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Wednesday, February 14th.

What does that date mean? Why, the Leap Year Ball, of course.
 Everyone will remember that. because 1t is giver for a good cause, one we are all interested in, for soon or late we all take our way thereto the cemetery. That's what this benefit ball is for-cemetery Improvements.
 The ladies of the Altar Society. assisted by the Band Boys, and anyone who is willing to help want to make this ball the sue cess of the season. We all know a Leap Year affair is one in which the ladies take full charge. They invite the gentlemen, es cort them to the ball and see that they enjoy themselves. Any gentleman who IS unfortunate enough to be without a lady escort, may attend, providing he pays 50 cents for admission and the committee will see tha he is well taken care of.
 The following committees vii be in charge:
 Board of managers-Mesda me: Dadey, Spellmire. Drumm. Mrs Drumm, chairman.
 Reception Com. - Mesdame: Ellis, C. Daze, Spellmire.
 Introduction Com. - Misse! Pauline Woods, Irene and Louis Dadey, Leona Daze, Margare and Esther Morrison, Flora Will son and Mrs. Takken.
 Officers - Mesdames Dade y Rose, Weinert, Goldsworthy ant Hickey.
 The judge and jury will be de cided on later.
 Punch COm.-The mothers C the Band Boys. Mrs. Creswel chairman.
 P. S.-Watch next weeks issu for further Leap Year Valer tine" news.
 "Evei yone ill Winslow Is con ing"
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The directors of the Arizona Co-Operative Mercantile Inst1tu- tion held d regular meeting here this week, which was attended by the following prominent stock holders and directors of that cor poratIon. w. F. Lesueur and Joseph Udall of SpringervlIle. J B. Patterson of St. Johns anu Joseph w Smith, of Snowfl ike, and others whose names we dld not learn.
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RAILROAD TO
 TIMBER ASSURED

The most pleasant piece of news received here this week
 was a telegram from Washing ton to w. H. Clark to the effect that the Clark Hill railroad and
 timber companies had been sue cessful bidders for the large sale of timber in the mountains south of here, and that they received the same at the minimum price. This means that a railroad will he built iron here within the next few months, and now 1t Is up to the business men of this town to get busy and see that the road does go out from here for sure and to make a tremen- dOus effort to secure the location of the sawmill at this point. Let us all pull together and Navajo County will rank among the first of Arizona within five years
 This means other development also and we cannot afford to put anything in the way thereof
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STATEHOOD BY
 FEBRUARY 20

On February 3, Secretary Geo. U. Young will deliver to the Phoen1x postofice a registered package, addressed to Washing ton, D. C., which will contain the official returns of the cleo tion held in Arizona on Decem- Der 12.
 Allowing six days for the transit to Washington, and the submission of the contents to President Taft, it will be Febru- ary 9 hefore he can learn how the votes were cast That7is but three days from February 12, Lincoln's birthday and the day on which Taft is said to desire to affix his signature to the Ari- zona statehood proclamation.
 About February 20, Taft's proclamation will be in Phoenix, and on that day it is likely that Governor-elect G. w. P. Hunt and all the new state officers will take the oath of office. As is customary the members of the supreme court will receive the oath first so that they can ad- minister the obligation to the state officers.
 All these dates are based or statements made this morning by George U. Young, secretary ot the territory, who with Gov ernor Sloan and Chief Justice Kent, is canvassing the election returns at the Capitol building
 As soon as the Huachuca re turns are counted, Cochise cOun ty will be finished. In addition the counties for the count i' complete are Apache, CocOnino Gila, Greenlee, Maricopa, Mo have, Navajo, Pinal and Ora ham
 Pima, Santa Cruz, Yuma ant
 Yovapal are the only countie
 not complete. Yavapai Is bein,
 left until the last. though it ap pears alphabetically above Yu
 ma. The returns from Yavapa have not yet heen touched By the canvassing clerks 1t stated that they cannot hnis the count and make blue print of the tabulated returns b counties earlier than next Thur:
 day. It will take two days t
 get the official returns i'll shaI Z for President Taft, which ike t Saturday, February 8, as tt l date on which they will | l stated to Washington, D. C. !. Arizona Democrat.
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CT Houck and E. H Barge man, promin ent sheep and cattl- man, respectively, were here one day this week on business.
 B B Neel, who has been away for some time oil vacation Is agaln at hls old trIck Ill the rallr oad depot.
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Stock Market

Kansas City Stock Yards, Jan. P, 1912 Expectation of a liberal supply of cattle the first of this week, together with shortage of refrigerator cars in which to move the beef, put damper on the cattle market last week after the middle of last week Some cattle sold Saturday 15 to 20 cents under their mates that were here Wednesday, Stockers and feeders were an exception, the mild weather since the first of last week stimulating that trade somewhat. l Veal calves also shot upward 50 cents worth last week. Butcher stuff has i been selling rather better than beef steers, because there is wider demand 1 for the cheaper class of meat. That i tendency has been boon to quaran- 1 tine cattle, and the 200 car loads of Oil milf steers here last week sold at $5 15 to $630, prices high enough to make their feeders money. The run to-day did not turn out to be excessive, 12,000
 head here. but Chicago had too many cattle, ,000 head, and prices on kill ling cattle are steady to 10 lower.
 Butcher stuff again sells a shade det- ter than steers, and stockers and feed CTS are steady to-day. The best drove
 of steers here last week sold at $7 90,
 on Friday, and some good steers
 brought $7.70 early this morning A re-
 spectacle number of steers sell above
 $7 40, bulk of beef steers at $6. 25 to $725
 These prices are $l00 to $1.50 higher
 than a year ago at this time. Stockers feeders sell from $4,0O to $500, prices which are close to those ruling at this
 time last year. High cost of feed ex' plaines the difference in the relative
 values this year Dealers advise caution marketing of cattle this month, as buy
 CTS arc primed for the bear attack
 should volume of receipts indicate . possible success.
 The hog market held up fine las
 week till nine tenths of the 106, 900 hog'
 that came had been sold, but after tha it dropped, and finished in the $6 2 = class, 20 cents below the best time 1 Evidently the cholera did poor job O S cleaning up the hogs of the country
 the way they are pouring into ell tn
 ma keLs The run here today is 1S,00 - head, close to the record for Monda : run here, market to 10 lower, top $6 ?
 bulk S5.S0 to S6.15 The big run is no I being forced in, but is normal move
 ment, as indie 4ted by the increasing q
 verage weight, 197 lbs. last week here 5 190 los. the previous week.
 The sheep and lamb market suffere l. from panic last week, many sales { ii the end of last week 50 cents to one do
 lar below Wednesdays ruling price
 Various trade reasons are given, bu D all explanations seem transitory, an h quick return to strength is expected $ Run is 1000 to-day, market strong t " 25 higher, top lambs $6 55, yearline : worth S5.75, wethers SAYS, ewes S4 l
 Some predic'ors of higher prices hay U lost their nerve, but the market sti )e has a firm updertone.
 es J. A. Rickhart,
 le Market Corresponden
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FLAKE BROS. STORE
 DESTROYED BY FIRE

Thursday afternoon at Snow flake the store building of Flake Brothers was completely de storyed by fire, being a total loss with no insurance. It seems that the fire broke out in the roof, probably from a defective fiue It was. discovered it time to remove nearly the entire con tents of the whole building, in- cluding the property of the Stake Academy manual training school which was located in the second story. The Messrs. Flake have not as yet announced what they intend doing in the future.
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Bud Howell gave wedding dance for his many friends at Adamana Friday night and among those attending from here were Miss Grace Smith, MT. and Mrs. George w. Hennessey, Henry Scorse and Fred Moss and others to numerous to mention Several guests from Winslow were prrsent. Needles to state all had a lovely time.
 Attorney (. H. Jordan was q business visitor at Wlnslow yes terday.
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Jess Hulet, that ardent hunter we mentioned last week returned to town just as we predicted, loaded down with ducks. Quack, quack.
 Mrs. A. E. Hennlng of Pinto visited here with relatives and friends acouple ofdays this week then going to Winslow for q day.
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Richard Edgar, the sewing machine man, has returned to the country and is now distribu- ting Singers, not for song but for hard cash.
 Attorney Fred Nelson and son Leland returned to their home at St. Johns Thursday in the EMF. MT. Nelson was here du- ring the past week on legal busi- ness.
 s. B. Shumway, who IS now ln the contracting business at Mesa, and doing well, has sold his residence property here to C. H. Brown, the well known sheepman.
 Mrs. C. Ii. Jordan, wife of At torney Jordan, returned this week from a visit with friends at Whiteriver.
 James Scorse who has been at Sawtelle. California, for som C weeks with h1s mother, returned home this week and reports her as being well on the road to re covery.
 A light sand storm hit towr this week, just to remind us O what will soon be coming. A slight furry of snow fell Satur day evening.
 Advertise your SOOds Where yOU h0Ue then1 ffO7 sale.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03


ances, of exactly the type which would &C.
cur were it possible in North America or
Europe suddenly to mix among existing
conditions the men and animals that died
out some hundreds of thousands of years
ago..
There had been quite a plague of wild
beasts in Nairobi itself. One family had
been walked at midnight by leopardsprng-
ing on the roof of the house and thence to
an adjacent shed it finally spent couple Of
hours on the veranda. A lion had repeated
ly wandered at night through the outlying
i(the residentaD portion of the town. DR..
Milne, the head of the government medical
department. had nearly run into it on his
bicycle, and, as measure of precaution,
guests going out to dinner usually carried
spears or rifles.
One night l dined with the provincial
commissioner, Mr.. Hobley, and the next
with the town clerk, Captain Sanderson. In
each case the hostess, the host, and the
house were all delightful, and the evening
just like very pleasant evening spent any
where in civilization; the houses were only
half mile apart; and yet on the road be-
tween them a fortnight previously lady on
a bicycle, wheeling down to rehearsal of
."Trial by Jury" had been run into and upset
by herd of frightened zebras.
An Amusing Zebra Adventure.
One OF my friends, Captain Smith, direc-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

their trail for couple OF miles, and then
stalked them to an inch by the dextrous use
OF couple of bushes and an ant-hll; the
ant-hill being reached after 200 yards
crawl, first on all-fours and then flat on the
ground, which resulted in my getting good
off-hand shot at 1870 yards.
The last day we were at the Moi the por-
tiers petitioned for one ample meal of meat;
and we shot a dozen buck for them-kon-
goni, kob and singsing. One of the latter,
very fine bull, fairly charged Kermit and his
gun-bearer when they got within few
yards of it, as it lay wounded. This bull
grunted loudly as he charged; the grunt of
an oryx under similar circumstances is al
most growl.
On this day both Kermit and were led
to bee trees by honey birds and took some
of the honey for lunch. Kermit stayed after
his boys had left the tree, SO as to see exact
ly what the honey bird did. The boys had
smoked out the bees, and when they left the
tree was still smoking
Throughout the process the honey bird
had stayed quietly in neighboring tree, oc
casionally uttering single bubbling cluck.
AS soon as the boys left, it flew straight for
the smoking bee tree, uttering long trill,
utterly different from the chattering noise
made while trying to attract the attention
OF the men and lead them to the tree and
not only did it eat the grubs, but it also ate
the bees that were stupefied by the smoke
Whistling Away Herd of Elephants.
Next day we moved camp to the edge Of
a swamp about five miles from the river A
few miles beyond this swamp we suddenly
came on a small herd of elephants in the
open. There were eight cows and two
calves, and they were moving slowly, feed
ing on the thorny tops~of the scattered mi
mosas, and of other bushes which were
thornless.
The eyesight OF elephants is very bad; l
doubt whether they see more clearly than a
rather near-sighted man; and we walked up
to within 20 yards of these, slight though
the cover was, so that Kermit could try to
photograph them We did not need to kill
another cow for the national museum, and
so after we had looked as long as we wished
we croaked and whistled and they moved off
with leisurely indifference.
There is always a fascination about
watching elephants; they are such giants
they are so inteligent-much more so than
any other game, except perhaps the lion
whose intelligence has very sinister bent
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

and they look so sdd with their great ears
Tapping and their trunks lifting and curling
Elephants are rarely absolutely still for any
length Of time; now and then they flap an
ear, or their bodies sway Slightly, while at
intervals they utter curious internal rum
blings, or trumpet gently.
These were feeding on saplings of the
mimosas and other trees, apparently eating
nothing for the thorns of the former; they
would tear off branches, big or little or snap
a trunk short off if the whim seized them
They swallowed the leaves and twigs of
these trees but have known them merely
to chew and spit out the stems OF certain
bushes.
An Unexpected Meeting in the Wilderness.
After leaving the elephants we were on
our way back to camp when We saw white
man in-the trail ahead and on coming near
er, whom should it prove to be but Carl
Akeley, who was out on a trip for the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History in New
York.
A year previously Mr. and Mrs Akeley
had lunched with me at the White House,
and we had talked over our proposed Afri-
can trips. Akeley, an old African wanderer,
was going out with the especial purpose of
getting group of elephants for the Ameri-
can museum, and was anxious that should
shoot one or two of them for him. l had
told him that I certainly would if it were
possibility; and on learning that we had just
seen herd of cows he felt-as l did-that
the chance had come to me to fulfill my
promise. So we decided that he should
camp with us that night, and that next
morning we would start with light outfit
to see whether we could not overtake the
herd
Next morning Akeley, Tarlton, Kermit
and I started on our elephant hunt. We
were travelling light. Itook nothing but
my bedding, wash kit, spare socks and slip
pers, all in roll of waterproof canvas. We
went to where we had seen the herd and
then took up the trail, Kongoni and two or
three other gun-bearers walking ahead as
crackers. They did their work WELL
The elephants had not been in the least
alarmed Where they had walked in single
file it was easy to follow their trail; but the
crackers had hard work pulling it out
where the animals had scattered out and
loitered along feeding. The trail led up and
down hills and through open thorn scrub,
and it crossed and recrossed the wooded
watercourses in the bottoms of the valleys.
Tracking the Herd.
At last, after going some ten miles we
came on sign where the elephants had fed
that morning, and four or FIVE miles further
on we overlook them. That we did not
scare them into flight was due to Tarlton.
The trail went nearly across wind; the track
ers were leading US swiftly along it, when
suddenly Tarlton heard a low trumpet
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

vide, and were on the Nile side of the water.
she'd
While on safari to the Moi was even
to honey than | was in the game Before
starting for Africa John Burroughs had es-
pecally charged me to look personally into
this extraordinary habit of the honey bird,
habit so extraordinary that he was inclined
to disbeieve the reality of its existence. But
it unquestonably does exist. Every expert
enced hunter and every native who lives in
the wilderness has again and again been an
eyewitness of it.
On the morning of the day we reached
the Moi, honey bird appeared beside the
safari, behaving in the same manner. Some
of the men begged to be allowed to follow
it; while they were talking to me the honey
bird flew to big tree 50 yards off, and
called loudly as it fitted to and fro in the
branches and sure enough there was honey
in the tree.
let some of the men stay to get the
honey; but they found little except comb
filled with grubs. Some of this was put
aside for the bird, which ate the grubs.
follow any failure on their part to leave the
honey bird its share of the booty. They also
insist that sometimes the honey bird will
lead man to a serpent or wild BEAST and
sure enough DR.. Mearns was once thus led
up to rhinoceros.
While camped on the Moi the honey
birds were almost a nuisance; they were
common, and were continually accompany
ing us as we hunted, flying from tree to tree,
and never ceasing their harsh chatter. Sew
eral times we followed birds, which in each
case led us to bee trees, and then perched
quietly by until the gun-bearers and porters
(Gouvimali shone on such occasions) got
out the honey-which we found excellent
eating by the way.
Uganda Kob and Singsing Waterbuck.
Our camp here was in beautiful country.
and game for the most part Uganda kob and
singsing waterbuck, often fed in sight OF the
tents.
The kob is small, short-haired water
buck, with slightly different horns. 1t is a
chunky antelope, with golden-red coat;
weighed one old buck which I shot and il
tipped the beam at 220 pounds. Kermit
killed bigger one, weighing z4O pounds
but its horns were poorer.
The best singsing bull got owed te
Tarlton's good eyesight and skill in tracking
and stalking. The herd of which he wa:
master bull were shy, and took the alarm
just as we first saw them. Tarlton followed
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

tor of surveys in the Protectorate, had fig
.ured in another zebra incident to which only
Mark Twain could do justice.
Captain Smith lived on the outskirts of
the town, and was much annoyed by the
zebras tearing through his ground and
trampling down his vegetables and flowers.
So one night, by his direction, his Nasal
servant sailed out and speared a zebra
which was tangled in wire fence! But the
magistrate, rigid upholder OF the letter OF
the law, fined the Nasal for killing game
without license! GA touch quite worthy
of comparison with Mark Twain's account
of how, when he called for assistance while
drowning, he was arrested for disturbing the
peace.)
Captain Smith decided that next time
there should be no faint OF illegality about
his behavior, so he got ropes ready, and
when the zebras returned he and his attend
ants again chased them toward the wire
fences, and tied up one which got caught
therein and then with much difficulty he led
it down town, put it in the pound, and mott
fed Captain Sanderson, the. town clerk,
what he had done.
This proceeding was entirely regular, and
so was all that followed For seven days the
zebra was kept in the pound, while the au
thorities solemnly advertised for highly
improbable owner; then it was sold at auc-
ton, being brought to the sale, bucking,
rolling and fighting, securely held by ropes
in the hands of various stalwart natives, and
disposed of to the only bidder for five
rupees.
The court records are complete. The dis
trict court criminal register, under date of
February l, 1909, contains the entry of the
prosecution by the crown through "Mutawa
Wa Najaka A. NJ of the Nasal for "kill-
ing zebra without license under section
4.35 Game Regulations of 18th April 1906
and of the infliction of fine Of 20 rupees.
The sequel appears in the Nairobi NUM-
cipality pound book under date of August
6, 1909. In the column headed Description
of Animal is the entry Il ZEBRA" under
the heading by whom impounded" is the
entry, major Smith, R. E.;' under the
heading Remarks" is the entry Sold by
Public Auctioneers Raphael & Coy OH
24.8.Oo."
Adventures With the Honey Birds.
On October 26, Tarlton, Kermit, Heller
and started from the railroad station OF
Londiani, for the Uasin Gishu plateau and
the. Moi river. Until this Uasin Gishu trip
we had been on waters which either van
ished in the desert or else flowed into the
Indian ocean. Now we had crossed the di-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

I Nairobi (where Colonel
Roosevelt returned after
his hunt on the Guaso Ny
ero) we learned, as usual,
of incident after incident,
which had happened among
orr friends and acouaint-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

This is the eleventh of the fourteen great
articles of African big game hunting and
adventure by Theodore Roosevelt that
are appearing exclusively every Sunday
in the Capital News. These articles, from
Colonel Roosevelts own account of his
African expedition, african Game Trails"
-one of the greatest books OF big game
hunting and adventure ever written-the
Capital News has secured for exclusive
newspaper publication in the territory 1t
serves through special arrangements with
Charles Scribner's Sons.
Last week Colonel Roosevelt described his
hunting alone, and later with companions
along the Guaso Nyero, an equatorial
river. That hunting over, the expedition
returned to Nairobi, and from that East
African Quitting center, Colonel Roose-
welt went on the hunt that he describes in
today's article.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-03

fBy special permission from african Game Trails.
by Theodore Roosevelt Copyright, 1902 1910. by
Charles Scrbners Sons. Copyright, 1912, by
Charles Scribners Sons. All rights reserved. In
GLIDING that of translation into foreign languages.
Including the Scandinavian