anaheim-gazette 1908-01-09

BIRDS OF THE MOUNTAINS The mountain birds of California are in general entirely different from the birds found in the valleys. Each mountain or mountain range has different zones of bird life; that is, certain birds inhabit well-defined areas of elevation, beyond which they do not pass. To illustrate: the valley quail, the housefinch, and the California woodpecker are found up into the foothills to about twenty-five hundred feet elevation. Here they cease to be found, but their places are taken by the mountain quail, purple finch, and the red-breasted sapsucker, which in turn reach an elevation of about eight thousand feet. Here a new set comes in, the pine grosbeak, the rosy finch, and the three-toed woodpecker, which are found to timberline, nine to twelve thousand feet. This inhabiting of certain elevations is characteristic of almost every species of bird found in mountain regions. One common exception is the chipping-sparrow, a small, long-tailed, chestnut-crowned bird, which is found from sea-level to timber-line. The grouse is about the size of a large hen, and in different parts of the country is called the dusky grouse, blue grouse, pheasant, spruce partridge, and mountain hen. The mountain quail is somewhat larger than the valley quail, and has richer chocolate and olive markings. The plumes are long and slender and extend backward over the shoulders, not curved forward on in the wall. Japs Buying Cotton for Explosion Santa Barbara, Jan. 2.—It been noticed for several weeks trains running over the coast from the Sunset Route have carrying a peculiar sort of cotton. These shipments are now through in lots of from ten teen carloads a day. Ordinarily such shipments would not much comment but the fact that the cars are going through to Francisco, to be trans-shipped at that point to Japan, has excited small amount of curiosity. particular grade of cotton forms the shipments is the vav known as "gun cotton," one of most deadly explosives. A little a certain cotton from the south states of America, treated with no acid, recklessly employed by enemy, could bring great disaster any country, and the American grown product could be made ammunition to be used against country of its production. Woman First In Egypt An Egyptian papyrus over 2000 years old, which has been brought to Toledo (Ohio) museum of art with antiquities, is found to be of extional importance, as it establishes date of the reign of a Pharaoh hither unknown and throws light on the condition of woman in the fourth century B.C. The name of the writer signs this papyrus is found on another document in Strasburg university which bears a definite date, The grouse is about the size of a large hen, and in different parts of the country is called the dusky grouse, blue grouse, pheasant, spruce partridge, and mountain hen. The mountain quail is somewhat larger than the valley quail, and has richer chocolate and olive markings. The plumes are long and slender and extend backward over the shoulders, not curved forward as in the valley quail. The mountain quail is more retiring in its habits, does not run so much, and has for a call-note a single short whistle. Water-birds are not numerous about Lake Tahoe in the summer, though many kinds stop for a few days in spring and fall, but we may see the California gull, two kinds of tern (sometimes called "sea swallows"), the little black tern, and the larger white bird, Foster's tern. Flocks of white pelicans may sometimes pass over, and ducks—mallard teal and perhaps some others—nest with the terns in the marshes at the southern end of the lake. Black-birds of two or three kinds, together with killdeer, jacksnipe, and a few sandpipers are also found in these marshes. The golden eagle is sometimes seen, and a pair have their nest on the southern crags of Mt. Tallac. There are a few hawks and owls. Woodpeckers are numerous, and two or three species may be seen in any day's walk. The huge crow-like, pileated woodpecker, with his long scarlet crest, the red-shafter flicker, the red-breasted sapsucker, Williamson's sapsucker, the white-headed woodpecker, Cabanis's woodpecker, with spotted wings and gray breast, and Lewis' woodpecker are in the list. Next after the woodpeckers the sparrow family is the most important. The little black-headed snowbird belongs here, the most common of the birds. The thick-billed sparrow, a grayish bird with spotted breast and very large bill, is found old, which has been brought to Toledo (Ohio) museum of art with antiquities, is found to be of extential importance, as it establishes date of the reign of a Pharaoh hither unknown and throws light on the definition of woman in the fourth century B.C. The name of the writer signs this papyrus is found on and document in Strasburg university which bears a definite date, frequently his reference to the Parthian Kahabbasha places the reign of Pharaoh in the year 341, B.C. It confirms the statement of the Greek historian Diodorus, of the first century B.C., saying that women were important in the social scale of Ephraim men and that they formerly tated terms in marriage. Since Diodorus no evidence had been found stantiating his statement. Tired of Bean Diet Aurora, Ill., Jan. 1—With the event of New Year's, Edgar Brobst sixty-nine year old Aurora mecha who has lived seventy-three days beans, has sickened of the Boston restaurant staple. He ate beans for consecutive meals. Tonight he nounced that he and the bean had come to the parting of the ways; that first meal in 1908 would be of no and that henceforth he would abide the bean. While the bean disciple has Dr. T. J. Allen, who completed a six-day diet on peanuts December 1 starts New Years day on a sixty-run on a banana a la goober menu. Since the exponent of the peanut vorced himself of his favorite fare has gained eighteen pounds. He liesves he is now in shape to provethe world that bananas and 'good make the ideal food for both athl and scholar. California Waterways The following is from an add by A.R. Sprague at the Marysv fruit growers' convention: A review of the comparative development of California and that Western States of the Mississippi valley during the past two years will not show to the advantage Next after the woodpeckers the sparrow family is the most important. The little black-headed snowbird belongs here, the most common of the birds. The thick-billed sparrow, a grayish bird with spotted breast and very large bill, is found on all the brushy hillsides, and is noted for its marvelously rich song. Others of the family are the purple finch, the pinefinch, small, short of wing and tail, and streaked, the green-tailed towhee, with its cat-like call, and the white-crowned sparrow. There are warblers, wrens, and vireos of a dozen or so species. There are also that group of small insect-feeding, trunk-haunting birds, the creepers, nuthatches, and chickadees. The water-ouzel, or dipper, will be frequently seen in the mountain streams, often diving into the foaming water in its search for insets. Of the thrush family there are several species, the robin, bluebird, the grayish solitaire, which looks very much like the mocking-bird of more genial climes. One other bird you must surely hear, even if you do not see it. It is the hermit-thrush, small, delicate, with spotted breast, a shy bird, frequenter of the deepest willow and aspen thickets. The western tanager is the most gaudy of our birds. Among the California Waterways The following is from an address by A. R. Sprague at the Marysville fruit growers' convention: A review of the comparative development of California and that of the Western States of the Mississippi valley during the past two years will not show to the advantage of California. With incomparable greater natural advantages to its settlement, the greater part of the great state has gained but little population during a period that witnessed, east of the Rocky Mountains, the development of great populations with varied industry moving powerfully forward. Our greatest handicap is distanced from great centers of population, with consequent expense in bringing settlers and their effects here, and freight tariff necessarily so high to prevent manufacturers from marketing their products in competition with those having less freight to pay. We have, then, our industry largely restricted to agriculture and ocean trade, until upon the completion of the Panama canal and deepening of our rivers, we acquire a population large enough to furnish buyers for a large part of what we have natural facilities for manufacturing. Varied industries what make a state rich and strong. 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Mailed to any address for 35 cents. Address the Press Publishing Co., Pulitzer Building, New York City. every branch of manufacture and trade, we need settlers in some such numbers as swept into Oklahoma and built a state almost in a year—such as is now thronging into Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas, and Manitoba. We must bid for these high enough to get them, if this generation would see California come into her own. We must offer an abundance of good land cheap to those who are willing to work hard to develop it, and we must also offer cheap transportation for their products. Land is cheap in the proportion between its cost and its best annual production. California’s great areas available for the heaviest production are those in the great central valley of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, now largely under the domain of drought and flood. These areas once reclaimed will bring a development which will compel manufactures and stimulate intense activity every branch of trade fit from such work in the overflow districts. So that all the proposed work through nation will cost great sums of since it can be shown that release vast stores of agriculture otherwise never avail the campaign will draw to it port the powerful assistance Middle West, the South, and Pacific States. Swapped Patients The State of Minnesota has six insane men with the State of Calin exchange for a St. Paul man fitted to Southern California host Patton, that institution receives Minnesota John West, who becasse last summer, after eating pheasant The State Board of Lunacy pest West’s trip from Minnesota, where State bears the expense of sending St. Paul man East. The Patton cities have the better of the truWest will soon recover, while Paul man is a raving maniac. California's great areas available for the heaviest production are those in the great central valley of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, now largely under the domain of drought and flood. These areas once reclaimed will bring a development which will compel manufactures and stimulate to intense activity every branch of trade and commerce in all parts of our state. The opportunities which this great improvement will present are of keen interest, surely, to all the east where population is pressing upon subsistence—for it will offer land upon which families may live in comfort and plenty almost entirely from the products of the soil, while with the surplus of varied products for the markets of the world, no family reasonably industrious and prudent, but may live in extremely comfortable circumstances wholly free from the nerve-killing strain of constant anxiety lest the loss of a salaried position, or the grinding exactions of both organized labor and organized capital may make it impossible to make enough to live upon even in a very humble way. 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Severe rainstorms will cause floods in the South. Six great financiers will meet disaster and disgrace. Three great corporations will go into the hands of receivers. Japanese disputes will not develop a war cloud until 1909. Europe will lose one crowned head by death. Manhattan will have 35,000 marriages, 700 divorces. New York will not go up in smoke. Boston will not sink into the sea.