The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-12


grouse and. In some cases. China pleas
ants"
British Columbia has taken up the matter
of game protection, and II is probable that
two amendments win be adopted One
prohibits the expectation OF deer hides. ard
the other forbids the shooting of Dull Elk
with less than six points. The law as
IL now stands was intended to cover the
exporting of hides, but the courts held
that the language was not sufficiently
clear TO warrant a conviction for the ex-
portation Of hides In pickle. British Co
iumbia has suffered the same as Washing
ton from reckless and wholesale extermina-
ton of elk We talk of game laws. but
noble animals are killed without regard
to law. In British Columbia. however.
they enforce laws. and It is safe TO say
that any action the legislature takes Will
be productive of actual good.
Abner Powell formerly manager OF the
Seattle baseball team, is not having the
success he anticipated In Cuba Financial
ly he is getting along all right, but the
local team Is winning from his aggrega-
ton. The visitors complain OF sore arms.
and explain their poor showing In this man
ner.
Twenty dollars n pound for a dog seems
a large sum, yet that is what Frank Gould
paid last week for Kinstonian Gold, an
English prize winning St Bernard. The
5000 Mr.. Gould has between 75,0ae and
100000 invested in his kennels at Lynd-
hurst. A few days ago he saw two dogs
on the street which pleased him. He paid
$4,000 for them on the spot
One not acquainted with the nne points
of bicycle construction would be led to
believe after a careful study of the 1899
Garden. New York. that a finality OF pat
tern was reached last year. Experts say
however, that there are many improve
ments, though none of them can be term
ed radical New spoke connections. adjust
ments. hubs, pedals, steering heads, chains.
bearings, sprockets. brakes. handle bars
smaller saddles new methods of oiling, and
other minor changes are noted. The chain-
less has come to stay, but there viii be
many chain driving wheels In use. Rae
Ing men seem to prefer the chain wheel,
because when 1t comes 10 a Jump they
can get greater speed. and quicker than
with the ehainless, II Is probable that
the enamel used this year will be brighter
In color than last
Sir Walter. the stanch little brown
horse, which won the Brooklyn handicap
in 1886 and was third In the same event
in 1894 and 1876, has been retired from the
track and Will pass the remainder of hts
days at H. r. Headeys farm Beaumont
Ky Sir Walter began racing as two
such great horses Henry OF Navarro
Clifford. Ben Brush, Ornament, Domino
The F'riar and Hamburg. and outstayed all
of them He ran In ninetyfour races
winning thirty-eight finishing second In
twenty, and third in twelve. AS a seven
year-old in 1897 he ran in seventeen races
Of which he won FIVE. was placed four
times and third once.
Bin Lyoh. OF Kelso, according to the
journal, has Just returned from his claim
in the Wilderness. His trousers were bad
~ torn ia the region OF his pistol pocket,
owing 10 close communication with an
oostreperous wildcat
Young" Choynski a prizehghter who is
well known In Seattle and Ed Wright
ing. A dispatch from that city SAYS that
the contest was fake Of the rankest
kind The audience Missed in derlslon
throughout the entire eight rounds. /
notice in the National Review OF San
Francisco the following: Young
Choynski, an ex-san Francisco boxer OF
questionable stamina, is among the many
Out-of-work boxers TO be seen In Seattle"
Denver Ed Smith and Paddy Smith,
two well known pugilists. now living IN Ne
attic, will visi; Nome in the spring.
The Philadelphia Item prints the follow
Ing from NICK Long, sporting editor OF the
National Review. THE Items correspond
cnt recommends the Seattle Athletic club
20 al Eastern boxers. Il f. a thoroughly
solvent institution, and keeps faith with an
who may have the pleasure OF doing ausl-
ness with It. II treats all alike and plays
no faV0ritcs. In fact Ii Is the only re-
sponsalie club in the state Of Wash!nston' -
In the Review. Long says: Jim Anthony
and our sporting editor return thanks to
Prof A. W Crane ana the officers III Sc
Seattle Athletic Club for the innun,erahie
favors rendered them during their stay IN
the Puget sound metropolis The club Is
composed % Seattie's leading citizens and
Is elegantly htted IN an details u "a one
H. .syts,.,, S,,ift si1 49, - - s.tl'7
y, ss-,sir.' fiatt.s ,s.fth a, - enough
An adjourned meeting q the Queen city
Good Roads Club viii b. ncid e tire Chaul-
her ~ Commerce rooms, Htiler heck Tues
day evening at : O'Clock Reports of COM