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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-02-28

When buying flour be sure and
get Gold Coin. The leading grocers
sell it. 3O-4t
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

in search of the widest red men and
would hunt the cowboy in his lair
and secure those who could make The
most trouble for cattle and horses and
shoot up an audience if necessary to
keep the peace, and he would buy buff
faloes enough so every performer could
ride one il he wanted to. He said
while we had this year had some at
tempts at a wild west department in
our show, 1t was only a tame imita-
ton of what we would have next year,
and he wanted them all to pray for
him, that he might come out of the
wild far west without being killed. He
said he should take Hennery along
with him as a mascot, and If the worst
came he could trade me to an Indian
tribe for ponies, o. leave me as a hos
tage with some tribe until he returned
the Indians at the close Of next sea-
son. Pa closed his remarks by hoping
that nothing had occurred during the
past season that would AUS anybody
to have It in for him, cause he had
tried to be impartial in his cussedness,
and while he felt that he had been
considered an interloper in the pro-
~fession at first, he had found that ev-
erybody looked upon him later in the
season as the main guy in the show,
and that all had felt at liberty to give
1t to him in the neck on every proper
occasion and he felt that he had taken
his medicine like a thoroughbred,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

down In the mud and spoil their
dresses and kick scandalous. The
trapeze performers have to be carried
out of the dressing room on stretchers,
and hoisted up to the net, III they
can't do stunts up on the trapeze with
wet feet, and we have worked our
selves to death getting things in shape.
The COMPOUNDED elephants just glory
In the mud, and the minute they get
in the ring they all lay down and roll
In the mud and water, so when they
are ready to do their act they look
like walking mud pies. The freaks are
awful to handle, the giant being the
only one that can wade through and
look pleasant, and the fat woman
would make you weary. shs has to be
carried back and forth to the platform
by half a force of hands. Pa has had
shawl straps and coffin handles fas-
tened to her clothes, so there will be
something to grab hold Of to move
her around. l don't think that an
other year we will have any fat wom-
an, cause pa says 1t costs to get
this 500-pound female from inc place
to another than all the rest of the
show. He thinks that people who Wis
1t the show don't care much about a
fat woman anyway, but just guy her
and ask her what kind Of breakfast
food she lives on. He thinks II we had
three reasonably fat women that
weighed about 200 mounds apiece. \
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

things hum next year. He said he
took pleasure in informing the people
of the show that pa had been commits
stoned to go out west at once and Sc
cure the Indians and cowboys, horses
that buck and bounce off the riders,
cattle that would stand it to be las
sooed and thrown down for the amuse-
ment of the public, buffaloes that
would below and act like old times on
the plains, stage coaches and robbers,
and he promised that next year they
would have no aus to be ashamed of
the show. He said pa was authorized
to spare no expense to round up a wild
west show second to none. The per-
formers and hands cheered the mana
ger, and then they yelled for pa for
a speech.
Pa got up on the tub that the
elephants stand on, and said that
it was true what the manager said
about a wild west show, and that he
was proud of the confidence reposed in
him. He should be glad to take an ex-
petition and go out into the far west
and beard the wild west Indian in his
tepee and engage Indians by the hun
dred to come with us next year. He
would pierce the wilderness of the west
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
FATE OF EUROPEAN BISON.
Revolutions in Russia Cause De.
crease in Number of These
Animals.

An interesting side effect of the re.
bellion and perhaps revolution Of
which we read in Russia is the possible
speedy extinction Of a species of ami.
NAL which for many years has been
jealousy protected by the czar. In
times of national peace and content
ment the European bison lives in the
imperial forests of Lithuania, presuma'
IDLY unmolested; but whenever there is
a rising in Poland and the rebels take
to the woods they use this herd oil
bison as a part of their commissary
and kill them for beef.
For many years, says Forest and
Stream, there has been a gradual less
ening in numbers of this herd, which
by many biologists is thought to ba
due to inbreeding; yet there are othera
who believe that the decrease in this
protected herd, which SO years ago
numbered nearly 1000 and which lives
wild in it's native habitat, is too rapid
to be accounted for solely by inbred.
ing, and must be due to destruction by
man. Notwithstanding the efforts made
by the authorities to protect them,
Statistics of the Bielowitza herd in
Grodno show that between 1888 and
1857 these bison increased from 76S ia
1898, but from this time on the de.
crease has been constant until in 1882
the herd numbered less than 500.
The butchery of human beings in
Russia, which is reported to be taking
place on a scale quite unparalleled in
times of peace for the last hundred
years, stirs the emotions of the world;
yet biologists will view with keen re.
gret the diminution of the European
bison, which for hundreds of years has
been preserved from extinction only
by the very hand that brought it's mum.
bers so low.
OF the herd of these bison which in.
habits the mountains of the Caucasus
in the province of Kuban, we know lit.
tie or nothing, but the same causes
which seem likely to bring about the
absolute determination of the herd in
Grodno will be operative in the eau.
casus, and the race reems likely now
to receive a blow fr,im which it can
never recover.
On one or two estates in Europe and
in a few geological gardens there are
living specimens of these bison, but
their number are very few. Perhaps
the little herd belonging to the primes
of Pless is the most numerous.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

| They gave three cheers for pa, and
then they brought in the blankets and
tossed everybody up until they lost
everything out of their pockets and
yelled that they had enough, and they
wound up by tossing pa up in the blan-
ket until he could see stars. They
were going TO give the fat woman a
hoist, when the boss canyassman gave
the signal to take down the tents, and
all was in a hubbub for about Is mia
utes.
When everything was down and ev-
erybody went TO the train. after joining
hands around the middle ring and
singing 'Old Lang Sine," pa and I
and the manager went to a hotel to
organize u expedition to the far
west in search of talent for a wild west
show that shall be the greatest ever
put under canvas. After all had gone
away, and only pa and | and the man
ayers were left, it seemed, as We
thought over the incidents of the past
season, as though there had been an
earthquake and the whole show had
been blotted out of existence.
Pa choked up and was going to cry,
and | got my throat full of something
so / could not speak, and the mana
gers began to wipe their eyes, and pa
saved the day by saying: "On, what's
the use, let's order up some h%ighballs,"
and when they came, with a red lem
| Onada for mo ma said. We'll herp'a
to the people that crowd around the
ticket wagon and fight to get the first
ticket when the window is open, and
go away after the show and say it is
the greatest show ever"
Hey Rube!" said the manager, and
we drank standing, and pa went out
and bought tickets for Cheyenne, and
some beads to give to the Indians we
shall visit in the west.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

is like Washington crossing the Della
ware.
And yet the people come from miles
around to see the show, and every
body rides a web-tooted mule, that can
wallow in the mud. They hitch the
mules to fences outside the tent, and
while the performance is going on the
mules bray in concert and drown the
band.
Pa has been wild ever since we
struck Missouri, and no wonder, cause
everybody seems to lay everything in
the way of weather on him. Every
place we show the lot is one sea of
mud, and when we get the rings made
they seem like a chain of lakes, and
In g%alloping around the rings the
horses splash mud and water clear to
the reserved seats. The riders of the
horses have to come out in rubber
hunting boots and when they get on
the horses we have to pull their boots
off and hold them until the act is
over, then the riders sit on the horses
and pull the boots on and get down in
the mud of the ring and bow to the
audience.
The women riders are the worst to
veal rubber boots, cause they fall
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Keeps in the Light.

Secretary Shaw is carefully prepar-
ing plans to keep his presidential boom
alive. He is accepting invitations
right and left to make addresses at
school commencements, banquets and
conventions throughout the middle
west, which will keep him busy for
about two months in the spring. The
fact that he delayed leaving the cab
met for one year, at the urgent request
Of the president, has not materially
changed Mr.. Shaw's plans to capture
the presidential nomination. He had
expected to resign his cabinet portfolio
on the first of the present month and
devote himself exclusively to promot-
ing his political ambitions. This
scheme included a series of speeches
% be made wherever he could get a
representative audience, and tour
through the middle western states,
where he expects to get enough votes
in the national convention to make
him a factor in the ace for the nom
nation. These speeches will be de-
livered according to the original pro-
gramme, but the length of the tour
will have to be ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Eagle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
American Humor.

'The other day." saba man who
knows a joke, several of us American
'littyratters' were chatting an intelli.
gent Englishman on his dizziness OF
perception Of American humor, and
some of us made the statement that
American humor in literature ranked
higher than that Of any other nation
on the globe. The Englishman chal'
lenged the statement and asked what
writer's of humor we had of even ma.
tional reputation who were continuing
the work of their predecessors which
had given to us our adventurous fame.
We all began at once to silence him
forever by hurting at him the names
of Mark Twain. Bob Burdette, George
AIDE, Peter Dunno and-and-well
we stopped there, so far as the
Englishman was concerned. True, we
mentioned the names of others, but
the Englishman said he had been liv
ing in a western town for two years
and had never heard of them until he
came to New York. He gave us the
ocular ha! ha! and offered to get all
kinds of liquid refreshments that the
bunch of us couldn't name ten Amer
lean writers of humor who had any
thing more than a local reputation,
and that wouldn't last as soon as the
newspapers got tired Of them. This
put us up against It," said the man.
according to the New York Press, land
we began to figure a bit with no great
success. At last accounts we were
considerably shy Of the promised ten,
and now I am questioning myself as
to whether or not we are producers Of
humor or merely appreciators of 1t. l
mean that sort Of humor which "a
something more than the vaudeville
Joke, good for one season. II any of
YOU a tell me ten good names Of
substantially funny writers I'll b.
Obliged to you, and get the drinks on
the Briton. He has kindly given vi
60 days in which we may redeem our
selves"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Crnndnn Defeats Dental Board.

Jefferson City-The application of the
E. G. Crandall, of St. Joseph, for a writ
Of mandamus directed against the state
boaru of dental examiners, to compel
it to issue to him a license to practice
dentistry, made to the supreme court,
sitting in banc, was granted. The Ii
cense and examination were refused
Crandall by the board of examiners be-
cause he was not a graduate Of a rec
ognized dental school, though he had
been practiciIg dentistry for a number
Of years. The validity of the law un-
der which the board refused Crandall
the license was attacked.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

would give better satisfaction and they
would be easier to handle; but when
she heard what pa said and felt that
she was going to be shook next year
she began to cry, and it was like turn
ing on water in a bathtub. Pa had to
pet her and then the bearded woman
got jealous.
At Jefferson City there came a cold
wave and everything was froze stiff,
and you could skate in the rings, and
the management decided to get to st.
Louis and send the show to winter
quarters, and organize for next season.
So we have had a time closing up for
the season, and sending the animals
to the barns on our farm up north, and
discharging and paying off the per-
formers and bidding everybody good
by. We have bought presents for
everybody, and it has been a picnic.
Pa had a big heart, with roses all
around it, made of a horse collar,
covered with flowers, which came from
the freaks, and the performers remem-
bered him with presents, and pa gave
everybody something, and everybody
got together in the main tent and made
speeches.
The manager thanked everybody
and promised that next year we would
have the greatest show on earth. He
said the management had decided that
/ what we lacked this year was a wild
west show, as the people everywhere
seemed to dote on busting bronchos
and roping cattle, and chasing buffa-
loes and seeing Indians and rough
riders chase up and down the arena
He felt that in justice to u rough
riding president, it vas proper to have
a wild west show that would make
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
:Inhe On the Editor.

An editor, who does not mind a Joke
at his own expense. says he went into
a drug store recently and asked for
some morphine. The assistant objected
to giving it without a prescription.
why asked the editor, do | look like
a man who would kill himself?" n
don't know" said the assistant; It'll
looked like you I should DO tsmptec-s
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Counterfeit Coins in Grave.

st. Louis-Counterfeit coins bearing
the date Of 1899 and 1897, found in the
grave of a man who died fifteen years
ago, furnish a puzzle for the secret
service. agents. The coins were UNI
earthed neal Arden, Douglas county, re-
Gently, when the body of John Keenan,
was disinterred by relatives for re,
moyal to California.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Sheriff Foils Jail Delivery.

Palmyra-Sheriff Bowen frustrated
an attempt on the part Of prisoners to
break Jail. In one of the lower cells the
floor had been torn up and a tunnel
dug 10 feet long, the rock and brick
being placed in an empty cell, which
had been broken into and covered over
with bedding. The prisoners had a
piece of iron torn from a steam radia-
tor to dig with, and had been at work
for several days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Ro1la SCHOOL popds Defeated.

Rolla-At a special election, the prop,
osition to issue $1,000 in bonds to build
a new ward school, and for a levy of
20 cents Of the $500 valuation for M
year to purchase a site, failed to carry,
not receiving a two-thirds vote.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
New American singer.

Paris. Mary McEvily, Of
Helena, Mont, a pupil of Jean De
dResake, made her debut, Thursday
night, at Berlioz hall. A large Amer
lean audience warmly received her.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Denied ~ Ambassndor REID.

London. = Ambassador Reid en-
phatically denies the allegation
cabled to New York that the plans OF
the British battleship Dreadnaught
were stolen by an official of the
British admiralty and sold to the United
States.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
New Mexixco Cadet. Expelled.

Roswell, N. M. Nine ca
diets have been expelled from the
New Mexico military academy here as
the result of a mutiny in which 40
cadets were involved, and in which
violence against the faculty was
threatened for a time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
signed by the president.

Washington President Roose-
welt signed the bills passed by
congress, making an extra appropria-
tion of 500, 900 for Mare Island navy
yard at San Francisco, and making an
appropriation Of $4,000 to meet emer
gencies in the post office department
in the state of California.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Autbor McGinnis Gets Ten Years.

Kansas City-Michael Angelo McGin-
mis-, a former college professor and au-
thor of a standard work on mathemat-
les, was convicted of forgery in the
criminal court here, and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary. McGin-
mis- and a confederate forged a deed to
a city lot, and sold the property for
$500.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
The work of an Migrate.

st. Joseph-Mrs. Serena Lang, aged
Sc, a thrown down a fight Of stairs
by Ruth Mayes, and received injuries
from which she died. Mrs. Lang had
taken the young woman in and be-
friended her.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

Columbus, o. 1t is an
nounced here that the Lorain Coal &
Dock Co. owning mines in eastern Ohio,
which employ about 1000 miners, had
reached an agreement with its men and
would sign the 1908 scale.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
sympathy of Lepers.

Honolulu. = The lepers at the
settlement of Molokai have held a
mass-meeting, at which they adopted
lengthy and eloquently-worded res
olutions in the Hawaiian language ex-
pressing sympathy for the sufferers
from the San Francisco fire.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Columbia Receives the Jesses.

Columbia-The most largely attended
social function ever given in Columbia
was held at the new gymnasium; Pres
ident and Mrs. R. H.. Jesse, recently re-
turned from Europe, being the guests
Of honor. The entire university, euro
tors, students, professors and officers,
attended the reception; over 1,500 peo'
pie attending.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

Jefferson City-State Treasurer
Gmelich's report shows the balance on
hand in the state treasury on March 81
TO have been 2,737, 319.87.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

Fourteen Years For Girls Death
Pittsfield, Ill.-Henry Clark and his
wife, Ida, charged with the murder OF
Pearl Payer by a criminal operation,
were found guilty and sentenced to the
~penitentiary for IA years each.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

London ~ In the semi-inals
in the amateur court tennis champions
ship, Jay Gould beat Major Key, 6-5
G-1. GA,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Iowa orator wins at warrensburg.

Warrensburg-John Cheney, OF
Iowa, won the medal as the best orator
in the eleventh annual oratonical con-
test held by the interstate leagues of
state normal schools at the normal
chapel in this city. Thomas Hardin
Douglas, of Missouri, won second, and
Elmer Orville Thompson, Of Illinois,
third place.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
king Edward In Paris.

Paris. King Edward dined,
Thursday night, at the Palace Of
Alysee with President Fallieres and
most OF the French cabinet ministers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

Butte, Mont. Senator w. A.
Clark, in an authorized statement, says
he will not be a. candidate for re-elec-
ton to the senate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

the fee to oil and coal lands OF the IN
dian tribes or on the public domain
In the government, the lands to be
leased only on such terms and for
such periods as will enable the gov.
eminent to entirely control them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Two killed In Powder Explosion.

Lamotte, Mo. Howard Bernard,
aged 8, and Henry Pulzy, aged 10,
were killed by an explosion in the ma.
chine house of the Hercules powder
plant. Several others were injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

Los Angeles-E. 9. Markham, prom
inent in southern Missouri, died here.
His home was in West Plains, Mo-, and
he came here for his health.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

Clayton-Robert H. Clifford, of Fer
guson, fell on a carving knife. His
heart was pierced, and death was in
Simultaneous. No inquest was held.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

Max Dittrich, a leather worker Of
Dresden, Saxony, has confessed to the
murder of eight women within tie past
seven years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Tellxed On Eight-Mour Bill.

Washington. President Com
pers Of the American Federation
of Labor addressed the house commit
tee on labor on the eight-hour bill.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Won DueIOw's birthday.

Berlin. - Prince Won Buelow, inn
perial chancellor, is celebrating the
N,y-seventh anniversary Of his birth
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10

S~hip-Subsidy Schemers.

The ship subsidy scfaemers and their
lobbyists are swarming at the nation
al capitol with the desperate intent of
gushing through the subsidy bill at
all hazards. The solid opposition of
The Democrats has SO far prevented
the bill from being reported by the
committees, the steal lacking one of a
majority. The Democratic MANNERS
re all right, but you can do a service
10 yourselves and your children, Who
will be taxed for years If the bill is
,assed, by urging your Republican
eighbors to write, or telegraph, Re-
ublican congressman to vote against
he bill. 1t will be remembered that
he bill has passed the senate and
his is the only opportunity to defeat
he subsidy grafters.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
Labor and Ship Subsidy.

Among the witnesses before the com.
mittee Of the house on merchant ma
rine and fisheries were several who
claimed to be members of organized la
for. These witnesses wero evidently
brought forward, and probably paid
to appear by those interests who are
trying to get a favorable report from
the committee on the ship subsidy bill,
for they gave evidence in favor OF the
measure. But now comes President
Gompers, of the American Federation
of labor, and declares that these wit
.esses did not represent any labor or
g~anization." He opposed the bill, az
1t required American labor to be con.
scripred into the navy IN order to gel
employment
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
osler disciple Kills Himself.

st. Louis-Believing in the Osler the
Dry, Gustav e. Fritische, SO years old,
killed himself with a revolver in a
room at 1910 Olive street.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-10
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Copyright by J. B. BowIss.)

The Rings Are So Muddy the Perform
ers Have to Wear Rubber Boots
The Freaks Present Pa with q Big
Heart of Roses-The Show Closes
and the Bad Boy Starts West with
His Pa in Search of Attractions for
the Coming Season.