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The Camp-Fire Immigrant Inspector, Mexican Border for five years, Major (dollar a year and I never took the dollar) American Red Cross and Land Scout down in the jungles of the State of Vera Cruz for an American oil company. } Have had my narrow escapes, hard times and good times. Member of the B. P. O. Elks; Federal Employees Union No. 35, of which I was President for two terms and delegate to National Convention at San Francisco, California, 1919. Have traveled some. Have just returned to my old home, Houston, Texas, and am a civil service employee for City of Houston. Am desirous of locating a Camp-Fire Station in Houston, Texas, and will add a few rules of my own in the organization of an Adventure Club or Adventurers Club. One requirement will be that local members must have traveled in at least one foreign country or be engaged in an occupation more or less hazardous, affording adventure in a greater or lesser degree, with exception of cripples or disabled who feel the spirit and are not able to an- swer the call of the trail. 1 expect to get some good publicity out of our local dailies on this Club. If response enough is met in my call, monthly dues might be assessed sufficient to pay for an office room in one of the local skyscrapers as our clubroom. Am working out some ideas that I think good. Please send me a Station sign as soon as possible and all data you have. My Identification card went up 3000 feet in aeroplane, July 7, 1919, Brownsville, Texas. Same plane fell August 7, 1919, Eagle - Pass, Texas, killing lieutenant and observer, plane urned: so the cards have wandered over the earth, up hign and low.—M. B. Covcu, Route 2, Box 189. San Juan, Porto Rico. P.S.—Have just organized the Federal Employees Union of San Juan, Porto Rico, and was elected President. We started with 20 members, one week later had 30 new members and now, ten days after organization, we have 75 members with lively mem- bership race opening on February Ist and ending March 1st that we expect to enroll nearly 500 gov- ernment employees, all departments except post- office. As I am here permanently so far as I now know. J am another “Station” so put it on the list as being here. (P. O. Box 944) U.S. My box. MATTHEW B. Coucn, U. S. Immigrant Inspector. Sure. This is one of the biggest opportu- nities for development. Bayonne, N. J. I believe that it would help the Station work if the magazine could suggest to Camp-Fire members and other readers that it might be to their mutual ad- vantage to get in touch with the Station Keeper in their vicinity. I realize that this is a rather delicate matter but know of no better way to get the readers together, and I feel sure that you will agree with me that if a local Camp-Fire club could be organized wherever there was a Station it Could be made both ~ interesting and enjoyable to the members. — IT am very much interested in the Station work and if at any time there is anything that I can do that will help in any way, you can depend on me.— J. D. Gray. Sorry we’re not to have one yet in Siam, but we will some day—and all over the map. ; 179 Here’s hoping Doctor Ellis will start one at his permanent address, — | 1644 Surisak Road, Bangkok, Siam. I am watching development of the “Stations” suggestion. Personally think it a mighty good idea and only one thing keeps me from having it an-_ , announced right now. That is, we may stay here only about six or eight months yet. If so, by the time it was announced we would be leaving. We will know by April first whether we stay. If we do, then as soon as we get a permanent address we will start the Station. It can be made interest- ing and profitable for all Adventure people— A. G. Evxis, M.D. ; ‘ ‘HIS Station ought to draw some ‘‘old- timer’’ visitors, for Colonel Strover is an “old-timer” himself, with years of ex- perience in the West when it was young and the Army very busy. . Los Angeles, California. I shall be glad to make our place a Camp-Fire Station and should be more than pleased to meet any wanderer who may come this way and swap experi- ences with him.—Cor. WM. STROVER, Superintend- ent. Westlake Military School, Mount Washington, Adventure of March eighteenth contains an article written by Amedee La V. Reyburn, Jr., in which the writer speaks of a rich silver mine on the Jicarilla Indian Reservation in Northwestern New Mexico and that a party searching for this mine was at- tacked by Apache Indians and wiped out. I think too much of the magazine and especially of ““Camp-Fire” to let this pass. In the first place there never were any Apache Indians in the north- western part of New Mexico, and the Jicarilla Indian Reservation is in the southeastern part of New Mexico. That’s quite a difference. Mr. Benj. M. Blood has something to say about General Custer and speaks of his brilliant career as a military leader. The fact is that Custer was at the time of the massacre in bad standing at the War Department and on a visit to Washington, prior to the Sioux campaign, the Adjutant-General refused to receive him. This rankled in Custer’s mind and undoubtedly influenced him to jeopardize the lives of his soldiers in an endeavor to gain a great vic- tory and recover his good standing. Had Custer lived after the disastrous battle with the Sioux, he would have been court-martialed. And now about the ‘‘Gila Monster.” As far as I know, and I had some experience with the reptiles, he is not any more dangerous than a wasp or a bee or a rusty nail. It all depends upon a person’s blood whether a wound made by the Gila Monster becomes dangerous. The Indians, however, dread him. His bite is vicious, though, like that of a snap- ping turtle. | ‘About»the remedy for snakebite,-I agree with the writer, that the best remedy is céal oil or turpen- tine. But whoever heard of an Indian being over- come by rattlesnake-bite? Wherever the rattle- snake sojourns there is to be found the rattlesnake weed, which is resorted to by Indians, when, as often happens, they are bitten by a snake. It is a milk- weed and is to be found wherever there are snakes (rattlesnakes). This was pointed out to me during the early eighties when campaigning against the CORNIC OOO <SsCOn