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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Government by Commission.

FROM the New York Sun.
Already New York state has created
through its legislature, commissions for
the supervision of most of the pursuits
in which its citizens engage, and within
a few years, If the tendency to regulate
the everyday affairs of life is not checked
no act, however simple, will be performed
legally unless it has the approval of board
of ofiiceholders drawing comfortable sala-
ries or fees in the name of the people. Now
1t Is proposed to create a meat dealers
commission of three persons, appointed by
the governor from list of five nominees
submitted by the Retail Meat Dealers Pro-
tective Association.
This commission is to issue licenses to
''all persons engaged in the sale of meat
at the rate of 81 for each license and no
unlicensed person shall embark in the
meat business after September / of this
year without license To get license the
applicant must pass an examination to be
devised by the commission. The violator
of the act would be guilty of a misdemeanor
and liable to fine and imprisonment
Assemblyman Hornidge Is the introducer
of the bill providing for the meat dealers
commission He is not playing a Joke on
his colleagues, either The state has estab-
lished an unnecessary and silly tribunal
known as the BARRIERS commission, before
which all persons DESTROYS to cut hair and
trim boards must demonstrate their ability
If BARRIERS commission, why not retail
meat dealers commission, or tailors' COM
mission. or clothiers' commission?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

intelligent handling and good shelter from
wet and sieet. Cold they can stand TO any
degree, but they hate the wet like cats, and
they need the intelligent attention of man
IKE any other domestic animal If they are
to be made to pay.
There is already growing up, in the west
especially, market for Angora mutton,
and the housewife will be pleased to learn
that the new animal which has SO long
been the demand of many family tables
mas arrived. The Angora goat If grain or
grass fed can easily be sold as mutton at
mutton prices. but If allowed its favorite
browse OF weeds and brush it has game
flavor almost identical with venison An
goras are much too valuable as a rule to
Kill for food, but the breeders realize that
there are thousands of the lower grade ami
mails that would be better out of the way
and there is every indication that Angora
mutton will soon be a regular commodity
and will be dealt in by the shops much
more freely than is venison at present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

they bake over hundred pounds of corn
bread each day, and it fills the upper house
with delicious fragrance that there is
no danger of mistaking for the odor from
the cages. 1t is mighty good corn bread,
too. The Star man ate some Of it, and
thought seriously of applying for a place
as an exhibit with free board thrown in.
And corn bread in great brown, toothsome
slabs is not the only thing on the bill of
fare. There are butchers blocks with big
slabs of red beef for the cats, piles of fish
for the seals and bears. cabbages and tur-
nips, potatoes and crackers and condensed
milk, all of which, cooked and uncooked,
are served out to the residents in the vari-
Gus houses as regularly and more clearly
and daintily than is done to human custom
ers In a good many restaurants and board
ing houses. The life behind the scenes is
deal more interesting than that from the
front of the house. whether it is in a zoo
or theater. There are number of the
more delicate animals that are kept down
in the basement till the weather gets
really warm.
Dingo Pups at Play.
One of the most interesting just now is
the dingo African wild dog. The old
lady does not look very different from an
average coon dawg," yellow and sharp of
nose, with big bat ears and cunning qurk
to her tail. She is really as companionable
and good natured most pet dogs. She
has three pups that are allowed to romp
around in the basement when there is not
too much work on hand. They are funny
little fellows not a bit stuck up over their
foreign ancestry, and they probably would
get caught up by the pound and car
ried off to the charcoal box if they were
loose on the street without a tag. and the
dogcatcher would never know that he was
not gathering in the veriest street mon
grel from the regions of Goat alley or
Holy hill.
Spring is getting into the blood of the
outdoor animals. The wolves are uneasy
and longing for a forage in the woods. One
of the big outdoor cages has five of them
that have been playing follow-my-leader at
a jog trot around the yard without inter-
mission, as far be learned, for the
past three days. They are for all the
word like a party of man-of-war's men
trotting for exercise around the turret of
battleshp, and they are likely to keep
| that sort of thing up almost continuously
for the next week.
The season for active zoo life Is about
here, and there is no question that most of
the animals will be glad to see the old
familiar crowds again. But it will mean
lot more hard work for the keepers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Forestry in New Jersey.
From the Newark Advertiser.

From the Newark Advertiser.
In South Jersey there are many thou
sands of acres of woodlands that can be
acquired cheaply. AS Governor Stokes has
said, much of it can be obtained merely by
paying the taxes on the property. In the
highlands and at the sources of water sup
ply are other thousands of acres that have
very little market value In the possession
of the state these lands would possess a
very important public value. State con-
servation of the forests will be calculated
to attract population and encourage the es-
tablishment of communities in places that
are now waste and uninhabited De-
structive forest fires can be guarded
against, and the wealth saved in that way
will more than compensate the state for its
outlay in the purchase of forest tracts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
ARE IN BIG DEMAND
Angora Goats Have Proved a
Valuable Acquisition.
OUR MOHAIR SUPPLY
ALSO AID THE FARMERS BY
CLEARING UP UNDERBRUSH.
Important Work of the Department Of
Agriculture-High Prices Paid
for Choice Stock.
OUR MOHAIR SUPPLY
Written for The Sunday Star.

Written for The Sunday Star.
For some years past the Department of
Agriculture has been working at the prob
lem of establishing the Angora goat as a
valuable farm product in the United States.
Today the work has progressed far that
Angora goat farming is carried on in every
state and territory of the Union. The
goats have been acclimatized as far north
as Alaska, and they are now beginning to
be taken to the Hawaiian Islands to clear
out particularly pestiferous brushwood
growth that ruins much of the valuable
land there.
The rise of the Angora has been strik-
ing work and has added a very valuable
feature to American farm life. 1t has add
ed a new manufacturing industry to Amer
lea which uses annually about 20Oo,Oo0 OF
domestic Angora fleece valued at an average
of % cents a pound 1t has added new
animal to the list of market products, for
Angora mutton is very good, and hnds
ready sale, though the quantity on the mar
ket Is yet small. Most valuable of all,
it has introduced new method Of clearing
brush land, for the Angoras will thrive on
brush and can clean up a tract of previous
ly valueless land and make 1t into the
finest sort of pasture, not only without eX-
pense, but paying their owner while they
are doing the work.
Yet with all this the vast majority OF
people do not know what Angora goat
is. For the benefit of such II may be said
that the Angora is lighter, finer-lined
animal than the domestic goat. He has
long, curly white coat that sweeps the
ground when he is in good condition, and
most remarkable of all to those who are
acquainted only with the common goat,
the Angora has none of the "goaty" odor
that has made the pet harness goat of the
city boy an abomination scarcely tolerated
by his parents. In fact, the Angora is a
handsome, clearly animal that makes a
splendid childrens pet and at the same
time is brave enough to be a great protec-
ton against dogs if few of the bucks are
allowed to run with a flock of sheep.
Turkish Product.
| The Angora comes originally from the
Turkish villayet of the same name whose
capital, Angora, is about 200 miles south
east of Constantinople. The first of them
were brought to this country in 1919 by DR..
John B. Davis, who was sent to Turkey
ar the request of the sultan to superintend
cotton growing in that empire. When he
came back he was presented with a small
herd of Angoras by the sultan, and these
stayed in the United States and increased
somewhat, there being several small herds
| in various states just prior TO the civil
war. But there were no mohair mills in
| the country at that time and as an eco
nomic factor the Angora goat was almost
nil till taken up by the Department of Agri-
culture. Then Mr.. George Thompson and
Mr.. Willard Bailey, both of whom were eX-
perts in the Angora line, set about letting
| the farmers know what the goats were and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Warning to Mothers.

From the Medical News.
The "only child in the family in 90 per
cent shows disadvantageous traits; they
are usually of poor health, lacking much of
normality. both mental and physical. The
youngest child the '.only hoy or the
only girl display many striking resem-
blances to the ''only childs''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Popularity of saco Teachers Name.

Few people have such a peculiar name as
Miss Nella L. Allen, popular school
teacher of Saco. Whether spelled forward
or backward the name spells just the same,
and it is a very rare happening that such a
combination of letters Is found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Paid S1,4OO for a Goat.

The work of goat raising has not been
confined to any one locality in the United
States. There are immense herds in Texas
and California, Oregon and the north and
middle west and the industry, as has been
said, is now established in. every single
state and territory. The last census showed
that there were 1,S10,000 goats of all sorts
in the United States valued at about
81 366, GOO. OF these fully 100000 are An
goras of the higher grades, while there are
more than 10000 of the goats registered in
the Angora Breeders Association stud book.
The Angora will stand any climate that
is found in the United States. They take
most kindly to mountain country, where
their natural instinct for climbing comes
into play. But some of the best goats in
the country have been bred in the plains
and valleys of Iowa and Illinois. AS to
how much they are worth, it is hard to
give satisfactory answer. Just now, does
are worth from $40 to SO. The bucks, like
males of all breeding animals are worth
more. A kid of six weeks is worth about
S25 and from that they run up to even
fifty or hundred dollars for a buck only
few months old. This is for what might
be called common animals. The prices paid
for prize animals at the Kansas City an
nual show have been phenomenal. Some
high prices are on record. Mrs. Armer of
Kingston N. Mex, paid 81 $50 for Columbus
PaSha in 1901. He was a magnificent buck,
but many people thought she was crazy
to give such price for him. Just how
crazy she was is shown by the fact that
she made his price back out of him in less
than a year. At the next show Mr.. KEN
BILE paid 81, AGO for Aztec Champion, another
prize buck and made money on the trans
action. One of the finest animals in the
United States was also shown at Kansas
City in 1902, king of Sierra" who took the
yearlng buck prize for his owner, VIM. j.
Cohill, mere boy of Hancock, Md, and the.
youngest breeder of Angora goats in the
United States. This only shows the big
profits that can be made in breeding first
class stock.
Prices Paid for Mohair.
For the use of the ordinary ranchnlan and
farmer the regular production of an aver
age herd is more to the purpose. There
have been great many fancy stories told
and printed about the prices paid for An
CORA feeces in the early days of this coun-
try it being asserted that So to IS a pound
has been paid for mohair feeces weighing
three and four pounds each. These tales
are hard to trace to any authentic source.
Mohair now is worth on average %
cents pound. Some of the feeces are
worth as high as 40 cents a pound. but the
breeders have not yet met all the require.
ments OF the manufacturers as to quality
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

you'll take couple of tickets, of course.
We're getting up a rattle for poor cripple
in our neighborhood-"
None for me, thank you, I wouldn't
know what 10 do with q POOR cripple II
Won him.s-Ph iladelphia Rxeaa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

what might be expected from them.
Meantime, strange as it may seem, the
pure bred Angora had become extinct, and
there probably now is not an absolutely
pure Angora in the world. The. prime cause
of this was the increased demand for wool
from the mohair mills of Europe. The
avaricious but short-sighted Turk had be-
gun to cross the Angora goat on the COM
mon Kurd strain to increase his hocks, ana
had bred out the pure animal altogether.
But there were enough characteristics OF
the original goat left to work on. and the
breed is being built up again, with the re-
suit that there are many fine animals all
over the United States. In Cape Colony,
South Africa, there is fiourishing mohair
Industry that represents total of about
& 1874 600 goats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Bears Waking Up.

Across the way the peacock and the Eng
lish red deer have a feud on. The peacock
does not eat hay, but he hops over the
paddock fence and chases the red deer out
OF the hay shed several times In the course
OF the afternoon and the deer retaliates by
making sudden incursions around the cor
ner of the shed and chasing out the pea
cock, who scuttles away with an angry
squawk and a shake of his gorgeous tail
The bears have scorned TO seek shelter
during the cold weather. and they are now
enjoying the first breath of spring in the
sunny corners OF their rockeries. The Vir-
ginia black bears tie themselves up into
an ineXtricable knot in the sunny corner
of their yard and luxuriate in the warm
weather Old Mrs. Bear is still nursing
and petting a cub over year old, and he
puts up with II with a bored expression
till maternal attentions get tiresome
and he resents having his head licked by
cutting his nanny alongside of the nose
and precipitating a free fight, during which
the old father bear gets rolled over into
the tank and energies growing and drip
ping and swearing vengeance on all the
other members of his family. who promptly
hunt the rocks at the back of the yard and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Corn Bread Baked Wholesale.

1t Is a fact that there is more of the
smell of a bakery than an animal house
about the big carnivora domicile. The
general public. of course. does not know
that down in the basement of the big house
there is regular animal restaurant Here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
The Value of Strikes.

modities in that it is in and of the man him.
self his very life''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Angoras Need Care.

The above does not mean that Angora
goats can be raised for nothing, and that
they need no attention. They are a valu-
able adjunct on any farm, but they want
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18
Normal gymnasium.

The Legislature having appropri
ated $4,000 to build a GYmna-
stun for our state Normal school
on Ft. Hays this fall, the work
for It's erection has already begun.
President Wilkinson came Sat
urdaV and looked ove1 the matter
and it will be located west of the
present Gymnasium and south of
school; be built of hard rock and
the contracts will be let the first
week in July. Prof Plcken IS al
ready contracting to have the hard
rock gotten out and hauled this
spring, while President Wilkinson
went to Topeka to have the state
Architect draw the plans and spec
ificatIons. With our apparatus
already on hand, that amount will
put mp nice building.
State Arcltect Stanton has been
re appointed by the Governor, and
is pleasing news to our people as
he gave Us plans of fine school
building,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18

we much regret to sec a lot of
grown boys around our town who
have stopped going to school, are
running around town either Loa6ng
or doing common work.
THE average educated man gets
salary or wages of $1,000 year;
he works 40 years, maklnga total
of $40, 600 IN lifetime; while the
average laborer gets his 1, so a day,
$3.50 year or $4,000 in his forty
years, not a dollar ahead, The
$4,000 extra is what education &
intelligence has brought, or profit
of 10. dollars a day spent in the
school room during the - years.
Boys, look around the town and
see If 1t isn't fact. Keep up the
school work as long as parents
are willing.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18
HOMESTEADS &
contests,

Now that the U. S. Land Office
has moved from Wakeenie west
to Colby, over 100 miles away,
those having Landoffice business,
to make, or contest, or prove up
on Homesteads are invited to call
at the Free Press Office and save
money, as we have the necessary
blanks and records of all entries
and vacant lands.
Michael NJ Denning is The first
one in this county to get a home
stead thru the now Office while Ju
Illus Poulson the first to send up
an application to prove up.
John Stubie also gets a home
stead IN the Saline valley,
Probate judge Arnold sends
up on Thursday his first proof,
the Butterfeld -Bemis, for their
examination, which came back
all right.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18
ONE WAY RATES.

OEverY day from March 1st to
Nav 18th 1905. the Union Pacific
will sell One way ColoDIst tickets
at the following rates. from Mis-
souri, river terminals. Council
bluffs, to Kansas city inclusive;
$50. to Ogden & Salt Lake city
$50 to Butte, Anaconda and
Helena.
S22, so to Spokane and Wenat
chez, Wash
$25 to Everett, Falrhaven, What
com, Vancouver, and Victoria via
Huntington and Spokane.
$25 to Tacoma and Seattle via
Huntington and Portland or via
Huntington and Spokane.
$25 to Portland and Astoria. or
Ashland, Roseburg, Eugene, Alba
ny and Salem via Portland.
S25 to SanFrancisco. LosAnge
les and SanDIego
CorrespondingIy fow rates to
many other California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Utah and
Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every
day on Unioa Pacific between Mis-
souri, river and Pacific coast: dou
be berths 1915 For full infor
nation call on or address Your
Nearest r. Il, Agent.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18
Lady MINISTRIES.

The first full dress rehearsal took
place Monday evening and9was a
blooming success and called forth
screams of laughter, Hyde's ia
nous Ny dance with the ia :
nous French dancer, or the ia
nous Francois carnival, couldn't
hold a candle to the fun.
Mrs I as lnterlocutor opened
the fun with the querry-''What
is the difference between the GAN
Stars" and this aggregatIOn?" and
answers came thick,
Because they are All stars and
we All Ducks" No, we are
ali gueese", No, "We are all
Angels" Correct for the all stars
say so.
For l want to be an angle way
up in the sky, flirting with every
"star" passing bY.'
We'll my teller says Pm duck
Mine says Pm little goose. and
mine that I'm a dear wolt", and as
mine sees the show exclaims "and
wouldn't that freeze you
And for hours the fun was the
greatest, the hit of the evening
beng the famous Radium dance
from the StLouis FAIR.
Every window and door was com
pletely daTkened. the rooms bril-
liantly lit by the lime lights, show
ing the radient costumes brilliant.
Like eastern cities, after the per
Torrance the actors were enter
tanned at supper.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18

Witness my hand and official seal
this 18th day of March AID, 1905.
(LSl ], M. SCHAEFER.
Treas. Ellis County Kansas.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18
WANTED

MEN AND WOMEN in this
county and adjoining territories, to
represent and advertise an old
and established house of solid
financial standing Salary to men
$21 weekly, to women S12 to SIS
weekly with Expenses advanced
each Monday by check direct from
headquarters Horse and buggy
furnished when necessary; position
permanent. Address Blew Bros. &
Co., Dept. A, Monon Bldg, Chi
cagO Ill.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18


"And where is my boy tonight"
Three Normal boys have been boun-
esd for boozing Got at drug store.
Can our city, our business men, our
property owners, afford to tolerate 1t?
EditOr Geo. P. Griffith
GNAUOA for Mayor.
When the Western Kansas State
NORMAL school was located IN
our midst our business men pledg
ed this should be a school town,
moral town, JOINTS aad hell
holes would not be allowed.
The Regents, president " ilkin
son, and professor PIcken have
worked hard to build up the school
and that 1t is benefting our town,
continually bringing in new resi-
dants is already shown. but our
business men have done nothing to
carry out their promises, a dozen
joints are running IN our town and
both the city and county authorl-
ties do nothing to stop them or
curb the drug stores, and now one
of the boys Of the school is gone
and two more under cover for false
ly signlpg up at drug store.
President Wilkinson was here
on Saturday and our citizens have
now got to show their hand, put
stop to lawlessness, or the Nor
mai will drop out to Abilene or
some other city,
Editor Griffith is an old citizen,
much interested IN building up the
school and has consented to be a
candidate for Mayor this spring on
a Normal school platform-moral
itY and close the joints. II elected
he will appoint a Marshal or mar
shall or marshals who will close &
keep closed every JOINT or neusance
in the town and curb the drug
store sales, even if the Jail Is kept
full. And with Brosiua as Judge,
and a Council of business men as
Wann, Voss, Alols Kissing, Hall
and Joe Schaefer,or others our CT
ty would be a good town.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18
Notice for Publication. No. ST.

Department of the Interior Land office at
Colby, Kansas, March 4, 1909.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Probate Judge of Ellis county, Kansas, at
Hays, Kansas, on April IS, 1905, viz:
JULIUS POUELSEN. H. E. No. 2447o
for the WHSe4 of Sec. II, town II S,
Range I8 west, He names
the following witnesses to prove residence
upon and continuance cultivation of said
land, viz:
Dougald Carmichael, John H. Long, Adie
CrlSsman, Athenasius Karlin, all of Hays, KS,
A, II, BLAIR, Register,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18

Geo. Philip & Son have a full
line OF Majestic Ranges on hand.
Druggist Farley and family have
moved to the Garland house on
Fort street.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-18
Notfce of final settZemc,.f.

State of Kansas, Ellis comfy, SIS.
In the Probate court of said county;
In the matter of the estate of
Marie THOLEN, deceased;
To all Creditors of and other persons ir ter
ested in said estate.
You are hereby notified that at the next
regular term of the Probate court, in and for
said county, to be held at the Probate JUDGES
office in Hays city, in said county, on The
18th day OF April 1oo5, L viii make final
settlement of said estate
Having fled with said Court NV claim
for compensation as Executrix of said
estate and for necessary attorneys fees an
for other expenses necessarily incurred {
the administration of said estate. / n
give notice as ordered by said Co, -eI I'D
said claimsQre set for hearing in t' una
on the 18th day of April, IeC no t0ur
LetdnaslkG Txotea. Fa,sc1.,,.;a.
eA''7S'' = y <AinOia' Probate Judge.