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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01

Forty-one Governors, nine justices of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, two cabinet officers and u
dozen or more public men dined with
the President preliminary to the meet.
ing of the White House Conference OF
Governors. The East Room, where the
conference was held, was crowded with
Governors, state delegates, experts and
representatives. of organizations hav-
ing to do with the country's resources.
President Roosevelt presided at the
opening of each days session of the
Governors Convention, then called one
of the Governors to the chair while
he attended to other pressing duties
of his office. The prepared papers were
not all presented, but they will be
printed in the permanent record.
In welcoming those attending the
conference the President cited the fact
that Washington clearly saw that the
perpetuity of the state could only
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01

we'll regulated orchard there is found
no grass or seeds but a clean, we'll
kept ground.
While he waits for his trees to grow
to the age of maturity he reads all
literature, attends all Horticultural
Meetings, and in every way possible
tries to improve himself in apple cul-
ture. By the time the trees begin to
bear he will begin to look for the best
place to market his fruit. Also he is
informed of the kind of package that
will be most attractive to the con-
sumner.
The result of this care is that in
stead of going to market and selling
his fruit for little, or worse still, not
being able to sell it at all, we find
him sitting in his office in CORES
pondest with the largest fruit dealers
nthe country, and when he goes to
market his fruit has already been sold
at the highest market price.
The reason for this change in con-
ditions is not that the apple is bet
ter food today than in former years,
but that the apple-grower gives the
best that can be produced, and the
consumer is always ready to exchange
his money for anything that suits his
taste, as a we'll grown, attractive and
we'll stored apple of any of the best
varieties is sure to do; and sitting
around the dinner table on winter
evening with a dish of No. 1 Four
Tier Winesap, SpitZenberg of New
ton Pippin Apples before him, he con-
siders that the money paid for them
was we'll spent.
In the West close to the shores of
the Pacific, in a country that less than
a quarter of a century ago was a
wilderness with few mines and log
ging camps, we now have two cities
of a quarter million population, with
several smaller cities and towns and a
rural population, with several smaller
cities and towns and a rural popula-
ton that runs the total into the mil
lions, with thousands of miles Of rail-
road and electric roads running
through the fruit growing districts,
and also telegraph and telephone lines
and free rural delivery, and in fact
every comfort Of civilization. This
leaves the apple grower of the West
in as close touch with the outside
world as the man who sites in his
office in the city. In addition to this
he has the advantage of being out In
the pure country air and has good
water, fine mountain scenery with
snow covered peaks always in sight,
and good schools within easy distance.
AS | live in a country where these
conditions prevail I think you will
agree with me that the best educated
and refined people will gather in a
place like this, and I feel that apple
growing in the near future will become
gentleman's business, and be the
means of building homes for millions
of people where the young may enjoy
life, and the old may pass the remain
ing years they have to live in peace
and comfort.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01
Strong Right Arm of the Nation
Bv B. E. BENEDICT.

dustries that were later quickened by
steam, and made those countries lead
ers in manufactures and commerce.
From them came the sturdy pioneers
that planted representative government
on our shores, where has developed a
mighty nation.
1t is but ten short years since the ex-
plosion of the Maine cemented the Blue
and the Gray of the sundered North
and South, into one harmonious peo-
pie. 1t is but ten years since Dew
eys victory at Manila demonstrated
our power to the world, making them
sit up and take notice. Successive war
demands set the wheels of internal
progress at work to produce an era of
unparalleled prosperity. Today not
a captain who aided Dewey is in active
service, and the vessels of his fleet are
in the junk pile or rapidly fastening
thereto. They have been enormous tax
eaters and have produced nothing save
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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01
Facts About the Apple
By A. w. MCDONALD.

In answer to your recent inquiry
asking if we would contribute
something about the apple, we find
with the space at our disposal that it
is impossible to do the subject JUS
tice, but will try to give you a short
article.
The apple is grown on a compare
lively small territory, between the
10th and 50th parallels Of latitude is
the only place where it is grown with
any success, and in that small part
of the world there are only a few IA
vored localities where they can be
grown to perfection. The most perfect
apples are grown at an altitude OF
from 1900 to $500 feet, in a climate
where the greatest amount of sunshine
and clear air is found, and where arti-
fetal irrigation can be applied. me
heat and air give color and flavor, and
the irrigation applied in a scientific
manner give the size that is required
for a perfect apple.
These conditions are found in the
arid regions where the desert has
been reclaimed, and where water is
King. The greatest area of land OF
this description is found between the
Rocky and Cascade Mountains in the
States of Montana, Idaho, Washington
and Oregon. In these four states the
apple growing industry is becoming
the strongest rival of the lumber and
mining industries, and in the near fu'
ture will be the product that will bring
fame to these states.
Except in the last few years, the
apple was given but little care. Every
farmer would try to grow a few ap'
pie trees if he lived in country where
there was any chance of the trees
bearing fruit, and in a great many
cases, they would plant apple trees
where they had no hope of getting a
crop; but even in the places where
the apple did best, they were not given
the attention they required, but were
planted out and the land sown to
grass and left in that way, and such
a thing as a spray-pump was almost
unknown. Also in packing no care
was given to give them an attractive
appearance, and they were very often
placed in a large wagon bed and taken
to market, where the customer bought
them by the bushel and the grower
took what he could get for them.
Today the system has changed.
When a person desires to set out an
apple orchard, he finds out where he
can get the best Nursery Stock that
money can buy, and quality, not price,
is what gives weight to his choice OF
the place to buy. He is also very
careful to get the varieties best adapt
ed to the locality where he intends to
plant his orchard. His land is care
fully prepared, and when the stock is
received, he gives his personal atten'
ton to the planting. AS soon ar the
trees are planted, a spray-pump is
bought, and all necessary supplies for
immediate use if anything injurious is
found in the orchard. Also the Guilt
vator is kept in constant use to keep
the land in good condition, and in a
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26
LAKE COUNTY
PEOPLE WARNED
NOT I'd COME INTO OB|DN
Ammunition Has Been Bought at
Tiptonville for all Kinds and
Sizes of Fire-Arns.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 23.-A dis
patch from Tiptonville says the feeling
in the night-rider section of Upton
county is very bitter against the people
of Lake county and more serious trou-
BILE is feared. Lake Vance, of Lake
county, had business at Samburg Sat
urday, and while there stopped at the
Pratt hotel. He was treated with
courtesy by Mr.. Pratt, but was grossly
insulted by other parties there and was
told that his presence there was not
desired and that the sooner he got back
to Lake county the better it would be
for him. Others informed Vance that
the people in this district did not want
to see any Lake county man over there;
that they were forbidden that county.
Vance is positive they would have
shown violence toward him had he not
shown bold front. He was armed
with a repeating shotgun and is gener-
ally known throughout this section as
dangerous man when aroused.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26

He was 65 years old, He was in his
youth a soldier in the army of the Con-
federacy, and in the keen competition
among chivalric men for promotion on
field, made brilliant under the flashes
of the sabers of cavalrymen, he won
the rank of colonel.
After the war he accumulated for
tunes and lost them. He came into the
ownership of newspaper. and he lost
it. In those days he and the dead ed
itor were employer and employe. Dur
ing this time the relations between
them were most pleasant. They were
good friends, each proud of the esteem
of the other.
In later years Cooper has not pros.
pered in a material way. All that re.
manned to him were pride of birth, q
few friends and his children, whose ca
reers promised to be honorable and
successful.
Cooper's friend of long ago is dead
from bullets fired from pistol held in
the hands of Cooper's son. These bull
let's made this former friends wife 6
widow and orphaned her son.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26

last week while he was in Nashville
awaiting the action of the court here in
regard to the writs of habeas corpus
before Judge Matthews, 1t was mailed
on the Illinois Central railroad, and
read as follows;
"Mr. Thomas:-As friend, | advise
you to leave Lake county and the en-
tire state of Tennessee, In case you fail
to do so, you will be assassinated before
the first of next January"
The letter is signed by a straight
dash. This makes the fifth missive of
this kind Mr.. Thomas has received, all
upon the same line and purporting to
be from friend. Three were mailed
on the Illinois Central, one at Troy and
the other at Hornbeak.
Mr.. Thomas takes the matter serious
ly, although very calmly. He says he,
at all times, is looking for some kind
of attack and is fully prepared for it.
He has taken very active part in the
proceedings of the state so far in the
suppression of the lawlessness and eX.
poets to be further engaged.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26
Tense Feeling.


There is strong undercurrent of
feeling in this county that virtually
amounts to a pledge that if a Lake
county citizen comes to grief at the
hands of any of the alleged night-riders
or their friends while on a peaceful
mission in Obion county, a dire end
summary vengeance will be attempted.
Practically every man in the county is
now armed with the latest and most
deadly of modern firearms.
The hardware firms here report that
ammunition is being bought for all cal
ibers of pistols and rifles and shotguns,
and it is an open secret that fully one
hundred of the improved Colts and
Smith & Wesson pistols have been Or
dered within the past month. There
is tense feeling of expectancy.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26
SOUTHERN
PRESIDENT
RESPONDS
TO TOAS t.
"OUR RAILRODS"
WELCOMES c. c. & 0.
The Railways Which traverse
Or Section Are Our Railways
The Life-Blood of Commerce.


Spartanburg, S. c., Nov. 2O.-At a
banquet given by the Chamber of
Commerce of Spartanburg tonight to
celebrate the coming of the Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio railroad, President
W. w. Finley, of the Southern rail-
way Company, responded to the toast,
"0ur Railroads"
After welcoming the new railway
and expressing the conviction that
"the resources of our Southland are so
great and varied, and their rapid de-
velopment is so certain, that we can
confidently expect an abundance of
work for its transportation agencies,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26

You should read all the advertise
ments that appear in The Comet,
for the Business Men of Johnson
City use its columns to tell the
people where they can buy the,
best cheapest. You get on next
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26

Attempts have been made since the
tragedy to make it another issue be-
tween political factions. Some of the
friends of the dead senator claim that
he was martyred to the cause he advo-
Gated. Friends of those charged with
his murder say that Senator Carmack
paid the penalty for a series of merci-
less criticisms which he hurled al
Cooper on the stump and as an editor,
when Cooper's only offense was that
he wasOn an opposing side in politics
He was not himself contesting for any
public office, but was merely a private
citizen and, therefore, not subject fol
public criticism.
Mr.. Carmack' s friends urge that these
criticisms were not such as to warrant
or justify a resentment that ended in
violence.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26

There is one standard under which
the measure of the responsibility for
the death of Carmack can be fixed.
That standard is the law. If we are
to have government of the law in the
United States and continuance of the
rule of the law in Tennessee, there ney-
er was a time when the test of the
merits of the law is to be more severe
than in the trial growing out Of this
tragedy.
We have had the rule of men govern
ing by their false personal standards,
and behold the result: Murder in Obion
county, followed by the presence of the
militia; an attempt to take the life of a
law officer in San Francisco, and the
tragedy on the streets of Nashville last
Monday.
These things show what men will do
when they start oot to adjust their diff
ferences themselves, being everyone to
himself, the law and the Judge.
Let the case go to trial on its merits.
/ Col. Cooper has been indicted for
murder in the first degree, and so has
his son. An indictment does not con-
vict one of crime-it charges it. An
indictment is charge made by The
state against citizen. The next move
is trial in court of law.
| If justice should ever be blind and
should ever hold the scales even, re-
gardless of sentiment and regardless Of
passion, this is the time.
Let Col. Cooper and his son stand
naked, as it were, before the bar, and
answer. They are charged with killing
fellow citizen. The law knows nc
justification for murder except in self
defense,
J The service of the dead man to his
state can not be urged to accentuate The
enormity of the crime.
The social position of the two defend
ants and the career of one rs a soldier
can not be pleaded to extenuate The
crime.
The defendants will be ably prose
teuted and it is right that the best lega
| talent in the state be secured for tn,
) state. They should be ably defended
: and should have the advantage of every
, Illegal defense the law will permit then
Z to urge.
And after all this is done the issu
Continued ON second page.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26

UNANIMOUSLY unfair is the attempt to
involve Gov. Patterson directly or indi-
rectly in the tragedy. The accusation
is not only monstrously outrageous, out
to one who would stop to think, is
monstrously absurd.
No advantage politically or PERSONAL
ly could come to any man or group of
men out of the death of Senator Car
mack. To seek to remove him in order
to further any cause would destroy that
cause. Could it be established that
Senator Carmack's death was brought
about, directly or indirectly, through
the agencies of any of the interests he
fought for the purpose of giving these
interests an advantage, it would mean
their ruin, and those who make these
charges do SO feeling that the absurdi-
ties of them may be overlooked and
that the charges themselves may ac-
complish the injury of the person OIL
persons against whom they are direct.
ed.
1t would be sad day for Tennessee
if the death of Carmack, deplorable as
it is, should divide the state into con
flicting camps us did the death of Goe
bel tear Kentucky asunder.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26
Warning to Thomas.

G. G. Thomas had received anony-
nous letters from his friend - in
Obion county advising him to leave the
state of Tennessee. The letter came
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-11-26

Senator Carmacll was at the meridian
of his life. His political victories had
been so great that they more than com
pensated him for his political reverses,
and the man himself must have looked
into the future confident that there was
for him in it opportunity for more hon.
OTIS and for useful work. He fell, then,
as the strong oak under the lightning
stroke.
DuncanC Cooper's life was behind him,
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-11-27
THE HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
AROUND THE GLOBE
Domestic and Foreign Events Briefly
ChronicIed-What is Occurring at
the National Capitol-Com-
pete History Of Week
WASHINGTON

At the National Grange meeting in
Washington resolutions were passed
favoring national aid in country road
building and Legislation asking for the
prohibition of adulteratoff of insect.
cides was endorsed.
The board OF food and drug inspec.
ton OF the department of agriculture,
has begun hearing on the subject of
bleaching flour, subject that has be-
gun to attract attention throughout
the country.
Fighting Bob Evans Is 10 become a
builder Of railroads and developer of
harbor waterways. He has been
chosen chairman Of the directorate
of the Los Angeles Harbor company,
which is building railway system
from San Pedro harbor to points in
southern California.
Former Governor X. B. Smith, of
Montana died in a hospital at Kalis-
pell, Mont He had been i'll for some
time with urenic poisoning.
The Chicago charter committee has
adopted a resolution declaring for
bill TO give women the right to vote
for all municipal officers and upon all
questions which have to do with the
municipality.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-11-27
A Terror to His Kind.

A certain congressman Is the father
OF a bright lad Of ten, who persists, de-
spite the parental objection and de-
cree, in reading literature Of the half
dime" variety.
That's a nice way to be spending
casion. What's your ambition, any
how"
Dad responded the youngster,
with smile, I'D like to have people
tremble like aspen leaves at the mere
mention of my name. e."-Lippincott's
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-11-27
DOM E STIC

Edward Woods and Thomas Dick.
man, while digging in a hole for rab.
bits near Oil City, Pa, found $4,000
In gold coins in an iron kettle, believ.
ed to have been buried thirty years
ago by John Coldwcll, an eccentric
farmer.
Reductions of from ) to 10 cents
per hundred pounds on lumber have
come as result Of the permission by
the interstate commerce commission
to western roads to reduce rates from
the Pacific coast.
Thirteen persons were injured in a
wreck near Kansas City when two
Santa Fc passenger trains cOlided.
The trains were running slowly and
NO one was killed. Most of the iniur-
ed passengers continued their jour
ney.
Gustave A. Wolfe, Jr, died OF ny.
drophohia in a Chicago hospital, due
toa bite received three months ago
while saving several small children
from a rabid dog.
VIM. T.. Ridgelcy has resigned as
president Of the National Bank OF
Commerce, Kansas City, due to the
fact that the old stockholders, led by
Dr. W. S. Woods, have secured CON
troll OF the bank stock.
A $1,000 ruby ring sent by the Duke
OF Abruzzi to Miss Elkins, his Amer.
lean fiance, was held up in Pittsburg,
Pa, by customs authorities. The duty
had not been paid, nor had the ring
been declared.
Senator f.. F.. Porter, Pittsburg,
Kan, is dangerously i'll with typhoid
fever.
Denver is in the throes Of a Chinese
highbinder war, brought on by the
gamblers fighting for the exclusive
privilege of operating fan tan tables.
The Kingman salt works, Wichita,
Kan, burned, entailing a loss OF $65,.
000
The Indianola, (Miss.) Cotton Com.
press and Warehouse company, and
several adjoining buildings, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss will be $780,
600, with partial insurance.
Joseph Bryan, owner of the Rich
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-11-27
The extraordinary popularity Of f'nc

The extraordinary popularity Of fnc
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch matter Of great i'm.
portance. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen-
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result Of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-11-27
It's a Hustler.

Hunts Lightning Oil is up and do
fng all the time. 1t cures your aches,
pains. cuts, burns and bruises while
you sleep. Rub little on your mis-.
cry and feel II disappear.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-11-27
An Autocrat.

do you think that the people ought
to rule?' asked the patriot.
Don't ask me- answered the nerv-
GUS man. I'm prejudiced against the
idea. I'm baseball umpire
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-11-27

II we got everything we prayed for
the earth would have to be enlarged
In order to make room for our posses.
sions.