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also noted The fisherman who takes salmon
marked in this way sends the tag to the fish cultur
lists, and it is that this wonderful instinct of the
species has been discovered
When the annual movement of the salmon from
the Pacific up the rivers and creeks to the spawning
ground is at its height, the waters of the smaller
streams often fairly TEEN with the fish, and the
little brooks and other tributaries up which they
force their way at times almost choked with the
schools, that the farmers and those the
streams actually take them out with their
hands and with nets.
This migration of the salmon is well worth telling
about, for the that it has created what are
called Wheels of Fortune in the Northwest.
Really the wheel is net; but net which is built
in a circular form that it somewhat resembles the
framework of the familiar paddle wheel attached
to steamboats,. Imagine the paddle wheel with its
rim partly covered with stout wire netting. and you
have rough idea of how this curious Wheel of
Fortune looks. 1t is divided into three four
tons the wire netting extending portion Of
the rim also the sides and kept rigid by frame
work of tough wood which is sometimes braced
with iron rods. This framework rests upon axle
placed in the center of the wheel.
The sides of the wheel tightly closed by Wire :;
but about one-half of the end of each compartment
is left open. The net is employed principally upon
the Columbia River where hundreds in use,
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE 80. 1907

sink rapidly but the stout planks of wooden vessel
give her buoyancy against the onsaughts of the
sea- and she is virtually unsuitable if the whole of
the interior is likewise of timber.
Every derelict has its own story, some more ter
ribe than Others That of the bark Florence E.
Edgett, wrecked in the Caribbean in 1902, is
markabe. She left Nova Scotia for Buenos Ayres;
and besides the of ten carried also the Captains
young WIFE girl of twenty-three. couple of
months later came the dread hurricane, that left
only Jagged stu1nps instead of masts swept over
board the deck load demolished the bulwarks, up
rooted the deck houses flooded the holds. And yet
even with cabin and foc'se awash, and most of the
provisions ruined, the ten men and girl remained
by their ship for four long weeks, rigging jury maStS
to work her toward land and burning flares of dis
by night. 1t would be difficult to describe the
long days in open boat across hundreds of miles
of stormy ocean, with each individual reduced to a
drink of water and three of bread day, and
with tropic blistering every exposed part of
their bodies. During the whole forty days between
the fatal and the sighting of land they not
one ship Yet they saved; and the derect
they left behind sighted many times. She
drifted at last into the Sargasso Sea- which to
lure all these carcasses to its tangled and matted
bosom. No doubt storm drove her forth again
another recruit for the seas army of destruction.
Touring in Groups
TT is amazing how numerous are these dangerous
waits One February day the ship Inchisla behed
three dereliCtS at OnCe-twO water logged SchOoners
and a brig turned upside down. And the Strath-
muir beheld one vessel burning, and another along
side her dismantled off Cape Cod. Many a narrow
escape too is recorded from these pers. One night
the steamer Virgil passed between the two masts of
sunker-derelict, and yet most marveously escaped
injury.
The distance covered by derelict depends upon
her condition. Some will drift mile day, Others
will make hundred. One of them with sails set
will follow course closely as though human
hand at her wheel; another will, as has been
shown, zigzag through every 1t is said that
thirty per cent. of the floating derelicts
upside down, and that in such way as to be able
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into which it is divided is successfully submerged
the motion of course being down stream. The
salmon in their ascent going in the opposite direc-
ton, strike the rim of the wheel, pass into one
of the compartments. If they hit against the
netting and fall away from it, they drop into the
opening. each projects beyond the netted por-
ton of the rim. As the wheel turns, the i'm
prisoned fish swung round with it, and
drop into trough in the bottom of the compart-
ment Through this they slide into larger trough.
and then also by gravity are deposited in the fish
collector.
Such is the number of the fish passing up the
river during the season, that from single wheel
fifty tons have sometimes been taken in twenty
four hours, the fishing be carried on at night
BY means of artificial illumination.
These Wheels of Fortune are so large that the
king salmon falls prey to them for the that
owing its size it hugs the shore of the river when
going up stream in order to avoid the stronger
rent in the middle. Therefore, it frequently gets
directly in the way of the wheel, and during the
time when the fish most numerous sometimes
a wheel will enmesh dozen fifty pound king fish
in twenty-four hours AS they worth, before
cutting up and cleaning. from two to four cents
pound the wheels earn large revenue by captur-
ing this species alone, although everything that
swms in these rivers be taken in the automatic
fish traps.
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started up the rivers and creeks to the spawning
grounds, for the reason that they become so bat
tered and bruised in forcing their way along the
rocky channels against the swift currents, and be-
cause so many become the victims of the Wheels of
Fortune if they do not end their existence in the
shallow water.
The Western man knows salmon by several differ
ent names; for fully dozen species caught in
the streams which flow into the Pacific we'll in
the bays and sounds which tributaries to the
great ocean, Some may not weigh over halt
dozen pounds; but the king salmon, or qunnat well
deserves his name, for sometimes he grows to such
a size that he tips the scale beam at fifty pounds
and over. While all of the different species travel
to some unknown place in the ocean at least once
a year. the king salmon we'll of its smaller
brethren invariably return to fresh water, and
already stated, frequently ascend the rivers and
creeks, trying to get to the place where they first
swan when Matched from the egg.
lust how they know the location where they
born and can return to it near to it is puzzle
which the scientists have not yet solved; but this
fact has been proved by salmon which when young
caught by fish culturists and marked so that
they could be identified later Sometimes they
marked by attaching small metal tags bearing
a certain number to the gills round the tail.
These numbers are carefully recorded. and the
place where the fish replaced in the water is
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A Discounted Warship

THE fourth stroke split the Golden Rod in two,
l. while the fifth tore off her under body and scat
tered her cargo of barrels the seas face Unfor-
tunatey it was seen that this work had seriously
strained the cruisers stem, and she forced to go
into dock reaching port, where it found
that she had sustained considerable damage.
Now. however, the Government has decided to
build for the cutter service vessel of an
entirely type, expressly for destroying derelicts
She will have a steaming radius of five thousand
miles without stopping to coal; and among her
equipment several powerful derricks, together
with the most improved life saving apparatus, and
a magazine filled with guncotton and other high
plosives, which if scientifically distributed would
clear all the lanes of navigation of this terror of the
sea- This enemy of derelicts will have her field
clearly marked by Nova Scotia on the north, the
Bahamas on the south and mid Atlantic the East.
The other side of the will be patrolled by
derelict hunting ships of Great Britain or other
European Powers; from which it will be that
all the Governments thoroughly alive to the
Importance of clearing the of hapless hulks.
which present in effect dumb helpless pirates
preying upon the commerce of all nations.
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ging and spars pinnacle and wheel and rudder,-all
were in perfect order, also were the sailors KITS,
and even the savory dinners set out in the TO sic:
In the neat little cabin the sewing machine OF
the Captain wife, and under its needle a babyS
nightgown. In the chart room the chronometer
licked cheerily; cash box was found we'll filled;
and the log book was found posted to within forty
eight hours of the visit Every record showed the
passage uneventful and favorable. Indeed, the
searchers could see at glance that the trim ship had
passed through no storm. Oh piracy or murder OF a
struggle of any kind there evidence. Yet
thirteen living creatures had disappeared if
spirited away into the great deep by some agency
not of this earth.
The United States Government spared efforts
to solve this of the strangest of all the seas
mysteries; but no clue has ever been found
Story of the Resolven
MOT less uncanny and disturbing was the story of
~ the brig Resolven, Newfoundland for Labrador,
which picked up one sunny August day by the
British gunboat Mallard. The Resoven too had
her sails SET her side lights burning, her galley fire
lighted as if for dinner Everything, in the case
of the Marie Celeste in perfect order; and big
bag of gold supposed to have been for the purpose
of buying cargo of fish was found lying intact in
locker The warship towed the brig back to St.
Johns, and there everyone awaited news OF the
eleven men of tie crew But nothing has been
heard of them from that day to this.
These cases are the stranger when remembers
what terrible sufferings sailormen have endured and
lived through One May day four years ago the
Norwegian schooner Zggen almost knocked to
pieces in hurricane For six days her twelve hands
were ahoat on the derelict hull dashed by gales and
snow storms.
The humble and pathetic group gathered on the
quarter deck, and the Captain actually read the
burial service believing their death was only mat
ter of minutes Yet even while he was recltng
PRAYERS steamers smoke appeared on the horizon,
and before long the big Pennsylvania bore down on
them and took off the despairing mariners. The
Ziegen was the worst kind of derelict-wooden
built and lumber laden. For that reason she haunted
the sea for many day. Iron ships will open up and
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to rip the bottoms out of ships that collide with
them
Now each maritime nation attends to its own
derelicts and even sends out warships to demolish
them with big guns torpedoes; the derect
may be destroyed by fire or by ramming That
they offer very serious passive resistance, how
ever, will be seen by the painful experience of the
United States cruiser Atlanta. She sighted the
derelict British schooner Golden Rod one day
floating bottom upward the New South Shoal
And since the American seaboard is especially
afflicted with dereiets the naval Captains have
orders to destroy them sight.
For this reason the Atlanta opened fire upon the
Golden Rod Something like forty shots were put
into the hulk, but only four exploded in her Still
she showed sign of sinking, and then it was de-
cided to her. The first blow sliced off the dere
licts stern; second sheered away another section
and the third impact caught her amidshps and bore
her along for some distance
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especially in the vicinity of The
Dalles and above this formation.
As the wheel is operated entirely
by the current of the river, it must
be placed where the movement of
the water is sufficiently rapid to
revolve it. The salmon wheels are
of two kinds, one having movable
base and the other fastened to the
shore or to cribwork projecting
from the bank. The shore wheels
are by far the largest, some of them
being fully fifty feet in diameter.
The wheel is suspended in stout
framework, each end of the axle
being set in grooves, SO that it can
be moved up or down by the use of
block and tackle attached to the
top of the framework. The appa-
ratus is raised or lowered to such
degree that about four feet of the
wheel is continually submerged, the
submerged portion acting like the
paddle of steamboat wheel.
AS the wheel revolveS in the
u-ater aach nf tho co,,,ra ~ ,,ar+e
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A MONG the strangest fish that
~ swim the seas are the
L y salmon. In the days when
only the Indian speared them, long
before the white man knew of the
rivers which flow from the Rocky
Mountains into the Pacific Ocean.
the natives of the Pacific North
west regarded them as they do to-
day, with awe; for where they go
into the ocean is as much of a
mystery as how they SO often re-
turn to the place where they were
born. This may be hundreds of
miles from the sea in some little
creek flowing into the Columbia,
the Fraser, or other river of the
Northwest where the water is SO
shallow that the fish frequently
ground owing to their size and, I'M
able to go farther, die a miserable
death after they have deposited
their eggs.
Old salmon fishers say that not
one in twenty of the females ever
rat,,r,, to tho ncean after thew have
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A MONG the strangest fish that
~ swim the seas are the
- co1,,,op In the 5ayc when
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
PARK CITY.

Mrs. Henry Welsh entertained at
pleasant bridge whist party Wednes-
day evening of last week. Mrs. LIE
Compte and Miss Fargo were the prize
winners.
Miss Agnes Kelly entertained the
Matron circle very pleasantly Ihurs-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vic Youngberg and Mr..
and Mrs. H. NJ. Short spent Sunday on
the Weber.
Mrs. Vic Youngberg entertained the
500 club last Wednesday.
Mrs. Dan Coughlin returned Thurs
dav to her home in Almy. Wyo., after
a pleasant visit with relatives in this
city.
Miss Eva Hughes returned Saturday
from pleasant visit liz Salt Lake.
Mrs. NJ. J. McGiIl returned from the
metropolis Friday morning.
Miss Agnes Harrington visited in
Salt Lake last week.
P. H. Towey returned Sunday from
Salt Lake.
The funeral of John Leech was held
Wednesday afternoon from the Cath-
Ole church, Rev. Father Galiigan OF
ficiating.
Brother Francis of Notre Dame, Ind,
came I'D to the Park Wednesday on
business.
The ladies of the Altar society of St.
Mary's church are arranging for So
ciaI to be given Thursday evening at
the residence of Mrs. Frank Fitzpat-
rick.
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EUREKA.

Miss Alice Weldon left this week for
Salt Lake. where she will take a course
in music
Hugh Hefernan will leave within
the next few days for Los Angeles,
where he will spend a few weeks va
cation.
j. c. Lynch came out from Salt Lake
on Sunday and spent the day visiting
with j. c. Sullivan.
Mrs. Leary, a sister-in-law of Mrs.
T. NJ. Holland and a former resident
of Eureka, died at Seattle on the 18th
inst
DR.. and Mrs. j. A Hensel returned
home on Friday night of last week
from Denver. where they spent several
weeks visiting friends and relatives.
Mrs. T. D. Sullivan returned on
Monday night from Salt Lake, where
her children, Miss Mamie and John T.,
have entered school.
NJ. L. Clarity returned on Sunday
from a ten days sojourn with his
family at Salt Lake. Mrs. Garrity's
health is improving quite rapidly at
the present time.
Cashier Jere Driscoll of Mccormick
& Co.'S bank received a telegram the
other day from his brother. James P.
Driscoll. stating that the funeral of
the late John H. DriscOll, their
brother had been conducted at Han
cock, Mich, on last Sunday afternoon,
the burial also taking place in that
city. James P. Driscoll, who accom-
panied the remains to Michigan, is eX-
pected to return home next Sunday or
Monday.-Eureka Reporter, Sept. 81.
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POCATELL0, IDA.

Mrs. P. St Marie and two sons left
Monday for the coast The sons will
attend school at Portland the coming
winter.
Thomas Fitzgerald went to Ameri-
can Falls Monday
Miss Margaret Malone of Salt Lake
is the guest of her aunt, Miss Mary
Gilmore.
c. P. Bartlett of the firm of Murphy
& Bartlett came down from st. Antho-
ny Saturday night, accompanied by his
family
Joe Murphy and John McMannis left
Monday for towns west of the city.
Miss Emma Falk leaves this week
for her home in Anaconda. after an ex-
tended summer visit with her sister
here, Mrs. W. n. McCarty.
Misses Thena and Mabel Mooney are
back from a three months visit with
friends and relatives in Chicago and
other eartern points.
Hugh Wood of the Wood Livestock
company. one of the biggest institu-
tons of its kind in the west. was in
the Gate City Monday on his way to
Chicago. ahead of trainload of sheep,
which were unlOaded here and pre-
pared for another lap in their ship
ment to the Chicago stockyards.
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HALEY, IDAHO.

James A. McFadden, the father U1
j. j. McFadden, arrived yesterday
from Salt Lake. He is on the way to
his mines in Custer. that he has owned
for thirty years, and he is laying over
here to visit with his son and daugh-
ter-inlaw and friends here. Colonel
McFadden lived here in the early sos.
He owned the Isabella group and other
claims in the Little Smoky. He dis
posed of his interests here to return TO
Custer to develop his properties there,
Colonel McFadden has not visited
HALEY since 1893. Father Time is
treating him kindly, as excepting
that his hair has whitened with the
years, he is enjoying better health
than when he lived here. Colonel Nc
Fadden intended to stay in HALEY a
few days, but being told that his
horses had got out of the pasture at
Ketchum, where he left them when he
came down, he left this afternoon for
ketchum, intending to continue thence
up to Custer. AS he was awaiting the
arrival of the train he was told that
his horses were caught near HALEY
and We're then in Wilson's stable, but
as he was all ready to start he con-
cluded to go on anyway.-Wood River
Times, Sept. q.
Peter Donnelly left Monday for a few
days visit in Mountain Home.
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AMUSEM ENTS.
"rhe Vanderbilt CUP

Sandwiched in between earlier forms
of speech, comes the newest, and latest
form of human expression, the gasoline
language, and in these days and times
to acknowledge an unfamiliarity with
it is to argue oneself woefully behind
and non-prOgressiVe.
The Vanderbilt Cup the great. au-
tOmObile musical comedy, which comes
to the Salt Lake theatre all next week,
is said to be a liberal education in
"motOrism." II is a play built entire
ly upon motor cars and the swell
mob" who at present almost live in
their magnificent touring cars. The
plot hinges upon the great race on
Long Island for the cup presented by
w. K. Vanderbilt, jr., and brings in
many delightful resorts in and about
New York. One scene takes place in
the famous women's hotel, the Mar
jOrie Wellington, where, save for the
clerk, none but women are admitted
or employed.
The stage settings are said to be
magnificent, and the dancing very
novel Among the new song hits are
My Household Beau" My Little
Chauffeur" Somewhere in the
World" and THE Light That Lies in
Girlish Eyes"
The great sensatiOn-the cup race
is the most talked of effect in the the
atrical world. Two ninety-horse power
racing cars are driven at high speed
across the stage, to the accompaniment
of detonations, smashing eXhausts, and
all the dust and noise and excitement
which marks real race.
The same mAgnificence of scenic
equipment which marked the New York
and Chicago runs is promised for the
presentation here.
The cast numbers seventy-five peo-
pie. nearly all of whom were in the
original production.
While in st. Paul, Madame Gadski,
who is to be heard here Monday, Oct.
:. performed a gracious act which
gives a glimpse of the true woman be-
hind the artist. CHANGING to hear of
the sisters of st. Agatha, who, under
VOWS of perpetual poverty, devote
their lives to the interests of music.
she announced her intention of going
to sing for them. Instead of ordering
a carriage, the prima donna set forth
on foot, taking her little daughter Lot
Ia and her own accOmpanist. In glo-
rjous form, she rendered the prayer of
Wagner's sainted Elizabeth. a selec
ton in itself a compliment to her au-
1ience, whose sympathies it immediate
Iv touched. 1t was music that the sis
ters could appreciate even more fully
than the singer herself. Two other
songs Gadski gave them, and then a
warm good blythe prima donna to re-
turn to the world, the nuns to their
luty. each happier for the few mo-
nents in which their lives had inter-
mingled
Gadski's local welcome will be a |
warm one. Her fame as one of the |
foremost sopranos touring America in
concert makes her coming an event of
ar more than ordinary significance. |
Her tour. under Loudon Charlton's di- |
.ection, is proving an unprecedented
success.
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T0N0PAH, NEW.
Special Correspondence

special Correspondence
among the visitors who were viewing
old hauhts during the past week
We're Donald Gillies, manager of the
Montgomery Shoshone of Bullfrog; also
j. M. Healy, late of the Mohawk of
Goldfeld.
Miss Lulu Ahern has returned from
her California trip looking well.
MISS Lucas has left for her home in
California, to remain
MRS. CHARLES Pope was the soloist at
the lO O'Clock mass last Sunday. at
winch service she sang Cherubini's
Ave Marie accompanied by Miss
Llzette Pope. All enjoyed her beauti-
tuI rendering of the classic piece.
me oand concert last Sunday for the
oeneht OF the public library was well
attended, and the audience enjoyed a
nluslcal treat which all hope will be
repeated. All the numbers were gen.
erously applauded.
kew. rather Butler has announced
his intention of having a grand ha1I on
Halloween. the proceeds of which will
De devoted to defraying the expenses
OF the new parochial residence, which is
rapidly nearing completion.
MISS Marguerite Gibbons won in the
contest for a trip to Los Angeles and
san Cateline islands. given bv the
Denver Mining Record. Miss Mar
guerlte left on Tuesday morning, and
Will meet the Utah members in the
contest at Las Vegas. They all expect
rare eood time after their rustling
work during the summer.
Fred Stein will leave for his vaca-
ton to San Francisco and Los Angeles
this week.
George Dugan left last week to enter
the university at Reno.
Judge j; P. O'Brien paid a visit to
Goldfleld Monday, but returned last
Paul Tarpey of the well-known ma
chihery frm OF TarDey Brothers of
lIlis Guy mas gone to Salt Lake on a
short business trip.
Remember the CAKE SALE al
Eclipse Grocery on Saturday, Sept. %.
Benefit of Altar Society.
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ASPEN, COLO.

Mr.. and Mrs NJ. ]. Conner and son
Milton and Mrs. Claude Corners we're
visitors at the Montezuma mill sun
day.
Norman Sullivan. one of the cfty's
well known and promising young men,
took his departure on the Rio Grande
Monday evening for Chicago. where
he will attend college this winter.
Father Servant was an outgoing
passenger via Saturday mornings Mid
land for Denver to act as master of
ceremonies at the dedication of the
new church which was recently built
by the Rev. Father Robinson. The SER
vices will take place in the CapitaI
city today.
Remember the CAKE SALE at
Eclipse Grocery on Saturday, Sept. 28.
Benefit of Altar Society