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Show "Jtetock jk 'Sl il.fldVentare. j f 1 tl s I JfA, SAVED BUFFALO HILL'S HOME. S jlOA 1112 hrnycry ot tho Cody f .IjJ woman wns never -better 8" rT1 O Illustrated than during the ft A J; fiereo and destructive prairie SOW ro which Bwept the opcu1 range of North I'lntte from the West Wednesday night. .Allies beyond the dry grass nnd weeds of the prairie beenmo Ignited from tho sparks of n passing train, and a stiff -wind soon fanned the Haines Into n conflagration and carried fiery waves toward the cast at the rate ot thirty miles an hour. The sheaf of wind was not so very wide, else the destruction to the coun try west-of North lMntto would have reached greater proportions than It did. A It was, everything In tho path of the fire wns burned, and when tho last embers hud died out there was u black strip hundreds of yards wldo extending across tho prairie as far as tho eye could reach. The big Cody ranch, belonging to Mrs. W. I Cody, wife of "Buffalo Bill," was directly in tho path of the Arc. Mrs. Cody had seen the red flames from her home In tho darkening darken-ing twilight a long distance away, and she knew that unless tho wind shifted the flames would soon descend upon her broad acres, Mrs. Cody mounted a fleet horse, nnd taking a powerful pair of field glasses rodo to the fur .fcf .western boundary of the ranch to hot- tor watch tho progress of tho tire that was so swiftly and surely eating Its (vny towards her home. Only once, and then only for a few moments, did tho wind veer, but In a few minutes Koreas had changed his mind, and again fanned the tlauies Into greater fury, and drove them with increased speed toward tho Enst. It was then that Mrs.' Cody realized that the big ranch nnd Its expensive buildings must surely fall prey to the Urn, She turned tho horse's head for home, nnd applied the lash with such vigor to the Hanks nnd sides of the animal that It broke Into a terrltlc gallop. gal-lop. When the much home was reached both rider nnd horse were almost al-most In u sinto of collapse. She gave orders to the employes to prepare to fight the tlnmcs, which, had now reached the western outskirts of tho ranch, nnd were rapidly eating their .way toward tho farm buildings. .Men were sent back to check the llamcs with water and earth. I'lows were hastily rigged and attached to four and six horse teams, and wide furrows fur-rows turned across the path of the tire. But all these measures served to hold the llamcs In control for a short time only, and when the wind suddenly incrcused the lire drove the brave men nnd women back and continued con-tinued Us onwni'd Mveep. . By tills time townspeople of North iWjr I'lntte began to arrive In answer to the summons for help. They came on foot, on horseback, on bicycles, tti buggies, bug-gies, In automobiles, and In wagons. 'Each squad joined the lire lighters, all of whom performed yeounm service under the personal direction of Mrs. Oodv. The wind crowded the flames steadily stead-ily forward, driving the half suffocated suffocat-ed and now exhausted fire fighters toward to-ward tho ranch buildings. Here u last determined stand wns made, but all to no nvall. Mrs. Cody continued to direct operations, nnd It was due to her unerring judgment that the losses entailed were not greater. She was culm and collected throughout the trying try-ing ordenl, und it was not until the flames had caused nil the damage they coil Id did her woman's nuture assert Itself. Then she fainted. Tho Cody homo wns saved, but two Immense buildings, oik; coutulued -100 tons of hay and tho other all of the farm Implements, were destroyed, causing a loss of fully $10,000. Denver Post ADVENTURE OF A BOY. This is a Cohlse County coniinunlcn-Hon coniinunlcn-Hon to tho Kcpnbllcnu from Frank Aley, who holds n medal for veracity ., .awarded to him by tho Chicago World's -w j,-nr management. He wears another bestowed by the Buffalo Exposition, .and ho Is now training for the truthfulness truth-fulness competition nt the Louisiana .Purchase Exposition. "I wns down to Uncle Davo Williams' iShack In the .Solomon Springs district .day before yesterday, nnd I never hall .such a fresh pork feed since I attended -the Inst hog killing in .Missouri Just before the life In the woods, and It happened hap-pened this way. Bobby Butler was out about n quarter of ji mllo from the shack prospecting for fuel lo keep the beans simmering, when he Jumped up n bunch of Jnvlllnos, or wild pigs, and he had no sooner Jumped them up than they Jumped hint. too. Now, the Javllluo Is about twenty Inches high. ,j two inches thick, and about three I , feet long, the length being absorbed In j -iial proportions by the body mid the snout. He Is called a luvHIno because lie resembles a javelin. He Is equally well adapted to cultivating greusewood nnd boring wells. His hair is like por-cuplue por-cuplue quills, and lie has the nastiest temper owr discovered. "He will light anything from a pel poodle to a railroad company, and Mr, Butlpr. being perfectly familiar with his reputation. Hew. He had made about three Jumps when Jie was confronted by a giant inczci.l, the same which grows to a height of about thirty j feet on those Hats. Bobby gave one f '" grand leap, 'vent over the bayonets which surround the base of the big mescal stock und 'glued himself to thu aforesaid stock, and wrapping his leg around It, looked complacently down at his relentless pursuers. In a neeond I they were on ihe ground. ' "Frenzied beyond description nt eo lng their prey securclyplnstered to t" mescal stock, they dashed frantic, against tho great green bayonets bolo In the hope ot overturning his vnntngo pole, until one by one they became Impaled on the terrible points and could only twist their tills nnd squeal In helpless rage. The triumphant Bob-ert Bob-ert descended, drew forth his glistening barlow nnd cut thclrthronts with pain-fill pain-fill deliberation. Thnt Is, It wns-paln-ful to the Javlllnos. Tlu.ro were Just eight of them, nnd I helped him take them homo nnd dress them, since which hnppy hour wo have had milt nnd liver nnd heart and spnreribs und roast pig till we squeal every tlmo ono touches us. Hereafter Bobby proposes to wear n pair of these linemen's boot hook attachments." Phoenix (Ariz.) Republican. "MONEY TO BUltN." Not long ago the passengers on n steamer lying In tho harbor ot Marseilles Mar-seilles were Interested to see forty sacks of bank notes taken below nnd fed to tho furnaces when the engineer got up steam to leave port. The half-naked stokers poking millions mil-lions of francs Into the tut-unccs as It they hud been handling shavings were, Indeed, a curious sight, and even when it was explained thnt the novel kindling kind-ling was composed of cancelled notes on tho Bank of Algiers, some of the passengers still felt as If they had been witnesses bf n distressing spectacle. In the Bank of England a million-dollar million-dollar lire Is not nt all an unusual ovent. No Bank of England note which gets back to the bank is ever put In circulation ngnln, but Is laid away In a special place for futuro incineration. hen u sulliclcnt number of notes have been accumulated they are put In a furnace and burned up. Once in so long pedestrians In tho street near tho bank stop and gaze up at u little chimney rising above the structure from which a volume ot black smoke Is pouring. And tho Jin-pecunlous Jin-pecunlous man heaves n sigh as he thinks ot the millions of pounds which that smoke represents. Another spectnclu of wealth which Is not wealth nt nil Is afforded by a resident resi-dent of London who has a room papered with Government 'bonds and paper currency. As the bonds and bills are those of a defunct South American government, tho wall paper Is not so valuable as It appears at first, but It represents a fortune which the owner's misguided father Invested In these "securities" "se-curities" In the days when they hud a market value. New York Press. FIGHT A MOUNTAIN LION. While A. 0. Murkleln and Mr. McCarthy, Mc-Carthy, New York oil prospectors, were riding along Bushy Kane Creek, Ky., they were attacked by a mountain moun-tain lion. The beast sprung on the horse ridden by .Murkleln and bore him to tho ground. Marklein's leg was caught under the horse. McCarthy McCar-thy drew a revolver and fired, the bullet bul-let striking the lion and stunning him. Tho lion fell from the horse on Marklein's Mark-lein's body and burled Its teeth In Marklein's breast aud shoulders, tearing tear-ing the llesh. McCurthy continued to shoot at the animal, nnd, after emptying empty-ing his revolver, got a club and beat the brute, which was weakening from loss of blood. Mnrklelu wns mortally hurt, while McCarthy's clothing was torn to shreds und his body severely scratched. WOMAN KILLS WILDCAT. Killing a wildcat weighing 100 pounds and nearly six feet from tip to tip, Is tho feat credited to Mrs. M. J. Warden, of Pueblo, Colo. The animal an-imal was killed by two bullets from u thlrty-clght-cnllbro revolver after it had pounced upon her fifteen-year-old brother, who had gone to the barn to see why the family horse was so rert"-less. rert"-less. When he opened the door the hugo animal sprang nt him, throwing him to tho ground. His yells for help reached Mrs. Warden, who seized a revolver re-volver and rushed to tho barnyard and fired nt the beast. Two shots, one entering en-tering tho head and tho other the shoulder, ended Us existence. Tho boy's Injuries were not serious." HEROIC SCHOOL TEACIIEU. Plunging Into tho Dcsplalues Itlver, Miss Louise .lucksnn, n school teacher, of Maywood, a suburb ot Chicago, rescued one of her pupils, the little daughter of Samuel (5. Kline, after the mother of the child had fainted and two boys who had accidentally knocked the little one Into the river had run away. Unnlded. Miss Jackson Jack-son fought her way through the swift waters of tho Desplalnes, which Is nt n higher Hood stage than for years, and It wns only after she had slipped back Into the river from the crumbling bank several times that the young wo. man brought tho little girl safely ashore. PRINCESS KILLS BEAU.' At a hunting party at Gatshlnu. Uus. sin. given by the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Vladimir recently, the (rami Duchess, who Is a famous shot, had a narrow escape. She killed one bear aud then shot nt another, wound-lug wound-lug It. Tho enraged animal struck one of the beaters, ripping tho clothing from his back anil tearing hh Moulder. Moul-der. Then, rising to his full Nfeht, over six feet, the bear rushed upor tho (irand Duchess, In splto of her 6nn-genius 6nn-genius situation, she retnlned her presence pres-ence ot mind, enlmly shook 'oft a fur coat which Impeded her free movement, move-ment, raised her gun and fired, putting put-ting a bullet directly between thu eye of tho animal. |