The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-30
FROM OTHER PENS
TRAGEDY OF THE ELK.

AT the point where AOAOON LIZ
Hoback the first indications of dead
elk were seen, and all along the trail
from the Hoback to the eros Ventre
were scattered bones and TUFTS or mar
of animals that had starved BARK
stripped willows and quaking aspens
and twigs and limbs as large as ones
fingers gnawed down by famlshed am
mails in vain attempt to find susten.
ance in dead sticks told the story OF
misery and suffering.
"On the fields wherever walked
and through the foothills, were the
bones of innumerable elk that had per-
ished within two years. AT some points
the bones literally lay in piles about
punches of willow with gnaWed-oH
limbs and groves of quaking aspens
barred of bark. -
"a ranch owner told me that there
had been times when he could walk
half mile on the bodies Of dead elk
Others reiterated this statement. One
ranchman was prepared to make an
affidavit that within a small area IN
the lower end of the Hole he had &C.
tually counted the bodies of 1900 dead
elk in the spring of 1909. Another
stated that when the snow of that
spring melted 1000 bodies lay within
a radius of one mile of his house. An
other said that within like radius at
another point he had seen 5000 bodies.
MANY other reputable ranchmen, in
describing the awful stencil arising in
early summer from the putrefy1ng
bodies of dead animals asserted that
several families had been compelled
temporarily to abandon their homes
made unhabitable by the odor. Every
one told of the water in early summer,
Shiny and reeking with decaying elk
flesh, ard made unwholesome for man
or beast. One ranchman asserted that
within a period of twenty years resi-
dence in Jackson's Hole he had seen
<1fS o1I- TnriCh from
walton. DILLON Wallace, in Outing.
lTRACKLESS BUT KINDLY OCEAN.
The experience of the little pilot
boat Chespa, of Bermuda. illustrates In
combination three interesting pre-
sunptions incidental to the seafaring
profession; one, that it is easy Tor an
able navigator to become lost, another
that no disaster from such miSadven-
ture need ensue, another that the ulti-
mate peril of coastwise voyaging is
that of going hungry. There was
natural concern for the fate Of the
pilot boat when, after putting to sea
from Hamilton in expectation OF md
| ing a customer, several days elapsed
and she did not return. 1t is no"
| learned that the sloop was blown SO
swiftly and dizzily into Unfamiliar lati-
| tudes that her skipper was unable to
find his position when opportunity
came for recovering himself. He be-
came as confused amid the waste OF
water as an unobserving pedestrian
who circulates helplessly in the effort
| to retrace his steps out of a forest. The
| Chespa to be sure was not steered in
circles, but the course the skipper lalo
in his perplexity would never nave car
ried him home.
| A passing steamer finally gave the
Chespa her position. 1t proved to be
so far up the contin entail coast as Wen
as so near, that the skipper decldeo
/ to keep on to New York as the speed
lest recourse for the relief of his weary
crew and, further, to spare his larder,
naturally not provided for an extended
VOYAGE Journal
DEPENDENCE UPON FARMERS
| The tendency of population all over
1.-THE world is toward the cities, and the
same tendency toward engaging IN the
work of manufacturing is noted among
/ the people of every nation upon lhe
face of the earth.
| What are known as the Industrial
districts are constantly attracting the
labor of the people in greater num-
bers each year, and 1t is the Same III
Russia as 1t Is in Germany, IN france,
in Britain, in Italy, Spain, Japan ana
the United States.
The nations vie with each other in
commerce and manufacture, and seek
political and financial power through
those SOGICeS 70 q AoA eoA~--eO-
than was done $3.50 or 100 years ago.
Every hamlet that has its shop,
levery village that holds a factory,
Ievery town with its mills. and every
4 city with whirring machinery employ
ling thousands, with its stores, Its
banks, its railways. every port with It's
docks, and every sea with its vessels
are but dependents upon the products
of the soil: but consumers and the
lprofitable customers of the men who
lown or till the acres that furnish the
populations of the world with thetr
flood and with the ffbers that enter into
their clothing.-Cincinnati Inquirer.