Valentine Democrat., July 28, 1910, Image 3

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HERE seems to be an
impression in the coun-
try at large , if one may
judge by inquiries
which are made of the
officials of the National !
museum , that when vis
itors come to Washing
ton they will see spread
before them in the mu
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seum's rooms the tro
phies of the chase
which Theodore Roose
velt conducted in Af-
rica. This is a mista-
ken impression , and
those who contemplate
visiting Washington in'
ihe near , future must make up their minds that
labile they may get glimpses of the Roosevelt
' - r. collection it will be a long time before the quarry
Ittill : be mounted and presented to public view
: fio as to show It to the best advantage.
Of course It must be understood that by far
the greater number of specimens of animal life
Iwhich : . . . Theodore Roosevelt and his fellow hunters
Obtained are those of small species of the natural
Sjlstory kingdom. For every elephant obtained ,
for instance , there are at least fifty mice , and
for every lion there are at least fifty specimens
kf the dwellers 6f the field like the rabbits , the
quirrels , the foxes and other animals which
have their interest to the scientists , but which
clo not make so brave a showing when on mu
seum t view as that of the greater wild beasts.
It is the intention of the National museum
authorities eventually to mount and to put on
exhibition in family groups the great mammals
: Which the East African expedition secured and
Bent to Washington. Now the mounting of an
, elephant , a lion , a leopard , an antelope or a rhi-
jaoceros : or any of the other big creatures of the
Wild , is an entirely different thing from the work
' ' pf years ago. No man nowadays properly speaks
pf "stuffed" animals. They ara no longer stuffed.
The old , unsightly specimens are being cast out
- Of the museums of the country. Taxidermy has
been lefted from the plane of the trades and put
on the plane of the arts.
In the old days it used to be the custom to
take a deer and to wire it and fill it with various
fcinds of "stuffing ; " to put in glass eyes and to
treat . it with arsenic and then to stand it on
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its four legs in a glass case. All this sort of
: thing has been done away with as being unwor-
thy. The advanced taxidermist of today ap-
proaches his work just as the sculptor or the
fainter approaches his. The animal family that J
Is to be mounted today is studied carefully in
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life. No high-class museum will employ a taxi-
. dermist who has not lived among the wild ani-
jxials and who does not know their every poise ,
ijlielr stride , their appearance when lying down ,
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"broad jump" to get away from the enemy.
It requires years of this kind of study before
- the taxidermist of today is considered worthy
. Of : his hire. When he takes a dead animal in
liand : to prepare it for exhibition he takes notice
, | " pf the state of its coat , whether it is a spring
coat , a summer coat , an autumn coat or a win-
ger coat. If he is to form a group of animals of
the same kind he would never think for an in-
' stant ' cf putting one with a summer coat In the
, game group with one wearing a winter coat.
< In some of the groups in the museums of the
- $ -Country today , so-called family groups , the male
< Jeer will be shown in its winter coat while its
pate standing by wears the garb of summer. To
. the eye of the naturalist or to the eye of the
Observing hunter such a condition is ludicrous
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.and even the layman who is not familiar with
. inlmals in their wild haunts becomes conscious
that there Is something wrong with the animal
iamily at which he is looking.
Nowadays not only is it the aim to mount the
: animal naturally , but every vein and every
muscle must be made to appear as in life. All of
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_ -"jof - time.
! It is the Intention of the - * National museum
.authorities to mount many of the larger Roose-
yelt specimens in family groups. This means
: that in a great many instances these groups will
be shown in their native habitats. In other
. words , not only must the animals be mounted
properly but they must be given the environment
: which they have in the field. This means In
some cases the actual construction of trees , with
leaf , trunk and branch perfect , and it means a
-reproduction of rocks and ground and it may be
even water. The whole thing requires months
" of time , the greatest skill and patience , and
; when the work : is complete the sightseer has
before him a group of African animals appearing
' 3ust as they do In their native wilds.
From what has been said in the foregoing it
-readily can be understood why it is that it will
take a long time to put the larger animals se-
cured by the Roosevelt expedition in condition
to be viewed by the multitudes of visitors who
come to Washington.
Carl E. Akely of Chicago engaged In the Afri-
can hunt for a short time as a niember : "of the
Boosevelt party. Mr. Akely Joined the colonel
in Africa in accordance with an arrangement
made before the former president left America.
Hr. : Akely went to Africa not only for the pur-
pose of getting some elephant specimens for the
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New York Museum of Natural History , but for
the purpose of studying elephants in their wild
surroundings. Carl E. Akely Is a taxidermist and
is considered one of the finest if not the finest in
the world. Moreover , he is a scientist and his
work has won recognition in all the countries
of the civilized world.
What Mr. : Akely has been doing in the last
few months gives , an illustration of what the
modern taxidermist does in order to perfect him-
self in his art. When the taxidermist returns to
America with the elephants which he has killed
he will mount them in a great group in what is
to be knwn as the elephant room of the great
New York institution. He not only will prepare
the elephants for exhibition in a group , but he
will reproduce their African surroundings. It
may be the work of years , but when it is finished
it will be worthy. The museum officials of the
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country today believe that time is as nothing
when they desire to obtain .the best natural
results.
A curious thing happened while Carl E. Akely
was with Theodore Roosevelt in Africa. In one
of the articles which he wrote the colonel told
of an experience which Mr. Akely had with a
wounded leopard. The encounter which the tax-
idermist had with the leopard occurred about
fourteen years ago and Colonel Roosevelt told
the story as it had been told him , of course
putting it in the past tense. The story was read
wrong by some one and the American papers
had an account of the desperate encounter of
Taxidermist Akely with a leopard while hunting
with the Roosevelt party , and there was a good
deal of comment to the effect that it perhaps was
a good thing for Mr. : Roosevelt that he was not
the one who had had this fierce fight with the
African beast.
About fourteen years ago Mr. Akely , who was
then connected with the Field Museum of Nat-
ural History in Chicago , went to Africa with Dr.
Daniel G. Elliot , who was curator of zoology of
the Institution of which Marshall Field was the
benefactor. One night in the heart of Africa Mr.
Akely was attempting to secure a leopard which
was prowling around the camp trying to capture
one of the goats with which the expedition was
supplied. Mr. Akely shot the leopard and thought
he had killed it. He went toward it but the
beast sprang on him and bore him to earth. He
had a terrific fight for his life. He was terribly
lacerated , but he finally : suceeeded actually in
choking the leopard to death , a feat which , as
may well be understood , is somewhat difficult of
performance.
In the Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago there is on exhibition a group of AmerI-
can deer. Perhaps it would be better to say
four groups. They show the family life of the
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red deer of America at all four seasons anC
the environment of each season is reproduced
perfectly. One group of deer was secured in
summer , another in fall , another in winter and
another in spring , and it is possible in walking
about the groups to see three of the animals , the
buck , the doe and the young , as they appear at
the four seasons. Of * course the fawn is seen in
a variation of sizes until it becomes a lusty
yearling.
, This illustration of 'a deer group from the
Field Museum of Natural History is given in
order to show what may be expected in the Na-
tional museum Washington when the larger
mammals of the Roosevelt collection are placed
on exhibition. Of course instead of the American
red deer the visitor will see elephants , lions , leop-
ards and several of the many families of ante-
lopes which inhabit the African country. There
will be similar groups of the smaller animals ,
while for the purposes of the student of animal
life there will be in drawers and In cases
throughout the museum the skins and the skulls
32 the smaller mammals which are invaluable
for purposes of comparison.
The trophies which former President Roose-
velt has presented to the National museum are
not the only gifts of value which he has made to
the institution. Some years ago when the
colonel was hunting in Oklahoma , he secured a
specimen of what at first was thought to be a
coyote. The colonel had remembered that Wood-
house , a hunter-naturalist of sixty years previous ,
had obtained an animal in about the same part
of the country which it was held was neither a
wolf nor a coyote , but a sort of a connecting link
between the two , larger than the true coyote
and smaller than the true wolf.
Colonel Roosevelt knew that there was some
dispute as to the validity of the account of this
species. He obtained an animal which was not .
full grown , but he concluded that it was different
from either the coyote or the wolf and he thought i
It might be of the species or variety that Wood-
house had obtained. He sent the animal to the
scientists in Washington and they became con-
vinced after a study of the Woodhouse and the
Roosevelt specimens that there no longer could
be any doubt of the existence of a family inter
mediate between the coyotes and the wolves.
The result was that an expedition was de-
spatched to the scene of the Roosevelt hunting
and success crowned its efforts. The knowledge
which the former president had of the Wood-
& &Bse specimen and the study which he gave the
specimen of his own taking led to the estab
lishment of a scientific fact of considerable
value. There is now a fine series of the inter-
mediate wolves In the possession of the na
tional authorities.
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Nearly one hundred years ago an Englishman
claimed that the bear of the Gulf states Louisi-
ana and Mississippi , was a different species from
the ordinary black bear. The matter was in dis
pute for years among the scientists. Finally
Theodore Roosevelt secured some specimens of
the Louisiana bear and sent them to Dr. C. Hart
Merriam , then the chief of the biological survey
in Washington. Dr. Merriam : recently has been
given charge of the natural history foundation
made possible by the generosity of Mrs. E. H.
HarrIman.
Dr. Merriam took the Roosevelt bear speci
mens in hand , and after a long anad painstaking
study proved that the ordinary black bear oi
America and the bear of the cane brakes ar
different species , thus settling a point that had
been in doubt for nearly a century. It was the
Roosevelt interest In the study of natoral history
which led to the establishment of a fact of mo
ment to the scientific ! world.
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FORTY SURVIVORS SUCCEED IN
LANDING IN LIFEBOATS
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Warships Sent to Scene in Hope of
Picking Them Up-Ship Struck in a
Fog and Shortly Afterward Went to
the Bottom.
Tokio.-The Tetsurei Maru , plying
between Kobe and Dairen , sunk Sun-
day night off Chindo , Corea. The
steamer had 246 passengers aboard , of
whom forty were saved. The others
I are missing. Warships have been sent
to the rescue.
Direct reports from Chindo state
that two of the Tetsurei's lifeboats
landed 40 passengers , who tell of har-
rowing scenes when the befogged ves
sel struck. Six lifeboats were launched
and filled with passengers. There was
no panic , and everything was carried
off in the most orderly manner.
The captain and a majority the
crew iwere unable to leave the steam-
er. Six first class passengers were
saved , including W. Cunningham , the
British consul at Osaka , as well as
13 second class passengers.
One hundred and five third class
passengers and 59 soldiers were taken
off in boats , and there is reason to be-
lieve that these boats either reached
land or were picked up by the war
ships.
EIGHTH BIG INTERSTATE FAIR
Sioux City's Annual Autumn Show ,
Fortunate in Location-The
Heart of Corn Country.
The eighth annual fair of the Inter-
state Live Stock Fair association will
be held at Sioux City , Iowa , Septem
ber 19 to 24 , inclusive. This fair is
the largest independent fair in the
United States. The success of this
fair undoutedly is due to the great ad-
vantage of its location-being in the
corner of the four great states of Iowa ,
Nebraska , South Dakota and Minne
sota.
sota.Within
Within the circle described by this
area lies a country rich in the fertility
of its soil , cultivated by the best class
of farmers , and which annually pro-
duces more corn , cattle and hogs , than
any area of similar size in the world.
Naturally , the center of such an agri-
cultural empire is the ideal spot for a
live stock fair.
It is because the farmers and stock
raisers flock to this fair that official
recognition of its superiority is given
by the American Hereford Cattle
Breeders' association , the American
Shorthorn Breeders' association , the
American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders'
association , the Red-Polled Cattle club
and the Percheron Society of America.
Every year special cash premiums
for carloads of fat cattle are offered
by the Sioux City Live Stock exchange ,
the Sioux City Stock Yards company ,
Armour & Co. and the Cudahy Packing
company. ,
A fine speed program has been ar
rangedforthe week and the free vaude-
ville attractions will be on a par with
the best in the west this year.
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Riot in Pennsylvania.
Scranton , Pa.-During a riot at Car-
bondale between strike breakers and
sections hands of the Delaware and
Hudson railroad one man was shot
and will probably die. The men at
work were attacked by the strikers , a
majority of whom are Italians , and
fully 200 shots were exchanged , one
of them striking James Ciccone at the
base of the brain. State police are ac
cused by the strikers of having : fired
the probably fatal shot , and two of
them were placed under arrest. ,
List of Dead Sixty.
Milan.-The list of dead in the cy
clone which swept over the district
northwest of Milan has increased to
60 and the injured number several
hundred. The material losses are e&
timated at many millions.
Dual Denver Tragedy.
Denver , Colo.-Pressing a revolver ,
against the temple of her husband I
Frank V. Ferris , as he lay asleep , Mrs. I
Lulu Ferrissent a bullet crashing
through his brains and a few minutes
later blew out her brains.
Nevada Town on Fire.
Reno , Nev. - Wadsworth , a town 25
miles east of Reno , on the main line
of the Southern Pacific , was afire and
reports indicate that the town will be
entirely wiped out.
Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Sioux City.-Saturday's quotations
on the Sioux City live stock market
follow : Best feeders , , $5.35. Top hogs ,
? 8.65.
Actor Overton Dead.
St. Louis , Mo.-John S. Overton , an
old time actor , who played with Edwin
Booth , Lawrence Barrett and other
I famous stars , died here at the age of
69 years.
Explosions Causes a Loss.
Cincinnati.-Two explosions wreck-
ed a manufacturing plant at Central
avenue and Findley street , starting a
conflagration that destroyed three . ad-
joining plant :
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ALL OVER NEBRASKA
Charged With Sister's Murder.
Dixon County - Charged with the
murder of his sister , Miss Louis
Flege , at their home seven miles
north west of Wayne on June 30 last ,
William Flege was arrested and
placed In the county jail at Ponca.
Detectievs working on the case at
tribute to Flege the desire to get his
sister out of the household , where she
had lived with him as housekeeper
for years , in order that he might
marry Miss Ida Hendricks , a beautiful
young woman who lives - on a _ neigh-
boring farm.
The case was most mysterious and
baffling. William Eichtencamp , 18
years old , was employed on the farm.
It was said that he came In from
work In the evening of the day of the
murder and found the young woman
in the door yard with a bullet in the .
base of her brain and another in her
breast.
Flego was arrested on a confession
secured from Eichtencamp , who It is
said , asserted that he had been forced
to tell the story that he had found
the young woman under penalty of
death by the brother. W. C. Daven-
port of Sioux City , a detective , has
been working on the case. He said
that until the confession by Eichten-
camp no suspicion had been pointed
at the brother.
The prisoner has been most assidu-
ous in the search for the murderer
\nd put up $500 of the $2,50 reward
offered by the county and relatives of
the murdered woman. He worked with
the officers every day.
Hangs Himself. .
Merrick County - Victor Briggs , son
. of S. E. Briggs , Union Pacific agent at-
Hordville , committed suicide by hang-
ing himself. Mr. Briggs , who is about
twenty years of age , has been in deli-
cate health for some years.
Youth Drowns In Pond.
Otoe County-Tommie Doyle the 17-
year-old son of Mrs. Doyle , a widow ,
and her sole support , was drowned in
a pond at the Nebraska City driving
park , where he was in bathing with
other boys. His body was recovered.
Phelps County Valuation.
Phelps County.-The total value of
all taxable property in Phelps county
is $23,374,085 , according to the ab-
stract of assessment just completed
by County Assessor Miller. This
represents an increase in valuation of
$356,140 which is considered good
since no new real estate valuation has
been made.
- Horse and Buggy Stolen.
Seward County. - When John WII-
lers jr. , a farmer living five miles
southeast of Seward went out to take
care of his stock he discovered that
his good driving horse , together with
the buggy and harness was missing
from the barn. A young man , who
had been working for him four or five
days had also disappeared and taken
his personal belongings.
Lient. Bridges on Furlough.
Johnson County-Lieutenant T. W.
Bridges , who recently graduated
from the national military academy
at West Point , is visiting at the home
of his parents , Mr. and Mrs. J.V .
Bridges , in Sterling. He is enjoying
a three months' furlough , at the end
of which time he expects to be as-
signed to duty either in the Philip-
pine islands or in Alaska.
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Old Skeleton at Lyons.
Burt County-A human skull , with
teeth and other bones , etc. , has been
found on the place north of Lyons . .
known as the old "Jim Hart home-
stead. " A number of the different
parts of the skeleton were picked.up
by Mr. F. G. Ingham , who now owns
the place , from a knoll near his home ,
where they had been thrown out from
their resting : place by a badger. .
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Sarpy County. - David Boyer , aged
99 years , died at the residence of his
daughter in Papillion , Mrs. Mary
Klingman with whom he made his
home.
C. C. Dudley Dies at Ruskin.
Nuckolls County-News was re
ceived at Nelson of the deatti of ex-
County Treasurer C. C. Dudley at his
home at Ruskin of typhoid fever. Mr.
Dudley had been cashier of the '
Ruskin bank since the expiration of
his term of office three years ago. He
leaves a wife and infant child.
Held Job Thirty Years.
Dodge County-After having charge
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of Ridge cemetery in the capacity of
sexton for a period of thirty years the
family of Isaac Goodspeed finally will
relinquish it to Emil Voget , who will
come from Richmond Hill , N. Y. Isaac
Goodspeed was sexton until the time
of his death eight years ago , when his
son , C. 'B. Goodspeed , succeeded him.
The latter died and Mrs. Goodspeed
since then has acted as sexton.
The Disputed Strip.
Garden County-Parties living In
the disputed strip along the eastern
boundary of Garden county circuit
have petitioned the county commis-
sioners of Garten and McPherson
counties to call an election to place
'them in Garden county territory em-
braced in the disputed strip and the
'territory In McPherson county to the
government forest reserve , making a
five-mile strip of townships 17 , 18 , 19
and 20 , range 40 and 41 , and township
17 , range 40. Over 100 families are
in this strip , and practically all signed
the petitions.
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