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Ihe First Authentic Statement by the Pardoned Bandit Concerning tier- tain ^Disputed Points in His Checkered ExistenceHe Tells How to .Ride, How to Shoot and How It Feels to Stop a BulletThe North- field Raid Was Made in Spite of His ProtestsSays He's the Sole Survivor of That Disastrous Venture. I | I hereby certify that the following statement made by me yesterday at | Lee's Summit, Mo., explains for the first time disputed events in the lives of the I Younger Brothers, and Is the first correct and authorized statement of my own | career. I (Signed) ^ : Thirty years ago every train robbery in the west, every daylight raid upon a coun t y bank, was believed to have been com mitted by the James Boys or the Younger Brothers. Jesse and Frank James, Cole Younger and Jim Younger, maintained, ye ar after year, their undesirable promin ence as the most noted, the most suc cessful, of American outlaws. They and their associates were accused of robbing banks or trains from Kansas to West Vir ginia, from Texas to Minnesota. The esti mat ed plunder of Jesse James alone was not less than $230,000. Always when rob bing banks, sometimes when "holding up" trains, the "gang" rode picturesquely into view, shooting and shouting as they gal loped by. Of these nineteenth century Dick Tur pins Jesse James w as accounted the most merciless Cole Younger the most hu mane. Both were marvelous riders, both "dead shots." How he came to be an outlaw, what he learned of the folly of crime is now re- Lole \01uiKOi at homo in Missoury" pho- toRraphod at too'* Summit-."or l*pb . "Li. 1903. H e had just been holding on his knpes two of hi-! f raudniecesNettie Ionohur used 15. and Nel le Fenton. aged 7. both of whom are special pets of "Uncle Cole." lated by Cole Younger. Soon after his rece nt arrival at his old home in Lee Summit. Mo., he told ma ny facts that are unfamiliar here, and not a few that are unknown. With its interest as an autobiographical curio Younger's narra tive joins instructive reflections of an ethical nature as well as practical and novel instructions, by an unequalled ex pert, in the arts of riding and of shooting. This Cole Younger, the last of the fa mous Younger brothersan 18-year-old captain in the Confederate . service an outlaw of widespread notoriety from 1865 to 1876 a life prisoner from 1876 to 1901 Rt the Stillwater penitentiary for complicity in the raid upon a bank at Northfield and in the killing of the bank's cashier then a paroled prisoner and finally the recipient of a full-pardon is enjoying at Lee's Summit the embraces of a myriad neices and the congratula tions of a state that has never doubted his manhood and has always considered him a victim of the "Bloody Kansas" feuds. H e is equally respected by prom inent men of Minnesota for his sincere efforts to retrieve the past. Nothing in Outlawry. But Younger does not beguile himself. H e does not pretend to be a hero he re pels all efforts of the morbid-minded to exploit him in heroic guise. Although his picturesque career has gilded outlawry with an allurment unsurpassed since the day* of Robin liood, Younger is desirous that his experience should teach no false les sons to American youth. H e is not at all proud of his wasted years. H e declares, instead, that "the man who chooses the career of an outlaw is either a natural fool or an innocent madman. To me the word outlaw is a living coal of fire. The past is for me a tragedy, a tragedy where in dang er lurks along every trail. My young friends, if you are endowed with physical strength, valor and a steady ha nd, let me warn you to use them well, for the CJod that gave them is the final victor." Bearing this confession in mind, one may view profitably the foundations of a character from which noble qualities could never be eradicated by danger, by Buffering, by imprisonment wellnigh hope less, or by the license of outlawry. Such scrutiny is now facilitated. For the first time Cole Younger has consented to sketch bis life as it actually was. He corrects numerous fabrications that have made lurid pages in. the ' Old Sleuth" branch of literature. To the truth of this state ment he has formally certified. Younger is now in nis fifty-eighth year. He, bears erect a six-foot, portly frame, clad carefully in black. Across his waist coat dangles a pair of gold-bowed eye glasses. Bald, with rather small, light blue eyes, twinkling yet penetrating, a heavy jaw, prominent chin, compressed, down-drawn lips, full., ruddy, smooth ahaven facehe appears the middle-aged, prosperous doctor or ^lawyer of excellent endowments, of sedate life, of tranquil, domestic ties. His face reveals also u n common coolness, courage, tenacity of purpose. 9 But no mind-reader would surmise that this plump, paternal person had made himself, as he says, "almost a man of Big Bargains IN = Men's Shoes. Several odd lota we are willing to close out at very low prices. Odd lots of men's $1.50 shots, QAC broken sizes, per pair. -*w Men's odd lots $2.50/ vici kid, box calf and French horsehide, lace, j*1 yQ all sizes, pair. *pM.i* hi 'if m Men's $4 00 Goodyear welt, dark tan. lace, sizes 6 to 10, price, per QQ pair Vi.yO '- m-211 Nicollet BATES & HEFFELFINGEH. A s Reviewe d by Himself . ers Kansas City, Mo., Feb. .19, 1903. lead." H e has been wounded twenty or thirty times. A dozen bullets are now buried in his body. . All his limbs are marked by gunshot wounds. One ball has Jesse James, photographed at Nebiaska City. Neb., In lS7t a few u-eeks before the Xorthfield laid. On that occasion, as is generally believed, it was Jesse who shot and killed Cashier Hay ward and then escaped in company with S"rank James But Cole Younger o insists that the second man was not Frank James. Younger w^lll neither deny nor assert that Jesse took part iu the raid. Jesse's son, of the same name, when questioned the other day at Kansas City, glanced down, laughed slyly, and drawled, "Well, those two men didn't get caught, did they? They didn't feel exactly like being cap tured. I reckon." This portrait may perhaps be recognized by surviving residents of Xorthfield who joined In attacking the raiders. furrowed his scalp. A bullet that entered his head back of the left ear has found its billet in the left lobe of his brain close to the skull. Cole Younger. How It Feels to Be Shot. How does it feel to be shot? H e answers "It never burned me, as it does most men. When I was shot I never felt that I had been struck with a red hot iron. No, it w as exactly as if I had got a sharp blow from a switch in the hands of my old school teacher. That is, if the wound was not a serious one. But a dangerous bullet wound doesn't hurt at all, so far as my experience goes. Such shots usual ly strike a'nerve, paralyze all feeling on Jesse.James In early manhood already one of 1he most .ferocious lighters among Quantrell'ti guerrillas. This portrait Is reproduced from a daguerreotype taken under compulsion, it Is ielated, by a terrified artist at Platte City, Mo., soon after that town was captured by Quan trell in IStU. Jesse was treacherously killed at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1883, by Bob Ford, a for mer comrade, who was himself murdered ten years later. the spot struck, and. at the same time, knock you down. When a bullet knocks you down, it's time to call the surgeon, if you've nothing else to do. But I was gen erally too busy." This fondness for interrupting bullets w as always a weakness of the Younger family. "My grandfather's mother," says Cole, "was a connection of General 'Light Horse Harry' Lee. w as the daug h ter of the Lee that signed the Declaration of Independence, and I am, therefore, a distant cousin of General Robert B. Lee. The Youngers in the old country were prominent fighting men at Strassburg generations ago, while that city was still free. My mother was re lated to the Ladens, Sullivans and Perci vals of South Carolina, the Taylors of Vir ginia, and the Fristoes of. Tennessee. "My father," continues Younger, "w as Col. Henry Washington Younger. H e was a native of Kentucky. H e moved to Missouri wh en a young man* About 1830 he married, at Independence, Miss Bush e ba Fristoe. For a numb er of years he w as judge of the county court of Jackson county and was at one time a member of the Missouri legislature. My mother's father, Richard Fristoe, was one of the three judges appointed by the governor of Missouri to organize Jackson county, and was elected one of the first legislators from that county. The county was named in honor of Gen. Andrew Jackson, under wh om Judge Fristoe served at the battle of New Orleans. "There were fourteen children in our family. Three died young. Six daug h ters are still livings "I am the only one left of five sons. Dick, the oldest brother, died when he w as 23, in 1860. I was the next oldest, then came Jim, John and Bob as everybody used to call them. W e four figured as the Younger Brothers... John and Bob were too young to take any part in the war. They were heard from afterwards. Embittered in His Youth. "It's hardly surprising that I entered the confederate ranks with a bitter .feel ing towards the enemy. This fighting along the Missouri-Kansas border was not ordinary warfare. I t was simply a more reckless continuation of the feuds that had started before the war as.the result of the 'free-soil' excitement. Pretty soon politics was lost sight of and per sonal revenge became the motive for most attacks on either side. The fact that'my father was a stanch union man did not save him from the Kansas Jayhawkers. Not satisfied with destroying his. prop erty and driving away his stock they waylaid him, murdered him and robbed his corpse. Next they came, to the/' house where. I was bornin Jackson county, four miles south of this town of Lees Summit. They pillaged the house and forced my mother to set it on fire with her own hands. Thus the $var had hardly begun before my father had been mur dered and our family reduced to poverty. Yet he had been worth at least $100,000 making him a wealthy man for that time in the west. H e was. a stock raiser and a merchant, and he owned three or four large farms in Jackson and Cass counties. '"In 1861, when I w as only 16 years old, I got the illwill of a young officer in the Missouri militia while we two were at a dance. I happened to be rather more pop ular with the girls. This militia cap tain kept making threa ts against me. I w as sent out to the farm to avoid trou ble. H e followed me. My father w as going to hurry me off to school at Kansas City when he learned that the officer in tended to waylay me. H e would have hesitated at nothing. I concluded myself that I had better go to war outright and make sure of a fair show at least. "In the winter of 1S62 I enlisted, near Lees Summit, in Colonel 'Up* Hays' cav alry, which was part of General Shelby's brigade. I fought largely with the regular Confederate forces, and w as made a cap-' tain before I reached my eighteenth year. But I also volunteered, from time to time, for service with Quantrell's famous guer rillas. I don't apologize for their irreg ular methods, but I can say honestly that such methods were not confined to Quan trell's band, and were a natur al outcome of the conditions I have already men tioned. Denies Shooting Prisoners. , "We. had lots of lively fighting under Quantrell. I don't care to recall it. But I'd like to deny absolutely one out rageous slander. The story goes that I wanted to test an Enfield rifle, and that I placed fifteen prisoners in a line side by side and killed them, two or three at a time, trying to see how many men I could shoot through at once. There's not Frank James, from a daguerreotype taken in Texas in 18Co. He surrendered to Governor Crittenden of Missouri twenty years ago, and has. since led an exemplary life. He is now a farmer at Kearney, Mo. the shadow of a foundation for that lie. How well I treated prisoners can be told by many men still living. I t could have been told by .the old union veteran that died in my arms six years ago while I was a nurse at.the prison hospital in Stillwar er. I had * saved this man's ""life after his capture during the war. , I even took him beyond our lines and made it easy for him to get away. H e w as sent to prison for a technical offense again st the federal laws, and his pardon, signed by the president, arrived a few moments after the old man had passed away. "Before the war. closed I went down through Mexico and up to British Colum bia by way of San Francisco. I Had let ters of marque for privateers that the Confederacy expected to send out. "I returned from California i"n the fall of 1865, and tried to settle down on my mother's farm near Lees Summit. She was already -a hopeless invalid from the exposure and sufferings she had been com pelled to endure throughout the war. But the border was now afflicted with so called vigilant committees. ' They Were hunti ng out Confederates, accusing them falsely of crime and adopting any excuse to take their lives. Neither I nor my brother Jim could remain at home. W e were practically outlawed from that time. "During the next eleven years we could never visit our home except by stealth. Everywhere we went armed, everywhere we were on the lookout for enemies, es pecially for detectives. Again and again we were charged with offenses committed at places that we never had seen. If a bank was robbed anywhere in the middle west, if a train or a stage coach was held up, the* Younger brothers were ac cusedeither they or the James brothers Jesse and Frank-rand usually all of us. ' "Once I ma de an effort to convince the public that we were by no means the uni versal villains we were painted. On the 26th of November. 1874, I wrdte a letter which was printed in the Review.of Pleas ant Hill. Mo. Through that letter I de nied that I took any'part in the robbery of the state fair cash box at Kansas City Sept. 26,-1872: the robbery of a train ne ar Des Moines on Jan. 21, 1S73 the robbery of the St. Genevieve. Mo., bank M ay 27, 1873 the robbery of the Hot ' Springs stage Jan. 15. 1874 or the holdup of the Iron Mountain "train at Gads Hill. ..Mo., Jan. 31, 1874. More than that, I-gave the names of reputable . men whokne w - ex actly where I w as wh en these robberies took place. The editor of the Review communicated with the parties and proved every word I wrote. But those same old headlines ke pt looming up, "The Younger Gang Again at Work." Opposed the Northfield Raid. "At last came the 'Northfield raid.' in September, 1876. I dislike very much to speak of it. But I have been often asked to tell the real facts. I will say this much. In the first place I decidedly opposed the iaid into Minnesota, but I was overruled. W e did not get horses in Missouri and ride north through Iowa. The eight of us took, the same train at St. Joseph, or points south, and went by rail to Mankato and then to St. Paul and Minneapolis. W e stayed a week in each of the twin cities. My brother Bob got t wo horses at St. Paul, I bought two at St. Peter, and the other men secured their animals at Red Wing. "I never shall tell who shot Umbrellas* Umbrella Time le Dom ing. Bo Prepared. Women's 26-fftc and men's 28- inch black si,lk serge umbrellas, made on the best paragon frames, with steel rod, case and tassel, attractive collection of natural, sterling silver trimmed and novelty handles, val- ^ a ues to $1.50, at ^ 1 Yqu furnished us with more good points than we knew of when you saw the dresses Wednesday. You said: If we wanted to make such pretty dresses where would we get the patterns? Could we shape them so well if we did make them? Who'd think of all .these dainty touches? and much more. You made it more certain for yourself, too, that the buying of these dresses is the better part of economy. But read Dresses of pink - and - white and blue?,anci-white gingham, full waist, turn-over collar and cuffs of white percale waist trimmed with band of white finished with buttons 2 to 6 years, at $1.00. - French long waist dresses of plain blue and pink gingham, trimmed with fancy braid neck and sleeves finished with embroidery, sizes 2 to 6, at $1.50. Russian dresses in. fancy white stripes with pink or blue polka dots neck and sleeves finished with plain bands, plain belt, very pretty, sizes 2 to 6, at $1.50. . Russian dresses of white per cale, collar, cuffs - and belts piped with Scotch plaid gingham, sizes 2 to 6, at .$2.25- v - - - Children's DressesFine! atmm The Very Latest in There's a decided stir in Veils this Spring. No season has shown such beautiful things, and at no time have the innova- tions been, so pronounced. The "East," which saves us the trouble of weeding out the good from the bad, has set its seal upon the "IRIS," the finest veil of ail from all points. And Good fellow's, is the First to Show It. ' * It is a hat trim ming as well as a veil, a nov elty and an economy at the same time. - :. The "Iris" in black and white Chiffon embroidered and lace trimmed, at &J.00 each. -..*/.. The "Iris".f%$', *!* white and all new ctetorings, ribbon borders and ribbon trimmed drapes, at $1.25. Filmy oddities of the "Iris," at $1.50, $1.75, $2.25. $2.50 and $3.00. Hayward in the Northfield bank. But I want to make two points clear. They are: Of the eight men concerned, I am now the only one alive, and Frank .James was not at Northfield. People sometimes inquire whether Jesse James was there. But he is dead and I shall say nothing about him. The t wo men killed at North field were Bill Chadwell of Minnesota and Clell Miller. Charlie Pitts of Texas was killed in the swamp near Madelia, at the time Jim, Bob and I were taken prisoners. Two men that I have not named escaped. The one usually d e scribed as 'Frank James' was killed in Arizona three years afterwards. Both Phones UBS. Goodfellow Dry Goods Co., How at Seventh and Nicollet. - "Bob, Jim and I were all wounded, as many people know. Poor Bob died of con sumption at Stillwater * in 1888. The frightful wound that Jim received in the lower jaw affected his health for years and probably had a great deal to do with his taking his own life at St. Paul last fall. The two boys are buried out at the Lees Summit cemetery alongside of mother. *.!.-]. "Twenty-five years of my life I have passed in prison! How many men can conceive what suffering that means! But I have learned much in my lonely cell. I have learned that hope is a divinity that a surplus of determination will conquer every weaknesstha t vengeance is for God and. not for men Cashier 11 could ride and I^could. shoot, and these How to Ride and Shoot. . "Yet few readers, I am.glad to say, will, have use for the lessons of my prison life. But on t wo other subjects, both of which are in themselves of some general inter est, I may speak with a little authority. Just as sure as you are born, you NEVER AGAIN will have the OPPORTUNITY TO BUY HOUSEHOLD GOODS for THE MONEY this sale affords you. Make your 'dollar work overtime and bring yon a a for a 1 In Household Goods from The Twn Market Knee Protectors for boys. They are made of leather or stock- inet they save the stockings the pair 25Cm B^Hosiery Dept. ''Ml-'fikamf WmMM Wwy with the best Furniture, Stove and Carpet products of the country, that we are MIMMM If ybu contemplate refurnishing or fitting up new for Housekeeping, Furnishings, DON'T MISS.THIS SALE, ri^- ' - -., '. " ' '-- C^ ''.' \ Town Market Furnliure C o mil DMTM#M\ On~ mfM lit I#lfW# correct, and-we will gladly pay $1 to the first person who reports in person to our Mr. Loudon any and every misstatement. ., GEf). O. DAYTON. J. B. MOSHER. GEO. LOUDON. Silk Loader* of the Northwest. Now at Seventh NIooNet Chambray dresses, Russian fashioned collar, cuffs and belts trimmed with bands of white linen, finished with - pearl buttons, pink and blue, sizes 2 to 6, at $1.75- Dresses of Scotch paid ging ham, long waist style, wide -collar, yoke of white all-over embroidery, sizes 2 to 6, at $2.50. Boys' Russian blouse suit, with bloomer trousers made of plaid gingham, collar, cuffs, belt and the pleat down side 'trimmed with white band, sizes 2 and 3, at $1.75. Boys' Russian blouse suit, * with bloomer trousers made of dark blue pereale collar, cuffs, belt and the pleat down side trimmed with white, - sizes 2 and 3, at $2.25. Men's Wear To push our great $1 negli gee shirt is doing missionary work among the menteach ing them that it's not neces sary to spend $1.2 to $1.50 to get quality, finish and style there are plain white and colorings to suit every itaste, at $1. arts are seldom understood. In both a man should act almost unconsciously. "When in the saddle all studied seats should be avoided. Do not grip the horse tightly with your knees, except in an emergency. The knees will slide upwards along the angle formed by the horse's sides and you are likely to be thrown. On the other hand, don't sit always as if in a rocking chair. Sit loosely, comfort ably, but be ready to adjust yourself to any movement of the horse exactly as a child sits on a teeter-board. If necessary, wh en your mount jumps, tighten the grip of your knees, but only for the moment. Keep your stirrups short enough tasupport your feet and then stiffen either leg suddenly if your horse shies to the oppo site side. It must all be perfectly spon taneous. " In shooting with rifle or revolver, pay no attention to the sights. I could shoot practically anything-I wanted to h it as far as the pistol or gun would carry. But I could have done just as well if the sights of the weapon had been knocked off. Don't take tlfe usual 'aim.' Rely on it that your nerves and muscles will adjust themselves to the direction your eye seizes wh en you glance at the target, moving or still. Then thrust out your hand and weapon quickly towards the tar get just as you used to push out your hand -when 'shooting' marbles. Nev er t ry to, look along the barrel of a gun, if you want to learn how you must shoot wh en your very life depends on hitting the bull's eye. " I remember all this well enough, though I've ridden a horse but oncea police man's horse, arou nd the block" in St. Paulsince I was paroled eighteen mak e * T offering this month, of March, at special prices that will SURELY ,on o K l s ou S3P~Second Floor. r intention to have our advertisements absolutely THE DAYLIGHT STORE. g atory abort, we have five floors, 44xi57, packed to the ceiling ^ r Wrappers worth to SI.30, at 69c. About eighteen dozen fleece lined wrap-, pers to be cleaned up before the Spring kinds get here there are blue and red fig red and striped kinds, not all sizes of any one, but all sizes, 32 to 44, in the lot were sold from 98c to $1.80, at 69c. Dressing Saeques to bo Glean ett upKimono style dressing saeques of heavy domet flannel, gray and blue fancy patterns, collars, cuffs and sleeves edged with wide satin ribbon, only two doz. in the group,' worth te $3, $1.49. Eiderdown dressing saeques, all wool, pink,, blue and gray trimmed with fancy ribbon and applique, worth to $2 25, at 89c. Eiderdown dressing saeques, kimono style, fitted back red, | gray, pink and blue finely trimmed with ribbon and silk appli- i que the group includes kinds worth $3, all go at $ 1.49a Women's Knit Underwear Vests of white cotton, Jer sey ribbed, high neck, long or half sleeves, at 25c. Union Suits of white lisle thread, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, at 75c. Union Suits of fine Peeler cotton, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, hand finished with silk, crochet work, at $1.00. ^ The coming season is casting its shadow before strongly in the matter of stockings. You will see what will be worn by com- ing here. Stockings, imported, of lisle, drop stitch, black, at 35c. 8 pairs for $1.00. Fast black Cotton Stockings, welt or ribbed tops, this sale, 2 pairs for 25c. Wrist Bags,SuitCasos Wrist bags of real seal and walrus leathers, nickel, gilt and gun metal frames, silk and suede lined, new shapes, worth to $1.50 each, at $1. SuitCases,brovm leather ette, reinforced with heavy leather corners, brass lock and bolts, canvas lined has shirt fold, worth $3.50, at i $2.50. Satin taffeta and crepe de ehine ribbons, up to 5 inches wide, all silk, soft and lus trous, in all the good colors, worth 35c a yard, at 23c. months ago. I've taken two shots only, both with a boy's air gun. I didn't miss the mark. "I'm often surprised that I remember anything. Prison life and prison disci pline may destroy a man's reason in much less than a quart er century. Neverth e less, I am convinced that prisons und pris on discipline are the safeguards of the nation. There is no true liberty apart from law. Beyond that boundary line liberty must surrender her rights. The infidel that ridicules religion is forced to respect the law, which is religion itself." (Copyright, 1903, by Henry B. Curry.) Washington Art Souvenir. The handsomest Art Souvenir Calendar of the year. An ornament to any parlor or, library, and useful because of making you familiar with the National Capital has twelve pages with useful illustrations of the United States Capitol Building, White House Grounds, Interior Hall of Representatives, State, War and Navy Department Buildings, Library of Con gress, Department of Agriculture, Wash ington Monument, Pennsylvania Avenue, Postoffice Building, Smithsonian Institute, and National Museum, United, States Treasury Building, Emancipation Monu ment, Mt. Vernon, the home of Washing ton and Monument to Unknown De ad at Arlington. This souvenir is sold by art and stationery stores for $1.00, but you may have one by sending 30 cents to T. W. Teasdale, G. P. A., North-Western line, St. Paul, MJnn., or for 25 cents by calling at City Ticket Office, 600 Nicollet avenue. - ChicagoCollector of Customs Nixon decided to-day that no- duty should be collected on a i consignment of 1,000 shamrocks. Women's Stockings Ribbons Hote^l PLEASE'- YOU. , 'Keepingr, ,l --^ Candies. These for Thursday* To introduce them we'll sell Columbian Ices, cream and. gela tine deliciousness, as fine as any ftSuT:2*.:..:.:-20o Fresh Chocolates at 20c Mixed Candies of high grade..8c i^"First Floor, at Elevator. Vests of fine Peeler yarn, hand crochet finished, high neck, long sleeves, at 50o. Tights, open, of fine Peeler yarn, ankle length, to match the above vests, at 50c. Union Suits, a special value in a light weight, fine Peeler yarn, low neek, no sleeves, knee length, unusual 50c value, a small lot, at 39c. Stockings, imported, of fast black lisle, silk embroidered the new oxford gray stockings and lace lisles, an especially fine gathering, at 50c. New fancy Stockinets, this sale, at 75c to $1.50.' SI Mid Gloves 7Sc^ Just ten dozen of them, fresh from the importer's ware rooms. They are a small clean-up, and are about as good as the Famous Good fellow Dollar Glove, but of a different make. Were we to ask the dollar, we'd warrant and fit them but at the price we must see the last of them quickly in a few hours, if possible. They come in Glace and Suede, blaek, and the new modes and tans two-clasp. Kansas CityDr tt Bender, Rockefeller's phy-l|i* sician, says that the rich man is perfectly well " or Office "'' : K DIKE OFF BABBITS Daily Tragedies Along Snow Fences of the TJ. P. ,.*S^g Special to The Journal. - Cheyenne, Wyo.," March 4.The snowi-?%? fences parallel with the Union Pacific^1 tracks between here and Ogden are, ow-^ ing to the intense cold of late, lined withAl! ~ gray wolves, coyotes and rabbits for niilea^^ and miles. The latter sought protection*'^ from the cold and snow which is afforded^ !* by these fences. Here are thousands ofc|T jacks and cotton tails, all stupefied by^fS '. cold or dead. They have attracted thepfj^j wolves and coyotes from the entire coun-#?|p try. The rabbits fall easy victims to vo-dp. racious animals. 4 _ j . 3sE,f FloridawExcuralons via The Milwaukee . Road. i~.*5$h- St. Augustine and return, $41.90.' ^ipJJpjjS Port Tampa and return, $45.95. -^ss^sa*. Miami and return, $51.65. ,. - *' ", . Palm Beaoh and return. $49.90. - .j Effective March 17th, April 7th and :l 21st. Good to return within 31 days.,fj3! Similar rates to other Florida points. For,:f particulars call at ticket office, 32fc Nic-|J 1 ollet av, Minneapolis, Minn., or addre ss V* ' W . B. Dixon, Northweste rn Passenger Agent, St. Paul. - *&- Not one in twenty are free from som. little ailment caused by inaction of IheT* liver. Use Carter's Little Liver Pttls/|*| result will be a pleasant surprice. Theyj.'*,jJ give positive relief. - .. -.-,^sM?': -* 'J i-V-"HB& tverglbiig ws, NO Reserve at This Sate. 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