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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14
PRAIRIE DOGS.
Choked Up q River While Travelling
From Oklahoma to Texas.

Choked Up a River While Travelling
From OklahOm to Texas.
1.-THE prairie dog migration from
Oklahoma to southwestern Texas dur
ing July, 1874, eclipsed anything OF
that sort witnessed by white men In
this country" said veteran who saw
It. millions Of the frisky little bark
ers must have been in quest Of new
pastures or perhaps feared the ap-
preaching legions Of home seekers
would surely exterminate the dogs and
pillow up the dog towns. The prairie
dog migration from the north to the
southwest lasted six days during the
month Of July, 1874. The travelling
dogs while crossing the Red river In
terfered to a great extent with the
cattle that came to that stream TO
auench their thirst. Some cowboys
that were on the banks Of Red river
during the time when the prairie dogs
swan across say that the stream was
chock full Of the little rascals for
many miles up and down the river.
The thirsty cattle were either unable
or unwilling to stick their mouths into
the water through the moving mass OF
living prairie dogs. The cowboys were
getting ready to drive the furnishing
stock to a distant stream, but the Red
river became clear Of the repelling
swimmers after blocking the useful
drinking place for about a week. 1t
was generally supposed that the dogs
halted when they had reached the
staked plains of Texas. kansas City
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14
Complete Rest.

The only true way to rest is to lie
down in a darkened room with closed
eyes and think of nothing. Even five
minutes of such rest is valuable. The
muscles of the face relax, and one does
not get a hard, set look, which adds
many years to the appearance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14

It is about time for stories OF the
Trail. which Is to the Lewis and Clark
exposition at Portland. Ore. what the
Midway was to Chicago and the Pike
to st. Louis.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14

Idle Hour Restaurant opened under
new management. Run strictly by
white help. Meals at all hours served
in first-class style. Call and see US
and give us a chance.
J. w. WOOLIS,
w. S. RAY,
Proprietors.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14
Education of the Child.

The child who has not learned obed1-
ence at the age of two never learns 1t.
The child of eighteen months out late
at night in the perambulator, whose
mother said, cit won't go to bed till
we do" had begun the education Of its
parents very early.-Address Of Arch
bishop Of Canterbury.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14

Remember that bird cage should
never be allowed to hang in room
where the gas is lighted unless the
room itself Is we'll ventilated, as the
afr near the ceiling is generally impure
by night.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14

All Talking Machines now sold on
the installment plan-Stanley Music
House.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-14

But for a real good meal go to
Olson's.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
OF LOCAL
INTEREST

MANY. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Alice
Halsey received many compliments on
her solo at the Baptist church last ev-
ening.
COMING THIS WEEK-E. A.
Spauldfng is expected home the middle
of this week from a business visit to
Iowa, Minnesota and adjacent states.
DIAMOND GRAY-James F. Dia-
mond and Miss Mary B. Gray were
united in marriage yesterday afternoon
by Justice Burnett in the presence of
few friends of both parties.
1T CAME ON TIME-The weather
bureau knew what it was talking about
when it displayed the cold weather flag
on Saturday and warned the people to
bid farewell to perishable plants. The
cold wave began to roll up against this
community before midnight of Satur-
day and kept rising higher and higher
until late last night. 1t is not thought
though that any serious damage was
done in the valley.
A STEER TYING EST-There
will be a steer tying contest at East
lake park next Sunday which is at
tracing interest all over the territory.
1t had its origin in a sentiment almost
to i'll feeling growing out of
the last contest here and which was
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Mr.. Douglas again soon reached the
capacity of his land, for an ostrich
must have room, you know, to stretch
! those long legs. He was now salts
| fed with his annual output of plum
age and saw a still greater profit in
the sale of the chick increase. He be-
gan to turn them loose.
Buyers fairly fell over themselves in
their eagerness to get next The
| fedglings were gobbled up at stagger-
| ing prices. A few pairs of breeders
were sold here and there-Douglas
could spare them-and ostrich farms
bloomed and blossomed along the val
Hey.
The boom was on and the country
went ostrich mad. The demand for
feathers became steadier and prices
rose. Douglas dream had become real
ized-the product had become a staple
commodity.
In the meantime the incubators were
working overtime, the little ones pick
ed their way out while the gold rolled
into the ex-sheep raiser's Golfers.
Whoever had a back yard big enough
and money to buy invested in juvenile
birds. Mechanics, miners, clerks, saw
ed their earning and converted them
into feather raisers.
In time the fever passed off and the
business settled down to the steady,
healthy hum of a new industry pushed
with enthusiasm and anchored on
firm market with increasing demand
To understand what proportions os-
trich farming has now reached in
South Africa let me tell you that those
farms sent to this country alone last
year nearly two million dollars worth
of feathers. The United States Gus
toms house records show this state
ment to. be a fact The total annual
output of African feathers must be
many times that amount.
And we can and are raising as good
London dealers say better-feathers
in the Salt river valley than they are
producing abroad. There is a future
for the ostrich in America, for he has
come to stay. In my next 1 viii tell
you how he got here and what he is
doing.
EDWIN BARBOUR
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

followed by numerous challenges. Fin
ally a match was made up between ex-
pert cowboys of this and Yavapai
counties. Deputy Sheriff Wayne Da-
Wis and Bill Anderson are the repre-
sentatives of this county and Joe Ru-
dy and Walter Cline of Yavapaf. Each
contestant is to tie three steers. The
purse is $1,000 and there is a side bet
of $500.
PHOENIX THE BEST OF ALL
James S. Griffin returned to the city
yesterday after an absence of two
years. He Joined in the hegira from
Phoenix to Eureka. Cal. He liked that
place and he liked the people but he
believes that Phoenix offers better OPP
portunities to one in his line of business
After leaving Eureka he visited San
Francisco and other coast towns but
he found nothing anywhere that quite
met his notion of what it should be.
Mr.. Griffin will take his former posi-
ton at the Hub clothing store. All of
the former Phoenicians at Eureka he
says are doing well and some of them
are on the road to great wealth.
FILLING UP THE JAIL-A man by
the name of John Doe otherwise Rafael
was arrested yesterday on a charge OF
criminal assault upon thirteen years
old Ignacia Davilla. This is the girl on
whose account two men were arrested
for criminal assault. a month ago and
one of them was held to the grand jury
Since then both the girl and her father
have stated that they felt sorry for
him and fOrgave him. Rafael, the man
arrested yesterday was not taken up on
the complaint of either the girl or her
father. They were however subpoena
ed as witnesses and were found at the
Salvation Army at whose services they
are regular attendants. The girl was
taken into custody to insure her at
tendance in court today. But later she
was released on the assurance of her
father that she would be present at the
trial
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
OSTRICH FARMING
Its Growth Into an Industry in a
Short Time.

| The ostrich has come to America t.
| stay. Let there be no doubt about that
His naturalization papers have beer
| issued, he has settled in the Salt river
valley, become powerful factor in the
| financial industries of the country anG
a most decided ornament to society.
He has reared his prodigious fam
| ily-in fact several prodigious families
four generations having picked then
way into the world and found them
selves upon American soil, in the last
twenty years-and his nativity is now
as firmly established as is that of the
great army claiming the Mayflower as
| responsible for their appearance on the
| western hemisphere.
What a ship that Mayflower mus,
have been! What heroes, what states
men, what degenerates, what liars must
have been concealed under the puri-
tanical cloaks of some of her passen-
gers. And many good Americans know
and care about as little what ship
brought their progenetors to this coun-
try as does the ostrich. They are both
native Americans now and that set
ties it.
The ostrich like the elephant seems
to be one of the connecting links be-
tween the giants of old and modern
in smaller sizes and harmonic better
with theN. perspective. Perhaps it is
just as well for us that the others got
off the earth before we appeared.
The ostrich is mentioned in the bible
look it up. You will see he is not
without a record.
Africa seems to have been the only
continent where the ostrich flourished
to any considerable extent in a wild
state. Occasional examples, it is SAID.
have been seen in the wastes of Kirwin
in eastern Persia, but they doubtless
belong to the African family. A good
American wire fence is better than an
isthmus to keep an ostrich at home.
The rhea of Patagonia, frequently
called the south American ostrich has
several points of similarity to the At
rican bird yet differs in many striking
respects, being much smaller and as n
feather bird comparatively of no va
lue. 1t is hunted for food by the ma
tives. On the pampas the rhea assoc
ciates with herds of deer. as in Africa
the ostrich courts the society of ze-
bras, giraffes and antelopes.
The emu of Australia, although a
bird of mighty stature, has no relative
value or connection with the ostrich
as considered here.
The origin of ostrich farming is OF
much more recent date than many sup
pose, not only in this country. but in
Africa. There, scarcely more than for
ty years ago, where these largest of
living birds then roamed the deserts
possibly in greater numbers than the
buffalo once inhabited our western
plains-a pair in captivity would have
attracted unusual attention. They
were. however, on rare occasions cap
tured by the Zulus, brought into the
seaport towns and sold to collectors for
museums and menageTies. Here, too.
with their loads of ivory, tusks. pelts
and fruits the natives brought large
amounts of ostrich feathers which were
sold at auction in the public markets.
UP in the north out of Nubia on the
Red Sea, great quantities Of magnif-
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

cent plumage taken from the Nubian
birds-the finest species of them all
have found their way to the outer
world since a time measured only by
| the record of sweet woman's adorn-
ment and the days when the bold ca
Waller loved to haunt a feather in his
hat.
And to the reproach of mankind be
it said in Nubia as in the southern part
of the continent every one of these
colossal creatures that parted with his
feathers gave up his life with them.
Extenuation may be found in the fact
that these feather hunters were of bar
barrie races. The same excuse can
hardly hold good in the wanton slaugr-
ter. of sweet songsters of the dimInu-
tive feather tribe for sport and plu-
mage now almost constantly going on
in our own and other enlightened coun-
tries.
There is a certain streak OF Unborn
cussedness and brutality in some men
that civilization makes no more i'm
preston upon than a quotation from
the Rubaiyat would have upon an os-
trich.
1t was sometime in the SOS that q
Kaffir chief brought to Graham's
Town, Cape Colony, six majestic pairs
of ostriches which he presented to Sir
Walter Currie, then commandment Of
the mounted police. On the death OF
the baronet, which occurred a year or
two later the birds fell into the hands
of Arthur Douglas, ex-lieutenant in the
English navy, who had just succeeded
in scoring a complete and emphatic
failure as a sheep raiser. He had
supposed he knew something about
sheep. he was equally certain he knew
nothing about ostriches which was one
argument he felt, in favor of possible
success. And so it proved.
Douglas took the birds to Heather
ton Towers. about eighteen miles from
Graham's Town and prepared for
business.
Hitherto the feather trade had been
uncertain and irregular, the supply
furnished by the Kaffirs could not be
depended upon. To have any percept-
ible effect upon these conditions with
but six pairs of breeding birds to be-
gin with meant patience and work for
years, with certainty of loss at first
if not a final fiasco.
He soon discovered that incubation
was the safer and more rapid means
of propagation. He invented an incu-
bator which proved a wonderful sue
cess anu IdleI OTOuBHl iilil liIlLiGIlSc
profits from its sales alone.
Before his second year was over
Douglas saw success written in every
forecast of the future. The chicks
came with amazing rapidity, lived and
thrived. Many of the earliest were by
this time yielding full pluckings of ma
tured feathers. He needed more land.
Five years later-seven years from
the time of starting-more than two
thousand acres had been added to the
Towers estate, over which
great herds-or should l say fiocks-|
of ostriches were feeding. The yearly
product of young birds was enormous
The market was eager for the feathers
which were now being taken from over
fifteen hundred full Pledged birds. This
alone netted a princely income but a
greater was yet to come.
Many spectators had eyed his sue
cess greedily during the past few years
and many were the tempting offers he
had refused for breeders. and chicks
from those wishing to start in the
business.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
ElMaENzo6etbH75omPsons

They do not realize that the back Is
the handspring of woman's organism.
and quickly indicates by aching dis
eased condition of the womb or kid
neys, and that the aches and pains viii
continue until the cause is removed
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for twenty years has been the
one and only effective remedy in such
cases. 1t speedily cures all womb and
kidney disorders and restores the f.
male organs to healthy condition
Here is one case among thousands:
a. 1 consider Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound the most wonderful remedy IN the
world for sick women For q long time /
suffered with a severe backache and bearing
down pains in fact, had womb trouble.
Reading of the remarkable cures your Gem
pound had made / decided TO try il, and an
happy to say that il not only cured me en-
tirely of all my troubles but made me 3
strong, well woman. Mrs Elizabeth II
Thompson, Lily Dale, n. Y.
No other medicine holds such q record
of cures of female ills as does Lydia L.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
No other person can give such help
full advice TO women who are sick as
can Mrs Pinkham, for none have had
such a great experience. Her address Is
Lynn. Mass, and her advice free.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
THE GRAND STEER TYING CON-
TEST

For $1,000 purse between the four
champion steer tyers of Maricopa and
Yavapai counties, Wayne Davis and
Bill Anderson representing Maricopa
county against Joe Rudy and Walter
Cline, representing Yavapai county,
three steers apiece. One day only,
Sunday Feb. 10. at Eastlake park, 1t
will be the best steer tying exhibition
ever given in Arizona. Under the
management of Deputy Sheriff Wayne
Davis.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
ONE WAY OF STOPPING WAR.

The success of Japan's army at Port
Arthur is hardly a more portentous
happening for the Russian government
than the falling credit of the nation
among European money lenders. The
latest loan of 100000 has only been
taken at 1-2 per cent interest. The
game of war can only be successfully
carried on while the great bankers of
the world are willing. When the flow
of money shall stop the war will stop.
PHILADELPHIA Herald.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
NOT so SOFT AS SUPPOSED.

An inmate of a Stanordshire asyIura
was put TO whitewashing the ceiling
OF a room, and omitted TO do the part
above the clock. When asked the rea-
son for this he replied: Il Go not BE-
neve in working overtime. "-Birming-
ham (Eng.) Post.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Valentine ball, Feb. II, O'Neil hall.
With this ball will be given features
belonging to a genuine Valentine ball.
So bring a Valentine and drop it in
the postoffice box at the hall, which
will be ready to receive it. Office will
be opened to deliver mail at 1890.
Your fortune told free. Fun for the
whole evening. Phoenix Dancing
Academy.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.

Itching. blind, bleeding or protruding
piles. Your druggist will refund money
If Pazo Ointment fails to cure you in
to IA days. soc.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Something doing at DOwd's drug
store all the time. 1SS west Washington
street. Next Ford hotel
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Food fit for kings. Home grown pork
and pork sausage at HoGhe's Chop
House.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Hand painted Austrian China ana
Mexican carved leather at half price a.
Balke's Big Curio Store.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
What is a BaCkache?
IT IS NATURES WARMEG TO WOMEN
Diseases Of WomaH's Organism Cared and
Consequent Pain Stepped BY Lydia {.
Plnkhan's Vegetable cemposnd

eft seems as though my back would
break" Women utter these words
over and over again. but continue TO
drag along and suffer with aches in the
small of the back, pain low down in
the side, =" bearing down" pains, nerv-
business and no ambition for any task.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
PRIVATE SALE.

That elegant resident property, cor
ner Jefferson street and Fourth avenue.
The Sam Snead place, half cash rest
at per cent for or years. Deal
with guardian for Snead children only.
No commission.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Go to Dan Curry for notarial work
and all kinds legal blanks. Wiekenburg
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Attend the closing out sale at Bake
Big Curio Store.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

You cannot beat a
Kerry Cow" cigar.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13

Mrs. E. NJ. Mosher, ladies' tailor and
dressmaking parlors. 222 w Adams.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-13
]. II. W. JENSEN,

Phone Main 242 or Tempe road, 81
miles.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1905-07-31
Ribbons! Ribbons!

1000 Yds. and inch, all Silk, l5c Rib
Don, 10C.
1000 Yds. 5 and o-inCh all Silk 25c Rib
bon, 15C
500 Yds. 80 and 35c all Silk Ribbon, 1oc
1t will be suicidal to your purse to miss
this, the greatest sale OF Ribbons, ever
held in this State.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-30
CHILDREN PLAY WITH
MATCHES; HOUSE BURNED
TOTS SAVED FROM DEATH BY
NEIGHBoR
Home Of Mrs. Clara Butuskl on Ivan
hoe Avenue Destroyed, With $3.50
in Bills Which Had Been Left in
Room

Two children playing with matches
yesterday morning set fire to the house
Of their mother, Mrs. Clara Butuski al
215 Ivanhoe avenue. The children were
rescued by a neighbor, Mrs. Smith, but
the house was destroyed with a loss
of $1,000. One hundred and fifty dollars
in bills, hidden in the house by Mrs
Butuslki, was also burned.
Mrs. Butuski left the two children,
Philip and Ethel, aged 10 and years
respectively, playing in the house while
she went out on business. The fire
started in the front room and tele-
phone call was sent in, to which engine
No. responded. The hose was then
found to be too short by over twelve
hundred feet to reach the nearest hy-
drant. Chemical engine No. 1, which
oame up later protected the surround
ing houses.
Insurance on the house was carried
Ey the owner H. Swidenski, in the Ger
American Insurance company.
Two diamond rings, a gold watch and
some gold money were found in the
ashes by the police and turned over to
Mrs. Butuski, their owner.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-30
FAIR RUBY LEAVES PRISON
Pretty Sunday School Teachers At
torney Finally Secures Bonds
men and She Is Freed

Ruby Casselman left the city jail
yesterday morning, her attorney, S. P.
Mulford, having secured bondsmen for
her.
They are Edward A. Forester and
jeremiah ]. Morgan. both real estate
dealers of Los Angeles. Forester was
formerly county supervisor.
The two men qualified on two bonds
for $1,000 each before City Justice
Chambers yesterday morning, follow
ing which Miss Casselman was re-
leased until her preliminary hearing
October 5.
Miss Casselman left the jail in COM
rany with her attorney and her friend,
Mrs. Burch, assistant pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal church. In
formation as to where she is going was
refused, but 1t Is believed that she is
going to private home to recuperate
from her long confinement in the Jail.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-30
FITzsIMMoNs is CONVICTED
Cumulative Credit Chief Liable to
$4,000 Fine and Fight Years
in Prison

AS the case now stands. Orlando
Fitzsimmons of the Cumulative Credit
company may be Obliged to serve eight
years in the penitentiary, and pay a
fine of $4,000.
He and his associates were adjudged
guilty yesterday in the United States
district court under the terms of the
Indictment. D. A. Arnett and ]. w.
Neighbors were held as being guilty
OH only two counts, SO their punish
ment will be proportionately less, the
maximum that they may receive being
$1,000 fine and two years in the peniten-
tiary.
The jury was out of the court room
only thirty-five minutes before arriv-
ing at decision.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-30
GERMANS PLAN CELEBRATION
Two Hundred and Twenty-seeond AM
niversary of Landing of Ship
Concord to BE Observed

SOHOOT0 ~ DC OOoSINCd
Sixteen German societies of Los An
geles and vicinity will hold the first
German day celebration in Los An
geles at Chutes park, October 8.
This event is in celebration of the
landing Of German immigrants in Penn
sylvania October g. 1888, who came to
America in the ship Concord at the be-
hest of William Penn.
The feature of the celebration will
be a parade in which societies from
Pasadena, Anaheim, Riverside and San
Diego will participate. There are
twenty thousand Germans and German
Americans In Los Angeles and the
parade is expected to be largely repre-
sentative in point of numbers.
The following societies will partlci-
pate in the celebration: Turnverein
Germania, Singing Society Fidelia,
Redmen, Sons of Herman, Sisters OF
Sons of Herman, German Foresters,
Catholic st. Josefs, Society of Wurt-
emburgians, Society of Saxons, Society
of Badenians, Society of Low Germans,
Swiss Society Helvetia, German Hos
rital society, Pasadena Singing So
ciety Liederkrans, German Ladies' Be
nevolent society and Ladies' Turner
society.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-30
GRoCERs FIGHT GARBAGE TAX
Retailers Ask Board of Public Works
to Remove Charge Now Im-
\. posed Upon Them

Retail grocers believe they are treat
ed unfairly in being compelled to pay
the city for having their garbage taken
away and in a petition to the board Of
public works yesterday they asked that
the fees for this purpose be abolished.
The petition represented 600 grocers
and was signed by President c. Mottaz
and Secretary j. F. Paulding of the Los
Angeles Retail Grocers' association. The
petition stated that the grocers are the
only persons in the city who pay for
the privilege of having their garbage
removed and the discrimination was
The members of the board maintain
that the grocers should pay the fee as
there is great deal OF refuse from
groceries. Action on the question was
deferred for q weeks fz9s