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THE OCCIDENTAL HOME MONTHLY the muddy waters in which it lives na ture has provided it with an arrange ment of bony plates on the end of its tail, much resembling the pro peller of a steamboat. These, how Financial Statement Month Ending February, 1917 Benefit Reserve Interest Total Bal. Jan. 31, 1917 $7365.30 $71902.22 $12727.12 $91994.70 Receipts 2878.11 1238.54 290.50 4413.15 $10243.47 $73140.70 $13023.62 $96407.85 Disbursements 4500.00 1.40 4501.40 Bal. Feb.

28, 1917 $5743.47 $73140.70 $13022.22 $91900.45 ever, serve an additional purpose, for, when the creature catches a colore person, it tosses the victim up and backward so as to impale him upon the spike fin. The snoligoster's tail is then driven into the mud and revolves until a hole is scooped out, wherein the prey is deposited and covered up to furnish a subsequent meal. Furniture Grand Treas. Farm Loans General The squonk, on the other hand, is $71100.00 Bal. Jan.

Receipts an entirely harmless, though very cur ious beast. It is said to be fairly com after another they blow up with resounding reports, leaving deep, gravo-shaped holes in the sand. In the mountains of Colorado, where in summer the woods are becoming infested with tourists, much uneasiness has been caused by the slide rock bolter. This frightful animal lives only in the steepest mountain country, where the slopes are greater than 45 degrees. It has an immense head, with small eyes, and an enormous mouth running back between its ears.

Its tail consists of a divided flipper, with huge grabhooks, which it fastens over the crest of a mountain ridge, often remaining there motionless for weeks at a time and watching the gulch for tourists. At the right moment, after sighting a tourist, it will lift its tail, thus loosening its hold on the mountain, and, drooling thin skid grease from the corners of its mouth (thus greatly accelerating its speed), comes down like a toboggan, scooping in its victim as it goes, its own impetus carrying it up the next slope, where it again slaps its tail over the ridge and waits. Killed in a Shocking Manner A forest ranger, whose district in Total $91994.70 3174.61 $95169.31 3262.86 $8481.79 1226.12 $7255.67 1251.15 $11816.46 4400.73 $16217.19 4514.01 $71100.00 $596.45 mon in the hemlock forests of Pennsylvania, and it travels about only at twilight. Because of its misfitting Disbursements. Bal.

Feb. $11703.18 $71100.00 $8506.82 $91906.45 skin, which is covered with warts and moles, it is always unhappy. Hunters are able to follow the squonk by its tear-stained trail, for the animal weeps constantly. When cornered and escape seems impossible, it may even dissolve itself in tears. On frosty, moonlight nights it is often heard weeping under the boughs of dark hemlock trees.

J. P. Wentling, resid RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1917 ing at St. Anthony Park, had a disaDDOintintr experience with a cludes the rough country between Op-hir Peaks and the Lizard Head, con squonk near Mont Alto. He made a clever capture by mimicking the squonk and inducing it to hop into a sack, in which he was carrying it home, when suddenly the burden ceived the bold idea of decoying a slide-rock bolter to its own destruc Pioneer Chapter No.

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Wentling unslung the sack and looked in. There was nothing but tears and tion. A dummy tourist was rigged up with plaid Norfolk jacket, knee breeches and a guide book of Colorado. It was then filled with giant powder and fulminate caps, and posted in a conspicuous place, where, sure enough, bubbles. A Bullet-Proof Animal 48.33 17.81 8.70 3.60 51.43 11.80 25.00 45.26 59.65 15.49 7.64 18.25 8.96 34.41 33.00 35.69 6.63 8.67 7.60 5.75 5.70 8.10 9.38 10.25 15.29 30.96 25.70 4.37 296.50 24.00 2.38 Concordia Chapter No.

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193.... Protection Chapter No. 194 Supplies Interest Fees Coyle Chapter No. 99, Jan the next day it attracted the attention of a bolter which had been hanging for days on the slope of Lizard Head. The Every lumber region, says Mr.

Cox, has its stranere animafs almost or resulting explosion flattened the build ings in Rico, which were never re built." wholly unknown to science. Thus in the foggy country along the Pacific coast, from Gray's Harbor to boldt Bay, there ranges a kind of creature that has caused much annoyance. In the chaparral and foothill forests of California is found the tripodero an animal with two telescopic legs and This is the gumberoo, which fortunate a tail like a kangaroo. This peculiar! ly is so rare that a specimen is seen only once in a long while. It is be ty of structure enables the creature to elevate itself at will, so that it may tower above the dense chaparral, or, if lieved to remain in hiding most of the time inside of huge, burned-out cedar trees, from which it sallies forth on it chooses, to pull in its legs and assume a compact form for crowding through the brush.

Its head is nearly marching expeditions. Occasionally it will eat a whole horse at one sitting. Ness City Chapter No. 42 25.64 Dighton Chapter No. 43 16.84 McCracken Chapter No.

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73 12.82 all snout, and it kills its prey by dis Total $4400.73 No other animal within its range has ever found successful method of attacking a gumberoo. Whatever charging from the end thereof pellets of sundried clay, which are projected at the target with astonishing force and accuracy. Just a word ought to be said about the whintosser. This creature, seen occasionally along the coast ranges of California, is of no great size, but re DISBURSEMENTS FOR FEB. 1917 GENERAL FUND Printing, Mailing, Editing Official Paper 57.75 Miscellaneous Printing 21.10 Local Medical Fees 104.00 Grand Medical Fees 49.00 Field Work 663.21 Rent and Light 20.00 Salary Grand Secretary 125.00 Clerk Hire 45.00 Office Supplies 14.70 Postage and Telephone 29.90 Advertising 9.50 Grand Chapter Expense 21.00 Bonds Local Secretaries 67.99 Annual Filing fee to State Ins.

Department 20.00 markably constructed. Its head is fastened to its body by a swivel neck, and so likewise is his short, tapering tail, and both can be spun around at the rate of 100 revolutions a minute. The body is long and triangular in shape, with three complete sets of Alta Vista Chapter No. 74 29.89 Augusta Chapter No. 75 8.70 Elmdale Chapter No.

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87 29.49 matter, for the whintosser is always there with the legs. All of its hair is bristly and slants forward at a sharp Harvey Chapter No. 91 2.47 Pawnee Chapter No. 92 17.20 Edmond Chapter No. 95 1.49 Gas City Chapter No.

96... 11.84 angle. A cat's nine lives are as nothing to Mulhall Chapter No. 97 2.90 $1251.15 BENEFIT FUND Paid to Beneficiaries $3261.46 Transferred to Reserve 1238.54 the ones possessed by a whintosser. This beast may be shot, clubbed or strung on a pike pole without stopping strikes the beast bounds off.

A stone thrown at it is liable to rebound from its elastic hide in such a way as to strike the thrower a deadly blow. Even bullets are similarly shed. The scarcity of gumberoos is thought to be due to their combustible character, and the prevalence of forest fires. Fire, indeed, is the only thing that will destroy them, and they burn like celluloid, with explosive force. Frequently, during and after a forest fire in the heavy cedars near Coos Bay, woodsmen have heard loud reports, quite unlike the sound of falling trees, and detected the smell of burning rubber in the air.

It is a sadness to speak of the Funeral Mountain terrashot, which is certainly the most unfortunate of animals. From it probably comes the name of the Funeral Range in California. The creature has a coffin-shaped body, six to eight feet long, with a flat sheil running the whole length of its back. It was first seen and reported by some Mormon emigrants, who observed a peculiar procession entering the. desert from a certain range of mountains, afterward named the Funeral Mountains.

They witnessed the tragic fate of the brutes. One of the Mormons, his curiousity aroused, made an investigation. It seems that the animal lives in the little meadows and parks in the higher portions of the range, where it gradually increases in numbers until seized by a strange impulse to migrate. The beasts then form long processions and march in single file down into the desert valley, presumably with the intention of crossing to other ranges that can be seen in the distance. Not one of them, however, ever gets across.

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