The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, August 17, 1922, Image 2
M EBD OLpUD. NEBRASKA, CHIEF i IV It n t J v Finds Bats to Be Malaria Cure Erection of "Roosts" Around San Antonio Made the Lowlands Habitable. EXPERIMENTED FOR YEARS Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell's Dlscov- erles and Scientific Work With Bats Intereota Naturalists All Over World. Los Angeles. Mnlnrln, the disease that compotes vrlth tuberculosis nml cancer In Its heavy toll of life, has fouud its Nemesis since science pro 'tects nnd shelters thu bat as the nat ural enemy of the nmlarlal mosquito. Tho result of Dr. Charles A. It. 'Campbell's discoveries nnd scientific work with bats nnd mosquitoes hnu In terested naturalists all over the world. The- first bat roost was built In San .Antonio for tlio purpose- of ridding the city of the pestilential malarial mosquito. For years Dr. Campbell experiment ed on bats to discover why they were Immune from the disease that wrought uch havoc with human beings. Bats Abhor Jazz. It took n great many years for Dr. .Campbell to be sure of the cuuso for the difference In tho susceptibility of tho bat and that of other mammals. "W. D. Hornaday writes In tho Los An geles Times. Tho great dirferenco In the nnntomy of tho bat was found to bo lu Us relatively much larger spleen. lit is to tins organ that Dr. Campbell 'attributes tho ability of the bat to .thrive on tho mosquito nnd consume largo numbers of them without being affected. In his experiments with bnts Dr. Campbell has come across several pe culiar characteristics of tho animal. jiFor Instance, bats abhor Jazz. A 'phonograph, a Jazz record and a small boy stationed on the top of a hunting lodge infested with bats so startled tho animals In tho early morning hours ub they returned to roost that they illew somo two miles awny, entered an other lodge and never returned to tho one In which they had been living for two years. The explanation of this is tlmt tho ear of the bat is so delicate that discordant or strident noises are to them tho most Irritating of all sen sations. Tho rcmarkablo value of bats as n health service was demonstrated In San Antonio when tho malaria Infected Bwnmp region nround Lake Mitchell where thero was abundant grazing for cnttlo was experimented on. It lias been said that formerly It was Im possible to build fences around this lnnd bordering tho lake strong enough to hold tho cattle. Tho myriads of mosquitoes were not only dangerous on account of their geniKiirrylng propensities, but their bite was too painful even for beasts having shoe-leather hides to endure. Dr. Campbell erected n bat roost on a rise In the neighborhood of the Inko and in n year the placo was cleared of mosquitoes nnd thousands of bats had taken their places. Tho grazing land Is now covered with fine, healthy cat tle and tho farm land Is Irrigated from (the wntcrs of the lnke. Mnlnrln Is nl most unknown among tho people dwell Ing in that locality. It requires ten to fourteen dnyo for 'the miliaria parasito to develop In Mining Gold Close to Washington rrv-ra i:i,,.K-''jm9mJm": imwm&ssz lssv Gold, real honest-to-goodiless gold, Is being mined within ten miles from the White House, Washington. In tho deep ravine of Hull Neck n ,'", of the old Jackson place, In .ho heart of old Virginia, John (J. Uodlne le ns over his pan nnd slowly washes precious yellow metal from the black- sands The property is all privately owned and In tho vicinity is land which has been worked for tli.rty.flvo years for gold. It Is said that Senator King nnd former Senator Lewis of Utnh are interested in this project. "u.r - tho blood of the mosquito nfter the insect has been infected. With a myri ad of bats Hying about each night In search of mosquitoes ns food thero Is little chance of a mosquito living ten days after It Is old enough to fly abroad nt night. Many Bat Roosts In San Antonio. After the success of this campaign against mulnrln bat roosts were estab lished In tho southwest outskirts of San Antonio. TIiIb wub so successful In ridding that portion of tho city of mosquitoes that tho state erected an olher at the Southwestern Insane asylum In San Antonio. Another was erected at the West Texas Military academy In Alamo Heights. Summer homes and farms tire now taking up the Idea. Some of tho bat roosts erected under Dr. CumpbolPs supervision nre of mammoth size. Often they rise to a height of thirty to fifty feet and nro fifteen to twenty feet squure. The largest of them accommodate from 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 bats, it is esti mated. In tho early evening as they take their departure for the mosquito bunting grounds they have tho up ifoarance of n dark cloud. Huts do not U. S. Film-Shows Dangers to Elk Campaign to Save Majestic Mem ber of Deer Family From Fate of the Buffalo. STARVATION GREATEST FOE Adequate Winter Grazing Grounds Are Hn Absolute Necessity Winter Snows Drive Herds Into Forests Where Poachers Get Them. Washington. Tlio question of whether the elk a noble American animal and the most majestic of the deer family Is to follow the buffalo Into near-extinction Is asked In film form In n new United States Depart ment of Agriculture motion picture, "When Elk Come Down." Up in the highlands of Yellowstone National park dwell tho remaining big herds of this animal. In the park Where they are well protected thero Is nn abundance of feed In tho summer time. Hut In the winter, when the big snows sweep down on tlio Rockies, the elk are forced from tho mountains nnd out of tho park, to tho lower lovels where thero Is less snow. In this nnnlial migration many of the elk puss into the national forests which entirely surround tho park. Thus they become n sourco of concern to tho forest service, which, In co-operation with tho Montana stato gnmo department, Is responsible for the now film. To Protect the Elk. The film story opens when n big snow Is due. From n ranger station, forest rnngers and a state ganio ward en start out to protect the elk from "tooth hunters." Up In tho mountains "fclx Prong," n great bull elk, sniffs uOWAJOA' V.ivfcwrf. ..,,.,. ., range over n wide territory In their foraging expeditions, It U nB8rted, Ordlnnrlly they cannot be counted oa to cover n radius of more than thrca miles and often they conflno tholr (lights to a mile or less from their roosting place. Maniac, Alone on Ship, Comes From "Nowhere" New Hcdford, Miibs. A 80 foot schooner, buttered nnd mastlcss, was discovered ushoro on West Island, In the outer har bor here recently. On board the hulk was Osmund Erlekson, who said his address was tho sea. When found ho was cnt Ing a handful of grass. Erlckson, who was suffering from starvation, was unable to tell where tlio vessel came from. According to police his memory was Impaired by tho privations he had undergone. The schooner, tho name of which could not bo determined, carried n crudely arranged mnBt to rcplnce two thut had appar ently been carried nwny by n storm. This mast was about six feet high and pieces of old clothing had been used for sails. The hull had been mended In several places with bits of zinc nnd tin. I the coming snow and starts to lead his chin to the lower country. Snm nil ler, n notorious poacher, also senses tho coming of "elk weather," nnd he and n companion leave their cabin for the open ranges, knowing thnt the elk will bo easy to trail nnd kill when they are handicapped by snow and hunger. The adventures of the thrco elements In the triangle nro 'then shown, up to the trailing nnd killing of nn elk by IJlIIor and Killer's arrest by the rangers. The story ends with the statement that tho elk can bo protected from poachers, but that star vation, the animals' other dangerous foe. can be permanently thwarted only by the provision of ndequnto winter grazing grounds. The available winter range In the national forests Is far too limited In area to support the great bands that migrate from the Yellowstone pnrk. The greater part cf the winter feeding grounds Is, nlso, not within tho nation al forests but under private owner ship. The solution of tho elk prob lem, It Is said lies In the purchase of these private lands either by tho government or by popular sulrecrip. tlon. Cold Photography. "When Elk Come Down," was pho togrnphed last February in tlio Ab snrokn natlonnl forest, Montana. Tho camera work was dtmo with tho ther mometer twenty nnd thirty degrees below zero. Thero nre mnny scenes In which tho elk appear on tho snow covered mountains. Good "close-ups" of the animals were obtained by tho use of telephoto lenses. Tho picture, two reels In length, will bo distributed nnd exhibited largely through the co-operntlon of organiza tions Interested In perpetuntlng the elk nnd other gnmo nnlmnls. Prints may be borrowed from tho department, or mny be bought ot tho nionufnctur.' ing cost y authorized Institutions. FIND NEW ANIMAL FOSSILS Specimens Discovered In Arizona Throw Light on American Llfo In Pliocene Age. Washington. Animal fossils throw Ing n new light on the little-known nnlmiii life of America in tho Pliocene age, have been added to tho collection of the Smithsonian Institution by the Held explorations conducted in Arizona In tlio pnst year, and described In a report by tho Institution. Among tho most Interesting specimens discovered, the report said, aro n new species of mastodon, a largo and small species of camel nnd two or three species of horses. J. W. GIdley, member of tho Smithsonian staff, who conducted the explorations, says the collection of fos sils "represents practically a new fauna of tho Pliocene age, containing nbout GO vertebrnto species." Dealing with the ustrophysicnl field work of the institution, the report said the observations of the sun now being made at Its station on Mount .Monte zuma, Chile, nro being tolegrnphed dal ly to Uuenos Aires nnd "employed reg ularly by tho Argentine weather bu reau for weather foreenstin;; purposes." "While the Smithsonian Institution " tho report snld, "Is not yet In n posi tion to champion tho use of statistics of solar variation for weather fore casts, tho great Interest which its studies of solar- variability havo aroused hero and uhrpiul seems clearly to warrant tho continued mnlntonnnco of Its two stations until n satisfactory basis for a test of tho solar variability as a weather forecasting element has been laid." She Parachutes 1,600 Feet. Homo. Slgnnra Geraldlno Grey i.of fredo iiBcended In nn airplane at the Centocello nillltnry Hying grounds, nnd descended over 1,000 feet In n para chute. Sho Is tho first woman to lmvn nchleved such n perilous rent In Ituly. NEWS OF NEBRASKA IN CONDENSED FORM Recent Happenings in Nebraska Given in Brief Items For Busy Readers. Work has begun on the new $.r00,000 high school building ut Scottsbluft. The state editorial association will hold Its meetings at Omaha August 31 to September 1!. Omnlia Elks are laying plans to erect a million dollar homo uml club house ut that place. A new LnFrance fire truck costing .SlUJoO has been received by the Kearney tiro department. The state convention of the Ameri can Legion auxiliary will be held ut York September 18 to 20. Charles Dtirlund of Norfolk was elected president of the Northeast Nebraska Tennis association. Mrs. Ed Pyles of lllalr was serious ly burned when a can of purullln Ignited and set lire to her clothing. The farm bureau survey shows twice as many hogs in Custer county us in any other county of the state. Arrangements are being made to welcome 1,'JCO guests at the tournament of the Omaha gun club September !t and -1. York's appropriation bill for this year has provided for .f.r.(M) for adver tising the city and i?l,000 for music and entertainments. Nearly i?r0,000 was cut off Gage county taxes by the board of supervis ors which adopted n levy one-half mill below that of last year. Lindsay Is facing n winter without coal. None of the coal dealers there has u pound of coal in their bins and no prospect of getting any. Edward Woosley was spearing fish in a lake near Omaha, and by ms take run a three lined fork into his foot. It hud to bo cut out. The first crop of peaches In Pawnee county for several years Is now being marketed. The crop this year Is abundant and of good quality. The boiler house at the state Indus trial school for glrlD at Geneva burn ed, the origin probably being from spontutieoui combuhtlon of coal. Tho election held at Arapahoe for the .'in-pose of voting bonds for jJCO.OOO with which to build a new high school, carried by a vote of .'(00 to US. Teachers have been secured for nearly all rural rchools of Gage coun ty. The teachers of the majority of the i:i8 schools will bo Inexperienced. A rvllln .Tumi o......... ..i., .i.,,.,i.,,,.. . Mr. and Mrs. Ed'nolllngskond of Com- stock, drank a quantity of kerosene from a bottle and died three lumrs- later. Traces of oil iri a gravel pit near Kearney have nroused the curiosity of citizens of that place, and talk of development Is being strongly In dulged In. Frank McManus, a prominent farmer nenr Palmyra, was badly injured when lie becamo entangled in the belt of a gasoline engine wh'ch was being used In furni work. A car confiscated at York by Chief of Police Olson and Patrolman John Pollard was found to contain GO qunrts of bottled In bond Canadian whisky and Gordon gin. Oliver Hohnholdt, a 13 year old nioomlleld lad, was seriously hurt when he foil from the running hoard of nn nutomoblle upon which he had "hopped" for a ride. A carnival held by the happy har vester class of the Blgsprings Metho dist Sunday school netted .$200 for windows of the new $30,000 church nenrlng completion. The proposal to issue school bonds to the amount of 75,000 for the pur pose of erecting a new building at Hooper carried nt n special election by a vote of 2:15 to 131. George W. Spiegel, Beatrice business mnn nnd fine horse fnncler, announces the sale of Lady Midnight and Sylvln, two magnificent saddle mares, to Pro fessor Ilcdlnl, for six years riding mnster to the King of Italy. Mrs. Helen Linderman, nominated on tho republican ticket for state representative from tho Flfty-nloth district, has announced she will be unable to accept the nomination. Word has been received nt Table Rock of tho death of Charles A. Mc Geo at his home In Kalamazoo, Mich., who for sixteen years was a resident of Pawnee nnd Johnson counties. Farmers lu Knox county nro try ing to locate two smooth crooks who sold them a hog "remedy" which caused their hogs to die. The men, they say, represented themselves to bo working with the stnto department of agriculture. Fremont police clnlm thnt many recent raids on chicken houses, lu somo of which ns mnny as 200 chick ens have been taken nt once, are attributable to Omaha "professional chicken thieves" who drive out In trucks nt night, rob the roosts nnd market tholr product early the next morning. A shotgun nccldentally discharged as he snatched It from nn auto to shoot a rabbit, caused Frank, I), sou of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ganger, of Strat ton to loso his left nil. The nnnual convention and camp mooting of tho Nebraska conference of tho Seventh-day Adventlsts will bo held In Epworth park, near Lincoln, August 17 to 27. It will bring dele gates from Omaha, Hastings, Beatrice, College View, Nebraska City, McCook, Kearney, Grand Island, Falrbury, Red Cloud, Valentine, Seward, North Platte, Norfolk, Falls City, Columbus, and my otlier places In the state. The 3-yenr-old son of George IIu waldt, a farmer living near Randolph, was severely bitten by a dog with which he was playing, one of the ca nine's teeth punching through the bid's cheek. An Inheritance tax of $12,100 was assessed against the estate of the late John Andrews of Fremont by County Judge Wlntersteen. This Is one of the largest of such taxes collected in Dodge county. The Nebraska state bund has been signed by the state fair board as the official band for the 11(22 fair at Lin coln. For the Sunday concert tho bund will have between forty and fifty members. r J. M. Crablll of near Mlnntare, claims the wheat record for Nebraska. He hns Just threshed twentv-five mensured acres, the 'otal yield being 1,210 bushels or better than sixty bushels nn ncro. Some one raided the drug room of the Senn hospital nt Omaha and car ried orr fifty gallons of nlcohol. At the price paid for the bootleg nrticle the goods will bring the thelf nearly a thousand dollars. The first track and field meet of the newly formed Midwestern association of the amateur athletic union will be held ut Omaha Saturday. Senteinber 2, under the auspices of the athletic club nt that place. Janet Mcl'herson of the Suullower rural community was adjudged the "best" baby of Scottsbluff county nt the annual picnic at the state experi ment farm In that county. Fifteen babies wore entered. Nearly 1,000 Nebraska guardsmen will start on August 10 for a two week's encampment at Plattsmoutli, where ample necomiuodntloiiK for target practice, bayonet training and field maneuvers are provided. A daughter weighing nearly seven teen pounds was born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gilbert of Stella. The babe has u wealth of dark hair, and Is norni.tl in every way. The parents are normal size and not overly Inrge. of nie elaborate pageant "Coronado in Qulvera" will be presented with u wealth of costumes and accessories, at Ak-Sar-lien field In Omaha, Sep tember IS and 15). six hundred school children will take part in the program. Leonard Green, of Albion, was n. most instantly killed during a baseball game at P.radish, when a pitched ball struck him near the heart. Young Green crumpled to the ground nnd died a few moments after being struck. Many farmers in Saline county nre marketing tholr 1021 crop of corn so fast that the buyers are linvlng diffi culty In handling It. All the t leva tors nro full and cms are not boltif !Hvwl fl,St mm to ' rM out J. F. Krueger, president of Midland college nt Fremont, who is touring Germany, writes to friends that he Is astonished at the low prices pre vailing there. Good room and board, lie says, mny be obtained at -JO cents a day. Otto Krnemer, Norfolk High school student, was drowned In a lake at Asl.ton, Idaho, according to word re ceived by bis parents. Krnemer's boat upset and, after rescuing n com panion who could not swim, he wns taken with cramps. Fire, the worst In the history of Pierce, burned over a half block and caused damage which early estimates place at uhoutSlOO.OOO. Cause' of the tire has not been determined. Somo Insurance was carried but the exact amount could not be determined. The report of Stato Treasurer Dnn H. Cropsey for July shows $mvi02 in the permanent school fund nnd $70,400 lu other trust funds uninvest ed. Most of this will be Invested in bonds when the boar.d of educational lands and funds finds securities for sale. Superintendent A. J. Stoddnrd, bend of the Reurlce school system for five years and past president of the Ne braska Trnchers' association, hns re signed to accept the superlntondcncy of tho schools ut Bronxvllle, N. Y., In the New York city metropolitan area. Mrs. Mary Skinner, nged 8.", living near Lincoln, Is said to be the oldest womnn in tlio United States actively engaged In farming. She innnnges a truck farm and delivers her produce to market herself, with a horse and wagon. Sho Is the mother of twelve children, over forty grandchildren, and more than forty great grandchildren, innklng more than ninety-one descend ants within three generations. The corner stone of the present stnto house Is to bo removed nnd placed In tho wall of the new capitol by the side of the new stone. The old stone was lnld In 18S1. The names of tho builders of the old building aro carved thereon but the names of the capitol commission will nppear only upon ( n bronze tablet plnced within tho new building. Randolph's second annunl Roundup and Frontier days' exhibition will be staged August IS nnd II), under tlio auspices of the Community club. Tho riders will be brought In from South Dakota. Charles Ilonian, an Omnlia news boy, found a ?20 bill on the streef, and started out on a hunt for tho owner. Ho found him n prominent merchant of that place and was re warded with a fine new boy scout outfit and n five dollar bill. Jiidson II. Smith, 03, formerly of Fulls City, who seven years ago In herited $.10,000 from his brother's es tate, has been Identified ns n man who died nt West Pnlm Beach, Florida, a'pparently fmiu starvation. In Ills clothing when taken to thq hospital, iittondants found ?y,000 In cash and securities. MRS. ABBEY PROUD OF mBIG GAIN Weight Incroased 39 Pounds and Nlnt Years' Trouble Ended. "I hardly see how I endured such nwful suffering, nnd If It hadn't been for Tnnlac I don't believe I would bo here today," ,salil Mrs. Molllo Abbey, of Jennings Lodge, Ore. "For nine years everything I nto caused gas to form so that It almost drove me distracted. I didn't dare eat nny fruit nnd for four years If I even drank a glass of cold water I would suffer dreadfully. No one who didn't ceo mo can imagine the nwful condi tion I was in. "But Tanlnc changed nil this and now I'm simply feeling fine: My ap petite Is splendid. I cnt nnythlng I want, have actually gained tlilrty-nino pounds and have so much strength nnd energy I easily do all my house work. Tanlnc Is n wonderful iucdl cine." Tanlnc Is Fold by nil good druggists. Advertisement. Young America. "Do you remember when you were ten nnd steered your mother to tho toy department?" "Yes. My little dnughter of tho same ago now steers mo to the dia mond depurtnient." 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