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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-06-12

Methodist church met Wednesda.
s~afternoon at the home OF Mrs. D
q. Brown.
David Burrell left today for thu
eastern part OF tho state to attent
to hds work an deputy in the fist
and game department.
Buster Brown Boys and Girl
shoes are the best. At thu
Riverside.
Mrs. q. w. Atwood arrived OF
Friday evening from Grand RapidS
the settlement Of business affdirs
II hts mission.
Game Warden o. H. Barber re.
turned this week from a business
visit to Salt Lake, and cities n
the eastern part of Idaho. 4
Paul Havers Of San FranciAco
representing the Oliver Typewriter
company. was q business visitor II
this city the first OF the week.
Mrs. H. g. Wones and childrSf
left thiA morning for California
where they will spend the sumrAas
| visiting with Mrs. Wcne's mother.
Senator and Mrs. ID. w. Davis
and family are this week moving in
to the house on Prairie avenue unit
recently occupied by O. II. Barber
and family.
FOR SALE-Two second hand
refrigerators In first class condi-
ton.
Fred Murphy. the Wholesale ciar
dealer from Pocatello. and j. b.
'Trist, the automobile man. were
registered at tho Remington hotel
on Tuesday OF this week
The nine year old son of Mr..
Heberlein. a farmer living on the
west side, was In town yesterday to
get medical attent'o on for an arm
that was broken recently In a fall.
The county commissioners were ID
session the first of the week attend
ing to road matters. A resume of
what they accomplished can be
found elsewhere In this paper.
Mics Minnie Jones, who lis a
teacher In the local schools, ;-ft
on Saturday for the east, where she
will take special advanced work in
her profession.
Mrs. Wilford W. Bennion. who
has been visiting for a short time In
Salt Lake, returned on Wednesday
evening accompanied by Mr.. Ben
mons mother. who will visit here
for q time.
Alex Huwa, who was tried before
Justice r. o. Jones last Friday on
n charge OF having pulled a gun on
one Mayer in a d'spute owe u road
fined 500. The case was
before the justice without a jury.
For all kinds OF furniture and
Rugs go to Oliver & McKown Hdw
Co.
Misses Clara 3. Powellson and
Helen Davie WI e among the Ameyi-
can Falls Epworth Leaguers who
attended the diltrict convention in
the latter part of the
week.
Eva Hall bad his collar bone
broken Friday night when a mule
he was riding, threw him to the
ground. The broken bone was set
and the patient Is now getting
along very well.
/Charlee Hartley. manager of the
department of the Fall
Creek Sheep oompany's store. went
Pocatello Saturday. accompanied
~ his wife and son. There he
u admitted to an operation.
Mr.. and, Mrs. Walter s. Sparks
vent to Pocatello Wednesday ON
70. is. They returned across
in the afternoon in their |
which had been underf
Ding repairs in a Pocatello garage.
Good mich COWS for sale 1T the
Stock Farm. A. W. Davis
ropr'ttarr
American Falls is to have a new {
'wyer. His name is F. s. becker, l
nd he comes from Nebraska>yi
ne recommendations. He will ar-T
We here in time to open offices !
bout neSt Monday, 1t is thought. {
Mr.. Almond. vice resident OF he S
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-06-12
PEOPLE N EVENTS
LOCAL HAPPENINGS or THE WEEK GATHERED
BY THE STAFF ON THE DUN o TOWN

By THE STAFF ON THE
Born, to MI. ana Nrs. Chapman.
saturday. : son.
Born. ,Tussday morning, TO Mr..
ard Mn. nlg1n watts, ! daushtsr.
h. Baum wsnt 10 Rockland on
,Za-hnsinens trtp "Wednesday.
0sorss X. Sanger Of Rockland,
49, : visitor In this city ON Mon
das~Mf : fsw hours.
Nj. and Mrs. John r.. Jones and
baby wsrs in this city last Thurs
DAY for : fsw hours.
L. L. Evans Wa q business yisi-
Tor IN Pocatsllo one day the past
vel.
Attornsy 9. G. winters on Mon
day went down to the Gate City
to attend to legal business.
Mrs. james Lsstch went to Po-
catello Saturday to attend the Ep-
worth League convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Murray went
TO Pocatsllo on Wednesday for a
short visit.
\. b. Earring made q business
visit 70 Michaud this week on a
wheat buying mission.
~ fine line OF Builders Hardware
q /oliver 4 McKown Hdw. Co.
Everett w Sykes Of Beverly. Ill,
IL spending = few days In this
vicinity.
0eorse A Day. state land COM
missioner. was In American Falls
iast week.
Mrs. J. A. Hammock 10 III with
smallpox At her home near this
City.
J. r. Kosanke returned Tuesday
morning from . business visit TO
Rapasa---
J. w. Lee visited In Rupert the
first Of this week attending to busi-
mas matters.
l.. r. Moench Of Crystal WAS In
American Falls for q few hours on
Monday.
A. I. hoMahon OF shoshone was
attending to business matters here
on Saturday.
me ION OF MT. and Mrs. DuDOis
Nichols died Thursday. The child
was born that morning.
DR.. Newton Of P~ocateIIo was
here on q professional call on Mon
dsy morning.
J. d. lsaAk made a business visit
Ia P~ocstsllo on Tuesday OF this
@Sssk.--Y
Good mich cows for sale at the
Blackstone stock farm. A. W.. Davis.
proprietor
". G. White Of Boise. state vet
srinarian. was here on Monday at
tending to the duties OF his office.
A family Of blind musicians spent
"Wednesday and part Of Thursday.
playing on the street corners here.
Mrs. Dubois Nichols ON Monday
morning submitted TO a surgical OPP
peration at the hospital In this
city.
MI. and Mrs. j. A. Toner OF
Aberdeen visited In this city Mon
DAY. They came over In Bruce Col
tons automobile.
o. A. Schmidt. of the Schmidt
furniture company. has just re-
csived a car load shipment Of new
furniture. y
FOR SALE-Columbia Acetylint
bicycle lamp. Good az New. 81. DOL
Inquire at this office. IL
Mrs Duncan Of Aberdeen sub \
mltted to an operation at the local
hospital last Thursday. and 10 re- I
covering nicely. q
Mrs. Weisspfenning of Kimami .
entered the Mennonite hospital here, :
and will later undergo a surgical Cd
erAtion. =
J. V. Dawson. president and gem {
eral manager OF the Iowa Lumber
company. made a business Wait to :,
Fairfield thts week. -
DR.. Moth and wife left last week I
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
MAN BARKED LIKE A DOG
Thought He Was Holding Skunk at
eay-Animal Fast In
Trap.

Winsted, Comply initiating the
bark of a dog for a whole hour q
Mount Carmel man standing behind a
tree thought he held q skunk at bay
for that period, but when his brother!
1n-law, E. J. Richmond, arrived with
a gun and dispatched the animal 1t
was discovered that a polecat was
fast in steel trap.
Richmond and the formers bull ter
rier we're out in the country when the
dog espied the skunk, the loud bark
ing of the terrier prompted the man
to Investigate, and they found dog
and skunk facing each other, but
some distance apart. Richmond vol;
pnteered to go back home, a half
hours walk, for gun, and left his
'brother-in-law and barking dog on!
guard over the skunk. On noting It's
masters absence, the terrier aban7
doned it's post and started post haste
after him. Then from his position be-
hind the tree, the brother-in-law began
initiating barking dog, and every
time the skunk moved he barked
When Richmond finally returned
with the gun, his brother-in-law ex7
claimed hoarsely: xiii that skunk
quick" and he did as commanded, to
the chagrin of both men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
An |nterlrban Collision That Was Startling

settled on the slender bough of tree
over the farther end of the sidetrack,
bending it down.
They took notice, however, when
they collided with It, AS the car came
to stop they were made aware Of
the fact that there were some bees
about. What had been a harmless
looking mass became an angry and &C
tive enemy. Crawling through the
transoms and ventilators, hundreds of
bees invaded the car, looking for those
responsible for the interruption of
their housekeeping arrangements.
The hunt was brief and successful.
The motorman sprang out of the ves7
tibule and did a sprint up the track
that would have made any winner Of
100-yard dash look as If he were
standing still. The conductor did the
same thing in the other direction. But
there were more bees outside than in
side and they made another dash
back, concluding that the interior of
the car presented the less of the two
evils. What those two men under
went while trying to smoke the bees
out with piece Of burning waste it
is better to draw the curtain over
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25

any of the meat thrown to them until
he had taken what he wanted. Even
after he had full dinner he refused
to let the others get near the meat.
Then a cub, only year old, decided
to reform the bully. Mutt was chew
ing bone and the cub ran up and
snatched it from him. The other wolf
started after him. The cub ran up
on the rocks in the back of the cage.
Mutt was right behind him.. The cub
ran to the edge and then dropped.
Mutt was running too fast to stop
and tumbled over him.
AS result of his fall Mutt landed
ten feet below on the concrete. He
tried to get up, but could not and be-
gan to howl with pain. One of the
keepers ran to the den and seeing that
the bully was injured called in DR..
W. Reid Blair, chief veterinarian Of
the park. Dr. Blair found that the
VOLTS right forepaw had been broken
just above the knee
The injured animal was carried to
the hospital and splints and bandages
were adjusted. Mutt did not growl
once during the operation and now,
while he is In the hospital while the
leg kntts, he is trying to show the
keepers that he is changed animal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
lust One Arrest After

INDIANAPOLIS, 1nd.-A highway
1 robber, who has = double in the
person Of William McElfee, a young
South side merchant. draped himself
over the bar In the saloon of Nicholas
J. Colon, 220 McCrea street, shortly
before eight o'clock the other evening
and requested Arthur Kneeland, bar
man, to punch the mo Sale" key on
the cash register. The while NIGEL
fees double kept the smaller and
round end of revolver wavering be.
tween Kneeland and Daniel E. Nc.
CURE, . customer.
Half an hour after the incident in
the Colon saloon, Capt. George Coon,
In citizens clothes, Swallowed a gray
suit and a cap to match In Illinois
street, made sure of the 1--WE foot
Item Of his description, and tapped the
gray suit to the left Of the collar.
"Cumon-les' 60 to Colon's," the cap.
tain whispered In the ear of tie gray
collar much as a friend might have
done. The young man was surprised,
but glimpsed the badge beneath the
captains coat and went along. Knee.
land required two good looks to de-
eide 1t wasn't the robber.
Il know this fellow-you're Mac
MacElfee--ain't that the name?"
McElfee set up the drinks and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
SNAKE G0BBLED IRON BUNNY
So Badly Handicapped by Its Weight
the Reptile Could Not Make
Escape.

lockwood, Pa-Up at his home
near Cresaptown, Nd, Gibson I'm
stott, a wealthy farmer, has a cast.
iron rabbit painted in the natural
colors of a bunny, which is used to
hold the front door open.
The other night Umstott heard a
humping noise on his porch and go.
ing out was astounded to find mon
ster blacksnake in the act Of swallow.
ing the cast-iron rabbit. Soon the
snake completed the process Of swal-
lowing the iron rabbit, but could not
escape with it. He was badly handi-
capped in his efforts to squirm away
and was easily captured by Umstott
and his hired man.
Ums<ott, taking the big reptile by
the tail with the help of his man
finally forced him to disgorge the rab-
bit. Then taking a silk handkerchief
he pulled the snakes teeth rendering
him harmless. He then took the
snake to the distillery in Cresaptown
and fed him rye mash. causing his
snakeship to 60 to sleep.
Umstott later brought the reptile
here and turned it over to the police
where it was measured and found to
be- nine feet and one-half inch In
length. The reptile was pronounced
by Chief of Police Warren to be the
largest blacksnake ever seen in these
parts where big snakes are common.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
CALLS W00DPECKERS INSANE
Because Birds Store Pebbles Instead
Of Acorns Professor Says They
Are insane.

San Francisco, Cal.-The woodpeck-
ers of Sonoma county are suffering
from a mild form of insanity, accord.
ing to learned and erudite document
issued by the museum of vertebrae
zoology of the University of California
The document says:
1.-The reason why Caiifirnia wood.
peckers In the vicinity of Sonoma
mountain would have stored pebbles
instead of the customary acorns is q
mystery. We know that instinct
works as automatically as an alarm
clock. In the failure CT an acorn crop
it would seem possible that the wood.
peckers might instinctively store some
other available kind of food, but to
have chosen stones instead of food
carries the analogy too far. It seems
as though any bird with the intelli.
gence of the California woodpecker
which would make the same mistake:
ought to be classed as insane"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
CAT = SWALLOWS. PARROT
Po'ly's Wings Clipped, But Bird Flies
, Out and Meets Strange and Ex-
.- citing End.

Chicago.--Mrs. W. J. Libberton, wife
of the pastor of the Sacramento Boul'
evard Methodist church, the other day
removed her parrot from it's cage IN
her residence at 204 Sacramento boul'
evard, and began to clip it's wings
Finally she set the bird down, an
nouncing: Now l guess you'll not
fly away" The parrot Topped out OF
the window.
Mrs. Libberton took up the pursuit.
A trail marked by astonished neigh.
bors who had been RECALLED by the par
rot's conversation led her to the house
of Mrs Charles F. Hall at FOG Whip,
pie street. Mrs. Hall was just com
ing out of her residence. A large
brindle cat was just going in.
There was awe in Mrs. Halls coun-
tenance. There's a baby or a ghost
In my house," she said. Historically.
1T cries like a child. but it flies
around like a spirit" ~
TITS not ghost" said Mrs. Libber.
ton, Its my Polly" u. ..
She burst In the door. The large
brindle cat occupied the immediate
foreground. There was an expression
Of deep and abiding satisfaction on
the cats countenance. The parrot
had flown down the cats throat.
Az Mrs. Libberton looked at the cat
she thought she heard . faint voice
enchanting: 0 5t5.. 81 sE..
This Is no place for : minister's
parrot. !" .. b
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
Returned Traveller Finds Home Rolling on Skids

n HICAGO.-Anton Baca, formerly Of
- 624 West Harrison street, came
home the other night after a few
weeks spent with railway construc-
ton gang in Montana, to find that his
happy home had disappeared.
Enoch Arden at least found his
house on his return from his wander
ings, but all that greeted Baca was q
vacant lot. Where q few weeks be-
fore had been a happy fireside, wife
and five children, and family cat,
was now an aching void-a nothing
ness-a vacuum. afs. 49,.
Baca made inquiries Of the neigh
bors as to where his house had gone,
but none of them was able to give an
intelligent answer. Some limited that
perhaps the railroads had bought up
the property, while others intimated
that Baca's ''home" was a castle in
Spain. - H.. 4. s..~pI.*e III. .szz.s
Reaching South Halsted street In
his quest, he inquired Of q policemen:
Have ron seen anything Of my house1
It was here . while ago. !" 0
Move On. my mar" was the dis
couraging reply. Youu wind up in
the station house unless YOURS caro-,
ful."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25

Wandering over in De Koven street,
the homeless one espied afar of dim.
shadowy hulk looming up in the mid.
die Of the thoroughfare. As he ap-
preached nearer, the light of intelli-
gence dawned on his face. Heron
skids and rollers, was his long lost
home. It had evidently been taking
q journey. II he had waited it might
have come to meet him. .zz5+ i:
A light still burned in the window.
Climbing up on the skids, he peered
In. and to his Joy, discovered the wife
Of his bosom, surrounded BY the little
Bacas. Mrs. Baca explained that dur
ing the absence Of her lord and mas
ter the agents had decided to move
the house.
= couldn't tell you,s she said ..tbs-
cause didn't know whsre you 5vasa,~'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
Flo 80 P'PEDI B
A BLACK ALLEY CA
Runs IN Front Of Prospective
Bride Who Considers Act an
]: j. m Omen. 55... 81.

Wellsburg, w. VA &. big gaunt
alley cat as black as the night was the
cause OF bitter tears and the indefinite
postponement of a love match mar
r1age" here the other night when
Harry sanderson. . young coal opera.
tor OF Dawson, Pa, driving a big car
had outdistanced the machine driven
BY the father Of his fancee, Miss
Julia Albright, and with her was about
to enter the home Of tbs minister
where the ceremony was to.have been
performed.
Sanderson and his ffancee had a
good hours start on Henry Allen Al.
bright. her father. Just a few min.
utes before the courthouse closed the
big car containing Sanderson and
Miss Albright halted in front of the
building and the young couple hurried.
" secured a. license. After securing
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25

His Jaws Refused to Come Together.
fused to come together, and all efforts
of the dentist to bring them together
failed.
Price and the doctor became fright
ened. There was reason for fright.
The doctor worked frantically for aid
when happy thought struck him.
He braced his feet against the wall.
placed two thumbs into Prices yawn-
ing mouth and gave a sudden and un-
usual jerk. The jaws snapped togeth-
er with a sound like a pistol shot and
the dentist came near being loser a
pair of thumbs by the operation.
Price declares that he never wants
repetition of the experience, and
the doctor shudders when he speaks
of it. The jaws were locked just
forty minutes by the clock in the den-
lists Office.
Aside from a soreness In both jaws,
Price was all right the next day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
'lh0U TH STA FED Open
FOR FORTY MINUTES
Both Dentist and Patient Were
Greatly Relieved When Jaws
Snapped Together.

Chico, Cal.-F. NJ. Price. proprietor
Of Prices candy store on Broadway
knows how it feels to have .lockjaw.!
He suffered for forty minutes with 1T
and lives to tell the tale. And his ex4
perience is one that he is not desirl
GUS Of having repeated.
Price had some teeth that needed
fixing, and sought the services of q
local dentist. The tooth manipulated
spent fifteen minutes at the Job, which
required Price to keep his mouth wide
open-a good deal wider than he is In
the habit of doing.
When the job was completed and
the dentist gave the customary in4
structions to "expectorate, please 4
Price refused to expectorate. He SIM
ply couldn't, that is all. His Jaws re!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25

CLEVELAND, O.-Nothing startling
~ happens often on the Lake Shore
electric line except in cases where a
car overtakes polecat doing his IA
vortte stunt of trying to follow the
cleaning rails to their end on a noon
lit night.
But few days ago the unusual did
happen. A .otorman and a conduc-
tor were taking an empty "speciel~
from Rocky River to the yards at
Avon Beach power house. Half way.
they ran upon a siding to permit reg
ular car to pass. They failed to no.
tice that heavy swarm of bees which
seemed to include all there were III
the three surrounding townships had
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
Another for This Man

thanked the bartender Is the captain
scurrfed out to look again. Then Mo
Elfee sought the outdoors and saun-
tered toward the Union station. Some
thing like premonition went over him
when q heavy voice called: Wait a;
minute"-a hand slid inquiringly over
his gun pocket and Lieutenant Barm-l
fuhrer grasped an arm.
Want you," announced Barmfuhre,
re, his eye travelling over McElfes's
short form. the gray suit and cap.
Il was just at the saloon-they said
1t wasn't me-" said McElfee, and the:
lieutenant smiled. Clever" said the,
lieutenant. But it won't go-guess''
you're the righto kid-where's the
gum" :
The bar man repeated his identifl-
cation for Barmfuhrer and the night
wore on. It was toward midnight that
Barmfuhrer was in the Union station
when there came a commotion in the,
crowd and out Of it came three-De<
tectives Simon and Duncan with IA
miliar form between them.
Got 'im-Colon job," said Simon.
Young man." said Barmfuhrer, q
few minutes later, after explanations
had been made, "Please-please. will
you get of the streets?"
"Yes-yes, sir, I'll 60 right home"
said McElfee, YEARLY. He glanced
right and left, dived for the Illinois
street subway, south bound, and was
gone. The policemen breathed more
freely.
Somewhere, 4 smooth faced young
man with a revolver, in gray suit
and under gray cap, scurried through
the night with two dollars from the
Colon cash register, in his pocket, IN
conscious of the label he put on the.
gray clothes of an innocent bystander
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25

the license, young Sanderson called
up a minister known to him, over the
telephone, and made the arrangements
for the marriage.
: Hurriedly entering the big car San
derson and his fiancee were but few
minutes in reaching the home Of the
clergyman. Both had aighted on the
sidewalk and were about to step on to
the front porch of the minister's house
when big black cat dashed directly
in front of them, hesitated Sec
ond and then scampered away. In
stantly Miss Albright was in tears.
Bewailing the cats act an i'll omen
she refused to- either enter the house
or to have the ceremony performed.
Sadly young Sanderson turned his
car and headed back to Dawson.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-07-25
Mutt, Chief Bully Of the Wolf Dens, Reformed

NEW YCRK.-Mutt has reformed.
" There is no doubt about this. He
is Just as nice and amiable now al
any wolf in captivity. He was not
always noted for this. For three
years he 1eigned supreme as chief
bully OF the wolf dens in the New
York geological parks. Now a little
cub has taught him to behave him.
self, and when Mutt gets out of the
hospital he will be good.
Like most of the other wolves in
the park Mutt was born in captivity
His mother, Fannie, and his father
Husky, are two of the best natured
animals there. Mutt, however, showed
when he was cub that he had not
Inherited the amiability of his par.
ents. Instead, he was a replica OF
his grandfather, Gsowler. who was
captured in northern Canada and who
while still In the cub stage became
unpopular with the keepers ,.y
Most Of the wolves in the park are
as tame as house dogs. They like to
be petted by the keepers and know
their friends. They seldom snarl OF
growl, and do not show wolfish traits
until feeding time and then all they
do id to howl with Joy when they see
the Keepers coming with the meat.
When still cub Mutt showed that
he was going to be different. He be-
gan by fighting with his brothers and
sisters and then with all the others in
the dens. His temper and bullying
got worse as he grew older, and then
he was given the name which he now
bears.
A few days ago Mutt tried to show
that he was the ruler of the dens by
refusing to let the other wolves eat