The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-17
Spokane Letter

Spokane Letter
Spokane, Wash , March 16.-Sou-
doing OF Bert Wesley Hardy, hired
man on the Stowell ranch at Hall
Moon prairie, near here, who was mr.
rested at Woodstock H.. a few
days ago, charged with forging .tYo
checks drawn in favor of himself
on the Spokane & Eastern Trust
company and cashed at local restaur-
ants. He is now in custody OF the
sheriff OF McHenry county whence
S. d. Doak, deputy sheriff of Spo-
kane county will go as soon as
requlsition papers signed by Marion
e. Hay, acting governor of Wash
ington, are received here. Hardy
started east some time ago, accom-
panied by Mrs. Ella Btowell. wife OF
j. d. Stowell his employer, and
while at Woodstock tba woman sent
q lot of postal cards to acquaintance
in Spokane. One of these. which
was addressed by Hardy, found its
way to the sheriff's office, where
the writing was compared with that
on the forged checks. The
apparent similarity prompted w. C.
Donovan. deputy prosecuting attor-
ney. TO telegraph to the sheriff Of
McHenry county to arrest Hardy.
The man was rounded up without
trouble and he will be returned to
Spokane to stand trial.
"Biddy," an ordinary brown hen,
owned by Joserh Thorn, a rancher
in Columbia county, Wash. living
10 miles east of Dayton SOUTH of
Spokane, has abandoned her brood
Of chicks to care for a litter of Po-
'and China pigs, whose mother died
soon after their birth The hen
calls the pigs around her with the
same "cluok cluk" with which she
formerly summoned her chicks and
they are fed from a bottle by
Thom's daughter. The little animals
follow the fowl about the barnyard
able While unable TO cover them
at night the hen squats among
them and crones her good night
lullaby as IL the four-legged animals
were her own. Thorn believed that
"Btddy' Will continue to be a foster
mother to the litter, but just now
he is experiencing some difficulty in
finding a hen to care for the chicks
cast aside by the hen.
Uncle Sam has started a crusade
against the Indian gamblers on the
Nez Perce reservation, southeast OF
Spokane, where three OF them were
roundd up the other day by ]. e.
Green, deputy United States marshal
at the instance CT o. II. Lpps, In
dian agent The trio was caught
at laval while playing the famous
'Tndian stick game" which resem-
bles the white mans three shell
game, used TO fleece the unsophisti-
Gated at circuses and country fairs.
The men were taken to Lewiston, Ida
no, and Will be tried IN the federal
court al Moscow in May. This is the
first time that government Officials
have prosecuted Indians for gam
bling among themselves Some Of
me reds ON the reservation are
lwtal'hy and reports are current that
they win make night against con
vrrton fer pdaying 1.-THE stick game "
The rsaraphernalia used in this
game consists CT two bones, one of
wric'' bears "a red band to dis
riDgulsh II from the other. The
'game-kefper manipulates these pieces
and invites ibeis frcm the players to
ignesses which hand holds the bone
with the red marking The keepers
hands ore under a blanket during the
time he shifts the bones.
Regis II Post, governor OF Porto
Rico, writes 10 r. Inslnger. chair
man Of the local board Of control OF
fhe Natioral Irrigation Congress.
that the Island WIN be represented
Fw large delegation al the severn
teepih siseoOs in Spokane tbs ser
ond week in August Mr.. Insinger
also has official sdyices from japan
and China that these countries will
send delegates to study Irrigation
and forestry methods as Draeticed
In the Northwest II Is expected