CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 9, 1960

freshing to report that Edward Rulloff was
a et You see, ssveryone who met Edward
it he was a ents. ney

Hebrew, a onl wi ges.

f Edward could tik foranhour .
on ¢ onthe Peeve qualities of fossils found in
Archeozoic strata as op} Paleozoic. Mention
works of art and Ed could give a learned disserta-
tion on m the time of the Etruscans to
Rembrandt. Ed was just that kind of guy.

Edward Howard Rulloffson in

formal edu education, but left

room for the relatively exciting life of a'clerk ina
law firm in St. John.

It was a matter of some concern when the home of
ie law Gry was robbed.

the senior freee 3]
stolen suits. ttle ae
mental in sending Ed to

an
y of note,
Eng cn Bis rg a,
Wel ;
face, Two things disingustoa hin
He had an head and th
his eyes was greater than average.

from other men.

loo ie

late at school.

the ttle ones would ra rather learn than god go home. Ed
iD nt success.

Wprofessor ‘Rulloff took a shine to one of his p'

1eyear ole Peeing on dhe only fing Har.

ie 23,

fal bloom was her ‘preln: She fell hard for the

Pre lovers planned to m: unis idea did not sit

well with Harriet's older an er brothers. No

siree. William, Edward mad phraim didn’t

appyeve. They just didn’t cotto! the and
eBy and Hare ig ti one ‘Bee. By 108

fe e knot on Dec.
a eS thi ha dpesiton after the holy union — Ed

, William Schutt. Ed later e:
they called me in toolate.”® Both mother and cl

Despite the doctor’s harsh treatment of his wife,
thelr mari rn arriage did have its moments. Harriet had a
baby in April 1845. Two months

MAX HAINES:

Rulloff's blinds were closed. Around noon Dr. Rul-
ia ed from the house and called on his

ighbors, the Robertsons. He asked for
che Joan of their horse and wagon. Ed explained that
his wife's uncle had calles

vill
ca. The uncle had limited accom:
Corners. To make room for his gues! ts
the doctor a large crate of householt
nthe doctor wanted to return the cra

horse and or ‘on Str
hand placing the heavy
pen oe a
at he nevi
Later it wee?s led ned ba to the shores

ras mil
Fa aly Ph heae with the big
crate still in He was even more surprised when
the Sostor: had no trouble
then yeturned the borse and wag Beier
agon.
ons that he nd is fazlly

since there was no body
taken th charges
pander. had was SP a ered mara ‘abduction, for ‘found
wary 1846 1966; be W was

fa woman and
Gencre a College on a no questions asked

as again pla jaced behind bars to await
in barns and
days escaped. Sleeping, at large, but all

pee, rast Bs cription ! for
aie t rt soma pre ulloff

may to Ohio he obtained a
as luck would have it a

ferred their prisoner Baler Penitentiary for
safekeeping.

fi ead, killing him instantly. Ri
oat "cal looded murder shocked the entire '

Despite the strong aus icion of guilt against him
and hts escape from there w: aoe Feluctance
to prosecute Rulloff. the evidence against him
would have ahard Hime s up in court under

deaths of Wil-

warnination, ember
fiom ‘Schutt’s wife ‘and be q baby? It was felt that these
fortunates murder victims

two as well,

After 14 years ay ed foe ere exhumi found

to contain poison, Here, again there wes ithe

that the doctor had administered it to the Sc

De Rullott was not charged. Ho walked out of jail a
man.

In 1964 Dr. Rullott made, his way to Brooklyn, He He
brought Bill Dexter and Albert Jarvis, two
with . As the "jeader of the three the ¢ doctor
planned robberies and sent his two colleagues out to
ull them off. Th were successful, mi enough
ms thele bre reak- na £0 fiat anctotn
cakes, course, thi oad nearly eno! Pp
Ed sufficiently stimulated.

lologist (one who
», was busily
rsal written lan-
i offices in Man-

Of course, no one relaized that this intelligent,
hard-wo: ry

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the one clue found

was stuffed with in the
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Desertland Botanical Gardens Located
Minutes from Downtown Palm Springs

Steps away from “down-
town” Palm Springs is a cactus
kingdom—a 2'%/-acre plot of
desert wonderland with more
than 2,000 species of desert
plants from all of the continents
on which cactus grows.

Desertland Botanical Gar-
dens, the residential estate of

Patricia and Chester “Cactus ..t!

Slim" Moorten, is one of the
of

Vera, a plant which produces a
skin ointment which was re-

ferred to in the Bible.

A prehistoric garden area

The gardens are also popu
lar with television producers
and fashion photographers and
have been used for weddings

displays
and the entire log section of
petrified woods.
The Desert Botanical Gar-
dens has as its primary purpose
the..display of living desert
plants, but it also has become a

dee lore in the world,

Arranged in geographic
regions, the gardens offer des-
ert plant life from Arizona,
Texas and New Mexico as well
as California.

In addition, there are large
areas of plants from such
foreign locales as Africa, Mex-
feo, Central and South America
and the Gobi Desert in Central

fa.

Among the more interest-
ing plants are some which have
played a major role in the Bible,
such as the “crown of thorns”
which was placed on the head of
Jesus as he was led to the cross,

Another plant is the Egyp-
tian papyrus which grows along
the Nile. There is also the Aloe

Rabbit Stands
Guard in New
York Building

Burglars be warned: Stay
a. from the New York office
«7 ~» American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals (ASPCA). The place is
guarded by an attack rabbit
named Harvey.

ASPCA executive director
Gordon Wright saya it would be
a mistake to fool with him.

Someone gave Harvey up
for adoption after he bit he
sixth person. But Wright said
Harvey's not up for adoption, -

“We don't adopt our attack
animals,” he explained. “In the
case of the attack rabbit, we
will probably keep it—to Pro.
tect our premises.”

Harvey is described as an
“adult-sized grey and white
rabbit” with a personality prob-
lem.

“He's very cranky. He does
not have a nice disposition,”
Wright says.

of desert lore.

Film producers have dis-
covered the setting and seg-
ments of several films have
becn made in the gardens.

Bees in Girl's

Just Can’t

Everyone's heard of the
girl with a bee in her bonnet?
Well, sir, here we have the gfrl
with a buzz in her bra.

It's all part of the act at the
world’s noisiest, biggest cab-
aret—the Mikado, in Tokyo.

Visualize, if you will, 1,000.
hostesses cooing and fluttering
their lovely eyelashes at a like
number of males, the idea
being, of course, to convince
their companions that money is
unimportant as long as every-
one is having a good time, and
just.as long as it’s the custom-
er’s money being spent.

The routine worked out
famously: when the Mikado
employed fewer girls, but as
the number ‘of hostesses in-
creased, so did the problems.

In order to keep track of
the girls, the management
installed a publicaddress sys-
tem. It was a disastrous deci-
sion. The din was intolerable.
Ordinary were

and civic

The gardens have been
developed over the years by
Patricia and “Cactus. - Slim,”
both desert plant specialists
and -pioneers in the field of-,

desert plants for landscaping. =

The Moortens founded the
world’s first cactarium within
the gardens, and Pat, a botanist
and floriculturist, specializes in
hybrid and grafting miniature

Bonnet
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tors. After studying the prob-
lem the engineers created a
new gadget for the Mikado’s
girls: bras with built-in buzzers.

It was pure genius.

Peace was restored to the
Mikado. Now instead of the
noisy public address system,
only the steady hum of 1,000
brassieres is heard among the
tables.

and conventional-sized plants in
the custom-designed cactarium.

As a result of their work,
they designed the desert won-
derland area at Disneyland, and
since have landscaped the for-
mer Disney home at Palm
Springs, along with those of
Bing Crosby,-Frank Sinatra,
Frank Lloyd Wright, Lily Pons _
and the late: former President —
Dwight D. Eisenhower, among
others.

The gardens are also a
sanctuary for many beautifully
hued butterflies and varieties
of birds, There are many
ground squirrels, desert ‘tor-
toise and Texas box turtles on
the: grounds, some of which
have appeared in Disney nature

~ films at one time or another.

A historical since

Steam Tugs Played
Very Important Role

By HAROLD WEBBER.
Historian

Steam tugs played a large
role in the transporting of logs
to sawmills that operated along
the Arrow Lakes, .as well as
hauling railway construction
supplied to the many camps
that were stretched out be-
tween West Robson and Brook-
lyn, at the height of the railway
boom that resulted with’ the
building of the Columbia and
Western line from Castlegar to
Grand Forks,

During the winter of 1898
there were 18 construction
camps between the booming
townsite of Brooklyn and Rob-
son. Erickson's camp was 2
miles south of Brooklyn, John-
son's 3'/1, Koykendall’s three,
Burn’s and Jordan's‘camp was
four miles, and so on the list
reads, with a heavy predomin-

steamer 8, 8. Rossland was
‘northbound with pilot Dugald
at the helm. On wheel duty
aboard the Fawn was L. Bour-
geois, It was reported that both
the tug and steamer had their
lights out, even though they
were both under steam,

A signal was relayed be-
tween the two craft, but it
seems the spall was mis-

by the of

a raft of lumber from the
Genelle mill at Nakusp.

The Fawn served on the
Arrow Lakea until 1908 when it
was sold to Kootenay Lake
interests. The tug was dis-
mantled and transported to
Nelson for launching.

The Fawn's usefulness
soon came to an end and the
plucky tug was permanently
laid up in 1904,

the Fawn, and at the Ross-
land was on a collislon course

~ with the smaller boat. The

Rossland's engine telegraph
rang full astern} The Fawn did
likewise: but to no avail. ‘ine
Rossland knifed into the Fawn
just aft of the cabin-house.
Captain Jack Genelle, who
* had gone to his bunk just a half
hour earlier, was jolted out of
his short sleep, to find his tug
floundering. He and the five

ance of and
Irishmen running the camps.
the Burns and Jordan

‘camp came into the news twice

during September 1898, once
when a rock driller by the name
of Purcell we striking a drill on
a high outcropping of rock
when he somehow lost his
balance and fell backward down
asteep precipice to the ground,
a distance of 80 feet, then rolled
3 further 200 feet toward the

ie.
Somehow his: life was
spared and his had

from the sinking hulk, to be
picked up by a lifeboat that had
been lowered by the Rossland.
Miraculously no lives were lost.
in this marine tragedy.

The Fawn had been com-
pletely seyered in fwo by the
sherp bow of the speedy Ross-
land, The two sections of the
hapless tug were towed to
shore before they managed to
sink. After being secured fast,
the Fawn was left and the
Rossland continued on to

him transported to Brooklyn.
Upon being examined by Dr.
Diettar at the Hospital, it was
found that Purcell had no
broken bones, only severe scalp
wounds and a badly bruised
body. How he managed to es-
cape instant death, felling from
such a height, proved to be-a
mystery to all the construction
communities.

The other event of note
that took place ‘near the Burns
and Jordau camp was the
sinking of the steam tug Fawn.

he Fawn had been buile, in
Kamloops ‘in 1896 by A. 'C.

Ward for use on Kamloops * |

Lake. The tug’s gross tonnage
was 38 and it measured 62 ft. in
length, with an 11 foot beam. In
1898 the Fawn was sold to'the
Genelle Lumber Co. and trans-

ferred to the Arrow Lakes. The’

Genelle brothers had logging _
‘and sawmilling operations at.
various points along the Lakes.

They also had railway tie con-

tracts with the Columbia and ~

Western Railway.

the Fawn, was operating
just opposite ‘the Burns and
Jordan camp ‘early in the
morning ‘of. Sept. 16. The

klyn where the
crew was deposited.
the next day the S. 8.
Mllicilliwaet, a sternwheeler
owned by the Columbia and
Kootenay Steam Navigation
Co., towed the two sections of
the Fawn to Shields Landing
where O'Leary and Mann oper-
ated a camp. Here the tug was
placed on ways and work was
commenced immediately to re-
build the hulk.. The demand for
+ water transport was so great,
that the Genelles could not
afford to have one of their tugs
daid: up.

Captain Genelle, who ex-
onerated the officers of the
Rossland from all blame for the
accident, . estimated that, it
would cost $500 to repair the
damage suffered, by the Fawn.

; that if the
1k the tug

slightly forward of where it did, >

there would have possible been
a serious loss of life.

work on repairing the tug and
pushing the work, the Genelles
were able to re-launch the
Fawn within a week of the acci-
dentylts firat chore was to pull

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