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The daily tribune., 1905-10-23

CATTLE SHIPMENTS = Cattle
from the Western Slope a-e beginning
to move and every day long trains
loaded with fancy steers pass through
Florence for Omaha. Kansas City ard
Chicago markets. The steers are IN
prime condition and are in big de.
mxnd In the east. The east 10 bc-
ginning to look to Colorado for its
beef supply more than ever. Three
train loads were shipped through here
yesterday. esoh train consisting Of
from twelve to twenty cars
The daily tribune., 1905-10-23

COWBOY TOURNAMENT = The
nrst annual cowboy tosrnsoent was
held In 6alida Saturday. Oatslemen
we're present from ChAnee. ssguache.
Park and Fremont coust,es. In the
The daily tribune., 1905-10-23

Of the Gunniron tunuel. to be called
JujAne. with q. e. McOollum a. post
master. Supplies are expected daily.
There will be about three hundred
men employed on the tunnel who
will be supplied from this offio>,
The government has constr c.ed .
school bouss 1t ths west portal and
school will be started there Monday.
The tunnel Is now In 4. 600 feet.
The daily tribune., 1905-10-23

NEW POsTOFEIOE-A A dispatch
from Montrose says that . postofioe
will be established ut the west portal
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02

ships boats. In the harbor, which Is
a lagoon enclosed by a coral reef, on
which the huge breakers Of the South
Pacific constantly roar, we saw the
skeletons Of several large warships that
had been wrecked in a hurricane.
The Samoans are tall, 1.-THE and mus
cular. They are of copper color and
have red hair. They wear but little
clothing. Women and men alike make
long chains of flowers and twine them
around their necks.
Among the passengers who came
ashore there was very blonde young
lady whose blue eyes and fair hair ap-
peared to excite great admiration
among the natives, so much so that
they took her to the best hut in the
village and some Samoan women Dress
ed her long hair with flowers and gave
her many curious presents.
There are wide winding roads
through the island shaded by palms,
bread fruit and cocoanut trees. The
natives use the cocoanut for many pur-
pOSeS. lHey eat Ine nut, drink tne
milk, oil their hair with the oil, make
drinking bowls out of the shells, and
ropes and mats of the cocoanut fibers.
Their huts are made of palm leaves.
The home of Robert Louis Stevenson
was shown to us by the Samoans. who
were very fond of him and pointed out
with great pride the beautiful monu-
ment that has been erected to his mem
ory.
In the evening we returned to the
ship in one of the "catanarans" rowed
by Samoans.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
THE ADVENTURES OF A PENNY
BY Florence Thornton-class B.
Thirteen Years Old

BY Florence Thornton-Class B.
Thirteen Years Old
In the United Verde copper mine in
Arizona, the miners were dlgginRion
day when they came across a piece of
copper that seemed to shine brighter
than the other pieces. 1t was very
small piece of copper, so they paid lit
tie attention to it and piled it with the
rest.
The next day the copper was taken to
the smelter and reduced, and after 1t
had been reduced it was taken to the
mint in San Francisco, and stamped
and made into pile after pile Of pen
MES.
The piece of copper spoken Of before.
the piece that the miners piled up, the
piece that was unusually shiny. was
made into bright new penny that
shone like gold in the sun.
After this penny was taken out of
the mint, 1t was put in the hands of
drygoods dealer, and he gave it in
change to q lady who bought some
dress goods of him.
This lady put the penny in her purse
and went home. The next day she
gave it to little neighbor girl for rum
ming an errand for her. This little girl
was very proud of the bright new PEN
ny and thought herself very rich. She
went to the store and bought stick of
candy, and again the penny was in the
hands of store-keeper.
The store-keeper put it in a drawer
with a great many other nickels and
dimes, and because the other nickels
and dimes were worth more than the
penny, they would not speak to it, SO
the poor little penny lay in one corner
of the drawer for many months, until
one day the merchant took the penny
out and gave it in change to a travelling
man.
This man had hole in his pocket
and the penny dropped out and was
lost. So that was the end of the pen
ny's adventures as far as know.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
HATTIE,s PARTY
BY Laura Seay-class c--EIeven
Years Old

In big house in the country there
live two little girls named Hattie and
Matte King Hattie and Matte have
dark eyes and long black curls, and
look alike because they are twins.
Every year, on the Sd of June, Hattie
and Matte invite all their friends and
have party; but this year what do
you think? Hattie said:
I'm going to have a party all alone,
so there"
But Hattie's mother said:
ooh! no. Hattie, Matte must be in
it, tool"
Hattie pouted and frowned until her
mother said she might have one all
alone.
So the first of June the invitations
were written and sent out while Mat
ties name was not among them. The
next day the house was cleaned and
new swings put up. June a large box
was placed by the gate so that all pres
ents could be put in it. That afternoon
Matte and Hattie were dressed in their
new dresses and Matte went away. At
2 o'clock in came all the children in
their pretty white dresses, putting pres
ent after present in the box. They
swung and played games until Mrs:
King called them in to a lunch of ice
cream, cake, candy, punch and cookies.
When they had eaten the children left
and Matte came home. AS she came
in the gate she laid a large parcel in
the box.
That night after supper Mrs. King
brought the box in and Hattie found a
ring and many pretty presents, but the
last of all, a. large doll dressed in pink
silk, was taken out with card on it
saying: From Matte" Hattie ran
crying with the large doll to her room
and since then she has said she would
never have another party alone. The
next year, to pay her sister back she
gave her doll just twice as large as
the one Matte had given her.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
Medical Ignorance

The late Jay Cooke was talking one
day in his Ogontz residence about Gen.
Grant.
Gen. Grant" he said, smiling, "once
described to me an illiterate surgeon in
the employ of a certain northern regi-
ment.
"A promising young officer had been
wounded and this surgeon had dressed
his wounds. Gen. Grant sent for the
surgeon later to ascertain the young
officers chances.
"'He is wounded, said the surgeon
to the commander in chief, "in three
places
care these wounds fatal?' Gen.
Grant asked.
The surgeon nodded grave assent.
1.-TWO of the wounds are fatal he
said The third is not If we can leave
him to rest quiet for while think
he will pull through Buffalo En-
quirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02

consists in making wood pulp pass
directly through a metallic plate with
a unmber of Sits, resulting in the
formation of thin ribbons, which pass
from the slitted plate directly to a ma
chine which twists them, Transforming
them into regular threads of any de-
sired size. ef-
The wood fiber threads thus pro-
duced go by the names of xyloline,
sivaline and licella; they are classified
by number like the other threads in
use. Mixed with hemp threads, they
have been used to make. towels. These
mixed fabrics readily admit Of wash
ing, dyeing and printing; the wood
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02

timber line, where food is scanty. 1t
belongs to the rabbit tribe properly,
but has somewhat the look of a rat,
though without the trace of tail. In
size it is about equal to ship rat, but
is much chunkier. One sometimes finds
whole tribe of pikas on a hilltop.
The animal cuts and prepares immense
quantities of towering plants for win
ter consumption, building them into a
! sort of haycock and conveys this pro-
vender later on into it's subterranean
retreat, where it spends the cold sea-
son comfortably, though perhaps be-
meath thirty feet of snow.
1t is popularity imagined that lem
mings-so celebrated in northern Eu-
rope by reason of their periodic migra-
grations in armies-are not found in
the United States. This, however, is
decidedly mistake. Jennings of an
undersized brown species occur locally
in cold situations as far south in this
country as Virginia and Kansas, dwell
ing in sphagnum swamps, which, for
some reason not fully understood, pro-
duce peculiar cold of their own The
messy plants that grow in them seem
to give forth so rapid an evaporation
as to make cold, and thus 1t is that the
Jennings find q congenial home in such
spots, digging their tunnels through the
bog.
An important game animal, from the
viewpoint of several tribes of Indians
in California and elsewhere in the far
west, is the so-called pack rat, which,
unlike some of the creatures already
described, is a genuine rat. 1t is a ma
tive American rat and a member of the
same family to which our house rats
themselves assisted European immi-
grants-belong. Under ordinary cir
cumstances, however, 1t does not enter
human dwellings,, preferring to con-
struct huge nests in the woods, as big
as small haystacks, out OF grass, sticks
and other such materials. The Digger
Indian of California commonly carries
with him sort of golf stick which
he utilizes not for the elevated pur-
poses of sport, but in the ignoble en-
ployment of hooking pack rats out of
their nests and clubbing them to death
for food
| AS far north as Hudson bay one finds
these bushy-tailed pack rats which get
their name from the fact that they
steal or pack off with" everything
they can get hold of. They are verit-
able four-legged magpies, and seem to
be by far the cleverest of their rodent
kind. Trappers and hunters tell in
Vulnerable stories about them. They
| will steal knives. forks, spoons-any-
thing, in fact, that is bright and port
able-carrying the stolen articles to
their nests to play with. 1t is even al
legged that they always put something
"a bit of wood or what not-in place
of the thing carried off. In Death val
ley, not long ago, party OF govern
ment explorers found kind of pack
rat that makes a business OF climbing
the yucca tree. and probably II is the
only existing mammal that is able to
accomplish this feat The trunk of the
yucca is clad in an armor of spines,
which project downward, but the rat
literally gnaws its way up the tree,
making a spiral ladder as 1t goes.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
One chanoe

'T understand that he is making lots
of money.
Eyes. indeed"
Has it changed him much?"
Il couldn't say, understand, how
ever, that his wife has taken down the
old God Bless Our Home" motto and
in it's place there is picture OF
woman in a gauze dress. Detroit Tri-
bune.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
Rewards for Church Going

g At Holsworthy, in Devonshire, Eng
land, the prettiest girl who attends
church gets well rewarded for doing
so. About fifty years or so ago it
struck Rev. Thomas Meyrick, who was
then vicar of the parish, that the young
ladies there did not attend church so
often as they might do. So he left a
sum of money, and this, according to
the terms of his will, was to be put
out at interest. The annual income
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
Animals But
Little Known

q ONE of the most interesting ami
mails in the United States are sc
little known that most people
have never heard of them. The kan
garoo rat, a denizen of the western des-
erts, is one of these. 1t has surpris-
ingly long tail and long and powerful
hind legs, by the help of which 1t
jumps in a manner strilSingly sugges-
tive of the kangaroo. In truth 1t is one
of the prettiest of American mammals
graceful, beautiful of form and so
agile that it can cover eight feet at a
single leap. In color it is gray, or some
times brown, but snow white beneath.
1t lives in a burrow, and one of the
most curious of it's features is pair of
external cheek pouches, lined with fur,
into which it puts seeds and other pro-
vender intended for deposit in it's store
house or granary. At the sides of its
skull it has two big bulges. such as are
not found in any other living creature,
and which contain the hearing appa-
ratus.
1t is unfair to call this pretty little
animal a rat, inasmuch as it belongs
to quite a different family, and the
same remark applies to a number OF
small related species, found in the same
part of the country, which are popular
ly known as kangaroo mice or pocket
mice. They are beautiful little crea-
lures, about the size of an ordinary
house mouse, and they can jump like
grasshoppers. They have the same
sort of fur lined side pockets on their
cheeks. and great numbers of them in
habit the most frightful of our deserts,
such as that of Death valley, in South
ern California. A relative of theirs
common in Death valley, is the scor-
pion mouse, which lives almost wholly
upon scorpions, and another is the
jumping mouse, which actually utilizes
its long tail to steer with when it leaps
If the tail be cut off it jumps as well
as ever, but cannot direct its skips
Jumping mice are pretty well distrb-
uted over the United States. living in
grassy places, where occasionally they
lose their tails by the moving machine
nnOlnR LneInSelNSS lHSIedIteI Wilhou
proper rudders.
Almost unknown until recently has
been the so-called "mountain beaver
which furnishes a most valuable ful
to the northwestern tribes of Indians
Hardly bigger than muskrat and tail
less, its habits are mystery as yet
The Indians of California, Oregon and
Washington make cloaks and Other
wearing apparel from the skin, the fun
being not unlike beaver fur-in fact
II might be termed the beaver of the
northwestern tribes. among whom the
pets are a standard of value. The
animal dwells in boggy places, feeding
upon coarse and succulent vegetation
and tunneling the ground in the neigh
borhood of running water. Horses fire.
quently fall into the burrows of th'
mountain beavers, the ridden animals
sinking to their launches in the holes
excavated by the smaller creatures.
In parts of the west the name Of
"pika." or little chief" has been con
ferred upon an interesting species o.
mammal. which is sometimes known as
starved rat" for no other reason thar
that Il dwells on mountain tops. above
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
A DAY IN SAMOA

BY Dorothy Fripp-cIass A-Fifteen
Years Old
About nine days after leaving Homo
lulu we arrived at Apia, Samoa. The
S. S. Alameda anchored inside the har-
Dor and hundreds of Samoans came out
to the ship in their "catamarans" load
ed with tropical fruits and curios of all
kinds.
We were taken ashore in one of the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
rhe Exaot platanon

"How far is it from here to tb
next suburb?" asked the stranger IN
the automobile.
tIts four rocky hills, two deep creeks
and nineteen policemen with stop
Watches said the native by the way
side.-Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02

The latest penny-in-the-slot ma
chimes in London represent sort of
savings bank. For each penny pushed
IL a receipt is returned, and sixty
represent five shilling deposit in u
bank. t~sa
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02

from it was to be given each year tc
the prettiest young woman at Hols-
worthy who had attended church reg
ularly for that year.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
Cloth Made From Wood

In Germany, Spain and Holland tex
tile goods are made out OF wood. and
It is probable that this industry win
soon spread to France. The process
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
Prize Stories Written by
The HeraIdS Young Folks

~ oRoTHY FRIPP, Santa Mon
lea, Class A.............""$2. 90
FLORENCE THORNTON,
1898 Kane street, Los Angeles,
Glass 3 .................... 200
LAURA sEAY, Downey Class c.. 100
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02

Germany is able to feed about nine
tenths of her nearly 6O,OOO,OOO inhab-
tants with the products Of her own
soil ai
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02

pulp thread, which grows weak when
wet, regains its resistance when dried.
Kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-02
A WouId-B Be Visitor

Vacation times returning.
like worlds fairs. but say
Whom do / know IN Portland,
Old Portland, far awayf
Kansas City Times.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-20
STREET CAR SCHEDULE.

The depot car VIII leave the Court
House first trip for the depot. 600 a. m.
and every 10 minutes until 1880 p. M,
last trip.
The Monticello and Broad Oaks car
leaves the Court House first trip for
Broad Oaks, G:Io a. m. and every 20
minutes. until 1910 p. m, last trip
meeting tine depot car each trip at tae
Court House.
The Wilsonburg and O'Neil cars leave
the Waldo Hotel every 10 minutes. first
trip $3.50 a. m. last trip, 1I.lO p. M.
for Adamston. Wilsonburg and o'Nen.
The Adamston car leaves the Waldo
Hotel every 40 minutes from ESQ a M
until li:So p. m, last trip for Adams
ton.
The Grasselli car leaves the Court
House 600 a. m. and every 40 minutes
until 1920 p. m. for tine Industrial
and Grasselli.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-20

In the evening of mis- life it must,
indeed, be a proud thing to Gen, r. $.
Nortncott, our venerable townsman to
benold the honorable successes Of his
sons. With one i,obling tho honorn-
bic position OF acknowledgement Of
a great state, another president OF the
state senate OF his own state and stiIl
another given one of the best and most
responsible federal positions in the
state. General Nortncott's days ara
being numbered with honors that SHOULD
make any family happy. AMI it is a
demonstration to him and the public
as well That the proper trimming Of
youth. such as ne gave ais boys, brings
its own handsome reward.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-20

campaign Mr.. Nortaeott did possibly
more work than any one man for sue
cess at the poles. lie deserves it from
that standpoint. Besides, ne is a
gentleman that mas been thoroughly
honest in MS public life and never d.
yiates from what he conceiyes 10 be
rignt, and it may truly be said Of him
that mis- ideals are nign and that in pol
itics he stands eminently above the
average politician and is not associated
with many of the questionable methods
they employ. The Telegram congratu
lates botn Mr. Nortacott and the state,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-20
Election Notice

Take notice, that on tine Attn day of
April, 1905, there will be an election
oeli in the City of Clarksbwg, under
Chapter lOl of the act of 1897, entitled:
"An act to amend and reenact and re
duce into one, the several acts incor-
porating the town of Clarksburg, in the
County, of Harrison, defining tn, powers
thereof and describing the limits OF
said town for the election of officers
and common council, provided by said
act. mayor, ehief-of police, city clerk
superintendent of STREETS, commissioner
of water works, sss6eetor and treasurer
city assessor anow.Saool commissioner.
for one year, and five councilmen, one
for eaGa ward for two years encn, as
provided by said act amended
Said election shall be held and con
Quoted and the result thereof certified
returned and finally determined under
chapter three of the Cod of West Vir-
ginia as amended. Sucn election will
be neld in the places umeratei below
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-20
WILL co TO cATsKILLs

Arthur c. Budd cont amplates spend
ing the summer in the Catskill noun.
tains after n winter of hard work and
close application. His many friends
say he deserves uucn a vacation and
nope he may have the time of his life
there.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-20

,pointment Of Elliott Nortneott
nal revenue collector Is Ger.
happy compromise Of the con
the place and meets the hearty
Of all Republicans. IA caair
he state committee in the last
Middletown transcript., 1905-03-04
WHAT OF THE PEACH CROP 7

From the various sections where
peaches are grown later reports are COM
ing that are more cheering than the dole
full wall that went forth last week, and
there appears to be general concensus OF
opinion that while some buds are
blasted, there are many, fully sixty per
cent. of the buds in good condition; more
than sufficient to make full peach
crop, should no further accident befall
them.
From the orchard of Charles Postles,
four miles north of Milford, we examined
branches from fully twenty specimens,
and found the above statement fairly the
approximate from the buds on the
branches. From other points reports
similar are coming; and, as we stated last
week, unless lower temperature than has
prevailed this winter, or late frosts in the
spring prevents, there will be comfort
able flow of money toward Delaware
next August from the peach crop
Chronicle.
Middletown transcript., 1905-03-04
PERSONALITIES

Miss AIDA j. Foard is visiting friends
in Philadelphia.
Miss May llolten is the guest Of friends
near Summit Bridge.
Mr. Joseph Clark, of Frederick, was
.he guest Of Mr. Il. S. Jones Friuay.
Miss Lille Clark, of Wilmington, has
been visiting her amt, Mrs. q. D. Kelley.
Miss Viola Ennis, Of Philadelphia, was
the guest of friends here during the past
week.
Miss Hilda Wilkie spent Sunday with
her parents, Rev. and Mrs. William ].
Wilkie.
Miss Mary Byrne, Of Philadelphia, has
been the guest of her niece, Mrs. Frank
r. Pool.
Mrs. George Minner spent part of this
week with Wilmington and Philadelphia
relatives.
Miss Estella Suydam will leave Monday
for Wilmington, where she has accepted
a position.
Mr. Harvey Rutledge, Of Chester, Pa,
was the guest Of his aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
J. r. Brown.
Mr.. John Blackston, of Wilmington,
was the guest OF friends in town last
Friday evening.
Miss Beulah Craa ford has returned to
Wilmington afteE months visit with
relatives near here.
Misses AIverda Edwards and Mary
Davis, of Chesterville, Nd, were guests
of Miss Lottie ]. Jolls over Sunday
Mrs. Albert K. Hopkins. of Cambridge,
Nd, will spend Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. H. NJ. Jones, on East Lake street.
Messrs. Harold Green, OF Philadelphia,
and Lucien Green, of Delaware College,
were guests Of their mother, Mrs. E. c. |
Green, over Sunday.
Mr.. E. B. Bradshaw, of Chcgo, ILL.,,
is visiting his brother, T. R. Bradshaw,
near Odessa, and paid our Office a
pleasant visit on Thursday.
Mr.. Cyrus P. Rogers, of near Frederica,
was the guest of his sister, Mrs. w. P.
Cullen, several days this week, leaving
on Friday for Washington, D. c., where
he will attend the Inauguration.