The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-04

ever sat down to. The union betrayed
the expenses of the funeral and took |
over the insurance policy for $2,0OO
that was to furnish the feast Two
days after the ceremonies at the grave
the union made gladstone prepare
lions to carry out the last behest or
its benefactor. A committee was
sent to collect the money on the pol
icy. Only then it was learned that
the instrument held a clause invallda-
ting it if the holder came to death by
his own hand. Lindauer had commit
ted suicide. Now the union is doing
some tall thinking and Lindauers
money undoubtedly will be kept green
Poachers are playing havoc with
the game of the Yose mite National
Park In his annual report, just made
public, the acting superintendent or
the reservation petitions the Interior
Department to establish a permanent |
military post in the valley for the pro- |
lection of the wild creatures, and de-
clares that in no other way can the |
destruction of the animals and olrds
be stopped. He also urges the gov
eminent to condemn and purchase all
patented land now situated within the
confines of the park, and asks that
Congress enact a law defining what
| is prohibited within the park, liking
the penalties for violation
But if the denizens of the forest are
passing in the far West, the direct op-
posite is the rule in Washington. The
SQUIRRELS that infest the numerous
parks of the capital have multiplied
with amazing fapidity. Only few
DAYS ago, or rather nights, the squlr-
rels in Lafayette Square, just across
PENNSYLVANIA Avenue from the White
House, decided to investigate the big
| trees that fiourished in the President
ward. Accordingly colony scam
pered across the asphalt, through the
! tall iron palings and up into the BRAN
ches. They are there yet, and nave
gwen every indication or remaining.
President Roosevelt's love of animals
must be known to furred and feather
ed things, for the trees just behlnd
! the White House are the nesting
places of numerous families OF rooks,
while the squirrelSs share those IN
front with busy colony OF black
birds The squirrels are wonderfully
tame, as they are in every park In
Washington. 1t is nothing unusual
for visitor to find an inquisitive lit
tie animal sharing the park bench
with him and calmly going through
his pockets in search of nuts.
Naval officers are awaiting with
pleasurabe anticipation the official
report of, the recent torpedo boat
practice work off Newport, R. l. The
record is said to excel anything yet
made in craftsmanship by torpedo
boat flotilla. The deStroyers Hopkins,
Lawrence Macdonough, Truxton,
Whipple and Worden, under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Commander Ed
win A. Anderson, are said to have
fired ten torpedoes at moving targets
with the destroyers racing at various
speeds and to have made an average
of eight hits out of ten. This is con-
sidered remarkable work, and the of
fetal report which will not be for
warded to the Department until the
end of the quarter, is expected to be
of unusual interest.
If you would make a fortune and at
the same time WIN the everlasting
gratitude of the Post Office Depart
ment, invent a mail bag catcher that
will actually snatch a mail bag safely
from a fast-hying train The prob
lem of removing the mail from trains
running ut full spe\l always has
been a problem with the Department.
For want of better scheme it is now
the custom of the railway postal clerks
to throw the bag out of the door.
Sometimes the bag lands near the
station; and at others it is often 100
yards or more away. Frequently the
bag is lost altogether. In addition the
practice of tossing the bag from
moving train has resulted many times
severe injury to persons standing be-
side the track, and in some cases
death has followed a blow from the
bag More than 100 inventions have
been submitted to the Department,
for each and every one of which the
inventors claim perfection, and now
the Department experts are about to
institute tests to select the best one
or discard all. The committee is
headed by c. w. Vickery, Superin-
tendent of the Railway Mail Service.