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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05
What Ans the HenY

This is a question that is often asked,
AMI am sure can not always be cor
rectly answered. For instance this
last week had hen that was sick.
The symptoms were these. She was
much inclined to stay on the roost and
refuse food. The feathers on her head
would stand up almost straight, giving
the idea that the fowl was being sub
ject to some sharp, thrilling pain. Her
eyes also seemed to indicate internal
pain. But her comb was red, and she
showed no sign of indigestion. When
out of doors she would stand nearly
straight. Altogether her look was that
of healthy but uncomfortable hen.
Now what would our doctors have de-
clared to be the matter with the fowl?
| said DEMONSTRATION. But
| was wrong. 1 killed the hen and
dressed her. Then the mystery was
uncovered. I found two Jumps of hard
material; they proved to be eysts that
had formed over two sharp wires that
had been eaten by the hen at some time,
evidently far in the past One of these
cysts was in the external portion Of
the gizZard, out of which the wire had
worked. The gizzard had grown up
under the wire, and the latter was
pushing its way through the flesh of the
hen. The sharp point OF the wire on
the outside of the gizzard was not
covered by the cyst, but was left bare
to act as a probe in cutting away a pas
sage for itself. The cyst was formed
around and behind the wire. It was
one Of those admirable provisions Of
nature for the casting off of undesir-
able foreign matter. Another wire and
cyst were found just under the breast
bone, just under the skin, and there is
no doubt that in little while it would
have been able to get through and out.
The cyst was nearly half an inch In
diameter.
The moral is that we should be care
full that our fowls can not get at such
things as sharp nails, wire, pins or
tacks. am glad killed the fowl, and
l am sure that no fowl doctor could
have diagnosed the trouble.
Mary Ann.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05
MErEoRoLooY IN INDIA.
why the Natives Destroyed the Survey
Pillars.

why the Natives Destroyed the Survey
Pillars.
Letters which have reached us from
Bushire, on the Persian gull, dated Jan.
8 and containing news which has not
yet reached the London Press, show
that the Persians are not at all dis
posed to lay all the blame of the
drought on Providence says the London
Standard Their want of fatalistic
consideration has almost created an
international incident. The agricul-
turaI population of the Bu5hire dis
trict, annoyed at the want of rain,
turned their wrath upon the European
telegraph department, and especially
upon some landmarks which had been
erected by Lieut.. Cunningham, r. E.,
about two years ago, on account OF the
Meteorological survey Of India. To
these obnoxious landmarks the def
cient rainfall was ascribed. The super
intendent of telegraphs, besieged in bis
Office by threatening mob, at once
wired to the president that affairs were
critical, and H w. S. Sphinx and the
steamer Lawrence were ordered at
once to Bushire. Stimulated by this
apparition, the governor dispatched
troops with a gun against the rioters,
but too late, alas! to save from destruc-
ton the casus belli, the survey pillars,
the erection of which had so eDasper-
ated the heavenly powers. Strange to
say, heavy rains fell in Bushire and
the neighboring districts on Jan. 6, SO
the people are convinced of the cor
RICHNESS of their superstitions and their
action. The ringleaders are less Ger
tain. for about twenty of them were
soundly bastinadoed by the governor
to impress upon them the fact that
there is no advantage in propitiating
the heavenly authorities unless the
earthly powers have been also effec-
tivelv squared"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05

q
other pories Of ndtes, another Ssa.
tence which they win pronounce. II
they have not been fed on too much
egg they will accentuate the call in an
excited shrill way. This evidently
means that the food is extraordinarily
nice, for the chicks rush in great
hurry when they hear this peculiar
call, even il fed a few minutes before.
a hawk sails over, the four hens utter
an exactly similar note, supposing they
nave all seen it. If not one takes the
alarm for the other. What is the re-
suit? The chicks fully comprehending
this peculiar cry. never heard at other
times, but only evoked by the presence
OF a hawk, rush away from their
mother, hiding under brush or in
some place where the hawk cannot
catch them in its swoop. Should the
bawk succeed in carrying one Of them
on you Will hear most despairing
scream, perfectly unique, from the
mother of the victim. The other I'M
bereaved mothers do not utter the
same cry. Unless a chicken is carried
on you will not hear this cry. Is not
this language? The same sound. oc-
easionally differently accented to de-
note intensity or the reverse, always
used to convey the same idea by differ
ent individuals and understood by all. ="
Abolish the Feed-Trough.-Th feed
trough, or, rather, the feed hopper, that
is kept full OF food. is the lazy mans
method of feeding, and it is not only
expensive, because it induces the hens
to eat at all hours Of the day, but it
causes them to fatten and become sub
ject to disease, thus diminishing the
supply of eggs. When feeding the hens
with grain, let it be scattered wide,
which not only prevents the greedy
hens from securing more than their
share. but compels all to hunt for it,
thereby taking exercise and remaining
in better condition for laying.-Ex.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05

the-call Of the screech owl. which is q
high voice That aIsthe birds herein
referred to, and ant others which are
Of manifest service 10 mankind, should
be protected is evident Some of them
may be depredators and may seem at
times uncanny visitors. but there is
ample evidence that they rid us Of
much undesirable vermin, and the con
viction of those who have studied their
habits and who consequently have
the best right to speak on the subject
is that they are far more entitled to
be considered benefactors than de-
stIoyers, Petit Journal,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05
A HYGIENE Restaurant.

A suggestion worthy of all praise is
put forth by a contemporary journal
for ladies. 1t is to the effect that some
body should start a restaurant in which
the walters should be instructed to re-
fuse to serve any sequence of dishes
which obviously make for indiges-
ton. One can easily believe that the
world would be the better, the health
Ter, the happier if this proposal were
widely carried out. Men have been
known, for instance, to wash down oys-
tiers with brandy and water, but they
have always been sorry for it after
ward Students at the British Mu-
scum have been observed to drink tea
with veal and ham pie, and their
studies have suffered from the comhi-
nation. The world, in short, is full Of
middle-aged men who would enjoy
their middle age ever so much better
if in their youth they had found their
way to restaurants where snob delica-
cies as veal and ham pie, dressed crab,
lobster mayonnaise and cucumbers
were only to be procured upon produc-
ton Of a medical certificate of fitness
to receive them.-London Graphic.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05
Tho Dinerence.

The veteran actor said: ooh, yea.
indeed, you certainly are quite mistak-
en- in thinking there is no practical diff
ference between the romantic drama
and the realistic drama. Yes. Now,
to illustrate, have been hero in both.
and in both have gathered the heroine
to my bosom. In the romantic drama
a celluloid bosom went; In the realis-
tic drama nothing but linen would go
for Q minute. Detroit Journal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05

Man with all his superior intelligence
and inventive genius must now take
back seat in the matter of language
to the common barnyard fowl of the
world, says Southern Fancier. For
centuries this noble lord of creation
has tried to found a universal lam
guage without success, the nearest ap-
proach being Volapuk, the invention
OF that accomplished linguistic student,
Rev. DR.. Johan Schleyer, Of Baden,
Germany. Fowls have long since mas
tered the knotty subject for as Mrs.
kabelac boldly asserts they possess a
general language. Says she: Take
= fowl from japan and one from Eng
land, and then one from France. one
from America. Set all these, suppos-
ing them to be hens. When the chicks
hatch you will hear them calling to
the TIMES in the self-same notes, the
same punctuation, we'll, the same
words. Throw some egg crumbs down
when these chicks are twenty-four
hours old, you will hear a simultane-
ously and exactly similar call from all
four hens to their chicks It Is an
other CRY, another punctuation, an
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05
Behind the Times.

Colonel-Yes, that silver plate was
handed down to me by my great-grand-
mother, dear soul. who have been in
heaven these sixty years. Mrs. PerVe-
noo-Bless me! How awfully behind
the times they are up there. amt theyG
New York World.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05

HE popular and
deeply rooted con-
viction that many
of the birds are the
farmers natural
enemies is entirely
erroneous. On the
contrary, many Of
these maligned lit
tie creatures do the
farmer good serY-
ice. The hoopoo
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05
Butter at a Loss.

Think of man making butter that
costs him IL to IA cents per pound and
swapping it at s and 10 cents per
pound for groceries at the country
store. Think of him selling cream to
the creamery, and never stopping to
think, study or read an hour in a
month as to the kind of COWS he ought
to have for the business, or the proper
way to care for them In order to get
the most cream. Think of a mau
blindly plunging along in these old
ruts of farm practice for years, never
caring to read what other men are
doing who are successful and making
money in the dairy business. Think Of
a man doing all these things, as thOus-
ands are doing, and not caring enough
for his own profit to invest 100 cents a
year in a dairy paper that is wide
awake to his best interests all the
time, and worth every week ten times
it's cost.-H. C. Carpenter, before Min
nesota Dairy Association.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INT EREsTINo CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RuRAL READERS
Vow suceeasfuI Farmers Operate Thiu
Departments of the Farm-A rev
Hlnts rs to the Care Of Live stock
and Poultry.

EW ideas are con-
stantly springing
up in dairying, and
this is also true OF
milking, which is
an i'm port an t
branch of the in
dustry, says a writ
er in Live Stock
Indicator. | have
paid some atten-
tention to dairy
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05

WEAVING Lambs.-When the wean-
ing time comes for the eve flock, they
should be watched closely in meadow
or pasture, and If they cannot have this
care they should be kept in lot where
they can have access to a warm barn.
AS fast as they wean they should be
put into what might be called the
nursery flock and feed for all that the
milk and lambs are worth. Feed for
milk. This will make another flock
with a little different feeding.-Ex.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-05

Dairy prices have been kept up bst-
ter than most other farm prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
LOST IN AGALE.
Schooner With Cargo of Salt and
Guns Goes Down.

Savannah, Ga, Sept. 6.-The three
maSted schooner Agnes 1. Grace, OF
Bangor, Me, capsized and sank yester-
day, 20 miles east of Tybee. Her crew
same ashore in boat and landed at
Warsaw island in the afternoon. The
schooner Grace sailed from New York,
August %, with a cargo of salt for Sa-
vannah and four 16 ton guns for the
Tybee Notifications
All down the coast she was driven by
fierce northeastern, and, on Saturday
night, she came off Tybee, labOring
heavily in the gale.An effort was made
to bring her to and save her being driv-
en- further to the southwark but when
she was brought to the wind she began
to toss in the heavy seas, and the big
guns which formed part of her deck
load drifted loose from their lashings
and took possession of the deck. The
crew was driven into the rigging and
the iron monsters plunged about as the
vessel heaved in the sea, making every
effort to recapture them almost certain
death.
About s o'clock this morning an I'M
usually heavy swell tossed all four
guns into the port scupperS and the
vessel heeled under the immense
weight, tried to right but staggered, as
the green water broke fiercely in over
the bulkwarks, and she capsized and
sank.
Captain Farrar and his crew, consist
ing of seven men, succeeded in man
ming the vessels boat after much diff
Guilty, and rowed away from her just as
she went down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
WILLARD'S HOTEL CLOSED.
The President Ruined Its Trade by
Taxing a Vacation.

Washington, Sept. 6.-Willard's hotel.
one of the historic hostelries of the cap
ital. is today in charge of a deputy
United States marshal. This is the re-
suit of the failure of the lessee to pay
his rent.
Before the last Inauguration about
500, 900 was spent in refitting the hotel
throughout, but no account seems to
have been taken of the dull summer
season. When President Mckinley
went off for vacation the ofhceseekers
stra ggled away, too, and Willard
among other hotels, was deprived of
conSidera BILE revenue.
Wizards hotel, which is at the north
west corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Fourteenth street, has sheltered most
of the prominent men of the country
In it's spacious lobby great questions
have been discussed and dacided-to all
intents and purposes. Joe hickey made
one department of the hotel famous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
TWO YEARS FOR A FIB.
Melted Out to Soldier
for Fib-

Chicago, Sept. 6.-Trooper Shumway
of Company G, First United States cav
airy, at Fit. Sheridan, will not lose his
job in the army and go to prison for
two years just because he swore before
a court martial that he did not see a
comrade dump a bucketful of lemon
seeds and skins into a post drain.
When the trooper was sentenced for
this glaring infraction of post rules he
is said to have been dumfounded at the
lightnesS of his sentence. He fully eX-
pected to be taken out into the woods
and hanged or else tackled to a target
and shot.
But Maj Gen. Brooke, department
commandment who was absent on tour
of inspection at FIT. Riley and other
points in the Missouri division of the
army returned to headquarters a few
days ago, and reaching Trooper Shum-
ways case yesterday, restored the
latter to freedom ant his position.
Shumway was very glad of this, for
he had languished in the guardhouse
at the fort since shortly after Logan
day, the time of his offense against I'm
Gle Sans standing army.
Despite Shumway'S evidence the man
was found guilty and sent to the guard
house for a day. Shumway was then
accused of perjury and taken before
the general court martial of the garri-
son, where his false testimony was adj
mitteu by himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
DISCOURAGING TO HOBOES.
New Jersey Town Buys an Outfit of
Chains and Balls-Weary Willie
is Keeping at Distance

New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 6-The
sheriff of Middlesex has received from
a New York firm a half dozen sets of
chain shackles, to each of which is at
tached a 32-pound ball. This is the
new tramp jewelry which will be used
to ornament the hoboes as they work
upon the public roads, in accordance
with the plan of the freeholderS to
abate the tramp nuisance.
Already there is evidence that the
plan is successful, for, although not a
single tramp has been put to work upon
the streets, they are all keeping away
To warn the uninitiated Weary Willie
against the cold hospitality of Middle
sex some genius, presumably a hobo
has printed a canvas sign, which has
been placed at prominent point along
the line of the Pennsylvania railroad,
near Menlo park. 1t bears the legend:
keep Away From New Brunswick"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
BOYS TO MAKE BASKETS.
Reform Sch COL to Have an Industry
to Keep Idle HANDS Busy

to Keep Idle HANDS Busy
superintendent Hart of the reform
school has been trying ever since he
has taken the position to find some way
to give employment to the boys at the
school. He says that the greatest foe
to discipline is idleness. The boys have
nothing to do and their minds are con-
Sequently active in the direction of mis-
chief
Senator Sterne had this in his mind
when he introduced bill in the last
legislature providing for the erection of
a workshop, but somehow or other the
bill failed a the last moment and there
the matter ended.
Superintendent Hart will next year
introduce basket making in the school.
He says that this fall he will have the
fall the sprouts can be cut and used in
the manufacture of baskets. This will
furnish a little work for the boys and
the baskets can be sold. He says that
there is no basket factory in Kansas
and therefore there can be no objection
on the score of competition.
Another thing that the new Superin-
tendent proposes to do is to teach the
boys in the institution the trade of brick
laying. He intends to buy several
thousand bricks at once and he will in
Struct the larger boys how to build
wall, turn an arch and in fact erect
brick house. The bricks will be used
over and over.
Under the present system, when the
gardening season is over, there are 100
boys on the playground every day with
filled the institution and there should be
some system adopted to cure it, or the
boys will leave the institution worse
than when they entered it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
BIG SUNDAY WRECK.
Train Carrying Maine Excursionists
Derailed.

Waterville, Me, Sept. 6.-An excur-
sion train on the Maine Central rail-
road was wrecked yesterday 50 miles
west of Etna station. One person was
killed and 80 wounded.
The dead:
Martin Payne. aged q, of Plymouth.
The seriously hurt:
Charles Getschell, baggagemaster at
Newport station
Frank c. Billings, Fest Newport.
Arthus Fish. Dexter.
Mrs. ]. w. Townsend, Newport
Joseph Welch, st. Adams.
Oscar Buffers, Newport.
w. H. Earle, Plymouth.
Mrs. Wilbur Miles, Newport.
The train was carrying eXcursionists
from Dover and Foxcraft to the Etna
camp meeting. The breaking of a
f1ange derailed and overturned q car
containing 65 passengers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
SHOTS FOLLOW A WEDDING
An Enragsd Father Puts a Bullet
Into HIS N w Son-in Law and
Kills Himself

Guthrie, o. T., Sept. 6.-News has
just reached here of tragedy near AL
tus, Greer county.
GRUMPY Thaggard, young former,
eloped with the daughter of Robert
Griffin and was married by a minister
in waiting at the Thaggard home. Crit
fin, who was in pursuit, arrived after
the ceremony had been performed and,
after talk, told the young people they
were forgiven, but at 10 o'clock that
night he met the couple in the road as
they were returning from church and
shot at the bride, then fired a bullet in
to his own head, resulting in instant
death. The bride was unhurt, the bull
let intended for her passing through her
dress, then through her husbands arm,
and into his lung, making a very SER
ious wound which may result fatally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
EDMUNDS VIII GO BACK.
The Accused Murderer of Kay Con.
sents to Return to Colorado
Springs

Kansas City, Sept. 6.-John B. Ed
munds, the former office boy of DR..
Fraker, has consented to return with
out requisition papers to Colorado
Springs, Col, where he is suspected of
killing H. H. Kay near the summit of
Pixies peak, August 10. He will &C
company Sheriff w. S. Boynton, who
came to Kansas City after Johnnie was
arrested here week ago today at his
home in Lands court. Attorneys Ba-
tavia and Hicklin, who Wwere employed
by JOhnnie'S relatives to fight against
his return to Colorado Springs on requi-
sition papers, have consented to let their
client return to Colorado and stand the
risk of Identification as Kay's murderer
The Identification rests with three young
women who saw Kay and his murderer
near where Kay's body was afterwards
found, as they climbed to the top of
the peak near midnight on the 18th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-06
THAT PIXIES PEAK TUNNEL
London Capitalists Will Furnish
Much Money

Denver, Colo, Sept. 6.-The Mining
Journal of London, England, in its
issue of August q, publishes a letter
from it's Colorado correspondent. Thos
Tonge of this city, on the Pixies Peak
tunnel mining railway.
The letter states that this is an Amer
lean corporation, capitalized at $780,
900, 900 in 5OO,0 shares of 800 each,
251 900 shares representing the promot-
ers' interest having Gas guarantee of
good faith) been deposited in perpetui-
ty with the Anglo-Indian Banking cor
poration Qinited), London, in such a
Way that they can neither be sold nor
mortga ged, thereby strictly limiting the
benefits of the promoters to the divi-
dends on such shares when the enter
prise is a financial success.
The remaining $4,000 shares, repre-
senting the working capital, it is stated
by the officials, have been already is
sued to capitalists in New York, Lon
don and on the continent of Europe.
The project is to drive a tunnel 10
miles long under the entire Cripple
Creek district, and at a much greater
greSS or projected.
To attain this special depth necessi-
tates the extreme length, as points 10
miles apart have had to be selected in
order to emerge on the surface at each
end.
1t will commence at the east base of
Pixies Peak at $500 feet altitude, while
the other entrance will be made at g.
900 feet altitude to the southwest of the
Cripple Greek district. Under the town
of Victor the tunnel will be about $500
feet below the surface.
1t is proposed that the tunnel shall be
IS feet by IS feet with standard gauge
double railroad track; also an ample
subway for drainage.
1t is expected it will take nine years
to complete, at the rate of 30 feet per
day, working from both ends, and that
driving from the southwest entrance it
will take about three years to get I'M
derneath Victor and Battle mountain.
General estimates place the whole cost
practically at the amount of the work.
ing capital. 1t is anticipated, however,
that the enterprise will be earning a
considerable revenue long before it's
final completion.