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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-05
VOL. XIV.


10 loan and trust companies. or insur-
ance companies while every merchant
from the dealer in silks and calicoes.
TO the dealer in liquors, would look to
the federal government for his rules.
1t is an absurd proposition and the
people Will not overlook the fact that
only few months ago when the rail
road maCnates were being annoyed"
by the proceedings on the part of the
federal authorities they and their
spokesman insisted that states rights
should be preserved and that the fed
eral power must not encroach upon the
authority Of the state. But recently
the state power has been exercised aud
In very effective way. Where the
action OF the federal authorities mere.
ly annoyed" the railroad magnates,
legislation by the states brought them
to their knees. 1t is plain now that in
their desperation the spectators who
are in charge of our railroads have
adopted the centralized government
plan; that they intend to move for a
destruction of the states power over
the railroads and the deposit OF that
power exclusively in the federal gov
ernment; and that they intend, also, to
make desperate effort to see that the
federal government is placed in the
hands of men who will not seriously
interfere with the business enter
prise" of the Harrimans.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-05
A CONFERENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT
President Stickney Says That States Cannot
Interfere With Railroad Traffic Because Such
Interference Would Be Inconsistent With the
Laws Of Interstate Commerce.

President Stickney of the Chicago
Great Western Railroad company re-
Gently visited the White House and
discussed with both the president and
the interstate commerce commission
the railroad situation. Mr.. Stickney
claims that as matter of law the fed
eral courts must hold that the states
cannot interfere with or attempt to
regulate railroad traffic even when it
is wholly within state, because to do
80 would be to interfere also with inter.
state traffic, which is specifically under
the exclusive jurisdiction of congress.
He claims, in short, that the power
over interstate commerce necessarily
includes sole power over state COM
merce.
The Washington correspondent for
the Omaha World-Herald says:
"Mr. Stickney declared that both
the president and the commissioners
believe that as a matter of good
sense and business his proposition
ought to be sustained. They are
satisfied that conflicting jurisdiction
will ultimately greatly impede efforts
to control carriers. Mr.. Stickney
presented to the president many H.
Illustrations Of these conflicts, and he
arranged with the secretary OF the
commission that the latter shall pro-
vide him with as many illustrations
as possible of these conflicts which
have fallen under the observation OF
the commission. Mr.. Mosely said to-
day that the number of these is very
great. Mr.. Stickney will prepare
brief of this matter for the use OF his
lawyers in the course of the next few
months, when they come TO the SUI
preme court with the case, appealed
from Minnesota, in which the Great
Western has raised the novel con-
tention of President Stickney. The
latter declares he is confident his
claim will be sustained if in the
meanwhile he can do some effective
educational work"
The Stickney view carried to it's log
lcal conclusion would take from the
State all its power. In that view the
state could not legislate with respect
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-05
GENERALIZATION
IT MEANS DANGEROUS POWER

President Stickney, One of the
Great Railroad ManipuIators,
Would do Away With State
Jurisdiction.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-05
DOROTHY CRIMP DROWNED
DAUGHTER of Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Crimp
browns in Small Stream.

Dorothy L. Crimp, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. f. C. Crimp, while playing in
the yard Wednesday forenoon, fell into
the small stream that courses through
their yard and drowned. She was
found in the stream, face downward,
shortly after being missed by her
mother, but life was extinct; all efforts
TO restore her to life were futile. The
funeral took place from the family resi-
dence on East Eighth street yesterday
at2p. m. The grief stricken parents
have the sympathy of the entire COM
munity in their sad bereavement
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-05
GOOD POULTRY TONIC
Something all PouItrymen and Farmers Ought
Remember or Preserve.
No. r..

Sulphate of iron, One-quarter pound
sulphuric acid, one-half ounce and
water, one gallon.
Dose, teaspoonful to each pint OF
drinking water, to be given ever fourth
day for two weeks.
1t is an excellent tonic for poultry
with symptoms of roup or cholera
This simple mixture will be found most
effective. 1t is also a good invigorator
for fowls during moulting season.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-05
$3,ooo.o!,o!,

Buys IS acres of land, Groom house. sheoS anu
outbui]dnes one Of the best orchards in the county,
will produce 1000 boxes of apples and pears per year,
plenty of free water 365 days in the year,
from town, one-half mile from school, furai ue'l'~s ~
For further particulars call on OF aoo'e'' ~
Dawn
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-05-25
S0LANA TOWNSHIP CO.
MORA COUNTY
TOWNSHIP, ACREAGE, RANCHES, ETC, ETC.

The new town Of Soana is located So miles from Tucumcari on
the Tucumcari- Dawson branch of the Southwestern Ry., and is probab-
lY the most favoably located townsite in the Southwest with reference
to convenences for settlers. There is an abundance of good, pure
water ats shallow depths and the finest timber in Northeast New Mexico
in easy reach and suitable for all purposes. Solana is the banner stock
section OF the Territory, sheep, cattle and horses range here through
the entire year without thought of feeding. There are thousands of
acres OF homestead lands vet remaining open to settlement and the
section cannot be excelled anywhere in the great Southwest for fruits,
agriculture, vegetables and melons.
The town OF Solana has the best quality of water and the strongest
supply on the Southwestern Ry. system in New Mexico, with the pos
sible exception Of one or two southern towns. 1t has passed the en-
bryo stage, and is now launching out into a business center for a wide
scope of country. New business blocks are building, additional town
site lands have been recently acquired and modern conveniences are
being installed as rapidly as me and money can put them in place.
Water works, electric lights, sewerage, hotels, schools will be
ready for the people their within the year. The Solana Lumber Com
pany is unloading car after ar of lumber for building purposes and is
yet unable to supply the demand. -Solana isa growing city in a very
rich section of Northeast New Mexico, and is being settled and i'm
proved by an energetic and thrifty class of people, already having a
large population of kentuckians as we'll as many other states, and a
population that represents considerable financial strength. w. l..
Crutcher, the president of the Townsie Company, is a man of matured
business experience and is taking n especial pride in the building of
this Southwestern city, and with the managers, Wlborn and Chenault,
all of them Kentuckians, has planned the whole thing after the style of
the beautiful cities OF that state. The streets ire broad and straight
with a court house square in the center of the business section.
Write the Solana Townste Company for descriptive literature.
Offices, Trust & Savings Bank, Tucumcari, New Mexico.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-05-25

DR.. Robert S. Coulter, the local
dentist here, is a graduate of
Western Dental College of Kansas
City, and is a regular and
thoroughly trained man. He is
well and f~avorably known to the
residents of Quay and Guadalupe
counties, where he has practiced
for the past four years as a careful
and contentious dentist Of high
est ability. His office is over
First National Rank.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-05-25
uayTOWnSite
T. l.. WEIGH

The lev townsite of Quay, located 20 miles south OF Tucumcari,
was surveyed and plated this month by T. L. Welch, who is n of
the strongest young business men we have in this section of the coun.
try, and who is now putting o an automobile service to it from Tu-
cumcari in order to accommodate people who desire to look at his
property.
There is an abundance of water at Quay at a depth of IS to IS feet,
and plenty of timber for fuel and fencing at a distance of four miles
from the new city. The accommodations of school and church are
already there. A telephone connection with Tucumcari is in operation
and a city service will Immediately be installed. The topography of
the country is level, surrounded by hills and wooded lands. The soil is
a rich, deep sandy loan, chocolate color, and produces we'll in every
thing suited to this latitude, such as Indian corn, maize, kahr corn,
sorghum, broom corn, mlet, alfalfa, pea nuts, oats, wheat and all
kinds of vegetables and fruits.
There is a prospective railway connection from the Santa Fe to
connect with the Dawson line of the Southwestern at this place in order
to tap the Dawson coal fields. For any information desired communi-
cate with T. L. WEIGH. Office, Trust & Savings Bank, Tucumcari,
New Mexico. Ask for descriptive literature.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-12
Competition is the
Mother Of He'll

tor power, After this process Is end
81. mis- same engine Is stored away
Tor a long period Of about eight
months to consume nothing 1t mas
helped to produce. The average
farmer Keeps about six head OF hors'
Is which he must feed this eight
months in order to use them the 9TH
er four. We can readily see there IS
an enormous amount of grain con
sumed by this great army OF horses
while they are practically idle;
which alone would be enough to feed
the starving of the earth. We would not
alone do away with the consumpt'
ion OF grain but with Atty per cent OF
the time spent in farming and fifty
per cent of the actual manual labor
with a decrease of seventy:hve per
cent of the cost of distribution there
by effectually doing away with child
labor and the limited education that
now exists in this department. This
same simple rule will apply to every
form of industry known to civillza-
ton. Further government control It
lis the only solution for the accursed
liquor traffic. If prohibition were
not law, would say it was all rot
but as I do not wish to condemn the
i law of the land will say it amounts to
as much as a man trying to beat back
one of our northwest winds with a
toothpick as far as controlling the Ii
quor traffic is concerned. Now you
may say that have condemned oul
system and law already; I have not
neither do 7, as I really believe We
have the best system on earth in
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-12

Our competitive system is the d.
rect cause 81 about ninety per cent Z Of =
tie murders, ninety-nve per cent q
the robberiss, seventy:ive per cent OF
the tramps. ninety-five per cent Of the
idlers. fifty per cent Of the drunk
ards, eighty per cent Of the suicides
and. in short, about seventy.five per
cent Of all crime and the direct cause
OF all such crimes as gambling, hard
times, wars and the adulteration OF
food and drinks and hundreds Of 9th
ers that is working as a canker at the
heart Of our nation.
The question arises, how can we
do away with this competitive sys'
TEN? Simply by replacing it with a
system Of association or In other
words, government control Of all the
means Of production and all public
utilities. For instance, we might
look into government farming as ap-
piled to North Dakota. We see the
farmers of today collected in villages
and hundreds of farms turned into
one great field. We find massive
engine Of not. less than 100 h. p
coupled to a large number of ploWs
behind which is coupled disks and
drags and going for miles in a stretch
preparing the soil at one mighty
stroke. AS the grain ripens, we see
this same engine coupled to a reaper
combined with thresher which picks
up the grain and deposits it, ready
for the mill, into huge grain tanks Of
ordinary boxcar capacity which is
accordingly towed to market by mo
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-12

operation today especially for those
that are far enough up the ladder to
be able to walk on their fellow men
and thus avoid the undesirable. ! do
not condemn the system we have but
simply recommend a process that I
feel is a few steps in advance and
along the lines of higher education.
I do not like some of the articles
above mentioned that the system Of
competition is producing but go
around complaining about the mayor
OF Minot, the police, county officials
or president and expect to benefit our
country, home and church by so do
ing is not my plan. You had just
well go out and curse the thorns on
IA rose bush or even remove them but
the next year it would only bear more
thorns. Those men are simply the
products of the system and further
you and I that are so ready to con-
denim our officers, If we were sudden
ly put into their place, might be even
worse than they. Show me the manu-
facturor that condemns his products
for not being what he desires; what
he does is to condemn the process
and not the articles and goes about
to change the process until he gets
the desired results, which is the true
Esprit of reform. Capable of desired
results, we may be able to CONVEX,
few Of the teeming millions of earth
with the combined force of our min
listers and churches but with the
people working out day and night
vice and crime our system leads them
to invest there is little to be gained.
1t seems to me we had better join
| our forces against that which pro-
| duces instead of that which is pro
duced. You can just as easily grow
flowers in a field Of wine as to grow
spirituality in the field of competition
The competitive system is like great
river whose source is human lives
and whose mouth is crime. Show me
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-12

St. Mary's.
]. L. Keough, G. L. McHattre have
commenced haying yesterday.
Phil Stammen is busy hauling flax
to Foxholm.
Jos. Heinen is busy building big
cattle shed.
A. Blach has rented the farm Of
Mrs. JOS. Huff.
c. F. Bremen is building power
house for his 5-horse power engine.
Steve SCHNEIDER made a flying trip
to Foxholm the other day.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ike
Houser was badly burned by falling
against the hot stove.
Ned Calvin is visiting Bill Schnid-
er.
NJ Smith has left for his home at
Red Wing, Mimi.
There will be church at ST. Mary's
Saturday and Sunday,
Mr.. l.. Dingman has fixed up his
claim shack for the winter VITA
tarred felt and single nails.
Steve SCHNEIDER was out making a
number Of calls this week.
The new team road to Foxholm has
been completed. The finest pike II
the country.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-12

true friendship and will show you
no competition. Send the competit-
i've system back to its first born
which is hell then will our children
and children's children be born free
and equal in the rights Of life, liber-
ally and the pursuits of happiness
crowned with manly and womanly
character.
D. c. Dorman.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-12

WANTED-To trade a dandy
No l Belgian draft colt, 5
months old, weaned, for a No.
l fresh mich COW,
Address X at Independent
Office or call here. 12-5tf
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
GRASS IN THE ORCHARD.
A Discussion az to the ReneHt Of the
System.

There are those that believe In
keeping the orchard covered With
grass and there are those that believe
in the absolute abollshment OF grass
from the orchard. The people that be-
lleve in keeping the orchard grassed
say that It saves a great deal OF labor
to keep the land covered with sod and
that the fruit when It falls on the
ground does not become soiled. The
sentimental side of orchardlng favors
the grassy carpet under the trees, for
who could have a sentiment toward
the orchard area kept so thoroughly
worked that there would be a dust
mulch over Il in a dry time and a
mud carpet over IL In a wet time? SO
far the experiments have seemed to
show very much in favor Of clean cul-
ture of the orchard area as against
the grass covering.
In England some orchardlsts under
direction of an experiment station
nave begun the investigation of the
effects OF a half covering of grass.
The experiments have not been con-
Quoted for enough years to be con.
elusive, but some remarkable results
have been obtained. which are not
easily explained. The old New Eng
land plan of digging up the ground
for a distance of about six feet from
each tree was followed. In some OF
the experiments this circle OF grass
came to within FIVE and half feet OF
the trees. II was a surprise to the ex-
perimenters that the fruit on the
orchards so treated was double that
on the trees not so treated. Fruit
which normally was green streaked
with red became deep red in color
and in storage kept much better than
It had kept before. One variety kept
three months longer than 1t had been
In the nabit of keeping and another
variety was still sound in June.
The same experimenters, says
Farmers Review, in some previous
tests had shown that the trees and
fruit we're greatly injured by having
the whole orchard area in grass, and
they we're greatly surprised to find
that the results OF a partial covering
of grass was beneficial II was shown
by investigation that little OF the roots
of the trees entered the grassy area.
but that they obtained some kind OF
material that they did not find in the
soil that had no grass. In report the
experimenters, referring to this fact.
say: "Yet the roots that reached into
the grass ground must have conveyed
to the trees something that had the
power to modify the whole character
Of the crop. This points strongly to
the view that the action OF the grass
is due to some active poison"
This is a new phase OF the subject
that should have further study on
both sides OF the Atlantic. 1t requires
thousands OF experiments 70 thorough.
ly demonstrate fact OF this kind, and
we caution our readers against leap
ing to the conclusion that the general
quality of our apples can be greatly
improved by at once partially grassing
over the orchards. A single series OF
experiments should not be taken as
an index of what is profitable, for
there are many unknown quantities
entering into such experiments.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
THOSE GOLDEN LOCKS.

Theirs had been a love-mIAtch pure
and simple-in fact, they had eloped,
and fiinty-hearted parents had proved
obdurate. Therefore they had nothing
to live on but love, and they grew thin
on It. At last starvation stared them
in the face.
"Oh, George" walled the young
wife, what shall we do? l am so
hungry"
Alas! I know not, darling!" he
sighed, fondly but sadly toying with
her luxuriant tresses.
'But l know, George" she suddenly
exclaimed, after a pause. II will sell
my hair"
What" he almost shouted. Bar
ter those golden locks for base dross ?
Have them cut of by soulless bar
ber! Neyer-never! l will starve
firsti"
But George" she assured him,
they do not requiring cutting on.
See!" And she detached the glistening
three-guinea switch from her haid and
laid 1t in his hand.
That night the young couple supped
luxuriously; but still he was not
happy.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
Denth 70 Set Treea.

1t is often advised to set the trees
in the orchard two or more inches
deeper than they were in the nursery
row So far as our knowledge of ex-
periments goes, this practice is not
followed by results either good or bad,
and this would indicate that the mat
tetr is Of little or no importance. In
an, English experiment, the expert
menters report that planting trees
four inches too high or too low has
not made any difference In the results
obtained. the trees having readily gd.
justed themselves to their normal
level. Trees appear to sink into the
ground as they grow" This appear
ance is doubtless due to the pushing
up OF the earth by the enlarging Of
roots.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
GOOD Jokes
NOT AN ORDINARY MEMORY.

The driver OF the furniture moving
van admitted that he had very bad
memory. In fact he could hardly re-
member what work he had performed
the day before.
mo, l can't recall Just where It was
that Mr.. Suddenmove had me take his
household goods. My memory is very
poor, sir" he replied to the bill col
lector.
But you moved him only a week
ago"
Yes, sir. but you see We move so
many people that it's hard matter to
recollect"
The bill collector slipped half dol
lar in the mans palm. THAT ought
to do your memory good" he re-
marked
1T ought to-" the man replied. but
you see this amt no common, every
day memory of mine, and It has to be
logged considerable. Why, it cost Mr..
Suddenmove dollar to make me for
get milwaukee Sentinel.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
THE AeeRAVANT.

The man was dotty, he was dopyi
His cerebral goo was rcpy,
And his think-machine as gropy
As the law could well allow.
In intelligence deficient
He was clearly inefficient,
But-he had n roll" sufficient
To asphyxiate COW.
Mixed with any folks he'd bore EN-
Showed his ignorance before EN-;
The societas chuporum
Hailed I'm him a charter member.
With "A vlrile vim and vigor
He would pull his oral trigger
And keep boring Ike a chigger
From the springtime to December.
Yet the thing that made me hate him.
Made me inwardly berate him,
Made me long to fiagellate him
From his shoes to his chapeau,
Was that folks who should forsake hin
Used to dine and wine and cake him
Used to let his money take him
Where mere brains could never go.
Strickland w. Gilllilan, in Judge.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
A Palnahln Plot.

Mrs. Du Ille-John, my dressmaker
arrived to-day, and l must have the
materials tomorrow.
Mr.. Du Ille-Eh? What? You said
you had written to her not to come
until next month.
Mrs. Du Ille-Yes, did, but she
never got the letter.
Mr.. Du lille (clasping his hand to his
breast pockeD-Woman! this is a
plot! II you had really wanted her to
stay away you would have handed
that letter to the postman yourself;
you wouldn't have given it to me to
mail.-N. Y. Weekly.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08

farmer I'm Prairie Farmer, 1t consists
of taking small rope about the size
Of a clothes line and tying about the
cow or heifer as shown in the illus.
tration. The rope passes in front of
the udder and back of hip joints. 1t
does not need to be drawn only mod.
erately close In order TO render the
COW almost helpless from the stand
point OF kicking.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
Victorious.

Two young men, both residents in a
large Scottish city, met one day in the
street.
"Weel, Tam" said the first, 81 hear
ye're in love wi bonny Kate Me
Allister."
Il must say" replied the other, 81
Wis near-verra near-it; but the lass
had nae siller, so l said to myself,
Mac, be a mon.' And was a mon,
and moo l pass her wi silent con
tempt"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-08
One Mans Theory.

A prospective tenant was interview
ing the janitor of an apartment house
or was being interviewed by him.
Are you a chess player?" a9ked
the autocrat Of the establishment.
why do you ask?" queried the
other.
"The owner prefers to rent to chesa
players" explained the janitor, be
cause It is so seldom they move
Chicago Daily News.