Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-25
LIKENESS IF OLDEST ELK
 IN WORLD
Los Angeles Lodge Receives Picture of Patriarch of the Order Which GraceS Club Rooms

LOS ANGELES. Mar, 24.-A large photograph Of Ce oldest living Eik ia the world has been received at the Elks' club and hung h the lodges nan of fame. The pi ture is of Chas. c. Ciusker, of San Di go. Cal, q melh- Der of the san Bernard no lodge and a personal friend of Colonel William J. Fewei. of Fl PasO. The lkeness of the dis. .ingu shed o'd patriarch oi the biggest herd of good fellows h the world was sent tO B. F. Hammett by BIT Fewel while he was at San Diego, and Mir. Hammett had the pic ture framed and hung on the wall CT the Elks' lodge room
 The veteran Elk vii complete his 99th year on the 27th of March and as he Is as rong and in as good physical condition as ngn of half tha, age, he Is expected by his friends to complete his centenary and add 2 number of years to that. He is a warm personal friend of Col. Fewel. who spends much of his time in San Diego where Mir. Clusker makes his nome. Col. 'Bil" says he is fhe prince Of good fellows and "can drink as many gh balls an hour as can" which is praise indeed from the Fl Peso picpeer Col.1-Fewel, however, denies that the San Diego veteran can drink any more of these concoc- tions of the gods. al .hough he does admit that Ar. Clusker can take 8 drink earlier in the morning and can stay out later with the boys.
 Mr.' Clusker was born in Kentucky on March z7. 1S10, and was one of the Forty Miners" who went to Califo=- nia overland to d g for gold when the rush first started He made his home in Cal fern from at time an ii the present, wi h the exception o1 the time that he served as a soldier in the Mexican war and gain in John MorGan's cavalry in what Col. Fewel calls the late unpleasantncss with the north" He was taken prisoner early in tho famous raid mais by the southern cavalry leader and was con fined in the federal pr son in St Louis during Q part of the civil war.
 Since the war he has made his home in San Diego and IS a familiar figure around that ty with his w1ite wniskers and stats y carriage. Col. Fewel says he IS a'nlrenly in per feet health, does nor wear glasses and is as active as a man of half his AElEAL Ol 1stAl H. E1E As n bdGIGluA of the rst water and is 'one of the boys" when he is out with a buncz of Eiks CT any other of hls friends.
 The oldest living Els never misses a national convention of the order Col. Fewel says, and, while at Buffa- lo al the cLuyenuon Thi-h was at tended by the El Paso lodge in a special train, Lr. Ciusker was there as the tigCest Eik of them all and it is E:sid that a. neycr went to bed once during the entire week of the convention He was also at Philadel- Dhia aad uiet :he Fl PasO crowd that attended t.1at convention. He is eX- pected at the Los Angeles gathering of the antlered herd in July and will be given . prominent place in tho parade which is an annual feature Of the E1kS' conventions.
 One pea. ing inc de lt in connection with the presentation of the picture t5 / the lodge was the reelection of Col FeWel to membership in the Fl PasO lodge. Col. F'ewel was Q charter member of the ledge when it was first formed here and when the charter was withdrawn be dropped out and did not take any further active part in the lodge when it was reorganiZed.