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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

Numbering the experience of Craddock,
were a little shy of going too deep into
the brush after the bear, but Church
and young Copsey had Lake County's
reputation to maintain, and plunged
straight ahead.
Church never came back.
Copsey was only a boy at that time,
but he understood the nature Of an
oath, as do most Lake County boys to
this day. When finally the mangled
remains of Church were drawn out,
which was after Reel Foot had finished
his meal and had abandoned the body,
Copsey swore that if he had to i've
twenty years to do 1t he would make
an end of Reel Foot as Reel Foot had
made an end of Church.
Thereafter Reel Foots history was
written in the blood of Lake, Sonoma,
Mendocino and lower Trinity counties.
He had fights, he ate sheep, pork, dogs
andsmen and children in all these coun
ties, and usually got away from the
Sheriff as adroitly as Chris Evans or
the notorious sneak thief Of Middle
town, George Coburn. The hunting an
nails of all these four counties are full
of the pursuit of Reel Foot. His pc
culiar footprint gave him distinction,
and his reputation as a man-eater
made him a good subject for barroom
stories.
In Round Valley, where Whites no
torious band of vaqueros held out for
many years, Reel Foot made a great
record in absorbing bullets fired at him
and fighting back all the while.
He killed a foreman on Whites
ranch in an encounter in a cabin,
where the latter had gone to seek a
supply of bacon. 1t was in the winter
season and foraging was poor. Reel
Foot broke open the door at night, and
while the foreman was asleep on the
floor began pillaging the place. The
foreman awoke startled, and reached
for his gun. What else he did is not
known. Reel Foot never gave him Il
chance to tell. The poor fellows torn
carcass was found by some Of Whites
men several days later
From Round Valley. Reel Foot seems
to have wandered back and forth to his
old hunting grounds in Pope Valley.
1t was only few years ago that he
made an assault on a sheep herder en-
plOyed by John Adams of Pope Valley,
who happened to be out in the field
with his young son. The son climbed
up a tree while the father remained be-
low to give battle to the fierce bear.
Probably if the man had known he was
to fight with the colossal Reel Foot he
would have thought better of his bar
gain. Suffice it to say that the boy
had to remain in the tree and see his
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
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ship steel rails to England and sell
them in competition with English steel
makers we no longer need protection.
Whether the protective system was ever
good one will always be disputed
point. That the law was unjust there
Is no doubt Every tax law is. You
cannot please every one.
What we need now is not a tariff
which will keep out foreign goods; we
have filled our home markets. We need
market for our surplus production.
The place to find it is on the Pacific,
where 400, 000, 900 people are awaiting
civilization Our trade future lies to
the west With our seven or eight
great transcontinenta1 lines, we can
reach the Western seaboard quickly;
and along the Pacific Coast is going to
develop a shi~ building interest which
will eclipse that of New England in the
brightest days of the industry. We are
going to ship our products to China and
find a distributing agent for them in
that vast empire over an American
railroad.
Less than a year ago capitalists in
this country would not have considered
an investment In China One conces-
sion was granted to an American, but
it was revoked because he had not the
capital to carry out it's terms. Dewey's
guns opened the eyes of the American
neople to the possibilities of trade in
the Pacific. When he went to Manila
and smashed the Snanish feet, the peo-
pie Of the United States said: 1--WE
never thought Of getting here, but
we're now here, we're going to stay"
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u
is dead. He carried forty-five
bullets with him TO his grave.
Reel Foot was the most noted
. bear that ever made foot prints
across the trails of Northern California
When he meets the st. Peter OF the
animal heaven he will have more lives
both Of men and beasts, TO account tol
than did Bill Hickman.
For twenty years Reel Foot tended
strictly TO warfare. and was the terror
of stockmen, hunters and small child
rem That he is dead is due to the nerve
of John Copsey, the tallest man In Lake
County and the. best shot. But death
came only after one of the toughest
fights that Reel Foot ever gave in his
protracted life as a marauder and out
law. .....''
When it is known that the old bear
thought. nothing of going into ranch
eria and packing off a young Indian
that he killed a mans horse and ate
him while the man hung in the tree
overhead, that he seemed to be able to
beat Hermann catching rife balls ana
afterward devouring his assailant, the
fact that Copsey, after years Of watch
ing and waiting, laid out the old giant
is greatly to the rancher's credit.
The known history Of Reel Foot dates
back many years ago. TO the time when
Ed Craddock shot him in the foot while
he was on one Of his marauding eX
petitions in Childs Valley in Napa
County How long prior to that he had
been levyiTg tribute on stock and hu-
man beings Reel Foot alone knows,
and he is too dead now to tell.
Craddock had a terrible fight with
the old bFliin 1t cost him the loss of
two of the. best hounds that Childs
Valley ever boosted of. Prior to the
fight the big bear. who. up 10 this time,
had no other name, had cost Craddock
enough: young mutton and sheep to
keep the family Craddock started out
on horseback after the destructive ami
NAL. His weapon was an old breech-
loading rifle wicked weapon when
loaded but no better than a stick when
empty. The fact that it would get
empty and require time to be reflled
played an. important part in the big
fight. t.. -. -
The bear. was encountered by Grad
docks hounds in an open glade at the
foot of Sugar. Loaf hill. There was a
good in1X-up in progress between the
hounds and. the bear when Craddock
arrived. Two. Of the hounds, both Of
which died shortly after, were stretched
out torn. and covered with blood from
the effect of. brufns claws. The sight
of his suffering dogs incensed Grad
dock and. he. fired-prObably too quickly.
Anyhow the shot went somewhat amiss
and struck the bear in the foot, or
rather in the ankle Joint: Before Grad
dock could reload the bear sprang
toward the horse, and with swipe of
his uninjured foot struck the weapon
8 from Craddock's hands, at the same
time grabbing it in his teeth and leav-
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been greater than they could meet.
The Government of China wants rail-
roads. 1t wants both railroads and
telegraphs, because it knows that by
their aid revolution can be prevented
or subdued. President Diaz has main
tanned himself as President of Mexico
all these years because the country is
covered with railroads and telegraph
lines. 1t used to be that if a revo-
luton started In a remote part of the
country 1t was two or three weeks per-
haps before the Government heard of
1t, and as much longer before troops
could be sent to put down the upris-
ing. Now If revolution is planned, the
Government knows it within an hour;
and in day it can have troops on hand
to suppress it. The Chinese have fire.
quent uprisings in different parts of
the great empire. They realize that
by the aid of the railroad and the tele-
graph they can uphold their authority.
The proposed railroad from Canton to
Han Kow, combined with the railroad
which the Belgians are to build from
Han Kow to Picking, will give the Gov
eminent a means Of inland commune
cation. bringing the principal points in
the empire in close touch with each
be protected from attack by any of
China's enemies.
Han Kow, which will be one terminus
of the road Is 700 miles from the coast
on the Yangtse- Kiang River. That
stream is navigable practically all the
year round for vessels drawing forty
feet Of water. The finest steam ves-
sells ply on 1t now. Beyond 1t smaller
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

nj OF many people have any idea
nj how extensively kangaroo hides
vi are utilized in this country"
i \ said a leading wholesale leather
dealer. Last year there were
over 100000 such skins received in. New
York and about so per cent ::of these
were tanned in one large establishment
in Newark, N. j. The hides all come
from Australia and New Zealand,
where the kangaroos are killed some
$50 miles back from the coast and
shipped from Melbourne. Sydney and
Newcastle, Australia, and from Mas
terson in New Zealand. !: =.
Prior to 1859 kangaroos were killed
and eaten in Australia, and their hides
were cut up and made mostly: into
shoestrings and belts. But an English
man named Brown in that year made
some experiments, which resulted In
his discovering the remarkably tough
character of the leather, and he
brought several hundred hides to
America as speculation. He tried
/ hard to sell the skins to various tan
ners, but they were shy of the. novelty,
and he at last had to sell them at.
sacrifice to New York bookbirider.
The latter merchant made triangular
corner pieces for ledgers and CONNER
ciaI books out of the skins, and thus
ascertained the good qualities of the
leather. One of these books got into
the hands Of the proprietor of a large
Newark tannery, and his attention was
at once attracted by the peculiar ap-
pearance of the leather binding. He
made some experiments with the skin
and found that 1t possessed remark
able tenaciousness and compactness OF
grain, which prevented 1t from absorb
Ing water, while the acids In backing
met with an almost impervious sub
stance
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

in
YangeKiang n that
directly
demand and there
OOOOO Two
0OOONO peope-more
probable
Railroads for four
manufa 2OoOOoOW
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

!" VH 4 for some or the Wlld1oWl came
wv to an end H., wild Do ducks among an 4ns
=. 49, "fiappers,' otherwise the
young ducks is very good fun, but
1t. is expensive. for, if persisted In,
whole broods Of, .ducklings are destroy
ed Fortunately for the ducks, this
form of sport is not very popular, most
people regarding it as unsportsmanlike
to shoot the birds before they can fly,
and. since the modern method of rear
ing wild ducks is now generally adopt
ed. the birds get another respite, as
they are not taken to the waterfowl
preserve until they can use their wings.
In the initial stage wild ducks are
reared in the same way as the domestic
variety, the eggs being Matched by fos-
ter mothers generally the domestic
. hen=i is used for this purpose, the pro-
cess occupying twenty eight days.
When Matched they remain with their
foster mother for a few days only be-
ling then taken. to a large, airy Enclosure
: and allowed the free use OF a pond Of
water. Here they remain until such
tune. as they are required for the
waterfowl preserve, but g. number Of
them: are kept in hand as stock birds
: for the next season. At this time their
wings remain uncut, and it is quite a
= slsRt. to see them, scores at time
Tying: around the farm in the RUNNER
evenings it is somewhat strange, con-
sideflng their wild nature. tina. they
always return to the homestead They
retain their. liberty for. q few months,
but, as resting season approaches. they
are caught for the purpose of having
e their wings clipped. otherwise hey
.:would' take their flight for good. At this
season. too, they are more closely ON
fined, as. they have a habit of deposit
ing their eggs anywhere and every
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

nection with the Government OF China
that Is, according to the just and
reasonable requirements of the Govern
ment.
English interests are combined with
American in the enterprise, so that 1t is
uncertain how much of our supplies
will be purchased in this country. The
labor will be Chinese; first, because the
Chinese labor is the cheapest to be had !;
and, second, because the employment
Of natives will dispose the Chinese peo-
pie favorably toward the road.
AS to it's patronage, that is not mat
ter Of doubt. Where railroads have
been constructed in China, they have
found that the demands on both
freight and passenger equipment have
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
THE FOREMAN ON WHITES KILLING sHEEPHERDER


own father killed and partly devoured
by the ferocious beast.
Much of this history reads like the
yellow-back literature that starts the
youth of New York westward to grow
up with the country, but there are
plenty of people in the four or five
counties herein mentioned to verify it.
For example, there is Charlie Sapp,
who, unmindful of the Craddock Incl
dent in Reel Foot's early biography,
still fingers among the woods of Lake
County and hunts bears with breech-
loading rifle He has probably killed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

eminent is that we shall construct 900
miles of the new railroad, at a cost
which is estimated at s30,000,000 to $40,
900, 900, the Government to issue bonds
which will cover the cost Of building
and equipping the road. These bonds
we have to place. When the road Is
completed we will operate 1t in con-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

munity visited the Copsey ranch to get
a sight of the famous old scourge. And
now Lake County is talking of nothing
but the death of this noted animal, per-
haps the last big grizzly that will ter
roriZe the ranchers of Northern Cali
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

lorna.
Mr.. Sealove Cat his sea-shore cot
tage)-"My dear, please tell our. daugh-
ter to sing something less doleful?"
Mrs. Sealove-"That is not our
daughter, my love. That. is the fog
horn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

name of Church and by the then youth
full John Copsey Church was a noted
and fearless bear-hunter.
About noon the next day the track
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
Special to The Sunday Call.

E have spent 100000 investi-
eating the conditions In
China and deposited with
the Imperial Government a
forfeit Of 100000. Our agree
want With the Chinese Cow
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

capped criminal pretty hard, keeping
the tracks warm all the time. Walters
stopped overnight at the Copsey ranch,
and there was joined by a man by the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

ers, with their reinforcements, over
took Reel Foot. He had worked into
some dense brush not far from
spring. The Pope Valley posse, re-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

Id Reel Foot" the big grizzly,
is dead. He carried forty-f1ve
bullets with him to his grave.
Reel Foot was the most noted
bear that ever made foot prints
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
RAISING WILD DUCKS.

4 TITH August 1 the close time
N / for some of the wildfowl came
"NN= to, an end, wild ducks among
Il Y others The shooting of the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
TRADE IN KANGAROO HIDES

n T OF many people have any idea
IN how extensively kangaroo hides
vi are utilized in this country"
L \ said a leading wholesale leather
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07
NO ROOM FOR THE boys

- a5afg -
What can boy do, and where can boy stay,
II he always is told to get out OF the way?
He can not sit here, and he must not stand
The cushions that cover that fine rocking chair
We're put there, 81 course, to be seem and Id
81 mired:;s S,p.,3rs
And boy has no business to ever be tired.
The beautiful roses and flowers that bloom ~.
On the floor OF the darkened and delicate room
Are not made to Walkon, atfsleastSnot by boys;
The house iiAsnoplacesa foF their noise
Yet boys Emust:walk Somewhere and what if
vi their feet. { I'm ID Is 4! RI
Sent out our house, sent Info the street.
Should step round the corner ard pause at the
door, t:st ss ~; s5;ttffts
Where other boys feet have paused often be-
Should pass through the gateway OF glittering
= light , y z. a,:t l. Al
Where jokes that are merry and songs that are
ling out warm welcome with fattering voice.
And temptingly say. here's place for the boys?
"Ah! What if they should? What if your boy
Should cross DER the threshold that marks out
= Ir : 70
'Iwixt virtue and vice; 'twixt pureness and sin.
And leave all his innocent boyhood within9
9! what if they should, because you and I
While the days and the months sand the wears
hurry by, ~.
Are too busy with cares and with life's heeting
joys " -, - .-r -; IL 49,.
TO make round our hearthstones place for the
boys? T.. 49,
There's place for the boys They will find it
somewhere; =
And if our own homes are not too daintily fair
For the touch of their fingers, the tread of their
feet - "... -... + ~.
They'll find it, and find 1t, alas! in the street.
Mid the gildings of sin and the glitter of vice;
And with headaches and longings we nav o
dear price, r., -. = -
For the getting of gain that our lifetime en-
ploys, ...-.
If we fail in providing place for the boys r.,
"A place for the boys-dear mothers. I pray, II
AS cares settle down round our short earthly
way,
Don't let us forget, by our kind loving deeds, !
10 show we remember their pleasures and
needs,
Though our souls may be vexed with the prob
lens Of life -:
And worn. with besetments and toiling and
strife. IT,. ,~. ;lzE5& "a
Our hearts will keep younger-your tired heart
and mine - IN
If we give them place in their innermost
shrine; '<:r
And to life's latest hour twill be one of our
joys: .e~ -'-.-:.:>7.-
That we, keep small corner, a place for the
boys =, -. .:> -. .
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

WHEN American soldiers face the
foe in the contest now at hand it will
not mattersto them, y hethe a the band.
strikes up "'Hail & Columbia THE
Star, Spangled Banner Yankee
Doodle,'' or 3 Dixie;n they are brothers
in a common cause, and the blue and
the gray will blend at last into a'color
that will drive every enemy into the
sea. There is, no sectionalism now, and
if the war shall only last for twenty
four hours it will serve at least one
good end, and that. is that it will bury
the bloody shirt forever The south is
on fire with the war fever to-day, and
the man who would question southern
patriotism had better go somewhere
else than the south to do it. At the
approach of an enemy Of the nation
sectionalism is at an end, and we have
only one class-all Americans and all
patriots. 1t makes a man feel good to
think he lives in such a country.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

The st. Paul Dispatch resents Tthe
intimation that st. Paul has been the
victim of the politicians. A town that
turns out competent man from it's
fire department to make room for q an i
incompetent one, simply because the
first is of a political complexion not
acceptable to the last, must be suffer-
ing from pretty bad case of grafteritis,
and the Dispatch ought to know it,.
The fire, police and schools of every
city should be absolutely divorced from
politics. tics, and if we were in search of
authority for such statement we
would notneed to go further than the
editorial colmuns of the Dispatch for it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

The verdict in the case of most OF
the business failures of the past wear
is deceased came to his end by being
struck by a state bank in the hands of
a receiver" The lesson of it is that
wherever there are two banks in a
community that can support only one
it, would be good business policy for
one OF them to close up in order that
the other may remain open.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

THERE are lot of folks in and out
of the United States who seem to feel
that their mission is to instruct the
president in his duty in the emergency
that, now confronts him. Just as the
president begins a line of policy that
meets public approval we are informed
by the press dispatches that the Amer
lean Peace society, the pope, the
'clergymen of the universe, the repre-
sentatives Of foreign powers, Private
Secretary Porter, and lot of other
people who are popularity supposed to
have business affairs of their own, rush
in to inform the president that it is his
duty to avert war. Perhaps it is, but
if Mckinley allows himself to be driven
into any policy of inaction by these
pacific advisers, and if he turns the gov
eminent over at such a time ais this to
the emissaries of the church, the
Woman's Relief corps and the Dorcas
society, he will sign his own death
warrant and that of the Republican
party. We do not believe that McKin-
ley is putty president, and if he dis
appoints this estimate of him he will
put a weapon in the hands of the
enemies of his party that will be used
effectually for the next generation. In
times like these we want an iron man
like Grant-one who hates the sight of
blood, but who will spill it like water
rather than that the. American flag
should be. 'trailed in the dust Of dis
honor.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

ST. PAUL holds her city election
separately from the general election,
ostensibly that the element OF partisan
ship shall be as far as possible eli min-
ated from the contest. But from the
reports of the various conventions it is
evident that the question OF partisan
ship will cut just about as much figure
in the election as it would inone where
the issues we're of general nature.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

LARRY GoDK1N, who, edits the New
York Euening Post, is in turn, edited
by submarine cable from Madrid.
There :wassa time during, the heated
perion Of the last war, when such un-
patriotic dough-faces as Godkin were
given timely warming and a. show to
get out, Of the country with whole
SKINS and if the war sentiment grows
much warmer Larry maybe given the
same kind of an alternative. ..*y.41Fa
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

jim CORBETT is a candidate for con-
gress from a New York district. In
his career as a fighting man Mr.. Cor
bett has become one of the best elocu-
tionists in the country, and should be
be elected to congress he ought to be
one OF the best men from the Empire
State. He is not only good talker,
but good buffer, which is another
admirable<quafity in New York con-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07
Opening Of Easter millinery.

Miss Huff invites the ladies Of
Princeton to attend her opening Of
Easter millinery which occurs next
Saturday, April 8. She is now located
opposite Persons store, where she has
ample room to display her stock which
IS mus, larger sr than has been carried
in Princeton before. Inspect her pat
tern hats and new spring shapes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

Americans are the. most inventive
people on earth. To. them have been
issued nearly 100000 patents, or more
than one-third of all the patents issued
in the world. No discovery OF modern
years has been of greater benefit to
mankind than Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and. Diarrhoea Remedy, or has
done more to relieve pain and suffer-
ing. stJv. w. Vaughn, of zOakton, Ky.,:
says: 81 have used Cham berlain's
Remedy IN my family for several years.
and fndit to be the best medicine i
ever used for cramps in the stomach
and bowels. For sale by G. A. Jack,
Druggist. " se5 :=. =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-04-07

WE are being constantly pleaded
with by the American: Peace society to
suspend Judgment. y we: dom t want
to suspend Judgment. If anything is
to be suspended we. insist that1it shall
be Spaniard& or two ' x :, i=@:s@*:>