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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
MAY HAVE SEEN FACE.
Lincoln Police Think They Have Run
Across Murdered Man.

Lincoln, April 11.-Chief Routzahn
believes he has seen the countenance
Of the young man, found dead near
Humphrey, Neb., on several occasions.
But the chief can not remember or re
call the name
The body was brought to Lincoln
last week. Several persons gathered
at Roberts undertaking rooms to see
the body, The young man was shot
in the forehead, A store had been
robbed ii few days before and it is
thought that the bandits quarreled
over the spois. The medical students
at the state university will get the
body.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
MACCABEES SELECT GRAN ISLAND
Ladies and Knights in Omaha Elected
Officers and Chose Next Con-
vention City

Omaha, April 12.-Special to The
News: The knights and Ladies of
the Maccabces met in convention in
Omaha today.
George Ostrom of Omaha was elect
ed state commander; l.. b. Stiles,
Hooper, delegate supreme lodge
Thos O'Gorman, Grand Island, alter
nate.
The next convention will be held
at Grand Island.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15

Remember that at the close of OuI
opening sale we are going to give
absolutely free to some two OF oul
customers a 100000 piano and "A $500
organ. You may be the lucky one II
will pay you to make inquiry.
Customers who have purchased in
struments of us since our opening
sale commenced:
G. f. Benton, Verdel, Nebr.
Farrand organ.
n. Vanderhoof, St Edwar Is, Neb
Schubert piano.
Fred Bcckwith Neigh, Ncb
Farrand organ
A, II. Croppcr, Norfolk Neb
Farrand organ
c. t. FurgesOn, Stuart, Neb.
Newman Bros. piano.
Minnie Foltz, Tilden, Ncb
Farrand organ.
A. T.. Gore, Spencer, Neb.
Schubert piano.
d. II. Kay, Wakefield, Neb.
sturgeon organ.
Carrie Storm, Royal Neb.
story & Clark piano.
Erwin StringfellOw, Oakdale, Neb.
Howard piano.
Chas. Snider, Tildcn, Neb.
Schubert piano.
f. A. Walker, Stuart, Neb.
Schubert piano.
Frank Dobney, Stuart, Neb.
Farrand organ.
l.. NJ Carville, Fairfax, S. d.
Sturgeon organ
VIM f. Anderson, Fairfax, S. d.
Story & Clark piano.
Ella Hauptli, Norfolk, Neb.
Farrand organ.
w. p. Canning, Verdel, Neb.
Newman Bros organ.
A. NJ. Church Atkinson, Neb.
Farrand organ.
II. A. Obershaw, ClOuster, Neb.
Farrand organ.
Elina Halbert, Limerick, Neb.
Farrand organ.
Geo. Hunter, Oakdale, NeD.
Howard piano.
Mllard Green, Norfolk, Neb.
Farrand organ.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
INDIANS BLAME RAILROAD
THOSE FROM NEBRASKA WHO
WERE SAVED IN WRECK.
REFUSE TO SPEAK IN INQUEST.

They Have Sent Messages to AGENT
Brennan to Tell Him That They are
Displeased with the Way IN Which
They Have Been Treated There.
Chicago April IT, Thirty Indian
braves, wicrdly chanting the dcnOh
songs of their tribe, gathered in the
Phoenix Hospital in haywood when
Deputy Coroner Flanagan began the
inquest over the bodies Of the three
IIullalo Bill Show Indians Killed in
the Chicago n Northwestern railroad
wreck near MoIrosc Park. which oc.
CURED Thursday
The Indians, frightened by what
they believed was a manifestation of
the wrath Of their Great Spirit" ana
filled with resentment against the rail
road company, refused to take any
part in the proceedings and Deputy
Coroner Flanagan was forced to con
tinuo tho hearing until tomorrow.
John White lIawlc government
secret service agent and half brother
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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
Raced at Atkinson.

Atkinson, Ncb., April Especial to
The News: A very severe storm
ragged here all day yesterday and from
s o'clock Thursday morning, with
high winds. II has driitcd until in
places it is five and six feet deep.
A rain preceded the snow with Il
great deal of electricity but no harm
in this vicinity. The weather man
did not predict such severe storm for
this section and people were in a
way unpreparcd for It. At 5 o'clock
last night the storm began to abatc
and reports from the west over the
telephone indicated that it was much
better.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
Terrific at Creiqhton.

Creighton, Neb,, April 8 Special
to The News: The blizzard here was
one of the seyerest in the history of
the town. Drifts seven and eight
feet high were stacked up and it was
almost impossible to move along the
streets. Snow was piled up to the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15

awnings of stores. Freight train No.
II was lodged in drift near Wilma.
toon and II took until 1 O'Clock this
morning To get II out of the bank
Losses to socl, will be heavy. A mum
bcr of cattle have been found dead
and the storm was of so long dura
tion that IT was improbable that they
could all survive
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
Public installation.

The United Commercial Travellers
of America will hol1 their regular
meeting Saturday evening at 1880 in
odd Fellows hall, After the regular
meeting there will be a public install
lation of officers. Otto Tapport,
j. ID. Sturgeon, Secretary
S. c,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
FREEZING WEATHER.
Temperature in Nebraska and Iowa
Falls 25 Deurees.

Falls 25 Degrees.
Omaha, April 9.-Freezing weather
prevails over Nebraska and western
Iowa as the result of the blizzard
The temperature fell twenty-five de
grees between yesterday morning and
night and it is believed that much
damage was done, particularly toward
the south where vegetation had made
a further advance than in the north
ern portion of the storm.swept terri
tory.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-15
TRAFFIC INTERRUPTED.
Trains Did Not Run on Schedule
Time-CeIarinu AWAY.

TIme-CeIaring Away.
The storm has cleared away and n
bright, blue sky rests over northern
Nebraska today After one of the
worst blizzards that has been known
IN the west so generally for many
years, the snow has quit flying and
the wind goes merrily on. With a
gale that whistled over these prairies
at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
blowing binding sheets of sleet and
snow through the atmosphere and
carrying men and beasts off their
leet the storm was bound TO damage
1t is feared that great deal of loss
has resulted in cattle upon the ranges
AS yet it is difficult to get definite
reports, but the storm lasted too long
and with too much ferocity not to
have been disastrous.
Trains ran remarkably well over
this territory. The only trouble was
on the BOnesteel line at Winatoon,
where freight train No. n was stuck
IN drift and unable to move either
way All the afternoon the crew
struggled in vain against the drifts
that had piled up for seven or eight
feet and for a time it seemed impos-
sible To get results. At o'clock this
morning, however, aided by an engine
from Norfolk, the freight was dug out
and the track cleared. The BonesteeI
passenger train coming east was de-
layed two hours and a half on this
account but the early morning train
from the west was on time in spite
of the snow.
Drifts are High.
In the northwest it is reported that
drifts which stood to the awnings of
the store buildings, were blown up
by the storm. Norfolk was fortunate
ly omitted from this state of affairs.
The storm was a very general one.
Reports from all over the state indi-
cate the blizzard. 1t also extended
south through Kansas and Missouri.
Arising no doubt from the same at
mospheric condition of low pressure
to the south, tornado swept through
Texas which killed several persons.
The peculiar feature of it all was
that the weather department failed
utterly TO forecast it. The eXplana-
ton no doubt will prove that the very
high pressure arose in the far north
of Canada where there are no tele-
graph wires, and where advance re
ports are impossible This is about
the only locality in which a storm
can come mp without the weather
man getting wise
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12

facturers. Salt is not plant food, and lime as
used, works far greater injury in driving of the
ammonia from the manure than it does IN pull
verizing the manure. The main value of the ma
nure, resting in it's ammonia, it is mistaken econ
omy to throw a part of it, at least, away, merely
for the sake of getting the less valuable residue
in condition to put through a grain drill by the
use of lime. A study of the arrangement of the
materials shows that the claim made for this part
of the "process" is poorly founded. Not only is
the arrangement not desirable, but is very objec-
tionable, in that the lime is placed where it does
the greatest injury in driving off the ammonia,
and likely also injuriously affecting the acid
phosphate by making it less soluble as plant food.
In making acid phosphate lime is taken from the
insoluble phosphate rock by sulphuric acid, SO as
to make a more soluble material for plants. In
this "process" the order is reversed, lime being
given back to the acid phosphate, thus decreasing
it's s~olubility and value. The chief object in COM
posting is to protect and render better for plant
food the nitrogen or ammonia compound.
In a summary way, then, it may be said with
confidence, that there is nothing in the materials
employed in the "Lipps Process" which give to it
unusual merit or value. They are badly arranged
and the proportions are poor. There is no reason
why a farmer should pay So for such a "process,"
and / can only account for the fact that some are
doing so because of the air of mystery which is
made to surround this, as is often the case with
similar things.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
Corn Breeding Tests.

The Agricultural Experiment Stations throuoh
out the country are greatly interested in tho -
vestigations that are being made toward secnr;na
particular breeds of certain cereals for partic,Io.
purposes. In Illinois the Seed Corn Breeders, A.
ISOLATION has done some excellent work in imnror-
ing the varieties of seed corn. The success Of +bo
enterprises has been phenomenal. All Of tho
available supply of the improved seed is rapidIv
disposed of to farmers and much of it is enpaood
in advance. Not only has the general quality If
seed corn in Illinois been improved, but the nrac.
ticability of breeding for special qualities, sncb
as for protein, for oil, or for starch, has been
demonstrated. A similar work has been taken
up by the Agricultural Department proper in
connection with oats, the special object sought
being the development of an oat which shall more
nearly meet the requirements for making first
class oatmeal. To this end it has been sought to
develop a hybrid which hall yield a maximum
amount of pulp and the least possible proportion
of husk or hull. The experiments have not vet
reached the stage where a definite announcement
can be made, but it is understood that the indi-
cations are quite favorable for the realization
of the object desired.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
Taking Up Stumps.

In the best farming communities land is not
considered fully cleared until the stumps are TAX
en- from the fields. 1t is surprising that farmers
in any section will work around them year after
year and never try to get them out of their way.
We know fields that have been cleared fifty years
and the old lightwood stumps are still there to
hinder the farmer.
Stumps hinder work when cultivating the crop.
There can not be as much nor as good blowing
done in fields where they are. The hoe is hindered
by them even more than the pillow, as it has a
large part of the plow's work to do where the land
is stumpy. Hoeing around them is hard work, and
it seems to us that a farmer would not hoe around
many before he would resolve to take them up and
get them out of his way.
Stumps hinder the crop yield. From one to two
stalks of corn, or several stalks of cotton, could
be made in the place occupied by a stump.
Stumps break plows and other farm tools. The
item of breakage alone would help considerably
in paying for taking them up. There never was
a time when improved farm implements and ma
chinery were in such demand as now, but they
cannot be used safely and successfully unless the
fields are freed from stumps. Much grass was
wasted by leaving it in the fields this season be-
cause the land was too stumpy to run a moving
machine. This hay was all needed for the stock.
Improved methods of farming require that land
be put in the best possible condition everyway'
Stumps cause land to wash. Hillside land or
land that is omewhat rolling cannot be stopped
entirely from washing while they remain. Water
will be turned out of some rows by stumps into
others, and thereby washes are started, and a wash
once started is hard to stop.
Some farmers look on getting up stumps as the
hardest work ever done. This is a mistake. Much
of the work done on the farm is as hard as that
and some is even more so. Go at it and you WILL
not find it so bad. Some have them taken up by
the regular farm hands. Others have it done by
paying so much each. Where they are mostly
small, you can have them taken up at three Genus
each; others would cost you four cents each, anu
where they are mostly large, it is worth about nVe
cents each. The farmer who gets stumps from
three or four acres each, fall and winter will soon
find his farm free from them. The writer ADVISED
a farmer a year ago to take up stumps from ms
fields. He said he could do any farm work otner
than this, but he could not do it. Later, however
he decided to make a beginning, and got along
far better than he expected. About three hundred
were taken up, and he says now all that remain
must come up this winter.-J. M. Beatty III
Smithfeld Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
Cotton Boil Thresher.

The cotton planters of Texas, says a recent
press dispatch, are greatly interested in a me-
chanical device which has been invented by Reed
Davis, a Grayson County farmer, by which I'M
opened cotton bolls which are left on the cotton
stalk at the time of frost can be threshed out
and the cotton which they contain obtained. In
some seasons when frost comes early, cotton bolls
which would yield a quarter of a bale to the acre
are left unopened in the fields. All of this will
now be saved. Mr.. Davis invention is now in
successful operation, attached to an ordinary
wheat thresher.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
An Edgecombe Farmer on Some Farming Notes.
Editors Progressive Farmers:

An Edgecombe Farmer on Some Farming Notes.
Editors Progressive Farmers:
Find enclosed $3.50. I have neglected this too
long. | hope no one else has done so but me.
1t seems like time rolls round so fast. Your pa
per is like the old saying about the new broom
sweeping clean: it stays and new and sweeps
clean. 1t has had some good articles in it for
the past few weeks that are worth it's subscription
price for the year. | wish you a happy New
Year, and may the paper long live and it's editor.
| think the farmers all ought to be on their
watch this year, especially on cotton, and not
plant too much. The price is very good now, and
let's keep it so by not planting too much. I do
not intend to plant but half next year that I did
this, but want to make as much, or try to-. The
speculator has been having his time, now let's
have ours.
| want to raise more hominy and hog from now
on. L think sweet potatoes a good thing to raise
for hogs. You can raise two hundred bushels to
the acre. What can you beat that with? You
may say peanuts. If you raise one hundred bus
hels they will shell one-fourth, then you have
twenty-five bushels. | have two hundred bushels
for mine.
| will tell later how to keep potatoes if don't
fail this winter. / have been trying a plan of
my own for the past five or six years, and have
not tailed to keep them. d. POWELL.
Edgecombe Co., N. @.
This is the kind of informal, helpful letters
that we should like to get in dozen lots every day.
When you send your renewal, kind reader. add
q note of the same general order.-Editor.]
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-12
CONDUCTED BY b. w. K1LGoRE,
THE Lips PATENT PROCESS FOR MANUFAC-
TURING COMPOST FERTILIZERS.

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brings the information that agents are offering
this process for sale in that county. For four or
FIVE years Mr. Lipps and his agents have been
selling his process" in various parts of the State;
first, as a SECRET process" and then asa "patent
process" We have published two or three articles
in the papers of the State and in the Bulletins of
the Department of Agriculture regarding the
process" it being given in full, with a discus
sion of it, in the February, 1902, Bulletin.
The materials employed, to quote from the
patent, are as follows:
"In the manufacture of a ton of this fertilizer
about two parts of manure and about one part of
dirt, together with chemicals in about the follow
ing proportions are employed:
Fourteen per cent acid phosphate. -. 100 lbs.
Lime 100 lbs.
Muriate of potash. ................ 50 lbs.
Nitrate of soda (saltpeter) .......... Is lbs.
Chloride of sodium (salt) ........... 25 lbs.
Sulphate of ammonia. 5 lbs"
These materials are directed to be mixed in the
following way:
First put down a layer of the manure, on which
sprinkle some sulphate of ammonia, on this some
salt, on this acid phosphate, then put down a thin
layer of the lime. These layers are repeated I'M
til about one-half ton is made. Then add a thin
layer of dirt, over which sprinkle nitrate of soda,
muriate of potash and lime, repeating these until
the ton is made. Now let the mixture stand 60
to 80 days, when it is ready to be sacked or used.
Fertilizers are valuable mainly for the am
monia, phosphoric acid and potash they contain.
A ton of the above mixture would have 3O5
pounds of chemicals and fertilizer materials and
1896 pounds of manure and dirt. On basis of the
1895 pounds manure, which would make it bet
ter than if a portion were dirt, a ton would con-
tain about
Twenty pounds phosphoric acid.
Thirty pounds of potash.
Sixteen pounds ammonia;
or the mixture would a~nalyze: One per cent phos-
ammonia.
This shows it to be a very low grade fertilizer,
with the fertilizer constituents badly proportion
ed for ordinary crops, though the claim is made
that the material is well balanced" The fact
that it contains one and one-half times as much
potash as phosphoric acid, and twice as much as
ammonia, should be sufficient evidence to any OBJ.
servant farmer that the mixture made by this
process is not we'll suited to general crops. On
the average lands of the State, for cotton, in
particular, fertilizers which contain about equa
quantities of potash and ammonia, with two tc
two and one-half times these amounts of phos
phoric acid, are the ones that give best results
There would seem to be then very little deserving
Evening journal., 1904-07-30
STORIES OF THE DAY

Many complaints of high assessments
are registered every day at the tax Of
fee. While some Of the kicks are just
many complaints are made by property
owners who simply hate to part with
cash that they know will be used by the
city. The other day one OF this sort en-
tered the tax office and inquired for his
tax bill. 1t happens that this individuals
house ds assessed at $500, but being Of
the ignorant kind he was not aware of
the fact. He looked at the statement
and then with indignation stamped all
over his face said TO the clerk In the
window.
why, I'd take $500 for that house in
a minute"
We'll, what are you complaining
about answered the clerk your prop
erty Is only assessed at $500.
Seeing that he had made a mistake the
taxpayer at first said nothing and then
remarked: "Well. I'd take $500. yes $500,
even $500 or S4OO.
He came down a hundred second I'm
a wild scramble to get down to the amount
OF the assessment
II somebody at that moment had offered
thep orperty owner S40O for his house.
there is probability that he would have
felt like thirty cents"
Evening journal., 1904-07-30

grounds, said a well-known man recent
ly, 1t admit In 1t with a little affair that
was pulled of in the county court room
not many years ago in which an attor-
ney an officer of the court and an out
slider figured
The attorney was one Of those tall. slim
wiry fellows from down the State and
was a boxer of no mean ability. The
court official was shorter OF statue. more
rotund and inclined to be pugnacious in
"a friendly way. The outsider was heavy
of bui!d had plenty Of wind and was
somewhat of a sparrer. The court Of
ficial had purchased a set of boxing gloves
with which to instruct his son in the in
trieacies Of the manly art and incidentally
20 practice little himself.
On the day in question the court Off
cial invited the attorney ITO put on the
gloves, selecting the court room as a
fitting place for a few rounds. A ring was
formed in the space reserved for the
legal fraternity, by arranging chairs in
a circle, then the would-be pugihsts went
at IL. There were no seconds, timekeepers
nor witnesses of the battle ana after
abous twenty minutes work the court Of
fetal threw up the sponge and declared
himself beaten.
II was just at this juncture that the
outsider appeared on the scene and MOTTO
ing the condition of affairs offered to
take the officials pace The Attorney
consented and "a second bout began but
the lawyer was winded by his former
eNert'ons and soon gave up.
on tell you, they were great goes.
Evening journal., 1904-07-30
DOWN. STATE REGULARS.

THE Sussex Republican in its cur
rent issue. after saying that the
Regular Republicans OF Kent and
Sussex win positively refuse to go into
common primaries and saying that
they viii go to the state Convention to
secure the nomination of "true blue"
Republican ticket adds;
The Union Republican party for
years directed AN its efforts to the
advancement Of Addicks' cause. with
out regard TO the effect upon the party
and the Regulars have been compelled
10 make sacrifices to save the party.
Now that the responsibility for Re-
publican success has been placed upon
the Addicksites and assumed by them.
the Regulars, relieved of this re-
sponsibility, feel free to devote all
their energy to the killing OF Addicks
and Will press the fight this campaign
with more determination than ever
That undoubtedly is an authoritative
statement OF the Regular position in
Kent and Sussex, and if we mistake
not, it voices the sentiments Of an
true blue" Republicans in New Cas-
tie.