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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04

Brazil threw up her trunk and opened
her mouth, and the man, slipping his
head into the opening, saw big cavity
in a tooth. Brazil was roped and
thrown on her side. A dentist from a
nearby town volunteered to pull the
tooth, and the circus folk went into
kinks while he tried his hand with his
own little instruments. The circus
veterinarian then brought forth a huge
pair of forceps, and two men laid hold
Of each handle. The tooth stuck fast,
and the men We're in despair when an
Unlocking farmer remarked he had a
pair of ''hefty mules"
"Where are they?" asked the veter-
marian, and the farmer pointed to a
team of promising looking long cared
bays in the road. Forthwith work be-
gan for the great operation. Stakes
were driven into the ground to brace
the elephants head. A block and
tackle were attached to the giant for
cops, and when the veterinarian shout
ed "All readyv' the farmer said 'Git
apr There was a terrific straining
for a few minutes; then the mules
stumbled forward as the tooth sud-
denly came forth. Brazil wore sub
dued but contented look after the Oper-
alton and went quietly back to her
car.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
Town Bombarded by Balls Of Fire.

A disastrous cloudburst, accompa-
MED by an electrical display, occurred
recently at Prineville, Ore. The light
ming assumed the shape Of fireballs,
which, though moving comparatively
slow, struck several people, fortunate
~ doing little injury. One fireball en-
tered the residence Of Mrs. Lefty Mil
Ter along an electric light wire and,
striking her mother, rendered her IN
conscious Cor a time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
League of Municipalities.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Oct. 4.-The
second convention of the League OF
Virginia municipalities came together
in this city today and will hold a two
days session. Samuel r. Buxton
mayor of Newport News, is president
of the league, the mayor Of Richmond
pepper second vice president, the may
of Roanoke third vice-president and
the mayor of Portsmouth secretary and
treasurer. All the best cities of the
state are represented and matters OF
common interest will be given consid-
Grafton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
Fly Paper Traps a Burglar.

Hearing a man stirring about her
bedroom early in the morning, MIS-
Mary Frederick of Scranton, Pa
wanted to know who was there. Inc
fellow decamped, taking with him
piece of fly paper, which he sat upon
in scrambling through a window, and
leaving behind a hat, in which ap-
peared Andrew McGerrin's name. The
police arrested McGerrin in bed, and
a look at his pants found many dead
flies held there by the gummy paper,
which however, had been torn away.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
LESSONS IN FRENCH.

Lessons in French will be given by
Miss Eliza Aellen at your home
Should you contemplate learning the
French language why not avail your
self Of this opportunity. She teaches
French grammar, also the language
by conversation. For rates and further
particulars apply to Miss Aellen, $40
South Palouse street. 8
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
National Convention Knights
Pythias, New Orleans, La, Oct.
1E%h - oEfh ions
National

18th to 25th, 1906.
For the above occasion the North
ern Pacific Railway Co., announce
a round trip rate of $77.S5.
Tickets on sale Oct. and s, 1906.
Going transit limit Of 10 days from
date of sale, final limit Nov. 15, 1906
Stop Overs-Will be granted In
either direction within final limit al
points west of st. Louis and Chicago
For additional information call on OF
write:
S. B CALDERHEAD,
G. P. A., w. & C. r. Ry.. Walla Wal
la, Wash.
A. D. CHARLTON,
A. G. P. A., Nor. Pac. Ry, Portland, Or
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
MULES PULL AN
ELEPHANTS TOOTH
Extraordinary Dental Operation Relieves
Suffering of Circus MOnu.
mental Pet.

Two mules did some effective den
istry in the mouth of Brazil, an ele-
plant, on the railroad line to Columbus,
near Lexington, Ky. The mules We're
called in after regular dentist, as
sisted by a veterinarian and two circus
hands, had signally failed to relieve the
elephant of a severe attack of tooth
ache.
Brazil stands twelve feet high and is
the prize pachyderm of circus which
was on the way from Lexington to Co
lumbus when Brazil began to thrash
around the car. One side of the car
was shattered before the fury of the
elephant was discovered and the train
brought to a standstill.
A diagnosis was quickly and easily
made. When the keeper approached,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
BEAR TAKES
MOODY'S SEAT
Shargy Guest From Colorado Acting
Attorney General of the
United States.

When Chief Clerk Field opened a
package in the department Of justice
at Washington the other day, out pop
ped an eighty-fve pound cinnamon
bear. The women clerks ran for shell
ter.
The cub wandered into the Office Of
Attorney General Moody, who Is out
Of the city, and climbed into his big
revolving chair. With piece of cake
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04

Mr. Field finally induced bruin to re-
linquish this position of honor. The
bear was finally coaxed out and taken
to the zoo.
A letter accompanying the bear said
he was of very gracious disposition
would probably weigh 1000 pounds
within short time. The donor was
Colorado friend of Mr. Field.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
SIX Mt One Birth.

At Kingston, in Williamson county
Tenn, a negress recently gave birth to
six children. The children are well
formed and all were alive at last &c
counts
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
SHOOTS WEALTHY CITIZEN
Fifteen Year Old Boy Aims Revoive
With Effect.

HUDSON. n. Y, Oct. 4.-Clinord
Bonneville, a wealthy resident OF the
village of Linlithgo, this county is
dead. from wounds from gun hred
by J. Foster Feller, f1fteen-year-oio
son of Deputy Sheriff John H. Feller.
On Monday Bonneville, who had
been drinking. it is said, drove his wife
and five children out of doors ana
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-04
KID PARKER TO FIGHT.
Is Billed For a Go at Billings, Mont,
In Near Future.

III tNSdi NeN'S -
Kid Parker has accepted an offer
from the Billings, Mont, Athletic club
to fight before that club in the near
future. He has been guaranteed $500
and has been assured the fight will
be pulled off the latter part of this
month. The Montana club will find
the opponent, says the Spokane Chron-
icle
Parker has written signifying his
willingness to meet any one at his
weight, but prefers Maurice Thomp
son. He not only expressed his will
ingness to fight Thompson, but stated
he would give Thompson the big end
of the purse-win, lose or DRAWN
order to secure a fight with him. In
ker asks is a guarantee of expenses
on the part Of the club.
The Denver lad will fight Barney
Mullin at Phoenix October II. He does
not anticipate any great trouble in
disposing of the conquerer Of Jerry
Mccarthy, but is keeping himself in
good condition for the bout.
RattaIsnakes Are Plentiful
Rattlesnakes are crowding the right
of way of J. j. Hills proposed rail-
road between Wenatchee and Oroville,
according to J. J. Cryderman's expert
ences there in the last six months as
chief of surveying corps. Mr.. Cry
derman states that 129 rattlers were
killed by his crew this summer. Mr..
Cryderman killed about Is and each of
four other men equalled this. Rattle
snakes, said Mr.. Cryderman facetious-
ly, are the chief production of the
Lake Chelan country.
To Mr.. Cryderman fell the task of
locating 95 miles of the 1856 miles be-
tween Wenatchee and Oroville, and
this he has completed He has been
transferred to another station, but he
declines, under instructions, to name
the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04

tation he feels that he will have solved the problem of aerial navigation, as doubt less he will.
 Another man has plan for rising to the surface of the atmosphere and then sklmmng along the top as boat floats on water. He would carry along some oxygen for breathing purposes.
 "A lady over in Jersey has heard that certain flowers generate hydrogen gas. She wishes to combine the ornamental with the aeronautic by taking lot of these flowers into an airship, suitably built. and rising from their gas.
 ''The name of my balloon IS Nirvana, that best expressing the state into which it transports its devotees. Ballooning makes you believe in fate. 1t makes you religious. All ministers ought to be bal loonists.
 "Ballooning, though a sport with me, l believe to have great future in the peace of the world. once had l had dyn- amite. I could have practically destroyed our navy. The best way to make man peaceful is to kill him. and ballooning-- especially dirigible ballooning-wll afford unlimited opportunities for the destruction that makes for international brotherly love"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04

The last mass meeting of the sherin's race of Jefferson county as concerns this city will be held at the Ensley opera house on next Monday night, when the followers of Col. E. L. Higdon meet to declare once more to the voters of the Steel City why the chieftain of the crim- son feather, who aspires to the biggest public office in the state of Alabama, should be elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04
FAKE ROYAL FLUSH
Worked by Pittsburg Crooks Was
 Good for Many Thousand.

Pittsburg Cor. Chicago Tribune.
 It was learned today that the exact amount of money stolen from the Union Trust company of Pittsburg by Receiving Teller Wray and Bool1keeper HiXton was s3S5, ,000. District Attorney Stewart has be- gun an investigation which threatens to land others in the same penitentiary to which Wray and several well-known gam blers and bucket shop keepers have left the city.
 It is known that nearly every crook and gambler in the city got a bit of the i'm mense sum of money stolen from the banking house of H. C.. Prick and United States Senator Knox, and that crooked games of every sort were framed for W'ray and Hixton. In one game of poker in a downtown hotel, game arranged specially for Wray's benefit, the bank teller lost over $10,0O0 He lost SSS5( in one deal, though he held the invinclbe poker hand-a royal flush. Affairs were so manipulated that a pair of siXes beat Wray-
 The royal flush hand play was as fol lows:
 Wray had the ace, king, jack and ter of diamonds, with a black card when he i "staid'' in a Jackpot. The player to his left raised the pot hard before the draw and an immense amount of money was put in before cards were drawn Wray
 discard ed his black card and drew to his four diamonds. and picking up his card dealt by one handling the pack, he found the queen of diamonds, giving him a
 royal flush"
 The gambler who had raised the pot be- fore the draw took no cards, and after
 Wray had bet heavily this man raised several thousand dollars. Wray, with
 his royal flush" called the bet for al the money he had with him, making s3S50 he had in this one pot, threw his hand down face up on the table and be-
 gan to rake in the thousands. The gambler who had not drawn cards reached over. turned Wray's cards face down .on the table, and spread them out then called attention to the fact that ont card was a stranger" that the patterr on the back did not correspond with tho other cards.
 This stranger" was the queen of dia- ! monds, which had been dealt Wray, evi- dently from the top of another deck, an6 | 1t made his hand foul. All the money went to the other fellow, who had moi
 drawn cards, and who showed pair oi l siXes.
 This was but one of the many crooked games worked on the young men. It is l openly asserted here that the credit ol 1 Wray and Hixton was good in some o ! the bucket shops, where the wealth of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04

millionaire does not entitle him to credit The young men were always forced to make good their losses of the previous day before they could deal again, and q sort of whip was held over their heads by the bucket shop people. If they did not pay up they would be exposed at inc bank. and they always paid-though they had to get the money from the bank to do 1t.
 It is promised in Pittsburg that there vyill he a general investigation and that several of the bucket shops will be forced to close if indeed, the owners are not Indicted for conspiracy to defraud the big Union Trust company by blackmailing ernnIoyes who were in their tolls. and who they undoubtedly knew were not getting by any honest means the thou sands spent daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04
OUR LEADING DRAMATISTs.
Two Who Stand at Forefront as Writ,
 CTS of English Drama.

"The foremost dramatists writing in English, Arthur Wing Pnero and Henry Arthur Jones, dominated the beginning of the active theatrical season in New York, the chief honors going to the les ser light" says the writer of The Play CTS" in the November Everybody's. Tt seems to me that the work of James M Barrie Is really more important than that of these two wheel-horses of con- temporary English drama, because he has greater imagination, greater feeling. and because his plays have more real significance; but In popular estimation and in the minds of those who are supposed to speak with authority, Pinero and Jones comes first"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04
Humors of BaIIooning.

'"I1he most humorous side of ballooning comes from the fellows with schemes" says Dr. Julian r. Thomas in the course of an entertaining article in Appleton's for November. "One man declared that there is an opposite to everything. Heat has cold; hardness has softness; light has darkness-and that of gravitation alone the opposite has not been found. When he discovers the opposite of grayi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04
ONE FACT BETTER THAN A TON OF TALK.

Marking t the  of the city " in n w less for EnLy all We anticipate growth with definite de- of w o
 
 sandw that continued f be of
 IT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04

Bones-Why are you crawling under the machine? There's nothing the matter with it.
 Jones-f know 1t, but there comes Brown If he sees me with this auto he'll expect me to pay him the money l owe him. Detroit Free Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04
Last Meeting on Monday.

tems in vogue in cities of much larger
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

Lodge yesterday, afternoon. took train for Atlanta where he goes to attend the annual meeting of the Georgia Grand Lodge.
 The first day of the Knights of Hon. or in Montgomery was not only char acterized by the address of Governor Sheppard but the annual report Of Grand Dictator Escar Floyd of Birm- ingham was of intense interest to the delegates and officers who gathered in the Pythian Hall
 The Grand Lodge was called to or der by the Grand Dictator at 10 o'clock yesterday morning in the hall of the Knights of Pythias. corner of Dexter Avenue and South Court street The roll was called by Grand Reporter T. Gardner Foster when it was found that about forty-five members were pres ent.
 This number included the grand lodge officers and delegates from twenty nine towns.
 The following grand officers were in attendance:
 J. A. Powe. Past Grand Distator. Talladega.
 Escar Floyd, Grand Dictator. Birm- ingham. T w Peagler. Grand Vice Dictator, Greenville A. F McGhee, Grand Assistant Dic- tator, Annston. Rev. B. c. Glenn. Grand Chaplain. Union Springs.
 T Gardner Foster. Grand Reporter, Montgomery.
 A. B. Garland. Grand Treasurer. Montgomery.
 w H. Hit. Grand Guide. Birming- ham.
 Grand Trustees-C C. Kilgore of Tuscaloosa, J. A. Joiner of Talladega, and M. Washburn of Montgomery.
 ConHittee on Laws-T S. Plowman of Talladega. T. s. Dark of Blocton and J. L. Fletcher of Gadsden
 Representative to Supreme Lodge J. A. Powe of Talladega.
 Alternate Representative to Supreme Lodge-T s. Plowman of Talladega
 The following delegates were pres ent:
 DeIphic-S. F. Sweinhart Huntsville
 Anchor-J. F. Dennis Montgomery.
 Selma-E. C. Cleveland, Selma.
 Crescent--Aaron BressIer. Tuscum-
 Mutual-G. W. Tutwiler and E. L. Cahall, Mobile
 Butler-J. B. Stanley, Greenville
 Golden Rule-Charles Pfiester. Bir- mingham.
 Tuscaloosa-J. A. Kelley, Tuscaloo- ss.
 charity-P L. Cowan. Union Springs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
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* OUR DAILY SHORT STORY <

character. in upstarts who wanted to become one of "us."
 You must know that since my new soubrette has been taken up by poor dear old Lady Harridan she has aspir- ations. Oh. distinctly! She has been plaguing me to get her asked to Cron- stadt House." One did not observe that the buffers were yawning.
 What is he cackling about. my nephew?" growled a most honorable'
 Has he bought Cronstradt House?' inquired a relative or that social fort ress.
 They did not like his society tales of keeping people out and letting them in. They felt like lot of experts be- ing taught their business unasked.
 Pay to see himt- twittered the young ladies. alluding to his theatre. T see too much of hfm--at every eve- ming party. One can't escape him!"
 That was the end. Then the public missed the gifts. A frosty wind of dis aster blew through the theatre. send ing all the complimentary tickets ed- dying and swirling out of the box of- flee. round and round the auditorium, until they settled down in the lap of the receiver in bankruptcy.
 But the dowagers who were his ori- ginal packers" did not drop him.
 Now that he is no longer a profess sional artiste, one does feel--to cer-> tain extent-that he Is one of us!''
 They helped him; they wished to help him. But, as with everything else they did, they made fuss about it.
 When Lady Augusta played Galatea and Lord Augustus Pygmalion, at the amateur theatricals they had him down for the week. playing hfm-"as we were only too glad to do. but treating him exactly like the rest of our guests" (Indeed, even the buffers could not now discern that he was in any wise different from a broken. down sswell.)- He is so wretchedly poor that 1t made ones heart ache to see his gluttony at dinner. It told such a tale. don't you know. One thing I have been com pelled to do-for hiH own sake-I told Richardson not to fill his glasses every time 1t was ebptied."
 It was while rehearsing the amateurs that the last of the fairies took away the last of the gifts-the gift of laugh ter and tears.
 Augustus, old fellow he sad, lay ing his hand on the would-be actors shoulder. you do Pygmalion superb ly."
 He's d. familiar" said Augustus. quoting these words. but he does know what he's talkin' about"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

was caused by the increase in frater- nalism. Next to the Christian religion he placed fraternalism. a manifesto tion of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. All the fra terna1 orders. he said. distribute one and half million dollars every week for the comfort and relief Of widows and orphans, whereas old line insur- ance goes to make the rich richer.
 The. Supreme Dictator thought that the relief given by fraternities is of such nature that God will perpetu- ate it. In this connection he arraigne.i the old-line insurance companies.
 The salary of First Vice-President Hyde of large old line company was more than all the expense for the en- tire administration of the Knights of Honor per annum. He spoke of Hyde as spending S35,000 for a single su2- per at which he employed French actress to dance the can-can on tho sup per table.
 Speaking of the Knights of Honor,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

he said that in the history of the order, not dollar had ever been paid into the widows and otphans fund that has not been expended to the beneficiaries. Over thirty-two years the order has kept faith with its members and paid out $S6,000.000. .'
 Governor Sheppard compared the strength of the United States to the strength of the Supreme Lodge and the States comprising the United States to the subordinate lodges of the Knights of Honor. He advocated the building up of individual lodges so as to gain strength for the entire lodge as a unit.
 He paid a glowing tribute to the Confederate soldier. and 1t was his opinion that the day would come when the world would look upon the Con- federate soldier more highly than any other soldier of the world. He spoke in high terms of the won nderful growth