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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23
FIVE GRIZZLIES
 IN FIVE MINUTES Champion Bear Hunter Does
 Big Stunt WITH FIVE BULLETS H. Wright, Naturalist and Grizzly Bear Hunter of Spokane, Tells First Experience With
 Forest Monster.
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 Spokane Wash.--"I shall never forget the first time saw the trail of a grizzly bear' said William H. Wright, natural ist and grizzly bear hunter of Spokane, who has spent a quarter century in the western forests studying what he calls ''the noblest wild animal of North Amer ica.' It was by way of introduction to the story of his early experiences in the Clearwater country. southeast of Spo- kane, where he brought down five griz- zlies with five shots in five minutes
 The veteran. who is familiar with every range of mountains in which Ursus hor- ribilis is found. from Alaska to Mexico utterly upset lot of preconceived mo- tions as to the sort of "crittur' he found the grizzly to be in his native wflds. dis crediting. too, great deal of the mate rial received from the old-fashioned hunter with reference to the animals vim dictive flerceness and marvellous endur- ance He also put down the legend that the grizzly could not be killed with a single shot, attributing this to the lack of power in the guns and ammunition em- ployed in the early days He had killed scores of bears with single shots.
 Here is the story of one of the greatest feats in the Idaho woods in his own words:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23
Marvellous Sales

Dealers had ordered 16,OOO of the 1910 Overland models before the first car was delivered. That means that each Overland sold the previous year had sold four others like it.
 And without any advertising.
 This years Overland sales will exceed $24 900 OOO. Yet the Overland is but two years old./
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23


 'At last there came a rain. It began in the night and kept up until about o'clock in the afternoon of the following day, and rained so hard that l did not venture out in the morning. Tn the after noon it was so wet that hesitated about going, but finally, thinking that this might be just the time the old bear would select to go berrying, decided to risk it. And. as luck would have it, when l reached the frs and took look at the hillside, there sat an old grizzly about a hundred yards above the brink of the canyon and 300 yards above me, busily engaged in pulling down branches and eating berries
 s..1-hen I began the sneak of my life. l did not even at first. think of walking. simply got down on the ground and 'sneaked it. I worked below the bear, so that if he ran he would have to come my way or go up the open hillside and thus afford me additional shots if failed with the first. But had no intention of failing. I worked along slowly. so that the bear had moved quite distance up the hill before finally got within reason. able range, and even then I kept on until I was within 60 yards before making up my mind to risk a shot
 1T crawled behind bunch of bushes and, without getting up, looked the
 
 of the bears getting back into the can yon in case I failed to drop him. And down there in the canyon, where I had watched SO long and so vainly I saw standing the largest bear 1t had ever beer my good fortune to set eyes upon. l be gan to think the woods were full of them Backing silently into one of the small ravines I worked down the hfll toward the big fellow. and as got better view of him I knew what had made those tracks. I had thought nothing about the size of the first bear. I had been dis appointed so often that anything went But now that had set my eyes on thit big one I thought him entitled to prece- dence.
 Yet I wanted both. and thought saw my way to getting them. The first bear seemed to have struck a bonanza berry patch and was moving slowly. The big fellow. on the other hand. was dowr where the bushes were pretty vel stripped and seemed to be working uphIl fairly fast. I therefore dropped out oi sight. wormed my way down hill a bi further. waited until the two bears wert about hundred yards apart, then crep' | to the top of a slight ridge and found | myself 70 yards from the big one and 6 | from the other. l figured on killing tht | large bear at the first shot and then turn | ing on the other before he had time tc take in the situation; and relied on tn, second bear standing up to take a looi before making for the canyon. and there by givinf me the few seconds that would ne1d
 T was shooting single shot 8-lo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23

words:
 The trail in the canyon was a hundred feet wide and had been worn by an old and large animal. The ground on the sides of the gully was too hard to show his footprints: but, coming and going, he always seemed to cross at the same spot. and I thought it would be an easy mat ter to watch the trail and shoot the bear However, after watching for a week, on and of, and seeing nothing, concluded the bear had abandoned the trail. and so ] dismissed the matter from my mind
 A few weeks later, in passing the spot again. saw fresh tracks. and, Knowing that the bear was still In the vicinity, resumed my watching. but without re- suit Then I tried still-hunting the can yon. l crawled through every thicket and looked into every place where I thought bear could hide, but aside from a It- inch track and few hairs that he would leave sticking to trees as he passed saw nothing that looked like a bear; in fact, I was almost willing to swear that no grizzly had ever inhabited the canyon.
 For two years I continued at interl vals to see the big tracks in this canyon, but not once did I see the bear. Finally, having gained wider knowledge and ex- perience, l made up my mind that if such a thing were possible l would at least set eyes on him, and I got a man to go with me to look after the camp and horses so I would have nothing to do but hunt. We made camp about two miles from the canyon, and my first excursion showed me that my old friend with the big feet was still in evidence.
 '"rhe upper edges of this canyon were heavily timbered, and above this timber on one hand stretched an open hillside facing the south. Near the head of the canyon this hillside was cut into by many small ravines. and along the edges be- tween these the sarvis berry grew
 'As I had never succeeded in gaining sight of the bear in the canyon itself I decided to watch the hillside and perhaps catch him as he came out to feed, so selected point which commanded a view of the whole hill, and every morning from daylight until 10 o'clock found me on the lookout. seated on a little clump of fir trees, and from o'clock until dark l was in the same place.
 Day after day passed and brought no bear, and at last the camp tender, while he did not say right out that he thought I was locoed,' intimated it broadly. For his part, he said. he did not believe there was bear in the whole country.
 Yet examination showed fresh bear tracks on the old trail almost every morn- ing, and I felt 1t safe to assume that something was making them. So for a whole week l lay in that clump of frs. Then l began to think about giving up; but knowing that the anmial must show himself in time l kept taking on fresh stock of patience and dragging myself again and again up to the little clamp of frs.
 'At last there came a rain It began
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08
A Malihini's Letters
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

huts. but dress and live very much
as you or ! do. They are Just as
civilized as any other Christian peo-
pie and could give pointers to many
men and women In Washington or
New York, as regards manners and
education. The real truth of the mat.
ter Is that there are very few Of the
old school Hawaiians left, as inter
marriage has changed them beyond
recognition. The young native girls
here are perfect beauties. They have
1.-THE and supple figures, luxuriant
dark brown hair and large brown eyes.
The middle aged women however. are
fat and ungainly. which think Is the
result OF eating such immense quaint
tiles OF poi. This delicacy IL made
from taro roots and closely resembles
photographers paste.
Miss Grass Houses
Soon after NJ arrival | went around
town In most innocent manner. In
quiring OF business men the best way
| to see the grass villages OF the abort.
gnal people and where the inhab.
itants OF same could be seen clothed
In grass. | was more than surprised
when told that these had long been
abandoned and that the people had
adopted American clothes. was pc.
litely Informed that II ! wished ia
see grass hut then the best place
would be the Bishop Museum.
The Sandwich Islanders of Capt
Cooks DAYS and the Hawaiians of to
day are two very different types OF
people. 1t is apparently this first
type that Is so farlngly advertised
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08
From Range to T able

that ia condemned, is converted into
taIlow and fertilizer, SO that the pub
lie are perfectIy safeguarded. so
carefully are the animals selected
before they are killed that. Mr.. wal
Ter does not remember having more
than one bullock rejected each
month. 49,
rert;,;,er Making
Work commences at 6 O'Clock and
by the time the whistle to cease
has sounded, some SO cattle and
sheen have been killed and prepared
for the public markets. Each day the
hides are sailed down, reports made
and entered in the proper books, and.
the whole establishment thoroughly
washed and cleaned.
IL may interest some Bulletin read
ers TO know how fertilizers are manu-
featured. ]. f.. C. Hagens, manager
of the Pacific Guano and Fertilizer
Co, says that the chief constituents
of fertilizers used in the growing or
sugar. pipeapples. coffee and in fact
for crops of all kinds. are super
phosphates. sulphate of ammonia, nj
trate of silver, potash salts. bone
meal, and other organic substances.
Super phosphates as manufactured
locally are derived chiefly from
bones. phosphates and guano, which
have been chemically treated with
sulphuric acid to make thea avail
able as plant food.
The various ingredients are 80
compounded that. they will meet the
different requirements of soils, crops
and climatic conditions. The sulphur
used in the. making of su,phuric
acid. of which some 5000 tons is
manufactured annually at this plant,
Is all imported from japan In maxi
ing this acid, the sulphur Is burnt
in regular furnaces and the fumes
: given of are condensed in large lea
: chambers. By the addition of steam
or n water snrav theso fumes are
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08
NO. 2.

My dear Arthur: - Before writing
about the people Of Honolulu and the
peculiar dresses they wear, want to
wish you a very Happy New Year
Old Father Time was kicked out In
a most unceremonious manner here,
II noisy demonstrations count for any
thing II seemed more like Fourth
OF July than the "shering In of the
New Year. Factor. and steamer
bombs were sent hurting TIN cugh the
air, and every small boy seemed 10
have innumerabe packages of fire.
crackers which were exploded through.
out New Years Eve. Crowds throng-
ed the streets and the spirit of King
Carnival reigned supreme. II was
nearly sunrise on New Years day
when the last of the merrymakers
crawled home to bed.
ut is very difficult to know were to
| begin this letter. There is 40 much
, to say and It must be said diplomat.
| ically, But as you know, ! firmly be,
lieve In calling spade spade. First,
wish to impress upon your mind
this one fact: Dispel once for all the
Illusion you may have OF these islands
being inhabited by Hawailans dressed
In their native garb. as pictured by
folders and on the countless thousands
OF picture post cards which are sent
to all parts of the world.
There are practically no real abort.
g,nai inhabitants OF these islands lett.
. ana certainly no grass houses at least
not that You could notice. II you
wish to see ia Hawaiian as pictured
by these postal cards, and they are
mostly Hula Hula girls, one has ia
pay $500 for that privilege. Just
F. think OF II! having to pay hard earned
cash to see native girls dressed in
grass, II Is nothing short OF swindle
II these people cannot be seen in
! their primitive state. without having
to pay for that privilege. then why
In thunder does the Hawaii Promotion
Committee and shop-keepers advertise
and dislllusion strangers, when Il is
quite obvious that these cannot be
seen unless special arrangements are
made.
| The natives here are not clothed In
grass, neither do they live In grass
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08


But whatever type II Is, the girls are
really beautiful and II really does not
ma,,er what kind of clothes they
-. 49, -, n,o,,, loo, nra,,v In
"'"'
ahy,hins. neo so'"e~ n". "pse'
when ! iouhd una, my 'onu 'huS'ons.
had peen 80 cr"ehs u'spe"eo' ! was
made iuiiy aware vi uhe "p'o oa'e'
ness Oh ''ese peop.e "neh y" '"e 'V
lowing morning nappeheu W ue ~
drysoons s'o'e anu u's''"e'y "ea'u
one Vi '"ese r"sse' p'o"" ue"es 40.
'he snop~"'her '"e way " '"e 'o,'e,
anu SHIT. w''s' uepar''he"'. ~"
conid ",u''er was. e'uhs asa'n
ha~ai'ah women, anu ! aln ashal,'
ed ~ say no, Few WINE ~on,en al
50. wear ho'"er ruo'a'u'' anu ,"ey
ac'"a''s nave '"e nor'e " "ea' 'nen
On the street. ineSe are 'he ,,,os'
hiueous "'o'eS VI ie"''i,he a'.'o
.''a' nave eve, seen, anu, s'.e'ns
lloll 'ne s'ne'a' n'aNe up VI us
so"n'' ."ey mus. oe''"'' "a.e ~.
ues'sheo ny a man as no ''sn' ."'"N.
'"s "o'na" oo''i e'e' ooe.. =" ne,
n''"u SUI. n,'eoa. ,."', ne
n'os' a"'as anu peu'e '. ', $3.50" 70 ,o.,
VeI'eo 'n.o u" o"sa'n'! anu nso'e'eSs
ue"s: "nen uonheu Wy 'a' "'''i''
'"e e"e. Is n,oo' . ,'"'ns. -, -.
ne o"' nan" n1,, . .cn .a, .ne'.
So n.. "s.,eo"n.'
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08

Few Honolulans realize the
amount of work entailed before
Juicy steak or a tender chop finds
It's way to our dinner table. where
IL is heartily eaten and enjoyed In
order that life may be sustained
Few indeed realize what an immense
number of cattle and sheep are
slaughtered every month to supply
the local markets with meat. In on
interview with q. J. Waller, mana
ger of the Hawaii Meat Co., Ltd IL
was ascertained that 700 head OF
cattle, 10000 calves and about 75o
sheep are slaughtered every month
| by his meE.
The sheep killed are for the most
part imported from the Colonies.
The Hawaiian Islands have been able
to supply all the beef needed untii
quite recently, but 1t has been found
necessary to import small quanu-
ty from Brisbane, owing to a short
age caused by the prolonged drought
which has been felt more especially
on the island OF Hawaii. from
whence comes the bulk OF the cattle
for the Honolulu market. Chinese
retail butchers are the largest pur-
chasers of meat in the city.
Killing.
| After the cattle have first been
speared, which instantaneously rem
ders them insensible to pain, they
are bled by being suspended D!
their hind legs. After this they are
lskinned, dressed and halved. Each
carcass II numbered and record
kept of the brand, sex and color oil
the animal. When the carcasses
reach the receiving room. they are
priced and all the records kept on
the company's daily sales sheet. The
hides are all shipped to San Fran
cisco. A tannery was run In connec'
ton with this plant for several
years, but II was discontinued as II
was found to be Improbable.
In order to improve the quality
OF the meat and make II tender. the
majority Or the carcasses are thor
oughly chilled In the refrigeratine
plant. When thoroughly cold they
are again weighed. before being de-
livered to the retail butchers. Al
meat is inspected by DR.. w. Mon.
sarrat, the government inspector, as
soon as the animal has been killed
and skinned. The offal and refuse
is cooked" and the fatty matter cen
verted into tallow. The residue, to-
gether with all bones. is sold to the
various fertilizing works.
The animals are handled In such
a humane manner that. within 1
few minutes OF being received. the!
are speared. bled, skinned. Inspected
stamped, weighed and quartered. Eek
perts, thoroughly trained In the par
ticular branches OF this work, per
form their. allotted tasks In mos
skillful ami adroit manner. All mea
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08

colors most harmcniously and never
do they appear On the streets shabby
dressed or sloppy looking Small of
stature. with snow white socks on
their chubby feet. they shuttle along
ON wooden sandals utterly oblivious
Of all that Is going on around them.
THEW babies are slung behind their
backs and look sleek and contented
little morsels OF humanity. The Jap
anese apparently follow the teachings
Of Roosevelt. as there appears to be
no race suicide amongst them.
With the exception Of the Chinese
and japanese women, the former OF
whom still wear trowsers and the
latter bright colored kiponos, the
women Of other nationalfties repre-
scented here have adopted the Amer.
lean style Of dress. SO that you must
not be disappointed when you come
here to find almost the same fashions
as are to be seen in Oakland or Los
Angeles, In the height OF summer.
Honolulu ] am sorry to say is very
much civilized far too civilized for
such tropical place.
Sunday afternoon is the best time
to view the natives Of this city, as
the Royal Hawaiian band usually
plays In one of the many parks with
which this city Is SO beautifully sup
piled. or a happy, jovial disposition,
these beautiful russell brown damsels
are seen at their very best. Quiet
and refined. yet with merry little
twinkle In their soft brown eyes, they
laugh and joke In manner that Is
most bewitching. Woe to the man
who has not already steeled his heart
to Withstand the sidelong glances Of
these sirens of the Paradise of the
Pacific"
My advice to you Is this: Be sure
and get hitched up to some lovely
California girl before coming to Homo.
lulu. for as sure as your name Is
Arthur you will never leave these
; islands as a single man. II you do
marry here. be sure and make your
fance promise that she will never
wear mother hubbard with a toby
frill. With my best wishes for a hap.
py and prosperous New Year. I am.
4 MALIHINI.
p. S.:-I will write you all about
the Beach resorts here and give you
} inside information about Hawaiian
luau and a Hula Hula dance in my
r next letter.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08

mark his way, no distinguishing fea.
ture or formation to prove his observa.
ton; nothing but Ice Ice in every di.
rection. Show us the man. be he Co
penhagen scientist or even Peary hlm.S
self that can contradict the record.
or course. In addition to the above
latitude and longitude record, the suns
altitude at given hour, when no re-
fraction interpense could be given.
Neither could this be contradicted.
Arrival at the apex or pole Of Tho
earth could only be known by mtul-
ton or call Il guess work No instru
ment known today would give the ex
act Information.
The compass would be useless after
passing the s5th degree OF latitude; In
fact 1t loses its self usefulness long
before that latitude Is reached and
must be 'doctored" by leaving a lump
OF wax placed on the repelling end OF
the needle.
The seXtant IL the only instrument
that could figure at all In the neigh.
borhoOd OF the pole and then II would
be SO inaccurate and out of true lhl
the exact apex could not be determ.
ined.
Ii Is probable that DR.. Cook went us
far us any record could be made with
instruments at hand and then went a
little farther to sort of make good and
called 1t the pole. Perhaps Peary did
the same.
In banquet talk made by Peary
sometime ago, when asked what the
conditions were that surrounded him
as he stood at the supposed pole, he
said that the only popularity he no.
ticed was that the sun travelled
around him In fiat circle at an exact
distance above the horizon on all sides.
Mr.. Peary may be way up" In pa,l.
CATION but | wish to state the sun has
never yet travelled around the eaith,
or seemingly as from the earth's rota-
ton In circle on the same parallel of
longitude. not at the pole or any pace
else. There Is what IL called the sun q
declinatiOn, either north or south &c.
cording to the season. AS II passes
around the earth, figuratively speobirg
y describes line similar to the stripes
on a BARRIERS pole. charging its line 10
the opposite pitch as the axis of ,hc
earth swing from side to side. There.
fore MIR. Peary's assertion that the sun
went round him In a circle with no
declination at all is rot.
When condemning Cook don't be too
hard. There may be lots to learn from
him. Remember what happened to
poor old Columbus for asserting that
he had discovered America.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08

up his assertion with proofs.
Peary says he has been there. He, so
far. has offered no proofs to the gen
eral public except such as seem to
have leaked out In sort OF half heart
ed way. Again take your choice.
Regardless of the fact that Cook has
been downed. and bounded and enough
money spent on cablegrams calling
him faker and liar to find the North
Pole and bring II back. ! have not had
my faith entirely shaken in the man
yet.
OF course ] am not as qualified TO
pass judgment on Dr. Cooks data as
are those scientific researchers who
have discovered that among the small
est of insects there Is no sex and a
thousand other most interesting facts
that lend wonderment to creation. |
am only speaking OF what seems to
be straight goods to man who has
put In winter at Point Barrow which.
II you will take the trouble to look
for In the far north you will find well
inside of the Arctic circle.
When one gets that far north, where
longitude shrinks away to few miles
TO the degree instead of sixty as at the
equator the conditions OF the surface
of the earth are the same for hundreds
and hundreds OF miles In every direc.
ton more especially toward the p0Ae.
The idea OF a tropical country and open
sea at the pole is one OF the silliest
Such an idea was once preached and
even given great space In our daily
papers. Note the gradual change and
the many thousands OF miles It takes
to make II from one zone to another
on the th!ckly Inhabited parts of the
globe. This should scout any idea OF
a tropical country at the pole.
To those who understand the art OF
and sextant. the particular parts OF
DR.. Cooks records that have received
the stamp OF fraud from those scientl
fic sharps will be most interesting.
Surprising DR.. Cook had not reached
the pole but that one item of his
record shows the following: Lat. So
IL 81" N. Long. 43o 90 w. both rec
ords uncertain as to correctness to the
second on account of numbness Of
hands and extreme cold. Weath"'
clear and conditions silent" We
learn from that observation that Or
Cook was well within two hundre,
miles of the pole; no Doin! of land
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08

Los ANGELES, Dec. DIR. Bur
dette. the humorist minister, who IS
passing his few remaining days here
before his departure for Honolulu,
today asserted that the fool has less
chance to get to heaven than the
sinner. When speaking before the
Occidental College on the subject of
Fools" he snid:
"When get to heaven, II will not
be the wicked things that have
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08

lone he o lie still q
fool He Ia changed bit
their lives
recting they
will of them has
liars
children the coming
y
task ashamed Of
und oh
mortar aud blush There is hope for the wick
u fool"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-08
THAT REMINDS ME


AS he or has he not been to the
North Pole? I refer to either
one of them, Cook or Peary.
take your choice. Cook says
he has been there and backs
nm hi, ovaartInn with nroafs