The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-19

pend 5000 for hay for the antelope, deer
ana elk IN the park, Hay was scat
tered out where ii was thought best,
ana as Tar as teams could get with it.
! think II did considerable toward saw
ing some Of the smaller animals; but
SO few elk could be reached that only
antelope and deer got much benefit.
Inc first young elk seen last year
was May q. This year | have not seen
any, as l have not been out among
them. L was out few times after
pictures, and got some of sheep deer
and elk Some very good photos of elk
and other game Were secured by Scout
Morrison and one of his soldiers.
| The bears are out now at the Foun-
tain hotel. Six Were seen one day last
week, all black. If the bears in the
park are as troublesome as last sea-
son, some of them will have to be killed
to give others a lesson in good man
ners, as it's not thought polite for them
to climb into wagons and eat up all
the provisions belonging to camping
parties. f. EOFER.'
A recent dispatch from Berlin says:
The Hamburg-American line is contin
| ulng its experiments with carrier pig
| cons, for the purpose of conveying
news from vessels at sea, either at
| Hamburg or New York. The Augusta
Victoria set several pigeons free dur
ing her voyage to New York. One of
| these homed from midocean, 1900 miles
| out, to Hamburg, inside of two days.
| The foregoing dispatch from Berlin
| is accurate in details, contains infor-
| nation that must awe even the most
enthusiastic and ardent admirers of
| the wonderful powers and flight and
| intelligence of the homing pigeons. AS
| 1t stands the report is regarded with
| doubts by the local fanciers, although
| in "a
| face of some records. that the feat is
! impossible. But as compared with the
| best previous long distance flight,
| which is 1859 miles over land, the re-
| port is almost Incredible.
Flying over water means that the
| pigeons must have spent the night on
| the wing, unless 1t by chance rested
upon the spars of some passing ship.
Homins pigeons seldom fly after night
fall, for they cannot keep their bear
ings. Again, the fact that two days
of continued flying would exhaust the
most powerful bird lends color to the
theory that the bird may just by ac-
cident have spent the night upon some
steamer bound toward the east and
thus have been assisted in the right
direction.
In this manner the bird might have
| made the flight, which would still be
without a peer in homing records. SO
goes, 1t has been proven that during
the flight the digestive organs of the
homing pigeon discontinue their of
flee
To have accomplished this fly the
bird, allowing for 30 hours of flight.
must have done SO miles an hour on
the average. In recent fly from South
Carolina some Staten Island birds
covered 400 miles at a speed of nearly
93 miles an hour But this was only
a fourth of the above fight and over
land.
Fanciers in this country, and in
fact, all over the world, will await
with interest some more definite de-
tails of the dispatch. which are expect
ed when the Augusta Victoria reaches
port.
Several members of the Columbia
Yacht club are Interested in a boat
which, as a freak, takes first prize. She
will be launched at Waukegan, Ill, Fri
day, and will make the trip from that
place to Chicago by means of a kite
used instead Of sails. The boat is "a
feet in length. The kite which will be
used is of the box variety and six feet
square. Fine piano wire will be used
instead of stringeS vS
The boat greatly resembles one of the
gondolas that used to earn a dollar
an hour per passenger during the
palmy days of the worlds fair. The
owner and designer of this queer craft
is W. H. Van Ripper, and he claims for
his boat a peculiar advantage not pos
sessed by any boat in the city, nor per-
haps, in the country. He says that if
the boat tips over all that will be
necessary for him to do is to drop the
heavy center board through and let the
boat go along on it's bottom, as it We're
He also ayers that he will be able TO
go to within six points of dead wind
ward using only the kite ana tiller.
So far the members of his club have
ridiculed his yacht, but he simply tells
them to wait until next week, when his
boat will be first tried out.
dispatch from Oxford England
| says: Both here and at Cambridge col
lege athletics reflect the stimulus chat
has been impaired to all amateur
sports by the announcement of the ir-
tercollegiate contests to take place at
the Queens club, London, next July,
between the representatives of Yale
and Harvard on the one side and Cam
bridge and Oxford on the other.
Every lover Of amateur sport has rec
ogniZed the need of such a tonic, and
the mere announcement that the terms
of the American and English university
programme mad been arranged was re-
| ceived with the greatest satisfaction
not only at the university towns, but
throughout the amateur athletic world
English university men take mat
tiers of this kind with much less demon
stration than Americans" said C. N.
jackson of Hartford college, honorary
treasurer of the Oxford University
Athletic club to-day, "but their in
terest is just as great" Mr.. Jackson
has been connected with Oxford ath-
letics for nearly 20 years, and in pro-
noting these international events he
has been moved solely by a desire to
show the world that anna teur contests
could be relieved of all faint of profess
siOnaism.
1t makes little difference" continued
Mr.. Jackson. whether America or Eng
land wins. None of the universities slf-
ters by defeat in these events. as in pro-
fesslonal contests. What they NAV
suffer from is a suspicion that their
representatives