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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS


The Clafflin brothers, living in cen
trail Massachusetts, are not only the
best but gentlest trappers any
where around Nobody else, accord
ing to the Boston Herald, uses steel
traps so small and so gently tensioned
that they barely hold an animal and
don't break any bones. Nobody else
springs the jaws of a trap simply be-
cause there may be no cnance of Wis
iting them the next day to get the
captured animals, or release a stray,
laundering dog.
If skunk is found in trap, a few
blows from a six or eight foot stick
finish him. the mink goes the same
road. The fox may be killed if his
fur is prime. If the season is early,
Reynard is brought back to a cage
for him made and provided in the back
yard of the Clafflin house, and there
he stays, we'll fed and cared for care
fully till the cold fetches the gloss and
thickness that tell the perfect coat
Then the fox gets club on the head,
the skin is slipped off turned inside
out and cured. A short time the broth
ers had eight foxes in their wire coop
waiting for the prime of the coat
and the killing season.
The muSkrat is usually found drown
ed. His first impulse when he gets
his foot into trap is to make for the
water. The chain of the trap is fas-
tened to a knotty stick that leads
downward toward the bottom of the
brook where the brothers trap, and
it is easy for the musrat to go down
fast.
The knots prevent his return and
he browns long before the trappers ar.
rive. The trap is always set near
the water and always arranged so
that the muskrat may commit suicide,
for he has an awkward habit, if he
is in atrap far from the water, of max
ing sudden twist and getting away,
leaving a foot behind him.
1t takes skill and persistence to
eaten the fox. He will circle all night
a brushwood pile in which a cackling
hen is making rumpus, but he won't
touch her, for he seems to figure out
that there is trap of some sort near.
But if a hen goes astray Or is thrown
away, Reynard is pretty sure to get
the body.
The Claff1in brothers always made a
bed for fox in an open field. They
dig a hole into the earth a few inches
deep, at gentle incline, put trap at
the entrance to the hole and bait at
the further and covered end. If Mr..
Fox goes for the bait by way of the
road prepared for him. he must spring
the trap-it is one OF the little prob
lens of the business, however to make
the fox go that road
Time and again foxes have been
known to walk UP to the very edge OF
me trap, sniff around and walk away.
Returning to the attack, they begin
digging in the ground approach the
bait from the rear and get it all with
out the slightest disturbing Of the
trap.
Or the trap may be incidentally
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
INSANE MAN YIELDS CLUB,
Defies Four to Arrest Him While
Under DeIusion.

PORTLAND, Mch. 1-Crazed by the
thought of going to the county poor
farm, John Ritenberg a patient at st.
Vincent's hospital jumped from a
hack this morning, armed himself
with club and successfully held four
rived and OverpOwered him. 1t re-
quired the combined strength of two
police and three men to disarm the pa.
tient and place the hand cuffs on him
Ritenberg, who suffers from paralysis
and mental disturbances, had been at
ST. Vincent's hospital for Is months.
His case being a hopeless one, and he
being without funds or friends. the
hospital authorities arranged to send
him to the poor farm this morning.
AS he showed signs of violence, three
attendants were sent with him. At
25th and Johnson streets Ritenberg
suddenly jumped from the hack and
ran down the street. The attendants
and the hack driver gave chase. Rit-
enberg picked up big stick, and,
backing against fence defied any
one to touch him. He welded the
club so furiously that the attend
ants could not get near him. In a
few minutes a crowd had collected ana
excitement ran high.
One of the attendants called for the
police and the patrol wagon was sent
sent out. BY strategy the officers and
attendants managed to seize the crazei
handcuffed and taken on to the poor
farm, still fighting though ineffectu-
ally.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

showed out of the way and sprung
with nothing but dirt inside it. A
piece of muskrat or a slice OF hen s
the usual meal, but it is the season
ing which really does the trick.
The Clafflin brothers paid an old
trapper $25 for the secret of the sea
, soning. Some of the books on trap
ping say that asafoetida scattered
around a trap will draw wild animals
but Neal Clafflin says that nothing
that comes from a store will ever at
tract the nose of wild animal, and
the brothers rely on their secret prep
aration altogether. 1t is persistent
and not pleasant to the human nos.
trils.
Sometimes the trappeS handle their
fox traps only with gloves, in order
to leave no human scent to scare away
the animals. 1t isn't that scent, how
ever so much as tracks and other lit
tie signs that keep the foxes away
from the trap, once the $25 scent
has drawn them.
AAo
trapping if the ground is covered with
snow and the streams are frozen up.
The foxes will avoid the footprints
of man in the snow though they may
cross a hundred of them in the back
yard to get fat pullet.
One morning Neal Claftlin came
across a red fox trying to help an I'M
fortunate brother out of steel trap.
Shoulder to shoulder the pair would
60 to the length of the chain, the free
brother showing against the other as
if to draw the foot out of the Jaws.
The would-be rescuer was more dis
turbed and more angry than the other.
The hair on his back stood up stiff
and straight, and his look of slyness
was lost in appearance of fierceness.
Time and again he leaped along the
length of the cnain and against the
body of the trapped fox, and the at
tempts continued until Mr. Clafflin was
within a few pards.
The brothers have little use for
shotguns and rifles. George w. Olaf
fin bought shotgun one day and shot
at a mark. He didn't like the thing
and gave it away.
The brothers do all their trapping
and hunting without any gun stick
ing picturesquely over their shoulders.
When Neal Clafflin gives up trapping
for the winter and goes coon hunting
greatest thing in the world, coon hunt
ing, he says-he takes a firearm, but
it is only a revolver.
The prices they receive for their
skins vary. A large prime fox skin
brings 81, and the prices for others
range down to a few cents. 1t all
depends on the condition OF the coat.
The best brown mink skins sell for
from 81 to Sc.
A fine black skunk skin will bring
$3.50 Good muSkrat skins are worth
from to 20 cents. Come of the skins
taken by the Clahlins TO Boston are
so combed, dyed and changed, &C
cording to the dictates Of fashion, that
they can't even name the animals
from which the furs were taken.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
WAILA WALLA JUNK SHOP.

WALLA WALLA JUNK SHOP.
Wholesale and retail dealers in all
kinds of Hides, Wool, Scrap Iron,
Brass, Copper, Rubber, Lead, Zinc,
Bottles, Old Rubbers and Second
Hand Sacks. and Secondhand FIR
niture, Stoves and Carpets.
EPSTEIN & YOUDOViTCH,
Phone Main 800. 121 East Main St.
WALLA WALLA, WASH.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

SALEM, Mch 1.-The passing of d
bill by the legislature allowing the
claim of Captain John Mullan against
Oregon for $9,465.97 recalls to Dalles
people an article written by Mrs. c. j.
Crandall and published in the Chroni-
Gle two years ago concerning Captain
Mullan and his claim against the state
The article was written just after the
announcement that Captain Mullan
was paralyzed at his home in Wash
ington City, and that his daughters,
who had been leaders in society, had
been compelled to start a laundry in
order to live
Captain Mullan came with Governor
Isaac l. l. Stevens in 1853 and spent
the first winter in the Rocky noun
tains searching for a pass for rail-
road In 1855 congress ordered a road
built from Fort Benton on the Missouri
river. Montana to Fort Walla Walla
on the Columbia river which should be
a 7OO-miIe wagon way for emigration
against the 1000 miles by the old Ore
gon trail farther south. This road was
built by Mullan and is known in his
road" Bancroft says the 'Mullan
road" next to the oregon trail. was
the greatest factor in the development
of the northwest. Particularly is this
true of that section between the Cas-
cade mountains and the Rocky mount
aims and the making of the two new
states of Idaho and Montana. as we'll
as Eastern Oregon and Washington.
, CAPTAIN Mullan QUILTED at The Dalles
! for his expedition to the interior and
is remembered by pioneers who are
right glad that he has come into his
own.
Tries for 20 Years.
For more than two decades Captain
Mullan has been petitioning Oregon
for what was justly due him, and when
it came up this year, Senator Sichel
asked Ex-Governor Moody for a his
tory of the case. which he condensed
as follows:
while l was governor of Oregon
! Captain John Mullan, as attorney fol
the state, acting under appointment
| and authority from Hon. r. P. Earhart
secretary of state, collected Oregon's
Modoc Indian war debt, 1928, Of
26S.OS. of which amount the sun
of sS7,O1901 was paid in cash by the
limited States, a United States certi-
ficate of deposit being given for the
balance of $33,249.07. which balance
twas applied by the United States te
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
NOTICE TO OUR PATRONS!

On account of heavy advances in
price of material we have been COM
PEELED to increase our prices on bottled
beer as follows:
One dozen pints, $500, with rebate
of 15c for returned empties.
One dozen quarts, $500, with rebate
Of Csc for returned empties.
This new price list will 60 into ef-
feet March list, 1907.
JACOB BETZ BREWING e. MALT
ING COMPANY.
STAHL BREWING e. Mailing
COMPANY.
WALLA WALlA BOTTLINS
WORKS. 5
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
Russian peasant Journeyeu " 'iio

Russian peasant journeyed to the
nearest town to buy himself par u
new boots. and after proftlns pv Tue
occasion to imbibe plenty OF Vouhd
started homeward, but soon tel as,eet
on the road. where he was renewed u
his new boots by passing thle1' Auou'
an hour afterward a cart came a'Uis
.nd the carter, arousing him, caiieo
out: Of the
",rake those legs of yours out Oh 'he
wav. can't you?" -. 600,
NJ russian staggered to his fee'
and. regarding his legs graNe,s' ~ neu
"Those legs aren't mine. Mine ii"u
boots on."-Bon Vfvant.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
INVESTM EMIT.

Ninety feet front on prominent
street. improved with buildings, earn
ing $50 per month and in LOCALITY
u-hore tho increase in valuation of
ground frontage is absolutely sure
$50. 90 per foot. plus $500, paving. which
;S navabIe in 10 years. Terms $4,000
down. r A. Smith at Ward residence
30 E,. e.rea+ II If.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

of which he should not be defrauded.
and Captain Mullan, in good faith en-
tered into a contract with the state.
under which he unquestionably per-
formed valuable service and recovered
to oregon from the United States large
sums OF money, at his own expense and
at no expense to Oregon, the state hav-
ing enjoyed the benefit thereof for
these many years."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
HUMAN HEAD INSIDE A LOG.
Petrified and Well Preserved Victim of
OId-Time Bandit.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Mch. 1.-George
Woodward has discovered in the noun
head and neck of human being, i'm
bedded in an oak log. The preserva-
ton in the wood is almost perfect,
even the lines of the face being plainly
visible.
The tree was cut near the cave of an
old-tim robber named Lewis, and it
is supposed the head was that of one
of his victims. Lewis committed many
murders and numerous expeditions
were sent against him, but he always
escaped.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
Bull Terrier Rushes to Master When
His Mistress Falls IN Faint on
StoVe.

NEW YORK. Mch. ALBERT Howes
reached down and petted his bullter-
rier. Jack" as he was leaving his
home. No. SO Bedford street, yester-
day morning to go to work.
Take good care of her," he told
the dog, nOddlng toward his wife. who
sat IN rocking chair. Mrs Howes
was cOnvalescing after long sick
spell and was just able to feebly totter
about the fiat. The dog seemed to
understand perfectly what HOwes said.
He had not been member of the
, family over year for nothing
The dog had been taught as its
first duty eacn morning after Howes
left home to run to the corner news
stand and get paper. Immediately
after Howes departed the terrier hur-
rled out. Five minutes later neighbOrs
saw Jack scampering upstairs to
the fiat on the second floor, rear, oc-
cupied by the HOweses. Innis mouth
he held the news paper.
Allwas quiet in the HOwes' fiat for
half an hour, while Mrs. HOwes was
engaged in reading. Suddenly Mrs
Henry Biddle, who lives in the apart
ment across the han, heard Jack"
bark loudly.
Sounds like trouble" remarked
Mrs. Biddle to her son.
She had about decided to see what
was the matter when she heard the
dog frantically scratching at the front
door of the Howes' fiat There was
no installing that he was trying to
get out. Mrs. Biddle tried to open the
door, but 1t was loo ied on the inside
sac called the janitor. AS he forced
the door thick smoke CURED out.
Janitor Steps In.
The janitOr ran into the dining
room. Before a smail stove lay Mrs.
HOwes dead. She had been fright
fully burned. In one hand was the
charred newspaper.
1t was plain that. while reading, she
had been seized with one of the feint-
ing spells which had followed her i'll
ness. In falling, the newspaper had
caught fire from the stove. The dogs
barkS had been the animals desperate
attempt to summon aid
In the excitement no notice had been
paid to the bull-terrler. AS soon as
the door was opened the dog had torn
madly down the stairs. He did not
stop running until he reached Days
meat establishment, at Christopher
and Ra1fnTI CT whore IVnUnc i.
employed He wanted TO tell Howes
what had happened.
The dog was in the habit of calling
for his master each night, so he easily
found the place. Howes works in
the engine-roOm, and when the occu-
they promptly opened the door leading
to the cellar. When the dog foun~
HOwes he licked the mans hand and
whined.
whats the matter?" asked Howes.
The dog ran toward the door, came
back and tugged at his masters trous-
ers HOwes could not understand it.
The dog kept up the queer antics I'M
til Howes was called to the telephone.
There the man was told of the tragedy.
With the dog he hurried home.
The dogs grie. over the death of
his mistress was unmistakable. He
would sit beside the wOman's coffin
and whine, then run to HOwes and
lick. his hand 1t seemed to make the
terrier fOrlOrn to realize that his eff
forts to save his mistress had been
futile.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-01
FOR RENT.
GEN ERAl.

WHITE FRONT.
WALLA WALLA JUNK SHOP.
Wholesale and retail dealers in all
kinds of Hides, Wool, Scrap Iron,
Brass, Copper, Rubber, Lead, Zinc,
Bottles, Old Rubbers and Second
Hand Sacks, and Secondhand Fur
niture, Stoves and Carpets.
M. SHANK,
Phone Main $40. 1O5 East Main st.
WALLA WALLA, WASH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
AYREs WANTED TO WHooP 1T UP
Board, However, Refuses to Allow
Him to Make a Statement

NEW YORK, July 19.-Despite a vigorous
protest from Lieut.. Col. Ayres, the special
medical board which is to determine
whether he shall be retired from the army
yesterday decided to continue its hearing
until Saturday. Maj. Edie and Capt Wad-
hams. the medical members of the board,
instructed Wednesday to make a mental
and physical examination of Col Ayres le-
ported that they had not completed their
task and asked for more time
Col. Ayres interrupted the proceedings,
saying he wanted to make a statement
Not at this time" directed Gen. Davis
president of the board. This Is a subject
for the board to decide"
The board went into executive session to
decide what should be done. 1t was an
nounced that an adjournment until Satur-
day should be ordered. In the interval the
examination of Col. Ayres will be COM
pleted.
The delay caused Col. Ayres to become
impatient. He explained after the hearing
that his purpose in asking TO make a state
ment was to hurry the proceedings.
Il want to whoop 1t up he said. Il am
getting tired of the affair
Friends of Col. Ayres still insist the pur-
pose of ordering him before the retiring
board was to secure his retirement in this
way and avoid court martial to try Ayres
for his criticism of army officers growing
out of the quarrel of his wife with the West
Point Academy officials, which resulted in
the barring of Mrs. Ayres from the reserva-
ton.
The colonel while the board was meeting
behind closed doors. said repeatedly:
II can tell them all 1 want to say in ten
minutes"
1t was learned yesterday that no direct
reference will be made in the proceedings TO
the trouble Mrs. Ayres had with the West
Point authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
FEMALE FAGIN IN RICHMOND.
Baff1ed the Detectives - Oliver Twist
Beaten to a FRAGILE.

RICHMOND, Va, July 19.-Detectives
have succeeded in locating a female Fagin
here. For more than a year Alice Scruggs
has operated system by which she man
aged to rob households of valuables and
have the robbers succeed in escaping the
clutches of the law.
The woman would read the papers of
the city, paying close attention to the
Want ADJ columns. She selected the
places for her confederates, picking out
such as were possible Of rich harvests
She would send to the country and en-
gage negro girls and bring them to the
city. She had letter writer at hand
and the recommendations given to the
girls would be from some remote section
OF the country, where facilities are poor
and where correspondents are not as
prompt as they might be.
The girls would be installed and the let
tiers produced, and before a reply could
be received from the forged recommends
lions the new servant would decamp with
everything that was not nailed down or
too heavy to be moved handily. The girls
were given LESSONS in stealing that were
successful In more than fifty cases.
A few days ago Julia Burre1l was traced
to the home of Alice Scruggs, and when
an investigation was made the amount of
stuff brought to light startled the officers
Alice Scruggs got eighteen months on three
charges, and Julia, an apprentice, got q
year. There are more cases against Alice
Scruggs. and 1t will be years before she
gets freedom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19

officers Of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Army and Navy Union. as follows:
National lady commander, Mrs Catherine
NJ. Hurlburt, Harriet B. Gridley Auxiliary,
No. IA, Erie, Pa; vice commander, Mrs.
Sophia Kappes, Anna Wheeler Garrison.
No. II, West Hoboken, N j.; deputy vice
commander, Mrs. Sophie LAS, Julia n. Nc
Henry Auxiliary, No. 2, Washington, D. c.;
adjutant general, Mrs. Mary v. Field, Julia
D. Grant Auxiliary, No. 3, Whitestone,
N. j.; paymaster, Mrs. Louise Lee. Geor-
gianna Porter Auxiliary, No. 16, Washing
ton; quartermaster, Mrs Mary Shackman,
Harriet B. Brown Auxiliary, No. 10, Mum
hall, Pa; inspector general. Mrs Celia Nag
ley, Harriet b. Brown Auxiliary, Munhall,
Pa; chaplain, Mrs. Catherine Coulter, Geor-
gianna Porter Auxiliary, No. 10, Washing
ton.
There were loud shouts for Gen. Andrew
S. Burt U.SA., and when that officer step
ped to the front he was given a rousing
ovation. In responding he told one of his
characteristic stories which have given him
fame wherever there IS an American SOL
der. He praised the ladies and their work.
and declared no great movement can be
carried to success without the assistance Of
the women.
I'm four wars and forty years of serv-
ice, he said, Il have seen some deeds that
required nerve and daring, but he added,
Il never beheld a Drawer deed than that
ing, when Comrade Lake stood up be-
fore this galaxy of beautiful women and in
the installation exercises gave them the or
der, Right face! Forward march! -
ALI Sing "America."
The meeting came to a close with the
singing of America by the audience, led
by Mr.. A. F. Broacker of Roosevelt Car
rison and the Engineer Band.
The campfire was in charge of the en-
tertainment committee of the general ex-
executive committee, as follows:
Col. Theodore Roosevelt Garrison, No. IA
Geo: l.. Snider, Van a. Zahn. Thos. A.
Taylor, Frank c. Longstreet.
Gen. Guy V. Henry Garrison, No. 9-R. F.
Coates, Bruce h. Underdue, Thomas Bethel.
o1 humiT B David y; foiter GARRISON, NO. -
Gen. VIM F. Barry Garrison, No. 26-C.
F. Worden, A. S. H. Burche. Geo. Living
ston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
Killed Defending His Mother.

NEW YORK, July 19.-The police Of Bay
onne barely prevented lynching yesterday
after the murder of thirteen-year-old Joseph
Brozinsk, 70 East 32d street, by Frank
Foreman, thirty-three years old, boarder
in the home Of the boys widowed mother
When the boy sought to protect his mother
from the man he was backed into a corner
Then Foreman, standing seven feet away,
fired two charges from a shotgun at the
plucky youngster, blowing his head off. The
mother is Mrs. Annie BroZinski. There
were two boys-Joseph, thirteen and Frank
fifteen. Foreman has boarded In the house
hold several months and the boys did not
like him His attentions to their mother
enraged them. He, in turn, 1t Is alleged
hated them, and often threatened to kill
them. The boys ran into their mother s
room after midnight and one cried out that
the boarder was illtreating her. Then the
shots were fired.