THAT GOOD OLD JOKE COWBOY GOES “ LOCO"
40 YEARS A BANDITI
PREHISTORIC MAN IS FOUND
WESTS GREAT DAM
la of Great Use to tha Plantara of
Fsaall Remains of a Briton 170,000
Jamaica for Making
Years Ago Oloeovorsd In the
Fences.
ABOUT ONE'S ANCESTORS COM I NO COM M ITS W H O LESA LE MURDER
Themee Valley.
Old Bill Miner, Stage Coach and
OVER ON TH E M AYFLO W ER.
A FTER K IL L IN G BRIDE.
Kingston. Jamaica.—Tha “Dlldo," a
Shoshone Structure In Wyoming
Train Robber.
Ixmdon.— Back In a time that no
cactus native to Jamaica, and attain
man
knows,
170.000
years
ago,
there
Is World's Highest.
ing a height of 25 feet, la ahown In
the accompanying Illustration. It baa Iconoclast Points Out a Faw Facta Ropas and Drags to Death Hla Wife, lived In England a race of mvu, whose
H m Left a Criminal Trail Ovar the an Important economic value and la
stature and physical characteristics
That Seam to Hava Baan Over
Kiila Brother, Stepson and a 81a-
illd not differ materially from those of Erected In an Effort to Reclaim the
West— Now Faces Long Term
looked. But They Ara Extreme-
of great use to the planters for ma
teNn-Law ,
Than Com
the Englishman of today- a raoe that
In Prison fa r Georgia
Arid Valleys In the Region
king fences to keep out small stock
ly Parti nant.
mits Suicide.
had shed all traces of simian traits In
Thereabout»—W ill W ater
Hold-up.
and thieves from praying on thalr
face, feature and body, and whose
flelds.
Thlrety Crope.
_ ,
.
,
, Whenever I see a fellow throwing
R lllln fi, Mont.— Driven temporarily brain cavity was larger than Is often
Thia P,an‘
plant contains a pithy sub- out his chest like a pouter pigeon and
Gainesville, Ga.— Far hack In the
Thla
•80s drivers of stage coaches making »’ »no* *h lch is used by the natives as bragging because he thinks hla ances- lnaane by marital troubles aud suffer found In highly Intelligent people of
Sheridan, Wyo.—Gnce a wilderness
Thia has recently so unpromising that It evoked deri
trips back and forth across the state a tonic for the hair. The heart of old tora came over on the Mayflower It Ing from an Injury, due to a fall with our modern age
been
proven
by
the
discovery
of
the
hla
horse
early
In
the
winter.
Cliff
sion In the halls of congress, the west
of California began to come In from Pilots la used for certain kinds of always causes me to break forth In a
Roots, a cowboy and freighter, resld 1
has become today the land of fortune
thalr lone-mountain Journeys with |
(loud, vulgar chortle of m irth—“haw
ing about forty miles north of here, {
and opportunity. In this land of
cash boxes rifled of their contents,
haw-haw!"—Just Ilka that. That May ran amuck with a rope and six-shoot
sometimes a horse shot, and In every
boundless distances tbe altitude Is
flower Joke nearly tickles me to er. After killing bis young bride of a
stimulating, the air Is a tonic, giving
case with tha same story. A lonely
death, and whenever I have chapped few weeks, her brother. Andy Rehder.'
health to tbe Infirm and courage to
spot on the road, sometimes In the
hands or a cold sore anywhere near his own stepson. James Bridges, and
thoee who have failed elsewhere. Its
daytime, sometimes at night, a single
my mouth and hear that boast. I aim his wife's sister, Mrs. W. 8. T h o u ip ;
highwayman and the magic words.
constant sunshine encourages optim
ly laugh and laugh until my face son. he committed suicide.
“Hands up!” The tale never varied.
ism and cheerfulness. Ths glories of
pains me.
I
Mounting bis horse. Roots threw a
For want of a better name the lone
Its opal-tinted dawns, the Indescrib
Do you know, "M r. Mayflower." rope around bis wife's neck and
highwayman came to be known, far
able beauty of Ila sunsets and tbe
there was a time In my freckled ca dragged her at a gallop over hla ranch
and wide, as "California Billy."
nameless witchery of Its twilight soft
reer when I labored under the same until the back of her head had been
The exploits of "California Billy"
ly melting Into night are the work
delusion that now seems to have pos crushed
by striking against the
continued for several years. All ef
of r. divine painter.
session of your goat? Once upon a stones. He dragged her body back to I
forts at his capture were In vain.
Its canyons, sculptured during un
time my grandfather. In an unguarded the ranch house and le f it In the
Many posses hunted the lone outlaw,
told centuries by wind and wave, are
moment. Imparted to me the priceless stable, where It was found by officers
tempted by offers of generous re
unrivaled In tbelr wonderful and
Information that my ancestors came j The Immediate cauae of the act will
wards.
But he seemed to bear a
varied coloring and In their awe-ln-
over on the Mayflower. That made a never be known.
charmed life.
spiring depths. Ita deserts, In vast
terrific hit with me and boosted me up
Rehder wss playing carda with a
It was not until 1869 that he w » s !
ness of area. In potential wealth of
at one boost about 75 per cent. In friend when Roots rode up and flred
caught The driver of a stage that
soli and climate, and In rivers o fc o n
my own estimation.
I Immediately three shots through the door, killing '
ran In from the hills back of Sacra
stant supply, are sleeping empires
cot the Idea, as you have, that I was Rehder Instantly and tearing off one I
mento jumped from his seat in front
awaiting exploitation and develop
J'J
made of a little bit finer clay than of the ears of his companion.
of the office early one morning in the
ment Here nature offers to every
those with whom I came In dally
'
Roots then went to the ranch ol
spring of that year and breathlessly
man his birthright—a wide sky. the
contact. Why. after I found out that Janies Bridges, son of his first wife.!
told how he had been held up but a
sunshine, the wind and a sure reward
I had the Mayflower strain of blood In and without warning shot him to
few hours before. The strong box of
for Intelligent effort
It Is our own
my veins. I would hardly speak to my death. From there he rode to thej
the stage bad been heavy with gold
The Ancient Briton.
land of mystery and enchantment, of
neighbors.
When I made new ac ranch of Mrs. W. 8. Thompson, wld j
dust sent In by miners. Never before
quaintances
I always asked them owed sister of his first wife, and shot ' bones of a prehistoric man burled 170 crumbling rulna and of lost races
had “California Bill" dared to attack
which have utterly vanished.
whether or not their ancestors came her dead. Returning to his owu ranch.
deep under a terrace, which Is re-
a coach so close to a town.
The 1st« Governor John A. Johnson
over on the Mayflower, and If they j Roots went Into a field and blew out garded, and with good reason, as the
In 20 minutes from the time the j
of Minnesota well said the west sym
didn't, I never spoke to them again,
i his brains.
ancient
bed
of
the
Thames
river.
driver told his story a heavily armed i
A 25-Foot Cactue.
bolises "homes for the homeless, food
Why. Just at the height of my glory
A note found by ofllcers. addressed
There Is no reason to believe that
posse was riding hard back over the
an Inquisitive chump, who believed to his former wife and written pre the elevation or depression of the for the huugry. work for tbe unem
cabinet
work.
There
are
between
500
tra il, i t was not difficult to pick up
that I was made of mud and water, I
ployed, land for tbe landless, gold
traces of the bandit. Before nightfall and 600 different species of the cac Just like other ordinary folks, took J sumably after he had killed wife No. i land. which leads to the rise and fall For (he penniless, freedom for the en
the level of the river, has not been
his hunters were close upon him and tus family and the actual number the trouble to pry the lid off my an- 2. stated that as she had taken his i
boy from him he would take her boys j uniform. The past must be Judged slaved, adventure for tbe restless.
probably greatly exceeds this. They I
ar the sun sank behind the hills they
cestry. He went about In a painsta away from her. When the first wife from what we know of the present
are
without
exception
natives
of
Amer
surrounded him. The posse expected
ica and their extraordinary forms con king way to find out Just where I was granted a divorce she was given and on this basis the land movement
‘ he custody of their eight-year old son ! which formed the terrace, and which
stitute a remarkable feature In the came from.
vegetation of the warmer regions. All '
, n .t .c?.r* a t . ,.hl8 ,lm e ,0 dwe11 ■ and he had been trying ever since to has scarcely changed since the Roman
of them have fleshy stems, often very on the details of bis Investigation. I have the boy returned to him. A n -' period, has been deposited at the rate
soft and Juicy, and In numerous In- ! will merely admit that when he got other son by the first wife, living In a ! of uu» foot In 1.000 years, this
stances suitable for good. Most of back two or ,hree cen,ur1«8 al° “8 ‘ be remote section of the Bull Mountains. signing a period of at least 170,000
them are leafless, only a few species ance8try tra11 he discovered, to my In- has not been heard from and It Is j years since the high-level terrace was
h a v ln r true leaves. Instead of leaves tenae anlai®mt‘n‘ aad disgust, that thought that Roots had murdered hint. ' laid down at Galley H ill, and the an
most of the cacti have clusters of hairs ?ne of my forefathers had been It la aleo feared that Ralph Bridges, clent Briton was entombed In the
or thorn.
| hanSed In Germany for stealing a his wife and baby have been killed, river bed.
The whole organization of the eac- b?rae' and ,bat ano,h®r ° ld K® **'r Roots covered at least fifty miles, us- i This ancient Briton was five feet
tus adapts It to withstand long who belong,‘d “ » m7 ‘ » " “ 7 bad been Ing two horses, while perpetrating hla one Inch In height. The neck was
j enormously thick and the cheat was
droughts. They vegetate vigorously tarred and f«a‘ b®r®d and ridden ° n a wholesale murders.
nilt of C
Vi . • S ‘ .x ° ax
’vw for d*"®r
-------
during a part of thè year when mola- ral1 out
a X Prench
wn
—
. . . -------
narrow and protruding.
ture Is available and then rest for a ,,on from ,he army
Not on,y thl8'
long time. Some of the cacti fam ily but ,h,a chap who waa ®I” ‘a«ed
the ONLY ONE AGNES FOR PETER
FINDS SECRET OF EGYPTIANS
grow on high mountains reaching ,a’ k of look,ng UP W ance8‘ r7 went
nearly to the lim it of the snow while careful,7 over ,b ® Pa«»enger list of He Promises Judge He W ill Marry
z . - t i l ’* - - J T
* r t St Hardening Copper Is Rediscov
Mise Eudelka, but Pet Name
J others thrive only In torrid districts ! tb° 8® who 8alled 0,1 ‘ be Mayflower,
ered
by
Railroad
Fireman
of
“WedeJkle” Gets on License.
The plants of this botanical order are and he found ” ° m®mb* r ot » 7 family
Kansas.
a great boon to the natives of the dis-1 waa on deck when tb® boat le,t tb®
Chicago.— I t took the newly created
trlcts ln which they grow, generally I do£k .
___ _ _
Newton. Kan.—The process of hard-
regions destitute of water. The stems • IMd you eTer pauae ,n your anc«8‘or court of domestic relations four days
of investigation and three sessions to ®n‘n< copper to the temper of ateel,
of many of the varieties contain a four flu8h,nK “ > compare the capacity
wholesome Juice of which both men of the Ma7<1ower wl(b ,b® number of find out whether Peter Norbutoe, 629 an ar‘ known only to the Egyptians
West Fourteenth street, set sail on the hundreds of years ago, has been redis-
The Great Shoshone Dam,
and livestock avail themselves, and ‘>pople wbo h®881 ‘ hat thelr ancestors
matrimonial sea with the right girl. I c°v®red by a Kansas descendant of a
some species produce a pleasant fru it ' came over on hoard her? The May-
dangers
for the brave, an unknown
For four days the annoying rumor long *,n® ° r metal workers. It le de-
Old Bill Miner.
The fcultlvatlon of edible cactus Is flo* er< 7 °u know- waB no‘ a very bl«
that Peter had "put one over on the j c‘a r®d- John Htlpp. a Hanta Fe Are world to conquer and room for all.”
■ vessel, and if as many people came
a fig h t To their surprise the outlaw • “ II ln ‘ be experimental stage.
In the swift march of national
| across aboard her as we must Infer court" by marrying the wrong girl j man ° f ‘ hla city, la said to hold the
offered no resistance, but surrendered
and openly boasting of It floated about ,8cr81 ?or which scientista of many events during tbe past decade, the
from
the
boasts
of
thqse
we
m
eet
a t their command. His trial was
development of tbe west has focused
have sought for many ages.
dav. you can bet your sweet life Judge Goodnow'a chambers, always c°untrlea
speedy and less than a week after bis TO REGULATE HUMAN GROWTH
In a tiny laboratory of a neat, well- the attention of the world. It fur
just beyond reach of the Irritated Jur
-------------
j
she
was
crowded
some.
AU
the
flrst-
capture he began serving a term In
kept cottage near the railroad shops, nishes one of the most Inspiring pages
Englleh Scientist Says Gland Located c,aas cabins were filled, they slept lay- 1st.
Ban Quentin prison.
In the annals of our commonwealth.
A warrant was Issued for Norbutos.
In
the
SkuH
Controls
Our
er
on
layer
In
the
steerage,
and
they
When Miner was released he left
It Is a story of progress and human
He told Judge Goodnow that
he
Stature
and
W
e
ig
h
t.
piled
'«m
six
deep
on
deck.
T
he
rig
California as rapidly as possible. The
achievement—a battle with nature In
wished to marry
the complainant,
------
glng
waa
full
of
hangers-on,
while
w ilder country of Colorado offered
her sternest and most forbidding as
Chicago.— Anyone who wishes to countless others were hanging on by Agnes Eudelka. The case was contin
greater attractions. In this new field
pect.
ued
with
this
understanding.
of operation bis methods were the regulate bis natural altitude above sea ‘b®,r eyebrows from the vessel's rail,
Hut Irrigation has wrought Its m ir
Peter
appeared
before
Judge
Good-
level needs only to have his pituitary j Tbe members of the crew could hard-
same as In the old.
acle. and the wealth of that portion
now May 4, smiling and contented.
gland
attended
to.
A
t
least
that
is
'7
Set
about
the
boat
In
their
duties
Miner and two others on November
of the country which great statesmen
At the same time a letter from Mu
7, 1881, reappeared in California after what Prof. Arthur Keith of London without stepping on a Mayflower an- nicipal Judge Scully was received by
In Webster's day were wont to de
an absence of twelve years, held up cays, and his statements have been cestor, and they must have cussed Goodnow stating that he had married 1
clare worthless Is greater now than
the stage that ran from Sonora, Tuo corroborated by a number of Chlca- something fierce. Some of those on
that of the entire nation In 1860. Of
Peter to Agnes Wedejkls on May 1.
lumne county, to Milton and secured go's foremost physicians. The pltul- board were stowaways, and hid them-
especial Interest is the project located
As the name of Peter's complainant
tary
gland
Is
the
first
ln
Importance
selves
In
the
bold
among
the
cargo,
>32,000 In cash and gold dust
In northern Wyoming.
was Agnes Eudelka. Judge Goodnow'a
Two of the gang were quickly of the principal ductless glands of the while others. In tbelr ambition to be eholer arose and he angrily asked
As the springtime showers and
come
Mayflower
ancestors,
worked
caught Miner managed to elude the
sunshine fall upon the snowy peaks
their passage across by holystoning Peter why he had married another
ofllcers for several weeks, but
of tbe lofty mountains on tbe eastern
the deck, patching sails, balling out girl after making all arrangements to
finally run to earth. The trial was
rim of Yellowstone park, a thousand
marry Miss Eudelka.
bilge
water
and
doing
other
menial
brief and Justice severe. The three
streams rush downward to fill to
I t took the combined
efforts of
services
unbecoming
to
a
May
lo
w
e
r
robbers were sent to San Quentin pris
brimming the swift-flowing Shoshone
three Interpreters to untangle the
ancestor.
on for 25 years.
river. An Important physical change
complications. Then It developed that
J
H
Tb®
W0Dd®r
’•
,ba‘
‘
h®
old
It was 1901, 20 years later, before
will occur at such a time. The flood
Mayflower waa not swamped In mid- there was no "other girl,” but that
“Old Bill" Miner could again breathe
that once, unchecked and uncon
there was only one Agnes and Peter
ocean.
Do
you
know,
sir,
that
If
all
the air a free man. By good behavior
trolled, ewept madly through the rock-
those wbo It Is claimed came over In htd married the right one. The name
he cut bis sentence five years and the
walled gorge, will beat Itself to still
Wedejkls was a "pet" name often used
the
Mayflower
were
launched
togeth
acthcrltles believed that when he
by
the
girl
and
was
used
when
tbe
ness
against a massive wall of con
er, they could not begin to get on
walked out of San Quentin his day«,
ceremony waa performed.
crete with which man has blocked
board the Lusitania?— Newton New
as an outlaw were ended. But they
the canyon. A beautiful lake. 100 feet
kirk, ln Boston Post
were mistaken.
deep and covering 10 square miles,
Farmer Sues Aviator.
Toward the close of 1903 the author
will appear.
Paris.— M. Huerteblse, a farmer at
ities of Oregon were startled by the
John Stipp.
Ouyancourt, sued M. Esnault-Pelterle.
In this wonderful gash In Ihe moun
Dartmouth
H
at
a
New
Idea.
hold-up of an express train on the
the aviator, because the pilots of his
tains, with perpendicular walls a thou
Dartmouth
college
la
undertaking
looking
for
all
the
world
like
other
cot
Oregon Railway and Navigation com
an Interesting social experiment In aeroplanes landed on his property and tages of the average laboring man, the sand feet high, the government has
pany's line at Milepost No. 21, near
Location of the Gland.
erected the highest dam In the world.
New
Hampshire. A team of five or caused damage to his flelds.
Corbett, Oregon. A year later the Ca
On March 6, notably. Mr. Marie fell lost art was recovered. John Stlpp's It Is a wedge of concrete 328 feet
six
representative
students are sent
father,
grandfather,
great
grandfather
nadian Pacific's transcontlnnetal ex body, which Include the typhoid and
Its height can
around through the rural commun In a rye field and the aeroplane could and how much further back he does from base to top.
press was stopped at Mission Junc adrenolin glands and a portion of the
not be gotten out without doing aerl-
not know and does not care, were only be appreciated when compared
tion, British Columbia, by a lone ban pancreas. The Juices secreted by this ' I ties within a reasonable radius of the oua damages to the crop.
with that well known structure. New
Their mission Is not evan
dit, who with cold and deliberate gland, according to Chicago physl-1 college
M. Quesnel, the Justice of the pease, metal workers. For eight years he York s famous Flatiron building would
? e p™n’otlon ° f 8°-
haa unceasingly experimented In his
neive compelled the express messen clans, largely control the growth o f
sentenced
M.
Esnault-Pelterle
to
pay
reach within 47 feet of the top of tbe
ger to open the safe, which contained the bones of the body. When the se (•lability. The team Includes a man a fine of >2 damages, the aum claimed laboratory for the secret burled with
tha ancient Egyptians. Recently hts dam, and the tip-top of the dome
close to >10,000.
cretion Is plentiful the bones grow to who is able to “supply" the pulpit of by M. Heurteblse.
years of discouraging failure culmina of the United States capitol would
Less than two years later, on May an abnormal slse, but when It Is com the village church and deliver a sim
ple
and
earnest
sermon.
Other
mem
ted
ln success, and he holds a process fall 21 feet short of the parapet.
10, 1906, at eleven o'clock In the night, paratively small In quantity the
W sll Paptr Poisons Family.
In the summer, when the crops are
for tempering copper until It defies tha
M iner and two pals robbed the trans growth of the bone« Is retarded. When bers of the little embassy can sing
Fayette, Mo.—A peculiar case of
thirsty, the big gates w ill be opened
continental express of the Canadian the secretion Is caused to flow freely, or play some Instrument, enhancing poisoning occurred near this city In hardest flies, ha says.
and tha pent-up floods w ill be released
Pacific railway near Durrer, B. C.
say physicians, a rapid development of the attractiveness of the Sunday serv the case of Thelma, daughter of Romle
Into the river below. Another dam.
ices and contributing to bucolic gaiety
the
bones
la
the
result.
Thus,
when
a
House of Lords.
F or this crime he was sent for life
Ijeach, and Christine, daughter of
a low structure of conorete, w ill di
on week-day evenings.
London.— T he house of lords la oom-
to the penitentiary at New Westmin boy or girl Is 111 for tome time with
Ernest Dougherty. The children were
vert tbe water« through a tunnel
Concerts,
plays,
debates,
minstrel
ster and at once began planning an a fever, the diseased condition of the
posed
of
lords
spiritual
and
tha
lords
three ad a quarter miles long Into
shows, field days and carnivals of all sleeping In rooms freshly covered
escape. W ith two companions, who body causes the pituitary gland to be
temporal. All the peers were not orig
sorts are organised—anything that with green and purple wall paper. The inally entitled to a seat as a matter a eanal which for 40 miles paaaee
come
unusually
active,
with
the
reault
were confined In the brickyard of the
along tha upper edge of a broad and
will bring the members of Isolated moisture caused a deadly poison to
of right, but only those who ware ex fertile valley containing 1S0.000 acres.
prison, be tunneled to freedom BDd that the alck person “grows like a
mountain communities Into contact fill the rooms. Thé odor was per
weed.”
nothing more was heard of him until
pressly summoned by tha king. Every
Two years ago It wee a desolate
with the legitimate recreative Influ ceptlble, but tbe parents believed It
last February, when one night a train
peerage of the United Kingdom which waste. Today It contains more than
harmless.
ences that are enjoyed by those who
Is
conferred
now
gives
the
right
to
a
on the Sbuthern railroad was held up
Green for French Boldlera.
800 farm houses and three thriving
live In larger places. This Instruc
and the Pinkertons at once concluded
seat In tha house of lords. The num towns. Last year 10.000 acres pro
Paris.— It la announced that the tion brings a whole neighborhood to
Can Dying Tribes Talk?
from the nature of the Job that Old minister for war has decided to make
Ran Francisco.— Prof. A. L. Kroeber ber la Indefinite, and may be Increased duced crops on this project. T h e bea
gether and sociability and true neigh
E lll M iner was at work again. They an experiment with a new uniform
of the department of anthropology of at the pleasure of the orown which, con of hope shines brightly In the
borliness are promoted.
were not mistaken and a few days at the September maneuvers. A spe
the University of California has con however, cannot deprive a peer of the west. I t beckons the landless w « to
The upper the manless land.
later M iner and two companions, bis cial committee has chosen a uniform
cluded a labor of nine years, ln which dignity once bestowed.
pals In the hold-up, were taken pris of a greyish-green color as being less
he recorded by means of phonographs house at present comprises about 680
The Difference.
oners.
Miner, now stxty-nlne years conspicuous against a French land
"W hy Is the bridegroom more ex« many of the nearly extinct dialects of members. By the act of union with 80,000 Seals Captured by One Beat.
old. will be elghty-nlne when his terra scape than the red trousers and blue penalve than the bride?”
the native Indian tribes of northern Scotland, 16 representatives of tha
London.— Eleven steamship« of the
o f service expires, and it Is probable coat now In service. The new uni
The
records w ill be Scottish peerage are elected by the Newfoundland sealing fleet have had
"Because the bride Is always given California.
that the end has been reached In his form w ill be served out to a t least a away, while tha bridegroom la usually placed In museums of tha various parta Scottish nobility for the duration of fair catchas, tha Bonaventura, the flrst
each parliament, and 28 are elected J® L ^ urn 5 ° 8 t John’s, bringing back
stormy and picturesque career.
of the state.
, regiment for the experiment
sold."— Judge.
tor life by the peers of Ireland.
80/100 seals.
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