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Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

may be possible. In the upper San Joaquin valley, in California, five or six cuttings are usually obtained. In the Lovelock valley, Nebraska, where large quantities of alfalfa are grown, three cuttings are made, with yield of five to seven tons.
 Alfalfa hay is prepared in the man. ner usual for hay crops, but the opera tions are modified somewhat by climat- ic conditions Concerning methods fin the dry regions of the northwest Mir. Hitchcock says: One man with a team may mow about fifteen acres a day. The alfalfa is usually raked within a few hours after moving, thrown into punches by hand and stacked as soon as convenient. If the hay Is allowed to remain too long in the swath or wind row, too much loss of foliage occurs in stacking on account of the dryness of the air.
 The hay Is usually stacked by ma chinery. If the stack is made fin the field, sweeps or bull rakes are occasion ally used for hauling the punches to the stacks, but these implements have the serious objection of shattering the leaves, causing corresponding loss of valuable fodder. For this reason the punches are usually loaded by hand on wagons provided with hayracks. At the stack the hay is unloaded from the wagons by horsepower, the machine used for this purpose being called a stacker or hay derrick.
 The most common type of stacker throughout the northwest Is some mod. ification of the pole, or mast and boom stacker. This Is essentially a derrick with pulleys and hayfork, by which several hundred pounds of hay can be lifted from wagon and deposited upon the stack The stackers are generally homemade. The derrick may be sup
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
B RIS oL

MT. and Mrs. Lee A. French an nounced the engagement of their daugh- ter. Maud Adell French, to Samuel Whitelaw Howe of Manchester, Eng land, now employed as bookkeeper in the office of The E. Ingraham Company of this city. The marriage will take place at the home of the brides parents at 63 Church St., Wednesday evening, Sept. IA at seven o'clock, Rev. A. H. Goodenough, D. D. of Prospect M. E. Church officiating. Only relatives of the family will be present. After a short wedding trip they will reside at 223 Center street when they will be at home to their friends after Oct 20.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
CORNWALL BRIDGE

Miss Hattie Mills has returned to her home in New Haven. after visiting at Mrs. Fanny Waterbury's.
 James Singleton has been taking a vacation, spending it in Bridgeport and New York. "+
 There has been new street Iamp placed on the corner of Main and Mill street.
 Estella Odell celebrated her fifth birth day last Saturday at her home by a party.
 Seventeen young people from here att tended the sociable at Ellsworth on Wednesday evening of last week.
 William Dolphin of Poughkeepsie, N. Y IS visiting relatives in town.
 Mrs. Bennett Smith has returned to her home in Bridgeport after visiting at Seymour Hollister's.
 W. J. Brennan of Goshen, who has been for the past two months practicing telegraphing at this station, was ex- amined at Hartford Saturday and, pass ing the examination, was appointed station agent at Long Meadow, Mass, where he will continue to work for the N. Y, N. H. 6 H. R. R. Go. Miss A. l.. Broadbent and Miss Ruth Barnes of New Haven have returned home after being guests at O. L. Slade' $ for the past two weeks.
 George Slade of Waterbury visited his parents, Mir. and Mrs. O. L. Slade, this week.
 Herbert Bump of Bridgeport visited friends in town the first part of the week
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
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IN ALFALFA LAND,
The Hay Harvest and It's Machinery
 The Number of Cuttings.

The Hay Harvest and Its Machinery.
 The Number of Cuttings.
 It is best not to cut crop of alfalfa hay the first season, but to allow the field to get well started for the next year. However, under favorable cir cumstances one or even two or three crops may be obtained the first year. After the first year the number of cut tings depends upon the length of the season and the altitude. A. S. Hitch cock, agrostologist in charge of grass and forage plant investigations, says of this crop as grown in the northwest ern states that at the higher attitudes or attitudes not more than two cuttings
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

There is a young woman ill New York who makes good living by acting as visiting valet to lap dogs owned by rich women. The girl bathes and combs and makes the toilets of the dogs and, ill some instances, even takes the pampered pets out for airings on the avenue or in the park. Another young woman has a profitable business in the polishing and keeping ill order of the silver on my lady's toilet table. Her fee is S1 & week.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
RESTRICT OF SHARON, ss. Probate

V Court, September 5, IHJ4.
 Estate of Gustav Schwab, late of the City, County and State of New York, de- ceased, leaving estate in said District.
 The Court of Probate for the District of sharon hath limited and allowed six months from date hereof for the creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate are re- quested to make immediate payment to
 GUSTAV H. ScHwAB, Executor. P. O. Address, 5 Broadway, New York.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

California is to have raisin trust. A company has purchased 1900 car loads of the carry-over crop of last year, and expects to gain control of the 5000 car loads of this years crop. The stock has been put on the market in the sum of S1, ,o0O, ,000.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

A Texas editor has hit the right spot when he says: "The sorriest fellow on earth is the fellow who will sit around and cuss his own town. If I lived astride the north pole, I would call it home and be ready to boost it up. If l couldn't say anything nice about it, I would say that my ice bill didn't come high. would not stay in town I had to cuss-not while the world is as big as it is now.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
Making Friends Every Day.

This can truthfully be said of JELL-O ICE CREAM POWDER, the new pro duct for making the most delicious ice cream you ever ate; everything in the package. Nothing tastes so good in hot weather: All grocers are placing it in send 25c. for two packages by mail. Four kinds: Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry and Unf1avored. Address, The Genesee Pure Food Co.,, Box 295, LeRoy, N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
HOW'S ,THIsf

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
 F.J. CHENEY & O., Props, Toledo, o We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- lions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
 WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
 Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Halls Family Pills are the best.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

,ISTRICT OF CANAAN, SIS. Probate l Court, August 30, 1904.
 Estate of Harriet B. Binks late of Ca naan in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the district of Canaan hath limited and allowed six months from date hereof, for the creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate are request ed to make immediate payment to
 WALTER I. KELLOGG, Administrator,
 Falls Village, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

A company of sixty-eight Austrian merchants and manufacturers are tour ing this country, on their way to St. Louis, hoping to strengthen commercial relations between Austria and the States. They expressed themselves as amazed at the commercial activity they saw ill New York
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

The strike in Fall River continues and there is much suffering. Local business men of that city have given 1000 baskets of food to be distributed among the strikers. And it is reported that citi- zen has offered to back the striking uniops with $50 GOO.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

The favorable season for the growth of potatoes in Arizona Is between the frosts of March and the heat of June and the growth of another crop is pos sible between the heat of August and the frosts of autumn.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

Father " said the little boy, "what is reciprocity?"
 Reciprocity, my son, is an arrange ment by which you undertake to give up something that you don't value very highly in exchange for something that you do. ."-Washington Star.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08

A New York city syndicate has bought 5000 acres of land in the Adirondack wilderness for club and preserve.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
eubscripsiOn Account.

The date on the colored slip of paper with the name of the subscriber shows the time to which the subscription Is paid: thus, R. B. Smith 5jul05 indicates that MT Smith has paid for his paper to July 5, 1905. It is hoped that subscribers will seetoit that their account, as Indicated by the date on their papers, is always correct and when they pay for re- newal Of their subscription will observe whether their date fs changed to indicate the proper credit, and In the event of an error to inform us for correction at once. No claims for errors in these accounts will hereatler pc considered unless presented within thirty days after the payment is claimed to htve been made, as the receipt of the paper with the date to which the supscriptIon IS pald plainly printed thereon is prima facie owl dence Of it's acceptance as correct.
Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
LEGAL NOTICES.

Ayers Pills greatly aid recovery
 Purely vegetable, gently laxative
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
Thorpe briefly.

AQUEpe OE1euy .535sss ~
shearers cast ! glance sat the river.
He needed to be told no more. q + :
II was afraid OF it,n said he. teThe
rollways must be all broken out. It's
saved us that much, but the freshet
water won't last long. It's going to be
close t s squeak to get s'em out now.
Don't exactly figure on what struck the
dam. Thought first I'd 60 right up
that way, but then I came down to see
about the boys" -.~
"Where were you?" asked Thorpe.
"Ons the pole trail. I got in a little,
as you 'see', .@..s.@~ l.: d.. = : Il i VI
In reality the foreman had had q
close call for his life. ,
"We'd better 60 up and take a look"
he suggested. The boys has things
going here all right .-,,
The two men turned toward the
brush. '
Hi, Tim" called a voice behind
them.
Red Jacket appeared, clambering up
the cliff.
"Jack told me to give this to you,'
he painted, holding out a chunk OF
strangely twisted wood.
'Where'd he get this?" inquired
Thorpe quickly. ''It's a piece Of the
dam," he explained to Wallace, who
had drawn near.
''Picked it out of the current" re-
piled the man.
The foreman and his boss bent ca
gerly over the morsel. Then they
stared with solemnity into each others
eyes.
"Dynamitev' exclaimed Shearer.
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
RAILROAD TIME TABLES
Iowa Central Railway.

Time of arrival and departure of trains OF
Iowa Central Ry, at Mason City, Ia. Ticket
office at depot, East Eighth street. Corrected
to January 26, 1904
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
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The sticks of powder were piled
amidships. Big JunkoS crouched over
them, inserting the fuses and caps,
closing the openings with soap, finally
lighting them and. dropping them into
the water alongside, where they imme-
diately sank. Then a few strokes Of a
short paddle took him barely out Of
danger. He huddled down in his craft,
waiting. One, two, three seconds passed.
Then a hollow boom shook the stream.
A cloud Of water sprang up, strangely
beautiful. After a moment the great
brown logs rose suddenly to the sur
face from below, one after the other,
like leviathans of the deep.
Thorpe and Tim Shearer nearly al
ways slept in dog tent at the rear.
though occasionally they passed the
night at Dam Two, where Bryan Mo-
loney and his crew were already en-
gagged in sluicing the logs through the
shoot.
The affair was simple enough. Long
booms arranged in the form of an
open V guided the drive to the sluice
gate, through which a smooth apron
of water rushed to turmoil in an eddy
ing pool below. Two men tramped
steadily backward and forward on the
booms, urging the logs forward by
means of long pike poles to where the
suction could seize them. Below the
dam the push of the sluice water
Ia =
where the rest Of Bryan Moloney's
crew took them in charge.
Thus through the wide gate nearly
three-quarters of a million feet an
hour could be run, and at length the
last Of the logs drifted into the wide
dam pool. The rear had arrived at
Dam Two, and Thorpe congratulated
himself that one stage of his journey
had been completed.
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22

Jacket and the forty OF fry men had
reached the shore. By the wriealina
activity which Is q river mans alone
they succeeded N pulling themselyes
beyond the snap Of deaths Jaws, II
was narrow thing for most Of them
and miracle for some.
8 Jimmy Powers, Archie Harris. Long
Pine Jim, Big Nolan and Mike Mo,
loney, the brother OF Bryan, were. II,
worse case. They We're, as has been
said, engaged in "f1attening" part of
the jam about eight or ten rods below
the facesof it When they finally. un-
derstood that the affair was q one &c OF
escape, theySran toward the JAM, hop.
ing to climb out. Then the crash came.
They heard the roar of the waters, the
wreckihg Of the timbers; they saw the
logs bulge, outward in anticipation OF
the break. Immediately they turned
and fed, they knew not where. 1tas' .
All but Jimmy Powers. He stopped
short in his tracks and threw his bat:
tered old felt hat defantly full into the
face of the destruction hanging over
him. Then, his bright hair blowing in
the wind Of death, he turned to. the
spectators standing helpless and para.
lyzed forty feet above him.
It was an instant's impression-the
arrested motion seen in the flash of
lightning-and yet to the onlookers it
had somehow the quality of time. For
perceptble duration it seemed to them
they stared at the contrast between the
raging hell above and the yet peace.
able river below.
Yet afterward, when they attempted
to recall definitely the impression, they
knew it could have lasted but frac
ton of second.
$50 long, boys!'' they heard Jimmy
Powers voice. Then the rope Thorpe
had thrown fell across a caldron OF
tortured waters and Of tossing logs.
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
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Sued BY Hts Doctor.

"a doctor herelhas sued Il, me me- for $l2,-
50, which ! claimed was excessive for
White, Of Coachella, Cal. ssAt the trial
he praised his medical skill and medi-
cine. / asked himsif it was not Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
remedy he used as I had good reason
to believe it was, and heWould not say
under oath that it was not" No doc
tor could use a better remedy than
this in 9 case Of cholera morbus, it
never falls. Sold by all druggists.
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22

AOWCA01 Cu1A Ad1lOu, xduSu.
ing faced, was irrepressible. He bad
gered the others until they threw bark
ut him and menaced him with their
peaveys. Always he had at his tongues
end the proper quip for the occasion,
30 that in the long run the work was
lightened by him. When the men stop
ped to think at all they thought Of
Jimmy Powers with very kindly hearts,
for it was known that he had had more
trouble than most and that coin was
not made too small for him to divide
with a needy comrade.
Thorpe approved thoroughly Of jim
my Powers. He thought him a good
influence. He told Wallace so, stand
Ing among the spectators on the cliff
top.
HE is all right" said Thorpe. II
wish I had more like him. The others
are good boys too.''
Five men were at the moment tug
g1ng futlely at reluctant timber.
They were attempting to roll one end
Of it over the side Of another projecting
log, but were continually foiled, because
the other end was jammed fast. Each
bent his knees, inserting his shoulders
under the projecting peavey stock, to
straighten in mighty effort.
| 1t was fine spring day, clear eyed
and crisp, with hint of new foliage in
the thick buds of the trees. The air
was so pellucid that one distinguished
without difficulty the straight entrance
to the gorge mile away, and even the
West Bend, fully five miles distant.
Jimmy Powers took off his cap and
wiped his forehead.
"You boys" he remarked politely,
think you are boring with mighty
| big auger."
MY God!' screamed one of the spec
tators on top of the cliff.
At the same instant Wallace Carpen-
ter seized his friends arm and pointed.
Down the bed of the stream from the
upper bend rushed a solid wall of wa
ter several feet high. It flung itself
forward with the headlong impetus of
cascade. Even in the short interval
NN~N WA IA0 NAoASOA cACAdludllOu anu
Carpenters rapid gesture it had loomed
IN sight, twisted dozen trees from the
| river bank and foamed into the en-
trance Of the gorge. An instant later it
collided with the tail Of the jam.
Even in the. railroad rush of those
few moments several things happened.
Thorpe leaped for a rope. The crew
working on. top of the dam ducked
instinctively to right and left and be-
gan to scramble toward safety. The
men below, at first bewildered and not
comprehen ending, finally understood and
ran toward the face of. the jam with
the intention Of clambering up it. There
could be no escape in the narrow can.
yon' below, the walls of. which rose
sheer }sn.G ~ = + y ri ~: a..s...:.., X
Then the flood hit square. A great
sheet OF water rose like surf from the
tail OF the jam; mighty cataract pour
ed down over its surface, lifting the
free logs; from either wing timbers
crunched, split, rose suddenly into
wracked prominence, twisted beyond
the senblance Of themselves. Ii Here
and there single logs were even pro-
3ected bodily upward, as an apple seed
e shot from between the thumb and
forednger. Then the Jam moved.
scQttZ- Rarsone. Jack Hylaad; Ra4
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22

leave a center that will 90 out. we'll
shut the dams down tight and dry
pick out two wings that III start her."
The dams were first run at full
speed and then shut down. Hardly a
drop Of water flowed in the bed Of the
stream. The crews set laboriously to
work to pull and roll the logs out in
such fat fashion that q head of water
should send them out
This was even harder work than the
other, for they had not the floating
power of water to help them in the
lifting. As usual, part of the men
worked below, part above.
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
PRINCIPAL CITIES. LEAVE. ARRIVE

ssDaaily. tDai!!y except Sunday.
2:40 p. M, train has fine reclining chair cars
and high back coaches through to Kansas
City and St. Louis, and Pullman sleeping cars
Abba to st. Louis and Kansas City. 1900 a.
m., train has, through buffet sleepers chair
cars and coaches all new, to St. Louis. 5:45 a.
n, has fine reclining chair through to Peoria.
For rates etc apply to.
81. T. Boyd, A. B. Cults,
Agent. G. P. and T. A.
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22


IL about ready to break camp
~ when Jimmy Powers swung
across the trail to tell them Of the big
jam.
Ten miles along the river bed the
stream dropped over little half falls
into narrow, rocky gorge. It was al
ways an anxious spot for river drivers.
The plunging Of the logs head-on over
the fall had SO gouged out the soft rock
below that an eddy Of great power had
formed in the basin. Here, in spite Of
all efforts, the jam had formed. The
bed was completely filed, far above
the level of the falls, by tangle that
defed the jam crews best efforts.
The rear at once took the trail down
the river. Thorpe and Shearer and
Scotty Parsons looked over the ground.
Without delay the entire crew was
set to work. Nearly a hundred men
can pick great many logs in the
course Of day. Several times the jam
started. but always plugged" before
the motion had become irresistible.
"We'll have to shoot" Shearer re-
luctantly decided.
The men were withdrawn. Scotty
Parsons cut sapling twelve feet long
and trimmed it. Big Junko thawed his
dynamite at little fire, opening the
ends of the packages in order that the
steam generated might escape. When
the powder was warm, Scotty bound
twenty Of the cartridges around the
end of the sapling, adjusted fuse in
one Of them and soaped the opening to
exclude water. Then Big Junko thrust
the long javelin down into the depths
OF the jam, leaving a thin stream of
smoke behind him as he turned away,
zigzagging awkwardly over the jam,
the long, ridiculous tails of his brown
cutaway coat Topping behind him as
he leaped. A scant moment later the
hoarse dynamite shouted.
Great chunks of timber shot to an in
conceivable height. Entire logs lifted
bodily into the air with the motion Of
a fish jumping. A fountain of water
cleaned against the sun and showered
down in fine rain. The jam shrugged
and settled. That was all. The "shot'
had failed.
The men ran forward, examining Gu
riously the great hole in the log forma-
ton.
well have to food her." said Thorpe.
SO all the gates Of the dam were
raised, and the torrent tried it's hand.
1t had no effect. Evidently the affair
was not one of violence, but of pa.
tience. The crew went doggedlv to
work. e.:
Day after day the clank, clank, clink
Of the peaveys sounded with the regu-
larity of machinery. 1t was cruel,
hard work. A man who has lifted his
utmost strength into a peavey knows
that Any but the Fighting Forty
would have grumbled. H..
Collins, the bookkeeper, came up to
view the, tangle. Later photographer
from Marquette took some views, and
by the end of the week a number of
curiosity seekers were driving over ev-
cry day to see the big jam. A certain
Chicago Journalist in search Of balsam
health OF, lungs even sent to his pa.
per little item. This unexpectedly
brought Wallace Carpenter to the spot.
The place was an amphitheater for
such as chose to be spectators. They
could stand or sit on the summit Of the
gorge ellis, overlooking the river. the
tall and the jam = .is3 .s.ss ( 4;
AZ last Shearer became angry.
We've been ! monkeying long
enough said he. Next time ven
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22

CHAPTER xxx.
~1OR a moment the three men
n i stared at each other without
IL speaking.
"What does it mean p" almost
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
CHAPTER XVII.

m |1HE rear had been tenting at the
dam for two days and was
about ready to break camp
when Jimmy Powers swung
Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
AUSTIN PASSENGER TRAINS.
C.. M. e. ST. p. RAILROAD.

*Except Sunday - Others daily. fCarries
through sleeper to Chicago via Milw aukee
&Carries through sleeper to Peoria via Mason
City. NCarries through sleeper to St. Louis via
Mason City. SCarries through leeper to La
Crosse.
The Alaska prospector., 1904-03-03

FoR RENr-The best storeroom in Valdez, cheap to permanent tenant. Inquire at Bank of Valdez.