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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

into the tracks the tram
was sliding along more
than fast. He sprinted
and picked up a Zenith,
but he could see t he
wasn't going to make it
with the load of grocer
les, and he began to drop
the timed grub to tighten
up. We were screeching
like a bunch of Indians,
and hanging out the
back platform trying to
reach him, and he was
up to his chin in pies, and
gasping and goggling like
a drowning man, drib-
bling bread and biscuits
and hunks of cheese all
down the line. And the
faster he dropped 'em,
the faster the train leaked
away from him. He
paused to scratch his ear
thoughtfully.
He threw over all
the pies, and then didn't
catch it. The last we
saw of him, he was sitting
on the rails wiping oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

T was the night of the first rehearsal in the new
| hippodrome and six thousand empty theater
chairs, in tier tier and gallery on gallery
faced proscenium-arch as wide as a street and
high a church nave A chorus the size of
a regiment had formed in rank on a stage as big
public square.
The conductor of orchestra as large as a
military band rose in a white sweater and tapped
for silence with his baton. Now boys he said
the first tune you play in the house: The Star
Spanged Banner in B-fat. B-fat Now them"
The orchestra in a body The conductor on
his Podium, poised his if about to fly.
And suddenly the silence of that empty shell of
a theater the notes of hundred instruments
struck in a tremendous unison and set the air
pulsing with the throb of the melody.
The chorus and the stage hands and the ballet
and the carpenters we'll as the decorators on
their scafOldings, the electricians their ladders
the plasterers in the lobby, and the little group
of loOkers-on in the orchestra chairs, cheered and
waved their hats and whisted through their fingers
You would have thought it was the signing of
another Declaration of independence and the
ringing of another Liberty Bell.
But when the last high note had shri1ed out
into silence and the last persistent cheer had stopped
in a sef-conscious laugh, "Slivers" sat down with
his worried frown, unreeved Besides he
went on, I've got to make my entrance in some
fool kind of automobile that blows up and |
don't know any more about running automobile
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30
A N Elep h ant That Re nm e b red
By III A r v z 7 I.
O'HIGGINS

road. It'd only run one way, so they always used
it uphill jobs and let it back down of itself
That was the part of the bus ness that wasn't
cushion-tired. You had to hang to the smoke
stack and let her rip till she brought up against
something that was hard. But it'd "a been good
training for this stunt
There indication in his lean face that he
was conscious of any humor in the suggestion His
eyes were fixed sadly on a chorus of milknaids in
street costumes, dancing and prouetting around
the stage with the mechanical air of
hearsal
Did you own hin-the e1ephant?'
"Punch?" He shook his head. Il worked
with him, but Burke owned him-Wally Burke
and Burke was half elephant himself and half
Hindu and the rest Irish Did you ever see one of
those fat China humpty- dumps they keep in a joss
house. with long black nustache and waist like
a watermelon? Waly Burke the only original
of all them.
And what was it that happened with the per-
simmons?''
He thought it over. 1--WE were down South with
Morriss-with a one-ring show. And Burke and
the elephant were all the animals we had except
two old-mad lionesses that too feeble to do
knitting. We used to their den for the band
wagon with seats top. They good,
those two sissies. When we lost Hinch-that'd
used to blow the big bass tuba-we tried to get the
two lions to roar in where Hinch used to come in
the tune; but you couldn't squeeze roar out of
those two old women short of putting them through
clotheswringer. Besides, Burke wouldn't prod
EN- up
He had some sort of a Hindu notion about
treating the brutes with decorun the same as
if they knew when you didn't take off your lid
to them and say Please And after Punch and
hind do their turn with in the ring, he'd take
that leather-skinned rubber off to the animal
tent, and powwow and gable to him and stroke
him and feed him pepperrnnts, like he an
archbishop.
g. He a freak, Burke was; but he certainly
did know how to make parlor call an
elephant. He'd taught Punch to sit down his
far end and shake hands with his trunk and listen
to you, as innocent and solemn-eyed pickaninny
with bottle of molasses Only if Burke wasn't
there, he'd listen to you a minute and then feel
around in the straw till he'd filled his fire-hose full
OF sand, and then blow it in your face so hard you
could go away and strike matches yourself He
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expenditure of money which many
such have made the advancement of
many breeds and the wide iistribu-
ton of stock would never have &C.
Cured.
Almost at the very beginning of the
industry in this country we find that
most aristocratic Virginia farmers,
one of the richest men of his day,
George Washington himself, risking
his capital and employing his powerful
abilities in the Importation of fine
sheep and other improved stock from
Spain and France. Henry Clay, the
famous Kentucky statesman, did the
same, and others have followed their
example. We cannot lose sight of
the fact that practically all of the
foundation stock of our vast herds
and f1ocks has been imported from
Great Britain and the continent.
Every registered Shorthorn and Here
ford, Jersey and Holstein, Shire and
Percheron, and Berkshire in America
can trace his pedigree to an imported
animal. 1t takes money to bring
stock thousands of miles to new
country and acclimatize them to
changed conditions, and capital is
entitled to credit for the service it
rendered. In this particular it must
not be forgotten that the financing OF
some of the most famous importations
was secured through stock companies
formed by men of moderate means,
who thus combined their capitals. 1t
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would be impossible to enumerate the
many men whose spending money has
advanced the cause of better stock
Phil Armour and Frank Hansen with
the Herefords, Aaron Barber and Col.
Harris with Shorthorns, and scores of
men with Bercherons, Clydesdales or
other breeds. Look at the work OF
G.. |. Hood, the millionaire manufac
turer of that world renowned remedy
Hoods Sarsaparilla. His Jersey herd
has always stood as model of al
that breed represents. Down in
North Carolina one of the Wander
bits has established "Biltmore,"
princely estate in the mountains,
where Berkshire swine, Jersey cat
tie, and other pure bred stock flour
ish in the lap of luxury without regard
to price. They show us, these million
aires and others of their kind, what
money can do, and the whole live
stock kingdom is the better for their
expenditures. Do we need a more
illustrious example of this kind than
our esteemed friends, the Laid broth
ers, of Portland, whose love for fine
stock, as shown by the famous herds
maintained by them, has done so
much to stimulate our interest?
Lest some OF you may conclude that
fine stock breeding can only be prac-
ticed as a rich mans hobby. I must
hold up another set of pictures. A
study of live stock history as found in
the biographies of noted animals re-
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home some of them mansions, and
always brought to the man himself
higher place in the esteem of his
fellow men.
| have in mind young man on an
Ohio farm who, some years ago, re-
turned there from school to begin the
establishment of a herd of Aberdeen
Angus, at that time an unpopular
breed in his section. With rare per-
sistence he has developed his herd,
made the breed popular, and himself
we'll known and well off. Last year
he gathered more than one mans
share of the plums at st. Louis; is
now president of the live stock in
terests of his native state, member
of the board of experiment station di-
rectOrs, and is everywhere sought to
address assemblages where the work
of the breeder is prominent. Is it
not worth while to have in ones pos
session, especially of their own pro-
duction, animals of royal breeding and
purity of blood. Is not the satisfac-
ton alone worth the effort and is not
the stimulus aroused by the care,
feeding and management of animals
that inspire pride and self-respect in
their owners one of the best means of
lifting the ordinary farmer above the
commonplace level?
No, I am not satisfied to see the
building up of our herds of improved
stock abandoned to the rich men of
our country. We are glad to have
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veals the fact that all of these were
the product of comparatively poor
men, The rich man has too often
kind, which has swept the prize ring
bare but back somewhere on the farm
some plodding breeder and feeder ha
made his success possible. Not a
single king of the turf of late years
has come from the advertised stock
farms of our plutocrats. Some of
them. indeed, as illustrated by Aller-
ton, had most humble beginnings. 1t
is worthy of record that Young Alb
botsburn, the famous ShorthOrn of the
Columbian exposition, was discovered
on a modest Canadian farm. The
winning herd of Herefords at st.
Louis came from Missouri farm
scarcely before heard of, and every
animal shown was bred by the ex-.
hibitor himself. One cannot get away
from the clearly revealed fact that the
real creators in the live stock world
are men of moderate means who have
bred the stock in their own stables
and have too often seen them leave
their native pastures at prices below
their real worth and later bloom out
as champions of the show rings. Nor
is the business of dealing in pure
bred stock beyond the reach of the
poor man, provided he has the talen'
and necessary business ability. 1t has
laid the foundation for many a for
tune, bought many farm, built many
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Okanaqan Valley, British Columbia

Larkin, the new town, surrounded by the
fruit land of the Okanagan Valley, situated
on the C. p. branch of the S. & o. KY;
between Vernon and Armstrong is destined
to become one of the most important towns
in the now famous and we'll known frult-
growing district in B. c. viz: the Okanogan
Valley. 1t is surrounded by 10000 acres
of fine level land of the finest quality oil
black loan and clay loan soils, an apuhu
ance of good water for irrigation anu
domestic purposes, plenty of GOOD timpel,
climate almost southern in fact one ol
the most favored locations in the who're
valley. 1t is a desirable location from any
standpoint for health, wealth and oppol-
tunities for general prosperity, as iaIee
portions of this land will be subdivided into
blocks from one to five, ten or more acre.
There will be a chance for everyone pot
rich and poor, to make start In lie amu
get in on the ground floor, as the PllCe'
will be within the reach of everyone, rans
ing from $25 to 500 per lot, on easy terhl9,
Acre lots from 500 to $3.50, all cleared an an
already under cultivation with rrls" The
Free fine orchard practically on tro
townsite speaks for itself as a fruit NV
ing district and cannot be beaten d. ,1fa
point in the valley. "A chance OF tbe
conditions in and around the new 80
Good level roads and driveways for nia ane
miles north. south and west through
of the most fertile valleys in az the
Lakes, rivers, brooks and springs OF
best water; fish and game In apul eSl-Tn
Hay, grain, fruit and vegetables are el4te
at a handsome profit, while horses c@sde
hogs, sheep and poultry have ALREADY
some of the ranch owners millionaires' ain
One hundred business lots in the noon
street of Larkin, the new town pe'" nne-
Vernon and Armstrong, at $50 each, no
third cash. balance in and mohInS some
not overlook this opportunity to mahe .own
easy money for there will be a goou ,your
within a year and you can douDi ,so 100
money In less than six months: Aa,so,acre
one acre lots at $3.50 each; 100 hve- $3.50
lots at $500 each; 100 ten-acre lots at @ch:
each; 100 ffteen-acre lots at $i1Vo 6ne
100 twenty lots at $4,000 each' Ia
bottom land. with irrigation free. yy
SOLE Agents. vernon g Larlin, b. =.
Christie & Heubach. Sole Agents, winn I'm
Subscribe at once to the Okanagan nagan
Journal and get posted on the
valley; price 81 per year.
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them in our ranks, 70 have them
scour other lands for the most per.
feet types, to see them pour out money
in order to assemble magnificent
herds for us to gaze on as models
but often all the future of pure stock
breeding does not rest with them but
with the men of limited means.
Fortunately here in the west we are
laying foundations. Not many of us
can be called rich and most of us
would be poor if our debts were paid;
and if we are to maintain our slogal
"for better Stock it means that all
of us in some humble way must
preach better stock and grow better
stock-and this can be done in no
other way than by maintaining
greater purity of blood.
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If you want information about the
lower Yakima valley, write to E. F.
Benson & Co., Prosser, Wash, and
they will send you free descriptive
illustrated pamphlet which will tell
you all about the resources and Oppor-
tunities of that favored section where
Irrigation is King"
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tering profits.
There is in pure stock breeding an
element of chance, which at times
possesses all the fascination of the
lottery wheel or gaming tables. The
fabulous price for famous animals In
the sale ring, the excitement and
craze which dominates breeders and
novices as well, the rise and the fall
of the range of prices-all. OF these in
dications are almost identical with
the feverish movements of the finan-
cial world 1t is not surprising that
here and there will be found man OF
wealth who believes that his finan-
cial genius is such that he can Juggle
with stock. not that kind represented
by engraved bond paper, but real flesh
and blood, and make the venture pay
him we'll The majority of such specu-
lators, however, never realize their
expectations and the cause of live
stock history is tagged by ruin and
disasters which mark the failure OF
such we'll meant efforts.
| believe that the majority OF the
rich men who have gone into the
breeding of fancy live stock have done
so not with the hope of making money
but to crafty an Unborn love for the
noble animals they would rear and to
satisfy longing and desire that prob
ably has been cherished from the boy
hood days on the old farm. Some OF
these wealthy breeders, it is true,
have made money out of pure bred
stock but they are not only welcome
to every dollar of profit but are en-
titled to the gratitude of every al
mirer of fine stock.
You can glance over the history OF
any single breed and the rich mans
place in it is a prominent One-some-
times it has been horses, most fire.
uuently fast horses. Did Leland
Stanford, or Marcus DAILY, or Levi T.
Morton, or James Gordon Bennett
ever get back half the fortunes spent
on their great stock farms? No, but
they gave us fine lot OF animals OF
those magnificent races-the standard
bred trotter and the thoroughbred.
1t must not be forgotten that many
a business man, becoming interested
in live stock and carrying the same
business ability which made him
wealthy into the operations OF stock
farm, has been the object OF erroneous
criticism on the part OF less success
full breeders because of the showing
he has made Such action only reveals
more clearly the fact that the hand
ling of pure stock on successful
basis is something more than mere
agricultural enterprise; it is pro-
position requiring business genius
of the highest rank The chance for
man who has accumulated wealth
making a fine stock farm pay one is
vastly better than for one less for
tunate. not because he already has
money but for the reason that he has
the required ability to handle such a
business. Few wealthy men are
skilled in the lore of their fiocks or
herds but they know enough to en-
ploy men who are, which is in itself
an evidence of good business sense.
Instead, they bring to bear business
methods in management, advertising,
purchasing and selling, and success
naturally follows.
No doubt many such men do not
realize a full profit from their in
vestments, and instead pocket their
losses and say nothing about it. Oc
casionally some, who are OF specu
lative turn of mind, get caught with
+bo foor Of Initiated nricoS and find
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11
BROUGTH TO LIGHT
Alaska People Receiving the FUl'
 Benefit,

There have been many cases like the following in Alaska. These plain, straightforward statements will do much toward relieving the suffering of thousands. Such testimony will be read with interest by many people.
 P. A. Johnson, carpenter, 4S4O South I street, Tacoma, Wash, says:
 ''For a year or so took deferent medicines trying to strengthen my Kidneys, but my efforts were unsuccess- ful and grew worse instead of better and trouble with the kidney secretions came to be a positive annoyance. l need not give minuter particulars and what cured me is of more importance. I got Doan's Kidney Pills and took a course of the treatment. lean honestly say have not felt pain in my back nor had any annoyance from too ire queut action of the kidneys since ! stopped the use of this medicine" e."
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, New York sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the name-Doan's-and take no substitute.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11
GOING AHEAD Chealander Fair Proposition
 Progressing

Alaskan directors for the fair that 1t is proposed to hold in Seattle in 1907 are being selected from the interior. A letter from Godfrey Chelander, written from Fort Gibbon, says Capt, E. T. BarneLte, mayor of Fairbanks, and Charles E. ClaypOol, 8 leading lawyer of that place, have been select ed for Fairbanks. L. L. James, United States commissioner, will represent Cinema, and the following selections have been made from Yukon river points: F, H Grace, Circle; Jack Carr, Fort Yukon; H. F. Thumm, Rampant mining district, and J. H. Johnston, Coldfoot. The Arctic Brotherhood camp, at Eagle, and the camp at Ram part will each select one.
 Mir. Chealander further says:
 "The work is progressing nicely and the people are taking 8 lively interest in the project. All arrangements have been made by which 1t will be possible for us to devote the entire season next year, commencing early in the spring, to gather exhibits and prepare them for 1907.
 1t will be necessary to send sey' eral parties into Alaska for that pur- pose. For instance, there will be the extbit of berries. A full display of all the different wild berries will be made, and they will have to be put up in the various forms and some preserved whole, in clusters. Then, perhaps, three different parties will have to be dispatched to take pictures, moving and otherwise. One party must go down the Yukon river, and one to GOV CT the coast from Sitka to the mouth oi the Kuskoquim river, in Boring sea, both parties affecting a junction at St. Michael, and from there proceed tc Nome and cover Seward peninsula Then another party would have to take in the FOrtymile, Eagle, Circle, Ram part, Tannana and the. Ksintishna mining districts, with proper outfits, and a proper schedule of times all this can be done next year"
 Mir. Chealauder's letter said he ex' pected to be in Seattle before the mid de of October.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11
Oyster cocktails, Olympia or Eastern at the Pack Train restaurant,
DELINQUENT TAX LIST

Notice is hereby given that the taxes for the year A. D. 1904, levied by the town of 'SkagwaY, Alaska, pursuant to the law and the ordinances Of said town, hnve not been paid upon the property situated within the boundaries ot said town, described below, and that the amount of taxes delinquent and unpaid upon each tract of property described is as set opposite the description ot said property, together with 20 per cent. additional thereto, as penalty, interest at the rate of 8 per cent. from and after the lst day of March, 1905, and the cost accruing because of this publication. If said taxes, penalty, interest and costs shall not have been paid on or be- fore the lst day of October, A. D, 1905, all property upon which taxes are still delinuuent shall be deemed forfeited to the city, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue certificates of pur. c lase for any such property 10 any per son paying the amount of taxes, penal ties, interest and other costs due at the date of issuance of said certificate, in cluding a cost of S1 co for such certiti- cate. The property, according to the plat of the town of SksgWay as surveyed by F. H. Reid, upon which taxes are delinquent for the said year, 4, D. 1905, together with the amount of the taxes originally charged upon it, is as fol- lows:
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11
SHATTERING TORY ARGU-
 MENTS

The Juneau and Sitka tories have always tried to create the impression that only politicians favor seli-govern- ment for Alaska. The other day the United Mine Workers of Nome to the number of 800 met and declared for the removal of Gov. Brady, AlaSkas tory executive, and for territorial govern ment. They nominated on that plat form delegates to attend the Seattle convention next month and it was successful bya large majority,as an cleo tf01 whereat l2OO votes were boiled. Among those on the ticket were many of the leading mine owners of Seward peninsula. There were also bankers and merchants and representatives of other classes who are interested in the development Of the country on the tic ket.
 The fact of the matter is that all of the people of Alaska except few poll ticians and the representatives of a very few of the many eastern and Eng fish corporations operating in the dis trict favor self-government. The men who are producing gold-the prospect ors, the workers in the drifts and shafts and the great majority of the mine owners and operators-the merchants, bankers' and others who are making Alaska a great country are not tories They understand that selt-go7ernueni means to take the control of the district out of the hands of politicians and ip' competent departmental clerks at Washington and to place it in the hands of the men who live and work in the district.
 The recent actions Nome and Fair banks and Ketchikan and other mining districts have made it necessary for the tories to go argument chasing or tc keep still.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11
SAMPLES or 1906
 CALENDARS HERE

The Daily Alaskan mas received 8 full line of samples of 1906 calendars from the famous J. W. Butler Pap 1T company, of Chicago. They include the latest designs many of which are works of art.
 Business men of fSkagway and Haines, who desire calanders for next year are invited to call and make selections.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11

A straw that indicates the extent Of the emigration of Americans to the new Canadian provinces was the noml- nation the other day of an American from Kansas for parliament by an AL berta constituency. The American vote" is one of the elements to which both the liberal and conservative par ties are catering in the campaigns that is now in progress it Alberta Sascata- hewan.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11
Notice to Creditors

All persons having claims against the estate of James Hansen, deceased, are requested to present them 10 me prop erly verified, within SIX months from date of this notice, at my place of busi- ness in Haines, Alaska.
 Dated this sixth day of....September, 1905. Fl. Fay,
 Administrator.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-11

George ". Perkins, yice-President Of the New York Life Insurance Compa- ny, has been forced out of his position as manager of the banking house Of J.. Pierpout Morgan & Co.,, on account of the life insurance contributions for PO- political purposes. Morgan does not object to the contributions, but says Perkins handled them tCo clumsiIy,