Hunt and battle with a white wolf and elk pack
A southern Oregon white wolf provokes a stockmen hunt that ends in a dramatic clash with elk and wolves. The party, armed with knives and rifles, witnesses a violent contest as wolves attack a deer herd then retreat after heavy casualties. Mr. T suffers a severe arm bite in a wolf ambush but survives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck
Mr. T
Elks, and That His Shot Must Have Taken Effect After All. At Any Rate, Mr. IT
Major C
Gendarmeria of Mexico and its Plateado Cavalry
Harper's Magazine describes the gendarmeria as a premier Mexican police force guarding highways. The Plateado, once highway robbers under Santa Anna, became road guards famed for chivalry. About 4000 men, each with horse and gear, earn ten reales daily and wear brown leather outfits with silver trimmings. They project elite cavalry discipline with ornate dress and saddles.
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Santa Anna
Malinche
Pueba
Vera Cuz
Sherwood Forest
Robin Hood
Harpers Mag
Yellowstone Park: Features of Geysers and Terraces Described
A lecture by Professor Bickmere highlights Yellowstone Park as an elevated plateau between 10 000 and 12 000 feet high. He details hot and cold water mixing, geysers such as Hell's Half Acre, Paint Pots, and Nouris Basin, and the Yellowstone River carving deep canyons with vivid mineral colors and terraces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Park
Bickmere
New York
Northern Pacific Railroad
Golden Gate
Nouris
Hell
Yellowstone
The Smallest Book in the World Described
The article details a one hundred leaf manuscript on fine red paper bound in silk. Measuring half an inch across, it claims unique status as both book and manuscript and is attributed to the Maharas Brahmans. It was looted during the Mutiny in India and later kept by Mr John Plant of Salford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Axen
Manchester
John Plant
Salford Royal Borough
Gance
Gias
Grhanzi
India
Peruvian Girls Observed by Miss Danks in Lima
Miss Elizabeth L. Danks, secretary to the U S minister to Peru, writes from Lima about pretty Peruvian girls seen on streets and in churches. She notes dark eyes, gallantry of men, and compares unfavorably to American men in appearance and manners.
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Elizabeth L. Danks
John Hicks
United States
Peru
Lima
Pizarro
Rimac
Mustard Plaster Recipe With Egg White Alternative
A medical class notes an egg white mustard mixture makes a drawing plaster that pulls as well as the traditional mix but does not blister the skin, even on infants, if left on.
King of Outlaws Rube Burrow Defies Forces Across the Southwest
The New York Sun profiles Rube Burrow, alias Red Rube, a 34-year-old Alabama desperado about 6 feet 1 inch tall and 175 pounds, famed for a long string of train robberies from Texas to Alabama. It details his early crimes with Jim Burrow and others, escapes from Montgomery to Lamar County, and a final bold express robbery near Breckstana, totaling tens of thousands stolen as Pinkerton and local forces pursued him for years.
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New York Sun
Rube Burrow
Fort Worth
Denver
Rube
Jim Burrow
Nip Thornton
Henderson Bromley
Indian Territory
Panhandle
United States
Texas Pacific
Ben Brooks
Gordon
Agai
Alabama
Thornton
Bromley
Shit Rule
St. Louis
Arkansas
Texatrai
Genoa
Ark
Texarkana
Robery
Rabe
Brocsx
Jim
Lamar County
Brock
Sia
Burrow
Rubens Jim
Montgomery
Kate
Jim Hale
Neil Bray
G.fednai
Enon
Elcht
Mssisippi
Mma
Pinkerton
Imbama
Mississippi
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Wolf
Linkville
Helena
M. T
Oregon
Ema
Feng
Eur Osty
Elks
Egein
Aret
Messines
Wonders of the
Pacific Slope
King OF Outlaws
THE
Alabama Desperado
Jesse James
Arkans
Va Tran Obi
Rube Burrows
Cate
Joe Jaksty
Illinois Cerral
Duck Hill
Memphis
Ayer Bes
Rub ‘Cove
Acress Messenger
Jackson
Chester Hughes
Tenn
Verney
Eter Sinal
Kube
Las
Graves
Jim Cash
Pinkertons
Cash
Lamar
Allen Burrow
Hubes
John Thomas Burrow
Ssblwif Wessel
Jim Cah
Jewel
Rule Burrow
Mobile and
Ohio Road
Brekstana
Cett
Expess Company
Cole
Sou
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