Show CHICKEN STEALING A of robbery qu te prevalent at the national capital yes this is a good season of the year for chicken thieves echoed detective block the other day when a washington star reporter spoke to him about that class of criminals but he added there been ba many cases of chicken stealing lately as there used to be deports of that particular sort of stealing are few and far between now and then however three or four jobs are done in as many nights and then nothing is heard from the chicken man for a long time this is just the time of the year for them to operate but this year there seems to be a scarcity of such thieves or else chickens are not so plentiful those who are called chicken thieves do not confine themselves to robbing chicken houses but they steal all sorts of fowls turkeys ducks or chickens andy strange to say this class of offenders confine their stealing chiefly to fowls i seldom do they steal other articles and very few of them indeed are all round thieves biow do they manage to rob a house of all its fowls without making noise enough to rouse the owner of the fowls the reporter inquired easy enough was the reply to use their language they charm the fowls before they attempt to leave the premises with them even if their heads have to be taken off the thieves who are classed among the good ones or those who thoroughly understand their business seldom take away a live chicken unless the number captured is very small sometimes continued the detective the thieves use sulphur to strangle the fowls with and it acts like a charm they use a box of blue headed matches which they dampen and rub against their hand so that the fumes of sulphur that arise get into the lungs of the fowls and prevent them front crowing or cackling or giving any alarm whatever then the burglar stretches in his arm and collects his fowls one by one everybody said the detective cant steal chickens there seems to be some peculiar qualifications necessary to make a man an expert at the business an expert thief knows wall the necessity of always keeping a pot of scalding water on the stove at home so that when he returns with the plunder ho can get the feathers off them and prepare them for market as soon as possible then he knows that the means of identification have been destroyed often when such a robbery has been committed early in the morning the chickens are on a bench in the market before they are cold many a night on my tour through the city I 1 have smelled smoke from burning feathers and been satisfied the feathers were picked from stolen fowls and were being burned to destroy their value as evidence bejes ejes and try all sorts of washes the best way to treat itch ingis to use a coola weak saltwater salt water wash every few hours if this does no go to a physician who makes a specialty of eye disease t alio french newspapers report that air catteau Cot who has been on a pleasure trip lo 10 alaska this year tho coast towns of that country are aoi at all behind fashionable watering places in the number of souvenirs the natives offer to abo confiding tourist he says the indians of wrangell spend much time watching for the steamer and when they see its smoke in tho distance they at once convert their houses into shops where both tho women and the men offer for sale all sorts of curiosities that they have manufactured to coax nickels out of the dockets of travelers g society ont west v there are said the drummer some persons who seem to think that pie of the far west however enterprising and hospitable they may be live in a rough and ready of style of course the fact is that people of refined tastes like to be civilized wherever they are and in these days of quick communication ni tho people at all established centers of population live in about the same manner throughout the country one would be likely to find as many men in dress suits at an evening social entertainment tain ment ui aa montana or a texas city as he would at any similar entertain ment in an eastern city t t |