Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-10
-FOUR BABY
BEAVERS HERE
Santa Fe Members Rush to
Capitol to Extend Them
Warm Welcome
ARE BOTTLE FED infants
Amusement Over Their Antics
and Names of Officials
Given Them.

Their tiny hands fondling the milk !
bottle supplied them by Game and |
Fish Warden Cable, and their little |
mouths serenely sucking the white j
liquid through rubber tube, four lit
tie beavers, who looked like real little
hustlers for which the name Beaver
stands. were the -cynosure of all eyes
and the source of intense anus usement
this morning at the capitol.
The babe beavers were extended al
warm welcome by the members of
Santa Fe Dam No. 80, Independent Or
who belong to this dam welcomed
them to Santa Fe. The speech of
welcome ito our city" was to haxe
been delivered by Acting Attorney
General H. S. Clancy, as Colonel G.
w. Prichard president of the local
dam, was not to be found around the
capitol. But Mr.. Clancy scented a
joke on him and could not be induced
to leave his Office. He, however, read
up the law and found that it is $50
fine for taking possession of each
beaver The little rascals will there
fore not be disturbed though many
beavers were anxious for them to put
up at their lodge rooms.
A Funny Sight.
1t was funny sight to, see. the
beavers drink milk, not that Santa Fe
Beavers~do not drink the article as
well as ginger ale. but the way they
put their little paws around the milk
bottle, fondling it with all the en-
thusiasm displayed by the graduate
toward his diploma next month, was
to laugh.
Like real babies they sucked milk
through a rubber tube and seemed to
hate to give up the bottle to another
beaver when urged by Mr.. Gable who
decided that these beavers are still
of the bottle fed variety.
Funnier still was the way each lit
tie beaver was named after some Off
cial whom he was supposed to mimic.
Many visitors, including several
from out of town, were in the game
warden's office most of the morning,
studying the beavers and asking all
about their capture for they are ex-
tremely rare in this part of the coun-
try. For months Mr. Gable has been
anxious to get hold of some live
beavers and offered as high as $25 a
pair, it is said.
How Captured.
Their capture is interesting. 1T
was known yesterday that Mr.. Gable
hurried to Albuquerque ION official
business" In the Duke City he found
two of the baby beavers as guests of
the albuquerque Dam of Beavers and
the other two were at the Aerdome
theater where it is said they were
being entertained with picture show.
Investigation showed that the little
beavers had been captured at Cor
rales by some working man and sold
in Albuquerque for only 81 each.
Mr.. Raymond Seizes Them.
The beavers were evidently having
high jinks in the theater and at the
dam where they ought to have felt
at home when Deputy Game Warden
Raymond got wind of their visit to the
Duke City. He seized them and
wired Mr.. Gable.
Those who bought them seemed to
have forgotten that taking possession
as we'll as killing beavers means a
4 fine of $50 each. OF course in some
& parts of the country where beavers
are found destroying trees to an
/ alarming extent the game warden
may issue a permit to kill them. Such
a complaint was received some
months ago from northern San Juan
4 county.
To Dam Upper Recos.
Mr.. Gable intends to keep the beav-
ers here for some days. When he met
them in albuquerque they were cry
ing and he interpreted their cries to
mean "how dry am" They evident.
" wanted drink but were unable to
sip milk. They were also unable to
eat solid food for they are too young
Then the milk bottle was pressed in.
to service. After they have fattened
up on this diet they Will be sent to
the upper Pecos where they can learn
Now at Drug Store.
Until place can be prepared for
them the little beavers are the guests
< of Druggist A. ]. Fischer who has
given them a front apartment in his
drug store and 1t will be easy for them
to receive visitors. There is a swim.
Z ming pool attached to the apartment
and sleeping den in which the beav.
ers take their forty winks.
Performing Additions.
Their nap over, the beavers this
afternoon took bath and large
crowd including many ladies gathered
around the windows to see the cere
mony, which to many proved more in
teresting than seeding Miss Kellerman
i take the great dive. The first beaver
put his 'hands" in the water and then
his feet and finally his tail which IL
trowel shaped and which aids In build
ing dams. He then deftly washed his
mouth and cute little face with lhis
hands. put one Finger" in each eye
and then stroked his chin. A shout oi
delight went up from the, crowd and
several ladies exclaimed you, little
darling"
The other beavers followed suit and
then retired to their private room
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