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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-01

CLOQUET, MINN-While two lads
were walking from the postofrice at Har-
ney, Mimi, to their homes Saturday even
ing, one of them, named Gentoff. was
shot through the head and instantly
killed. His companion carried a twenty
two-rif1e. When questioned by the deputy
sheriff the lad said that two men in a
blackboard with a gray horse had driven
by and that one of them shot his com
panion. The boys story led to night
chase by Sheriff Wallace. but no men were
found. The boy still sticks to his. story.
He was taken to Carlton Sunday morning
by the sheriff. - ~,
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
LEON LOCALS.

Lars Larson, the mail carrier,
made flying trip to Fosston FIJI
day.
Axel Anderson was talking
horse trade with Beard postofice
man last
Herman and John Rydeen are
doing extensive logging for Miss
Annie Bergland.
Anton Joten and John Rydeen
were to Bagley Saturday proving
up on their claims.
s, Magnuson, who sold his
claim here. last summer and went
to Fosston, where he has been IN
the butcher business since, moved
his family back last week and, are
now living with 4 Doco Skarbo.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
BEAR CREEK.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Edmund on Monday, Jan. 8, 1902
a daughter.
b Miss Ames left on Monday for
Hillsboro, N. d., where she will
remain fortnight & q g.
Ade!ph Holum was taken sick,
4 week ago last Monday, but we
are glad to hear he is improving.
|It is thought he had a touch Of
pneumonia.
Carrie sBergquist was on the
sick list the latter part Of last
week.
IngvoI johnson has moved his
blacksmith shop from old Aida to
IS. p. Bergquist's old house.
@. Cleveland has been engaged
in cooking in q lumber camp since
ednesday of last week.
Mrs. Smart was on her claim
Hast week.
Christian Hestad Of Otter Tail
county passed through here on
Sunday on his way to his farm in
Moose Greek.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. O. Felt will
give a dance Feb. /. to comment
crate the sixth anniversary Of
Itheir settlement here.
"A few Of Miss Amanda Eng's
Intimate friends gave hersa pleas
ant surprise last Sunday, it being
her thirteenth birthday.
P. Il Eng was in Sheylin last
| Monday.
Why did we designate that
Hummer" Of a correspondent as
Thin r. Simply because we fol-
llowed the instructions Of our old
professor in regard to common
gender Of personal pronouns.
B. P. @. ID.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
5Nss335:s5sS53ss
\ \ County Correspondence.

Mr.. and Mrs. Brynilson went to
the Town Of Eden, Polk county,
last week after receiving the sor-
.rowful tidings that Mrs. Brynil-
sons mother was very sick.
Judge Supry last week imposed
a fine Of $40 and costs on young
man from the Town Of Hoist for
.assaulting an old man Christmas
day.
Emil Halqnist says that he is
engaged tos Mrs. Lizzie Skog, and
that his wedding will be a his
torical event. Mrs. Skog is a
pretty young widow and owner Of
IA valuable claim, 50 Emil has a
good reason forifeeling happy.
III W. E,yA
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
COUNTY NEWS !.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


w. II. Orcutt, the popular rep.
resentatiye of the Gamble-Robin-
son Co., st. Paul, states that he
is going to start in the hardware
business al Blackjack.
Frank Okerlund has started a
blacksmith shop in the new Town
of Aida.
Mr.. Dayids Of Bagley may put in
a sawmill at Bridgie.
Turtle River held school cleo.
tlon Friday.
The Bagley Odd Fellows must
be n lively lot. Assisted by Alex
Van Prague, they gave a min
strel show last Friday night.
The Pine Tree says the trains
"toot, but do not stop at Farley"
Blackjack schools will add an
other instructor, and John E.
Raymond of st. Cloud, graduate
of the Normal school, has been
rendered the position.
III. w. Bruner has takensa con-
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
Al Profitable Investment.

a II was troubled for about seven
years with my stomach, and | was in
bed half my time, I says e. Denick,
Somerville, Ind. Il spent about
ST. COG and never could get,any thing to
help me until I tried Kodol Dyspepsia
Care. Ihave taken a few bottles and
am entirely WE'LL You don't live, by
what you eat, but by what you digest
and assimilate. If your stomach
doesn't digest your food you are
really starving. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure does the stomach's work by d.
costing the food. You don't, have to
diet. Eat all you want. Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure cures all stomach troubles.
Il. Al. Mayo. 5sa III
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
q = 9 20 g -
BLaA.CKDUCK ITEMS. I

Charles Scrutchln, while here
last week, had a barber arrested
and tried before Judge Brennan
on a criminal charge. The bar
Der refused to shave him for less
than IS. The case was dismissed.
j. Goodman and Mr.. French
were in town today.
John Steidl came in from a.
cruise through the wilds around
iBridgie.
There are no buildings under
way here Mt present.
\ Frank Miller, the genial con-
tractor Of Bemidji, honored Black
duck BY 4 visit the 18th inst.
The interior Of the National is
being painted. making q big iH-
.provement.
The railroad constructionycrew,
are still pouring hundreds Of yards
of dirt in the, sinkhole just beyond
the roundhouse.
Y The M. "a. w. camp will give q
grand masquerade ball Jan. "a.
The Odd Fellows will organize.
In Blackjack in the near future.
A brickyard is one Of the possi.5
bilities for Blackjack. The town
site company will donate the site.
G. w. Conway Of Bemidii, man
agsr Of the Blackduck branch Of
G. Z. Gilbert's lumber yard, is
dong a big business. Mr.. Con-
way is a first.class mechanic, and
has proved himself q capable man
ager, and has made many friends
for the firm. n.
Yves Wright dumped his oil
tank off the sled this side Of Far.
lev, but lost very little oil.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
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# ( I'd
ssSome time ago my daughter caught
severe cold. She complained OF
pains in her chest and had q bad
cough. / gave her Chamberlainfs
Cough Remedy according to direc-
tons and in two days she was we'll
and able I'D go to school. have
used this remedy forAthe past seven
wears and have never known it to
fail,n says James Prendergast, mer-
chant, Annato Bay, Jamaica, West
India Islands. The pains In the chest
indicated an approaching attack of
pneumonia, which in this instance
was undoubtedly warded off by
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t
counteracts any tendency OF a cold
Upward pneumonia. Sold by Mayo's
Drug store.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
The Bestof Poultry apers Free.

~ Nearly every family in, the United
States is interested In poultry, either
raising much or little, or else coHsunl-
ing 1t. The PIONEER has made ar
engagements whereby it can send the
Western Poultry News one year free
to any person paying one years sub
scription in advance. Old subscribers
can take advantage of this offer also.
The Western Poultry News Isl q big
:s2-page monthly chicken magazine,
published at Lincoln, Neb., printed on
fine paper, n illustrated and is an
acknowledged authority on poultry
methods. Every housewife in town
or country. as we'll as farm or city
IA an. should have. 1t, especially when
1t can be secured free.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
AMERICAS
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Consistently Republican,

News from All Of the World Well
Written, Original Stories Answers
to Queries Articles on Health,
the Home, New Books, and on
Work About the Farm and Garden,
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16

tract to get out 10000 railroad
ties from. talnarack tim Der east Of
Guthrie, in the Steamboat river
swamp.
A. j.. Satlerstrom Of Lengby ex-
Ihibited FIVE cages of poultry at the
Fargo bird show.
Insurance agents are making
life not worth having to the boys
of the lumber camps.
S. A.. Gray is banking logs at
the rate Of a million a week on
Little Bass lake.
Up to last Saturday there was
only eighty acres of vacant gov
ernment land in Shevlin town
ship. Then Dell Amadon filed on
a forty one mile from the village.
Who wants the other, at the
southeast corner Of the township ?
Children Especially Liable.
Burns, bruises and cuts are ex-
trernely painful, and il neglected often
results in blood poisoning. Children
are especially liable to such mishaps
because not so careful. AS q remedy
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is un-
equalled. Draws out the fire. stops
the pain, soon heals the wound. Be-
ware of counterfeits. Sure cnre for
piles. tDeWitt's Witch Hazel Salre
cured my baby of eczema after two
physicians gave her up, writes Jas.
Mock, ". Webster, Ind. 'sThe sores
were so bad she soiled from two to
five dresses a day. T. A. Mayo.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-01-16
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CUlTURiSTS.
Some Up-to-Dats Hints About Culti-
vation of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures, viticulture and
F1orfculture.
Distance Apart to Set Apple Trees

Distance Apart Set Apple Trees.
From Farmers Review: Again this
same old subject has come up for
rehearfng- If we are to judge by the
divergence of opinions held by writer's
in our various farm papers, it must
appear to novices complicated Ques-
ton. /, for one, wish 1 had no more
difficult matters to deal with in horti
culture. People know that their chill
dren have to nave clothes according
to their size. Different varieties of
fruit trees differ very much as to the
size of their growth. Location and eli
rate also play important parts. A
Talman Sweet in some OF our middle
and eastern states would need at least
forty feet each way. The same variety
grown in the northwest would not need
thirty feet each way. If one were set
ting out Tetofskys twenty feet each
way would be an abundance of room.
One rule ~annot be made to apply to
all varieties and all locations. The
most approved plan for setting apple
trees in the northwest, and one quite
generally adopted here by our best in
formed norticulturists, as about this:
With the large growing varieties place
the rows thirty Feet apart and set the
trees twenty -eet apart in the rows. 1
refer to such varieties as Talman
Sweet, Plum's Cider, and Northwest
Greening. Varieties like Tetofsky and
Whitney can be set in rows twenty
feet apart, the trees being fifteen feet
apart in the rows. The rows should
run north and south, or, what is better
still, in the line of the sun in Febru-
ary. This plan has been thoroughly
tested here and this arrangement of
the trees has proved to be a very i'm
portant factor in protecting the trees
from sun killing, which has proved so
detrimental to orchards in the north
west Here we have too much hot
sun and dry air. In the eastern part
OF the country they have too much
cloudy. damp weather and not enough
sun. In setting apple trees one needs
to know his varieties and what each
one requires. He must also understand
his location and climate. By follow
ing this plan one can have the rows the
same distance apart east and west, but
can set the trees of smaller growth
closer together in the rows north and
south This gives each variety its
proper space and aids very much in
making an orchard self-protecting.
EDISON GAYLORD.
Floyd County, Iowa.
Mr.. Gaylord says, Set the trees in
the line Of the February sum-" Did he
not intend to say the February sun
at a certain hour?-Ed. F. R.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
Denmark as a Hog Producer.

Denmark is becoming a very active
rival of the United States as a producer
of hogs. In 1861 the swine population
of Denmark is given at 301, 900. By
1851 it had increased to III 900 and by
1898 the number was 1,168,000. 1t has
doubtless increased steadily during the
last three years, but the official figures
for those years are not at hand.
The prohibition of the importation
of live hogs into Germany and the
United Kingdom. which countries were
Denmark's principal customers in this
line, resulted in the esta anlishment OF
slaughter houses in Denmark, and the
increase in the production of Danish
bacon and hams in recent years has
been phenomenal. The exports of
hams and bacon from Denmark have
grown from 9,12O. 900 Danish pounds in
1878 to 12e. 100000 Danish pounds in
1898, the value increasing from 4,110.-
600 kroner IN 1878 to 47.0S0.000 kroner
in 1898, the value of the kroner. being
26.8 cents.
There are now twenty-five co-opera-
tive slaughter houses in Denmark,
which in 1899 killed about 729. 900 head
of swine, at a value of about 81, $50 900
kroner (about $4,000, ,000), and about
22,450 head of cattle for export, at a
value of about 100000 kroner. The
largest slaughter houses killed from
$1,000 to $1,000 pigs in 1899. and the
smaller from 5000 to 10000. In 1897
twenty-one slaughter houses were stat
ed as having been established, at cost
of 3.543, 900 kroner, and the number of
persons sharing in the profits of these
twenty-one establishments was 41.72S.
Adding to these the two largest, those
of Odense and Holding. the first of
which cost 1,750. 900 kroner, besides
two smaller slaughter houses and ex-
tensions for the slaughterfng OF cattle
for export and other objects, and the
total outlay amounts to 100000
kroner, and the total number of CO.
operators about Sc, 600.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11

Any one can figure the profit for them
selves. in a year from now, when in
place of the brush there Is a good stand
of blue grass, instead Of this land cost
ing So to $40 per acre to clear. The
Angora did it, and clothed and board
ed himself while doing it, to say moth
ing of what he has done for us In 9TH
er ways-breeding and so forth. The
average cost of carload lots of graded
does is from $3.50 to Sc per hundred
weight The cost of registered
does is from $40 to most any
price. Some does recently sold at
auction in Kansas City for $275;
these, of course. were prize win
ners- They are prolific breeders. some
having twins and some only one kid
at birth There is a regular demand
for them as mutton, either in Chicago
or Kansas City; some lots have
brought higher prices than mutton
sheep. AS to the market for their
wool (mohair), we got 80 cents per
pound for most of our spring clip. In
the same shipment we sent our sheep
clip and received Is and 16 cents for it
quite difference, don't you think?"
They will stand any amount of cold;
In fact, their fleece grows longer and
has better luSter in the north than
in the south, but they should have
shelter from stormy weather, cold,
sleet, rains, etc. Any fence that will
hold sheep will hold goats. They do
not jump-at least, we never saw one
jump. We are in section where
there are plenty of wolves and all our
neighbors keep dogs and we have new
er, to our knowledge lost a goat by
either dogs or wolves. We have how
ever, lost some very young kids by
wolves, but not any that were half
grown or older.-B. F. Richardson, Du-
buque County, Iowa.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
saooe.. wish Fowl.

From the Farmers Review: Twenty
six years ago I sold my scrub chick
ems and bought pure-bred light Brah-
mas, which gave me satisfaction Tor
six years. Then 1 removed to Chris
tian Co., ILL.,, and found that after q
rain I sometimes had to take the baby
chicks from the yard, wash the black,
tar-like mud from their feet and cor
raj them until the mud in the yard
dried up-whicb it seemed in no hurry
to do. Then uecided that for my To-
cation variety of chickens that did
not need to be well feathered to the
end of the second toe would be better:
so l procured the Barred Plymouth
Rock, because their legs and feet were
free from feathers.
1 have bred them ever since, and am
better pleased with them all the time
for these reasons: They are large
enough for every purpose, hardy from
shell to table or market. good foragers,
and seem to thrive in all sorts of
weather, gentle in habit, good layers
and good mothers, always in fine con-
dition, ready to sell as broilers at two
months or can be kept with profit un-
til large enough to go as roasters, flesh
fine grained, excellent flavor, plump
carcass and yellow skin.
Once during my poultry experience I
tried the (so-called) egg machine. the
Leghorn, but my experience was so un-
satisfactory that 1 discarded them.
also breed pure-bred Pekin ducks, and
make more money out of them than
from my chickens. In 1900 1 began
with fifteen ducks and two brakes; I
sold SIS worth of eggs for Matching.
sent sixty-nine to the market, picked
feathers for two feather beds, and sold
during the year $42 worth of ducks,
some of them as breeders. This year
L kept twenty ducks, and although the
year is not out, l have sold SO worth
of eggs, $23 worth of ducks, $S worth
of feathers, and now have 200 ducks
and twenty-one pounds of feathers.-S.
Rose Carr
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
Two Kin is of Muck.

although muck is a subject that has
Been written about much, it is as yet
one that is only half understood by
many farmers that have, often un-
known to themselves, a bed of muck
available. One man says: Haul out
your muck and mix it with the manure
at once" Another says, by no means.
Dig up your muck in the fall and let
it lie in ridges, SO that the frost can
work on it and through it." Both are
right, for each man is speaking of
particular kind of muck
In muck bed will often be found
two kinds of muck. That on top seems
to be moist black soil. 1t is so friable
that it falls easily into a disintegrated
mass. Such muck, if tested with lit
mus paper, will often show almost no
acid. Such is ready for composing
at once or to be applied to land de-
fcient in humus. Its readiness for use
is perhaps due as much as anything to
the effect Of the frosts of many win
ters.
Below the first layer of muck will
often be found a cheesy mass. 1t is
sticky and is in that state of no value
for, composing. 1t not infrequently
contains as high as 80 per cent of wa
ter. If dug in the summer it dries out
hard and lumpy and is in that condi-
ton fit only for fuel, for which it is
used in some European countries. To
reduce it to an available fertilizer it
should be heaped in long ridges in the
fall and left to the action Of the frost
till it has taken on the character of
that to which reference was made
above. 1t may then be composted or
used in its character as a humus
maker.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
Am.riean-erown clover Seed.

Am0r1Can-GrOwn CtOver seed
To the merits of American clover
seed the Secretary of Agriculture in
his annual report testifles as follows:
Owing to a controversy in Europe re-
garding the relative value of American
and European clover seed, the depart
ment has undertaken some compare
tive experiments, the initial series of
which was conducted at Washington.
Many samples of clover seed of known
orfs,s1 from the different countries of
Europe and from different parts OF the
United States and Canada were grown
Under like conditions. Cuttings of
hay were made at suitable intervals,
the product of each plat being care
fully weighed. These experiments,
which have now been under way for
two years, show conclusively that un-
der the conditions existing here the
European red clover is decidedly infe-
rior in productiveness to the Ameri
can Apparently the American strain
is better adapted to the conditions of
bright sunshine, periodic heat, and
dryness that exist here. For the pur-
poses of our farmers. therefore, a de-
cision of the question whether to use
American or imported seed is easily
reached During the past year a series
of supplementary experiments has
been started at typical selected areas
in different parts of the United States,
to see whether these results hold in
the principal cloyer-growing states"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
Plum. In Central Illinois,

From the Farmers Review: A good
many plum trees have been planted in
this vicinity during the last few years.
and more are being planted each year.
While the native sorts do we'll and are
profitable, there is some doubt whether
the Japan plums will do well here. The
Abundance, Japan variety, more
largely planted than any other variety,
bore a big crop in 1898, but failed to
bear crops the two following years.
The trees bloom full, but the fruit does
not set. l think the very cold winter
of 1889 injured the trees; but there
may be other causes for their failure
to bear. The Burbank (another Jap
anese variety. has produced well since
that cold winter, but the plums most
ly rot before ripening, as do all Euro
pean plums here unless very carefully
sprayed. Our European plums, Lom-
bard, Niagara, Refine Claude and JEFF
ferson, have set full Of fruit nearly
every year, but have generally rotted.
We have found that spraying the Nj
agara and Jefferson gave us good crops
of plums on those trees. We began to
spray as soon as the petals had fallen,
using a weak Bordeau mixture and
paris green We sprayed four or five
times at intervals of ten to fourteen
days. The Niagara plums were very
good when cooked. We have tried six
or eight varieties of plums for canning
but 1 think the quality of the Niagara
the best of ALL We have sprayed for
the curculias and believe that to be
cheaper than jarring. while it Is just
as sure. FRANK AKIN,
Macon County, Illinois.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
Aneora Goats.

From Farmers Review: In reply to
d. A Taylor's inquiries on Angora
goats, I beg to say there is nothing
that will equal the Angora goat for
clearing up brush land. We are now
clearing up our second farm in 1--WE
years. The present farm consists of
500 acres. When we went on this farm
two years ago it was SO thickly COW
cred with underbrush that a man on
foot could scarcely get through it
This piece of land was located in a
section near here where cleared land
was selling for from $40 to SIS per
acre Today this land is as clear OF
nnderbrush as 1t is possible to make
r.. and the blue grass e now coming
o. We paid q per acro fqr H. fapd-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11

Popularity is measured in Paris by
the sale Of gingerbread efigies. The
diriefble balloon man leads the list ct
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11
Iulnor. Swine Breeder. to Meet.


The annual meeting of the Illinois
State Swine Breeders and Association
of Expert Judges will be held at Be
ment, Illinois, Jan. z and 8, 1902. The
meeting will convene at z p. m. of the
7th. Competent persons will read pa
pers on the various phases of swine
breeding. The forenoon of the 8th will
be taken up with scoring practice. In
the afternoon the regular institute
work will be again taken up. The eve
ming of the 9Th viii be devoted to the
regular business of the association and
a literary entertainment At the close
of this session the regular banquet will
be held. The association is by far the
largest OF its kind in the state. At
each convention the number in attend
ance reaches into the hundreds. The
Wabash Railroad has granted a rate
of 1-3 fare for the round trip from all
points on its line, regardless of the
number attending. Swine breeders
should take notice. and it is hoped that
many of them will be at the meeting
The program win appear later.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11

The Countess of Warwick has es-
tablished a branch agricultural col
lege at Reading. England. for women.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-11

Cuba-Wind and dry weather have
seriously interfered with the trans
planting of tobacco plants in many
parts of Cuba The cool dry weather
has hastened the maturing of the main
crop of cane and grinding will soon
begin The drouth is not beneficial to
Young cane however. Corn is being
planted in southeastern Havana