"At times, he said, during the heat of the summer, a black gaseous haze would lie motionless on the sump of the valley for days. During such times, he never dared go outside the house, he said, but kept his water power propelled fan going continuously until a breeze dispersed the haze.
"Most of our drive through the valley was made at a depression of from 240 to 300 feet below sea level. The roads could not be complained of. We encountered no sand, although much of the course was over coarse gravel and small cobblestones.
"Mount Whitney, in the main range of the Sierras, was clearly visible. Thus one stands in the lowest valley in the world and feasts the eye upon the snowclad peak of the highest mountain in the United States."
SUICIDE BY LEAPING UNDER MOVING TRAIN
Twin Falls, Idaho— G. F. Baker, killed today when he leaped under a train near Oakland, Cal., was for several years a practicing dentist here. He sold his practice and left last to join his consisting of wife and two daughters, do.
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