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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25
ISLAND OF SAKHALiN.
4asslass Penal Colony Which Has Bees
Taken by the Japanese.

Taken by the Japanese.
The island Of Sakhalin, Russia'a
penal colony in the Far East, which
Japan has captured, is $50 miles long
and from II to $50 broad and has q
population OF 10000.
For the most part the land Is Gov
cred with primeval forest, SO dense
that the rivers are the chief native
highways, navigated by dugouts in
summer and crossed in dog or reindeer
sledges in winter. With the opening
of winter the narrow Straits of Tar
tary, dividing Sakhalin from the ST.
berian coast, are frozen over, and SO
far as water communication Is con-
cerned the island is cut off from the
world, and the mails are brought
across from Nicolaievsk on the main
land by nartas or sledges harnessed
with long teams Of arctic dogs.
In addition to the Russians five diff
ferent peoples are to be found ON the
Island, these including the Orochons,
Anus, Gilyaks, fungus and Yakuts.
There are altogether about 5000 ma
tives, Of whom the largest number are
Gilyeks.
The Russian occupation is practical
ly confined to radius Of thirty miles
around Aexandrovsk on the west
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25
John Moore's Busy Evening.

The family of John Moore, In north.
ern Comanche county, went to a place
of refuge from a tornado the Other
night only to find that they had gotten
into a cave barefooted with rattle
snake. The interior Of the cave was
in complete darkness when the In.
mates were startled by hearing the un-
mfstakable sound made by RATHER
Mr.. Moore hastily struck a match and
by its faint glimmer saw the snake IN
the attitude of striking. The match
went out and the family began to
scream. Another match was lighted
and the snake was still visible, and
rafting furiously. Then Mr.. Moore
made a flying leap for the steps, jump
ing over the snake, opened the door
and secured a pitchfork. Then while
his wife held a match he killed the
RATHER, which measured over three
feet long.-Kansas City Journal.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25

coast and another smaller area
around Korsakovsk in the south of
the island. Alexandrovsk Is the big
gest prison center.
The stockade prison is the center Of
Alexandrovsk, which place seems to
exist for the prison. The few mer-
chants stores and the iron foundry
are for the prisoners; the wooden
houses are the residences Of the off,
Gals. Besides the prison, the church
In the main street and the market
place there is not much to call for at
tention.
According to Mr.. De Windt. who
visited the southern portion Of SAX
hahn. there are 5000 criminal con-
victs located at Korsakovsk, only
/ about 1900 of whom are actually
under lock and key. The town con-
sists Of one long, struggling thorough
fare, beginning at the landing stage
and abruptly terminating at the huge
prison.
The conditions existing in the island
are almost beyond description. AL
most everyone is a criminal and the
worst type of Russian criminals at
that. Besides convicts, ex-convicts,
their wives and children, and the off,
Gals and troops Of the garrison, there
probably are not a dozen free born
individuals on the island. 1t has been
estimated that at least 5000 murder
ars are held there.
The whole Of Sakhalin Is under mar
tial law. In one of the prisons, out Of
total Of 600 prisoners, 500. mostly
chained, are kept in enforced idleness,
SO that many go mad. The convict's
term Of confinement In Sakhalin Is fol-
lowed by six years enforced residence
in the island as exile Settlers" and a
further six years in Siberia as peas
ants" after which they are free to re-
turn to Russia, but as matter Of fact
nine-tenths Of the convIcts never leave
the island. Insanity Is very common.
Crime Is rampant, even under the very
eyes of the officials.
The island is heavily wooded, vast
forests sweeping away for hundreds
of miles. These forests are the home
Of great bands of bears, wolves and
escaped convicts. Of which the latter
are not least dangerous.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25
Easily Described.

Ostend-Paw, what is platform
humOrist!
Paw-A platform humorist, my SON
Is a chap who stands on the back plat.
form Of car and makes jokes when q
woman steps off backward?
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25
The Special Correspondent
.0l@

end to end. and about O'clock in the
afternoon tie gap was bridged.
At once the engine began to advance
slowly, the cars following until they
Were over the temporary track and safe
again Now the road is clear to Tehar-
lalyk; what do 1 say? to Pehin.
We. resume our places. Popof gives
the signal for departure as Caterna trolls
cut "a chorus Of victory. A thousand
cheers reply to him. At 10 o'clock III the
evening the train enters Tcharkalya sta
ton.
We are exactly thirty hours behind
time. But is not tEirty hours enough to
make Baron Observation-Disclosures lose
the mail from Tien-tsin to Yokohama:
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25
Cab Horse Wins Races.

Found in the ranks Of London night
cab horses and purchased for $25, a
fine old animal, Lottery, has won eight
point-to-point races for its new owner.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25
Strange, Indeed.

| A woman from Sault Ste. Marie
Said: painters who dault pie the sic
Don't tint the waves blue,
| As I think they should do;
They use green, or they seem fault taul
mie"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25

The more we study, the more we dis
cover our ignorance-Shelley.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25

It is mighty hard to do business for
people who don't know what they
want
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-25
The Merchant

J. M. HAWKINS, PROPRIETOR.
Wines, liquors and cigars. Only
first class goods handled
Whiskies and wines for me dical
purposes always in-stock at lowest
possible prices. Kennewick, Wn.
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01

me there, full ten miles, on q litter,
and | weighed 100 pounds.
Bravo had taken the bloody
note book straight to the wigwam.
His master was away, but the
woman had guessed the meaning
of the message, and had come on 4
run to my aid. You can imagine /
was grateful to both.
my mother and sisters came
and nursed me back to health and
strength, but I've gone limping
through life ever since. Do you
wonder that / hate a wolftrap?"
Youths Companion.
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01
BRIDES OF THE COUNTRY.
Girls of the City Are Not "In It" with
Them as Regards Being
Certain.

The Soufhdown drummer had
Just returned to the city and was,
as usual, in his talkative mood,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Say, you fellows may boot at
the country people" he said, "but
let me tell you that if were a
young woman I'd ten times rather
live inthe country than in Chicago.
I've just returned from my swing
around the eornbelt, and I've
learned that the crop of June
brides is going to be something
enormous.
The country girl has four times.
as many opportunities to marry as
does her city cousin, even though
she may not be half so we'll up on
clothes and vaudeville and horse
racing and all that. You hardly
ever see an old maid in the coun-
try. In the farming districts the
girls don't worry about getting
married. They know the man will
come along atthe right time. The
young women on the farms don,tf
marry at any younger age than the
girls do here in the city, but they
are much more certain of getting
married.
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01
BUTCHER USUALLY KNOWS.
When the Child Is Sent to Market He
Gives 1t About What It Is
Sent After.

"What doyou want? asked the
butcher in large market that had !
suddenly become inundated with
small children just after school let
out for the noon hour, relates the
New York Times.
Meat, was the laconicreply.
"How much money y gotg'
asked the butcher.
The child Embossed a chubby fist
and disclosed II cents. IAN L
want an onion" she said.
The butcher took the II cents,
sliced off two small veal outlets,
wrapped them up with an onion,
and sent the child on its homeward
way. In less than 10 minutes he
had waited upon a dozen or more
children in the same fashion.
1T is up to me to decide what
half the people in a block have for
dinner he explained. 1T is not
all gnesswork, for the same chill
dren come here day after day at
the same time, and try not to
give them the same things twice
in succession. They belong to
mothers who are too busy to think
of dinner until ten minutes before
it is time to- put it on the table.
Instead of coming around in the
mornings and getting their
moneys worth, these women wait
till the children come from school,
and then trust to US for what they
can get. Thrift is the last c0nsid
Grafton. That little girl had just
money enough for two outlets and
an onion. If her mother had
wanted a steak she would have
given her more money. She wanted
something to cook in the frying
pan quick. More than half the
time the children forget what they
are told to ask for, and we just
guess what to give them from the
amount of money they have. We
take it all every time. If the kids
were sent home with any change
it would be taken away from them
by thieying boys. Mothers know
that by experience. They give the
children just the amount of cash
they have to spend, the butchts,
does the rest" n
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01
AN ODD NESTING PLACE.
as Good Place to Build
Nest.

Not all of tie delights of spring
are for the country boy, writes
George w. Picknell, in st. Mich
olas. We who live in the city have
a host of them. aud can see many
strange and pleasing sight if
we keep our eyes open. A few
days ago while riding my bicycle
down Madison avenue, | heard the
twittering of sparrows, and, look
ing up, saw in the mouth of the
stone lion on the corner of the
building of one of the eity's prom.
inent clubs, the remains of last
years nest, and two sparrows get
ting ready to build a new one for
this year.
1t was such novel place for a
bird to choose for housekeeping
that / stopped and made sketch
of it. While standing on the oppo.
site corner sketching, the police.
man of that beat came over to
talk with me. He seemed pleased
that | should have noticed the
birds. He said that the sparrows
had been keeping house there for
several years. He had often
stopped to watch them build their
nests, and later feed their little
ones; which, later, would play
around the lions head, sitting on
his nose or eyebrows as saucily as
could be, as much as to say: Yea
may look very fierce, but-wh2' z
afraid 2"
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01
APPLE SEED JOHNNY"
Started Trees That Have Spread All
Over the Country, Particu-
larly the West.


The first apple trees planted in
America were imported by the
Dutch settlement in New York in
1914. Apple trees were also
known to have been growing at
jamestown, Va, as early as 1922.
Until within the last half century
apples were grown almost solely
for cider-making, as is the case to-
day in France, states the st. Louis
Republic. AS hard cider will pro
duce drunkenness and horrible
katzenjammer, William Penn ad-
yised the colonists in Pennsyl-
vania to cultivate indigenous
fruits alone, as apples were then
used almost exclusively for max
ing cider or applejack.
Many of the orchards of the pio-
neers of the middle west were
grown from seeds obtained in a pc
culiar way. Some man whose full
name has been forgotten and who
is remembered only by the appella-
ton of Apple Seed Johnny" tray-
eled through the west and scat
tered among the settlers untold
quantities of apple seeds. He
gave them away free of charge,
and he was given hearty vel
come at every cabin.
The last decade or two has
shown wonderful development of
the large commercial apple or
chards in the west, and the industry
has now assumed vast proper
tions. Apples, for instance, are
exported to England and many
foreign countries. Apple cores
from the big drying establishments
are purchased by eastern buyers
and shipped to France, to be used
in the adulteration of wines and
champagne. A large part of this
wine and champagne is shipped
back to America in wine casks
made at Poplar Bluff, in the larg-
est barrel factory in the world.
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01
Parliament's Wine Cellars.

One of the features of the house
of commons cellars is~the Nalen-
tia vat, SO named from the pop
ular whip, Viscount Nalentia.
This is a huge vessel, and holds
l,000 gallons Of Scotch whisky ten
years old, Is under proof. 1t is
never drawn below a minimum Of
400 gallons A smaller vat of
Irish whisky contains 300 gallons.
The wine cellars are methodically
arranged with bins of bottled
wines, and among them are a Sc
lection OF the royal sherries from
buckingham and st. James pal.
aces and Windsor castle.
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01
GHOTEAU'S
W0LF-TRAP.
BY ROE L. HENDRIcK.

the bestsfishing grounds on Hem
lock creek, and at last we were off
for our three days outing, walk
ing -briskly through the spicy ever
green woodland.
Turning to the north from the
old lumber trail, we soon left be-
hind all traces of civilization, and
for the first time in my life was in
the primeval forest.
Its only a bit, though" Uncle
Allen explained. 1T doesn't cover
more than two or three townships,
but | can remember when there
was nothing but solid woods from
Huron TO Michigan, clear across
the lower peninsula. This was
when | first came Hi, therew
The old man turned abruptly
down a little swale we were cross
ing, seized a piece of dead timber,
and jabbed at something beneath
layer of brush. Instantly there
was fierce upheaval of the litter,
a metallic clash. and a huge
toothed trap seized the stick in
savage grasp.
I'D like 10 know the fool who
set that" the old man exclaimed,
in decidedly bad humor. There
are neither wolves nor bears 70
catch now. If it wasn't so heavy,
Id tote that thing to the lake and
chuck it inp'
You're not fond Of olf-traps,
judge, Uncle Allen,' | suggested.
Humph, no" was the old mans
emphatic reply. Il suppose you've
noticed how | walk-kind of side
step at time, like hog going to
war;"
Yes | replied, land I've often
wanted TO ask you about it, for |
imagined YOU must have been hurt
in some way"
&;Ies, was hurt; got caught
in ne>ef these things-and Il
mighty tight squeak it was, too.
Knowing just how they feel,
can't bear to think even of wolf
suffering in one of 'em. After sup
per tonight III tellyou about it."
That evening, lying on a broad
couch of odorous cedar boughs un-
der a new pole lean-to, with my
feet to the fire, Iremindedm com
panion of his promise.
made no notes of the story.
and years have passed since then,
but it made such a vivid impress
sion on my mind that | can easily
give the substance of what he said.
Il don't suppose" he began,
that I've told anybody that story
going on ten years. just thinking
OF it makes me SILVER, so usually
don't like to mention it.
4 came to this part of Michigan
with my father right after the war.
in less than a month after i was
mustered out. We took up a full
section, and that winter mother.
and the girls joined us. They hur-
ried out here to nurse me, not lAav
ing planned to leave our old home
back in Vermont till the next
April.
There WASN'T anything to
speak of here but woods at first,
though the lumber companies
were beginning to push up-coun-
try. Father and put up our two
roomed log cabin in July, '65, when
our nearest neighbour was on the
Horon shore, near the mouth of
upper. creek, a good Is miles to
the eastward.
This man wasn't much of a
neighbor, either. He was old Al
phonse. Choteau, a quarter blood
Seneca, and had wife who was
straight Indian a Chippewa
squaw. They had half dozen
copper-colored children, all as wild
as quails.
"Old man Choteau was sociable
enough when you could under
stand what he said !; hut for months
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01

we're three such teeth on the right
and two on the left, set alternate
". One went through my arm,
just under the skin, and two 9th
ers dug into my right side, one
reaching clear to the hip-bone,
right into the joint.
Hurt? Not at first; the shock
simply paralyzed me, and | should
MT wonder if | tainted outright,
though | was a pretty hearty, rug
ged lad in those days. But pres
emily the cold, drilling rain,
beating straight into my upturned
face, brought me to. Then | suf-
fered enough to make up for lost
time.
NO one could have been in q
more helpless position. As the
jaws were still wide apart, and the
heavy springs-one on either side
had not yet got their full grasp
perhaps | might have thrust them
apart if both my hands had been
free. Even then, with the spikes
tearing my flesh, it would have
been terrible task and one re-
quiring nerves of steel.
but with only one hand / could
do nothing effective, though |
wrenched at the jaw on the side,
and tried to work myself along the
ground to reach a broken branchea
few yards away.
But / could accomplish moth
ing-absolutely nothing; and the
weather was rapidly growing cold
er. The danger was of being IA
tally chilled, not actually frozen.
In half an hour my feet felt like
Jumps of ice, and the numbness
was creeping upward inch by inch.
Then l tainted, and for second
time became mercifully uncon-
scious of my agony.
1T couldn't have been long, pos
sibly Is minutes, when felt some
thing on my cheek, and opened my
eyes to see Bravo standing over
me, licking my face. That gave
me an idea.
Reaching across and tearing
open my jacket, / finally succeeded
in drawing out my notebook from
the left inside breast pocket.
Though the rain blurred and blot
ted the paper, | laid the book open
at my side, and smearing twig
with my blood, scrawled:
. In trap by Upper dam. Help.
Quick. A. Tupper.'
at was hardlyslegible; and then
it flashed upon me that neither the
Frenchman nor his family could
read. So | drew a rough oval of
the trap, with sprawling springs,
and trusted to luck.
THE drawing was made in
blood; an Indian could not fail to
guess the meaning of that, and if
the dog would only carry the book
one way, he could easily act as
guide the other. | was thorough.
ly exhausted, on the very point of
fainting again, and could not pos
sibly do more.
"Closing the MOTEL book and
thrusting it between Bravo's jaws,
/ said: 'Homep two or three
times, just as | had done before
when wanted him to return to his
master, and then everything be-
came blur, and did not know or
care whether he had obeyed. At
all events, the pain was gone.
but suddenly it came back with
rasping fierceness, as if red hot
iron was being used viciously to
gouge the marrow from my hip
bone.
Il writhed and opened my eyes,
to see Choteau's squaw, with a
face as blank as stone wall. but
looking like that of an angel to
me then, as she deftly piled open
the trap with the clog, which she
used as lever. | managed to roll
out of its merciless clutches, but
could not stir after that.
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01

little garden where she raised veg
etables, but all he did was to trap
and hunt, with a trip to Detroit or
Mackinaw twice year. first got
acquainted with him through his
big dog, Bravo.
The dog was three-quarters
bearhound; the rest / don't know
what-wolf, maybe. He was an
Ugly beast for a stranger to run up
against under ordinary circum-
stances.
"One September morning / was
out looking for a deer. We weren't
bothered by game laws then,
though fancy the. legislature may
have begun to think about them.
| was crawling along toward 4
creek bottom when, over in a hard
wood patch not far off, beard the
most doleful bowling and whining
that ever came to a mans ears. 1t
plainly was a dog, but / wasn't
expecting to hear or see dogs in
that wilderness, so | went to in
yestigate. Pretty soon | came
upon the Frenchman's beast, and
Il sorry enough plight he was in.
"How an old, experienced wood
dog came to get into such a scr2pe
| couldn't understand at first, but
afterward | learned that it was
due to his bull-head pluck and
foolishness. He'd done the same
thing before.
"He had had the bad luck to run
across a porcupine on the ground.
Well, the porcupine was up tree,
minus few quilts, and Bravo was
the worst .usedup hound in the
state of Michigan. His nose looked
like a dressmaker's red flannel
pincushion just before she'd start
ed on big days work.
"He showed plainly that he'd
been there before and knew what
treatment was necessary, for he
sided up to me, whining, and lay
at full length at my feet. | took
out my knife, split hardwood
stick two thirds of its length,
and thus made a pair of pincers.
Then | spent an hour pulling out
the spines one by one. 1t must
have hurt cruelty, but Bravo only
whimpered now and then.
THE wounds bled so that /
was afraid the dog would die. |
hurried off and got lot of fresh
pine balsam, which smeared over
the holes as fast as the quilts were
drawn out. When ! was through
the dog staggered to his feet and
followed me home.
Bravo stayed for a couple of
DAYS, after which / took him home
to his master. After that he used
to visit me 'slashing' often, and
got to know me well. 1t was a
lucky thing for me that he did.
Maybe YOU think Pm going a
long way round to tell about a
wolf trap, but have patience; I'm
nearly there.
Early in November, one cold,
foggy, drizzly day, | went to the
headwaters of Topper creek to
look after some traps | had there.
/ had heard that ,Choteau, with
his family. also was trapping in
that neighborhood, living tempo
rarily in a wigwam, and | hoped to
see him. i wanted to make a bar
gain for him to sell my furs in De-
troit.
"Just before noon, when ] was
not far from the beaver dam, |
came upon a runway, as it is
called, leading down the creek. As
it promised easier walking, fol-
lowed it. That showed ] was a
green woodsman, for might have.
known an old trapper like Chotean
would have had some kind of de-
vice in a place like that.
But l went blindly ahead till
Just as ] was taking long stride
to clear some fine brush, heard a
chain rattle under foot. Again a
wise man would have stood still.
The Newark journal., 1905-12-01
Slaughtered for Fur.

The Siberian sable, unless gro
tected By law. will soon be .'st &c.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-11-20
Victims or ora Jokes.

A hospital surgeon says that there is
more facial paralysis among bank pay
Ing tellers, photograph and elevator
operators than in any other classes.
he accounts for it with the words,
"OM jokes. - B
Jokes! How soip
Whenever bank clerk hands out
q fresh, crisp bill, the man on the other
side of the window says: New money,
eh? Made 1t yourself, / suppose?' Ii
is up to the teller to force a laugh. The
man on the chair says, Amt you
afraid I'll break the camera?' he
would be MORALLY wounded il the oper..
ator did not laugh. One man out Of
every ten will enter an elevator and
say to the boy at the rope, Lots Of
ups and downs In your life, amt
there? The boy forces smile.
Year after year OF this sort OF bust
ness tells In the long run. The victims
come here for treatment, and we can
hold out no hope to them unless they
get into another line OF labor" Cleye-
land Plain Dealer. #
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-11-20

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