Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
TELEGRAPH NEWS IN BRIEF

! Queen Victoria and former Empress
Eugene remarked that he looked more
like an English butler, and urged him
to shave his whiskers off. He did so,
for when he returned to Madrid he was
whiskerless and looked younger"
Will Swamp Peach Market-If
the figures reported are not wrong,
New York will be fairly swamped with
peaches. which will begin coming next
week from the Western New York
peach belt to New York and New Eng
land, and will run as high as 100000, 900.
Most of this fruit will be shipped to
New York city. In addition Ohio,
Michigan, Colorado and California are
pouring peaches into this market at
the rate of about sixty carloads a day,
and so far as known these shipments
will not be lessened by the upstate
shipments.
Son of 20. K" Buried-Cor-
nelius Kendall, youngest con of Orrin
Kendall, from whose initials the use of
20. K" meaning "all right') is said
to have sprung. was buried Friday in
Toledo, Ohio his death having taken
place in Chicago Sunday. During the
Civil War Mr.. Kendall was a member
of the firm of o. Kendall & Sons,
whose bakery was in Chicago. The
firm furnished bread and crackers for
the army, and on the crackers were the
initials 90. X" These crackers are
said to have been the only ones the
soldiers relished, and their expression,
These are all right" later developed
into "These are O. K"
Becomes Snake Mad-Made
mad by a combination of bee and rat
tlesnake poison, r. Lane, a farmer of
French Creek, Wis, fought his compan-
ions three hours until medical aid ar
rived. One of the men killed a rattle
snake and, donning a pair of gloves
skinned the reptile. In the afternoon
Lane borrowed the gloves to wear
while loading lumber. While engaged
in this work he disturbed a nest of little
yellow bees, which stung him on the
neck and arm. In fighting them he
kept rubbing the gloves on the spots
where the bees had punctured his skin
The poison took effect at once and
Lane became a maniac. He is recov-
ering.
Snakes in Restaurant - The
appearance of a monster water mocca-
sin snake in a Chinese restaurant Fri
day night in Rapid City, S. D., created
a panic among a party of soldiers. The
owner of the place detected the snake
coiled comfortably in a corner of the
ice box. He beat a hasty retreat and
on returning armed with a revolver to
kill the intruder found that it had Civ
en- birth to several little snakes. The
process of multiplication continued un-
til twenty-seven tiny snakes We're
wrigglng about the room. The mother
snake is part of an exhibit being made
in Rapid City, and the owner recap
, tured the reptile and her brood and
made them a feature of the days pro-
gram.
Favor Improvement - Reports
of local improvement clubs from the
cities of the Pacific coast meeting in
Seattle Saturday formed a permanent
organization. to be known as the West
ern Federation of Improvement clubs.
They elected the following officers:
John Shippen, Seattle, president; Fl.
M. Hill, Seattle, secretary; John NJ
Bradley, Seattle, assistant secretary;
c.. o. Snyder, Tacoma, treasurer; DR..
S. M. Lecrone of Tacoma, L. e. Bailey
of San Jose, Cal, Fl. M. Cake of Port
land, Ore, w. B. George of Billings,
Mont, and o. p. Guernsey of Lewis
ton, Idaho, vice presidents. The fol-
lowing were elected members of the
executive committee: VIM. Crehan, Ta-
coma; Alexander Mackie Alameda,
Cal; Mrs. f. F. Martin, Seattle; J. P.
Demattos, Bellingham: Mrs IT. w. AL
len, Spokane. The next meeting will
be in Tacoma.