Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-15
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ing, dipped into its pockets and recov-
cred two watches, his own and an
other. The man at the table said not
word and DR.. Peel sat down again
and finished his meal Then he adver-
tised for the owner of the other time.
piece.
DR.. Frederick +. Friedman, who
claims to have discovered a cure for
tuberculosis, has made repeated state
ments to the effect that he does not
intend to keep his method secret. Tt
had been current that DR.. Friedman
planned to grow rich through his dis
covery, which is now undergoing a
: thorough testing. He is now in the
United States.
Still men explore the Arctic. With
ialmar Stefansson, who discovered the
blonde Eskimos, is planning to start
for the north next May. He is not try.
ing to find the North Pole and will at
tempt to secure results purely geo.
graphical and scientific. The expedi.
tion expects to return to civilization
in 1916.
A news story has it that 36,O00,000
lady-bugs have been captured for ship
ment by the California State Insectary
In NJ - ott hn
The lady-bugs prey or the melon aphis,
pest that destroys new vines. The
bugs are valuable to hop growers, also.
A California woman had her savings,
$1,000, in a bag and her child dropped
the money into bucket of chloride of
lime, where it lay two days before be-
ing discovered. Nothing was left on
the bills to indicate their denomination
and the unfortunate woman is not
thought likely to be reimbursed by the
government.
A pearl necklace worth $4,000 has
been returned to Mrs. A. A. Sprague,
II, of Chicago to whom it had been
given by Marshall Field. The necklace
disappeared mysteriously on a Pullman
car last September between Boston and
Chicago. The police of dozen cities
searched for the gems, while the five.
year-old daughter of night Waterman
was wearing them. The girls father,
coming home from work one morning,
noticed the rope of pearls in a pile of
sweepings from Pullman cars. He
thought it was castoff trinket of no
particular value and took it home. The
child wore the pearls until jeweler
CHANGED to see them and informed her
father of their value. Then he adver-
tised his find. He was given hand
some reward.
Frank James, brother of Jesse James
and with him once an outlaw, is re-
ported to be dying somewhere in the
mountains of Idaho He is in hiding,
but not from the officers of the law.
He is in the final stages of consump.
tion and shrinks from his fellow.men
on account Of his condition.
G. d. Hale, pitcher for the baseball
nine Of the Northwestern university,
lost two fingers from his pitching hand
while working at lathe the other day
and had them back in place within a
few minutes. The fingers were washed
and sewed back on Immediately after
the accident. There is hope that he
may be able to play ball this spring
He is an engineering student and last
season made good record with the
Northwestern nine.
Professor Frederick Starr Of the de-
partment of anthropology of the Uni
versity of Chicago says that some time
in the future hair, teeth and little toes
will be missing from members of the
human race. "Predigested food, hats
and shoes have rendered hair, teeth and
little toes useless" he is quoted as
having declared, "and the time will
come when the man, woman or child
possessing these will be curiosity"