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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1923)
Leviathan, Again in Service, and Her Officers Growth of Duck Raising in U. S< CALIFORNIA HAS RECORD saving machinery have been used very successfully on duck farms. “The demand for table ducks at good prices is mostly limited to a N»w large cities, and Is not nearly so gen eral as the demand for chickens or New- York.—Duck raising Is con fowls. The demand, however, ap- ducted successfully both ns a side I'ca « to be gradually Increasing, hut issue .on general farms and as a spe this lack of wide market materially cial business on a large scale. The influences the establishment and Peking is the most popular breed (or growth of duck farms. The market the production of lueut, and the Indian conditions should be studied carefully Runner Is the most popular for the before muking a large Investment In production of market eggs. The rear ducks. ing of ducks for market on a large "A prejudice against the duck flesh scale requires extensive capital and , and eggs exists In many places, caused experience, remarks a New York probably hy eating the common duck, So fur as known, this is u.. ,i „nest Times writer. Young ducks forced for j which has been allowed to roam In auto license number ever issued—num rapid growth and tunrketed nt from places where filthy conditions exist. ber 1,000,000—which was recently le eight to twelve weeks of age are ' 1 be rearing of ducks for market on a aned hy the state of California The called "green” lucks. They weigh large scale Is a business requiring cap one-mllllonth license was not Issued from four and one-half to six pounds ital and extenalve experience. Practi out of order, hut only after 91*9.999 each and are the principal source of j cal experience on a largo duck plunt previous ones had been given out. Income on commercial duck farms. Is the best teacher, but the novice can “ According to the census of 1920,” j begin In a small way ami enlarge as Hen Lays 183 Eggs In Seven Months. says Alfred R. Lee of the United experience Justifies. Pucks can be Springfield, 111.— With u record of States Department of Agriculture, raised with success and nt a profit on 183 eggs laid In the seven mouth* “ there were 2,817,*124 ducks In the general farms, hut do not appear to from November 1, 1922, to June 1« United States, valued nt $3,373,900. be so well adapted as a source o f In 1923, a white leghorn hen owned hy This shows a slight decrease In num come to average furtn conditions as H. B. Hammer of Weaver, la., ha* bers from the census of 1910, indlcat- I fowl, although they sen e to add va outlaid all other hens In the two-state Ing that the production of ducks In j riety of both meat and eggs for the they belong to Ecuador. Here, sure the country as a whole Is barely hold fanner's table." ly, Is u new field for enterprise.” ing Its own. Tlie decrease occurred In the southern slates, hut several of the j states In which ducks are raised ou special duck farms showed an Increase In the number of ducks kept. New York Ahead In Duck Raising. “ Massachusetts, California and Colo rado showed an Increase of about 5 per cent. New York, which contains by far the greatest number of duck farms, shows no change In the num ber of ducks, but ns the number raised on commercial farms has undoubtedly Hidden Gold. Strange Birds and « ." S 3 Increased materially In the last ten which fan the coast of Peru strike sea Giant Tortoises on the years, a decrease In the number of ward at Cape Blanco und surge across ducks on general farms must have oc Galapagos. the Galapngos group. Up to 800 feet curred to offset this Increase on duck most of the Islunds are barren, above farms. Washington, I*. C.—“The Galapagos thnt level they are swathed In clouds "There are about the same number Islands are being revisited by scien whose moisture aids luxuriant vegeta of ducks as geese In this country, nnd tists because they form an Incompar tion. only about three-fourths as many able natural history museum," says a "Wild goats, cattle, cats nnd dogs, ducks as turkeys. Ducks are most nu bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) as well ns hidden treasure, hear evl« merous In the following states, ar headquarters of the National Geo deuce of the rendezvous of hucca« ranged according to their production: graphic society. neers. In 1832 Ecuador annexed the Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New “Churlos Ihirwln began their aclen- Islands, and since 1885 they have had York, Missouri, Minnesota. Tennessee, title exploration und be reported on a governor. They acquired a strate Ohio, South Dakota, Indiana and Ne- the various species of glunt tortoises, gic Importance with the opening of brnskn, the number ranging from j each species confined to a single Islet, 235,000 head In Iowa to 100,000 In Ne and pointed out that half the flowers the Panama canal, for they lie on the cauul-to- Austral la route. braska. and half the birds of the Island are to "The largest Island of the group, the “There are eleven standard breeds be found nowhere else In the world. aforementioned Albemarle, Is larger of ducks which have been admitted to “ More than 2,000 voleunlc cones be than Long Islund, New York; the en- the American Standard of Perfection. sprinkle the archipelago, one estimate . . , , i. nnd .■ .i ,,i„ origin | l*re group has an ... area considerably In These breeds may be divided Into' i has It, the Islands volcanic .......... excess of that of Delaware. The three cln«ses: (1) The meat class. In accounts for the peculiar Interest they cluding the Peking, Aylesbury, Mus bold to science. Darwin deduced that nearest of the Islands to mainland la covy, Rouen, Cayuga, Buff and Swed the group has not been nearer the 600 tulles west of Ecuador. Have Economic Value. ish ; (2) the egg elnss. represented hy mainland, nor have the Islands Leeu "Treasure and science to one side, the Indian Runner, nnd (3) the orna closer together than now. as n famous humorist would say, tha How Peculiarities Developed. mental elass, composed of the fall, “ Hence the species of flower* and future of the Islands looms large upon the Crested White and the Black East India. The ducks commonly kept on birds which drifted to the Islunds have their agricultural merit." Ralph Stock, many farms In the South nnd Middle undergone a development In their Iso In his classic account of 'T h e Dream West nre of mixed breeding, and nre lated environment very different from Ship" expedition, wrote: "The soli Is a rich, red loam, almost generally of small size, poor layers that In their native hnbltats. Seldom nnd undesirable types of market duck. bus nature provided such a cleur-cut stoneless, and acareely touched by the Except the Muscovy, all oar economic opportunity to study the processes of plow. There are 3,500 head of cattle at present on Cristobal Island, and It breeds of ducks nre snld to have origi evolution. “The Galapagos hold a different eould support 60,000 with ease. Thera nated from the Mallard or wild duck. sort of lure for the modern world. Is no disease and no adverse climatic On a Large 8cale. “ Duck raising on a large scale has Most tales of hidden treasures warrant condition with which to contend, and been developed as a special business many grains of salt, but It seems at three years old a steer brings $100 to a considerable extent on Long certain that the pirates of South Amer (gold), live weight, at Guayaquil— Island. In section* within easy ship ica hid their loot of gold and silver when a steamer can he induced to call ping distance of New York city, Bos where they had their headquarter*. and take It there. Two caches have ton and Philadelphia. Intensive duck In these Islands. “There are a few hundred acres un farming on a large scale has been been unearthed, aitver Ingots and der cultivation when there might be The finder of one thousands, nnd 200 hone-lazy | eons do more successful than Intenalve chicken pieces of right. ralalng. as Peking ducks, especially, built a hotel In Ecuador; the second the work of 50 ordinary farm hands. stand confinement well, are more eas drank himself to death. “ Looking down on this fertile val “ The Islands He Just nnder the ley, It Is hard to realize that one la ily brooded and are less subject to disease than chickens. Artificial meth equator, hut the air frequently la standing on the lip of a long extinct ods of hatching and rearing und labor- chilly on some of them. One, Albe- crater, thnt In reality Cristobal Is a series of these, dour and uninviting to a degree, viewed from outside, but veritable gardens within. And them are four other Islands In the Gnlnpa- gns group—some smaller, some larger, than Cristobal—uninhabited and ex- aetly similar In character. Nominally, egg laying contests at Quincy and Murphysboro. Last Census Showed 2,817,624 Worth S3.373.966 in This Country. The great steamship Leviathan, most palatial of American passenger vessels, has re-entered the service after be ing reconditioned at a cost of millions of dollars. She Is here shown as she left Newport News, and abote are her navigating officers. Captain Hartley In the center. man Can in Lon plained that a peterman la yegg for that class of safe robbers thur used nitroglycerin. After despoiling the Ox ford post office, John fled to Europe ns Mr. Thomas Dougherty, banker and Philadelphia.—Hostile John O'Brien, planter. For a time he gave London of whom It Is said that he could blow a the benefit of his presence, frequenting safe with such- expertness that were the race track and the hetter-clnss the safe abutting a paper cluttered gambling establishments, winning and desk not one of said paper* would be losing with the usual regularity. Once so much as fluttered by the concussion. he was questioned hy Scotland Y’ard, but such was his bearing nnd his ex Is a prisoner in Philadelphia. Hostile John is something of q throw cellent alibi he waa not arrested. But the United States government back to the ancient and therefore ro mance-cloaked days of Wal Crosby, was after him. and O'Brien knew It. Easy lioberts, Bill Dow, Mark Shin- He went to Paris nnd to the Riviera. bum, George White und like celebri Nice and Monte Carlo knew him ns a ties of the ponderous '80s. And let us rich American who gambled like u not forget to mention, says the New gentleman. They didn't know that at York Herald, as long us the capture least twenty-five of his years had been of Hostile John Is Philadelphia's, that spent within American prisons, and city's favorite safe-cracking hero, the probably didn’t care. He lost nnd smiled; won nnd smiled. Monte Carlo lute Jimmie Logue. nsks n> more of one. A tired old man Is O'Brien now, six Eventunlly, however, fortune turned ty-eight years old and apparently re ngalnst him and he lost much of his signed to spendln- the remainder of Oxford haul. He lnnded In Florence, his days In a federal prison. But he hut American agents were hot on his has seen almost everything that seemed trail, nr.d lute In 1921 he fled westward good to him. He will probably die of to Rio de Janeiro. cancer, and It was because of this ma He took his remaining $4,000 to the lignant growth upon his lower Up that gambling houses of South America, he was caught. Driven by pain to ap working ns far south as Buenos Aires, ply at a Philadelphia hospital for and so successful was he that at one treatment of his disease, he virtually time or another hla fortune grew to t>e surrendered, because It wns this cam $30,000 and more. But we must not cerous infection that was his chief forget that Mr. O’Brien was the vic mark of identification. tim of a cancer. Age nnd the fleshpots At least half a dozen men with such had not helped him. He went to a growths were arrested before the au cancer specialist In Rio anil this doc thorities found Hostile John. And what tor, being a truthful man, told John a change In the man! He got his that he was doomed unless an expen title because, unlike the average safe sive operation should be successful. cracker, he wns a belligerent *oul ready Kept After Him. to fight It out with his gun. with a And all this time the United States length of pipe, with his short, heavy government kept after him, advertls- Jimmy, with his fists. Many a battle j Ing him well and stressing that can has John given the police here and cerous lip. When he sailed somewhat there In the world, although the rec j secretly from Rio, O’Brien must have ord* do not «how that murder may be had a matter of $15,000 or $20,000 In charged to hi* account. John has his money belt. But not one cent of calmed down. He did not resist arrest. this was expended upon luxurious Old-Fashioned Yeggman. travel. No, he shipped for New Or HI* arrest cause* a stir because he leans on a leisurely freighter, a Com Is one of the last of a dying race— mon yet uncommon deckhand—the that race of old-fashioned yegginen— richest deckhand on record. In fact. and because of the chase around the | A trifle bowed with years and none world which Is ended. j the better for the disease that fate The particular job this time was the seemed to Insist he retain. Mowing of the safe In the |>ost office It was In January, 1922. when John In Oxford, N. C., almost three years arrived In New Orleans. Almost at ago. It must have been a simple Job once he made preparations to have for Hostile John. He pried open a w ln- I that Up treated. He made nrrange- dow, drilled the iron box. dripped a f ments with a specialist and went so quantity of nitroglycerin Into the lock I far as to engage a room In a seml- mechanism and touched it ofT. There | private hospital when a pollceninn took was $40,000 In the safe and It seems ; nbtlce of him and, after consulting the reasonable to assume that John fled I tiles and thereby refreshing his mem- with the major portion of that In his I ory, properly decided that the man money belt, for John never was one that blew the Oxford safe was present. to divide equally with his confederates. In some manner John learned of There was nothing messy about the hla dnnger. When the policeman called Job. O'Brien knew hy experience Just ! at the hospital to make his capture how much nitroglycerin to use. In i he was told that Mr. Dougherty (John some respects he was not unlike the 1 himself) had failed to enter the Insti Humble Dutchman; In others, very tution. The hospital people suggested unlike. The Humble Dutchman, a con j that the policeman make a report of temporary of John's, was a clumsy the fact to hla chief* In order that a yegg, as his violent demise would Indi search for th# unfortunate Mr. Dough cate. but he was a basher or strong- erty be Instituted. arm w hen cornered. The Humble One "It would do little good." replied the was often arrested in bl* earlier day* policeman. "Inasmuch as the police of and was wont to weep so copiously the world have been on the lookout and to so exploit his starring legen for Mm for two years. He’ll not be dary wife and alck children (or was It j back.” Just the other w ay') that the detec Quite right, too. John dljl not com # tives who had collared him were moved hack. Instead he moved on West to to sympathy. El Paao and thence across the Rio The Humble One. feeling the soften , Grande to Tla Juana, where a gentle ing of the official clutch, would Jerk man of means and sporting proclivi himself free and with one tremendou* ties can disport himself without a wallop of Ms huge fist stun hla captor great deal of censorship. and run for It Bn» hs waa a crude Financial Up* and Downs. peterman. He carried hla liquid nitro Th* race* In Tla Juana took John, glycerin In a bottle in that pocket that as they say, as they have taken other has become most popular since the adventurer*. He played favorites; he fn lted States adopted prohibition law*. played hunches. He lost consistently. He Jimmied a post office window out Once he recouped at faro, only to hand In Ohio somewhere. The sash cord hla wtnnlnga to the omnivorous broke as the Humble Dutchman was I bookies. Once he went completely half-way In and hr’ f-iwiy out. The ' broke, only to regain a little. And falling sash struck the nltro bottle. with hla misfortunes came the old The Humble Dutchman vanished, pain and the renewed decision to enter never again to trouble us. a hospital. John, you must remem f c j c y e d Is im sslty. ber. was sliry seven or thereabout*, Hostile John waa ae eneb bungler. than, but a man's desire to live is And before Jt_ la forgotten, it la ex 1 strong. Cancerous Lip Leads to Cap ture of "Hostile John” O'Brien, Safe Blower. A last plunge! Only to get enough money to pay the s|>eclallst 1 Luck was with him again. He cashed large ly on a long shot and—well one doesn't account for such things. He plunged once more and lost all but a little. And on thut day In Tla Juana he came face to face with a Department of Justice mau who hailed him cordially and cor rectly. Just what would have hap pened had John bruved It through cannot be told, for be elected to de part. We rest find Hostile John O’Brien in New Y'ork—broke and arrested. He was arraigned as the robber of Ox ford's post office and the United States commissioner fixed hall at $7,.MX). And then a miracle happened. From some where John produced $7,500 In cash. This he postal as a guaranty that he would appear for trial. The day for trying him arrived, but not Mr. O'Brien. It was quite natural that the chase should be resumed with greater keen ness. Here was an old chap, sixty-eight to he exact, making the government's very best sleuths look foolish. Ami a man so marked, too! At least fifty government men Joined In the pursuit. Six or eight victims of John's dis ease were arrested, examined and let go before they nctually got him. And then they locked him up without bull. They are taking no more chances with John. He takes his predicament most philosophically. Refuses to Admit Guilt. “ Understand." says John, “ I’m not admitting that I ever did anything thut wasn't legal and on the square. That's my contention. Now It's up to the government to prove otherwise. I'm an old man and not foolish enough to believe thnt I’m going to live for ever. hut I’d like to die peaceful like. “ What would I do if I had my life to live over again? Don’t ask foolish questions. I'm a fatalist. I did what was mapped out for me to do. A man don't get up In the morning saying that he's going to do this or not do that. That Is. he won't If he's wise. He'll Just go along meeting things as he comes to them and acting accord ingly. You can only order your life up to a certain point. After that you take what's coming to you—and like It, If you're wise." French Demand Motors That Economize on Gas Paris.—France Is ten nr twelve years behind the United States In au tomobile production, is the conclusion of Andre Citroen, sometimes described ns the Henry Ford of France, upon his return from America after making a comparative study of manufacturing In the two countries. “ In France.” said M. Citroen, “ we haven't mass production of automo biles yet because of a more limited market. There are 12.00rt.iSi0 cars li the United States, n very big market whereas In France we have SOO.Otie cars, with, say, 75.000 customers, eacl one of which buys a new car evert three or four years. “The chief difference In French un- American cars." said M. Citroen, "U that of style. The French like a grace ful. light machine, burning relatively little gas. The automobile Is still some thing of a luxury with the average Frenchman. Consider, there are only 30.000 In a big place like Paris, of which 12.000 are private, 12,000 on hire and the rest trucks. “ I was amused,” said M. Citroen, “at the reception given the two sets of cars I took with mm. I thought mj caterpillar car which made th# trip over the Sahara would be regarded with curiosity. Not at all. It was my regular type car. Th# novelty of pos sesslng a French car will appenl to Americana. I think. There everything Is for novelty. Yesterday Is a dosed period for Americana, something to to forgotten." Islands Natural History useum ZT C!ose-Up of Fatal Texas Oil Fire Kill* Self by Bomb In Mouth. (.elpzlg, Germany.—When jatllce ap proached to nrrest him Johann Reiss« placed a small bomb In his mouth, lighted the fuse and blew himself to pieces. 8hot by Wad of Gum. Norfolk. Vs.—Mary E. Davta, thir teen years old, wns wounded In tha breast hy a wad of chewing gum shot at her during an Indian play In her school. The ftijury Is not serious. Baby’« Birth Cau»ea i Blockade in Traffic « Gift Champion Gum Chewer, Salem. Ore.—Helen Paulding *f Sllverton. Ore., claims th# Northwest record as a gum chewer, hut ab* won hy only half a length of a stick of gum from Bernice Stand. At the Initiation of Sil verton high arhool graduates Into th* alumni association the Initiates were compelled to put on a gum-chewing conteet. Mia* Paulding chewed 44 etteka at on* time and Ifiaa Stand 43H A epurk m a l t .1 t>y ll>e cteoloug OI bits ot torkiti ms crews ol n,eu were trying to cap the Hughes gustier to-sr Kerens. Tex., set the gas and oil on fire and 14 men were burned to death. The well burned for days, the Intense heat making approach Impossible until men attired and equipped with asbesto* suits enteral the heated lone and reroverrd moat of the charred bodies of the vie- tlmi. Although Thousands of curious spectators were kept at a distance of Ik*) yards from th# scene, p. J Ilowe. photographer for th# Fort Worth Record, ran to n point within 30 feet of the blase, and at th* risk of hla Ilf# mad# this extraordinary picture. Howe's doth** were ruined by th# »pouting oil and hU camera and platebolders were burned. Eugene Reed, color*«!, em ployed aft n gnteman hy th# I .on* Inland ml!road nf Ilorkvllle <’en ter. N, Y.. wns advl**d hy tele phone at five ofrlo«'k one morn ing that a hahy waa being horn at hla home. lie raxed Impa tient when hla relief failed to arrive three hours later, and telephoned hla txma regularly at five-minute Internal*, but no re lief arrived. At II :48 a. m. he lowered hla gate* and went home. Twenty minute« later, when a long atrlng of «utomohllea had accumulated, the polio« arrived and atralfht- *ned out the tangle. The next day Heed loot hla job. i i I I i • i t • I « i i « i i «