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PESKY BEAVERS “AT KAUFMAN’S” The Most Startling Musical Announcement Ever Made Complaints of Damage Done Tomorrow We Offer By Dam Buildeis

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Though Once Threatened With Ex- tinction—Accused Inundating Garments at Prices That Farm Lands and Felling j \ Valuable Trees. From the New York Sun. Will Clear Them Out The announcement of the Steinway Player has al- Denver.—The beaver, which threatened i ready created the most profound interest in musical and at one time to become extinct, has been so well protected by game wardens In the L trade the and its unbounded circles, throughout world, Rocky mountain states that now ranch- i '» success from has been assured the beginning. men are complaining of Its depredations. Fourteen Suits for Small Women and Misses, A A The vast resources of the Steinway house, with its They tell of farm lands Inundated and j shade the dam tremendous American and European prestige, stand as a trees destroyed by busy Sold formerly to $25. builders, and In consequence of such com- for new instru- gilt-edge security the perfection of the plaints State Game Commissioner Hol- ment. land has In several cases granted special permits for the destruction of beavers. A Small Lot of Long Coats—black, navy or gray and A A One ranchman whose place was a fav- The Pianola Piano orite of beavers Stemway dwelling place complained * mixtures. Sold up to $17.50.CpvJ.vyvy that not only did the beavers build a dam j will he on daily exhibition in which Inundated his bottom lands and spoiled a promising crop of hay, but our player rooms where con- having stripped off all the available tim- black and colors—choice models that A A A ber near the stream they descended on the Long Coats, 1 ranch and * v/ stant demonstration will he yard girdled all the cotton- sold to Vy. vy woods that served as a windbreak sur- formerly up $25.nP given. rounding the ranch house. The Indignant ranchman did not dare shoot the beavers All are invited to call. because there Is a heavy penalty for the new killing of these animals, but he did set Twenty Handsome Suits—all the shades. 1 O 7 PI Our of is now the finest offered his fighting shepherd dog on them. To display player pianos his disgust the first beaver the * ^ Pianola Starr- dog to . ..nP anywhere, and includes Steinway Piano, tackled put up such a fight that the dog Formerly up $75.00 Emerson Richmond Player Piano, beat a hasty retreat to the barn, where Player-Piano, Angelus, he spent the day repairing punctures. J Trayner Player Pianos. Payments if desired. Ten years ago It was prophesied that the beaver would become extinct In the Silk Petticoats About 7 5 < Rocky mountains. For nearly three gen- $5 Lingerie $ * 05 (jj 05 erations had been hunt- they trapped and — ^ ^ swarm no and Taffeta Silk I I French Piano and ed, and the streams that used to deep flounce x with them knew them no more. Then fol- lowed laws for the of 1 stringent protection blacks in the lot . Waists, sold up to $5 I Co. the few beavers that remained. So well Organ have these laws been enforced that the beavers have greatly Increased In num- I J. H. Holcombe. Mgr. 1921-23 3rd Ave. bers.

Every year sees a larger army of them at work In the small streams on the di- Price on Alt a Half vide, and now ranchmen declare that Furs, Including Jap Mink, limited amount of beaver trapping must SPOTLIGHT NOTES FROM be allowed each season if the little ani- mal la not to become a menace. Black and Isabella Blended In the moun- French The student of life Rocky Coney, Fox, THE WORLD OF MIMICRY tains will find that the beaver was the first conservationist. Every stream and lake In the Rockies bore his handiwork Muffs Neck Pieces. These dams held and By JAMES GRANT THURSTON In the shape of dams. back the flood waters and aided in the Squirrel New York, February 19.—(Special.)— Man" 1n the London Globe theatre to deposit of the rich silt that makes up the see If It will do for America. Mr. Froh- bottom lands that stretch When our national temple of drama, the agricultural inan is pleased with the present season from the Rockies to the Mississippi. New theatre, closes at the expiration of in America. He says: When the trapping era came there was f---s which will be late In the present season, “My only regret is that I cannot be in no thought of the beaver as a first aid April, the New Theatre Stock company, America for the first performance of to the farmer. The trapper saw only the presumed to be the cream of histrionic Miss Hattie Williams' new comedy, "The rewards that were represented by the fur were The Arrival of Kaufman’s Behind of the animal. talent, will make a tour extending as far Girl He Couldn’t Leave Him," Many expeditions which is to next month fitted out at St. Louis for the purpose of Announcing be Btaged early west as Kansas City. Thus will light by William Collier. This will be the first trapping the beaver, and the men of the be shed in the and the found- provinces time in my career as manager that a Hudson Bay company trapped their way of the national cast the were in ,-