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Williams news., 1905-04-22

E. A. HITCHCOCK, Secretary. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, ! Washington, March 27, 'O5. ) The Honorable, the Secretary of
 the Interior:
 Sir-This office has the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by depart ment reference for consideration and report of telegram, dated March 22, 1905, from T. F. Holden, president of the Coconino County Cattlemen's association, referring to executive order, dated November IA, 1901, withdrawing from sale and settlement certain lands ad- joining the Navajo Indian reserva- ton until such time as the Indians residing thereon shall have perma- nently settled under the provisions of the homestead laws or the gen. eral allotment act, approved Feb ruary 8, 1887 GA Stats. 38S), and the act amendatory thereof, ap proved February 28, 1891 (26 Stats. 794), stating that the lands so with drawn are now, and for many years have been, the range upon which cattlemen of Coconino county grazed and fed their herds, and representing that such extension of the Navajo reservation will be of no particular benefit to the Navajo Indians; that it is plainly detri- mental to the best interests of the said county; that the boundary line of the addition to the Navajo reservation is imaginary only; that it will be extremely difficult to maintain the reservation as en- larged; that the effort to do so will result in much friction and trouble between the citizens and the In dians; that the Little Colorado river is natural boundary line and would be easy to maintain :; that with the river as the southern boundary line of the addition, the whites and Indians would have ac- cess to the river without any fric- tion; that the lands so withdrawn constitute the greater part of the winter range for cattlemen in said Coconino county; that during the winter the snows and storms drive the cattle upon the Indian addition created. there being no other place for them to go; that now many cat tie are grazing upon the tract in question the year round; that to continue it in a state of reservation would result Gin the almost com plete extermination of the cattle industry" in the county. ..and cause irreparable injury to the taxpayers thereof.
 They therefore "appeal to you as a lover of justice and as an official who desires to see equity done, to see to it" that the Little Colorado river be made the southern bound ary of the addition in question:
 In reporting upon this subject, the office has to state that on Feb
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Williams news., 1905-04-22

for your information, a copy of a communication from the commis- sioner of Indian affairs. date the 27th ultimo, reporting upon a sim liar telegram from the Coconino County Cattlemen's association, in which, after showing the action heretofore taken by the department in the matter, he concludes as fol- lows: "Upon further consideration of this matter, the office is still of the opinion that it will be for the best interests of all concerned, and especially of the Indians, to allow the boundary of the addition to the Navajo reservation to remain as it now exists, and for the purposes set forth in the executive order, Mo- vember 14, 1901"
 The views expressed by the com missioner of Indian affairs meet the approval of this department and I have to advise you that for the reasons stated in his report, nc change will be made in the bound ary of the addition to the reserva- tion nor in the conditions upon which the grazing of outside stock thereon is now permitted.
 Very respectfully,
 k. A. HITCHCOCK,
 Secretary.
Williams news., 1905-04-22
Gov. Murphy on Statehood

Former Governor Oakes Murphy of Prescott arrived in Phoenix this morning for the day. His visit will be of short duration because his mining interests require his pres ence at Prescott. Gov. Murphy was seen this morning by representa- tive of the Enterprise at the Hotel Adams He granted short inter view.
 "The prospects for business in Arizona and Phoenix are good. The putting of Phoenix on trunk line and the assured early completion of the Tonto dam insures the capital of the territory splendid future but I want to say that Arizona is up against it so far as joint state hood is concerned. If the people don't want joint statehood with New Mexico they should never rest. Arizona wants to keep her armor on and keep pounding away until the thing is killed or becomes a fact. The people must keep con tinuously at work to defeat the proposition if they don't care to be- come united with New Mexico.
 "There will undoubtedly be state hood legislation at the next session of congress. Oklahoma and the Indian Territory will undoubtedly be admitted, and an effort will be made to force New Mexico and Arizona in as one state. There is no way to dodge the issue. We have got to face it squarely.-Enterprise
Williams news., 1905-04-22
Joint Statehood League Organized

Joint Statehood League Organized
 The citizens of Albuquerque have organized joint statehood league which will be extended to all parts of the territory.
 w. B. Childers. former United States attorney, is president of the league, while B. $. Rodey and other prominent politicians are members.
 The organization, which is re- garded as merely the nucleus around which it is proposed to form a great statehood league, including similar organizations in every town and village in the territory, is f1atly committed to the joint statehood plan, accepting union with Arizona under the firm belief that no other form of statehood for New Mexico is possible from the congress soon to assemble.
 Not only is the league committed to the joint statehood plan, but it contemplates a campaign of educa- tion which will bring New Mexico and Arizona into line with an over- whelming majority in favor of jointure, as against remaining a territory.
 The plan is simple. The Albu- querque organization, which at this time is entirely local in character, proposes to spread broadcast the agitation for the formation of simi- lar leagues all over the territory and later in Arizona. In New Mexico this agitation is expected to take form in territorial leage of non-partisan character which will organize in big convention now fixed for some early date in the fall.
 In the NEWS recently appeared an article on Educational Qualifica- tions for Voters," as it applies in Colorado. The article was a good one and applies as well or better to Arizona than Colorado. A bill of that sort was another one we had turned down in the legislature. If our people want to do away with the objections raised by the east against us because of our Mexican speaking population, the quickest and best way to remedy the situa lion is to compel them to learn the language of this country, in which they enjoy privileges such as they cannot get in their mother country The treaty of sixty years ago, made for the benefit of those admitted to citizenship, should not be held up today as reason why such law should not be put on our statute books.
Williams news., 1905-04-22

Read the NEWS and be posted.
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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-24

had some terraces In ten feet of one another,
and they were a success. This was after | had
tried every plan of ditching with slight falls.
Down in this county where the land is nearly
level the terraces should be made at suitable dis
tances without reference to the three feet fall.
in these level fields one may pillow and cultivate
across the terraces, but the terraces should be
plowed up each time after the field is plowed.
On these terraces the best row of corn or cotton
in the field will grow.
Now I know this plan has succeeded, and the
ditch has failed. I have improved land by the
level terrace faster than by anything else I ever
did. Tt will save your land if you will terrace
right.
Let every farmer in North Carolina this year
plant less and cultivate better, and make more
per acre. Let one-third of your land grow up in
hog weeds every year Or sew in peas, and then
you will learn something you will never forget.
Stop renting out what you can't tend yourself,
and save it for your next years crop. The arti-
Gle in last ApriFs paper was too late for many of
our farmers, but | hope now each one will try
terracing and-my word for it-you will be
pleased. III. F. FREEMAN.
Wilson Co.,, N. O..
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-24


This table shows that the market price of cot
ton-seed meal and it's fertilizing value are APP
proximately the same. Consequently when this
material is used as a feeding stuff, the manure is
very rich in fertilizing constituents. Comparing
it with corn, ton for ton, there is a difference in
the manurial value of $16.16. While this factor
in feeding is very important indeed, it is usually
overlooked.
A POINT IN PRACTICE.
1t has been shown by repeated experiments that
a pound of cotton-seed meal is equivalent to 1.13
pounds of corn, and that a pound of cotton-seed
meal is worth LIS pounds of corn for fattening
purposes. Taking this in connection with the
above table, We will realize the immense value of
the cotton seed products for feeding and manurial
purposes. 1t teaches the student this important
lesson: He cannot afford to sell cotton seed and
buy corn as a substitute. even though the latter
is cheaper in price per ton. A loss follows both
in feeding and in the manure produced.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-24
Soil incubation with Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria.

The question of soil incubation for root tuber-
cles is attracting a great deal of attention at the
present time. The following is prepared in
answer to numerous inquiries sent to the Maine
Agricultural Experiment Station:
For the past 20 years it has been common
knowledge that the legumes-pas, beans, clover,
alfalfa, etc.-have the power of acquiring atmos-
pheric nitrogen through enlargements upon the
roots, called root tubercles, which are caused by
bacteria. For nearly the same length of time it
has been known that applications of those soils
in which root tubercles are produced to other
land would cause these tubercles to grow on
crops where they would not. previous to such in
oculation.
It was found that different kinds of bacteria
were necessary to produce root tubercles upon
different kinds of legumes. Ten years ago Ger
man Investigators prepared and placed on the
market under the name of Nitragin, pure cultures
of the different kinds of bacteria for inoculating
soils for different legumes. While these cultures
in a few instances gave satisfaction, they oftener
failed. In the meantime, other Investigators in
Germany and in this country kept up the study,
with the result that the Bureau of Plant Indus
try of the United States Department of Agricul-
ture has devised cultures which are working thor
oughly satisfactorily. The following is from the
Department Year Book for 1902:
ut should be borne in mind that such inocula-
tions are usually not necessary in soil that is al
ready producing tubercles. While the introduc-
ton of fresh organisms will generally considera-
bly, increase the number of tubercles, the effect
upon the crop is not appreciable, and it is hardly
worth the expenditure of time and labor neces-
sary TO make the incubation. Wherever legumes
that fail to produce tubercles are being grown,
however, or in those localities where the soil is so
poor that legumes will not grow, and because of
the lack of proper organisms they cannot make a
start, every effort should be made to get the bac-
terra into the soil"
These cultures of bacteria are sent out in
cakes resembling the ordinary compressed yeast
cake. By putting these into water to which the
proper mineral nutrients have been added, they
will speedily grow in such quantities that even
such a small package is sufficient to inoculate an
acre.
Wherever legumes are being grown unsuccess-
fully, it will be wise to get cultures of the proper
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-24
HOW TO TERRACE.
A Subject Every Farmer Should be Studying at This
Season of Year-Land Saving the Most Vital of
Farming Subjects.

aAA1nk SuOyoSSS'
Messrs. Editors Il find in this weeks Farmer
a very readible article from "Catawba." He
wishes to know more about saving farm land and
plant food.
We all know that the soil is the farmers bank
from which he must draw from time to time while
making his crop.
To save ones land from washing and have it in
condition to yield up liquid plant food at all
times during the crop growing season, is the most
far-reaching of all questions pertaining to agri-
culture. "Catawba" refers to an article / had in
your issue of Goth April last, and calls up some
very interesting points. He says the deep plow-
ing hill side bitches and terraces with fall have
all failed.
The old idea was to conduct the water off the
land so it would not wash. The plan now is not
to let the water go off the land at all. If it does
it will take along your liquid plant food and leave
your land poor in food for the crop. When the
water falls it must stay where it falls.
Now how are we to keep it where it falls? We
must not let the little drops of water get together,
if SO it will be sure to wash and leach out your
land.
There are three things which must be done:
ID Terrace, (2) Flow deep g to 10 inches), and
60 fill the soil with humus.
The terrace must be on a perfect level. It takes
about three years to make a perfectly level ter
race. After it is made you have to go over it
every time it rains, and see where it needs NOV
ing up or down. The terrace must be so level
that water will stand at the same depth all
around. There must not be any fall at all. The
terrace should be broad at base, say five feet and
- to Is inches high. There should be a row
planted in top of this terrace and the terrace
plowed up every time after the field has been
plowed and after each rain, if you see it needs it.
No, by no means cultivate across the terraces
or up and down hills. This would leave your
bank door open for each robber to take as he
pleases. Always pillow the land along with the
terrace and run rows the SAM way. Begin run
ming rows along upper side of lower terrace and
when you have gotten half way up to the other
terrace at the narrowest place, then run one
above and the other below until you finish up in
the middle. This keeps all the rows on a level.
These short rows are the biggest objections to
the terracing system.
l got my experience with terracing in Franklin
County. where the land is more or less billy. I
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-24
EVERY POUND OF coTToNsEED SHOULD BE
FED TO STOCK.

some days ago Wnen COTTON SEED were selling
at % cents per bushel we saw a farmer sowing
oats ON which he put forty bushel of cotton seed
to the acre. Now, the question often comes up
whether or not it is better to sell cotton seed and
take the money and purchase fertilizers or cotton
seed meal and put on the land or put the raw
seed on the land as the farmer in question was
doing. We leave this question to our farmer read
ers, and we will be glad if some one would make
the calculation and let the other farmers know
through The Commonwealth what they think
about it. This Is an important matter, and one
in which every farmer who makes cotton should
feel a keen interest. We leave the question open.
Who will answer itg
The truth is that neither cotton seed nor cotton
seed meal should be used as a fertilizer, but we
ought to keep stock enough to consume these
products and thus get two profits from them.
The following editorial, published In The Pro-
gressive some months ago, is worth reprinting:
In North Carolina, over 100000 of CONNER
cial fertilizer are annually purchased. Fully half
of this immense amount is expended for cotton
seed meal. We are taking a feeding stuff and
using it as a fertilizer. 1t should be used first
as a food for farm animals and then when it be-
comes manure let it go to the soil.
A ton of cotton-seed meal is worth $40 for
either feeding or for fertilizers. If that ton is
applied to the soil, it is worth but twenty-one
dollars to the user. If it is first fed to animals,
the user gets twenty-five dollars returns as food.
But the animal has used but one-fourth of the
clements In the ton, or five dollars and fifty cents
worth. There is left through feeding, sixteen dol
lars and fifty cents worth of manure.
DoUBLE PROFIT IN FEEDING.
The user, then, has a double profit in first using
as a feeding stuff and saving the weddings as a
manure as follows:
Value as a feeding stuff. 1900. $1,000
Value as a fertilizer. ........... 1850
r Total OO.OO
Had this cotton-seed meal simply been used as
a fertilizer, there would have been a loss of six
teen dollars and fifty cents per ton.
Every feeding stuff contains plant food; some
are very valuable as fertilizers, others relatively
poor. If an animal is fed rich food, rich manure
viii be made; if poor, then poor manure will be
made. Cotton-seed meal, cotton seed, cow-peas,
cow-pea hay. etc., are of distinct value in this
respect, while cotton-seed bulls, corn slower and
corn are relatively low.
FERTILIzING NALUE OF FEED sTUFFs.
To show the variation in fertilizing values of
feeding stuffs, the following table is arranged and
the valuation is made on the basis of materials
found in ordinary commercial fertilizers:
POUNDS AND VALUATION PER TON.
Feeding stuff Nitrogen R feiS. Potash VAL
Cotton-seed meal -. 1876 So II $22.OS
Gluten meal ........ 112 s 1904
Wheat bran ......... SO So ~ 1dlo
Wheat middling 49,. So 10 ID ST.
Corn meal .......... 80 IA 592
corn enS1la&6 $500 LIZ
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-24
F~ERTILIzINa NALUE OF FEED sTUFFs.

To show the variation in fertilizing values of
feeding stuffs, the following table is arranged and
the valuation is made on the basis of materials
found i in ordinary commercial fertilizers:
POUNDS AND VALUATION PER TOM.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04
THIRTEEN ENTOMBED
OKLAHOMA MINERS ARE BURIED
BY A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
OF DYNAMITE.

wilburton, Okla. May Thirteen
miners were entonibed and probably
killed by an explosion early in the
day in the Missouri. Kansas and Texas
Coal company's mine No. 10. No
bodies have been recovered.
The men went into the shaft at mid
night Saturday night. Foreman Ray
of the shift that left the mine at that
hour states that the mine was in good
condition and a gas explosion was
hardly possible. His shift left shot
hanging which the new shift may have
fred. 1t is suggested. from the force
of the explosion, which could be heard
for miles around and which tore heavy
timbers aside and piled tons of dirt
into the shaft, that bad shot had set
off some dynamite which had been
stored conveniently for work.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04
A BAD INDIAN.

Serves one Term for Horse Stetliu
Then Takes Another Horse.
A horse and carriage are said to haV
been stolen from the streets of SissetC
last week by All Indian by the name
Hazen Barker who was pretty We
filled up with fire water. The hoT
belonged to Herman Shanks No OF
seems to know who took the horse frOl
where it was hitched, but a little q
who was standing at home close by
warrant was placed in the hands OF u
sheriff with the description of the ho1
and rig with orders to arrest the cullf
when found.
He was captured few miles east
Sisseton, brought in and taken before
justice, where he plaed guilty and vi
bound over to the circuit court for tril
He served a year in the pen not lo1
ago for horse stealing, so we are re-
ably informed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04
MUCH LOSS OF LIFE AND HEAVY
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY IN W
Z. ClNlTY OF LAREDO.
stoan Causes Great Havoc, Twenty
one Persons Being Killed and Scores
of Others Injured-Adobe Houses o;
the Poorer Glasses and the Magniti-
cent Business Blocks Alike Wrecked
by the Terrific Force of the Wind.

Laredo. Tex, May 1.-Twenty-one
people dead, scores more injured. many
rendered homeless and great damage
to property, sums up briefly the result
of tornado which during the night
tore through Laredo and New Laredo,
across the Rio Grande. Rumors OF
others killed in nearby places are cur
rent, but lack confirmation.
People were crushed 10 death by the
falling of the heavy walls of adobe
houses. Trees, fences, telegraph and
telephone poles, corrugated roofs,
ehimneys, walls and debris OF all inn
aginable kinds strew the streets.
Houses have been turned into hos
pitfalls. Physicians are busy attending
to the injured and 1t is thought no adj
ditional deaths will result DR.. Hamil-
ton of the United States marine hos
pital service has placed $50 tents with
equipment at the disposal of the home
less.
The property damage is heavy. Not
one of the group of magnificent build
ings of the city escaped damage How
any one quartered in the various in
situations escaped is considered mi
raculous, as the walls were totally de-
molished
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04

Charles Parpee, of Columbus, o.,
grabbed baby from a cradle and
tried to make away with it, An
angry crowd chased him nearly a
mile before they caught him and res
cued the baby. A dozen men nearly
beat him to death before the police
arrived and took charge of him. As
he subsequently, admitted that he
was stealing the baby to hold it for
a ransom, this is one case where the
police arrived too soon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04

The appointments made by Mayor
Woodwork seem to meet with quite
generous approval. Boys, all you
have to do to keep yourselves solid
with the pubic is your duty But
do that and you will never hear of a
complaint being registered. The
law recognizes no favorites. just
remember this and you will avoid
much trouble.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04
ALL BADLY MANGLED
TEN MINERS KILLED ~ FALL
ING CAGE IN A SHAFT AT
wILkEsRARRE, PA.

wilkesbarre. Pa, April 27-Ten
miners we're instantly crushed to
death during the day at the Conyng-
ham mine Of the Delaware asid Hud-
son company located in the northern
part OF the city. The men were being
lowered into the mine and when $50
feet from the surface the rope broke
and the cage fell to the bottom OF the
shaft. q distance OF 400 feet. A res
cuing party was at once organized.
The bodies Of the men were found at
the bottom OF the shaft beneath .
mass Of debris. They were terribly
maneled.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04

The trustees of the Lily-Lounsbe
Farmers Telephone company, of L
South Dakota, will receive sealed
for the building of a telephone
from Lily to Lounsberry. Distanc'
line, twenty-seven miles of single "
and Ave miles Of swo wire; an aver
Of twenty posts to the mile; fifr
anchors; sixty-four grounds.
Separate bids will be received
putting in phones. Bids will be receil
mp to six o'clock p. m. Of the 10th
Of May, 1905.
The trustees reserve the right
reject any all bids.
"A. M. Valsvie
M. s. Peterson
T. +. Sverem
Trustees.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04

The city council at it's Monday
nights meeting decided to take
the responsibility Of seeing that
Decoration Day was properly and
fittingly observed in Webster. This
is the proper thing for this and all
other cities to do. Get busy now,
and assist the council in this lauda-
BILE undertaking. You owe it to the
the soldiers, living and dead, you
owe it to your country, your child
rem and yourself.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04

Since the supreme court Of the
United States has decided that it is
not unlawful to sell an Indian intox-
icants many hot times have been
reported from towns located near
the reservations. What the govern
ment saves in not prosecuting the
liquor sellers, the state will more
than pay for in the prosecution Of
Indian murderers, horse thieves. etc.
The decision may be good law; but
II i very poor judgment.