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Evening star., 1909-05-23
SHOOTING AFRICAN BUFFALoEs.
They Have Strength and Cunning.
Most Dangerous Game.

From Forest and Stream.
After all one may shoot elephant or
rhino. but a buffalo is. think, the pick
of the basket. Undoubte edly he is the
most dangerous of all African game and
| think this is the opinion of all who
have hunted him. He is no mean an
tagonist for he is most ferocious and
to back it up. If you wound one of them
look out.
The sun was just going down when,
turning around a sharp bend, l came
upon five buffaloes not more than loo
yards from me. and among them were
two fine bulls. They had evidently just
come out from the thick bush and were
busily feeding, but one COW must have
heard us. for she began to be suspicious
II did not take me moment to make
up my mind. and aiming just behind the
shoulder of the nearest BULL l fired, and
down he went like a log.
For moment the remainder stood per-
fectly still. long enough for me to fire
my second barrel at the other bull That
my shot was good / knew. as i plainly
heard the thud of the bullet, but it had
or seemed to have-no effect on the bull.
which dashed into the bush with the
sIest Now as / have said, following a
s~ounded buffalo is no fun, and / thought
At best to let well enough alone until the
following morning.
Luck was with me and the following
morning we took up the trail and had
not gone more than about 100 yards be-
fore we came upon the bull. dead, Of
course. and untouched l found that
Evening star., 1909-05-23
"Sliding to Base" !"

From Everybody's Magazine.
At one time the slide was on the prin-
ciple of getting thereto the coveted
base-quick: the runner slid head first
like a foot ball man tackling. and ar
rived in the center of huge tornado of
dust that admitted of no possible delusion
as to his whereabouts. Now-and this is
McGraw invention; he calls 1t the fall
away" slide-the plan is to arrive not
only fast. but also as invulnerably as pos
sible. The runner slides feet first and
we'll behind the bag. His right leg is
straight ahead. as brake. and his left
leg. extended at right angles to the body,
just touches the bag with the tip of the
toe. The whole body is away from the
tagger: he must touch the toe to tag the
man out. For hours | watched McGraw
line up his men and send them in turn at
the bag to practice the Hathaway slide.
1t was much like the falling on the ball
of foot ball squad, and the result to the
muscle much the same. | should judge
from the rueful countenance of each man
as he rose
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Of Interest to Autoists.

Representatives of the Unemployed
Protective Association of Cincinnati
who have been touring the eastern cit
les, have obtained thousands Of sign
ers to the petition to President Taft
proposing that the federal government
LEND money to counties throughout
the country for road building BY this
means the association expects to give
work to the unemployed.
The new quarters of the Automobile
Club of Hartford. Conn.,. are located on
the main line route from New York to
Boston. and are a convenient stoppi nG
place for tourists. bureau of infor-
nation with a permanent assistant sec
retary always on the job" is being
established.
The tests to determine the effect of
motor vehicles on public roads. to be
held by the A. A. A. and United States
of7lce of public roads. probably in June
bid fair to be the most important ever
made in this country. 1t is hoped to
determine definitely just what damage
the automobile does to road and the
best measures in road building to pre-
vent the breaking up of road surface
by constant automobile traffic. Twelve
automobiles will be used, four being
light high speed cars, four touring cars
and four heavy Limousine ears. One of
Evening star., 1909-05-23

my bullet had cut the bottom of his
heart but he still had had sufficient
strength to travel that distance. A right
and left at buffalo and both bulls is some
thing worth making, and to say that
was proud hardly describes my feelings.
Although it was a piece of extraordina-
riIy good luck, l had bad luck with the
heads afterward. losing both in the cap
sizing of canoe on the Zambes.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Marvellous!

From Everybodys Magazine.
AT base ball game in Chicago the
gatekeeper hurried to Comiskey, the lead
er Of the White Sox and said
Umpire Hurst is here with two friends
Shall / pass 'em in?"
AN umpire with two friends?" gasped
Comiskey. Sure
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Standing Up for Him.
From the Chicago Tribunc.s a

From the Chicago Tribune.s
Miriam, isn't that young Fergus COM
ing to our house pretty often now"
Il suppose he Is, mamma
do you know anything about him
What is he worth. for instance?"
"Well. he's worth any dozen of the
ordinary young men Of my acquaintance. -
Yes. but
"And he's worth 500 week to the
firm he works for-even IL he does get
only $25 now"
Evening star., 1909-05-23

1t has been decided by the Indiana ap-
pellate court that a person driving an au-
tomobile across street car tracks has a
right to presume street cars will be oper-
ated at a speed assuring the safety of
citizens. either on foot or in vehicles.
An automobile horn in the form OF a
fearful representative of a dragons head
with protruding fangs has been turned
out by a foreign maker. The usual metal
Evening star., 1909-05-23

each type will be equipped respectively
with smooth rubber tires, corrugated
rubber tires, metal studded tires and
skidding chains.
Evening star., 1909-05-23
Continued from Second Pageo

asked taxicab driver to please drive
to Edinburgh and return The driver
phoned his family and manager and made
the trip. about $50 miles. The bill was
$325.
In surfacng the five miles of track
comprising the new indianapolis speed
way more than 2:5OOO gallons Of as
phaltum oil were used. The track will be
covered with gravel and oil. well packed
and leveled. This. it is expected. will not
only eliminate dust and skidding, but will
permit unlimited speed.
Motorists of Atlanta. Ga. are plan
ming to make their show. to be held from
November % to December 4. one of the
greatest, If not the greatest. ever held
in the south. They are being aided by the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. and
promise a number of surprises in the way
of decorations and displays of cars.
Arrangements have been completed
with telegraph company for the install
lation of wires to flash President Taft S
signal to Mayor McCle Ian in New York
to start the Guggenheim ocean-to-ocean
race. The receiving instrument will be
placed on the steps leading to the city
hall portico, within a few feet of the
spot where the mayor will stand.
A touring bureau has been established
in Paris by the American Automobile AS
bers of that organization. 1t is in charge
of Victor Breyer one of the leading writ
ers of the European sporting press, and
It's services are entirely gratuitous. It's
object is to provide prospective tourists
with all Information necessary.
Arrangements have been perfected by
the committee in charge Of the Shriners'
convention to be held in Louisville, KY,
next month whereby motor car races will
be held in connection with the general
entertainment commit
has Appropriated S1,5OO in gold for prizes.
and a tentative program will include two
five-mile races, ten-mile event, a ten
mile handicap and a fifty-mile race for a
$500 stake.
| The executive committee of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association has voted to
| recommend to all of the A. A. A. clubs
the observance, of the week beginning
June ! for the various orphans day out
ings. The Automobile Club of Maryland
expects to receive the loan of enough
motor cars from Baltimore owners to
take at least 500 children on it's annual
orphans day outing June 8.
Three notable parties of western peo.
pie will tour Europe this summer in
| motor cars. George 7. Odell and friends
from Salt Lake City have already sailed
for a seven-month tour of ten countries
covering from 5000 to 1900 miles Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Morgan and Mr.. an6
Mrs. A. F. Cornwall of Oakland, Cal.
will cover about 10000 to 1900 miles
| abroad. and DIR. J. w. Harris and Of rtJ
of Denver, will sail June 10 for a toul
| of the British Isles and France.
Although the Fairmount Park race O
| the Quaker City Motor Club, Philadel
phia. is still six months off. George H
Robertson, who won the Vanderbilt cup
has made application for entry blanks ant
| the conditions of the contest.
Indiana claims to have the oldest auto
| mobile owner and driver in the country
| He is Abraham Doyle. eighty-two year
old. who has purchased touring car ant
insists on driving it himself Doyle wa
formerly a farmer.
Evening star., 1909-05-23

What plea can I offer for loving herr
Well responded rival belle. emotional
insanity seems to be a popular plea just
Courier-Journal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
CONGRESS UPHOLDS
 FORESTER PINCHOT
Fight Against Secretary Ballinger Will Be Car
 ried Into Seattle
VERY STORMY SESSION

Especial from United Press.)
 Spokane, Aug. 14.-Delegates to the Seventeen National Irrigation Con gress, which closed here late last night after the stormiest session on record, sent out from Washington yesterday by Acting Assistant Commissioner Schwartz of the General Land Office at Washington. This statement was a reply to the criticisms of Secretary R. A. Ballinger which had been the sensation of the congress. It is freely predicted here to-day that the fight between Ballinger and Chief Forester Pinchot will not reach its continuation until week after next at the next Ma tion Conservation Congress to be held in Seattle.
 In view of the attack made by the Washington officials on the criticisms of Ballinger's action in the Boznlan incident which was merely taken by the opponents of the secretaryteof the interior as an instance of the power trust grab, ex-Governor Pardee has called attention to an entry of eighty acres in Section 20 range N. B on the Missouri river in Montana, made by the Northern Pacific Company by lieu of the selection srip on May D. The land had been withdrawn by Sec retary Garfield and restored by Secre-
 
 Senator George Turner one of Secre- tary Ballinger's defendants, declared that the land could not have been en- tered on that date because it was not bound to entry under law, so soon, whereupon Pardee read from a copy of a letter endorsed by Secretary Bal finger ordering the land restored 1m- mediate1y without the formality of ad- vertising it's restoration.
 Practically the whole period of the 6aU0fad hta ha- tween Pinchot, who is looked upon as the embodyment of the Roosevelt policy of conservation, and Secretary Rallinger, whose ideas have been prov en radically different from those en- tertained by his predecessor, Secretary Garfield.
 While, the congress passed strong resolutions commenting the work of Chief Forester Pinchot and Director Seweu of the Reclamation Service, several resolutions of commendation of the administration of Secretary Bal finger were defeated in committee and instead a resolution was adopted de- claring that the water of the country belongs to the people and conforming the water power monopoly, the exist ence of which Secretary Ballinger and his friends had declared to be>a f1ctien- Probably from the defense of Ballinger by Former Senator Turner and Attor- ney Frank H. Post, both of whom are attorneys of record for the Washing ton Water Power Company, branch of the General Electric Company. At former congresses the attorneys for the water power company and private irrigating concerns have always been aligned against the then Secretary ef the Interior, James R. Garfield. Both Turner and Post believe now in the policies of Pinchot and the Reclama- ton Service and both were opponents of Secretary Garfield.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
DOLLY GRAY HAS
 DAY IN COURT
Authorities Regaled By Her
 Splendid Brain ! Storm.
sMARRIED?NOT ON Y'RLIFE'

While the city court was treading along this morning with it's dull rou< tine and the languor, was stirring dreams within the minds of the drows- ing officials, demure and dainty Dolly Gray broke the almost Sabbath calm with cries of Water! Water Some more wine!" From the innermost depths of the prisoners pen little Dolly arose to assert herself, but Officer Fin negan did yeoman service and she sub sided.
 Some twenty minutes later when her case was called Assistant Prosecuting ing the case to the court, said that Dolly had wandered in the night before and requested that she be sent to jail for about 30N days. The prosecutor then said that he understood that the young lady had recently been discharg- ed from the New Haven jail This aroused all the dormant ire in Dolly's wine-loving soul and she began a tirade that the officials fain would stop but could not without gagging her.
 "You talk about me needing a square meal. I guess one would do you a world of good. If you read your Bible more often you would be a dashed sight better. off. Did you ask me sif Not on your life. Say, I have never been married, at least not for the last two years.''
 No alienists were necessary. Dolly had proved her own case. It was a perfect case of Brain Stornn.'' She is now being cared for by the Chari- ties department.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
TERRIBLE NAVAL
 ACCIDENT. AYERTED
Special from United Press.)

Sherness. Eng, Aug 14-A1though the Admiralty officers are seeking to suppress the facts, it became known today that a terrible naval accident was narrowly ayerted by the discovery of dynamite cartridges mixed in the coal in the bunkers of the battleship Lord Nelson and Victorius, which were coaling preparatory to sailing from here to join the fleet to which they are at tached. As a result of the discovery every piece of coal on both ships has been. taken out of the bunkers and sent back on shore where it will be carefully examined before being re- turned to the mammoth war vessels.
 The officers in command refuse to reveal the amount of dynamite found declaring it their belief that the dyna- mite was accidentally put into the coal at the mines.
 Despite this explanation of the offi- cials, there is the highest authority for the statement that the Admiralty fears that the dynamite was really put into the coal bunkers by Anarchists in the hope that it would be thrown under the boilers and cause a terrible accident.
 A secret naval inquiry is progressing and a number of the most expert oper-' atives from Scotland Yard are here evidently at work on the case.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
Beers Succeeds Late
 Attorney J.'W. Thompson

At the recent annual meeting of the stockholders and lot owners of the Park Cemetery Association, held at it's office. Sos Court Exchange building, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, George B. Thorpe; vice president, M. y. F1ana- gan; secretary and treasurer, George E. Beers.
 The e late Attorney James Willcox Thompson was for fourteen years the secretary and treasurer of the associa- tion. and that body yesterday resolved that in his death the association lost the guiding spirit in it's councils and in the carrying out of it's work. MT. Thompson gave without stint time and effort to what was to him largely a labor of love. Being the son of one of its founders, his own efforts were directed toward the development of the Park cemetery and it stands today in a large sense a monument to his mem 1ory. I
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
ASKED WIFE FOR 2
 CENTS; GOT DIME
s'God Bless Her," Said Huff, Who Awaits
 Trial
FIRST SAID HE'D KILL HER

Probable cause was found by Judge Foster today in the case of Samuel J. Huff, who was charged with as- saulting Preston Blake with intent to kill. The accused was held for. the next term of the Superior court un- der $500 bonds. He was taken into custody by Officer John Brown, who recognized him from a description furnished the police by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Huff of Myrtle Court.
 Last Wednesday night Huff came here from Mount Vernon, where he has been employed and tried to see his wife at the home of Carl Carlson, 2 Myrtle Court, where she is board ing. After several unsuccessful at house he burst open the front door and rushed to the head of the stairs where he seized Mrs. Huff. She screamed and Blake, who had been Huff turned upon Blake and cut his throat with small pen kinfe.
 Huff was apprehended late yester- day afternoon while strolling along his wife, and had threatened to kill her if the police ever caught him. of if she ever attempted to divorce him. He said that hes would go to girl who is taying there with a niece of Mrs. Huff.
 The latter was well pleased to think that her husband is to be punished, but after court when Huff sent her a message that he would like two cents to put with three he already had so that he might have some to- bacco, her sympathetic nature got the better of her, and she increased his capital to the unlucky thirteen. When the prisoner received the dime, he said, God Bless Her. Tell her good bye and say that I will never trouble her again as long as I live.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
BRIDGEPORT, CONN SATURDAY, AUGUST A. 1909
WHAT IS WINE
 NOW THE QUERY
Promises to Cause as Much Wrangling as Definition
 of Whiskey Did
PURE FOOD BOARD CASE
Especial from United Press )


 Washington. Aug. 14.-'What is wine?" Has come to the fore and promises to cause about as much wrangling as did the effort to get a definition of the word Whisky
 While the official opinion has not been announced by the Agricultural Department, there is an unofficial re- port in circulation that the pure food board holds that fermented grape juice to which sugar and water has been added is imitation wine,'' and must be so branded.
 Such a decision would hit the wine manufacturers of the lake and other maintained that it was necessary to add the sugar and water in order to overcome the acidicy of the grapes raised in those sections. pr. Wiley takes issue with this.
 Furthermore the chief chemist in sists that it is the practice of some manufacturers to use the skins and seeds of grapes that remain in the press after extraction of the first juice in the manufacture of another 'twine." Sugar and water is added to this and fermentation takes place. Wiley maintains that this is merely fermented sugar and not ferment ed grape juice.
 The decision of the board, unless re- vised will compel. the producers of many popular brands to label their wines imitation It will only per- init wine which is actually imported from the Rhine or made from grapes grown in Germany, to be labelled Rhine wine.''
 An appeal from the boards deci- sion will be made by the wine manu- facturers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
HIS ESTATE SMALL
Father O'Donnen Dies Poor After Many Years Faith ful Service.

South Norwalk. Aug. 14.-The Rev. James H. O'Donnell's estate is very small. judging from the provisions of his will, which was admitted to pro- bate, Tuesday in the Norwalk probate court According to the report. Father O'Donnen died almost penniless after his many, long years of faithful ser vice for his church and people. He left an insurance policy of $2.000 and a small deposit in a savings bank which will be about enough to pay his debts. His library he bequeathed to St. Thomas seminary, Hartford, a preparatory school established by the late Bishop Tierney for the purpose of preparing students for theological in stitutions. His small personal effects were divided among his many friends and relatives His horse, wagon and fully equipment were presented to St. Mary's church and the residue of his estate went to his sister, Mrs. Mary E Hankinson of New York city. To her also he left his $1 900 insurance policy in the Knights of Columbus.
 Father O'Donnell was formerly curate in this city and had many friends here.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
MRS. AIRES LOSES
 DIAMOND EARRINGS
Woman Conf dent She Did Not Leave Bag on Train.

Canaan, Aug. 14.-Mrs. H. N. Ayres of Bridgeport lost a hand bag Mon day afternoon in New London con taining a pair-of diamond earrings; a pocketbook, a gold pencil and pair of gold bow glasses. Mrs. Ayres came to visit her scn-in-law, Tony Silva She alighted from the train and pro ceeded up State street. to the parade. Here she missed her handbag for the first time. She retraced her steps to the station, but the search was fruit less She is confident that she did not leave the bag on the train and that. she entailed her loss between the station and the parade.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
SLAP ON WRIST
 FOR CONN. co.
Must Never Naughtily Again Lay Tracks With
 out Permission
ROGERS CHARGES "STEAL" "

In an implied rebuke to Mayor Lee, upon whose permission the Connecticut Company. without authority. laid it's tracks on ten foot centers at Main and Golden Hill streets. President M. H. Rogers of the Permanent Paving Com mission, said that the change made Main street look as if afflicted with 'tumor," charged the Connecticut Com pany with stealing the location and slapped it, metaphorical1y speaking, on the wrist for it's naughty conduct, by telling c. c. Elwel1. engineer for the New Haven Railroad company that such a naughty thing must never, nev- CT be done again.
 MT. EiweIl replied, we were granted permission to put those curves in by the Common Council. We were given Iermission to place our tracks on 10 fit. centers in Golden Hill street and when we ordered the special work we made it the same in Main street, never. dreaming that ourrpetition to have 10 fit. centerS in Main street was going to be denied.''
 MT. Elwell did not maintain that the company was given permission to lay the ends of the curves on 10 fit. centers in Main street, but he contended that it was not a .stear' because the city had granted permission for the curves on 10 fit. centers in Golden Hill street and the company had asked for 10 fit. centers in Main street
 Col. Rogers said that the bulge in the tracks at the curve made Main street look as though it had a tumor growing on it. James H. OfRourke said that the bulge in the tracks was very pronounced
 Commissioner Fred Atwater said it was apparent that the company had the special work on hand and had ignored the city in putting it in.
 Nobody suggested to anybody else that it would be proper for the suitable official to rip the tracks out as a. suit able way of settling the matter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-14
PUBLIC AUCTION SALE IS STOPPED
 BY AN INJUNCTION
Special from United Press.)

New Haven, Aug. 14.-As Real Es- tate Agent James B. Kelly was about to offer for sale at a public auction this morning $S,0O0 worth of interest in the former Progressive Chemical Company, Constable Roscoe P. Brown served on him a temporary injunction in restraint.
 The action is brought by Attorney Carl A. Mears in behalf of Charles Price of Meriden and W. Pillsbury of this city, former stockholders of the company. The writ alleges that the transfer of the eight thousand inter est is fraudulent and that the com pany's trustees, Noble P. Bishop, Will liam c. Converse, Julius Lederer and Henry H. Smith, are responsible.
 Then S25 900 damages are claimed, as also the sum of $40 to prosecute. The action is returnable to the Superior court on the first Tuesday in Septem- Der.