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#4 ' ts @ region near Dawson and Eagle. _ PREST LANDS IN HERD OF CARIBOU Aviator Is Forced by Engine Trou- ble to Descend to Earth in Far North. KILLS ONE FOR FOOD Set Up Movie Camera to Get Picture of Wild Herd, but Changed Mind When Hundreds of Animals Hove in Sight. Dawson, Y. T.—Like a chapter from dramatic fiction reads the story of the experience of Clarence O, Prest, the aviator, while trying a filght across Yukon territory and Alaska. He flew with his moving-picture camera above 8 great herd of caribou and was forced to land in their midst. He slaugh- tered one to keep from starving. The herd is part of the great body of cari- Lands in Herd of Caribou. bou which annually trek across the Prest had flown by a round-about way from San Bernardino, Cal, to the Far North, Prest’s own story of his experience »~ 1s told in the following dispatch from Eagle to the Dawson Daily News: “Thirty minutes out of Hagle my en gine bucked, I looked for a landing place and picked what looked like a level spot. It was Niggerhead Flat at the head of Deer creek, eight miles wouth of Seventy-Mile river. 1 fixed the engine and noticed a couple of car- ibou. I set up my movie camera 80 as to get them. More of them were coming, so I began to see about tak- ing off. Turning, I noticed 500 or 600 caribou all around the airship and camera, and rushed expecting to find the camera ruined, but no damage was done. I got ready to take off but the ship went upon her nose in the soft going and broke the propeller. Killed a Caribou. “I had been debating about killing one of the caribou, but the debate ended when the propeller broke, so I killed one with my 82-caliber pistol and butchered him with a pocket knife. “I was overhauling the motor when a puff of wind finished the job by turning the ship over on her back and breaking the radiator. So I deserted the ship, stripped off the instruments and magneto, and started to pack down to the river. I got down with one load and saw I was not going to make it with the grub I had, so I cached everything and went back to the ship and slept In its tall Sunday night. “I had left my compass in a cache at the mouth of Ramey creek, so 1 started without it. I was further out than I thought. I did not pick up the trail and made a lot of unnecessary circles, climbing mountains for obser- vation. It was raining steadily, but I had equipped myself with a small can of gasoline for starting fires. “My shoes and feet were giving out and I was afraid to lie down to sleep. Finally, I struck the trail at Nimrod Bar, and shortly after a search party hove in sight.” Colored Man Falls Dead in Crap Game, Raeford, N. C.—Spurned by the dice when he “shot it all’ at the end of a crap game, Jim Suggs, colored, fell dead as the dice betrayed him. The game lasted all night and the decision ro “shoot it all” was made when the players were departing. Baby Has Six Living Grandmothers. Concord, N. H.—The little daughter aé = of Mr. and Mrs, F. Roger Strong, has ® mx living grandmothers. They include one great-great-grandmother, three great-grandmothers, and two grand- mothers. VELVET JACKET WAS SYMBOL <eeecanln Worn by Stevenson, According te Writer, as Protest Against the Tyranny of Fashion, Thus gallantly he appears in my tmind’s eye when I pause In rereading one of his books and summon up a fantasm of the author—Robert Louls Stevenson, gentleman adventurer in life and letters, his brown eyes shin- ing in a swarthy face, his lean, long- enduring body adorned with a black velvet Jacket, Henry Van. Dyke writes in Scribner's, This garment Is no disguise, but a symbol. It Is short, so as not to im- pede him with entangling tails. It is unconventional, as a protest against the tyranny of fashion. But it is of velvet, mark you, to match a certain niceness of choice and preference of beauty—yes, and probably a touch of bravura in all its wearer's ®agaries. "Tis like the silver spurs, broad som- brero and gay handkerchief of the thorotighbred cowboy—not an element of the dandiacal, but a tribute to ro- mance. Strange that the most genu- ine of men usually have a bit of this in their composition; your only incur- able poseur being the fellow who af- fects never to pose and betrays him- self by his attitude of scorn. Of course Stevenson did not always wear this symbolic garment. In fact the only time I met him in the flesh his clothes had a discouraging resem- blance to those of the rest of us at the Authors’ club in New York. And a few months ago, when I traced his “footprints on the sands of time” at Waikiki beach, near Honolulu, the picture “drawn for me by those who knew him when he passed that way, was that of a lank, barefooted, bright- eyed, sun-browned man who daun- dered along the shore in ewhite-duck trousers and a shirt wide open at the neck, But the velvet jacket was In his wardrobe, you may be sure, ready for fitting weather and occasion, EASY WAY TO CRACK NUTS Scientists Recommend Use of Liquid Air as Best Means of Getting at Delectable Kernel, Liquid air for cracking nuts is the latest application of science. Science and Invention relates that experts at the national bureau of standards in Washington were appealed to for a method of breaking the shells of chicha nuts without damaging the kernels. They found that it took a welght of nearly a von to crack the shells, and that after that effort the meat of the nut was broken fn many small pieces. Then they applied tiquid air to the problem. They did not freeze solid a plece of rubber and use it as a ham- mer, as Is done in the classic stunt of physics, but they simply immersed the nuts in liquid air for 80 seconds and cracked them easily without damage to the kernels. Now the physicists are trying to find out whether this method can be applied commercially on a large scale, Chicha nuts are grown America. ‘Their dense, strong shells were used during the war to make charcoal for gas masks, and the oll from the kernels is & valuable food similar to copra, in South All of That. When my small daughter became interested in our ages I laughingly told her that I was sixteen and daddy twenty-one. After she learned to count she added a year as the birthdays came around. One day while she was playing at a nelghbor’s the woman of the house said: “Mary, do you know how old your mother is?” Mary answered: “Nineteen.” “Oh, she is older than that, Mary. I'll bet she is twenty-six or twenty- seven.” Mary came home and told me of the conversation, After my resent- ment of my neighbor’s inquisitiveness had subsided I was amused at the un- intended compliment. I am thirty-five —Exchange. American Silks. There are some interesting phase« of the official statistics with reference to the manufacture of silk goods in the United States, particularly those that have to do with the early history of that industry. It appears that the making of silk goods in our country has grown rap- idly since the year 1860, At that time only 15 per cent of the silk used in the United States was homemade. In 1870 the percentage of home manu- factured silk had doubled; in 1880 it had become more than 50 per cent; in 1890, 70 per cent, while at present it is estimated to be in excess of 85 per cent. Putting Her at Ease. We were being entertained at din ner at the home of a friend who ha? prepared a most delectable meal. Her dessert had failed and she had | substituted prune whip for which she made apology. I said: “There Is nothing we like better—whenever I haven't much mw eat for a meal I serve prune whip and our family think they had a fine aur ner.”—Chicago Tribune. Heroic Measures. ‘You and your husband go awar every summer, don’t you?” *Yes, but I dislike doing it.” “Then why do you go?” “I have to have Tom live in a stuffy hotel for a few weeks every year to make him appreciate the way I meer bouse."—Boston Transcript. FAMOUS COLORED CHECKS CAME TO POPULAR FAVOR. —Sir Walter Scott's black-and- white tweed trousers figured In fA paper dealing with the de- signing and coloring of Scotch tweeds read at a textile con- gress held at Hawick some time ago. The famous author was one of the earliest wearers of tweed, and the first pieces were made in the black-and-white de- sign, Colored checks were Intro- duced by accident. A manufac- turer had a number of pieces and the white was so impure and dirty-looking that they could not be sold. Then someone sug- gested that if the pleces were dyed brown the defect would be covered. The suggestion was acted upon and a new check of black and brown was the result. The new color was sent to London and sold rapidly. It was a short step to dye black and green and black and blue, and to make broken checks, and the trade Increased amazingly. It was now possible for a lady to have a reversible skirt made up in such a way that she might appear at one time in a modest blue and at another in the tar- tan of her clan, VICTIM OF OWN HANDIWORK How Maker of Boston Stocks Came to Be First to Undergo the Punishment. When Boston was a little Puritan village, the favorite mode of punish- ment for small misdemeanors was to place the culprit in the stocks. By a curious chance the first person to be so punished after the stocks were con- structed was the carpenter who made them. The record relates that “Ed- ward Palmer, for his extortion, tak- ing 1 pound, 11 shillings, 7 pence for the plank and woodwork of Boston stocks, is fined 5 pounds and censured to be set an hour in the stocks.” They dealt in strange punitive meas- ures in those days, It was the prac- tice, in the case of persons gullty of “exhorbitancy of the tongue in rayling and scolding,” either to gag the of fender or set him—more frequently her—in a ducking-stool to be dipped three times in some convenient pond. Another measure was to place the guilty party’s tongue in a cleft stick, and in this manner to stand him up to the ridicule of the public, How High Birds Fly. Astronomical methods have been successfully applied to the solution of a mooted question as to the height of night flights of migrating birds. Two telescopes were placed at measured distances apart (from ten to twenty- one feet), on an east and west line, and with them two observers simul- taneously watched the moon. The track of birds flying across the face of the moon were noted by each observer independently on a lunar chart, ready at his side. The tracks, being pro- jected from separate points of observa- tion, of course, were not Identical in position and their distance apart fur- nished the basis for a calculation of the “parallax” of the flying birds. Two sets of observations in one case were made, in May and October. The de- ducted heights above the ground varied from 1,400 to 5,400 feet. The last, however was an extreme case, mest of the measures running from 1,500 to 2,500 or 3,000 feet. How “Gophers” Are Classod. The name “gopher,” which is ap- plied to quite a varlety of creatures in various sections of the American con- tinent, is a corruption of the French “gaufre,” maning a honeycomb. It was applied by the early French set- tlers to a number of burrowing ant- mals from their habit of honeycomb ing the earth, In Canada and Ilinols the name is today applied to the gray burrowing squirrel and in Wisconsin to the gray striped squirrel which, in this section, is called a chipmunk, In Missourl a gopher tg ® brown pouched rat. In Georgia he 4s a snake, and in Florida he is a turtle. Minnesota is called the Gopher state from the fact that the striped squirrel was formerly found there in great numbers, How Machine Cuts Mortar. A special machine, which is intend- ed for cutting out the mortar between bricks, is described with Illustration in a late issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine. It consists of a small wheel which is operated at 8,500 revolutions per minute by a flexible shaft from a one-fourth horsepower electric mo tor, A case, partly covering the wheel, extends down to form a han- dle, and a safety guard is provided to protect the operator’s hands from fiy- | ing bits of mortar. Wheels of vart- | ous thicknesses are supplied so that they may be changed to fit layers of mortar of different width. How to Solder Aluminum. To solder aluminum, first make a! soldering bit from a piece of % or | % inches round or square aluminum. Next, tin the parts to be soldered with a composition of 81 per cent tin, 16) per cent aluminum, and 3 per cent cop- per. After the copper has fused, the aluminum should be added little by | little, stirring the mixture thoroughty j «ll the time. The tin and a smatt} portion of tallow should be added. | not overheat the composition.—-Popu isr Science Monthly. Total loans ...... Total ... aE Other bonds, stocks, securities, ete. Total of items city or town of reporting bank 30.75 Miscellaneous cash items . 80.75 Redemption fund with U, S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer 1,250.00 Cther assets, if any 8,740.51 Total $276,396.15 emetic LIABILITIES apital stock paid in . Surplus fund ... : Tee00.00 Undivided profits . 8,295.18 8,295.18 ub Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid 7,804.84 490.34 ¢ Circulating notes outstanding Biss 25, 000.00 %, Cashier’s cnecks outstanding . 6,267.68 Total of items ... 6,267.63 Pee Individual deposits sul jer Ley 81,487.58 Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money. borrowed) 17:722.47 State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank or pct = surety bond senate Be 27,941.60 Other demand deposits . remaie OAgye 326.85 Total of time deposits subject to Reserve 127,478.45 ‘ Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) . mate 42,108.73 State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank or pi surety DONA. 2.0... ecsees 1 EPO: 23,083.60 Total of time deposits subject to Reserve ..... 65,192.38 ey Notes and bills rediscounted, including acceptances of other banks and foreign bills of Br exchange or drafts sold with indorsement of this bank t 11,600.00 Liabilities other than those above stated . 367.40 $ Total $276,896.15 4 STATE OF IDAHO, COUNTY OF IDAHO, SS: I, W. W. FLINT, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. W. W. Flint, Cashier, CORRECT—Attest: Aug. Schroeder, Felix Martzen, O. M. Collins, directors. (SEAL) SOR ee eterno ee Cote eee de estende tre ie Sos Ce Cote ondeale Soi een tlende oath tonto fe ie don oils eente Henle tote ondeatonte in a tie eat Deposited to secure circulation (U.S. bonds par value) All other United States Government Securities Banking House, $6000.00; Furniture an Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank .. Cash in vault and amount due from national banks. eae ee CHARTER NO. 7923; RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 12 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK At Cottonwood in the State of Idaho, at the close of business on December 29, 1922. RESOURCES Loans and discounts, including rediscounts, acceptances of other banks, and foreign bills of exchange or drafts sold with indorsement of this bank ixtures, Checks and drafts on banks (including Federal Reserve Bank) located outside of 4 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd day of January, 1923. é M. M. Belknap, Notary Publir. WORSE. How did you come out on the horse races yes- terday? Oh; I broke even. How about you? I'm even broke, St’ ag _ $187,947.30 $187,947.80 25,000.00 8,950.00 3 33,950.00 3,622.76 8,000.00 ‘ 12,163.89 * 23,690.94 . 28,690.94 HIDES. We are in the market for all kinds green, salted and dry hides, 48-tf SIMON BROS. Barley rolls, and size, corro- gated promptly and correctly. South & Frick. 46-tf NOTICE OF SHAREHOLDERS MEETING. Notice is herbey given that the limit of his imagination. Accomplishment as wonderful as the imagery of the fairy tale has followed the vision of Alexander Graham Bell—the instantaneous transmission of the human voice a few feet or thousands of miles. The seven-league boots exist only in the minds of “the little folks.” 33,000,000 conversations a day in the United States testify to the value and im- portance of the telephone in the elimina- tion of distance in the social and business activities of a nation. Every Bell telephone is a Long Distance station. The Pacific Telephone And Telegraph Company IMAGINATION and VISION The story teller's fancy created Hop-o'- My-Thumb and the seven-league boots— step of twenty-one miles was the the annual meeting of the Share- holders of The Cottonwood State Bank, Cottonwood, Idaho, will be held in the office of said bank in Cottonwood, Idaho, on Tuesday, January 16, 1923, at 10:00 A. M., for the purpose of electing a board of directors and transacting any other business that may come before said meet- ing. Dated this 29th day of De ember, 1922, 1-3 Over