Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-14

paying for the same. Casey called upon the
federal soldiers at Fort Yukon to help him
protect the provisions against the raiders.
and Major Richardson, then only a lieuten-
ant, responded, and with six other men
Richardson and Casey held off flfty-six of
the raiders. and when Casey concluded that
1t would be better to dog it, which is the
Alaskan equivalent for make a sneak, ="
Richardson alone stood In front Of tina
cache and held off the crowd. That Is the
same Richardson who has lone so much
towards making transportation possible.
He has practically built every trail and
every highway through the territory, and
1t is he who Secretary Dickinson purposes
to stand by.
Discovery of NOah's Ark.
Casey Moran, however. is perhaps best
known throughout the world because of
the most sublime fake which he worked
off while doing newspaper work. In
Alaska news is far from plentiful and
there are periods when a man has plenty
OF time to dream. During one of these
bromidean periods Casey decided to dis
cover Nosh's ark. He obtained a Bible
and a table of weights and measures,
found out from the former the size of
Mr.. Noah's original boat in cubits and
with the aid of the latter turned cublts
into feet and then he wrote his story. It
was a graphic account of the story of
the remnants of Noah's menagerie, which
was alleged to have been found by the
Indians on Grow creek. He even de-
scribed the petrifTed remains Of various
lv~ertebratesSand these Vertebrates were al
ways in pairs. The story was sent to
a Seattle paper originally and was there
copied into practically every newspaper
in the United States and was subse-
quently translated into about every known
language, and now Casey Moran Is in
Washington. If he remains here long it
is a safe prediction that some of the
yarns sent out from Alaska to the ma
tional capital will be STARTERS. He is
already telling some stories of his expe-
riences in the far north and here is one
of them:
up in Dawson in the old days" said
Mr.. Moran with every appearance of
quoting the truth, there wasa Canadian
justice named Constantine. He was the
most wonderful law officer that ever
graced a bench. But, holy smoke, how
he could swear. This Judge Constantine
had an ugly habit OF filming people
promiscuously, so to speak. I happened
10 DE IN MS court one oay WneD Pete
Mulcahy was on trial for an assault upon
Belle Mead. After listening to the evil
dence Judge Constantine fined Pete s25
and costs. The cost was Sc. Pete pulled
out a $50 bill. The Judge looked into
his desk and could not find any change.
He thereupon increased the fine to $50
without costs and kept the entire bill.
Then he turned to Belle, whose face was
somewhat d~isfigured, and said to her:
You have just come in here with all that
blood on your face to create sympathy
in this court. 1 fine you $40 and warn
you to keep out of Pete's place and then
you won't get into no row. This seemed
to be so ridiculous / smiled, and there
upon the Judge turned to me, called me
up to the desk and fined me $40 for con-
tempt of court"
Limberger Cheese by Mail.
One of the loudest professors against the
present rate Of postage on newspapers ana
magazines is a member of congress VINO
WINS a cheese factory. Several years ago
this Congressman sent a congressional box
to Washington addressed to himself upon
which was a government frank. A congress
sional box, well filled weighs In the neigh
borhood OF 200 pounds. II came free through
the malls. The two colored messengers car
ried It into the house post office by the
handle, holding their noses with the other
hand, and one Of them Remarked Boss,
there is certainly something dead in this
yere box" 1t was opened and found to
contain nearly 200 pounds Of limberger
cheese made in the factory of the con-
gresham who thinks that the second class
postage rate Is altogether too low and that
and magazines should pay
through the mails.
Eggs and Lemons.
The inquiry OF the federal authorities into
the high cost Of food is said to have led
to the discovery that there are 10000
eggs In cold storage at the present time.
This reminds a western New Yorker OF an
attempt made by a firm Of cheese makers
in East Aurora, N. Y, some years ago to
corner the egg market They bought 10000
dozen and stored them in their cheese
warehouse which was fitted up for cold
storage. Later there was a slump In the
lemon market and they bought a thousand
boxes Of lemons alta very low figure which
they also stored in the same warehouse.
Three months later when they were ready
to sell their eggs they discovered that
thosC eggs contained a combination OF
welsh rarebit and lemonade. In other
words, the strong smell Of the cheese and
the OIL from the lemons had penetrated
every egg shell TO UGH an extent that not