome. Constantlne took them from Rome when he founded the city of Constantinople, and they were in that city for about 700 years, when they were taken to Venice at the time «f the Crusades. There they stood above the portals of St. Mark's cathedral until Napoleon removed them to Paris, more than 100 years ago. But they were soon returned to their former position In Venice and stood there until taken down. The Mongols. The "Mongols. Tartars or Huns" are now gent-rally held to belong to neither "the Semitic, Hamltlc or Aryan races." The latest authorities divide the Inhabitants of the world Into the Ethiopic. Mongollc and Caucasio groups. Central and north Asia, the Balkans, parts of Russia. Tibet, China. Japan, Finland, Lapland. Siberia. Hungary, the Malay peninsula. Madagascar, Philippines, are all peopled by Mongols to which family are also ascribed the North American Indian* and the Eskimo. We have traveled far from the elementary teaching ot the old-school geogriphent you wll> notice, though we are still compel let to accept 88 characteristics of the «t visions the colors--blrck for Ethloplyellow for MonguUc - ami white »• ih^ ramniK News From J ; Over ILLINOIS 4 Batavia.--Sixty per cent of the men employees in the Hataviu power plant of the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Interurban railway refused to obey an order of Federal Judge Evan A. Evans directing Joseph K. Choate, receiver for the road, to resume operation of tha light and power plant. He authored Mr. Choate to increase the employees' pay from 46 to 51 cents an hour and opened the way for the hiring of nonunion men by entertaining a restraining order prohibiting any person from interfering with the operation of the plant The men continued to hold out for an increase of 21 cents an hour. ' Springfield.--There Is no cloud on the tltje of Edward E. Crabtree to the office of mayor of Jacksonville. This Is the decision rendered by Judge E. S. Smith after hearing arguments on both sides of the question when he denied to John S. Green leave to file a petition for a writ of quo warranto to compel Crabtree to show by what authority he holds the. office and exercises Its powers. fThe election of Crabtree was attacked on the ground that It was Illegal because he had not been properly nominated at the primary. Mount Carmel.--It is expect*! that the mussellng Industry along the Wabash will boom when the news becomes generally known that another large pearl has been taken from the river. Martin Straw, a farmer living along the river a few miles below this city, discovered a fine pearl at McLeory's bluff. Straw only had a hundred pounds of shells, but upon cooking out he discovered the huge pearl. He brought It to Mount Carmel and sold It to a local Jeweler for $900. Rockford.--James M. Darnell, known as the "Marrying Parson" through his several matrimonial escapades, has at last shaken the dust of Illnois from his feet and gone West. He has left Rockford where, he has been living with his latest wife, and has gone to Kansas City, Mo. He Is In the employ of a Chicago firm that makes bookkeeping and billing machines. Teorla.--Three hundred striking employees of the Keystone Steel and Wire company voted to return to work on the basis of the agreement offered them by the company management for recognition of a union committee to deal with the grievances. The union, as a labor organisation, will not be recognized by the company, according to the agreement. Pana.--Alleging that a fraudulent affidavit was made to bring about the Issuance of a marriage license to Bessie Barrett and himself, Ralph L. Mil ler filed a suit in the circuit court to have his marriage to the girl annulled. The wedding toyk place in Pana August 2i Mollne.--Frank G. Allen, president and manager of the Mollne Plow company, will retire September 1, to be succeeded by George N. Peck, former vice president of Deere & Co., and more recently vice chairman of the national war Industries board. Sycamore.--Survivors of the One Hundred and Fifth regiment, Illinois volunteer Infantry, will hold their thirty- fourth annual reunion here on Tuesday, September 2. The regiment has been greatly reduced by death within the last few years. Carbondale.--Mrs. EvaUne Breedon has filed suit for divorce, alimony md Injunction. L. R. Breedon, the defendant. Is a prominent farmer. The couple had resided on their farm west of here for more than 30 years. Rockford.--A request for a threecent- a-rnlle rate on all Interurban lines entering Rockford, an Increase of 2-10 of a cen *• a mile over the present rates, will be incorporated In the petition asking for a seven-cent city rate. Rock Island.--Melvln A. Clevett, physical director of the local Y. M. C. A. for the past seven years, will go to Butte, Mont., to become head of the physical training department of the Butte association. Oregon. -- Fifteen hundred bronze medals, cast with the seal of Ogle county, will be given to former soldiers at the Labor day celebration. Gov. Lowden will be present. East Mollne.--C. D. Metcalfe was elected president of the newly merged East Moline Business and Professional MenV association and the Commercial dub. Oconee.--Harry Morgan, member of the gen'-ral merchandising firm of Hendricks & Morgan of Oconee, died at his home of Brlght's disease. Aledo.--Bonds of $150,000 for a new high school In this city were voted by the patrons. Work will be started at once. Rock Island.--State barberry experts have ordered the removal of 1,700 barberry plant? in Rock Island. White Hall.--Robert Whltely, Sr., of this city, has just celebrated his one hundredth birthday anniversary. He er.me to this country from England when twenty-five years old. The greater part of his life since then was spent near Carlinville, where he resided until lately with bis son, the former mayor of Carlinville. Robert Whltely, Jr. Now he lives with his daughter In White Hall, Mrs. Tunlson. Chicago.--Wilbur Glenn Vollva, overseer of Zion City, announces that somewhere in the Bible It Is prophesied the time is at hand when wheat will sell for $48 a bushel. Carlinville.--Announcement has been made of the approaching marriage of Miss Mildred Ross, youngest daughter ot Thomas P. Ross, cashier of the Fanners and Merchants' bank of this city, and Cyrus H. Williams of Evanston The wedding will take place at the home of the bride Tuesday evening, September 2. Marlon.--F. S. Pea body, coal mine operator of Chicago, has engaged stalls for two carloads of his fine horses, which he plans to exhibit at the Williamson county fair, September 9 to 12. These horses are hunters. Jumpers and innners. Chicago. Zlon City, which has ne^ er, had a saloon and where even snioking is forbidden. Is the resting place of 20 tons of real, 2% per cent, honestto- goodness beer. This Is the first beer that was ever displayed in the city openly, and is being viewed with curiosity by many of the inhabitants. The nucleus of the supply was obtained when four trucks, on their way to Chicago. were Intercepted. Nine more trucks, laden with kegs, barrels and bottles ran smack Into the arms of the Zlon City police. The trucks and drivers were captured, the men were put in cells and the beer stored In the small Jail. Litchfield.--Charles J. McBride was arrested and taken to Springfield on a charge of profiteering on sugar. McBride was taken before Commissioner Culp, where he furnished bond in the sum of $1,000 for his appearance, with Henry A. Liedel of the John W. Bunn f. Co.of Springfield as surety. McBride conducts a grocery under the name of McBride Brothers. He has a large business and owns several buildings here and In Detroit, all earned out of the grocery business. He was recently married to the assistant poetmistress at Staunton. Springfield.--Lieut. Frank Plckard. who served with the British Flying corps and the One Hundred and Sixtysixth American Aero squadron a year In the j world war, and Miss Francke Homan, both of Kansas City, were married In Pickard's airplane at the state fair grounds. Plckard had been here all week flying a passenger car. Miss Francke was one of his passengers. It was a case of love at first sight. A local minister was taken up with the couple. Pickard driving the plane. After reaching a height of 5,000 feet. Lieutenant Plckard shut off his engine, and, while coasting, the ceremony was performed. Danville.--J. W. Richardson, a rural route letter carrier, attached to the Duquoln post office, who merchants and business men say has been paying his rent and his grocery bills for the last few months with 3-cent stamps, has been arrested by the federal marshal and brought to Danville. The government has placed a charge of robbing the post office against Richardson. Failing to give the necessary bond, Richardson was committed to the Vermilion county Jatl to await his hearing. Dixon.--Small grain In the northern part of the state Is slightly below the normal yield, according to thrashreports received from several counties. Oats are yielding from 22 to 55 bushels to the acre, with the quality net up to standard. Wheat yields are from IE to 30. averaging about 25 bushels. Rye, barley and other small grains are reported to be yielding well. Corn la thriving and with good conditions the rest of the season, there will be* a bumper crop. Freeport.--October 20 has been set as the date for the hearing In federal court of the condemnation proceedings against certain land owners in Camp Grant who have declined the offer made them by the government Ava.--The Southern Illinois Fox Hunters' association has voted to hold the annual meeting this year at Ava from September 7 to 11. There are plenty of foxes near Ava. The association has a membership of 160. Paris.--Land is land In Edgar county. A farm of 150 acres located near Kansas, known as the Briscoe farm, has been sold to J. C. Jones for $500 an acre, the highest price ever paid in this section. Rockford.--Rev. Walter J. Scollln has been appointed t» the pastorate of the new Catholic parish which Is to be established here. A nfew church will' be built on the newly acquired property. Joliet.--Arthur Harlow, sixteen, a sailor, held on suspicion as a deserter from the navy, hanged himself In o cell In the police station. Harlow had told the police his home was in Aurora. Mount Carmel.--The board of education has employed two more teachers for the city schools In the persons of Miss Flora Fowlkes of Charleston, Mo., and Miss Dorothy Butler of Chicago. Bluff City.--The Wabash County Record, published here by Fred A. Taylor for the past several months, has suspended publication on account of lack of patronage. Rockford.--A 3-mIll tax to establish and keep In operation a county-wide tuberculosis Institution for one yeat will be asked of the county board In September. Moline.--A huge athletic carnival when the contests for middle West titles In various events will be held. Is to be given here on September 8 and 7. East St. Louis.--Street car men who went on strike here for an Increase of from 45 to 85 cents an hour, have announced they would accept 65 cents. Elizabeth.--f'armets living In the vicinity of this town are organizing a -co-operative packing plant and wholesale meat business. Dixon.--Clammers are selling their shells for $50 a ton, the highest price paid here in many years. Springfield. -- Wielding a hesvy sledge hammer above what he believed a valuable find of scrap Iron.'a Springfield junk dealer struck and broke off a large chunk, and with that stroke punctured one of the two water mains In Springfield, crippling the water supply of a purt of the city, and almost depriving the state fair ground* of Its entire source for many hours. . Nlantlc.--Ferdinand Culp has sold 240 acres of the former Skiilman Allen farm north of Harrlstown. for $490 j^r acre. He Is a son-in-law of Charles A. Hall, who sold his farm near Niantic for $500 per acre recently. ilacomh.--Testimony of a woman, whose name the sheriff's office declined to disclose, is expected to throw new light on the circumstances surrounding the death of Lawrence Clugston of Bushnell. for whose alleged murder by poisoning his wife and Dr. C. W. Alverson are being held in Jail here Ao cording to the sheriff's office, the woman, who was a neighbor of the Oilj^ stons at Bushnell. went In to offer her services the night before Clugston died. The victim, the woman Is said to l.ave stated, was in the midst of violent convulslons. about which Mrs. asked her to be silent* < Bit HUNT IS 01 FOR 'OUTLAW JOE' ' 1 State ami Federal Officers Km Been After Him for a Year. ' ALWAYS SUPS AWAY If He Cut Notch in Rifle far Iwry Time He Shot a Man, Thapw^,, Wouldn't Be Any , Butt Left. f " Hillsboro, N. CL,--Nobody will sleep) In Hillsboro or the country around until "Outlaw Joe" Riley is caught. "Outlaw Joe" Is a moonshiner, slacker and assassin. If he cut a notch lft his rifle for every time he shot a w,n there wouldn't be any butt left to hi* gun. For a year the state and federal officers have been after him, but he always slips away, says Sheriff Roseman of Orange county. "IH pay a good price to anybody who brings him in, «^ead or alive I" Shoots United States Collector. Riley is sought by Uncle Sam for moonshinlng and for shooting Deputy Collector T. M. Arrowsmith, a revenue officer. He Is wanted by the army for refusing to register for the draft. And he is wanted by the state for several shootings and for jumping bail. Recently he was caught making moonshine whisky. But Joe isn't on* of the surrendering kind. He raised his shotgun and fired a charge full into the face of Deputy Arrowsmith. By some miracle Arrowsmlth's eyes were missed, but the rest of his face is still full of small shot. Recently Joe Riley shot through the head a companion whom he accused of having reported his moonshine still to the revenue officers, rhe companion recovered, and so loyal are the members of Riley's gang to their leader that he rejoined him. Riley was arrested for this shooting after he had first jumped feom the second- story window of his jfeom-> when the officers came to get him. ao«t had shot six times at Deputy Collector A. P. Cates. He was placed under hond. but he jumped It and fled to the hills. MM Fired Full Into the Face of P«P«ty Arrowem.th. , He has a wife and children living near the village of Caldwell, N. C. He Is as famous down here In Orange county as the notorious Allen family Is in the mountains of Virginia. Riley used to come boldly to Hillsboro three or four times a week and spend his money In the general store. Once he flashed a roll of thirty-two* hundred-dollar bills. Deputy Arrowsmith, the particular enemy of Riley, is the right-hand man of Col. Vanderford, chief of the revenue raiders in the Carolina district. He's Efficient Raider. He has the reputstion of being one of the most efficient raiders in the country. In stature and appearance he greatly resembles the ascetic, thin fcced movie actor, William S. Hart-- and he is just as "quick on the draw." He has an almost uncanny "nose" for stills--they say he can smell one tw» miles away. Arrowsmith works practically alone, except that occasionally Sheriff Roaeman of Orange county accompanies him on his raids. His methods differ from thoee of the- Virginia moonshine raiders In that bo does his work entirely at night. With an electric flashlight to a'd him. Its only an excellently camouflaged di»- tlllery path in the woods that escape* him. Twelve to Bury Giant . "Lortdfcn.--It required 12 men to l«f Jonathan Swan, the Leylend giant. The coffin measured three feet wide, six feet nine inches long, and with the body weighed 1.192 pounds. No hearse could be secured large enough to carry the remains. The 12 men took 30 minutes to get the coffin Into position la the grave Drowned In Beer. London.--That William O'Connor. laborer, "drowned" hliuself by breathing beer into his lungs while taking a deep breath after drinking, was the decision of a doctor testify!** at Pimllco Inquest ^ Honeymoon In Jail. 8L Louis.--Hutuer Miller and Mawife, formerly Miss Helen Hugfcen-ef Jackson. Ohio, honeymooned in Jail today. They were charged with stealing an automobile to mate the their wedding trip. ; :i*Il P;^ '• rAv !li-i. -as*:'