davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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to kill 100 ground squirrels without
experiencing any i'll effects.

to kill 100 ground squirrels without
experiencing any i'll effects.
A member of the Biologicsl Survey
in Montana, in January, 1923, con
Quoted a feeding experiment with
s%trychnine poisoned grain on sharp
tailed grouse. In these tests, the
birds were given a quantity of the
grain and some of them ate as much
as 300 kernels of wheat which had
been poisoned in the proportion of
one ounce of strychnine to ~ pounds
of grain. These birds were fell the
poison for four days and at the end
of the time appeared to be in per
fectly normal health. They did, how
ever, register a strong dislike to the
poisoned grain. The would pick it
up and drop it time after time before
eating it. On removing the pc soued
grain and substituting the clean grain
they ate greedily.
In August, 1925, a member of The
Biological Survey working on rabbit
poisons near Douglas, Wyoming,
placed 81 bats about corn and bean
fields where sage chickens were feed
ing in great numbers. They ate all
the grain, but no birds were killed.
All of these tests seem to prove
, 1926-04-28
Cowboy Debaters
Return from Tour
of East and South

The Cowboy "ten gallon" hat is a
valuable means of obtaining publicity
IN eastern and southern circles but
the western hat with a University of
wyoming debater underneath is
doubly effective in advertising Wyo-
ming and her state university, accord
ing to Debate Coach H. P. Constans,
who accompanied two members of the
Cowboy debate squad on a recent for
ensic tour through the middle west
and as far east as the Atlantic coast.
Alfred Pence of Pine Bluffs and Fred
Lebert of Laramie, undergraduates at
the state university, have just COM
pleted a debate our in which they
met p universities and colleges on
four different questions, one of which
was selected twelve hours before the
debate and resulted in a victory for
the Cowboys over the strong forensic
team of Penn State College. The
Wyoming men defeated the Penn
State representatives by a vote of the
Penn State student body.
Among the features of the tour
east was the trip to Washington, D.
c., where Coach Constans and his
men visited with President Coolidge
at the White House and visited also
with Congressman and Mrs. Chas. E.
Winter and with Senators Warren and
Kendrick. While in Washington the
men were house guests of Congress
man and Mrs. Winter and although
they were busy meeting social en-
gagements, they found time to debate
picked teams frim three u%niversities
at the capital city. OF the three de-
bates, the Wyoming men won two and
lost one by a vote of two judges to
one.
Of the twenty-one collegiate insti-
buttons met during the tour east and
south, ten We're ~no-decision and elev-
en- were decision contests. Of the
eleven decision contests, ore at Chi
cago is yet to be decided by a vote OF
the radio fans who heard Wyoming
and Chicago-Kent College IF Law de-
bate over a Chicago radio broadcast
ing station; one was declared a tie
and five We're won.
Alter Pence is a Sophomore who
is experiencing his second year as u
collegiate debater while Lebert is a
junior viii is debating this year for
the first time.
, 1926-04-28
Lander Trail to
be Reconstructed

4 The old Lander Trail, used by pio-
hers of 1870 over the Salt Ridge
ange of the Rock mountains between
he Star and Green River valleys,
hitch has been impossible for n score
II years, is to be reconstructed.
A Commissioners of Lincoln and Sub
counties and officials of the ma
ltonal forest service from Ogden,
Utah, at a recent conference, decided
D appropriate the major part of the
, 1926-04-28
Effect of Strychnine
on Game Birds
(By Albert NJ. Day.

Farmers and ranchers, together
with workers in the U. S. department
of agriculture, are often severely cri-
ticized by sportsmen and others for
the distribution of grains poisoned
with strychnine, for the control of
ground squirrels, prairie dogs, etc
These criticisms are based upon the
assumption that game birds are killed
as readily as rodents, and that the
decrease in game birds in any locality
may be the result of poisoning oper-
atoms.
With a view to securing definite
information on this subject, the bur
eau of biological survey of the U. S.
department of agriculture has long
conducted tests, feeding various poi
sons to the different species OF game
birds, to learn more on this particular
point.
These tests have shown that the
gallinaceous birds, as a group, pos
sess a certain immunity to strychnine
poisoning. This group of birds in
clude grouse, partridge, quail, ptar-
migan, prairie hens, sage grouse,
~pheasants and wild turkeys. Many
workers have reported that birds of
this group have been seen feeding on
s~trychnine poisoned grain, bus that
none have ever been killed by it.
In 1918. a member of the biological
survey in California established def
initely the fact that barley poisoned
according TO the Surveys standard
ground squirrel formula in use there
had no material effect on the album
dance Of the valley quail under ma
tural conditions. Quail were plenti-
full and remained so in areas that
were heavily poisoned and in which
the poisoned grain was renewed every
two or three days as it disappeared.
Ground squirrels were exterminatAd
but not a single dead quail was found;
neither were any observed that man
Tested symptoms of strychnine poi
soning. Birds subsequently shot
showed that the quail had been eating
the barley, though to a limited extent.
Quail were then captured and fed a
mixture of barley containing strych-
nine. One adult ate 1926 kernels OF
the poisoned barley in "a hours with
no sign Of in effects. This grain
would have killed ~ ground squirrels,
each three or more times greater in
bulk than the BIRD.
More recent tests conducted by the
California S~portsmcn's clubs on Cal
ifornia quail su~bstantiate the earlier
experiments. A group of 10 were fed
oats, wheat and barley poisoned with
~strychnine. Varying amounts were
fed different birds. The most any
bird consumed was 200 kernels OF
wheat which contained over one-half
grain Of strychnine. This bird ihowcd
absolutely no III effects of the poison.
In the tests. not a single bird showed
even the slightest symptom OF stryeh-
nine poisoning.
In nm experiment conducted by the
chief game guardian. Saskatchewan,
Canada, IL was demonstrated that a
prairie chicken CONFIRMED n quantity
OF ~strychnine poisoned grain sufficient
, 1926-04-28
CALAMITY" JANE
AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT

II the following from the New
York Times, under the caption, "Tex-
an Owns Purse of Red Calamity
Jane" has reference to the Calamity
Jane of Black Hills fame. it shows
how a writer so far from the scenes
can likewise be far from the facts:
"W. H. Mease, an ex-soldier of San
Antonio, Texas. has a beaded bag
that was once the property of Cal
amity Jane the notorious gunwoman
of pioneer days in the far west. Cal
amity James were as thick as prairie
dogs in those troubled times of Indian
raids and rangers. According to
Chief Sitting Bull, from whom the
soldier received the bag, the veritable
Calamity Jane was not a white WON
an, but a half breed. Instead of be-
ing friendly to the white settlers, this
Calamity Jane was one of the spies
sent into the camp of covered wagon
pilgrims at Mountain Meadow, Utah,
before their massacre at the instiga-
ton and by the help of the Utah
whites.
"He money bag is of deer skin,
long and narrow and tapering to a
point at the bottom. where it ter
inmates in a tassel of fine many-col-
ored beads. The bag is covered on
one side with small beads of pink,
blue, brown, green, red and white in
an intricate pattern. 1t closes with
a flap that has a hole in the center.
Through this a string of dec skin
passes to tie with another strip at
tached to the top of the bag. 1t vas
worn tied around the waist with two
long strips of deer skin.
at still retains the odor of the
smoke of the greenwood fires of the
Indian villages. Sitting Bull said
the bag "a form by Jane when she
spent the night with the ill-starred
pioneers, and it dangled at her side
next day when she led the Indians
to Mountain Meadow"
Was Not a Gunwoman
That celebrated frontier woman of
Black Hills fame, known as Calamity
Jane, vas not a gunwoman in any
sense of the word, as is well known
by Sheridan people who knew her and
her record in the early days of Dead
wood and in the boom towns that fol-
lowed the building of the Northwest
ern railroad in eastern Wyoming.
Loyal to Friend
Notwithstanding her trough and
ready ways" which Were largely in
keeping with the trend of her time,
Calamity Jane possessed many admir-
able qualities, notable among which
was her loyalty to a friend. Expressed
in street parlance, she was a good
scout" and would share her last dime
with a friend. Gratitude was a fea-
ture in her makeup which she rili-
giously endeavored to maintain.
Calamity was White
This celebrated Deadwood woman
was not a mixed blood - she was
white as to race and largely as to
principle. Calamity Jane was not
even given to associating with any
but white people. She was never a
spy for the Indians and history does
not record her a a traitor to new
settlers in the west.
Died in Deadwood
Calamity died as she lived, and be-
meath the signing pines in the Dead
wood cemetery an obscure mound and
an unpretentious headstone mark the
last resting place of a typical char
acter of the old west that was. The
same cemetery also is the long home
of Wild Bill, a real gunman and gam
bier on the frontier and a firm friend
of ome of Calamity's fate. -Sher-
idan Journal.
, 1926-04-28

funds accruing from the Wyoming
National forest to the counties for
the purpose of rebuilding the trail.
The estimated cost of the highway
construction is SIPS 900, and the work
is to start this year. The funds from
the forest, Allotted to the two coun-
ties for the next six years will be
used for the highways construction.
, 1926-04-28

Houses must have three coats of
paint to maintain beauty and preserve
the surface, say builders. Same of the
girls must get their beauty hints from
lumber magazines.
, 1926-04-28

Mother Earth Is reported having
her weight determined. Her method
OF reducing consists in application OF
telegraph, telephones and radio, fly
ing machines and the like. She In g
gone down rapidly Of late.
, 1926-04-28
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
Concerning the publishing Of
your TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

EGINNING with the next issue
of your telephone directory, The
Mountain States Telephone &
Telegraph Company will assume
complete control of the publica-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
S.P. DENIES ANY
PLAN OF CHANGE
OF MANAGEMENT

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan; 2s,-In a
signed article in the Examiner, oscar
H. Ternbach, financial editor of the
paper, says there is report "emanat-
ing from sources that are usually
we'll informed1. of an impending
dhange ins the management of the
southern Pacific railroad.
The gist of the article is that
President william Sproule contem-
plates retirement from active direc-
ton of the roads affairs. This, the
editor says is without official con-
firmation He goes on to say that
there is speculation in financial cir
cles as to the probable successor Of
Sproule of such. action and That
Paul Shoup, executive vice president,
is first choice of the guessers.
There is some speculation as to the
possibility of an official of the El
Paso and southwestern railroad fig
uring for the position, the article
says. The latter Nroad recently was
merged with the Southern Pacific.
Shoup is president of the Pacific
Oil company which is in process OF
merging with the Standard Oil COM
pany of California as we'll as exc
cutive vice president of the Southern
Pacific.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
A Banquet That Was
Almost A Tragedy

Three years ago at banquet
was stricken with acute Indigestion.
Two doctors worked over me for an
hour before 1 came to. 1 had had
severe collie attacks before, but moth
ing like that. No doctors or medicine
gave me permanent help until a
friend, who was at the banquet, ad
vised me to take course of Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy, which 1 did with
wonderful results" It is simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal mucus from the intes-
tinal tract and allays .the inflamma
tion which causes practically all
stomach, liver and, intestinal ailments,
including appendicitis. One dose will
convince or money refunded. Phelps
Dodge Mercantile Co, and druggists
verywhere.-Adv.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
REpoRT IS DENIED

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S.-Publish-
ed reports that a change in the ad-
ministratfon of the Southern Pacific
company, affecting President William
Sprouna and Executive. Vice President
Paul Shoup, is in contemplation We're
said to be utterly without founda-
tion in a statement issued from the
companys headquarters here.
Merely the revival of an old rum
or" the statements said. Such
changes. are in the hands of the
board of directors and it is safe to
say that they are not being contem-
plated in any form.
President Sproule, who is in Los
Angeles, was to be retired in favor of
Shoup, the report said. shoup is in
New York.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
interpretations Conflict

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-The re-
port from El Paso that the ban had
been lifted on foreign ownership of
mining properties in the prohibited
frontier zone of Mexico is seen here
as confusion in the Interpretation
of section of the New Mexican land
laws
The law provides that foreigners
may hold mining or oil concessions
or own stock in Mexican corporations
holding such concessions, but only
if the foreigner. valves all right to
appeal to his government and con-
sents to consider himself in all mat
ters relating to such property as II
he were a Mexican citizen.
1t is the provision of the new law
that requires this arrangement by
American citizens, with the Mexican
government.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
Mining Men in Quandry
as to Mexican Law
CONTINUED From Page ore

lated Press dispatch from Ell Paso.
The announcement that the ban
had been lifted, was also made in
telegram to a Juarez mining company
from its agent in Villa Ahumada,
says the dispatch The telegram said
the decree had been received. there
and has been posted as required by
law in the mining agency and that
the agency was issuing and receiving
announcements under its provisions.
copy of the decree received by
mail was construed that the contro
versy had been definitely settled
Mining men were jubilant and were
preparing to enter Mexico in large
numbers to develop properties which
have long lain idle as tae result of
the enactment of the zone law.
Mining men from villa Ahumeda
tell of having seen the decree, duly
signed, sealed and attestcd, posted in
the mining agency and vouch for it's
authenticity. The mining agency cor,
responds to the federal land office in
the United States,
Miners Disappointed
! That his attention had been called
to the reported decree, which was.
generally believed to be authentic by
mining men, and that a feeling of
renewed confidence had been stimu-
lated by the supposed revoking of
the "anti-a alien law among mine OPP
orators along the border, was stated
today by Miles M. Carpenter, presi-
dent of the Tucson chamber of mines.
IF the reports of the revoked Mex
lean land law are without foundation
/ mining. interests operating within the
zone Will be naturally disappointed
as the changing of the law would
1 mean that American mining men
would be able to so into the most
convenient parts of Mexico and carry
! on operations as in the past" said
Carpenter. There are many Amer
! ican-o operated mines close tc the bor-
Ger and if these operations could con-
! tinuc unhampered it would serve as
a great stimulation to increase min
ing. below the international line.
/ "While L have heard Of no proper
ties being actually closed down as
result of the prohibitive law, do
know of several interests that were
preparing to enter Mexico but have
changed their plars because of the
new law Because of the fact tha
Pima county has approximately 14V
miles of land along the. border, with
numerous good mining properties
across the line the matter is one of
lunouestioned Importance to the min
| inc interests of this county,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
CalifOrnians Seek to
Hurry River Compact
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agricultural areas are facing ruin
through failure to receive needed
water supply; growing cities of
southern California are facing acute
shortage of water for domestic pur-
noses: onerous tax burdens are i'm
nosed on American FARMERS because
or privileges enjoyed by Mexican
narticipation in the management of
the present Mexican canal 10000
Americans are exposed to constant
danger of devastating floods and
the whole water consumption ques-
tion of the state, whose relief ex-
ISIS in being able to obtain water
for Southern California from the
Colorado river, thus abating de-
n,ands upon northern water re-
sources, is being held back and So
luton prevented
These conditions have tended to
create a desperate situation in the
regions affected, and, because of the
water consumption question involved,
all California is deeply sensible that
an emergency exists which requires
immediate relief and that this re-
lief can come only through favorable
acIon by congress on the Swing
Johnson bill
Therefore we, the following mem
bers of the senate of California
representing northren senatorial dis
tricts do hereby respectfully petition
both houses of congress that they
prevent needless delays in the con-
sideration of the bill and that they
do not permit amendment OF the
measure designed TO weaken it's
power to accomplish it's remedial
purposes, and that they enact it is
speedily as possible"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
ROW IN CROP coNFAB

DES aMOINES La, Jan. %. = The
serenity with which deliberation of
the interstate crop conference had
been conducted all day was disrupted
late today when w. L. Drummond of
Kansas City, Mo-, chairman of the
board of governors of the American
Farm congress- arose and charged that
the meeting was not representative of
the eleven states represented. This
is meeting of men devoted to one
bill and one side of the question"
he cried. His statement threw the
meeting into an uproar and a dozen
men were on their feet shouting for
chance to be heard.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
u. 6. COOPERATIVE MARKET
ASSOCIATION. PLANNET

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-A bill was
introduced in the house today by
Representative Beck, republican, Wis.
consin, to provide for Incorporating
United States agricultural co-opera-
tive marketing association. The or
ganization would be without capital
stock and would be controlled by
the producers of crops. The treas
ury would advance. the association
$40, 100000 to be repaid within ten
years. The association would dispose
of crops and otherwise aid the farm
ers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
MERCURIo CREW RESCUED

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2S.-News of
the recent rescue at sea of the cap
tain and crew of seven men of the
schooner Mercurio, who had been
adrift in a canoe for SO hours with
out food and water reached New
Orleans today with the arrival of the
steamship Honduras, under charter
to the United Fruit company.
Captain John Larsen OF the Hon
duras said that several of the Mer-
curio sailors were crazed by their
ordeal when rescued The schooner
was out of Key West in ballast for
Bonaca Island when she sprang a
leak and sank 50 miles north of Util-
Ia Island. James Phillip, the Mercu-
rios captain and his crew did not
have, time to put provisions in the
canoe before escaping.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
Consul Scouts Story of
Need of Certificate

Continued From Page One)
than that for having the photos
made.
Those desiring to apply for identi-
fication cards must 30 so through
the Mexican immigration officials at
Naco, Sonora, and must bring with
them certificate of residence, show
ing one year or more of residence
within the limits of the district, ac-
cording to Lockwood.
The cards will contain the follow
ing information, in addition to the
photograph to be pasted on the
front side: nationality, occupation,
shape of head, color of hair, skin
and eyes, and other details, and
must be signed by the Mexican
agent,
The length of time the new orders
will be in effect or the reason for
their enforcement at this time, was
not explained Lockwood stated.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
Senate to Consider
Tax Measures
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he did not think this could be ac-
complished.
At the same time, Senator King
of Utah, a democratic member of
the committee filed a minority re-
port disagreeing with the comprom-
Use reached by the other members
Of the committee. He proposed
total tax reduction ofa $500, 900, 900
declaring the 2O0,O0o,oO above the
committee provisions could B6 at
tanned by cutting down appropria-
tions to that extent He scored the
administrations failure to enforce
economy"
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi,
another democrat on the committee
introduced amendments proposing
repeal of the automobile and all
remaining stamp taxes t~nN &At3
No Breakfast Complete without
The DisDaIch
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
ToMATo CRoP FROSTED

NOGALES, Jan. 2S.-Heavy damage
was done by recent frosts in the
state of Sonora, Mexico, it was stat
ed in reports reaching here. William
A. Scatena, tomato grower and ex
porter today received word that at
Huatabampo in the southern part Of
Sonora that the loss was about S10),-
900, the frost destroying nearly the
total crop of 625 acres of tomatoes
and a small acreage of other crops.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
PRINCE OF WALES
BADLY INJURED AS
HIS MOUNT FALLS
lRu Dispatch A. P. W:rel

LONDON, Jan. 28.-IWhIIe rldIng 10
hounds today in Leicestershire, the
Prince of Wales fell and fractured
his left collar bone. 1t was the sec
ond accident in two days. Yesterday
at Melton Mowhray, his horse fell
dead under him, though the prince
was not hurt.
sAfter his arm and shoulder had
been strapped up, the prince started
back for London. An X-ray showed
the fracture to be a simple one and
not likely to interfere with his rid
ing for long.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
GEORGE HOBART ILL

CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan. 2S.-George
V. Hobart, author and playwright is
critically i'll in hospital here and
may not live through the night, ply
sicians at the institution said tonight
Hobart, whose home is in Ventnor
N. j., came here on a visit two weeks
ago in poor health and entered the
hospital almost Immediately. His
condition is ascribed to be a general
breakdown.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
Winter Storms Sweep
Land and Sea
Continued From Page one)

area are fighting mountainous seas.
Rains and SHOWS fell over Nevada,
Idaho, Eastern Oregon and Washing
ton and northern California.
Heavy snowfall occurred in the
Siskiyous and Sierra Nevada noun
tains. At noon the snow turned to
rain but at night the weather turned
colder and the rain changed to
heavy snowfall
Above Dunsmuir Calf the snow
fall measured five inches.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
AntinOe Crew
Rescued by Roosevelt
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The report that ship, believed
to be the olympic, was in distress,
was telephoned to an indianapolis
newspaper early today by a radio
amateur of Columbus, Ind He said
the sos message had been picked UP.
on his receiving set by w. d. Doo1ey,
who described himself as former
aviation officer Dooloy said the
signals were very clear that the
message was addressed to station
NINA Arlington, Naval radio station,
and that he was certain the message
was signed "Olympic"
This report, howkver, soon was
discredited in New York, from Lon
don, and from the captain of the
Olympic, and fears for the safety
of the hundreds of passengers on the
big ship, aroused by the amateur
radio rerort weres laid to rest.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-29
Aqua Prieta Business Men
and Officials to Fight Plan

Continued From Page One)
lutely against any renewal of gamb-
ling of any kind They poln. to the
trouble experienced when gambling
formerly was permitted in Aqua
Prieta, and are firm in their inten-
tion to prevent such reoccurance.