The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 27, 1897, Image 2
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THE COUNTY RECORD
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kingstree, s. c.
LOUIS J. BRISTOW, E<1. & Prop'r.
A public benefactor has risen in
California. A man has invented a
machine which launders collars and
cuffs without producing a saw edge.
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Colorado Las voted to allow women
toibecome members of the state militia.
This probably is a concession to
the "new woman" because of her
abilities in the line of dress parades.
It is said that at least a dozen valuable
articles of commerce, including
cellulose, culluloid, smokeless gun
powder, lacquer, roofing material, glu*
Cose and papier-mache can be made
from corn stalks, and that they will
fe,' soon be worth $'2o per acre.
On the government pay rolls are
several Indian women Pauline Mcfrr
Coy, assistant at the Sac and Fox
agency, Oklahoma, Elizabeth Burnt
j|'. Thigh, servant at one of the agencies,
and another Indian woman, custodian
jfe- of the abandoned military reservation
jt at Fort Ripley, Minn.
The London Chronicle is reviving
f? the scandal of the immense incomes of
the city churches, which are practically
without congregations, it puonsnes
!?> a letter giving startling figures, ami
U showing the Vicars live far distant
. from the churches, and they have
nothing whatever to do except spend
H their immense stipends.
I? Chicago seems to be getting all the
plums nowadays for educational pur' ?
poses. It has been found impossible
- to ran the university of that city on
J $500,000 a year, and in response to an
appeal for more funds, it is announced
* that John D. Rockefeller of the Stand*
. ard oil company, has promised to
fiaugment his past gifts, aggregating
W $8,000,000, by a farther sum of $10,ii
(WO,000.
The murder of the aged cashier of
" the 2%ew Hampshire bank adds another
to the crimes of violence which have
Tobbery for their purpose, and which
have come fast and thick of late, observes
the New York Journal. These
' crimes are perpetrated in broad day|
light and meet with no opposition.
The very audacity of the perpetrators
adds to their success. The science of
bank protection has made the old svs
tern of looting almost impossible.
Steel safes and electric alarms have
stopped the midnight raids. But now
A>the robbers walk in at noon day,
: knock down the cashier and help
themselves. This ingenuity has been
~ met by audacity.
The Hon. William David Coleman,
w the president of Liberia, who was vicepresident
nntil the death of President
Cheeseman, a few months ago, was
born on Liberian soil and is an African.
The term of office for president
> and vice-president of Liberia is two
* ' yews, elections being held in June of
Kw " the odd years, and the president and
vice-president entering on their offices
in January following the election. Mr.
Coleman has been elected for three
... . . consecutive terms as vice-president,
/; and he is now the thirteenth to hold
the presidential office since the LibeT.'a
A rian declaration of inde}>eudeuce, July
[: 26th, 1847. Of these thirteen presidents,
ten have been elected bv the
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people and three were vice-presidents,
who were elevated to office to complete
unexpired terms.
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( v From England comes the anuounceF
meat that a Mr. Gomess, a chemist of
India, has patented a process of workr
ing up the fibre plant, ramie, into a
condition ready for spinning. The
' London Spectator announces that Mr.
. Gomess' method turns upon the em'
ployment of ziucate of soda. A company
has been formed, patents taken
out all over the world, and a sort of
Sry experimental factory is actually at
5 _ work in London which turns out about
fc two tons a week of ramie ready for
minninir Tf + hia lui trilA tVlA Sontll
t 0|?UUiu^. ** vv ? ?v, w
em planter in this country is deeply
concerned in two ways, says Farm
.T8> News. In the first place there are
some portions of the extreme South
where ramie can be profitably grown
as soon as there is a market for it; but
of greater concern to us, is the effect
tipon cotton. Ramie will undoubtedly
supercede cotton fabrics for many purposes,
and while we all rejoice in the
| * advent of any discovery that- adds to
the wealth of the nations, it takes a
broad minded people to rejoice at the
depreciation of its cotton fields.
A New York paper expresses surprise
because "the Chicago aldermen get
only $3 a week." This is an error; their
salary is $3. but they "got" a great deal
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DIPLOMATS IIJ101
The Graeco-Turkish Controversy
Reaches This Stage.
NEGOTIATIONS EXPECTED TO
Last for Some Time The Sultan'9
Policy In Acceding to the Czar's Request
for an Armistice.
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London, May 23. (By Cable.) The
Graeco-Turk trouble has now fairly enj
tered upon its diplomatic bargaining
stage and the negotiations are expected
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I/O ium iur sumt; nuic. ^uauv imi'vuam
Jifferences have to be settled, and the
Sultan of Turkey may be counted ui>on
to drag the affair along as much as
possible, with the view of bringing
nut the latent jealousies of the powers.
His prompt compliance with
the Czar'6 request to arrange for an
armistice is not attributed entirely to
the desire to please the C/.ar, but it is
;ooked upon as a stroke of diplomacy
intended to excite the resentment of
jonie other power and thus weaken the
concert. Thus far. everything tends to
ihow that the powers remain in entire
igreement on the question. An European
conference is discussed but it is
not thought likely to take place uutil
fbe preliminaries of i>eaceare arranged.
Then the ambassadors at Constantinople,
with the delegates of Turkey
md Greece, may meet to settle ui>on
the treaty of peace. There is a strong
feeling in favor of international control
af the Greek finances, without which
the payment of the indemnity to Turkey
and the interest on the Greek debt
is declared to be impossible.
The Greeks insist that if an indemaity
is imposed upon them there will be
i general conapse ana serious internal
rroubles will occur. They estimate the
.lamage done to Thessaly at 25,000,000
irachms and they say another 10,000,000
drachms will be needed to supply the
peasants with food and tools. Moreover,
they add, the revenue will be greatly reduced,
owing to the immediate damage
done to cultivation throughout the country,
due to the absence of thousands of
workers. This year's budget will probably
leave a deficit of 60,000,000 drachmas.
The Greek statements, however,
ire now received with a certain scepticism.
It is pointed out that by the admissions
of the Greeks themselves 70
per cent, of the interest of the debt,
which they have not paid, has been set
aside in order that they may have ruon:y
for the war and that consequently
ilreece is certainly in a position to continue
paying 30 per cent, interest and
probably considerably more if her
finances are placed under international
jontrol.
Advices from the scenes of the recent
fighting mention the possibility of a
lerious epidemic of disesse when the
aeat increases, owing to the potrifying
carcases and horses left rotting in every
iitch.
The popular feeling at Athens against
the royal family of Greece does not diminish.
The stories of the 4'excessive
prudence" of Crown Prince Constantino
at the front have done much to
weaken the dynasty.
DEMOCRATS CAUCUS
And Decide to Fight Tariff BillDown
on Dear Beer.
The Democratic Senators held a cau'
?ns last Saturday and decided to iningurate
their fight uix>n the tariff bill
is soon as the bill is taken up in the
Senate by a motion to strike out the internal
revenue features of the bill relating
to beer and tobacco. This result
was reached after a discussion in which
practically all the Senators present participated.
The talk was based largely
upon the proposition to increase the
tax upon beer, which was generally
criticised as an effort to increase the
price of "the poor man's beverage,"
which was pronounced wholly unjustifiable
in time of peace and with 8120,JO0,000
of idle money in the treasury.
Senator Karle's Funeral.
At Greenville, S. C., Saturday, the
grave closed over all that was mortal of
Joseph Haynsworth Earle, South Car
olina's late junior Senator. AH the
stores in the city were closed during
the progress of the exercises. The
whole of Greenville mourned and the
people made no attempt to conceal
their feelings. Kich and poor alike attended
the obsequies, and prominent
men from all over the State, as well as
the Congressional committee, paid
their last tribute to South Carolina's
honored ami worthy son. Handsome
floral tributes were sent from Washington,
as well as from the townspeople.
Governor Ellerbe did not attend, owing
to illness in his family. The services
wfere conducted at the First Baptist
churchh by Dr. C. S. Gardner, the pastor.
Cuban-Americans Needing Relief.
A telegram received at the State Department
at Washington from ConsulGeneral
Lee indicates that the number
of Americans in need of relief in Cuba
is much larger than was supposed at
flrst. The Consul-General says that
the number may reach 1.200. The
consul at Matanzas reports 250 there
aud the consul at Sagua 450.
A Bust of Raleigh.
A memorial bust of Sir Walter Raleigh
has been unveiled at Westminster
Abbey, in London, England, by the
Duke of Buocleuch, in the presence of
a distinenished assemblage. Among
I the eulogies deliver? ! was one l>y Col.
I John May. embassador of the l* luted
states.
More Trouble at Homestead.
' Italians at Homestead, Pa., hava
twrioe been attacked by idle men. who
believe thev should have beeu given
the work the Italians received building
a street railway,!. Officers are protecting
the Italians and further troul le
;s feared.
The Rouss Monument Dedicated.
The monument given by Charles
Broadway Kouss, the millionaire New
York merchant, to the Confederate Veterans'camp
has been dedicated in ' t
llopo cemetery, in Westchester eou:rv,
New York.
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THE WEEK OF TRADE.
Blight Improvement A General Increase
in Loans is Noted.
Messrs. R. G. Dun &Co.'s Weekly
Review of Trade for the week ending
, on the 21st, says: Unmistakal^e evi|
dence of improvement comes in the
general increase of commercial loans,
mostly for eastern merchants or companies,
though some well-known
houses in the middle west appear with
considerable rediscounts from the
South.
Not for a long time have commercial
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distinct change gives proof that new
business Las been larger than many
hav? supposed, Receipts of money
from the interior exceed shipments $1,">00,000,
mostly from the middle
west. Exports of gold have
no influence, and only signify
the willingness of Russia to pay a price
for the gold needed. The excess of
I merchandise imports to answer de1
mands for half a year to come involves
| the greater excess of exports when the
j anticipatory movement ends and crops
I begin to move, which fact readers
! large outgoes of gold less likely, and
gives the country a stronger position
in international market. Meanwhile
there is a continuing increase, distinct
though gradual, in the volume of business
in demand for products of manufacture
and considering the time of
year, in movement of grain and produce.
Western wheat receipts exceed last
year's for the week 2,364,189 bushels
I against 1,738,986, and Atlantic exports
were 1,070,813 bushels, flour included j
against 1,802,491 list year, andfor three i
weeks 4,778,722 against 3,385,910, for
the same period last year. Western '
receipts of corn were 1,655,077 bushels,
a gain of 1.425,671, and Atlantic exports
2,188,825 against 1,008,825 last year,
notwithstanding the enormous increase
hitherto. Wheat again cheated hopeful
buyers and fell nearly 4 cents, closing
8$ lower for the week. Corn was a shade
w'eaker. Cotton once more hopefully
advanced to 7?c., but fell back to 7~{
with poor support here or abroad. Both
the volume of stocks and the condition
of domestic and foreign markets for
goods hinder advance, and later acreage
reports are better.
The iron industry has had an increase
in new business,* though not in all I
branches. Part was due to the rupture
I /.t oiool Koom iwnl ami t.ViA fall in I
VI IUC OVW1 WtMU |7VW?f ~mmm r
price from $1.65 to 31.25, nominally
quoted, and some pood structural contracts
were at once secured. Part is
due to a belter demand for plates and
for pipe, of which one large contract
for Indiana fields was placed, and part
to growing needs for cars and vessels.
There is also some increase in rods
thoneh the season for wire and nails is i
nearing an end, because ot an expected
pool of (rod mills. Lower Southern
freight rates marketed a little
more iron at the North and Eastern
foundry is slightly lower with grey
forge only $8.25 at Pittsburg. The
Carnegie works are now turning out 3,000
tons of rails daily, nearly all on old
orders, and exports* of finished products
increase. Sales of copper, said
to be nearly 60,000 pounds, have stiffened
the price to 11? for lake, and tin
13? cents, in spite of large arrivals,
though lead was weaker at $3.25 and
tin plates at $3.30. Coke is also a
shade lower. Sales of wool decrear e.
though still greater than when nil
the mills were busy, but manufactures
are doing scarcely anything,
most of their possible demand for
months ahead having been supplied.
Western holders begin to offer at 1 to
1 1-2 cent lower than of late. Woolen
goods are dull, but prices are firm.
The strike of clothing hands somewhat
restricts the new demand. Cotton
goods are without change in price s,
print cloths still at the* lowest on
record, and the demand is still indifferent,
with talk of temporary closing
of mills at the South.
Failures for the week have been 248
in the United States against 22? Isat
year, and 37 in Canada against 28 list
year.
bk; strike ends.
After Four Years' Struggle the Flint
r.la?* Workers Give Un.
At Pittsburg, Pa., the strike of the
American Flint Glass Workers' Union,
which was inaugurated four years ago,
has been declared off. The dispute was
over working the unlimited turn," and
of the 7,500 men connected with the
American Flint Glass Workers' Union,
1, SHH) struck.
The strike cost the Glass Workers'
Union over 81,000,000, and during the
four years 400 strikers died.
Now that the strike is over it is
thought the United States Glass Company
will reinstate a large number ol
men.
M'LAURIN I'OR SENATOR.
The Youngest South Carolina Congressman
Looming Up.
There is little doubt as to the successor
of Senator Earle, of South Ca: olina,
and as Governor Ellerbe thinks
liamwrots shnnld have their full
strength in the United Sfates h'enate at
once, he will probably make the appointment
before many days.
Congressman John L. McLaurin is
looked upon as practically certain to
receive the appointment. If appointed,
he will be elected, whether there is a
primary next fall or not, for it is left
entirely to the Legislature.
McLaurin is the youngest man in the
South Carolina delegation. He was
attorney genera! for four years and was
elected to Congress for his second
term last fall. He is a member of
the Ways and Means committeee
and recently spoke in favor of a duty
j cotton
Proving a Success.
The Exposition of the CaroJinas,
which is now oi>ened at Charlotte, X.
C., is proving a decided success in
every particular, and the largest at
tendance in one day was 2,0u0, and i
constantly increasing, owing to the
fact that those who attend find so much
more than they expect and go away to
advise their friends to attend. Last
Saturday was Children's Day and was
a great success.
The administration at Washington
bave determined to go alow as to Ctrbun
I matters.
popular scmcr.
Montana is dredging by electricity.
Each year a layer of the sea fcur'
teen feet thick is taken up into the
clouds.
Berlin now has electric ftreet cars
with storage batteries that njed to be
charged but once a day.
The British Admiralty will furrish
two ships for the Antarctic expedition
which will start next year.
So dense is the water in the deepest
parts of the ocean that an ironclad,
if it were to sink, would never resell J
1 the bottom.
Among the botanical specimens collected
by the Cornell scientific party
in Greenland were some fall-grown
forest trees less than three inches in
height.
j A French savant says that many .
perfumes aid health by destroying dis
ease microbes. Thy me, lemon, m ot,
lavender, eucalyptus and other scents
; prove very useful.
When a person steps on a wire door
mat which has been placed before the
entrance of the new city market of
Springfield, Mass., the doors are
opened by electricity.
Experiments have been made in a
Cincinnati hospital which show that
I the veils now so much worn by women
are often the cause of headaches and
I serious injury to the eyes.
It has been found by experiment J
| that tea retards digestion. An info- j
sion of one per cent, of tea causes a j
perceptible delay; a three i>er cent.
infusion will delaj the digestion sometimes
as much as twelve times the normal
period; a ten per cent, cecoction
arrest; the digestion of all starchy
foods.
A chameleon from the Cape of Good .
Hope was seen by Mr. Bla ciston to
turn white with fear, having been
saved from the attacks of a cat. The
most extraordinary thing about this
lizard is the wonderfnl way in which
the two eyes work quite independently
of each other and "enable it to survey
comfortably objects J in quito opposite
directions."
The "red rain" which fell in Melbourne,
Australia, and its neighborhood
seems to have performed one
useful operation. The government
horticultural expert reports that the
red shower acted exactly as hellebore
in cleansing the pear trees from the
prevalent slug. He says that the trees
were completely cleansed, and that
the inseots died instantaneously.
A Costly Rats' Jfcst. /
The famous rats' nest, which was
built out of five $100 United States
Treasury notes in the end of an old
box oar on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad in 1868, again beooines
a matter of public record in the Senate
files. John Veeley, a carpenter at
Lonisville, found these notes wliile
tearing out the end of the aforesaid
old box oar. While the notes were
pretty badly mutilated, there seems to
have been no difficulty in determining
their character, their denomination
and date, and the issue and series to
which each belonged.
Upon the advice of a friend Veeley
took the notes to the Louisville Custom
House, and at his request they
were forwarded to the Treasury ."Department
for redemption, but the department
refused to redeem them, and,
with the approval of the Secretary,
they were returned to him by express
in February, 1869. He then sold them
to one Julius Wellman, a broker, for
$330.
In Maroh, 1869, Wellman bad them
sent again to the Treasury Department,
and the matter was referred to
the Ihrst Comptroller, who deoided on
tho 31st day of July, 1896, that they
should neither be redeemed nor returned
to Wellman. Veeley then re- j
turned the money to Wellman and renewed
his efforts to secure payment
from the Treasury Department. Repeated
refusals were made until 1890,
when a bill was introduced in the
Fifty-fifth Congress authorizing the
redemption of these notes. In each
succeeding Congress the bill has come
up, but has never yet been passed.
Senator Pasco, from the Committee
on Claims, has just made a favorablo
report, declaring that his committee
was impressed with the justice of the
claim; that although more than
twenty-seven years have [elapsed since
the find and the oircumstauces were
published in the newspapers at the
time, no claimant has appeared for
the notes. Each note is plainly described
and, in the opinion of the
committee, the United States ought to
j redeem its just obligations. Washj
ington Post.
Electric Light bj Wind Power.
Electric lighting is commonly in the
country regarded as exclusively a city
Inxnry. It is likely that the expense
of carrying wires from house to house
in thinly settled districts would bo too
great to make it possible to furnish
electric light on a large scaie economically.
But the experience of Nausea's
ship, the Fram, on her northern
voyage ahows that electric lighting by
wind power, transmitted to batteries
and stored as electricity, is.entirely
possible. In the high Northern latitudes
fuel was much too precious to
be used in making electrio light. So
h big windmill was get up, which was
run whenever the wind was favorable,
and by stored electricity made a s';eady
light all through the dark northern
winter. Such windmills are often used
on Norweigan vessels to work the
pomps. We may yet see farm windmills
providing power to run dynamos
and charge storage batteries with electricity
to be used for lighting farm
houses, as well as to do much work
thit now taxes human muscles.
American Cultivator.
From'the salt wells at Hutchinson,
K?.n., 1,000,Out) barrels of salt were
- obtained lasty*..r.
THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA,
Adrift on Ice In the Open SeaTowed
by a Sawfish The Congressman
and tjie Bear.
PETER MACHER, the manager
of Carl Schultz's troupe of
Great Danes, now on exhibition
at the Hagan, says the St.
Louis Republic, claims to be the \>nlv
full-blooded Eskimo at present in the
United States. His adventures since
leaving his native country nearly five
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ycars uguf t&guiuau ma win auu yciEonal
inclination, read like an Arabian
Nights' story.
Macher was born nearly forty years
ago at Davis Inlet, a British possession
lying considerably north of
Labrador, and spent the first thirty
years of his life at that place, fie
then secured the British contract for
carrying the mail from Biglets to
Alexandria, a distance of seventy-one
miles. Biglets is situated in the northern
part of Labrador. It consumed
a week's time to make the round trip,
which was made with doge and sled.
In the central portion of the territory
is a body of water called Hunter's
Bay, nearly four miles wide. To save
a detour of eight or ten miles, Macher
always crossed this bay, which was
frozen the year round to sach an extent
as to admit of traffic, although it
was at times attended, dnring the
summer months, with perilous inci
dents, of which fact, Macher was well
aware.
On one of his trips, about four years
ago, in the latter part of May, as he
approached the bank of the bay, he
heard a grinding noise, a sound that
generally precedes the breaking up of
the ice. Macher at first hesitated about
driving* over the water, but being a
little behind time, he finally conoluded
to risk it. The rest of the story is
best told in his own words:
"When I reached the centre of the
bay I heard several sharp noises that
resembled pistol reports. Fully realizing
my predicament, I threw myself
on my sled (I was at the time walking
beside it), and whipped up my dogs.
An instant later a creviee formed in
the ice and I had barely time to roll
off the sled when both it and the dogs
went under. I got up and staggered
baok, when a dizzy feeling came over
me and I fell in a faint When I recovered
consciousness, about, I suppose,
two hours later, I was floating
southward on a large floe of ice. The
water around me was filled with ice
floes, and I think if I had tried, 1
could, by dexterously jumping from
one floe to the other, have succeeded
in reaohing the shore. But I was in a
dazed condition and soon afterward
again relapsed into unconsciousness.
"I did not recover until the next
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morning. wuen x iuuneu tuuuuu uu
land was to be seen. I think that I
must have been fully twenty miles
from the shore. The floe I was on was
abont the largest 1 had ever seen, bnt
I knew at best it conld not last over
three days. If I were not picked np
in that time my doom was sealed. 1
thought, and for the time I forgot
that I had had nothing to eat for the
preeeding twenty-fonr hours. I determined,
however, to make the best
of it, and all that day scanned the
horizon for the approach of relief.
But none oame; the night passed away,
as did the suceeding day.
"The following night I heard the ice
cracking on the edge and knew it was
bnt the beginning of the end. I closed
my eyes, hoping to be asleep when the
final crash came. Bui sleep came not.
Daring the entire night I could hear
the ice cracking as if it were sounding
my death knell. With tho approach
of day I again began to hope. I
watched all morning for a vessel, but
in vain, and I gave myself up as lost
Bnt about 2 o'clock in the afternoon
I was sighted by an American trading
vessel, picked up and carried to New
York. Belief came none too soon, for
I had not been on board fifteen minutes
before the ice broke with a terrific
V. ?t
crasu.
Tewed by a Sawflsh.
The sloop yacht Ball arrived in the
harbor Sunday night, says a recent
issue of the Florida Times-Union, of
Jacksonville. She had on board Jchn
P. Roberts, of Chicago; W. J. Parcel],
of Washington, and Charles
Christian, of Miami. The party had
been on a oraise through the Keys for
the last two weeks. The cruise extended
as far as Flamingo Fiats and
Cape Sable, where they went to procure
specimens ot birds, fish, etc., for
the National Museum, Washington.
A thrilling episode of the crnise was
the capture of a sawfish measuring
eighteen and one-half feet. Cruising
off Madura Key they came upon the
huge fish, and Roberts, who was keeping
a sharp lookout, seized a harpoon
and sunk it deep into the monster's
body. Quick as a flash the fish darted
down the channel, making the line
whiz out of the boat. Roberts, whose
hand was burned from the running
line, called to Furcell to make a tarn
aroand the mast. The latter bad no
time to do eo before the end of the
line was reached, so he seized it with
Roberts, who had nearly gone overboard,
and together they managed to
hold it until Christian contrived to
make the end fast. Then the fish
towed the boat down the channel.
Christian manceuvred the boat into
shallow water, and here Roberts put
the grains into him again. Then the
fish made things fly, throwing, in his
frantic rage, sand and water high into
the air. Roberts, contrived to get
caught in tha line, and was in an instant
palled overboard a distance of
forty feet from the boat. Being an
expert swimmer, he got back without
any damage. The towing process then
again began, this time with two lines,
apd the craisers went flying down the
i bay like sports behind a spanking
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team of stallion*, After a fall hoar of
this the big fish grew weary, and was ?
again hauled alongside, when a big
load of backshot was pnt into him.
Still he was not dead, but very weary.
Roberts then performed the dangerous
feat of getting on his back and placing
a line around his huge jaw. It then
required the combined efforts of the
three men to haul him on to the
sands, and here he began to slash
about again. Purcell got a cut on the
foot that he is nursing yet.
The men, after sizing him up, de
cided that he was a pretty dangerous ' ^
customer, and might have cut their
boat in two with one stroke of his
saw. He was eighteen and one-half
feet long, and about four and onehalf
feet across the body, and his saw
was five and one-half feet long. The
head was cut off to be mounted. Besides
this one the party captured and *
got the saws of four others over fifteen
feet long, and twelve smaller ones.
Congressman and Bear.
They were spinning yarns of the
chase, and this was the contribution
of the Congressman: "After a pretty
hard campaign I went with a hunting
party to the upper peninsular. I'm
not a Leather Stocking or a Daniel
Boone with a rifle, but I'm far from
having to go inside and close the doors
in order to hit a barn. I'd brought
down a deer and bagged any amount
of small game, but wanted a bear. Ond
morning I had tramped an unusual
distance from camp and suddenly oame
upon three half grown cabs rolling and *
tumbling over each other in play. I
shot one and the other two beat a ?
clumsy retreat. Setting my gun '
against a tree I reached my cub while
he was still kicking. x/aj
"Hearing a noise, I whirled around
to find the mother ooming at me, her
mouth wide open and hor eyes glaring.
There was no chance to reach the
rifle. I'm no sprinter, and took thft
only alternative by shinning up a tall
pine tree/ 3he stopped a minute to
examine the viotim of my shot and
was more enraged than ever as she
came climbing after me. Once in the
tufted top of that pine I did some
faster thinking, gentlemen, than I '-Ja|
ever did on any Question of state. The
bear was coming and losing no time.
I was without weapon of any kind. It
looked as though brain had the drop.
"Bat a man in my predicament overlooks
no chances. In my vest pocket
I had a well-filled match safe. In my
hip pooket was a pint of brandy,minu9 JiS
one moderate nip. In my hunting
jacket was a bunch of tow. I saturated
that with brandy, and, as the bear approached,
I anointed her with the remainder.
Dividing the tow so as to
have two shots, 1 lit the first half and
dropped it on the bear. I didn't need
the other halt There was a flash of
light as though a pan of powder had \
been ignited. The air was filled with
the odor of burning hair. The bear
let go and fell down, because it '
was qnioker. Then she left a fiery
streak toward the horizon and made
more noise than any ordinary thnnder v.
storm."
Two Men and a Mountain Lion.
One of the most thrilling encounters
with a mountain lion ever known in
Idaho occnrred near Ola a few days
ago. A Denver Bepnblioan telegram
says:
Charles Bannister and Jake Woods
were passing along a trail leading
from their work to their camp. There
a as no thought of danger in their
minds until there was a dash in the
air and an enormous mountain lion
landed on Woods's shoulder. The impact
knocked him over, and his companion
thought he was certainly
killed. Reaching for a stone, Bannister
instantly attaoked the beast,
breaking its shoulder blade. The
lion then sprang upon him, when
Woods came to his rescue, also armed
with a rock. As the lion was attempting
to tear Bannister's throat Woods
struck it on the head and fractured
its skulL The creature still fought
desperately, but the men finally
managed to kill it. It measured nine . jj
feet from, tip to tip, and it was found
that it had leaped thirty feet in
springing upon Woods.
The mountain lion never attacks men
unless driven to it by hunger. The
snows in the mountains had probably
deprived the beast of food, and it was
ready spring upon the first living
thing it saw. ?i
A Wildcat In the Car.
Engineer Frelicb, of the' Southern
Pacifio Railroad, has had a most exciting
experience with a wildcat. As his
train was passing near Blue Creek Station,
near the north point of the Great
Salt Lake, Utah, a wildcat suddenly , t
sprang into the cab and savagely attacked
the fireman. The engineer
came to the fireman's assistance with
a shovel and tried to beat off the animal,
but he in turn was the reoipientof
the cat's attentions. The animal
landed on the man's breast and began
sinking its claws into the engineer's 0
face. The cat seemed possessed of
nine lives, and bit,clawed and screamed ,
every instant, cutting into the face
and chest of the engineer.
After a few seconds of fighting the
animal sprang oat of the cab. When
the traiD reached Terrace Engineer '
Frelich's face was found to be badly
cat up. The trainmen believe that
the cat was hiding in the bnshee beside
the track, and being blinded by *
the glare of the headlight made a leap
for safety and dropped into the cab. '
Gold Discoverer Hanged.
The first man who discovered gold
in Australia was hanged for his pains.
He was one of the first convicts transported
to Botany Bay, and when he
learned the great secret he brought % s
sample to show his success, and was
promptly hanged by Governor Phillip
for attempted escape and to keep thle
demoralizing discovery unknown.
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