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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
A VERY FINE ORCHARD
s. ". Maxey Praises L. J. Lyen's Orchard
and Methods OF Work.

EDITOR OF THE DAWN.
While visiting the orchards of the
valley it has been my custom to make
as many observations as | could and
lay merit at the feet of every man that
leads out on horticultural lines. To
this end I wish to say L. ]. Lyen has
the best ordered orchard we have seen
ia the valley The heads of his trees
are the best shaped, with the least
heavy pruning we have seen. MIR.
Lyen has an eye to shaping an orchard.
feel safe in recommending him SO any
one wanting skilled pruning done in
the starting of an orchard.
Mr.. Lyons varieties are good and
and his orchard is good of its size.
There are other orchards in the valley
worthy of mentioning, but my atten-
tion was dra wn to the proper pruning
at the proper time, which means
greatdeal to an orchard. Its longev.
ity and health depend on the proper
pruning at the proper time.
S. w. MAXEY.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
items of Interest Gathered From Various
Newspapers and Crisp.

State Auditor Clausen is auditing
claims of the several counties aggre-
eating nearly $500, being the amounts
the state must reimburse the counties
for payments under the bounty law
for the last quarter for scalps of wild
animals. The bounty is 81 a head for
coyotes, 500 for wildcats and So for
cougars.
The average wheat yield of the Pa
louise country, according to the ma
chine men reports, is 30 bushels per
acre.
The hop growers of the Yakim val
ley are finding it very difficult to secure
pickers.
The forest fires in Jefferson county
are said to be under control.
p. A. Bounds, of North Yakima, had
three good horses killed by the n p.
Company's trains, Tuesday, in the
Wenas valley.
Walla Walla unions are planning for
labor temple.
Deer have become exceedingly plenti-
full around Provost.
r. D. Gould has been appointed i'm
migrant inspector at salary OF 81, 200
per year.
The fruit inspector of Walla Walla
has ordered all condemned fruit
burned.
The total valuation of Stevens county
property. exclusive of exemptions, is
s., 75s, O61
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
TO GET RID or CHICKEN LICE.

To rid small chicks, turkeys and
goslipgs of lice take tight box large
enough to accommodate Your flock;
take paper and pour kerosene oil on
paper until it drips. Place this paper
in the bottom of the box with the
chickens on it. Then place another
oiled paper over the chicks so that the
box is air tight after you have cover
ed the top of the box with an old car
pet. Let this be on there only ten
minutes then remove your chicks and
YOU will find them free of lice. Re
peat in few days if necessary. |
have used this remdy for years and
find it good one as | have never lost
a chick wheat this was used.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
POULTRY RAISING ON THE FARM.

The barnyard fowls are regarded by
most farmers as a very Insignificant
part of their live stock: and yet, al
though SO often neglected and forced
to shift for themselves, the poultry and
egg crop constitute in the aggregate
one of the most important and valuable
products of American agriculture. The
conditions in this country are such
that the poultry industry is capable OF
indefinite expansion, and therefore
able to meet any demands that ma! be
made upon it either by home or foreign
markets.
In order to secure larger consump'
ton of poultry products per capita in
the United States, it is of prime i'm
portance that there should always be
an abundant supply of strictly fresh
eggs and of the best grades OF table
poultry. This condition is also
necessary factor in the development
of the export trade. When the mark
cts are filled with eggs which have
lost their qualify and flavor by long
keeping, and many of which have ac-
ouired an offensive tast e; when tie
breilers and roasters offered to the
consumer are thin, tasteless, tough,
and altogether unfit for the table it
is Enot surprising that they are passed
by. and beef, mutton, or pork taken in
their stead. So, also when the export
err is buying for consignment to be able
to find at all times good article Of
eggs of poultry in sufficient quantity
or he can not continue his trade.
An increased supply of poultry pro-
ducts of the highest class would IN
auestionably lead to an increased con-
sumption. There is no more staple
and popular article of food. and conse-
ouently we may confidently expect the
demand to developer proportion to the
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

increase of our population and to the
care and intelligence with which the
markets are supplied.
There is no stock on the farm that
yields a better relative return to the
food consumed than do the hens, and
consequently it Is we'll worth while to
consider in what manner their product
may be increased without dispropor-
tionately increasing expenses. The
fowls must have comfortable and
healthful quarters, they must have
proper food and nesting facilities. but
it is not at all necessary that there
should be extravagant expenditures in
supplying these.
The kind of chickens to be kept on
the farm depends almost as much upon
the kind of man who manages them as
upon any other conditions. There are
no birds which stand neglect better
than the common mongrel barnyard
fowls, for these have lived and devel-
oped under unfavorable conditions and
are accustomed to shift for themselves.
They are generally hardy, vigorous,
and Yield a fair return in eggs or as
table poultry; they respond fairly well
to generous treatment, and, If selected
with some care, are by no means to be
despised, even when their product is
compared with that of the standard
breeds.
The improvement of the common
poultry should begin In most cases by
breed NJ from birds selected for their
shape, size, and productiveness, and
by lettering the conditions of life un-
der which they are kept. If the own
err is willing to 90 little further and
to bestow somewhat more attention up
on his birds, he may cross them with
males of a standard breed or replace
them entirely by pure bred males and
females.
The standard breeds have been
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
STOCK LAW ENFORCED
Whitman County Proposes to Enforce the
1905 Stock Law.

COFAX, Wash, Aug. 1G.-The 1903
stock law prohibiting live stock run
ming at large is now in full force and
effect in Whitman county, all require.
ments having been complied with, and
Prosecuting Attorney kipp has sent
out notices advising that hereafter it
shall be unlawful for any live stock to
run at large, and that all stock so
found in this county may he taken up
and posted with the county auditor as
estrays.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
REFLECTION OF CITY IN SKY
Mirage OF Canadian Shore OF Lake Erie is Wit.
messed at Cleveland. 4.

CLEVELAND, o., Any. l2-Resi-
dents of the Heights in the eastern
part of the city today witnessed the
most remark able mirage of which
there is any record in this part of the
country. Wonderfully clear and di,-
tinct, the Canadia an shore of Lake Erie,
sixty miles distant, was spread out BE-
fore them in the sky, The phenomr-
non lasted for more than an hour and
attracted the attention Of thousands Of
people before it faded.
The inverted atmospheric picture
was so clear that the city of Rondeau
could be plainly seen.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
A FIND WASHING FLUID.

A most excellent recipe for washing
fluid is as follows: one Id. can of potash,
one of each of salts of tartar, boraX
and ammonia. Have the druggist to
pulrerize each and mix salts Of tartar,
ammonia and borax together. Pour
one gallon of rain water on potash and
add the other ingredients when cool.
Use one teacupful to each boiler of
clothes. Soak clothes in warm water
first and proceed as in ordinary wash
ing. In cleaning an ordinary proce-
lain sink and wash basin use common
baking soda. Wiring out cloth until
quite dry, then put soda on cloth and
rub soiled places and any one will De
pleased with the result.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
COUNTY,

The total valua ion of all tlXa'le
property in Yakima county is $780,
125
j. Dugan, a laborer, was run over
and killed by freight train near
Chehalis Tuesday.
The school directors in Spokane
county have issued an edict to the
effect that school teachers employed
will not be allowed to smoke.
Everything is ready to start the
work On the Dupont powder plant near
Tacoma.
The Washington building in Seattle
was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
Loss SSj, 900.
Aberdeen has liquidated its liquor
debt to the state, paying 0,03094.
Pullman has secured new national
bank.
Timber fires are still raging at Sat-
sup
Blaine is to have street fair and
carnival August 20.
The assessed valuations of Okanogan
county have increased nearly 100 per
cent. within the past year.
The North Bank road will be double
tracked from Hoover to Kennewick.
Three houses were burglarized in
Olympia in one night.
Waterville had $50, 900 fire Monday
with only 500 insurance.
The city hall, jail and five business
houses, 10 Pennington, were destroyed
by fire Monday.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

plan has been demonstrated by farm
er, who have obtained good results by
using vino mills. Electricity will be
used as the motive power of the propos-
ed wells.
During the favorable seasons OF some
years ago general farming was extend
ed far across the plains of Kansas and
Nebraska. During the continuance OF
several years of ample rainfall the
yields were abundant. profits large and
prudence was thrown to the winds.
The series of dry years, and the conse-
quent failure of crops, forced the set
tiers from their farms and whole coun
ties were practically depopulated,
Even now, here and there, over the
plains the deserted sod house, or the
more substantial farm building, are
framed against level landscape
monuments standing as lonesome re-
minders of the pioneers failure. DC
casionally, too, may be found the re-
marked the site of what were once
famous towns or county seats-now the
haunt of the coyote and the gaunt gray
wolf
Attempts were made to construct IT.
iigation works to insure crops but the
results generally were not successful
Some of the pioneers tenacously hung
on to their homes, and when bitches
failed, sank wells and irrigated small
tracts from wndmills. Wells from
these areas suiiiced to carry many
farmers over The years Of drought.
The water for the new project must
be secured from the underhow of water
from the Arkansas Valley which lies
in gravel stratas existing below the
water. These wells will be scattered
along the line nearly five miles long
the power to be generated at single
plant situated on a railroad Applica-
tions for water under this project have
already been made by the owners of
1000 acres of land.
One private pumping plant, erected
three years ago in this neigh borhood,
at cost of more than IS, 900 supplied
water 20 more than one thousand acres
OF wheat, and the first crop harvested
was sold for more than the original
cost OF the pumping plant.
There is something over 10000
square miles in the great plain regions
OF the United States that affords an un-
limited field for such enterprises, by
which vast tracts of arid land may be
made productive.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

The bank did not get the small notes
because the treasury didn't have them
to spare. All demands for small bills
in excess of 800 or $500 lots are being
refused.
Within the next few months the
treasury will be unable to add to the
volume of one, two and fve-dollar GER
tifcates and money famine of more
or less serious consequence will follow.
Secretary Shaw may be unable to fur
nish relief until congress enacts law
authorizing him to issue more silver
certificates of small denominations, or
providing some other means Of lncreas
ing the volume of circulation money.
When the crop movement gets under
full swing the pinch will be felt. The
treasury now holds S6,044, 800 in silver
dollars, which represents the amount
available for increasing the present
volume of one-twO and five-dollar bills
in circulation. The bulk of the ma
tons business is done with one-two
and five-dollar notes.
The treasury has, from sine to time.
issued silver certificates aggrtgating
S477 100000 For each dollar so issued
the secretary has separted a silver dol
lar from the reserve store in the vaults
He has now left only trihe more than
six million of dollars and no more can
be coined after they are gone.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
GOOD THING TO DO.

Cut down the weeds, dig them up,
burn them, carefully. They are vile,
ugly things Your neighbor who raj
IS roses and pansies and sweet peas
should not be atfronted and injuren by
your burdock and thistle crop. b.
sides, it is unla Sful TO let these things
20 to seed. Enforce the law, Port.
land Journal,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

The subscription list of the Twice-a-
Week Dawn is growing rapidly. Ev
cry body is scrambling to get the news
and accept of our mo st liberal offer of
The Dawn and three good ia rtn papers
all for ST 90
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

.SHINGTON, Aug. Is. -
The New York Nation
al Bank last week APP.
piled to the Treasury for
$50, 1000 in one and two
dollar certificates, and
offered to exchange three
$4,000 gold certificates.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

Every farmer should be careful about
his stock water. 40 kind of stock can
relish and thrive on water in stagnant
pools. Besides there is much danger
of disease lurking in stagnant pools.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
MOTIVE POWER IS TO BE ELECTRICITY

Private Enterprises of this Nature Have Been
Profitable And the Government Proposes
to Operate on Extensive Lines The Plains
Furnish Large Field for Such Work.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
WOULD NOT EXCHANGE EVEN VALUES

New York Bank is Refused an Exchange Of
Silver in Small Denominations for an Equal
Amont of Gold in Large Certificates, Be-
cause of a Shortage.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

Crescent Baking Powder is much in
evidence these days. Good stuff Ores
cent keep it up.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
No. So.
IS SHORT OF SILVER
AVAILABLE BULLION SCARCE

Government Has But Six Mil.
lion Silver Dollars Left Against
Which to Issue Certificates
Refuses Gold Certificates.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

order to obtain water to
irrigate the surrounding
country t h e L n lite d
States Government pro-
poses to sink deep water
wells in the vicinity of
Garden City, X a n a 5.
The practicability of the
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17
TO IRRIGATE KANSAS
GOVERNMENT WILL ASSIST

Deep Wells to Be Sunk Near
Garden City Kansas to Furn'
ish Water for Large Fertile
but Arid District.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

The city hall, Jail and five business
houses, 10 Pennington, were destroyed
by fire Monday.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-08-17

ADN"NO O STATE
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-03-09

tinental Trust Company, of Den
yer, Colorado, who make the exam
ination of county records and ac-
counts speciality, to examine the
public accounts of each and every
county officer for the past eighteen
years and report their findings to
the said board of county commits
sioners and that such findings be
published in the different county
papers; and
Be it further resolved; That
petitions be circulated throughout
the county for the signatures of
resident tax payers requesting the
board of county commissioners to
employ the aforesaid accountants
to pass upon the books and accounts
of Conejos county for the past
eighteen years.
1t is further resolved by The La
lara Board of Trade that a copy of
these resolutions be sent to the
Alamosa Chamber of Commerce
and that they be requested to adopt
similar resolutions. That a copy
of the above resolutions be publish
ed in The La Jara Chronicle.
The discussion on the resolu-
tion developed considerable heat
and there was a marked difference
of opinion as to the length of time
to be covered in the examination
of the county records. That an
examination should be made by
experts was the opinion of the ma
iority present who also desired
that such examination should be
made within a reasonable length of
time, but that said examination
should not in any way interfere
with the investigation of the treas
urer's books now being made by
the county commissioners.
The resolutions were adopted
and President Newcomb was in
structed to send petitions request
ing the Judge of the district court
to employ the auditing department
of the Continental Trust Co. of
Denver to audit the accounts of
each and every office of the county
for the past twelve years, to the
various precincts in the county in
order that the taxpayers might
give expression to their wishes in
regard to such course.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-03-09
BOARD OF TRADE MEETING.

The following business of pub
lie interest was transacted at the
last meeting of The La lara Board
of Trade:
The committee appointed to ask
assistance Of the county commits
sioners in strengthening the south
bank of the Alamosa river at the
danger point above Capulin report
ed that the commissioner would
allow $4,000 as IA matter of pro-
lection to the county roads and
bridges. 1t was estimated that it
would cost between $500 and S1OO.
Mr.. j. G. Pursley was appointed
superintendent to take charge of
the work and solicit donations for
work.
The commissioners also allowed
$500 for an expenditure on the La
Jara and Sanford road and Mr..
Anthon Nelson was appointed
superintendent to take charge and
to solicit donations for work on the
road.
w, \, Braiden introduced reso-
lutions which We're amended to
read as follows:
Whereas: The books and ac-
counts of Conejos County have
never been audited by expert ac-
countants, and
Whereas; The auditing of all
accounts where the public is inter
ested should be done by persons
thoroughly competent. at least as
often as new officers are elected:
Therefore, be it resolved by The
La Jara Board of Trade that the
District Judge of the 18th Judicial
District and the honorable board
of county commissioners of Conejos
county be and are hereby request
ed to secure the services of yhe
Auditing Department of The Con-
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-03-09

/ |RANCHMAN'S COLUMN
Edited bv Hon. d. T.. Newcomb.
HIRED HELP.


The question of profit and loss
on a farm depends to a great ex-
tent upon the hired man. The
question of competent help is the
most perplexing problem that the
farmers all over the United States
have to meet. The farm hand in
too many cases compares his posi-
ton with that of the factory hand
or a man working on public works
who starts to work by the whistle.
eats by the whistle and stops by
the whistle and does only so much
as is forced out of him by the boss.
A man of this style makes mighty
poor farm hand 1t takes the most
intelligent laborers we have to do
good work on the farm. He must
have brains and use his brains.
He must know how to use and re
pair all farm machinery. He must
know how to feed and care for
stock. He must know how to raise
and harvest grain. He ought to
be able to take charge of all farm
work when the boss is necessarily
absent and above all be proud of
what he does and the way he does
it. His employers interest and
his own interest are one and the
same. A worthless farm hand uses
no brains if he has any, goes to
work by the town whistle, does as
little as he can and not get fired,
doesn't give rap how the crops
look and will drop his fork at s
o'clock when by working 15 min
utes longer stack of hay would
be saved from "A soaking rain.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-03-09
ADVERTISING RATES

Display Advertlsementsw will be charged
for at the rate of l2I- cents per inch per week
single column measurement. on monthly con.
tract and 25 cents per single column inch for
periods of less than one month. Rates given
on more than a column of space by the year
Displa advertisements will be changed every
two weeks wit thout extra charge; when changes
made weekly an additional charge OF 5
cents per inch will be'made.
Changes for dis, lay advert isem ents IN u st be
in this office before Wednesday noon to insure
a change that week.
insertion.
Notice, of entertainments, suppers or
sociaIs where an admis sion Is charged or which
are given to raise money, will be given half
rates. Cards of thanks, 20 cents. Resolutions
obituaries and obituary poetry, cents per line.
No deviation from these rates will be m ade.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-03-09
A Big Snap.

| have 80 acres of as good land
as there is in the valley which |
will sell for $1,000 per acre, includ-
ing a good water right in the San
ford canal Will take part cash
and balance on time with approved
security. My reason for selling is
that | have more land than | can
farm.
A. c. FAUCETT.
Sanford, Colo.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-03-09
Seed Oats for Sale.

One thousand bushels of very
fine American Golden seed oats
for sale. The yield of this grain
was 73 bushels per acre last year.
Inquire of Chas NJ. Olehy. on the
old Norland ranch, or address him
at La .Jara. Colo.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-03-09
A. G. FAUCETT,
Sanford, Colo.

If you want first class black
90 to Frank Brumbly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-02
PERILs OF PIANO BUYING.

III Duv1nS Il piano., as IN LOOKING
over a horse, unless you study up in
advance, you are lost, writes Rupert
Hughes in Good Housekeeping.
If you are like the average house
holder, when you enter the shop, an
affable salesman m forward, asks
you a question or two, "sizes you
up from your first answer and your
gullible stare of innocence, leads you
to the remnant department, picks out
the worst piano of the lot, smites a
few ~resounding chords, ripples out a
few arpeggios, and tells you a fairy
story; then before you know it, you
have told him to wrap it up for you.
Once it is home, you find that the
chords don't resound, the arpeggios
don't ripple, the case doesn't fit your
woodwork, and you have an imitation
rosewood elephant on your hands.
The dramatic thrill of buying a pi-
ano has even found its way into liter
ature. In a well known novel by
Harold Frederic, the hero, the Rev
erend Theron Ware, is represented
as setting forth cheerfully .only to
find his flowing course interrupted by
his entire ignorance as to what kind
of piano he wanted. He looked at all
they had in stock, and heard them
played upon. 1t discouraged him to
note that several of those he thought
the finest in tone were among the
very cheapest in the lot. Pondering
this, and staring in hopeless puzzle
ment from one to onther of the big
black shiny monsters, he suddenly
thought of something"
This Something was a decision
to ask the aid of an expert musician,
Celia Madden. She was not awed by
the size and shine of the instruments.
"She ordered them rolled this way or
that, as if they had been so many
checkers on a draught board. She
threw back their covers with the
scant ceremony of a d~ispensary den
fist opening paupers' mouths. She
explointed their several capacities
with master hands, not deigning to
seat herself, but just slightly bend
ing forward, and sweeping her fin
gers up and down the keyboards-
able, domineering fingers which
pounded, tinkled, meditated, assent
ed, condemned, all in a flash, and
amid what affected the layman's ears
as a hopelessly d%iscordant hubbub."
Miss Madden it seems knew some
thing about pianos, though I don't
like her way of deciding a pianos
fate without sitting down to it. Ev.
en- a brilliant performer may be de-
ceived by c~arelessness. The non-per.
forming music-lover is in a still
greater danger.