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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23
Hunting the Pole and
Hunting the Koodoo

long horned variety Of the African koodoo Developments
quite recent in connection with another hunt in cooler
climate explain the need of tried and whole
Boued respect for truthfuness in Others when is
gagged in hunt for anything at all except the American
donar.
The koodoo which Colonel Roosevelt wants, is exceed
ingy rare, which perhaps explains why he wants it. 1t
occupies place in the fauna and flora Of the Dark Cont
bent next in vagueness only to the Beadess Bongo itself
Who therefore, knowing the mien of the fiery expresi
dent but sympahze with him in his tireess trek
toward the lair of this famous creature7
Science may well pride itself if this year Of grace dis
closes not only the north pole but the koodoo.
There always has been something weird something
mantle about the koodoo The very mysticism of the
koodoo like that surrounding the Ahkoond of Swat and
the fourth dimension must perforce to quicken
steps in its direction.
there be ghosts of ships like the Flying Dutchman of
German legend perhaps the wrath Of Hans Egede may
yet enter the Narrows steam up past Tompknsvle and
heave anchor off Park Row. bearing its hurricane deck
the untaed koodoo prancng at the feet of its captor
Yes there is hope for science All honor therefore, to
the intrepid American who after Old Glory has been nailed
to the pole, will tether a koodoo there!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23
PENCIL POINTS:

Have you any automobiles in
Spokane YETI" Are you dreaming?
No. dear reader. you're not dream
ing. just now. anyway. That was a
question put by letter to Spokan-
lite by an easterner. It simply
shows how much the east really
knows about the west.
That luncheon to be given Taft is
going to cost only SIS a plate. 1t
will be interesting to see how much
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23
GOOD PIECE OF
IDENTIFICATION

In aiding to bring about the cap
ture of Ed Ellis. alias Clark, an
alleged pickpocket and room thief
arrested yesterday by Officers Hall
and Boyer, Police Inspector Lewis,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

you can get for SIS per. 1t would
also be interesting to find out the
cost OF all the Taft breakfasts,
luncheons and dinners ON the presi-
dents trip. 1t would probably pay
for several meals for the unem-
ployed in the great eastern cities.
First light frost this morning. 1t
sparkled like a million diamonds,
and thoughts of sleighs and skates
came to the surface again.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23
, = - y . . = q . . . 80 q
, SOME THINGS YOU
, MUST NOT WEAR

A lot of buttons on the coat.
Crazy quilt sleeves and
pocket flaps.
Cuffs on trousers.
Hook and eye fastenings.
Knee deep coats.
Knee high trousers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23
SUES CITY FOR FALL.

w. C. Moore has sued the city
for $1,000 damages for injuries Sc
cured through fall in front of 5
South Howard street, due to a de-
fective sidewalk.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

stop, look, listen!"

stop, look, listen!"
Especially listen. This goes for
mems fall clothes this year. The
tailors have issued their DEGREES,
and you won't have to listen very
closely to know what they are.
Here is a picture of how Vol
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

There must be a lot of
consolation to the soul of a
distinguished ex-president
In having no rivals in his
search for the common or
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

The president of the United States practically read Con
gresham Miles Poindexter insurgent out of the repub
can party in his recent speech endorcng the Adrch tar
If bill But Poindexter may refuse to be put out in thai
style. Wait and see
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

It's not so much question Qf
who will fill Harriman's shoes as
who will fill his thinking cap.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

ago for themselves IL they had any
real. live lecture platform instinct.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23
Josh WIS., SAYS:

Frenchman visited friends
chateau on an airship. Twould
have been more remarkable had
he visited the airship on a chateau.
Still a lot Of unrest In Mexico
Looks like they will have post
season revolution.
All, 1t seems that Cook has the
advantage on one Eskimo over
Peary. BY the way. the Eskimos
could have discovered the pole long
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

Again, to hear the unknown who
always discovers 1t, J. P. Morgan
averted panic In Wall street.
What the lambs want to know is
why doesn't he avert the panics
that happen?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-23

Fatal stabbing took place in
Brooklyn. all on account of hard
boiled eggs. No doubt a soft egg
would haYe turned away wrath.
Not only has Peary been accused
of taking DR.. Cooks canned
candles and preserved petrol but
ter, but now he may be charged
with swiping Cooks stuff about
travelling % miles a day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24

INSTITUTION of criminal prosecu-
i lions against perpetrators of sleep
er trunk" customs frauds with ramifi-
cations in all parts of the country;
the pressing of existing indictments
to avoid lapses under the statute of
limitations and the customs investiga-
ton generally were discussed at con-
ference at the treasury department re-
Gently. Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh, Attorney General Wicker
sham. Collector Loeb of the port of
New York, and United States District
Attorney Henry A. Wise of the south
ern district of New York, participated.
The sleeper trunk frauds, where
by goods are brought into this country
in trunks with false bottoms to de-
ceive the inspectors, stretch to many
parts of the United States, though
passing only through the port of New
York in the cases about to be prose
cuted.
Beyond the generalization of mil.
lions of dollars nobody officially can
estimate the amount of taxes thus
evaded. Most of the violators of law
in this respect are dressmakers. The
government has a good deal Of evil
dence along this line, and the prose-
cutious for tL.s form Of wholesale dis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
Woman Causes Big Scare in Bank

several women in the long line OF
waiting patrons showed signs of faint
ing and the widest excitement pre-
vailed. Had bank robber descended
in the guise of a fashionable woman,
Put back that money!" demanded
as with one voice the banker, the DO
liceman and all the men standing In
line at the window.
why, certainly l WILL" said the
woman who had caused all the excite
ment and who, by this time thorough
ly alarmed at the cries of everyone
about her, ventured an explanation
Il owe you all an apology, believe. :.
was here a moment ago and forgot q
pair of gloves. left in a great hurry
and must have left them here at the
window. l had only a few minutes to
catch my train to Baltimore and mis-.
took that gentleman's money bag for
them. They are just exactly that color,
you know"
Her explanation was fficient and
smiles spread over the alarmed faces.
Good joke" voted the huge guar.
dian of the peace, who breathed freely
again and sauntered away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
Really Is a Jag in a Georgia Melon

the discovery of a criminal tendency
in the watermelon heretofore unsus.
pected.
1--WE have been experimenting with
every sort of fruit and vegetable that
contains sugar" said Mr.. Wilson, 1.-The
watermelon, pears, apples, peaches,
plums, pumpkins, muskmelons. Irish
potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets and
other vegetables. The watermelon sur.
prised us. We never expected it Of
it. The purpose is to develop the
cheapest kind of denatured alcohol for
use as fuel.
1.-The experiments have been made
under the directions of DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley, chief of the bureal of
chemistry. OF course it is impossible
to extract this alcohol in paying guam
titles from melons, but we hope to do
so from sweet potatoes.
THE experiments have been made
to benefit the seacoast portion of the
south, from Virginia down the Allan
tic around Florida and along the gulf.
Sweet potatoes can be grown cheaply
in the sand of these sections. One
bushel of sweet potatoes will make a
gallon of alcohol. The product is a
better and cheaper fuel than benzine."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24

WASHINGTON.-Fo 20 years James
w Wilson. secretary of agriculture,
oas been sounding the praises of the
American hen. He has shown by sta
hstics, pictures, reports, oHLelets. soft
boiled eggs and spring chickens that
the American hen beats the world.
She is not the possessor Of great per-
sonal beauty, she does not aspire to
be butterfly of fashion, but is a very
fine representative of the housewife
type of chicken. If fine feathers made
line birds she would not be- in it. For
the peacock is dazZler AID the roos-
ter struts with an air that cannot be
initiated by his more modest compan-
ion who does the housswork and
scratches around for the children. But
the hen, by keeping steadily at work
and doing the best she can, has been
enabled to enrich this couatry by more
good dollars than all the silver mines
OF the west and all the gold of the
hlondlke. Statistics show that in a
single generation the American hen
lays eggs enough to make the Allan
Tic ocean one vast omelet and fill the
Pacific with scrambled eggs. Placed
on top OF one another they would
make a stack 10000 times as tall as
the Washington monument and almost
as high as the price of beef.
All this has been done by the one
egg day hen. But along with the
airships and the 26,O0O-ton battleships,
the two-egg hen has arrived. No, she
was not produced by Luther Burbank
by grating Leghorn chicken onto a
roe herring. She is just plain. ordi-
nary hen. who resolved to do her best,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
LOOKS LIKE HARVARD
FOR SEASON OF 1910
WILL HAVE MORE VETERAN
FOOTBALL PLAYERS ON TEAM
THAN YALEE NEXT YEAR.

Harvard will have o team OF vet
eran football players next season. for
Of the 16 men who entered Harvard's
lineup in the recent game against
Yale only five will be lost through
graduation, while only ten Of the en-
tire squad will not return to college
next year. With decidedly fast
| freshman team to pick from the out
look for one of the best elevens in
the history of football at the univer-
sity next year is most promising
one.
Gil Browne, Houston, Paul Whiting
ton, Fish and O'Flaherty are the only
members of the varsity eleven who
will not be eligible next year.
After the election of Daily as cap
tain came an inventory of the Yale
material for 1910, and was. a heart
breaker for Yale. Tied" Coy, who has
been looked upon for three long years
as the leader of strength in Yales
backfield, will be graduated next June.
So will Cooney, the big center, who
has played for three years, and who
can center of 1909.
On either side of Cooney Yale will
also lose Goebel and Andrus-the
greatest guards at Yale since Hef-
felfinger was in the line with "Stan"
Morrison-who played their last game
for Yale last month. So did Lilley.
Hobbs, Spencer, Logan and Holt.
Brown, the substitute guard, will also
leave Yale next June. Behind the
line, steve" Philbin and Fred" Muir
ply two of the best halfbacks of the
year, have closed their football
careers.
The question comes, is there anyone
left besides Daily and Fitzpatrick? It
is not long to name those who will
form the nucleus for the 1910 team
Howe will be in college again and so
will Corey. one of the other quarters
of the year, but Johnson, the third
quarter. will graduate in June.
For end material Yale will have
Fitzpatrick, Savage, Vaughan and
Brooks. Naedele, the only other end
OF the this season, will graduate in
June. For tackle material there will
only be Paul, who played as Lilley's
substitute in both of the big games
this fall. For guard material there is
none in sight except what the present
freshman class may furnish, and this
Is mighty unattractive at present.
At center the outlook is better, be-
cause both Hyde and Frances, the two
lightweight substitute centers, will
be back in college next fall For back
field material there is no good full
back unless Savage is put at this po-
sition and Vaughan and Fitzpatrick
kept at the ends. Dennis is a good
punter, but this is all that can be
said for him. The halfback material
will be cut down to Jack Field,
Messenger, Robinson and Taylor, none
of whom are in the same class with
the halfbacks of Capt. CQy's team.
Walter Camp will have a son as
candidate for the varsity next fall.
He is big fellow and should have a
football career ahead of him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
How the Government Loses Millions

honesty promises to be of a sensation
al character.
Collector Loeb expressed the opin.
ion that the sleeper trunk" frauds
could no longer be carried on auc.
cessfully under the rules he has
adopted. These provide for a Few
stamp arrangement for trunks and a
limitation of the hours a trunk may
remain on the docks, instead of being
permitted to stay there long enough to
be whisked away after nightfall. In.
stead the government will stow away
the trunks in place safe from posi-.
bility of smuggling off the docks in
the darkness. An honest standard for
al steamship employees will be but.
tressed by the collectors efforts. This
will be effected through the companies
by dismissal of men guilty of abetting
frauds. Some cases already have de-.
veloped In which the collector com.
planned, and the companies acted
promptly. District Attorney Wise es.
pecially discussed the sleeper ques
ton at the conference.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
He Calls Mrs. Snowfall a Model Hen

|, and cluckS to find herself famous.
This hen has appeared in Wilmington
and is the property of 14-year-old
boy, Ldlbourne Martin. But she is not
a native of Delaawre. No, she thanks
her feathers she was born at Bynum,
Md, and thus good old Hartford coun-
ty adds another gem to the diadem of
the state that made good eating ia
nous. Though black as a colored poll
tician, she rejoices in the name of
Snowfall, and as such will go down in
history.
For generations Maryland has been
famous for her chickens, and whether
they we're fried la Maryland or were
laid 10 rest in the old-fashioned pie,
they have served their country well
and have left pleasant memories be-
hind them. It is all the more crafty
ing to record that out of the heart OF
the fried-chicken belt has come this
phenomenal hen.
According to the records, she not
only lays two eggs a day, but some
tines varies it by contributing three.
All are perfectly lreSR anu SulIduie
for family use. If she can keep up
her record fer year this will mean
730 eggs, with a few extra for Christ
mas and the Fourth of July. If all The
eggs grow up into chickens Mrs.
SNOWFALL would soon have enough de-
rscendants to cluck around the world.
She deserves medal from Secretary
Wilson and a cablegram from Col.
Roosevelt for her efforts to prevent
race suicide.
Mrs. SNOWFALL is model hen. She
never worries about the fashions in
feathers; she is not forever running
off to some barnyard by the sea or
chicken house in the mountains; she
does not try to shine at bridge or out.
scratch her neighbors. She stays at
home, looks after Mr.. Snowfall and
the children and attends strictly to
business. Wherefore will she be re.
membered wherever the egg is held in
honor and the chicken in esteem.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
G0PHERS KEEP WILLIAMS
Minnesota University Board of Con.
troll Offers Coach Choice Of
Two Contracts.

In spite of reports of dissatisfac.
ton with the work of Coach Harry
Williams of the University of Mime.
sofa football team in the last year.
the athletic board of control of the
Gopher institution has offered the in.
structor the choice of two contracts.
The first was for one year at his pres.
ent salary of $500 and the second
for two years at $4,000. 1t is regard.
ed as certain by the students that
William will accept one of the two.
Williams selection as coach was a
popular one with the students at the
northern varsity.
Ted" Coy, captain of the Yale
eleven of 1908, who was mentioned as
possible successor to Williams at
Minnesota, has accepted the nomina.
ton as head coach for the Blue for
the season of 1910. The selection
was made by Fred Daily, newly-elected
football captain. DAILY refused to
divulge his other coaching plans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24

let the dog, who was. he hoped, faith.
full, forget his name.
He found a man brave enough to
start with this and other letters to
the world below, one who would see
that needed supplies were started for
''the creek" The mail carrier was
QUILTED with team and provisions
and started off on the bitter journey;
halfway down he and his dogs froze
to death, the snow covered them, and
only the north wind heard those mes
sages sent by loyal hearts.
So this was why no word from Can
die creek reached the woman waiting
at Nome.
The man in the north, unaware OF
the fate of the mail carrier, awaited
the opening of spring as best he
could; then, with scant outfit for the
journey, he made his way back to
Nome, penniless and with everything
gone but the dear hope of welcome.
And, at the last, he found the bitter
ness of Neutrality-suspicious., wife.
home, money-dreams only, and the
only real thing the taunts of his neigh
bors because of his wife's desertion.
There was a busy grocer in Nome
who owned wildcat claim in which
he had no confidence, but he offered
to the man who was so evidently
down on his luck grub stake" and
half interest in the claim If he
would do the assessment work on it.
So, as life must be lived, this was a
means of supporting it, and that sum-
mer was nearly passed at the claim
when fresh stampede to Fairbanks
was on. The man determined to fol-
low it, and for half of his half of the
wildcat claim he persuaded an old
man to remain in charge of the nee
essary work to hold it.
The man who had lost everything
except the life which, apparently, he
could not lose-possibly because it
was of so little value-was numb Dis
aster seemed to be acting as the
special agent of the gods who
would destroy him, and he was list
lessly wondering if he had even the
power of suffering left, when in a
Fairbanks street he met a lawyer
from Nome, who casually inquired
concerning the wildcat claim he had
worked there and, without special ur-
gency, offered him $4,000 for his in
terest in it. A ghost of his old bust.
ness instinct reminded him that there
might be meaning in this, and, au.
tomatically, he postponed an answer
until the following day. He wired the
busy grocery man in Nome, who re.
piled at once, Don't sell; we've
struck the richest claim on earth"
So it was good-by to Fairbanks, and
good morrow to Nome, where, on his
arrival, he hurried to the once de.
spised wildcat, took one good look
down the shaft and another at the
gravel pile, borrowed easy money on
his prospects, and sailed away south
on the next steamer-somewhat dis
concerning the grocery man, but not
affecting the output of the claim.
To the northwestern city, with a
certain address in his pocket. went
the man from the north. 1t was the
right address, too, because, before he
could reach the door, there was a
fusillade of short, sharp. joyful barks
and a white, shaggy Siberian mala-
mute had nearly thrown him down be-
fore the door was flung open and the
little woman was in his arms.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24

A HEAVILY yelled woman, well
IA dressed and with an aristocratic
bearing, rushed into a Washington
bank and up to the window of the re-
ceiving teller. A number of people
were standing in line waiting to de-
post money. The man nearest the
window held in his hands a large roll
of bills and before him on the marble
counter lay leather bag in which he
carried his gold coin to the bank.
With a swift glance at the teller
and no word of explanation to the
man waiting she made a quick grab
at the bag and turned hurriedly to
leave the building. The man at the
window cried, "Stop!" a policeman
came running to his assistance one
hand clutched at his pistol pocket,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24

THE department of agriculture has
i come along with some good news for
those citizens in southern Indiana who,
when arrested last fall for conducting
blind tigers" set up as a defense
that they had become intoxicated from
eating watermelons. The department
has not yet analysed the Indiana
brand of melons, but it asserts that
there is jag" in the Georgia mel
ons.
OF course l. is carefully concealed,
and much care and labor is required
to extract it. but it is there just the
same. The department has proved this
beyond doubt. Out of 100 pounds of
watermelons experts in chemistry
made one-tenth of a gallon of alcohol.
They also have convicted the humble
sweet potato of possessing another
spree. Secretary Wilson announced
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
Female Monkey Had Her Lord at q
Disadvantage, and She Real
lied It.

The leading male of troop, OF mon
keys is the patriarch, commander-ln-
chief and effective fighting force. The
natives of India call him Maharaja-
and properly so, for he is the type
of savage despotism. He uses his
large canine teeth to maintain his
mower and to secure the lions share
of everything, and is easily moved to
a paroxysm of rage. But the tyrant
has his tragedies, one of which is de-
scribed by Mr.. ]. L. Kipling, In his
MAN and Beast in India.
One morning there came monkey
chieftain, weak and limping, having
evidently been worsted in a severe
fight with another of his own kind.
One hand hung powerless, his face
and eyes bore terrible traces of bat
tie, and he hirpled slowly along with
a pathetic air of suffering, supporting
himself on the shoulder of q female
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-24
Her First Taste of PoUer

"a wife, the only member of his clan
that had remained faithful to him af.
er his defeat
We threw them bread and raisins,
and the wounded warrior carefully
slowed the greater part away in his
cheek-pouch. The faithful wife, see.
ing her opportunity, holding fast his
one sound hand and opening his
mouth, deftly scooped out the store
of raisins.
Then she sat and ate them very
calmly at safe distance, while he
moved and chartered in impotent
rage.
He knew that without her help he
could not reach home, and was fain to
wait with what patience he might till
the raisins were finished. This was
probably her first chance of disobedi-
ence or of self-assertion in her whole
life, and I am afraid she thoroughly
enjoyed it. She led him away al last
possibly to teach him more salutary
lessons of this sort.-Youth's Com.
paniop.