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TIIE SUNDAY OBECONIAX," PORTLAND, DECEMBER 12, 1909.
AFRICA AMUSED
AT NATURE FAKES
Strange Animals Invented by
Writers on Roosevelt's
Hunt in Wilds.
t LION-KILLING IS TRIFLE
'Traditional King or Beasts Held
Small Fry, but Affidavit Must
Accompany Pelts of ew
Animals Discovered.
NAIROBI. El E. A., Octobar 29 (OdC.
11) The reading public here has found
vast amusement in press clippings from
America dealing with the game-killing
experiences of Colonel Rooaevelt. While
recognizing the proven of the ex-President,
they are somewhat amazed at -the
effect of his achievements upon the minds
of his countrymen, particularly at the in.
credulity exhibited in some Instances to
ward very ordinary happenings and the
trusting faith in other cases, with which
some really outrageous yarns are ac
cepted. They receive with skepticism the fact,
for example, that Colonel Roosevelt has
been charged by 12 hippopotami in Iake
alvahe. killing a few and escaping scot
free, and yet take readily to stories of the
hagglng of strange birds and mammals,
which have hitherto triumphantly dodged
zoological classification.
I.lons Called Small fry.
Without detracting from the glory of
the hunter. East African residents do not
look with a great deai of interest upon
the mere slaying of Hons and such small
fry. They do not even use this sort of
thing as a topic of convetsatfor. while
the weather shows any Interesting phases.
Nairobi has been scarcely istirrcd for
the last week or so by the news that men
walking to their homes after dining out
have almost stumbled over a full-grown
Hon. which has-been so frequently
about the streets that he has practically
assumed the position of a municipal pet
and has killed zebras within the precincts
of the township. Iast Sunday night Mr.
Cunningham, while walking in the sub
, -urbs, heard a lion grunting less than 100
i yards away. Being armed only with a
j stick, he did not stop to investigate. The
principal medical officers here and others
have had similar experiences. One en
terprising storekeeper has a year-old
lioness in a case on a veranda in Nai
robi's high street. '
Strange Animals Invented. .
The Inventive genius of the pseudo
scientists has risen to frenzied heights
in supplying the Smithsonian Institution
with creatures never found on land or
sea. They have originated the kirkak
dik, the exact nature of which Is veiled
In some obscurity: the Kirumbo bird,
which has a pair of floral plumes and is
glossy green above, with metallic re
flections, and the guyastuns, which, is
white, spotted plentifully with green.
Tn addition there are two or three fowl
which Major Mearns. who in now on a
journey to the glaciers of Kenia, has not
yet rounded up. the pambafu bird, the
wood duffln, otherwise known as the
salkeldhopiendis Africanus. whose hab
itat Is the forest around the old Arab
fort of .Klsmayu, and the bartickiensis
Africanus. peculiar to one part of the
country and never seen away from its
home.
Seek Afifdavit on Pelt.
It is suggested hero that a wife plan
previous to the acceptance in the United
States of anything that is novel in the
way of beast or bird would bo a pearch
for an affidavit attached to the pelt.
STUDYING WAR BY MAIL
.National Guard Officers Take Cp
Winter's Correspondence Course.
The correspondence school In war top
ics to be conducted by Adjutant-tleneral
Fltner for all officers of the Oregon Na
tional Ouard, opened yesterday, when the
first circular In the course was sent out.
This initial sheet merely defines the
aoope of the course to be pursued. It will
be followed within a few days by another
, and more elaborate circular prescribing
questions to be answered.
, The military correspondence school,
which is a new departure for promoting
efficiency among National Guard officers,
will be kept up throughout the Winter
and will he supplemented by field work
in the Spring and Summer.
JOUNG MOTHER MISSING
'Protection Society Seeks 17-Year-Old
;irl to Aid Her.
XiOttie Richardson, or Lottie Rodgers, a
17-year-old girl who deserted her three
' weeks-old child rTldny night, is wanted
; by officers of the Municipal Department
for tha Public Protection of Toung
Women.
Tha girl has teen staying at the Padil
i lao rooming-house, and the child is at
the Louise Home. But little is known of
the girl-mother's history, and an effort
will be made to find her and give her
proper assistance. She is described as
being of medium height. She has auburn
hair, and wears a spotted coat with a
! gray stripe. When last seen she wore a
brown cap.
HILLSBORO MAN IS BUYER
1 .1. AY. Hailey Secures Tenth-Street
Property for $ 4.500.
J. V. Bailey, of Hlllsboro. has pur
liasfi 40x100 feet.- Inside, on Tenth street,
between Morrison and Yamhill, facing
west, tor S34,500. purchaser to assume
' bonds on street improvements. . The pur
i chase was made from George F. Russell
and W. B. Streoter.
Since the commencement of active con- ,
strudion on the new Olds, Wortman & j
King building, on Morrtson, Alder. Tenth J
and Park streets, property has steadily
advanced In that vicinity. The comple- I
tion or the Hotel Seward, on Tenth and
Alder streets, has also had its effect. Mr.
Ballev Dald cash for the property.
BRICK Y. M. C. A. FAVORED
Tentative Plans Drawn for Construc
tion of Xw Sellwood Branch.
The raising of J12.000 for the branch
. X. M. C. A. In Sellwood was the first
I step toward the establishment, of that
i branch. Now comes the planning and
I construction, or tha building. In this
work, as in the raising of the money,
tha executive committee has the assist
ance and counsel of General Secretary
H. W. Stone, of the city association, and
his assistants. E. B. McXaughton, who
spent some time at the expense of the
Portland T. M. C. A. traveling through
the East, examining 7. M. C. A. buildings
before drawing plans for the building
for the city association, has been com
missioned to prepare, the plans for the
Sell wood branch. While the canvass was
in progress there was a discussion of the
possibility of erectirur a brick structure.
Some favoretf a' bungalow type of frame.
Architect McNaughton has been asked to
draw plans for both styles."
The site selected and secured, on the
southwest corner of Bast Fifteenth street
and Spokane avenue, is considered ideal.
It Is central, on an improved street, and
has ample sewerage. A strong effort will
be made to erect a brick building.
The swimming pool and gymnasium will
be much larger than first contemplated.
To provide a permanent source of reve
nue, several dormitories will be provided.
It is expected that arrangements will be
made to lease the corner of the build
ing to the Sell wood Branch Library.
The ground outside the building will
be taken up with a lawn tennis court
and outdoor basketball and other games.
ECLIPSE INVISIBLE HERE
SIX DARKEXED OXLY IN SOUTH
. KRX HEMISPHERE.
Due Today to Cast Cut-out Shadows
of Folks Beneath Its Par
tial Rays.
Portland will have no ocular demon
stration of the fact, but today is the
day for an eclipse of the sun. The
centers of sun and moon will pass at
29.3 seconds after 1:09 o'clock,' Portland
time. To Portland's neighbors in South
eastern Australia, Tasmania, most of
New Zealand Islands and South Shet
land, however, the event will be an
eclipse in fact. The moon will take
three hours and 36 minutes to cross
the sun's face. Today's eclipse is ex
plained by John McNulty. nautical ex
pert in charge of the Portland branch
of the United States hydrographic of
fice. Mr. McNulty Bald yesterday:
"There are three . kinds of solar
eclipses total, partial and annular. As
the moon today will cover only a little
over half of the sun's face. It Is a
partial eclipse. Given the sun's di
ameter as equal 'to 1, the moon will
cover .541 portion of It. In this case
it Is interesting to know that If It
were seen in Portland, the shadows
of things would not be as usual. The
crescent part of the sun would cause
much of the shadow seemingly to be
cut out, leaving queerly shaped dark
places.
"In an eclipse of the sun the shadow
moves across the face of the earth
with an easily computable speed. The
moon moves along its orbit at a rate
of 21Q0 miles an hour. The earth ro
tates from west to east In the same
general direction at a rate of 1040
miles at the equator. Therefore, sub
tracting one from the other, we find
that the speed of the moon's shadow
across the earth is about 1060 miles an
hour. The higher In altitude on the
earth one lives the slower he travels
and therefore the faster the moon's
shadow passes his place of residence.
"There must inevitably be two solar
eclipses each year. In 1823 there were
seven eclipses of the sun. This will
again happen in 1935. This variance
in numbers Is due to the moon arriving
at the nodes during the ecliptic sea
sons variably.
"As a utility to man the total
eclipses are of most importance, giving
the observers a chance to study the
Immense flames which shoot out from
the sun's surface with the spectroscope.
With the knowledge thus gained the
world Is advancing slowly in the. study
of the nature of matter and force and
of the mechanism of the universe."
LYONS HOME FROM TRIP
IX HOSPITAL. WHEN FRIENDS
THINK HIM TRA VEXING. . "
".Month la California" Really Spent
Recovering From Slight
Operation.
No one who read the brief note several
weeks ago that John M. Smith was a
patient at the Good Samaritan Hospital
imagined that Mr. Smith was, more than
one of the famous John Smith family.
They would1 have been right in assuming
him famous, but his fame came from the
fact that John M. Smith was in reality
Kd Lyons, depotmaster of tho- Northern
Pacific. Terminal Company.
With a desire to spare his family worry
and himself annoyance, Mr. Lyons an
nounced some time ago that he was going
to. Southern California on a sightseeing
trip. He did not offer to take his family
and they dirt not ask to go.
Then Mr. Lyons closed up his affairs at
the depot. Following that, he prepared
for a series of deceptions that was to last
over four weeks. Sitting at his desk. Mr.
Lyons dictated to his stenographer a list
of letters that for interest and descriptive
beauty, and general vagueness rivaled
the letters of Junius. With a series of
California postcards obtained from Port
land a postcard shop, Mr. l-otis then had
documentary evidence of an excellent
California alibi. AH were mailed to a
friend In the lemon-growing state, with
instructions that they be mailed in rota
tion at Intervals to the Portland friends
of the railroad man.
Then, using every possible means to
conceal his identity, John M. Smith be
came a patient at the Good Samaritan.
A slight operation was performed and he
began to recuperate. Mr. Smith had no
friends to visit him. One clerk daily
came for Instructions and Mr. Smith ob
tained his recreation by playing a large
gramaphone.. It was . noticed as a co
incidence that Mr. Lyons favorite grama
phone was missing from its accustomed
place. With a nurse to, wind up the
gramaphone, Mr. Lyons-Smith was quite
content. . ,
Walter H. Fearnley Buried.
The funeral of Walter iH. Fearnley. who
died at his home. 966 Hawthorne avenue.
December 8, was held yesterday from
IMcson's chapel. The interment was post
poned for the present. Mr. Fearnley was
a manufacturer's agent who was well
known in business circles between, Port
land. British Columbia and St. Louis. He
was ill but a short time following an
operation . which was not considered
serious. He was at his office Tuesday
morning. He was 42 years of age and had
made Portland his home for about ten
years. His - wife and one son, Walter
Fearnley. a student of the Washington
High School., survive. Mr. Fearnley was a
member of the Travelers' Protective As
sociation. Many beautiful floral tributes
were received. f
YYoodburn Defeats Deaf Mutes.
WOODBURN, Or.. Dec. 1 1. (Special.)
A basketball team from the Deaf
Mute School was defeated in this city
tonight by the Woodburn Athletic Club
by a score of 85 to-20. -
MURDER IS CHARGE
IN BATH TUB CASE
Miss Virginia Wardlaw Held
for Death of Ker Niece,
Mrs. Ocey Snead.
LETTER MAY BE FORGERY
Doubt Is Cast Upon Xote Declaring
Dead Woman to Be Suicide and
Inquisitors Will Decide as to
Genuineness of Writing.
NEW TORK, Dec. 11. Miss Virginia
Wardlaw. aged aunt of Mrs. Ocey
Snead, the victim of the bathtub trag
edy which has developed so many mys
teries, was arraigned today before Re
corder Nott. In Bast Orange, N. J., on
the charge of murdering her niece.' She
was later beld to. awaft the action- of the
grand jury. '
The accused woman was pale and
worn. Heavily veiled, she sat in court
beside her counsel, Frartklin W. Fort,
a son of Governor Fort; of New Jersey.
She seemed to resent the scrutiny of the
crowd and shielded her face at times
with a newspaper. ,
Sergeant Timothy Coniff, of the East
Orange police force, told of the discov
ery on November 29 of . Ocey Snead's
body in the bathtub of the Bast
Orange house in a few inches of water.
County Physician Simmons testified as
to the appearance of the dead girl. He
said her body was greatly emaciated. As
it lay in the tub the girl's head waa
under water. Dr. Simmons found a note
pinned to the dead girl's skirt, in which
she said she was going to take her life.
There is a dispute as to this hand
writing, and Dr. McKenzie testified that
the woman was drowned.
PUBLIC LAND ENTRIES
Writer Criticises Dispossession of
Si let z District Settlers.
DALLAS, Or., Dec. 8. (To the Edi
tor.) Having read The Oregohian's
editorial comment on the large emigra
tion of our people to Canada, I wish to
cite an additional reason for the exo
dus. I refer to the blanket order of Secre
tary of the Interior Hitchcock In 1903,
suspending all public land entries In
Oregon, and particularly to the Slletz
district, a subject with which I am fa
miliar. It was opened for homestead
entry July 21, 1902. A great many citi
zens availed themselves of what they
thought was an opportunity of getting
160 acres of land, which was considered
of little value at that time, but by per
sistent efforts they hoped to make
homes for themselves. The region men
tioned being mountainous and isolated
many miles from civilization and rail
roads, the settlers had to encounter
untold hardships, packing provisions on
their backs, wading dangerous and
swollen rivers, making trails and sleep
ing in the forest. At times they were
without food or shelter. Some of them
have since passed to the great beyond,
being unable to withstand the hard
ships they subjected themselves to. The
survivors, with Indomitable courage,
kept on with the hope that some time
they would accomplish what they had
undertaken and receive titles for their
land.
Then came that famous blanket or
der from the Interior Department, and
whenever an entry was attempted to be
perfected the settlers were Informed
that their proofs would be held pend
ing an investigation of the Interior Department-
Tears rolled on. Better
trails were built, rivers were spanned
with bridges, better houses were con
structed, clearings hewn : out of the
forest in fact, these early settlers did
all that mortal beings could do In the
circumstances. Many of them being
ncor. they had to work at times in the
logging camps and on the farms, in or
der to procure funds with which they
could further Improve their homesteads.
Next came special agents, mostly from
the prairie states, and these agents
were wholly unfamiliar with Western
conditions. . Their hearts were bent on
prosecution, and with but few excep
tions these agents reported adversely
against the entrymen.
Next came the professional contest
ers. Access to the country -was- now
made comparatively easy, and it Is a
well-known fact that as many as four
different affidavits of contest were al
lowed to be filed against a single en
try. More years rolled on. and more
special agents were dispatched. Then
the Government desired personally to
contest the remaining cases, and lastly
came the squatters, who took posses
sion of the original entryman's im
provements. The settlers came be-
A Tainte
ighly Disagreeable
A Quick and Permanent
a Small
There are many thousands of people
who are the unfortunate possessors of
offensive and obnoxious breath, which
has its- origin in chronic nasal and
throat catarrh, or an unhealthy condi
tion of the stomach, or decay of the
teeth, and wlten these persons realize
they are the victims of such an unde
sirable possession, they -fredftently feeU
constrained to remain oft to themselves
theVrreater part of the time, because thej
understand only too well how disagree
able it must be to others with whom they
come in contact.
For it is an undeniable tact that people
will comment on and criticise the person
whose breath is foul and offensive. Very
frequently we hear the comment. "So-and-so
is a most agreeable companion:
an interesting talker, with a large fund
of Information; Is well-posted on world
history and the biographies of many ce
lebrities; can talk fluently on current
topics; Is an accomplished musician and
llterateur; and would be a most desirable
addition to any social gathering, except
for the deplorable fact that his or her
breath Is so extremely offensive that per
sons of refinement, good breeding and
delicate sensibilities do not care to come
into contact with them."
- And very naturally, too, for an obnox
ious breath taints the very atmosphere,
and. affects the persons surrounding the
affected one In a way which is positively
nauseating.
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Marshall, Mich.
fore the court and asked for a tem
porary injunction, but a deaf ear was
turned to their pleadings.
I will ask, is It any wonder why our
people are going to Canada? Is it not
a crime for a government to spend the
people's money to persecute its citi
zens? Great credit is due J. C. Hayter,
editor and owner of the Polk County
Observer, for his able and forcible edi
torial, under date of November 30, in
which he undoubtedly expresses the
sentiments of the people of Polk Coun
ty. His editorial was unsolicited, and
he Is In nowise financially Interested.
As a liberty-loving American, he could
no longer turn his eyes and see his
fellow-citizens persecuted. It is to be
hoped that the newspapers of Oregon
will continue the fight for her citizens
in their Just rights, and that Congress
will provide some means whereby Jus
tice will be given.
A S1LETZ HOMESTEADER.
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The most beautifully furnished hotel
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An exquisite Chippendale art style piano
in dull finished Circassian walnut was
purchased by the management from The
Wiley B. Allen Co., and is already in
stalled in the parlor. .
After a most painstaking Investigation
of the best pianos in "Portland, regardless
of cost, a product of the famous Hard
man factory was selected on account of
Its mellow, sweet tone and superior
finish.
This old established Arm. located at
SO Oakf Street, makes a specialty of. the
highest grade pianos In the world.
NO MEDICINE CHEST IS COMPLETE
WITHOUT 8A LGBEXE.
One never knows when "he is going
to be caught in the grip of rheuma
tism, lumbago and kidney trouble. But
we do know that two ounces of
Salgrene mixed with four ounces of
olive oil will give almost instant re
lief in the most obstinate cases. Taken
in two teaspoonful doses . every three
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three times a day. Obtainable at any
first-class drugstore.
iUtronen iofllde Is no sensitive that the
touch of a fly'a foot wwiH explode it. .
Relief for This Trouble at
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There is no longer any excuse for a
person, however foul and offensive their
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SOME SENSIBLE SUGGESTIONS READ THEM.
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TUXEDO AND FULL-DRESS VESTS. -
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