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# ^ . . ' .> Historical Society Loup City Northwestern ______|_ V OLl ML XXIX. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 14, 1911. NUMBER 45. INFORM KENS NOTES OR WEEK LATEST H»PPEN!NCS THE WORLD OVER TOuD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE CwMiraf lots • Few Lines *»r the Hrwi ef tne Sway Man— Lrtas: Personal infer. Washington -raj. rups of tbe I nked Plate* accrecat- 4.HMN.M litsbeis an in crease turw Auras: ef lM.M6.66i N6r:> Nut a teas of 774.66v.6w busk «ds :•** las: year, armrdias to lb* (Prrtcess reap report Wfcik •earner nwdtcuss jeacticaU.v xtnugt ost tbe ravrtrr were reasonably tavor able tbe report did no: indicate sen eratly mark lie pro* emeu: is tbe con dUbai of tbe crops oser tbe preriow 0 0 0 FW*y post <>3Vre» of tbe Cr»t clast • ere deatcaalad by Postmaster Gen era- Hit-brock as postal savins ’Ait- Tin ». ! Ut open t receiv* d*I <*K# at October 7 Tr.e iist in '.aMtos Ftvport. itoirne and kockford 1 . E-tan. Fort With and Koko w Ink, Harhnston. Council BMb and *obi City, is. and KaitiBiwo i atifcita and Port Huron. Hut 0 0 0 instruction* bate been cabled by kukiagus autborm*-* to Admira. Murdock to brine Americas sun boat! into play to ruard American ritlseet dur-.tr 'be crisis ablet bas arisen is dnorhiisn. (kttt a province vblrb or dUfeartiy Is turbulent and abirb lately bos become tuned veourbi ap over lb* turmr • t: a rmiirood pokey. 0 0 0 TmsJken* Taft has csc-eled as en apart' to play golf with official* of the Dearer <Ca!a.> Country dob on hta coming 'swing around tbe circle." • • • Oomerfir Kerry Clay Beatty Jr, *u con neted of tbe murder of bis young • He. Lmnt men iientne. on tbe Mid -■Afcist tarnptk*. near Richmond. Va •a tbe Mgfci of July 11 last and un •on* a Higher const than t .hi m which he eras tried intervenes he must die * the sdsrtri* chair la the pec:ten Ovy d Rtnhssemi mm Xovaker Z* • • • hamper strike tote Is being taken hr Shop employes ef tbe Dilsoi* Cen tral railroad and upon tta outcome de pend# »bather more than X3.M* me chamra <w that line nil] gait their posts attbtn tbs best week • • • t:;*C Bta*e* Senators Thrmas S Martin and Cinsds A Ssaasoa were nominated at tbs Democratic prl manes a Virginia for tbe long and hot term* respectively in the Carted States senate • • • A first Unde of shots followed a bit ter guarrei ef laborer* at Penh Am hoy V J. and tno Italians fell dead and another naa severely wounded Tbe padre* are bunting far Marine • • • Old BUI Miner , alias George Ander aog 'raia robber, highwayman end Sak breaker, la to turn farmer Re "•ntly convicted of a trnia robbery lr Georgia and sentenced to a convict ramp re begaa to fall a health and the state {Sthnc commission ha* or dewed his transfer tn the state farm • • • E . Massachusetts’ most Is sen-tag a life •tsinn for marker, has Just entered ■pan bis thirty fifth year of solitary at Hoaton Pomeroy ea when be war years of age Vow he is fifty ioneph G Cannot ta a Candida’* ?ar r»eWctiaa to 'oagresd from the UawrilW IB < Dunn. TV.* announce •am via made at the Kackakec fair • • • r=M*d Kate* government agent; ant la Chicago ta aerra Indictment ec Vaiha* Alien. milUorair* header and leather manufacturer of kroner a kla. and John R Collins a coal jerator of Mrspbu. on the «»*■*» «d — lagjhag- Both men an t*» cm* MW admirer* of Mr* Helen DvetW Jenkma They are under In itetmer*. for ncocdlai Jewels rained at I >: from Europe tirougt the part at Kew Tort • • • r*w awd boys bare been an Famed aad placed under band at »ady Bend Kan for alleged Conner Oo* with the tarrla* aad feathering * *-**• ***rr Chamberlain, a young achaoct earner, ten days ago by a • • • •a a so wot® rralalua aa MaMht mmmr kshlaad. Wla.. Clyde J aao instantly killed aad >»»tt l Fern* was aealdad **• hf shoe Id * i ■ and may • • • Chorp^ wtth acceptor a bribe of •&AM to coamacdoa with the graatiag * a heating franchise. Thomas E Kwooa. mayor at Gary, lad, was ar re**e« with #re of his couadlaca. aad ° ^ikT'-nT**' **** ***1“**r- ** ^ Refusing to be east aside by the man who she says wrecked her home. Mrs. H. B. Coney, the divorced wife o£ George A. Coney, a prominent bus! cess man of Chicago, shot Robert Bruce Watson, a wealthy architect, director of the Chicago Athletic asso elation, well-known contractor and clubman, wounding him twice. He will recover. • • • With a fortune of $500,000 made through serving Bostonians with chop suey and other Chinese delicacies to: •he last thirty years Jang Po. proprie tor of Boston's first Chinese restau rant. will sail for Canton. China, early next week to pass the remainder oi tls life in affluence there • • • Dempsey G. Wren of Kentucky al most wept when he was told at the Louisville United States army recruit mg office that he was "too big” to join the army. Wren is twenty-eight year* old and weighs 220 pounds. • • • Enoch Cronkhite. a bachelor, agec sixty-one. died in a Danville (111.) hospital from pellagra Dr. C. E Wilkinson, the attending physician has repored the cast- to the state board of health. • • • The publishers of the one hundred and twenty-fifth New York city direc lory estimate the population of Man ha:tan and the Bronx at 2.S30.000, an increase of nearly 95.C00 over the federal census of 1910. • • • An order directing a cut in express rates throughout Illinois, amounting to 23 per cent., was issued by the IUi nois railroad .md warehouse commis sion The reduction will be effective October L • • • B. E. Glick of Foxbolm. N. D., for meriy of Carbondale. 111., drew claim No 1 at the opening of the Berthold Indiana reservation in Minot. X. D. procuring first choice of 300.000 acres : North Dakota land, opened for set tlement The claim drawn by Mr 'Hick is conservatively valued at *20.000. Attorneys for members of cotton -rms indicted in 1910 for conspiracy 0 control prices of cotton in Oklaho na attacked the validity of Oklaho m i anti-Tust law before the supreme oart. arguing that the anti-trust law »y exempting iabor unions from its rovisiocs legalizes boycotts. • • • Moer than ;90 progressive Kepubll cans, from all over Minnesota, ban queting at the West hotel at Minneap oils, indorsed Senator Robert M. La Koiletie of Wtsconlsc as the logical ttamterd bearer of "advanced Kepubll an:-m" in the next presidential cam paign * • • Carl F. Stoseerl. a rancher living our miies eaat of Marysville. Wash.. itrempted to kill his wife, burned his vovse and his barn to the ground and .hen committed suicide. * * * Nine persons were burned to death n a fire which destroyed the Juneau Alaska* hotel and the McGrath Anlding • • • Personal Francis LeBaron Robbins. Pitts ourgn millionaire and former presi Uent of the Pittsburgh Coal company 1 $97,009,000 corporation controlling practically all of the bituminous coal output of western Pennsylvania. Ohio =nd Indiana, died at the Mercy hos pttal. Chicago, following an opera tion for cirrhosis of the liver. • • • Politicians were greatly interest ed in the visit William J. Bryan paid Theodore Roosevelt at the latter's office. After the conference ' Colonel Roosevelt smilingly announced that they had talked over various “in eresting" subjects, but denied that the coil bad any political significance • • • The body of Mra. Helen F. Dixon | at one time the most prominent wom an politician in Colorado, was found in her squalid home at Denver. Mrs Dixon was given the lion's share oi the credit for the election of Gov. Davis H Waite. • • • Edward X. Ding ley. managing ed itor of the Kalamazoo (Micb.) Eve ning Telegraph-Press, a son of the late Congressman Nelson Dingley of Maine, was seriously injured when a runaway team dashed into his auto mobile. • • • Congressman Cannon is the latest 1 -covert to golf. He was Initiated into be mysteries of the game at the Braeburn Country club. Newton. Mass. • • • Sporting William Purges*, a Yorkshire man •warn the English channel. He land ed at Cape Grlsnez. France, almost twenty-four hours after leaving Dover. England. Burgess has been trying for yean to emulate the feat at Cape Matthew Webb In 1875. and I several times be got within a mile sf the goal, only to be swept away by the receding tide. • • • Foreign There is great uneasiness in Vatican circle* over the condition of the pope bis holiness having suffered anotbei relapse. So serious is his condition , that Professor Marchiafava has bees asked to resume Us dally visits. • • • The Chilean steamer Tucapel was ; wrecked off the coast of Peru and la a total loss. Eighty-one persona were drowned. The Tucapel was engaged k trading on the want coast of South m W YEARS FATHER AND DAUGHTER ARE REUNITED. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Nebraska City.—Frank Rector, one of the rural route carriers out of this city, and daughter have been reunited after a separation of fifteen years. Years ago his wife died, leaving a baby girl four years of age. and the father, being in poor health and with out funds, gave the child into the keeping of some relatives, and after he came to this state he married again, recovered his health and tried to locate the child and failed, as the family had moved away. By chance a few weeks ago he learned the nine teen-year-old miss was in Toledo, O., and sent for her. The young lady wil! make her home with her father, who has no other children. Sheriff Files Claim. Y'ork—ExSheriff J. H. Afflerbaeh has filed a claim against the county in the sum of 1577.50. w hich he alleges is due him for fees as jailer from April 5. 1907, to January 5, 1910, covering a period of 385 days. The board of su pervisors will meet next month and if they reject the claim the matter will be appealed to the district court. Two Children Badly Injured. Lincoln.—Hazel and Frank Judge, children of James E. Judge, were ser iously hurt when the carriage in which they were riding was demolished by automobile N'o. 19064XA. Mr. Judge, who was driving, escaped serious injury. The horse was badly injured, probably fatally. To Have 1,000.000 Gallon Reservoir. Beatrice.—At a special meeting of the city coupea the recommendation of the water committee that a reser voir be constructed of concrete near the new city wells, to hold 1.000,000 gallons, was adopted and bids will he advertised for its construction. Bartlett Richards Dead. Hastings—Bartlett Richards, who recently underwent a surgical opera tion at Mayo Bros.’ hospital at Roch ester, Minn., died at the Nebraska sanitarium here, aged fifty years. Auburn.—William Bourlier and Mrs. Lillie Riordan were killed and Rene I^pier seriously injured when an autcr driven by Bourlier ran off a bridge about four miles northeast of John son. Tht auto struck the railing and the occupants were thrown to the bot tom of the creek about twenty-five feet below and the auto fell on top of them, pinning them down. NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE Henry Seymour, secretary of the state board of equalization, has gone to Richmond. Va.. to attend the inter national tax association. The validity of the legislative ap propriation of $100,000 for the erec tion and equipment of a laboratory building for the medical college of the state university in Omaha, will be tested in a suit filed in the district court of Lancaster county, by Samuel J Stewart of Hastings. several state house janitors spent most of Wednesday morning bailing out the fountain south of the state house. When they had worked about three hours the engineer came along with a pipe wrench and opened a drain pipe that relieved the janiiors from further work with the bucket. Steps will be taken to inform the jani tors of the mysteries of the fountain. Arthur F. Mullen, former oil inspec tor. was taken to a hospital as a re sult of a hernia sustained while pack ing up his household goods prepara tory to moving to Omaha where be will practice law. The hernia was re duced and he will be able to leave the hospital shortly. The strain resulted In such excruciating pain that his con dition was deemed serious for a few hours. The state having refused to accept payment for a copy of Cobbey's sta tutes. Senator Charles C. Smith of Ex eter has returned the volume by ex press. collect, to the secretary of state who refused to receive his proffered $9.25. W: B. Price of Lincoln, well known democratic political leader, will prob ably be a candidate for the United States senate at the primary which will decide the fate of *hp aspirants next spring. He has confided this fact to several friends, although he is not yet ready formally to announce his candidacy for that high office. A. E. Sheldon who has been investi gatipg the history of agriculture In Nebraska, has found a new record shoeing that winter wheat was sown In 1861 on the Ponca Indian reserva tion and a good crop was harvested in 1862 » -«* Fully twelve hundred corporations whose names are still on the records in the office of the secretary of state, have failed to pay the annual state oc cupation fee for this year. They will have until September 20 to pay and escape a $W penalty. H they do not pay by November 30 their charters will he declared forfeited. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. The Pern Pointer will set type by machinery hereafter. Fire at Dunbar destroyed the hotel there one night last week. Worms are damaging the alfalfa crop in some sections of the state. Alexandria has just dedicated the new school building at that place. Stella’s annual picnic was a grand success, 5.000 people being in a*end ance. A Shn of Sam Coens, living south of Broken Bow. was thrown from a horse and instantly killed. Vandals at Auburn have done con siderable damage to flowers and plants in the cemetery there. Mrs. A. L. Drake, of Humboldt, while gathering wild grapes, was terribly in fected by poison oak. Coal in the Missouri Pacific yards at Talmage. last week caught fire from spontaneous combustion. The Woodmen and Highlanders of T'nadiila will have an old-fashioned basket picnic September 20. Mr. and Mrs. Philander Williams of Elmwood, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Monday. John Carlson was caught by a steam shovel at the bottom of a fifteen-toot ditch at Lincoln and badly hurt. Danna D. Little, jr.. of Osceola, a young man 21 years of age, was killed | by falling into a gasoline engine. A public playground for the chib | dren of Beatrice, patterned after those : of the larger cities, is being planned. The fourth annual convention of the ; N’ebraska State Federation of Labor I will meet at Omaha on September 12. A. J. ITlrick of Denver. Colo., has ■ arrived in Li»coln to begin work as j assistant physical director of the Y. M C. A. v\ hue going to a funeral at Garrison i Neal Bykirk was stricken with heart I disease and fell out of his buggy un conscious. Stella is excited over the product ot a well recently sunk there. It looks and acts and smells like oil. and it will he analyzed. Nebraska's forty-third annual state fair opened Monday under ideal weath er conditions and with the grounds in perfect condition. The Central Nebraska Poultry asso ciation is making elaborate prepara tions for the big show it will hold in Hastings in October. Black leg has appeared among the herd of August Heinke near Talmage, . and he has called a veterinarian. Sev eral head have died so far. Dana Little -of Central City- was I pretty badly used up when he attempt ■ -“d to stop a gasoline engine by stick ' ing a beard in the fly wheel. Nickerson young men hanged in effigy a preacher who had used some | allusions to their character and to which exceptions were taken. The Fairbury Commercial club is j making elaborate preparations for an ; cld settlers' picnic which is to be held there on Thursday, September 14. George Goordich, an eighty-year-old I resident of Table Rock, was badly in ! jured when he got tangled up in a rope with which he was leading a calf. The little four-year-old boy of Mr I and Mrs. George Sheldon at David I City, was run- over by an ice wagon and both his legs were broken just below the body. The Ladies' guild of St. John's Epis copal church at Valentine, gave a very pretty dance at the park pavilion j Wednesday evening in honor of the 1 choir. There were about eighty guests ; present. Postmaster-General Hitchcock has • notified the Commercial club publicity bureau that he has changed his plans and will not be able to attend the na , tional convention of postmasters to be i held at Omaha. The Fremont fall festival promises to be the greatest event in the history of that city. The merchants’ trade display will be the first of a series of big parades during the week. Septem ber 25 to 30. inclusive. C. S. McMaster of Newcastle, Pa. former husband of Mrs. E. E. Hesse and father of Miss Wauneta Laverne McMaster, who were murdered at Te cumseh. has ordered'their bodies re moved from the patter’s field and given proper interment. Leaving Cheyenne. Wyo.. at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, Mr. and Mrs.<| H. E. Fredrickson arrived in Omaha | at midnight Sunday, having traveled 1 the distance of 562 miles in their au tomobile in nineteen hours, an aver age of about thirty-five miles an hour. This is a record-breaking run. • I. C. Johnson, sixty-five years old. at Monroe, was found dead on a sand bar one-half mile south of town Tues day. It is supposed death was due to apoplexy. Henry Hulbusch and John Giersdort were badly injured when a bridge near Fullerton collapsed under the weight of a threshing outfit, catching them in its fall. Harry Ross, forty-three years old | was probably fatally injured when three 150-pound railroad ties fell from a flat car and pinioned him beneath them. He was crushed, and is para lysed. Elaborate preparations are being made for the Merrick county fair, which will be held at Clarks. Septem ber 13. 14 and 13. The city marshal at Broken Bow has declared war on stray dogs which seem to infest the city. He has given notice that after September 10 every dog found on the streets without license tag will be impounded. A. H. Fraser of Nova Scotia. Cana da. has accepted a call to the pastor ate of the Presbyterian chnrch at Broken Bow. He was formerly in charge of the Presbyterian church in | Kearney and is an able minister. WUHNMJEI FIRM STRIKE WILL ENSUE IF KRUTTS CHNITT DOESN’T YIELD. MEN’S MINOS ARE MADE UP Labor Officials to Talk to Workmen and Kline Will Probably Come to Omaha for Conference. San Francisco.—Unless Julius Kruttschnitt, vice president and di rector of maintenance of the Harri man lines, recedes from his absolute refusal to recognize the federation oi shop workers or its committees on those lines, he will be confronted with a strike. No reason for believ ing that he will recede has been found by labor leaders here. General advisory committees of the Sve international shop craft unions which are comprised in the federation concluded here a three days’ confer ence with the international officers of of those unions. The general officers were entrusted with full charge of the situation henceforth and International President J. W. Kline of the black smith's union, their appointed spokes man. said that the general officers had made up their minds what they would do. “Mr. Knittschnitt will have to make concessions," said Mr. Kline to night. or the public for which he has exhibited so much regard probably will suffer because he does not.” “Will the general officers ask for another conference with Mr. Krutts chnitt,” was asked. “That is not in our present plans,” he replied. "We are going to Los Aneeles tonight and may find some way of approaching the subject again, but none has occurred to us so far. '•Recognition of a federation of unions involves no principles that are not included in recognition of individ ual unions, already conceded by the Harriman lines, and no principles not already utilized in the formation of the Harriman system itself. It is our right and we shall insist upon it.” Asked concerning the prospect that the federal statutes against combina tions in restraint of trade may be in volved by officers of the international unions, he said: “Here we took office, we took all responsibilities of the office. If these include going to jail, we will go to jail.” LATTA NOT oO WELL. Congressman From Nebraska Has Change for Worse. Rochester. Minn.—Congressman J. ?. Latta. who underwent a serious operation in this city a few days ago. has taken a change for the worse, and his condition is causing anxiety. While he still has a winning chance in his battle for life, the outlook is not so bright as a few days ago. It is now nineteen days since the operation was performed, and al though Mr. Latta at no time has been past the danger mark everything seemed to favor the patient, and there seemed little doubt but that he would recover. He has received some nourishment and been allowed a few hours in the open air in a wheel chair. Harmon Attacks Taft. Boston.—President Taft’s attitude ioward tariff reform was attacked by Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio in a speech before the gathering of democratic clubs. Governor Harmon said that the president’s course in vetoing tariff bills passed by the special session of congress indicated that he had been reached by “wrong advisers.” Takes Issue With Taft. Chicago.—John C. Richberg. presi dent of the Illinois commission on uni form state laws, declared that Presi dent Taft is seriously mistaken on the subject of uniform divorce. Mr. Rich berg’s statement was brought out by the announcement that Mr. Taft'will discuss the divorce question freely while on a 10.000-mile tour, beginning next Friday, and will urge the neces sity of a uniform law. More than 90 per cent of the states, according to Richberg. already have uniformity of legislation. Nine Killed in Election Riots. Mexico City.—Nine persons were killed and more than twice that num ber wounded when Reyistas and Ma deristas clashed in Tuxtla Chico.« vil lage in the state of Chiapas, near the j southern boundary of Mexico. SpaKsh Strengthen Outposts. Madrid. — Five thousand Spanish j troops have received orders from the j ministry of war to reinforce the Span ish garrison at Melilia. on the Riff coast of Morocco. Three Kilted. Many injured. Los Angeles.—Two persons were killed and ten others were injured, when the California Limited passengei train of the Southern Pacific hit a suburban trolley car of the Pacific Electric railway at Covina station near here. Miss Clara Barton Very Look Oxford. Mass.—Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross is believed to be near death at her summer home in this town. She is ninety years old. WADES IN THE OCEAN ON WA6ER SHE MADE OMAHA SOCIETY FAVORITE LOST HER TEETH AND GOT THOR OUGHLY SOAKED. Venice, Cal.—Mrs. Grace Harris is a large woman, attractive of face and figure, and one of Omaha's society fa rorites. The other day she made a bei :hat she would go wading above her Knees in the Pacific. Seating herselt confidently on the sand, she removed in expensive millinery creation and stripped off silk stockings and pumps regardless of an interested crowd. Then she lifted her exquisitely tail ored black gown, walked to the reced ing breakers and gingerly placed a | pink toe into the water. Then followed :he whole foot, both feet and the surg Wades to Win a Bet. mg brine eddied about her ankles. She looked over her shoulder at the three companions on the beach; they were doubled up on the sand laughing. A foamy breaker gurgled in. broke completely over ter. turned her up side“*ciown. whirled her around, stood her on her bead and playfully bowled her beachward. One of her friend* held high a roll of greenbacks, but the dripping woman said nothing, keeping her hand ever her mouth. At last she murmured: ‘Tve lost my false teeth!’ “But yQu’ve won your bet and money enough to buy eighteen sets We never thought you would do it.’ CHILD'S LEAP SAVES HER LIFE Grabs a Telegraph Wire to Escape Train and Hangs on Until Rescued. Swampscott, Mass.—Grasping i wire in a leap from a railroad bridge to escape a train rapidly approaching saved four-year-old Mary Arribet from death. A train from Marblehead rounded a curve and headed for the bridge. While her companions rat off the bridge and jumped down ai embankment, the Arribea child stood ^motionless. With the engine withir ten feet of her and the engineer ran tic because he could not stop the train the little girl leaped over the side of the bridge toward the street 30 feet below. The child's hands reached out ano hit a telegraph wire. As if by a miracle she clung to it- For three minutes she clung until Henry An thony, an engineer for the Swamp scott highway department climbed I * —\ \ \ ZCJW ! I-—--1 Hangs to Telegraph Wire. che embankment Held by his ankles by another man. Anthony lowered himself from the bridge and rescued the child from her perilous position Just as Mary was falling an autc flew under the bridge at top speed Had she not grabbed the wire th< auto would hare killed her if the fall < Itself had not dime that Rubs Pepper in Child's Wounds. B*ioa—Mrs. Mabel Thompson was taken to Old Bailey prison tc serve a sentence of 11 months foi haring administered punishment tc her young stepson by cutting hi« hands with a knife and then rubbing pepper in the wounds. CATCHES FISH BY TICKLJNGJTS RIBS TRUTHFUL KANSAN TELLS HOW HE CAPTURED 141-POUND CAT IN SOLOMON RIVER. PROVES HE IS MODEST, TOO Selects a Hot Day When They Seek Shelter of Ledges. Then He Slip3 Up on Them and Gets Fingers in Their Gills. Topeka, Kansas.—Many Kansas streams fell so low during the dry spell of the summer that catching 3sh by hand was one of the favorite occupations in many towns for those who had nothing else to do. Thou sands of large fish were caught in that way, but the record catch was made by Grant Cunstable, a trapper ind fisherman, who lives near Ben nington on the Solomon river. His :atch was a catfish that weighed 1#1 pounds, duly sworn to and aeknowi sdged. When the fish was brought to Bennington by Cunstable to be weighed, some of the younger ele ment in the town began to brag about the catch, saying that it was the big jest fish ever caught in Kansas, but Cunstable silenced them. “Why,” he said, “you kids ain’t; never seen no fish. Lou Geisert :aught a catfish here in ’73 that weighed 211 pounds. He was the pappy of all the catfish in the Solo mon an' he jest naturally looked like x whale.” The Solomon always has been not ed for its large catfish and the Sol sm on Valley resident would turn up his nose at a mountain trout any :ime for a steak oft a Solomon river jatfish of 40 to 60 pounds weight. In Iry weather most of the tributaries af the Solomon dry up and the Solo mon becomes so lowr that it is only. x succession of pools separated by sandbars through which the water oozes slowly. Some of these pools Constable's Way of Fishing. | are deep, and it is in these pools that i the big fish are found. Under such ■ circumstances the true professional fisherman scorns to use a net or trot line. He just wades in the pools and catches the big fish with his hands. “When you find a fish," explained Cunstable, “you work your hands up along his sides, slowly. This sort o' tickles 'em. and if your ears is good you can hear ’em purr jest like a cat when you rub his fur. You jest keep moving your hands along and ticklin’ until you slip your fingers in his gills and hist him out on the bank. Some times there's two together in the spawnin’ season, and you want to be careful that you don't make a mis taka and ram your fist down the throat of one of ’em. because if you do be’U clamp his jaws down and peel all the skin off the back of your hand. But they sure like to be tick led. Just like a hog when you scratch his back. “Now. that little feller I caught was layin' low under a big log and jest as quick as I touched him he sort o' squinched up and quiggled but when I kind o’ scraped his hide a little with my finger nails he laid still and purred. Never hear ’em purr? Son, you ain't doge much cat fishin', have you? “Well, as 1 w as saying, he just purred and me a scratchin’ slowly along until my fingers reached his gills. They was flapping back and forth just like an elephant's ears when the flies is bad. I gets a good footing an', jest like that, I slips my hand in under his gills and heaves But say. that feller was a bulL H6 jest naturally thrun me off my feet and we rolled over and over in the water, him a flappin’ his tail and me a sputterin’ water like a boated hose He finned me a couple o' times, but gradually I works him up close to a sandbar, and jest while he was try ing to get bis second wind I makes a run and slides him clear out on the Band. He never made no effort to git back into the water1 again, but jest lay there rollin’ his eyes at me, sort o' sorrowful like. “When we weighed him he tipped off 141 pounds and bis head alone weighed 46."