The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-06


fee One Of the principal actors.
some say also the best and most
natural, in the show was an old
timber wolf, which did it's stunt be-
hind thin wire net, almost invisible
from the audience in the dim light
OF the stage. During one of the per-
formances, the wolf, tired Of his
confinement, broke down the net
an leaped into the auditorium. The
yells and screams of spectators
frightened the animal and it tried
TO get back to the stage. Finding its
way blocked on every side, the wolf
became frantic and snapped to the
right and the left, which greatly in
creased the scare. Finally a police
man, who had heard the turmoil,
fought his way into the midst Of the
panicstricken crowd and, single
handed, tackled" the wolf. He
choked the animal into submission,
but was badly bitten and scratched
in The attempt.
Burglars are having a gay time,
a regular carnival, in the Bronx For
weeks burglars have been busy in
all parts of the Bronx, but during
Christmas week they worked hard
er than ever During that one week
they entered more than twenty
houses and stores and stole prop
erty valued in the aggregate at
more than $4,000. Even stores
supposed to have been watched by
private watchmen, were robbed.
Strange to say not single one of
the victims ever caught a glimpse Of
the intruders and nobody is able to
give description of the burglar or
burglars. Neither the regular police
force nor the detectives stationed in
the Bronx district have been able to
and the residents of the Bronx are
asking themselves what the police
department is good for anyhow"
The firemen in the down town
business district had a rather I'M
usual experience the other day,
when fire broke out in two vaults
| in the Metropolitan Fire Insurance
building on Park Place. When the
tiremen arrived upon the scene they
found that the fire had originated in
some mysterious manner in the low
| err steel vault and had worked its
| way into the vault above. Heavy
steel doors with combination locks
| confronted the firemen and to get
at the fire they had to become safe
| breakers. 1t took them fully two
hours to batter down the lower door
and nearly as long for the upper.
Even then they could not reach the
seat of the fire until they had brok-
en- the inner steel doors Of the var
ious compartments.
| ALMOST anything may be found in
New York and it has been a sore
disappointment to thoroughbred
New Workers everytime the bones
of some big prehistoric animal were
found in some part of the country
that no such bones were ever found
in their beloved Gotham. 1t was
with great satisfaction that the PEG.
pie of this city received the news the
other day that the well-preserved
skeleton of real dinosaur had been
found imbeded in the rocks of the
Palisades opposite 155th street
Judging from the size of the bones
scientists figure that the antedilu
Wan animal, which belonged to the
lizard family, was from thirty to for,
ty feet long and from fifteen to eigh
teen feet high when it lazily crawleG
over Manhattan Island few million
years ago.
1t is not often that newsboys
break" in to the society columns
of the newspapers. 1t is true thai
there are quite a number of men OF
high financial and social standing il
this country who began their career
career selling newspapers, but, as {
rule. they were no longer newsboy.
when the society editors first bega1
to take notice of their doings. II
the case of Edward Diestel. a news
boy" who for many years has beer
selling papers in front of the Knick
erbocker Hotel, the situation is diff
! ferent. Although he has won hi
way into society columns by reason
of his impending marriage to
handsome and wealthy society cir
of Perth Amboy, N. j., he is still
4 selling papers at the same old stand
However, he will give up his bust
ness before his marriage and has al
ready obtained a place as manager
of restaurant.
1t is quite amusing how some boy,
will take themselves seriously. 4
boy of twelve, who is the editor O.
a publication called "The Boys Pa