Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Hungry Pair Desert Isle [ARTICLE]

Hungry Pair Desert Isle

London Phosphate Company’s Caretaker Gives Up the Job After Six Years’ Bervice. San Francisco. —Gustav Schultz and Daria Pinson, caretakers for a Loudon phosphate company on rite Ciipperton islands, a small group 600 miles southwest of Acapulco, who arrived .here cat the steamer Newport, told of having lived three months on fish and sea fowl when the steamer Russia, sent by the government, failed to arrive with supplies. - * called themselves king and queen, have lived on one of the islands six years, and In that time have seen no

one until their departure a month ago except the Mexican garrison of ten soldiers and the crew of the supply steamer. t j Schultz and "Benora”'Plnzen are awaiting the settlement of the ownership of the islands in April, when Vlotor Emmanuel of Italy will arbitrate a dispute between France and Mexico concerning them.