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Has! the Jack Rabbit Pest
Abated
ray rani tAn7-)
ECHO, Or., April The Jaokrab
bit pest problem has at last been solved.
It was ha who caused th repeal of h
coyot law. It waa he who gave alarm
- far and wide to th small r&cch.rs of
thw sage-brush districts of Eastern X)re-
1 gon sad Eastern Washington,
Th garden's, th fruit trees, the
" meadows; In fact everything that th
, small rancher attempted to grow in this
Vast region has been destroyed In tee
past and tba future of the country waa
menaced by this pest.
Tba coyote only preyed upon' sheep,
'. and aa tbesa vera constantly guarded
by ,th shepherds bis depredations were
limited. But the jackrabblt could not
be Restricted. By night and by day bs
. poured la from tba bills and plains and
. derowred everything before htm. In
summer . be prayed upon everything
growlng, and la winter be attacked
what was left, even to destroying the
hay In tba stacks and ricks of tba
ranchers.
Despite tba constant warfare made
upon hlra bis numbers continued to In
- crease until be became an aril genlua.
a nightmare, to the st rug-fling home-
buildsr on tba great plains of the two
.' states, , . .
But a remedy has bern found. Ilia
days are numbered. The jackrabblt wUl
' noon b a thing of tba past. Us wUl
' only be remembered In tba stories of the
early history of tba oountry.
' It fall to tba lot of an old railroad I
man and telegraph operator to solve tba
, problem. For many years ha baa bad
charts of the railroad station for the
a K. AN. Company at Echo. It la
situated noma distance from tba town
out la tha midst of tba sag brush
plains, , Tba rabbits played out on tba
level plat about tha depot In full view
of tba old man, B watched them In
creasing day by day. As he watched
fop the belated trains and listened to
tba eliciting of tba telegrapblo Instru
ment ba could sea tba pests gamboling
about .tba plao and devouring everything
before them. I H beard tba complaints
of tha ranchers. ! H viewed, the de
struction they had wrought,
, "Is there no remedy T he mused. "Can
not they ' be . destroyed without great
oostf And ' then the Idea came Into
his mind that they might be destroyed
and utllted at the same time.
Eat them! But there Is a prejudice
against eating a "jackrabblt." There
was also prejudice against eating iorte.
but all of the horses that have been
prepared- for the food market have been
taken. There la also prejudice against
eating hogs and many other animals.
but atlll they all find sale in the mar
k'ets.
"What is the history of the jackrabblt.
anyway T" bs mused. Tbs real Jackrab
blt la extinct in Oregon. The animal
known today as th Jackrabblt is a dls
tlnct animal from that species. The
present "Jackrabblt" Immigrated into
Oregon from Northern California and
Nevada a number of years ago- He Is
known as the "Blacktall," or American
Hare. The original Jackrabblt would
weigh, when dressed, six to eight pounds.
He wss a large, lean, stringy animal,
The blacktall, tbs present pest, will
only weigh two and a half pounds when
dressed, and bis flesh is aa tender and
well-flavored as that of the Belgian
hare. The American hare will com
pare wjth any in the world for table
use. All of these years be has been
considered as a pest and unlit for the
table. Only tba Indian and tba coyot
would sat blm. '
"Can him for th market?" cams the
suggestion to th mind of th Echo
aag. "He ony eats pur food and bis
Sesb is aa pur and Under as that of
moat of the animals and fowls used
for food
A company waa organised with a cap
ital stock .of 11,000, and a plant con
structed at a cost of 12,000 for experi
mental purposes. Th Institution proved
a success from' th start and f 5.000 In
Improvements are being added. Th
present capacity is V00O pounds a day
and when th improvements ar -completed
the capacity wtU be Increased to
a ton a day.
The company leased 1(0 acre or
ground, seeded to afalfa and constrict
ed a rabbit-proof fence around it" Rab- :
bits will be driven Into It, and also
trapped and placed in th enclosure.
There tbey will be fed in addition to
being permitted to feed upon tha youni
alfalfa They are trapped as needed ir
a quiet way ao as not to disturb oth-'
era Besides, th company is paylnt
11 a doien for all rabbits, delivered
at Its place of buslnesa It has turned ,
out a boon to th community a. well
as a profitable Institution. Ranch
ers can make large profits trapping the
rabbits, aa it la easy to catch a few
hundred In a day or two.
People of the Interior may turn put
to rabbit bunting and not only destro)
tha pest but get well nald for doing
It. Th company also has a fruit vap
orating plant In connection and this Is
consuming the fruit at a good price
that has heretofore gone to wast for
lack of a market - ,
.As a remarkable illustration of the
prospects of ths rabbit cannery busl
ness as an Industry in Eastern '"Ore
gon.' landowners have already forbidden
the company to trap on their lands.
They see In th rabbit already more
value as a factor In th .market than he
la dangerous as a pest in the communi
ty. Thus, at on tell swoop be has
advanced from a despised and bunted
pest to a much-sought-for animal for
bis value in th market
It is now predicted that canneries
will be established throughout East
ern Oregon; that large areas will be
fenced in in which to breed them as
they ar reduced on; th range; and
that I ji ported bucks'' will be place 1
among them t improve them, and that
within a few years they will not' bt
regarded a pest but will be converted
Into on of th largest Industries In the
state.
The jackrabblt is passing as s aest
RUSSIA LOOKS FOR
DAWN OF FREEDOM
i- ' ' . .' .: ' '
Yoang Muscovy Determined to Effect
- an Escape From the Present
Egyptian Bondage.
ST. PETERSBtTRa, April 18. There
are at present In St Petersburg half a
dosaa men and women from America
who ar writing books on Russia. They
,' will stay her from three months to a
year and each will return with a two
t volam work on this vast oountry, which
i he has seen only from th railroad train
and read of In th books at the Imperial
Library. It is th fashion now in all
' new works on Russia to belabor George
Kennan and bis Siberian stories are
spoken of as "yellow journalism" by
. these wonld-b authors who ar shown
. . a model prison in St Petersburg and
, . ar led about like sheep by the Rus
sian officials, after which they let loos
a tirade upon a matter which was writ
ten about 1C years ago, and at a time
when th Russian prison system was
even worse than it is now.
What, Kennan Sid for JBassia,
Kennan had three or four things at
his command which no other traveler
in Russia before or sine has had In th
same degree. First, of alt he knew the
, Russian language, and without that
knowledge one might as well be deaf
and dumb so far as getting at real news
, i in concerned; secondly,, he bad the con
fidence of the official classes and, what
;, is most important he had the confi
dence of the revolutionists. To have
gained th trust of the last-named class
was no small achievement Thirdly, he
traveled upon an unbeaten path to Siberia
without the luxurious limited train and
without official accompaniment. Among
the Russians who have suffered the tor
tures of prison and exile the name of
' Kennan is mentioned like that of a
saint and whatever small measure of
prison reform Russia has obtained Ken
nan's revelations brought about
. Among; the Russtan as well as among
American official classes Kennan i not
In good repute. Many American officials
. who sit in St. Petersburg have been
caught in the net of official flattery, and
Russia is to them as free a country as
.. America "You have Just as much lib
erty here as in America, haven't your
I was asked by an American business
man in St Petersburg.
"Yes, I have, until I want to go some
where, and then I have to ask the po
lice for permission.
-, "You can do anything you please so
long aa ypu mind your own business."
But even such a conversation between
ts was Quickly silenced.
I said: "What a wealthy country Rus
sia would be If it had a sensible eco
nomic policy!" The word policy was
dangerous and I was stopped before I
could go further.
freedom in Bnssla.
It is all well enough for these well
fed Yankees with Uncle Sam's passports
, In tbelr pockets to talk about freedom,
but when .you go among old acqualn-
tances and auk. "Where is my old
friend T they reply: "In Siberia; In
exile."
"What about the other man?"
v "He is In England; he had to run
way."
V- 'T "But where is Ivan Tvanovsky?"
"Piv hundred miles from a railroad
In th mines.'
"What has happened to Petrovsky?"
"In 6t Petersburg; in prison."
When you come acrosn such yawning
spaces among your acquaintances, who
. were educated and harmless but enthu
siastic youths, you realize .how far from
freedom Russia still U. -win the coffee
bouse the newspaper Is disfigured by a
big black blotch that even one's lmaglna
tion cannot penetrate. You feel a pull
. -at your heart a painful but sympathetic
i Reeling for these full-grown men who
; ar treated with greater rigor than If
they were children in a primary school.
- One cannot help loving these Russians
with tbelr b.ospItable homes and hearts,
with their great aspirations, their hard
. past their struggling present and their
glorious future. Something tremendous
im brewing. One does not know where
o how, but young Russia is thinking.
, feeling and making ready, foe wherever
freedom's note rings ever ao faintly a
roaring applause greets the speaker or
performer; and there are tumultuous
scenes when the public reads between
the actor'a lines and feels the author's
souL
Maxim Oorky"s Preat Work.
Maxim Gorky, he vagabond author,
has put upon the stage personalities
which let loos many a winged word
that fans the smoldering fire to burn
ing flame. His last drama "At the Bot
tom.." which pictures the lowest life of
Russian trampdom, draws nightly a
crowd which completely fills the theatre.
The people come and shout themselves
hoarse because as these tramps live out
their lives they do not hide their feel
ings, and th appearance of a corrupt
policeman gives occasion for such a
demonstration against the whole system
that th authorities must be blind not
to have seen the tendency of th play.
Gorky feels th pain of the lowest
creatures, the penalty of sin and the
pressure of th higher powers; he is de
cidedly "persona non grata" with official
Russia, although he is neither a revolu- ,
tiontst nor a nihilist but an author who
talks for the poor because he himself
has been poor, beaten, drunken and at
the pit of hell. His play makes a pe
culiar impression; it Is one of the
dreariest pictures which ever passed
over the stage, and should official Rus
sia discover its tendency both it and
Gorky would disappear from the boards.
Perhaps the fire which burns in th
veins of Russia's youth, would not be
at all dangerous if It had a place where
it could find vent There is no such
thinR as public life in Russia. The stage
is under a severe censorship, and only
when some blunderer gets hold of such
a play as Gorky's "At the Bottom." does
the public have a chance to applaud its
own thoughts which are but faintly ex
pressed by th author.
Foreign papers pass through the cen
sor's office and come to the reader's
hands mutilated, - and the local papers
serve no real purpose, and are not news
papers in any sense. Thy copy largely
the dispatches c from - foreign papers
which take from thre to four days to
reach Russia, ao that a dispatch may be
anywhere from three to five days old
before on can 'read it Of th political
affairs of bis country th intelligent
Russian know little or nothing; the
papers cannot Instruct him and to talk
about them Is often dangerous. The
newspapers were to celebrate this month
their 200th anniversary; it was out of
the question to review the history of
journalism in Russia, for that would be
a terrible accusation against an un
reasonable and most severe censorship.
which has stiffened all individual ex
pression and has suppressed and op
pressed a most important institution In
a civilized state. The only thin the
newspaper men wanted to do was to
come together at a banquet eat Rus
sian cabbage soup and drink a bottle or
two to the health of the public censor.
dui even tms narmiess diversion was
prohibited and the press is now 200
years old and can neither privately nor
publicly celebrate its birthday .
Very often the artists of Russia have
tried to talk to the people through th
brush, but -the expositions also are un
der rigid censorship, although once in
awhile th censor cannot read the lan
gruagc of pictures and so some which
preach a revolutionary doctrine escape
his attention and his wrath. It was so
with Ivanow's picture . called "The
Car." The czar in the center of the
picture looks like a wax doll dressed In
shining purple and gold; there is no ex
pression in the face, it is Just a great
stuffed waa figure. Soldiers in front of.
him press back the crowd which looks
at him in stupid awe or falls upon its
knees in adoration. That picture was a
plain revolutionary pamphlet and after
awhile the censor awoke to discover the
meaning of what to bis untrained eye at
nrst seemed harmless, and now no ex
position can be opened until an especial
art censor has looked at each picture.
XTniverslty In Pondage.
Th university is as rigidly Supervised
aa every other public Institution and
the number of Russian professors who
are in involuntary exile Is legion. Thrc
of the most famous political economist
are upon French soli, where not a few
ire In frigid Siberia A young friend of
mine, a student who wrote a disserta
tion upon the labor movement in Amer
ica, wan not allowed to present it, al
though it waa harmless. Sociology Is
not taught at all and political economy
Is handled in a very gingerly manner.
The less there Is openly taught the'
more the students secretly read and talk
Nearly every student If he had a chano
would give bis life to let life and light
into Russia A finer set of young men
one seldom has a chance to meet; they
are thoughtful; often have a good
philosophy of life and know much more
than their professors have taught them.
America is to many of them a Mocca ; .
and anybody who wants to employ 100
talented young Russian university stu
dents could have them for the asking.
They very often have an exalted opinion
of the United States, and I sometimes
have to talk down my own country for
fear that they may be disappointed when
they reach it. They all- feel painfull y
the revival of race hatred In Amerlci
and cannot understand the attitude of
the South and much of the North on the
color questloa They ask, "How can
these things be in free America?" and It
Is not an easy matter to apologise for
such a state of affairs. President
Roosevelt's, nam Is better known than
that of any other American and I have
found small tradesmen and peasants
who know him and value him according
to his merit, writes Edward A. Stelner
in the Chicago News.
On tbs Eve of a Crisis.
Last years student revolts were not
the harmless things which the apologists
of Russia try to make us believe. It is
very amusing to hear on of our con
suls tell th story. He sayss "There
was absolutely nothing the matter;
there wer about 600 Cossacks on the
Nowsky prospect who swung their little
whips ar.d frightened the crowd away.
Nothing at all happened." Well, ac
cording to official report about two dos
en men were killed by the Cossacks, and
In Moscow a huge building was full of
men and women who were arrested just
because they happened to be in the
crowd, and many an innocent young man
has been sent into exile for a year or
two just because by chance he was
among the number. The Cossack Is not
a gentle creature, and when he gets a
chance at a crowd is Just like a rat ter
rtef with his favorite animal. Russian
police are gentler than the Cossacks and
i tnina that I would do what most Rus
sians do when there is a demonstration
run away. ,
NoW, more than ever, is it apparent
that the "fullness of time" is come in
Russia and that something is going to
happen soon. Among all classes the dis
satisfaction Is growing stronger every
day. I traveled to Berlin with a pro
fessor of the Moscow University and as
we reached the German frontier he
Jumped from the car, rushed to the
newspaper stand and, as he came back
with his arms full of papers, said: "1
can stand thla physical slavery, being
tagged by a passport but I can't stand
this mental slavery; we shall have to be
free.-' So speaks a public official, ami
couniieBs tnousanas say, vry Quietly
when nobody bears; "Amen! So let it
be."
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In Portland are operating Printing Presses, Feed
Grinders and Iyikers Coffee i Grin
and Blowers, Meat Choppers Cash Carrying
Sawing
Wood
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Cutting
Th Hloanurnan Zevalntinn.
They tell me a rebellion's on down there
in Nicaragua
Where there are names like Chautolis.
uoajao and Managua.
nn1erfJ? nuch why folk, who llve
Down in that lnvelv ,nrf ,
Bo much of time and blood and treasure
To spoiling one another's pleasure
By stirring up rebellions Just as fast as
e er thev ma v.
I hunted up an atlas, and the thing is
plain as day.
For in that revoluting land, where war
18 a diaeajiA
I found a bunch of urfiii i,.
best of which or. '
Talagalpa. Kulkulaya, Tipatapa and Bed-
ChUamato. Mlguellto and some other
thing infernal;
Salatlname, Mondaco, Chichlgalpa, Mata-"
Siscionas, Momotombo, Matagalpa and
LdDerctad, Palacuguina, Saupuka
laoannla
Chlchacajste. Dlramba, Zepadero,
KukeramualiaNandasco, Qudesgua and
Metatapa and Mo'ndacha. rhiit.rw
Villanueva. " "
Ctudada, Antigua Sang San, Makuapa-
tura Pintpihn '
Talecuclente. Touatepe, Koorlngwaa and !
JUlaalDa.
I guess the ones I've aunterf
serve the nurnnin mil).
And show why .N.caraguans are Impelled
so oft to fight
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Blowers ftrV School
Buildings, Etc., lite.
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