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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
GUN . tx NHHES Ed.
Police Make First Arrest Under Ne.
Law-"1oter" Released.

the first arrest IN the city Tor carry
ing a dangerous concealed weapon
since the new law went into effect was
made Wednesday night when Officer
Charles Deiahoyde arrested John
Solum. who says he lives in Detroit. for
packing a 3s-caliber revolver. Solum
was carrying the revolver loaded and
had his pocket full of cartridges. In
Mayor Millard's court this forenoon
Solum said the revolver had been given
10 him. The mayor released him and
ordered him out of town. The new
state law classifes the crime as
felony. and aSss maximum penalty
Of a fine Of s 500 or Two years in the
penitentiary or both.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
Osborne High in Wednesday Shoot.

L. NJ. Osborne was high gun in the
regular weekly shoot Of the Iowa Gun
Club. held Wednesday evening. Os-
borne broke twenty out of possible
twenty-five in fifteen and ten-bird
event. AS Osborne had not been en-
tered in the shoot for the Stevens tro-
ply, John Bruce took the trophy for
the week. being second high. with
eighteen targets. Otto Schmidt was
third with seventeen.
Beginning next Wednesday the club
members will participate in a shoot
for Dupont trophy, sterling silver
watch fob. Fourteen guns were entered
in the shoot last evening.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
Eahsrt.. Grocery.

With each sack of -four purchased
for cash at my store this week / will
give twenty pounds of sugar for 81. OF
with each SO cash order. All 30-cen,
package coffee now 25 cents. Good
corn. four cans for o5 cents. Phone
66. 511 East Linn street. Egbert.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
LOCAL MaakETs.
Prices Paid 20 Farmers by Marsh all
town Merchants.

Reynolds & Sheldon quote the fol-
lowing prices in trade for country but
ter and eggs:
Buffers.
Eggs-1S.
The following prices are quoted by
Marshaiitow. dealers for the different
varieties Of farmers provisional. grain.
produce. and hides tallow. wool pelts
and skins.
GRAINS.
Benedict Flour and Feed Company
will pay the following prices at their
place Of business In this chg. subject
however. to market changes.
Corn-55
Oats-33.
HIDES. FUR AND WOOL
H. Willard. .SoP & Co.. quote the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
soIdiere, Homo coneert.

The program Of the band concert to
be given at the soldiers home tonight
will include the following numbers:
March, Denver Post. ..........Je Jewell
Overture, "Rosamunde" 49,. Schubert
Caprice. Original. ...... Mercadante
Cornet solo, Silver Threads Among the
Gold" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Master Willie Clement.
Gavotte. Echoes Des Bastions". king
Descriptive, "The Battle Of San Juan
Hill" .. Sweet
Selection, "Oh! Oh! Delphine". .Caryll
Two-step, BE My Baby Bundle Bee"
Marshall
National air
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24

Word was received from J. v. Bass.
who was called to Mitchell. Ind. last
Monday on account of the critical ILL
ness of his father. Aaron Bass, stating
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
Phone. for Reseusrs.

Phones for Reseusrs.
A telephone designed for the use OF
mine rescuers whose heads arc Gov.
cred with helmets while at work 10
operated by throat vibrations, the
transmitter being held at the throat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24

that his father had died Tuesday morn
ing before Mr.. Bass reached there. Mrs
E. w. Cooley, Of Waterloo. IL . daugh-
ter Of Mr.. Bass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24

Greek Athietss ve0staslana
The athletes Of ancient Greece
trained on . diet Of new cheese, ngs
and boiled grain. Their sole drink
was warm water, and meat was never
allowed them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
.FTlR1p. aEsTLsss. NsavoUs.

Take Hersford's Acid phosphate
To quiet and strengthen the nerves
and induce refreshing sleep It 10 es-
pecially recommended.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24

OHice and veterinary hospital 1917
1os East State. Assistant state veter.
marian. =. ]. NsimAn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
Ioe., Weather Record.

Eighty-two and 55 were the extremes
of temperature Wednesday, compared
with 90 and IS, the extremes OF the
day before, and SO and 76. the maximum
ana minimum CT year ago Wednes-
day. At o'clock this morning the
Temperature was 81, six degrees cooler
than at the same hour Wednesday
morning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
uuu.,ne Air Space.

lt y proposed to span 2.S0efoot
Gully ct Akron. Ohio. by the erection
% : series Of Industrial buildings, the
roofs OF which are to be used as
passageway.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24
PAINTERS BIG SALE
Mems Fine Suits in Fancy Mixtures
and Blue Serees at Prices That Mean
Big Saving to You.

All our fine, hand tailored suits have
been greatly reduced in price. Mems
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-24

National air.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

and IN the same latitude as northern
Maine. II is about 20 miles long and
from TO q miles wide
The remarkable success Of Prince Ed
ward Island keepers in handling and rear
ing the capricious royal black and silver
fox became generally known and verified
only 30 recently as the year 1910 or there
abouts: and the fact that the skins OF
these quasi-domesticatcd animals had
come 20 command the highest prices in
the London market. not infrequently
fetching from $3.50 10 5000. partly on the
basis OF an already accepted reputation.
came to light at about the same time.
The desire sprang up among Prince Ed
ward Island farmers 10 secure good fox
stock and engage in this lucrative indus
try, and a. the movement gathered head
way the original owners found In a short
time that they could gain larger sums by
selling their foxes for breeding purposes
than by shipping the pelts 10 England.
Tho domestlcation Of the black fox Of
Prince Edward Island commenced about
1855. OF nearly quarter Of century
ago. Fox pups found in the woods were
successfully bred IN captivity IN the vi
cinitv OF Kildare. Prince County. AT the
western end OF the island. The partner
snip OF Dalton and Oulton appears 10
have been the first ranch to build up a
purc silver black strain to considerable
numbers The industry progressed grad
uaIly and quietly, but between 1900 and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

1910 as many as six or eight fox farmers
were sending by mail to London firm
insured packages of pelts for auction at
the January and March fur sales each
winter The dealers were bound together
b. an informal gentemen's agreement not
10 sell 10 outside parties. but 20 maintain
a monopoly, popularity known as the com
bine."
The. inside history OF the manner in
which the combine was finally broken is
not definitely known. the story most cur
rent being to the effect that young rela-
tives OF some OF the original breeders
secured stock without making the pledge
against outside sales. In any event, the
first outside sale appears 10 have been
made In December. 1893, by +. +. Tuplin,
Of New Amman. to r. I. Holman, OF
Summerslde consisting Of three pairs OF
black foxes said TO have sold for $l5,Vo'
Prices OF $1,000 to $500 are paid for
pairs which have demonstrated unusual
fertility. 4 recent sale at $4,000 for a
tws-year-old pair has just been rumored
very credibly. but with an accompanying
guarantee OF fertility one Of the pioneer
ranchmen states that he has refused an
offer Of $4,000 for his establishment
coupled with a salary offer for term
of wears for his own services to oper-
ate II.
Despite this extraordinary boom there
seems to be complete confidence among
both the breeders OH the island and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

resulted in the caterpillar pulling trees
I'D at the average of one tree minute
or three hundred trees on the first test
day.
That night the engineers sent tele-
graph message ordering two additional
caterplllars of 60 horsepower each. ana
these are now at work. About 800 acres
on the outskirts OF the forest have already
been cleared.
As the depths of the forest are en-
countered natural obstacles become more
numerous The daily operations of each
machine al present result in the pulling
up of $50 trees. making an average OF 400
trees Il day for the three caterpillars.
The difficulties which present them
selves as the heart Of the forest Is en-
tered include the increasing number Of
larger trees that are very close 10 one
another. and the great amount OF debris
that results when these giants are made
10 fall. their huge roots and conoples
mingling with the dead limbs and rottns
trunks of trees that have not lived to see
the havoc that caterpillar can produce
when put TO IL.
The machines have been pulling trees Of
all sizes. from four inches 10 two feet
or more in diameter. with power bitches.
To do this each machine consumes twenty
five gallons of gasolene "A day. Experts
assert that the work could scarcely be
done by teams without the cooperation Of
mechanical stump pullers. The charac-
ter of much OF the land Is DOGGY, so that
ordinary wheel tractors could not, II ia
said. Ice employed with good results
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

chimes operated up and down the Cascade
Range in good weather and bad, hauling
supplies aid !abOrers through regions
that ordinarily would be considered as al
most inaccessible and then turned in and
did the eXcavating and grading work
without q wnimper OF discomfort.
The investigation also proved to our en-
gneers that such machines were the chief
reliance in the construction OF Western
railroads and Of irrigating and reclama-
ton systems in the twentieth century
occupation OF putting deserts in the dis
card.
But when the caterpillar tractor was
brought 10 Ashokan for the purpose Of
pulling trees the machine met a situation
new 20 Il On tine supposition that an
apparatus that could pull up stumps In
Washington could, If sufficiently urged,
pull up a tree that had been spared the
wooimans axe. the contractors p'ir-
chased 4j-horsepower caterpillar and
went 10 Jersey City one fine day not
long ago TO see what 1t might be in APP
pearance as il came into town on a fiat
car
IL wasn't long before quite a crowd
gathered. as crowds will when new
sight is to be seen free Of charge. while
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

dealers in London and elsewhere that tho
industry has a prosperous future. Its
permanence must, OF course, deperd
first, upon a continuance of the present
demand for the skins, and, second, upon
the ability of the breeders TO maintain
both the vitality and the fur quality Of
their stock.
IL is pointed out that the acceptance OF
this fur as the choicest and most val.
liable is time honored and not vogue,
and that it's worth is almost as fully
standardized as that of the diamond
among precious stones. AS in the case
of diamonds, moreover, the supply seems
TO have slight connection with the price.
Speaking in general terms Of the prices
of the pelts. it may be said that no
silver" pelt has been catalogued at less
than 500, that light silvers bring any,
where up to $500, and that dark slvers
mr. blacks vary according to the individual
excellence of the fur and according to the
need of the furrers who may be bidding
for them to complete sets already partly
assembled.
between $500 and s2.9o0-was a a second
sale. the island owner having originally
received only about 81, 400 for the pelt
The highest price ever received by an
island breeder was s2,69s and was paid in
1910
As to maintaining the quality OF the
island pelts there Is equal optimism. Al
though the last wild fox on the island is
supposed to have been killed early in 1911,
the strain has been perpetuated and even
improved, il is claimed, in the captive
royal blacks there. The temperature and
humidity on the island are happy me-
dunn between the intense cold and the
moist, dull weather Of Newfoundland.
Labrador and Alaska, and the warmer,
dry weather of regions further south
The far northern furs are said to be
coarse and shaggy, while the turs pro-
duced in the northern states of the United
States are said to be light and thin.
Prince Edward Island possesses another
superior qualification in its soil and geo.
logical formation. The climate OF Nova
Scotia, Newfoundland and parts of New
Brunswick is as favorable to the devei-
opment of black fox fur as Is that Of
Prince Edward Island, but their soil and
underlying rock is not. The presence OF
lime in the earth in which the fox bur-
rows has a tendency to burn out the fcr'
remove the oil. and render the pelt harsh
I'm texture and dull in color. Prince Ed
ward Island is fortunate In having an al
most wholly non-alkaline soil, and the
triassic formation, which is responsible
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

still resting on its fiat freight car power
was turned on. The operator swung the
caterpillar around on it's so to speak.
hind legs, and permitted il, i'm a manner
of saying, forelegs 10 plump down on the
freight station platform. No planks were
provided for IL to travel on it's journey
from the floor of the freight car to the
floor ~ the station IL simply stepped
down-there is no other way TO express II
and then IL proceeded without ado To
run along the platform on It's own re-
volving trucks.
The pilot rode in the machine over a
mile Of railroad tracks. switches. etc.
and then. like Il trained elephant, the
caterpillar stepped up on to another fiat
car for transmission over the Ulster q
Delaware Railroad.
Arrived at Browns Station the machine
again descended from the freight car and
climbed the hills TO the Olive Bridge Dam
camp.
Tire next day there were "A number OF
experts present to see the behavior OF
the caterpillar when tested in the tre-
mendous undertaking of pulling up trees
by their roots. A cable was attached TO
the base Of a giant oak. The machine
took position two hundred feet from its
adversary. A signal was given. lmme-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02
YANKNG ASOKAN TREES UP BY lF4ER XVI

Boggy land however, does not AFFECT the
caterpillar type of tractor.
BY ordinary wheel tractor is meant the
round wheel type. They are OF eouaI
horsepower and will do great deal OF
farm work in highly satisfactory man
ner where the land is level and not 100
soft
The caterpillar has round wheels, out
they run on two wide trucks, one on eacn
side Of the machine, and these trucks re-
volve with the wheels passing over anu
under them. precisely in the manner OF
belt in a machine shop.
These revolving belt tracks are oolons
in form, about ten feet long. When their
front end strikes a hole or depression II
descends crosses IL and winds up on the
other side The front ends thereupon De-
ing again on level ground haul the ma
chine out of the hole, never for an IN
slant getting stuck in the mire.
II the hole is a deep one. the driver
merely uses a lever. raises the forward
wheel set on the end Of a long bar, OF
tongue. swings il across the hole 10 the
other side and then passes the machine
over on its oblong trucks. which form
bridge.
Behind these caterpillars in the Asho-
kan district men are busy these days
saving up the trees into timber and cord'
wood lengths. which are hauled away oy
cable carriers and teams. As soon as the
caterpillars have pulled out all the trees
and stumps, they will turn around ana
haul all the timber and cordwood lett
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

the machines were afraid that the trac-
tors might find pulling up by the roots ihe
trees of the Catskill Mountains very dit-
ferent from hauling Western harvests to
the local freight station and going back
to the farm again with a load of supplies.
So they besitated. The city engineering
corps Of the Board Of Water Supply had.
however, gathered certain data as 10 the
versatility and reliability of the machine.
Upon investigation these engineers had
learned that twenty-eight caterpillars had
enormously cut down the cost OF con-
struction Of the Los Angeles mountain
water system Of reservoirs and aque-
ducts. On that job those twenty-eight
awkward appearing but competent ma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02
Certain Dwelers in Prince Edward Island Are Having
Marked Success in Rearing the Royal Black and the
Silver Fox-The Choicest Black Fox Pelts Bring
$4,000 Each, or Even More, and PAIRS for
Breeding Have Been Sold for $4,000.

EANY thousands of warm. heavy
MS coats. constructed of the skins
ANA of northern animals and having
the fur side inside or outside. as the case
may be. are sold in New York every year
70 say nothing OF the multiple number oil
fur sets" sold to women and girls Tor
more purely decorative purposes. Most OF
these coats are made from pelts which
because of their wide prevalence, the
coarseness of their hair, their imperma-
nance, or their Jack of attractive colorlns'
bring their prices within the reach oil
persons who have not been called upon
to testify before the Pujo committee. but
there are other fuTs which most mere
mortals have perhaps never seen and only
heard Of. because such garments are
affected by persons whose wealth or an
cestors have made il necessary for them
to wear only the best. or such is the
ermine. without which certain kings
emperors and other pOtentates would De
unable 10 perform their regal functions.
So great has been the slaughter among
the animals bearing the more beautiful
and costly furs OF recent years that gov
ermcntal protection has been resorted 10
TO prevent extinction of species. come
OF the kinds thus affected are the saLlc'
baum marten and the more Valu-
able foxes. Chief among the last named
are the silver and black foxes. for whose
Delts there has been from time immem0-
rial a consistent and steady demand by
the royal families Of Europe and by
persons of the highest wealth and fash
ion.
The highest price ever recorded for any
p,It of a fur-bearing animal was paid
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

about 1865 for black fox skin from
Prince Edward Island. and is said to
have been between $500 and $500. This
record price is. OF course. partly due TO
the scarcity of the black fox, but the in
trinsic beauty and attractiveness of black
fox fur is also very great
\ perfect skin has a foundation of jet
black with a sprinkling of hairs on the
tack and rumps which are silver gray
for 4 portion of the distance between the
root and the tip of the hair. The eN-
tremity Of the tail is always pure white
The brilliancy and sheen Of fine pelt
give IT notable richness. I'm fact ii has
beer estimated by furriers that if black
fox skins We're as plentiful as those of
the red fox they would still command
from so to 500. while red fox skins are
quoted at s. to s. for ordinary specimens,
and from Sl2 to SIS for those of Prince
Edward Island. in current commercial
price lists. The cost Of enough raw
skins To make fur coat may be guessed
when it IS stated that the average weight
of . healthy animal is only eleven or
/ twelve pounds.
a.. This remarkable demand for black ioX
/ fur lends Il peculiar interest to the source
: of the supply and to the conditions sur
rounding It's production. the industry u
confined chiefly to Prince Edward Island.
II is also interesting to know that here III
the smallest of the Canadian provinces
this industry is at the present time under
going a phenomenal expansion. Prince
| Edward Island lies i'm a sheltered part OF
! st. Lawrence Bay. due north of the neck
of Iani that joins the big peninsula OF
! Nova Scotia TO tine Canadian mainland
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02

~ONETHING new in the matter %
pulling up trees by their roots IS
~ now i'm progress at the site of the
Ashokan Reservoir Eight square miles
of forest are being cleared at the rae
of from one to seven trees minute
Walt Whitman sighed because he coulA
not remain steadfast like the trees. he
sang his rhymeless songs before the IN
vention OF the caterpillar gas tractor
IL a tree remains rooted 10 It's spot al
ter caterpillar gas tractor has gone
through a forest it is because the cater
pillar gas tractor has had reasons OF It's
own for passing il by Those trees II
wants it pulls up. roots and all. And that
is why the Ashokan contractors and en-
efneers think so much Of this machine
that they have brought several of them
all the way from California.
To yank out, trunks and roots. the trees
that compose forest eight square miles
in extent would. II old methods were fol
lowed. require several years 10 accom-
plish. Cp-to-date methods enable enel-
ueers TO uproot hundreds of trees day
Gas tractors have been used on western
farms with much success, but at Ashokan
are being utilized for the first time in
Eastern engineering operations. Cater
pillar tractors have dragged out thou
sands Of stumps on deforested areas IN
the State Of Washington. Before then the
stump had TO be burned out, blown out
with dynamite or pulled out by mechan-
ical stump pullers. operated by donkey
engines.
A firm Of contractors in this city had
undertaken t. excavate the Ashokan
Reservoir for $4,000 and salvage. That
Is. they were 80 have all the timber and
frewood of the great forest. They are
said to have disposed OF the choicest
specimens for use I'm making billiard ia
bles and cues.
Tine caterpillar gas tractors had "a
Western reputation for tirelessncss and
efficiency. especially as men Of all work
on the great farms out there. A CO.
horsepower tractor will, ii Is said, cheer
fully perform the obligations OF eighty
two horses. II works, If requested.
twenty-four hours a day No Sunday
school book can teach il anything, it is
asserted I'm the matter OF utilizing 10
the full each fleeting moment one such
machine on an SO00-acre grain farm has,
IL Is said. done all the work Of ploughing
harvesting and then hauling the pro-
duct 10 the railway station.
The caterpillar type Of tractor crawls
on its own trucks, works steadily on in
storms, over soft land. deep mud or shall
low water areas: is oblivious TO holes OF
not over eight feet in diameter; makes
scarcely any impression on soft surfaces;
leaves no ruts and tramples down nothing
OF value.
These AT least, are among the fair
reports that enterprising press agents ana
gentlemen who sell On commission, eX-
penses guaranteed. brought TO the East
respecting the capabilities OF the caterpil-
lar gas tractors
Eastern contractors who had never seen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02
CaEerplAlsy" ko1'0s0S E5opuS Creek,
177Vz,a e~,1ke/' feed for Reservoir II

diately the caterpillar tegan TO move iur-
ther away from that particular tree
The tree showed early indications of SUI
fering from terrible strain. then IL leaped
into the air. exposing every root to It's
tips. and finally Hoped over. as Il did so
throwing up clouds Of dirt and stones.
The caterpillar kept on going forward.
Another yank of few feet and the
dirt and stones In the roots. which form
a solid mass when tree Is blown over
by the wind. were shaken clear. and now
-. the giant lay PROSTATE. whole and clean
from it's roots to the tips of its canopy.
a few moments later three smaller
trees were pulled up without IA struggle;
then four. then five, then six. and finally
seven trees standing close together were
attached To the cable and the caterpillar
jerked them all out of the ground to-
gether as a gardener uproots bunch OF
weeds.
The engineers next ordered the machine
taken to the edge OF the forest where
there were no obstacles. A live-hour ties,
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