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This railway starts at sea level (port of Callao) and crosses the Andes reaching an elevation, near the station of Ticlio, of 15,665 feet. On a branch from this station of Ticlio to a mining camp (Moroco-cha), it scales even higher, or 15,865 feet above the sea. And this is all standard-gauge railroad with no rack and pinion. Now where is that puny little point in Colorado? . . . A. L. CONWELL...
...President was also made White Chief and Protector of the Sioux Indians. Chief Henry Standing Bear administered the oath of fealty, said: "Mr. President, it is a great honor to us that you have come among us and into our camp. . . . Our fathers and our chiefs, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, may have made mistakes, but their hearts were brave and strong, their purposes were honest and noble. They have long gone to their Happy Hunting Ground, and we call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak...
Newspaper correspondents were inclined to believe that Mr. McKelvie had become something in the nature of a White House spokesman. Last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 1) the President visited the McKelvie camp at Mystic, S. Dak., the only private invitation which President Coolidge has accepted. Mr. & Mrs. McKelvie were also the first overnight guests at the State Lodge. Also, Mr. McKelvie had been at the President's South Dakota Executive Office just before making his speech and was reported to have gone over it with Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President. Thus reporters, logical, deductive, concluded that he had officially . opened...
...McKelvie camp (named Tippi Winnie Kaska [House Beau-tiful]) the President permitted photographers to make pictures of him fishing. It was the first time the President had permitted picturization of his piscatorial accomplishments. A previous storm had disturbed the waters; the President caught no fish...
...next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...