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Hunting the Polar Bear

Few people realize, probably, that We can find nowadays splendid faci.i-
 ties for hunting with excellent chance of success, too, the bears and the other animals of the Polar regions Such an enterprise is easily under taken, not only in relatively short space of time, but under conditions of security as well. In Germany this sort of sport has been developed fol some time, and actually every yea, one of the great amateurs, M. De Gis- bert, of Hamburg, organizes jointly several Artic expeditions which have no other object but that of the chase 'Of one of these Expeditions Georges Zafiropulo gives an account in LIll- ustration
 The party left Drontheim on the morning of July ? on board the Lofo- ten, a heavy Norwegian steamboat about fifty two meters long and pretty we'll manned. There were ten hunters, each of whom had his own cabin. The numerous company which travelled with them contained even the curers of skins, so that all tro- phies might be safely preserved. A doctor went with the expedition.
 On July 8 they reached the Polar seas, where they plowed about till they arrived at, on the 24th the Isle of Bears.
 A bear chase is not very dangerous if one has cooIness of mind and a good gun. Taking everything into account it is easier properly to wound bear than to catch a rabbit between hedges, because, in. spite of his fero- city, the bear knows very little about defending himself against man, arm ed as man is nowadays. Besides, the Arctic bear does not recognize man as such, and takes him for tine most part. for 8 seal. The pilot among the hunters, perched in his crow 5 nest on the mast of the vessel, and  provided with a huge telescope, can distinguish, in clear weather, a bear five kilometers off, or further. So the hunter has time to watch his prey and to prepare his plan of attack. One can have splendid hunts on the icebergs as we'll.
 Sometimes tha haar fakac to tho water to escape. In this case he is lost, for he cannot swim as quickly as the boat can follow, and the hunt CT can kill him almost without run ming any risks. It is a fact worthy of remark that one ball will do it if we'll placed-that is to say,placed in the head. Many bears after being shot in the heart have swum 100 or
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-20
With Roosevelt in Africa

try, or like the Kalihari bush as seen from the Shoshong, but is broken up lin number of low ridges, with one 'central rib of considerable elevation Bush, bush, bush, nothing but bush wherever the eye rOams, all aglOW i'll blue and purple haze, and rolling away great pillows like an angry sea in the roaring forties.
 Ten steps down and our president will be in another climate. He bids forewell to the fresh, bracing breezes of the grass hills and the life-giving mountain air. Nothing now but dry,
 burning, dusty heat, thick-tangled
 bush-mimosas, fat-topped, round
 topped, pyramidal, all ablaze with 8 gorgeous clothing of golden, pink,
 white or scarlet knobs, filling the air
 with an all too powerful sweetness;
 euphorbias, lifting aloft their strange,
 ghostlylooking arms, some rugged
 and spine-covered, others as round
 and smooth as pipestem; prickly
 aloes, some tall and upright, others
 bushy and struggling but all vivid
 with bouquets of scarlet blossoms; rough-trunked olives, glossy-leaved
 wild coffee, bedecked with scarlet berries; thick, juicy-leayed, succulent plants throwing out sprays of yellow
 and red flowers, and thousand and one varieties of flower and fruit-bear- ing trees, all intertWined with clema- tis jasmine, ivy-leaved geraniums, and other beautiful creep CTS
 Lower and lower every step, hotter and hotter every mile, until at the bottom our president will be panting for breath and exclaiming Bully" At the foot of formidable precipice i 200 feet high, he will see pieces of rock of all sizes continually falling and clashing into the valley. This is the home of hundreds of enormous balloons as large as chimpanzees.  Perhaps the hero of San Juan Hill will see one walking deliberately across his path supporting himself upon stick. Great eagles have their eyries among the rocks and may he seen floating about at vast heights dark spects upon the valued blue. On the summit of Mt. Allard, 5000 feet high, will be seen a little white spot-the bungalow of famous East Indian, Roosevelt may lunch with the owner. The stinging heat agrees with insect life, for the air is full of wing ed creatures of every description, from great dragon flies and huge gaudy butterflies to the tiniest mid gets and sand flies, while on the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-20
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200 meters.
 The dangers to which one IS eX- posed are less in the actual hunt than ill the incidentals. A hunter mas always reason to>fear the sudden breaking of the ice beneath his fees. The thick snow with which it Is GOV cred often hides crevices of ent's3 requires. Then there is the dense fog, which rises with astonishing sud- denness: there are storms, which may injure the vessel, or at least keep It for a long time imprisoned between ice foes driven by the wind. The state of the weather makes the great est diigecet ce in these expeditions
 An intense fog may keen one aDs T. lutely motloEle less for ten days. Will out this circumstances, Mr Zahropulo says, his hunters record would have been much more satisfactory. Ks 1t was, at the end of fifteen days 1t showed twenty bears, and the party had captured as we'll a live cub D months old Besides. there were thirty-one seals, two of them huge, and two blue foxes in the bag. The party collected twenty-one kinds of birds, which swarmed around the is- lands.
 This particular expedition reached the latitude of 80 degrees, at the south of and very near the part of land called Francis Joseph Land. the seagulls which were always hover fashion. They had left the icebergs and were looking everywhere for the island without success, although they knew that the land was twenty kilo- meters long and had mountains $50 meters high. After exhausting all the known means used in such cases, they were looking despondently at the segulls which were always hover ing about and followed them in what ever direction the boat took. Eyi- dently the land was near, but where? ? \ gull skinned by them and, plung ing into the sea, picked up a big sardine, with which she started on a direct flight home to give it to her young. This showed them the direc- tion Of land, and half hour later, in la lifting of the fog, they saw Bear island only a little way off.
 The time on board ship seems to have passed as pleasantly as it does OR any ordinary yachting trip in the Mediterranean. Photography and bridge were the chief an1usements. Tn the remote solitudes of the polar seas other means of killing time were used-means which kept the hunters reminded of the civilized world. Ger
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-20

Neither king or prince ever plan
 ex-president has planned for the big hunt for big. game in Africa, says the New York Times When the princl of Wales visited India (the present King Edward VII.) he perfunctorily hunted elephants in order to please the HindOos, and from all elephant back shot few royal Bengal tigers The Illustrated London Times trapped up many pictures of the royal shoot --all fakes, of course. But the good people of England swallowed them all, and greedily devoured every line of fake letter-print about His Royal Highness's prowess as a dead shot in the jungle. Roosevelt has no one C please in Africa but himself. He will have a grand old time.
 The greatest variety of sport is to be had in the 'Thorns,' a most ex- traordinary sunken valley, 1000 or 5000 miles in extent, trough which the Mooi the Tugela and other small CT rivers run. The whole of it is GOV cred with dense bush, the hills in closing it being open grass. The depth of the valley is from 1000 to 1000 feet, and in many places the sur rounding hills show perpendicular faces 1000 feet in height. In all places the descent is exceedingly abrupt X stranger riding the road from say, Greystown to the Biggars- burg would be cantering along the fairly level summit of high, grassy ridge which seems likely to continue for many miles and pulled up at the very edge of a preeipice, and in q single second would be revealed to him this wonderful and unsuspected valley, and he would stand gazing over a vast tumbled sea of forests Tar down below him, and in the blue distance the inclosing hills on the northern side
 We have fine atmosphere in Amer ica. but how blue the distances are in Africa hone can conceive who has not seen them. The story about the stranger in Colorado who thought he would take a stroll before breakfast from his hotel in Denver to Pike.s Peak and back will always remain p1ena classic. In Australia the same phenomenon has caused the chief range of elevations to be called the Blue Mountains. Our president. standing under Bothas Castle in the Thorns, will witness a truly extra ordinary spectacle. The valley is not Hat like that in the Amaswaze coun-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-20

.a,. o,as among them consfeSateu often in the evening, and then .ne
 a.no,s and the white gulls Whicn rlided silently through the maze oi the midnight sun would hear a aeal- aning noise of songs and clihkins a,ossos But as soon as the haze dis- persed, when the sun appe"i el' strangely, in the midst of his superb surroundings of fantastic hummocks' :.,,nacu,ate snows and sea the coiof of ink at such a solemn hour almos' all the hunters went all together oh +ba bridge. never tired of ad'iilrlhs the great spectacle. 2
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A DOCS CHRISTMAS GIFT.
LII

How a Friend Remembered Roy, the
 Collie.
 box arrived by express in q New Eng land town addressed to Roy, q collie A fine large bone, with plenty of good red meat still adhering, was found within. Roy put the bone where it would do him the most good after one of his friends had removed the paraf1in paper and holly berry garnishment which the donor had sent along. The bone was a Christmas gift from little girl in the south, who had spent the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-20

ground crawl millions of centipedes, sometimes eight inches long and as thick as your finger, and many SCOT pions, tarantulas and lizards.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-12-20

summer il Roy,s town and had be- come verE fond of the dog Roy's next ffletal stiatai q aE= se:5t tlle Following telegram l. the ti:tl seitl
 =zai.T thanks for tl.e loae Yoa are tie 9af o:.e go tee.:.. ..ut&ss- me today Many hztasg letu1s1e ROY.
 4 csri5tr.= f:=ac.
 fEele k s e. z.... iin'es le~sel .,l I ea,s HgJ f.e gig all the fi.rss4s !,, tying faur l4pep@ tagtt.ier ara i. 4ert @.9aa bett6r thra fha old Way .n Tacr s:.l.; iass..s' @a in this k.;'d aS well as boys Wi, no fear ei hurting themselves, and two ni.i.J!e girls stand q ver.s- good chance of beat inss W. heys t@o
 All you have to do Is to gras, the raised lef! foot of q companio.i who hops along in front of you IL iS really a race of hops. and the best hopper will surely vii! a Christmas gift as d prize. for it is no trick at all for the Ole behind to rtn as fast as the front one can hop.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06

IN COMMAND
OF THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION
IN THE PITTSBURG DISTRICT
TODAY, WHEN MANY MILLS
WILL RESUME OPERATIONS.

Pittsburg, pa, Jan G.--After a
brief absence from duty, General
Prosperity resumed command OF the
industrial situation I'm the Pittsburg
district today, when most or the
mills in Glassport, McKeesport, Du-
quesne and up the Monongahela val
ley as far as Moncssen and down TO
Pittsburg resumed operations More
than 10000 men who have been idle
for several weeks returned to- work
today. practically every mill in the
Pittsburg district will be in full OPP
GRAFTON within n week
Reports from Newcastlc state that
ten OF the thirty hot mills Of the
Shenango tin mills resumed today.
and that the entire plant will be
running full force before the end Of
the month. The mill is the largest
tin plate in the world and has been
idle since July !. Three thousand
men are affected
Among The other mills which re-
sumed today. or Will begin opera
tions during the month. maintaining
the 1907 standard Of wages. are the
following: National Tube works.
McKcesport. 10000 men. Duquosne
steel works. 5000 men. Homestead
mills. 1000 men. BraddOck mills.
5000 men; Monessen and Charleroi
mills. 1000 men; Clarion mills. D.
600 men: Bonaza mills. 1000 men:
Woods mills, 1000 men. and numer.
Gus smaller plants employing from
100 10 500 men.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
ANNIVERSARY OF DIVORCE
CELEBRATED BY MARRIAGE

Berlin, Jan. 6.-Mrs. Clara Heyl.
nee Schandein, the wealthy daugh-
ter OF n Milwaukee brewer, today
celebrated the first anniversary OF
her divorce from her first husband
by marrying Lieutenant Arthur
Schlubreck one OF the most famous
OF the younger portrait painters OF
Germany. After brief honeymoon
the couple will take up their resi-
dence in magnificent villa in Grun-
wald, fashionable suburb OF Ber-
lin. The new Mrs. Schlubreck has
two sons by her first husband, who
are now attending school in Ger
many, having been awarded to the
custody OF their mother by the
American court. The brides wealth
is estimated at $6.O0O.O00. She Sc
cured possession OF the $4,000, 900
fortune left by her mother after n
bitter contest in the Milwaukee
courts, but later settled large sums
upon her former husband and the
relatives who contested the Will.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
LITTLE ALTON
OIL CASE

Chicago, Jan. 6.-Before Judge
Bethea in the United States dist 'ict
court today. what is known as ;he
Little Alton" case against the
Standard oil company OF Indiana
was called. The charges aga!ns. the
oil company are similar 10 those
made in the case In which Judge
Lands administered the famous
big fine." with the exception that
the indictment contains but 1874
counts, while the indictment which
resulted in the s29, 9,240.0OO fine con-
tanned 1,462 counts. In the present
case the Standard is alleged to have
accepted rebates from the Chicago &
Alton railroad on shipments of oil
from its refinery at Whiting. Ind. 10
st. Louis. after the change in the
division OF the north judicial district
of Illinois, which took place March
3, 1905. In the Standard Is found
guilty on each OF the 1874 counts, It
will be subject to fine of $2,6SO,.
900, as each offense is punishable by
a maximum fine OF $4,000.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
SEC. Of WAR
SUBMITS REPORTS
RECOMMENDS THE INCREASE IN
NAIBER OF ARMY OFFICERS.

Washington, Jan. 6.--In his an
nual report otday Secretary Taft
dwellg on the need for more officers
and men In the army and his rea-
sons for the Increase In the number
Of desertlons and the decrease in
cnlistments says the reason can b1
found In the inadequacy OF pay. He
approved the recommendation OF tho
general board that there be an addi-
ton OF GIG officers, and recommends
the organization of a general service
corps, including wagon, masters. en-
glneers. hremen, teamsters, black
smiths, laborers, etc During tho
year twenty-one enlisted men were
Killed In action, five died as the re-
suit OF wounds. There were 358
deaths from all causes. He said tha
Philippines mere quiet and I'm good
order and speaks highly I'm pralse OF
the conduct OF the army OF Cuban
pacifcatiOn. He recommends tho
construction OF new military post
In the Philippines and approves tho
estimates for the construction OF
batteries during the coming year by
the National Coast defeGSe board in
the Philippines and Cuba.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
TO VOTE ON
INITIATIVE

Lansing, Mich, Jan. 6-The Mich
igan constitutional convention will
tomorrow take up the consideration
OF the initiative proposal as a special
order Of the day. AS reported by
the committee, the proposal author
ICES the submission OF amendments
to the constitution, when petitioned
for by citizens OF the state to the
number OF 20 per cent. of those who
voted at the last previous election
for superintendent of public instruc-
tion Much opposition has developed
TO the incorporation in the constitu-
tion of the initiative proposal, many
members of the convention denounc-
Ing 1t as a "socialistic measure" and
in violation OF the constitution of
the United States.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
SEEK To GUST
TOBACCO TRUST

jackson, Miss, Jan. 6.--Three OF
the most important antitrust suits
In the legal history of the state will
be called for argument before Chan
cellor Lyell during the term OF
chancery court which convened
here today. The first case on the
docket is that OF the state OF Misssis-
sippi against the American Snuff
company, the Walter Fisher Tobacco
company OF West Point and the Carr
Williams Tobacco company OF Jack
son, In which the attorney general
seeks 10 oust these three corpora
tions from the state and to collect
penalties for violation OF the anti
trust laws, aggregatlng nearly $2.-
100000. The Jackson Cotton OIL
company OF Jackson is charged with
conspiracy in restraint of trade, by
reason of an alleged agreement with
other concerns to control the sale
and price OF cottonseed in this ter
ritory. Another important anti
trust suit on the docket is that
against the ississippi-Louisiana
Lumber Dealers Association, an or
ganizatlon OF retailers which is al
legged to have made an agreement to
maintain prices on lumber in its ter
ritory.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
LOOKS LIKE MAKING
A NOISE LIKE FUN

The following notice has been free
ly circulated among the coalmen:
The KOkoals have arranged for an
other Of their famous and inimitable
Koruskations to be held at william
son, w. Va. Tuesday evening, Janu-
ary 7th. 1908.
Don's miss Il. A fine time is I'm
prospect. A Dutch lunch will be
served. with plenty Of good cigars,
and a genuine, old fashioned social
session will be indulged in.
We want every good coalman and
all other good men having anything
TO do with the coal biz TO join our
outfit; not that we need your money
particularly. for II will not cost you
much, but because OF the benefit IL
will be to You I'm so many different
ways.
Kwl'cherknockcn and Come on
And Lift" We will help you haul
your freight out Of the rut i'm which
you have allowed your sociabnity in
coal matters 10 stick.
Remember, friends arc more valu-
able than dollars.
Don't miss this opportunity 10 be-
come a member of the famous coal
trade boosters For further particu-
lars write 20 y. ". jerks. w. va.
Skout care Producers Coal CO..
BlueGcld. W va.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
AOKI TO SAIL
FOR HOME

San Francisco. Jan. G-Among the
names on the passenger list Of the
steamer Machuria, which will sail
tomorrow for Japan, is that OF Wis
count Aoki, the Japanese ambassa-
dor to the United States He will
be accompanied by Viscountess AoN.
The ambassadors original intention
was to take the Seattle route, but
in Difference to the wishes Of his
wife and because OF the latter's
health the plans were changed. Wis
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
IMPORTANT CASE
BEFORE THE COURT

Albany, N. Y, Jan. Cone OF
the most important cases before the
court of appeals, which began it's
term today, is that oS Chester Gil
lette. the young man who was con-
victed of the brutal murder of Miss
Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake, in
the Adarondacks. early last year.
Gillette is now under sentence Of
death. His case will likely be heard
by the court after the disposal OF the
calendar of appeals from orders"
which usually occupies the first three
Of four days of the term.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06

April 8. 1sO5-Harry Kendall
Thaw and Florence Evelyn Nesbit
married.
June 25, i906-Thaw shot and
killed Stanford White. wealthy ar
chitect, whom he accused OF having
had improper relations with his wife
before marriage. at Madison Square
roof garden.
June 20, 19O6-Thaw indicted for
murder in first degree. and pleaded
mot guilty"
January 2S, 19O7-First trial of
Thaw began. Justice Fitzgerald pre-
siding.
February Twelfth juror Sc
lected and final preparations made
for trial by District Attorney Je-
rome, prosecutor, and Dolphin NJ.
Delmas, chief counsel for the de-
fense.
February 5.-Dr. Charles C. Wi
ley. Plttsburg. testified that at the
time Of the shooting Thaw was In
sane, but admitted he was not an
expert alienist.
February 6.-Benjamin Boman,
electrician at Madison Square Gar
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
FRANK PULLEN PASSES AWAY

After an Illness OF two months of
typhoid fever Frank Pulien died nj
o'clock last night at the Blueheld
Sanitarlum The deceased had been
living in this city about two years
and was in the employ OF the Blue
field Hardware company. Mr.. Pull
len was about twenty-four years of
age and was young man well liked
by all who knew him and was a
member Of Bland Street Methodist
church. His condition had been CON
sidered serious for some time and
his mother and sister were called to
see him last week.
The romans were taken to Bed
ford City the home OF his parents
for burial this morning.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
BANK WILL
REOPEN SOON
INSTITUTION WHICH WENT INTO
VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION
WILL OPEN AGAIN FOR BUs-
MESS ABOUT FEB. I.

Big Stone Gap, Va, Jan. Cit is
announced that the Interstate FL
nance and Trust Company which. on
December II went into voluntary
liquidation, will resume business be-
fore February /. This comes as n
result of the negotiations OF General
r. A. AyTes, its president; who has
succeeded in enlisting $4,000 OF
new money which will be paid into
the company's treasury as soon as
transfer of the banks assets can
be made by A. l.. witt trustee, to
those composing the new organiza-
tion, which will be done, 1t is under
stood, at the direction OF Wise
County Circuit Court before Janu-
ary Is.
1t is stated that General Ayres has
personally made a great sacrifice
that his bank might resume business
He voluntarily agreed to pay all at
torneys' fees in connection with its
liquidation, stating that none OF its
uePosIIoTS should be at one cents
cost in obtaining his funds.
The bank is capitalized at $50
OOO' and has some $4,000 in sur
plus and undivided profits. with the
$4,000 paid in by the new organi-
zation, the bank will have $40. 900
with which to conduct it's business.
making 1t the strongest bank be-
tween Bristol and BlueReld.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06
sis IN NEW YORK"
COMPANY DISBANDS

Huntington. Jan G.--The compa-
ny playing isis I'm New York" at
the Huntington opera house Satur-
day night, disbandsd in this city. and
the piece will bo taken on the road.
The fact that the play was found tn
be a poor revenue producer led tho
owners TO this decision The mcm-
bers OF the company left yesterday
morning for Chicago whore 20 Is said
majority of them have work i'm
sight The owners Of the attraction
have paid the members OF the COM
pany promptly. and there has been
no complaint on that score.
Mr. T. Il Haynes. the manager.
VIII remain IN Huntington for few
days. pending the settlement or inn
portant matters now under way.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-06

count Aoki has not been formally re-
called. but goes home I'm response to
a summons from his government for
a discussion OF conditions in Ameri-
ca affecting the interests of the
japanese. 1t is unlikely that he will
return to the United States. His
successor will be Kogoro Takahira.
former minister to the United States
and present ambassador to Italy.
Takahira was one of the Japanese
delegates to the Portsmouth peace
conference. held in this country in
the summer of 1905, when the treaty
OF peace which settled the Russo
Japanese war was negotiated. Mr.
Twakoshi, the chancellor OF the
embassy, will accompany Ambassa-
dor Aoki on the Manchuria.