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Show Utah County Democrat SEVEHTY KILLED BIRD SURPRISES ARE NUMEROUS - PROVO UTAH NORTHWEST iNOTES James Boner, aged' 101, believed to be the oldest resident of Montana, is dead of asthma, at Virginia City. In a wreck on the Northern Pacific near Glendive, Mont., five people were killed and half a dozen injured. Engineer J. F. McMullen was instantly killed at Arlee, Mont., by a Northern Pacific engine. His bodj was horribly mangled. Dr. J. M. Wilson who, with Mrs Wilson, was injured in a runaway ac cident at Douglas, Wyo., will not b crippled as at first reported. The Colorado Federation of Labor in convention at Denver, by a viva voice vote, Indorsed the Democratic party in the national campaign. Omaha, Neb., was selected as th city in which the 190!) convention oi Eagles will be held, at the session ol the grand aerie held in Seattle. George Evans and son, George, aga 17, and daughter, Bessie, age 14, were drowned in Snake river, twelve miles below Huntington, Ore., while bath . REDWINGED BLACKBIRDS IN CITY WAR AMONG MATES THE RULE IN COURTSHIP. Not a Single One of the Workmen Who Went Down the III Fated Shafi Escaped Death. Fearful Explosion In English Coal Causes Horrible Tragedy, the Bodies of the Unfortunate Men Being Badly Mangled. Mine take but a few Frida'S to depopulate the earth. The kingfisher adds a charm to eery waters.de In the land. Its rat- tling cry is one of natures own sounds. It wakes the echoes in the A BATTLE TO THE DEATH wilderness and its voice blends with the noise of the stream tumbling over its rocky bed. A well known writer of books on fishing advocated the killChipping Sparrow a Doorstep Friend ing of all the kingfishers because they Catbirds Song Eggs of Rarest The writer told of his catch fish. Green Other Facts and Anecpaying a hoy ten cents a head for dotes of Feathered Kingdom. An every kingfisher which he shot. estimate was given of the number of fish which the bird caught In a day BY EDWARD B. CLARK. a small number at that and then with (Associate American Ornithol-oiBt- s a delight tally unconscious inconsistBillon.) told of ency, the w (Coin right, Joseph B. Bowles) the huge size of the strings of fish There are daily surprises in store which were the result of his own days for every lover of birds. Surprise Is work with rod and reel. . the spice of field work. Things are It may be set down fairly that the set down in the books as rules, govi erning life in feathers, and, lo, a walk abroad in the morning will set the books at naught It is impossible to put down one thing as an inviolable rule, for the birds will break It before It is dry on the paper. "Where can I find the blackbii ds nesting? a Chicago friend asked me recently You can't find them nearer than the stretches of the Skokie swamp north of the city, I answered, "the redwing never comes to town. An hour later I found a pair of redwinged blackbirds building a nest within four blocks of my city home. The birds had preempted a bit of damp ground in what is known as the "debatable land, a tract claimed by Capt. Streeter on the one hand and by a scoie of millionaires on the other. The redwings were constructing O-i'their nest in the rushes under the shadow of a Marconi wireless telen Wigan, Englanu.It is not believed that a single man of the seventy miners who were entombed by an explosion which- occurred in the May-pol- e coal mine here survived the disaster. The four men reported rescued were engaged in an adjoining compartment. The ventilating fan which was put out of order by the explosion was repaired Wednesday morning and the mine having been cleared of gases, 4ng. the rescue party again descended. The loss as the result of forest fires The sight which met their eyes was in the Bitter Root mountains in Mon horrifying. Not far from the bottom tana will be great, several millions of of the, shaft, eighteen bodies were feet of fine timber having been de- found, all frightfully mutilated, arm? stroyed. and legs had been blown off and . As a result of a, washout on the heads battered almost beyond Tonopah & Tidewater railroad near Shoshone, Cal., a passenger train The management of the mine deplunged into a chasm and three men clares that between sixtv and,, seventy were killed. men were under ground at the tim Governor Norris has appointed fif- of the explosion, and that there Is no teen delegates to represent Montana hope that any of them would he at the sixteenth national Irrigation brought out alive. The women and congress, to be held at Albuquerque. children, however, who remained at the pit head all night, refused to September GO. station. City streets hemmed Teddy Stanton, not three yqars old, leave until the bodies of their dead graph in the site, hundreds of people were a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stan were brought to the surface. Nothing and yet Capt. passing constantly, of else would convince them ton, of the Plains, Mont., was accidental Blackbird, with his orange and gold ly shot through the head by a play hopelessness of waiting. epaulets shining on his shoulders and mate, Ralph Stevens, aged 9, and died making him a fair mark for the stones EASY MONEY FOR LAWYERS. later. of every idle boy, hovered over the men most anxious for the death of The State Bank of Wheatland and heads of intruders and called his Lawsuit in Mexico Which Lasted the birds are the men who the First National bank of Wheatland, as blithely as though he Three Hundred and Forty Years. seines and streams drag dynamite the Wyoming, have merged undr were above the isolated swamp of the when the fish wardens back is Mexico City. A final settlement name of the former, which will herecountryside. turned. after wnduct the banking business ot has just been made In a lawsuit which There is an family to There is a little chestnut crowned that section. las been pending In the courts of day in the nest interesting hidden in the rushes resident of both city and country who the of sate Oaxaca for three hundred of that wet town lot. Some boy did Slate Senator P, L. Flanigan Is to will become just as familiar as his be- indorsed at the Goldfield conven end forty years. The dispute arose find the father blackbird a shining The chiptiou August 22 for Republican senator between the local authorities of the mark, and the devoted creature is now neighbor, man, will permit. is a ping sparrow (Splzella socialis) towns, of Yodocome and Senator his Considerfill mate Newlands. Nuru over helping the mouths of the against able of a boom for Senator Flanigan the question of the legal boundary hungry family, while one of his legs, line between the two villages. Both broken by a stone from a been raised. slungshot, . IPueblo has been chosen as the meet- towns held titles to the same land, hangs dangling. Bird life Is full of tragedy. Inf the ing place fpr the annual convention the conflicting grants being made by of the Western Federation of Mineis the colonial government. The titles old nursery rhyme children are tJiught for he district embracing Colorado, held by private parties were also In- to believe that the little bills In Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, and volved, and each town brought suit their nests agree, and agree dut of the nest as well. The famillarlditty the Hte set for September 1. against the other. During all t' was written for its moral effec.J and Benjamin Thompson of Pleasant time the inhabitants of the respective is true enough to stand solely for it towns were anone was arrayed against thrown from hia RidgT Wyo., horse and received injuries that may other In bitter enmity, and many the good it may do, but it must be recause his death. Thompson has been armed conflicts occurred between corded, reluctantly enough by the way, that birds sometimes show what Engur'Snscious since the accident, and the opposing factions. lishmen call a nasty temper. fears are entertained for his recovery. Roosevelt Will Not Campaign for Love and war always come together 17 E. H. Stagg, years of age, was with the birds, and as the old saying Taft. killed at the Monticello rooming makes all things fair In these two house in Helena. He was running the Oyster Bay, Aug. 18. A published we cannot possibly the elevator at the place and was report that President Roosevelt had contingencies blame the songsters for rowing caught between the floor of the ele- offered to take the stump for Taft the whole courtship season. vator and the and crushed this fall was denied on Tuesday by through male birds do the fighting, The to death. Rudolph Forster, the presidents as- while the charmer over whom they Reports were received at the dis sistant secretary. He said no such have waxed pugnacious looks on with offer at. had been made, and reiterated apparent unconcern as to the patchers office Sparks, Nev., from outcome, Mina, Nev., that the residents of that the statement that the president and weds the victor instanter. little desert town were greatly per- would make no campaign speeches. R. W. Hegner. while tramping afield Truman S. Newberry, acting secre- recently on bird photography turbed over what they thought to be intent, a volcanic eruption close by, on Au- tary of the navy, who was the guest saw a battle royal in midair. The adCatbird, Nest and Eggs. 14. of the president over night, had a jective is used advisedly, for the fightgust In a quarrel following a poker game talk with the president on the naval ing birds were kingfishers. This bird friend, and If you will but militia. He made a report to Mr. is built something on the order of a doorstep at Seven Troughs, Nevada, T. J. train a vine over the piazza he will better known as "Snowball,' Roosevelt of the maneuvers of the battering ram. He is far from grace- there take up his home and eat of shot and killed p. C. McLaughlin, a fleet in which the volunteer naval ful, but the glory of his plumage goes the crumbs that fall from your table. miner, formerly of Virginia City. men from six states took part, at a long way In the making up for lack Pick up the crumbs and offer them Longacre has been held on a charge Farringer's bay last week. He told of the lines of beauty in contour. The In your hand and chippy, after your of murder. the president that the men had ac- two kingfishers meeting in battle in intentions are known to be honorable, Mr. Hegners view fought viciously will make a Judge John Y. Batterton, county quitted themselves admirably. perch of your finger and until finally one fell to the earth with-- eat from your palm. died at commissioner, Deer Lodge, FOREST RESERVE RECEIPTS. wing broken by a powerful blow Thei. chippy is a good summer ac- Mont., on August 13, aged 82. Judge Batterton came from Missouri in The Sum of $447,063.79 to be Dietrib-ute1877. Prior to moving west he had been probate and county judge in his Among States. native state. Washington. Figures just made , Eight million, eight hundred and public bv the forest service show ine thousand sixteen dollars and fif- that under the new law requiring 25 ty cents is the amount of money Ter cent of the gross receipts of namade by the Southern Pacific com- tional forest business to be paid over pany in the state of California, during to the states and territories In which the year ending on the first Monday the forests are located, to be use" for public schools and roads, the last in March last. fiscal year will yield these state-1- 4 Chief Justice Talbot, about whose Th-17,063.79. which go to the su to each vary from amounts candidacy for $313 C8 for Arkancourt bench of Nevada there sas, to more than $75,000 for Monpreme has been a great deal of speculation, tana. has decided that he will seek the nomVote for Strike on Gould System! ination from the Democratic convention at Tonopah Denver The strike vote which was Five men are dead and another wiK being taken by the machinists, boiler probably die as the result of an explo- makers and blacksmiths, and their sion tnat occurred at the Albright helpers, on all the Gould roads has quarries, about forty miles south oi been completed and authority to call Great Falls, Mont., where the lime a strike has been placed In the hands rock for the B. & M. smelter at Great of the executive officials. It Is ofFalls is quarried. ficially announced, however, that the Mrs. David Miller, wife of a miner men will not be called out just at this Chipplng Sparrows, Nest and Young. in the Frog Pond basin, northeast of time. Instead, a movement is on foot Missoula, Mont., last week shot a to settle the Denver & Rio Grande from his antagonist's beak. A broken No house bred canary is monster bear that was attempting to fcirike and thereby bring peace into wing for a kingfisher means death. quaintance. more fearless of man's break into her cabin. The bear was the ranks of the railway unions of His means of livelihood are gone with bird will leave Its seed presence.In The the hunting the west. one of the largest ever killed in hl3 means of flight. lawn grass and come at your call. The part of the country. Stricken as was the kingfisher, his chippy Is a gleaner of the ground, Southerners Revert to Dueling. Ripetown, a mining camp located anger survived the stroke of his ad- where its coat makes it Memphis, Tenn. Rivalry over busnine miles from Ely, Nevada, with a versary, and In a picture taken of him inconspicuous. Weed seeds are its between prominent after the battle he still showed In diet, but It loves bread for population of about 300, was almost iness matters dessert completely destroyed by fire last merchants of Robinsomllle, Miss., raised crest and bristling feathers the There is a charm about the birds week. The fire started In a saljyon by produced an argument there Wednesdomestic relation. It divides its food passion In his heart. the explosion of a lamp and spread day afternoon between II. B. Suber It Is feared that the royal race of with its mate if it happens to run end J. II. Gilmore, which ended in a kingfishers is doomed to extinction. across some particularly delectable with gieat rapidity. Winston Brotheis, contractors, driv- street duel, Suber receiving a wound Man In the utter selfishness of his tid bit which it thinks may not have ing the big St. Paul Fass tunnel at h. the breast from a pistol, and Gil- nature begrudges the bird the few fish come in the way of its seasons more w'ounds in the back from a wj)ich it catches for the appeasing of partrer. Taft, Mont., on the route of the coast extension of the St. Paul shotgun. Both- were brought to Mem- its appetite, and man frequently The chipping sparrow lines its net uid, broke all records for tunnel phis for medical treatment on a spe. scoots it on sight. If the same rule with horso hair, the hair from tail lie cial train, each talking tJ the of r w e to be b r or mane. n, m An.pr.ca when in June they en applied to every This habit gives the sparroute and expressing ,,t i iiiu! the here 58? feet deeper woman and child it would row in some sections of the country an, be bad failed to contui !,w te , a t ic mountain recog-pllton- ' fish-lovin- g conk-er-e- e - b-- door-jam- b Long-acre- , . d th-a-t dun-colore- d Pa-o.L- c ! fish-lov-- - I- , , the name of hair bird. There have come under our own observation scores of chipping sparrows nests, and I have yet to see one which was not lined in with the material named, but if it should be declared that the bird never varies in its choice of home finishing material some patient observer would be sure to stumble across an exOnce ception to weaken the rule. upon a time there were no horses in America, and what spizela socialis used then for its house can only be a matter of conjecture. The power of heredity is shown strongly in the selection of building material by the birds. Possibly the most remarkable case in point is that (Myiar-chu- s of the great-cresteThis bird is a noisy crinitus). summer resident of the noithern tier of states. It builds its nest in a hollow tree, often occupying the hole Mothers Left Little Ones at Heme While They Were Attending Theatrical Performance". Eleven-year-ol- Girl d Makes Heroic Attempt to Save Helpless Tots and is Probably but Unavailing Fatally Burned. d Falouse, Wash. Sx children perished and one other was fatally burned in a fire which destroyed the home of H. W. Schultz near this place. Of the six dead four were the children of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fix oi' Walla Walla, ranging from 6 years to C months, and two were of the Schultz family, a boy of C years and a girl of 7 months. Rose Schultz, a g,rl of 11, was fatally burned'. Fix. a Mrs. Broken Wing. Almost excavated by a woodpecker. invariably the nest is lined with the cast-ofsktn of a snake. The young flycatchers are hatched in the dark. They probably cant see what it is which forms their warm bed. They are led into the light of day, and f fed for awhile. Then they are turned loose to shift for themselves. The next spring when the yearling flycatchers mate the first thing they do is to search the country for a snake skin, and they are not happy till they get It. What is it that puts the snake skin idea into their heads? The search for the answer is likely to be longer than the search of the birds for nest lining In a snakeless country. The catbird is held In contempt by some of the thoughtless ones. Possibly its name is against the bird. It is our garden friend, however, a patient and tireless warrior in the army battling against the insect pests. The catbird is soberly dressed in the main, and as if in shame of its one bright touch of plumage it hides the offending red feathers beneath its tail. What a singer is our catbird! His rolling succession of notes would be well-nigmatchless did he not mar the performance with an occasional querulous catlike tone. In the midst of its music it sometimes cries meouw, as a versifier puts it. If our friend would consent to cut out a bar or two of his music he would be the rival as a solist of his cousin the mocking bird. Cultivate the catbird. I know one man who has eight pairs of the birds nesting this summer on his few acres of ground. He wishes the number were trebled. The bird nests usually in the very heart of a thick growing bush, though it occasionally selects a tree. The photographer who would get a satisfactory picture of a catbirds home must needs employ a flash light It perhaps goes without saying that most of the pictures taken have been secured after the bushes have been cut away, an operation to which the catbird vociferously objects. We hear much of robin-egblue, and art has succeeded In reproducing the color fairly well, but there is a fortune for the man who will put a green upon the market that has the true hue of the egg of the catbird. It is of all the greens of nature a thing apart. Its beauty Is beyond that of sea, the grass and the emerald. To call the egg gemlike is to belittle its beauty. And how the bird guards Its treasure. Approach It ever so carefully and the alert father and mother challenge you and your intentions. Were it for nothing else than for its devotion to its home and its young the catbrrd should be beloved. I once saw a mother catbird, whose young were in a bush, fly against the muzzle of a pistol held in the hand of a boy whose murderous intention I had divined too late to save the bird that in truth was faithful unto death. h g EDWARD B. CLARK. Peculiar, Freak of Lightning. Prof. A. Herschel, in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society for October last, describes the extraordinary effects produced by lightning in the midst of an open moor in Northumberland. A hole four or five feet In diameter was made in the flat, peaty ground, and from this half a dozen furrows extended on all sides. Pieces of turf were thrown In various directions, one three feet in diameter and a foot thick having fallen 78 feet from the hole. Investigation showed that in addition to the effects visible on the surface, small holes had been bored In the earth radiating from the large excavation. sister-in-la- of Mr. Schultz, with her four children, was visiting the 'Schultz home and early in the evening she and Mrs. Schultz came to Palouse to attend the theatre, having the children alone at home. After the children had gone to bed the house, from some unknown cause, caught fire and had made considerable progress before the children were awakened oldest Rose, child, said that when she became conscious her bed was on fiio anrl the flames had reached her hair. The other children made a desperate effort to save the smaller ones. Rose Schultz hid the others saturate her clothing with water and she then ran into the burning building to recue In this heroic but unthe babies availing effort she sustained burns which will, it is thought, result in her death. Suffering from her burns. Rose ran half a mile across a field to a neighbors house for assistance, but the by the time she arrived theme Schultz home had been consumed and the children were dead. The mothers, who retained from the theatre an hour later, are prostrated by tho shock. The fathers of the children had left home the day before with a threshing crew. SYDNEY WELCOMES FLEET. Sams Boys Cheered to the Echo by Australians. Sydney, N. S. W. Sydney was aglow with life and color on Thursday, and surging thousands filled the streets as never before, for this wras the day set for the official landing, and for Australia to publicly welcome, the bone and sinew of the visiting fleet, officers and men. No more triumphal entry of gallant vessels into a port was ever witnessed than that of Wednesday, when the .warships pushed through the haze of sea and steamed majestically past the headlands, crowded with a cheering multitude. On Thursday Australians had an opportunity to see the men who brought the ships fn safety thus far on their voyage around the worll. From Farm cove, where the landing occurred, throughout the lengthy line of march the crowds gave enthusiastic welcome. Uncle JOHNSON WILL ACCEPT. Did Not Want Nomination, But Will Not Decline. St. Paul. Shortly before noon Thursday Governor Johnsoq called the newspaper men together and announced that he would accept the nomination for governor tendered to He him by the state convention. Eaid: After due consideration .of the matter, and before I h?ve been for- mally notified, I will teir you that I have made up my mind to lay aside all personal considerations and listen to the call of the party. I will accent the nomination when it Is formally tendered to me. I desire to state also and to make it emphatic that if the comfnittee had called on me before the nominating sneeeh had been mad I would have positively declined to be Minnesota Governor a candidate. Race Trouble in Chicago. In a fight between white Chicago and negro dock laborers employed on the Westorn Transit companys docks fixe men were injured. rn Thur-dav- , Some of the whites declared tbev would rot work unless th negroes quit. This the latter refused to do, end a quarrel ensued between Hueb Brady, white, and Louis Haw tins, negro. The negm drew a knife and stabbed Brady in the neck and artn, whereupon the fighting became general. Erieks and clubs were used freely. Other laborers mixed Intt the fight and a small riot was soon In progress. Insane Attacked Mayor. Attacked in hi office by an insane man armed with a knife. Mayor Stein of Hoboken had a narrow escape from death. William Carmodv, who was released from an insane asvlum a few dajs aso, entered the office when the mayor was alone and demanded pnv for his time spent in the asvlum. The mayor endeavored to temnorize with the man, but Carmodv whipned out a knife and started for'bim. Tbp rnav'or jumped behind his oosk with toe- madman in lursuit, just as a detective came to the mayors aid. New Man York. |