north, uur irrigation plant has beeu Idle so far this season.—When Col. Cunningham first came here he expressed great surprise at the number of very small children— thinking such revelatiou thoroughly out of place In a state Institution. But John Keith catne to the rescue of the old boys by Informing him tbat these old soldiers were just like a snake—the tall Is the last thing that dies.—May 1st. a birthday party at J. W. Fitzgerald's in east suburbs of Dodge