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big brown bear of Alaska. and, hungry
and savage, he makes his way to the
streams and plays the mischief with
the salmon.
Three kinds of bear-grizzly, black
and brown-are common in this coun-
try, and they all fish A tenderfoot
in the country would say that in GER
tain localities it was full of sheep or
cattle, as the tracks of bears cover the
ground and regular lanes are beaten
through the brush and moss.
my man selected a place where the
river was fairly shallow and we lay
on the top of a neighboring rock sur
rounded by stones, which we piled up
as a sort of barricade and from which
we could command half mile up and
down the stream. At about 8 o'clock
he called my attention to a bear cross
ing a fiat some 200 yards distant on
the other side of the stream. The big
fellow walked slowly along, came down
to the beach, once in while rising on
his hind legs as though to inspect the
surrounding country. After time, evil
IDENTIFY seeing the backs of some salmon
as they dashed across the rifle, he
waded in and stood perfectly still until
several big fish passed near him, when
down the big claw came and the bear
plunged his head into the water and
took the salmon in his mouth, then
waded ashore and began to eat the
fish.
"Then another bear appeared, about
a hundred yards above, and in all l
saw four bears fishing. Some appeared
to kill the fish with their paws, some
knocked them out of the water on the
beach with a batlike motion. When
the backs of the salmon were exposed
l saw a bear seize them in his teeth
and carry them ashore. So easily was
the catch made that the bears rejected
parts of many of the salmon, eating
only the belly showing much discrin-
nation; and 1 saw one portion of the
beach on a stream emptying into Cook
inlet where hundreds of remains of
salmon could be seen, left by these
shaggy fishermen"
Probably every bear hunter has had
some experience with bear fishing OF
the entire tribe the polar bear is of
course the most skillful fisherman. He
will take everything from a seal to
walrus, and doubtless preyed upon the
huge rhytina that lived on the shores
of the Arctic ocean in Behring sea Sew
eral centuries ago.-New York Sun.
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ALLlGATORS IN DEMAND
FOR MANY PURPOSES
Scientists Say Reptile Is More Vaiu-
able Than Largest Steer Ever
Slaughtered in Stock
Yards

TN HE man of science has been study
ing the alligator and has discov-
Il cred that every part is of some
value. A half-grown specimen is worth
far more in money than the largest
steer that was ever separated into ar
ticles of commerce, even IN a chicago
abattoir Take the teeth, for instance
They are of such fine ivory that they
can be made into watch charms ana
other iewelry for they have a mucn
brighter luster and are as rich in TINT
as the best tusks that ever came out
of an African elephants head. Inc
teeth alone are worth from 81 to "a q
pound, according to size. Every square
inch of the hide makes covering
which is far more durable ana mas
more attractive finish than most leath-
ers. AS the reptile has what might be
called an armored skin, considerable
OF which is covered with hard scales,
an alligator trunk challenges the most
reckless baggage smasher TO 90 ms
worst. provided the box within 1t is OIL
good hard wood But the trunk is only
one of hundreds of things which the
ingenious artisan makes wholly or
partly from the denizen of the south.
Why. enough of them would supply
the material for a modern outhttlhg
shoD. with O few toilet sets added
Your pocketbook may have come from
an alligator S skin. Inc purse yOu
bangle in your hand was once his claw
He finishes and furnishes the travelling
companion, except the brush, comb.
SOAP and tooth powder. All kinds of
travellers bags come from his hide.
Even automobile outfits are partly
made of it where the tourist is willing
to pay the price. The outside OF the
alligator when dressed and tanned goes
on the floor of the boudoir or studlo
in place of the royal Bengal rug. 1t
has become the fad to hang the reptile
''pelts" on the polished oak walls OF
the dining room and to ornament 1t
with the claws Your umbrella or cane
is placed in the forelegs of the stufted
alligator. Standing upright in the nall
way he makes an excellent umbrella
holder. On the table of the smoking
room he holds the tray where you
knock the ashes of your after-dinner
cigar when reading the book whose
covers were once a part of an am
gator. The Indians of the southern
swamps formerly caught alligators not
only for their teeth and hide, but for
their meat Parts of the flesh are
white and tender. Two freshly lald
alligator eggs will make as palatable
an omelet as was ever contributed by
the choicest Leghorn or Plymouth
Rock Technical World Magazine.
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the fall saw bear and later two,
feeding on salmon which they fshed
up out of the potholes, and by morning
they had cleaned them out, leaving only
the bones to tell the story.
"If you want to see bear fishing
though" continued the angler, you
should go to Alaska. Some years ago
[ made a four months hunt on Ad-
miralty island, where the giant bears
of the world live, big fellows weighing
over 1900 pounds and looking a S large
as a short-legged bison. My guide told
me that the bears know when the sal
mon runs begin as well as a man, and
that he has seen them tossing out sal
mon like a fisherman, standing right
up to it. To tell the truth, took it as
a fish story and bear story combined,
and in weak moment offered the fell
Iowa white man-$20 extra if he
could show me such sight I never
lost money so easily in my life, as it
wasn't six weeks later that I was sit
ting in the brush watching that very
thing.
81 had been something of a bear
hunter all my life and had killed about
all the bears found In America, but
these big Alaskan bears took the prize.
l don't know that they weigh any more
than a good grizzly, but certainly a
big brown or kadiak bear in prime con-
dition looks a third larger than a griz-
ely. He seems to have a hump like a
buffalo and his coat is a most extraor-
binary affair; and when Mr.. Ursus is
mad and his fur is on end he is a sight.
We had good luck and I am convinced
that the man who got into this country
some twenty years ago must have seen
focks of bears, and sight worth see
ing.
about the last of June the bears de-
eide to go a-fshing, and if you want
them your best chance is along the sal
mon streams. How they know the sal
mon run at that time I leave for the
nature writers to decide, but the fact
remains that just as a white man gets
the fishing fever in spring so does the
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The Christmas Dinner

TNHERE great many people in this world who say they
do not believe in charity They would have affairs arranged
Il so that one should be poor and need help
But and with this will not admit that
they children go cold and hungry and babies cry for
that comfort which only the rightful heritage of innocence
The Herald has undertaken the management of big dinner
and for the little folk of this city who will otherwise have
Christmas joys All who wish give may help making this day
of gadness wonderful day for all of those little great
of the Juniors have already sent small contributions of
money and many will undoubtedly find cloth
ing which outgrown shoes and for which they have
further The daily Herald and the main section of this paper
contain all necessary information concerning the dinner and any
wishing make contributions do by addressing Santa
Claus Editor The Herald.
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WHOSE GIRL?

I'm mammals girl all day-tause why?
she gives me cookies wen | cry
An helps me d ess up Bess an james
Those is my two bes' dolies names'
An wen I'm hurt she kisses me
An makes me well, an so you see
I dot my weasons wen say
AT 1 am mammals girl all day.
I'm papa's girl at night-tause whyF
NV papa works all day to buy
Some bwead an meat an dess a STICK
OF tandy at won't make me sick;
An zen he takes me on his knee
An tells some fairy tales to me;
So don't you fink at 1 am wight
In bein' papa $ girl at night?
I'm gamma's girl wen she comes to
orr house tause she will allus do
Nice things for me, an tause she bwings
Some dolls an blocks an books an things
MY mamma says at she spoils me
Tause she's so drefful good, you see;
En- gamma laughs--tause wnyY She knows
AT I'm her girl until she goes.
I'm mammals girl all day, an 'en
At night I'm papa's girl, an Wen
NY gamma comes I'm her girl, too;
But still you see at 1 amt fru
wiz bein' peoples girl-tause why?
boy named Tommie lives clost by,
An wen 1 goes to see his squirt
MY bruvver says I'm Tommy's grill
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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on the nursery wall, with ooors say,
Three little hunters in gorgeous array
Were painted for Lttleboy;
Dapper and neat in their hunting suits,
With crops in hand and with hunting boots,
They smiled on Littleboy.
One day he looked in great surprise
Did Littleboy-and he rubbed his eyes
For a hunter had actually winked!
We're going. my lad, to the hunt this night;
Be sure not to miss such a thrilling sight, -
Said the hunter who merrily winked.
True to the word of the one with the wink
The hunters DID drop from the wall and stink
Out of the window at dark;
And Littleboy gazed away they few
On wee, painted horses dappled with blue,
And were lost in the park.
The bugles sounded. the hounds gave tongue,
And to Reynard's trail the hunters chung
AS he sped quick away;
Yet at morn when Littleboy looked at the
wall
1t appeared the hunters had moved not at all
They seemed painted to stay!
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LIMERlCKS CONTINUED

Continued from Page Seven)
And he uttered a sorrowful cry
DAVID BAILLIE. JR,
1874 West Thlrty-sixth street. Thirtieth
street school, AS grade.
He coughed up the dough with sigh,
GRACE e. MUNGEN
B6 grade washington street school, 1854
West Twentieth street.
And their mother she thought he would
die.
ARTHUR HIGGINS
BIG grade, Harvard school, 5627 Pasadena
avenue.
He fell fiat and exclaimed. II viii die
GEORGE GLOVER.
Sixth grade, age II. st. Mary's academy
1914 East Seventy first street.
But look at the reason why.
FAWN WEAR,
2514 South Main street. Thirtieth street
school BIS grade.
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kHN ALh ABOUT salmon HSnlng,
said an angler who had been
Il casting a deep pool of one of
the Oregon streams for winter steel
head with poor success, did you ever
see a bear-go fishing?"
The listener and lOoker-On confessed
that he had not.
''Well, that's just where you have
missed the funniest sight in your life
Bears are natural born fishermen and
not so clumsy as you might think, and
it takes a lot to ruffle the nerve of
bear. 1 once saw grizzly standing
upright on a bee ranch with a hive
under one arm, trying to get at the
honey, while the bees were raining
down on him; but they didn't worry
him. But it is in fishing that the
average bear displays his 'savy.'
There is a great bear country or
rather there was, in the southwest
part of Oregon and the northwest of
California, where the country isn't
on a deer hunt l camped out on
branch of the Rogue in the Rogue
River mountains. 1t was good trout
stream and the salmon were coming
up in a way that made a man crazy.
On every fiat we could see them run
ming aground and in the shadows maxi
ing big waves this way and that. 1t
club them up onto the beach. l had
camped in a narrow run and was ly-
ing in my sleeping bag one morning
about sunrise, when l aWoke suddenly
with a kind of start, and~saW not $50
feet away a cinnamon bear-he looked
as big as an OK to me-
AT first | thought he was bathing,
as he stood shoulder deep in the stream
standing as still and quiet as statue;
but all at once he gave a side blow,
sort of dipping motion, with his paw,
and a thirty-pound salmon went whiz-
zing out into shallow water. Mr.. Bear
galloped after him. The salmon kicked
up tremendous fuss, leaping half out,
rolling over and would have got away
but the bear nailed him with one of
his terrible claws, dragged him out and
began to eat him, a cub coming out of
the bush to share the feast.
Il had an idea that the bear stood
in the water until he felt salmon run
against his legs, as they were so thick
at times that the river seemed to be
a solid mass of fish, but it seemed too
much of a fish story. One day L told
the man what I had seen the cinnamon
do and he told me the following:
&" THE first time he said, 4 ever saw
a bear go fishing was in Canada on
the east coast. 1 had been fishing up
a stream and one day we came to
rapid Wnefe the water poured over d
rocky ridge. On either side were nu-
merous potholes of various depths and
sizes, and alongside of them were the
bones of salmon, as though some one
had been camping out.
MY guide, an Indian, laughed when
1 made the suggestion. Him bear,
he take him, grab him, catch salmon"
l could not believe that a bear could
catch a salmon from such a stream, so
1nHr nd q al
days Of watching | was repaid by see
ing a run of salmon.
d" AS they went up the steep half fall
about one in ten fell out on the side
and in its struggle landed in a con-
venient pothole. During that exciting
and eVentful day at least six or eight
of these fish were trapped in this way.
Two or three days later my man called
me in the night, and creeping cut to
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Margaret, aged 10, was a beginner in
history. Mamma" she asked, what
does 'behead' mean?"
ITO cut off a mans head, deal"
There was a moment of silent study;
then another question.
what does defeat mean, mamma?'
Little Donald, aged 4, was interested.
IT know. mamma" was his logical
conclusion Defeat means to cut a
mans foot off.
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Bears Catch
RiOer Salmon

Streams of Oregon and Northern Cali
fornia Were So Full of Fish That
Bears Caught Them by Striking
Them with One Paw and Knocking
Them Out of the Water
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18
COTTONWOOD TREES.

It has been developed lately that
cottonwood trees make about the
best lumber procurable for building
purposes. 1t not only makes: fine
dimension stuff. but Is good for in
side finish and works we'll into
furniture and carriages. It takes
fine polish and is easily stained in
imitation Of any wood. It has a
strong interlacing fiber will not
split or check and is valuable for
paper pulp, for which purpose it will
attain q sufficient size In few years.
Ii is just the tree to set out to re-
claim land and at the same time to
make profitable crop. Perhaps the
much despised cottonwood Is to solve
the timber question. take the place.
Of the slow growing and disappear
ing white pine. est Concord En-
terprise.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18
MISSION MEETINGS.

Mission meetings will be held at
the following places: At the
Baptist church in Alma on June %.
at 2 p. M. and the whole Of the
following day. the "a; In Wanger
June Is and 26; in the Baptist,
church in Vega June q and %; At
Eagle Point June 80 and July Il; At
Lancaster July 3 and 4; at Thief
River Falls. July 5 and 6; West
Valley July I and 8: Deerwood July
10 and II Karlstad July IL.
i Rev. G. Wahlin.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18
ALVA RADIO.

D. S. Christensen has bought out
a general store at Lansford. n. D..
where he will move shortly with his
family.
In the ball game between Alvarado
and Vega last Sunday, the former
won by % to 3.
Mrs. X. J. Taralseth visited at
Alvarado on Monday.
Chas. Ranum was here on Monday
putting up cave spouts on the resi-
dence belonging to the Farmers
State Bank.
Anton Hill returned Tuesday
morning from the Gospel Mission
meetings held at Thief River Falls.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Nels Nelson came
down from Baudette last week for a
visit with Louis Nelson. He said
all the Alvarado people up there are
getting along nicely.
D. S. Christensen left Thursday
morning to take charge of his store
at Lansford. n. D.
r.. B. Taralseth was here Monday
looking after The J. K. Taralseth
Co. IS interests here.
s. S. Trickey went to Grand Forks
Wednesday.
M. NJ. Swanson is hauling lumber
for new barn chat he is going to
build.
John Hammer and his men re-
turned this morning from Stephen.
where they have done some contract
work.
H. H. Oberg has begun the erec-
tion of his large barn. John Ham
mer. the Alvarado builder and con-
tractor has charge of the work.
This will probably be one of the
most substantial barns built in the
northwest. .,....-.
The Alvarado Commercial Club has
receievd the new stamp bought for
advertising purposes. Every business
firm has one of them for use on
stationery. 1t reads. ':Alvarado is
it," Sourrounded by the best Red
River Valley Farms.''
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18
Correspondence
STRIP.

June 18th. Rev. Bredeson had the
misfortune to break a leg the other
day: he also sustained other injuries.
GoJ tangled 10 In some inexplicable
Wav while leading COW.
Mrs. Fredrickson and daupheter,
Alice, left for their home in southern
Minnesota last night. after week. S
visit with Mrs. Fredrickson's brother,
Mr.. John Sor.
Silver Rafteseth lost a valuable
horse the other day.
Mr.. Ostgaard and family left a
week ago for Canadian Eldorado.
somewhere uD north. We hope they
will do we'll in their new home.
Even Anderson's residence is
quarantined for small pox.
Axel Larson sold his team today to
a party somwhere on the reservation.
Mr.. and Mrs. liver Westby. from
Anstad. was calling on old. friends
at Strip last week. Two of thier
children who have been going to
school here during the winter went
back with them.
Miss Else Styrlund returned from
Grand Forks last night. she having
been visiting her sister at that place.
Rumor says Charley Styr]und, a
former Strip boy, now. engaged in
business at Viking. is to be married
tomorrow, we congratulate.
Miss HELEN Carlson is on the sick
list this week.
Andrew Opseth was visiting
friends near Wylie this week.
Axel Axelson. Arvid Carlson. John
Remmem, Axel Sor, Gust and Olaf
Opseth, and James Johnson. took in
the Warren Market Day week ago.
Anita and Sandridge base ball
mines crossed bats on the Strip
diamond last Sunday. Quite an in
teresting game was played, the score
being 2 to in favor of Anita.
Afterward Anita played some fellows
calling themselves Thief River Falls
L abors''. The Labors went down to
defeat to the tune of S to 10. To-
morrow Anita will play the Labors
in Thief River Falls. and better
game is expected. as the Labors no
doubt will labor to get better team.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18

June l8-25-July 20.
NOTICE OF FILING OF AND
HEAL ON DITCH PETIT
Notice is hereby given that a petit
tion of which the following is coDv
County Auditor of Marshall County,
State of Minnesota, and that hear
ing will be had upon said petition
before the County Board at the
office of the County Auditor of said
County. In the CITY of Warren on
the 18th dav of July A. D. 1908. at
10 O'Clock A. NJ. Dated at Warren.
Mimi, this 10th day of June 1908.
..... p. B. Malberg.
.. ..... County Auditor.
Petition for Public Ditch.
TO the County Board of the Coun-
ty of Marshall. State of Minnesota:
The undersigned land owners.
whose lands will be liable to be
affected bv. or assessed for. the ex-
pense of the construction of a County
Ditch hereinafter described. would
respectfully represent that the public
health. convenience and welfare and
the reclamation of wet and over
flowed lands require the establish
ment and construction of q County
Ditch along the following described
route In the Town of Marsh Grove.
in said county of Marshall. and that
the construction of the same would
be of public benefit and utility.
A general description of the pro-
posed starting point. route and
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18
Dltching IN Roseau County.

Can't. JAS. a. Beard, Of the Stand.
ard Drainage Company. Of Window,
Minnesota and in charge Of tie big
steam dredge on the lower Roseau
river in Roseau County. came down
to Crookston from Thief River Fails
last evening for the purpose Of trans
ferring heavy parts Of machinery
from the freight yards here to ex-
press to Greenbush whence he will
take it into the interior where it is
needed for the repair Of the dredpe..
The big floating dredge is at pre-
sent in the middle of the immense
swamps through which flows the
lower Roseau River. The dredpe is
seven miles from the first dry spot
and is surrounded by the conditions
chat 20 to make this the best
dredging year for long time.
From Roseau Lake to Duxby on
the Roseau river the big machine
kept generally along the line and
direction of the Roseau river. but
the construction this year paws no
attention to the river and pursues
it's way as the crow flies from Duxby
into the rapids near Caribou post
office in Kittson county. The pro-
ject will make of the fertile soils of
the Roseau Valley garden of Eden.
The floating steam dredge has al
ready cut thru IS miles of the state
engineers plans and has 20 more to
90 before the construction is COM
plete. The digging is now much
harder than on the first part of the
ditch as the ditch construction is
practically new river which when
built will take the place of the Ros-
eau which will cease to run.
Capt. Beard, who is the oldest
dredger in the northwest. considers
this the best dredging year of the
last ten.
The only difficulty has been the
presence of frost in ground and
swamps until late date this spring.
One of the main matters that have
made this year so good for dredging
men is the activity and service of
the state drainage department. who
let the most of their contracts early
in the winter plotted the engineers
over the work rapidly and enabled
contracting dredge men to get all
their supplies and machinery to the
points of construction before the
spring thaws set in.
On account of this condition Capt.
Beard. who for the last two wears
has had literally scratched the
country to get enough wood to run
his enignes. was enabled to get
timbermen at work early and he now
has 1900 cords of wood along the
banks of the Roseau, enough to last
him this year.-Crookston Journal.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18

en- and unbroken. W. H. Dixon.
Clarice. Synneva and Ingolt
GrindeIand attended a pipe organ
concert in the Luth. Synod church
at Thief River Falls last Sunday eve
ming. A newly installed pipe organ
was used.
At a meeting of the Board of
Education on Thursday evening VIM.
Neumann was awarded the contract
to finish the two unfinished rooms
in the Washington building. Warren
Machine & Iron Works was given the
contract to install system of lava
tories and plumbing in said build
ing. and L. J. Under the contract
for the necessary brick work. their
bids being the lowest presented for
these improvements.
e. Taraldson. of Starbuck. Mimi.
is visiting in the CITY. He was
formerly a wealthy merchant OF
Grand Forks. but fire destroyed his
store. sickness in his family, and tile
assuming Of liabilities of Grand
Forks college. of which he was an
earnest promoter. wiped away all
his property. He is now a poor old
man. crippled by rheumatism and
needing the assistance of charity.
Thus swings the wheel of fortune.
But he has faith in God and that is
riches of the best kind.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-18
Card Of Thanks.

Through the columns Of this paper
we wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to all who assisted us during
the sickness and at the funeral Of
our beloved daughter. Alma. also for
the eautiful floral contributions.
"a. K. Dicken and family.