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Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07
Plains Farm Experience.

From the Hereford Brand of
last week we take another letter
written to that paper and giving
some results of farming on the
Plains. 1t is by G.. w. Ward, is
dated Jan. "A and reads:
| came to the Plains seventeen
years ago the first time but re-
turned to my old home down in
Texas where | was raised. Nine
years ago | came back to Castro
county and filed on four sections
of land; since that time | have
bought seven more sections, one
of which is in Randall county. |
have been engaged in farming
and stock raising and have always
made enough feed stuff for my
own purposes and had some left
to sell each year. In the spring
of 1906, [ broke out 100 acres Of
sod and planted the field in sor-
ghum with a twO-row Seeder.
After the stuff grew up | turned
my stock in the field and let them
eat it down, thus saving the
trouble of harvesting and feeding.
AS soon as the stock were taken
off, | planted the field in wheat,
putting three pecks to the acre
with the use of a disc drill. |
did not pillow the field. In the
summer of 1907 ! cut the wheat
with header and threshed out
one thousand bushels, and after
wards sold the whole lot at 81 90
per buShel. As soon as the
wheat was cut | again used the
disc drill and planted the one
hundred acres in millet. This
was about the Goth day of July,
last year. | cut one ton per acre
and sold it at so per ton, so you
see | got about $50 per acre for
the two crops.
| was perhaps the first man to
pile up a thousand bushels Of
corn in a Panhandle field, This
was four or five years ago and |
made about - bushels with little
cultivation.
Any man with energy enough
to work can make a good living
and save up something by farm
ing on the Plains.
And now for a letter from a
Randall county man along the
same lines. Why not;
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07

The Graphic writer has often
wondered why the women have
more respect for the theaters
than they have for Gods house
of worship. They will 90 to a
theatrical entertainment and re-
main for two or three hours with
uncovered heads and never com
plain, and yet the preacher is not
now living who has the courage
to ask them to take off their hats
during service. Is God ) house
to always remain a place where
the latest in the milliner'S art is
to be exhibited? What would a
man look like with his hat on in
church:-Leonard Graphic.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07

Friday and Saturday were cold
days. Sunday was windy day.
Monday it rained just about
enough to lay the dust. Tues
day, Wednesday and yesterday
were nice days-looked and felt
like spring weather.
Beautiful moonlight nights.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07
News Roll of Honor

Under this heading will Be found
the amounts received on subscript-
ion to the News since last re.
port, and names of the parties
paying. This will serve as a re-
ceipt to those of our subscribers for
warding money by mail.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07
: LOCAL GRAIN MHRKET :
sssssse sssssss
u1aasSH

The quotations here given are
from the Canyon City grain deal
ers and show the market the day
before the issue of this pa! er.
The prices are for grain iii sack
unless otherwise stated.
Wheat, No. ,, bushel -. 500 90
Oats, best, bushel. ..... 80
Corn, best. ..... -. 60
Maize, threshed, bushel.. 40
Kaffir corn, threshed. bu.. 80
Maize and Kaffir in heads,
new crop, ton .......... II 90
Millet hay, per ton ...... 10 90
Johnson grass hay, ton. 10 90
Alfalfa, per ton ......... ID 90
Chickens and Eggs
Flyers, per dozen .....S3 90
Eggs, per dozen .......... 10
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07
TROUBLE AT HOME.

Scraggs - This China trouble
grows more and more distressing.
Mrs. Scraggs-I should say it
did. That stupid girl broke two
more of my best plates to-day.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07
Horses for Sale-F'ive head heav,

HORSES Tor SaIe-FlVe HEAD neaVY
work horses and mares. Call on
or write THOMAS LESTER,
1 mi. n. w. Umbarger, Texas.
Mrs. c. p. Hutchings will go
to Plainview this week and visit
relatives until G. p. returns from
st. Louis.
J. E. Coleman leaves us today
for Alamagorda, New Mexico.
Have you seen the devil? He's
coming with Faust"
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07

Editor G. NJ. Shufller Of the
Pl inv e V News, was a caller at
this Office yesterday.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07
Souvenir Post Cards.

The News office has in stock:
The Falls on PalO DurO.
Methodist church and parson-
age.
Christian church and parsOn-
age.
Presbyterian church.
Bird's-eye view of town.
Plums grown here.
Cherries grown here.
Alfalfa grown here.
College building.
Canyon scene on Sunday Creek
Prices-Two for ) cents.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07

Papa Monk-"How often am to
tell you children not to swing on the
bough when your father is shaving?"
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-02-07

Call up phone No. II when
YOU think of an item of local in
terest. The News will appreciate
such information. -
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-03-12
TOM WATSON MELON-72 lbs,

The very best and most attractive melon ever
put on the market, it is long and dark green
IN COLOR and its eating quality has no supe-
rlor, 1t keeps longer than any other melon after
rlpen1ng and is one of the best shipping mel
ons grown; it will make more money for those
who plant it than any other.
The above melon did not originate with the
Alexandria Seed Co., as their catalog indi-
Gates, but was first grown in this section by
the undersigned, the only authorized seller of
the seed under the above name
A-pound ...................... $O.4O
12-pound Observation-Disclosures. rs
1 pound Observation-Disclosures. 135
Express prepaid.
Address w. A. WATSON, Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-03-12

For ST. [ will send the Prince Razor Hone in
a neat leatherette box, postpaid Absolutely
the only hone on the market that is made for
private use, Anybody can hone razor with
it as good as a barber can.
WILL L. PRINCE.
E2174 Ontario st., Cleveland, O.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-03-12
The HoCus Pocus Money Book"

Published in 1904, showed that existing condi-
tons made commercial panic in the near
future inevitable-and why? It's 200 pages are
filled with incontrovertible economic principles
and astonishing facts, sustained by figures from
the U. S. Comptrollers Reports and bank or
gans, proving that the deposit banking system
as it has been managed in the past-is the
real cause of every commercial panic ever
known, and most of the periods of business de-
preston that have afflicted this country. And
what is still more important it shows how their
recurrence can be made impossibIe-and the de-
nnand for services and products made to always
equal the suppy-without wronging any one or
costing the people dollar. Book sellers and
news dealers can not afford to antagonize the
banks by handling this book Do not blame
them-but send fer the book yourself. Terms
by mail: Single copy rs cents, for ST. Ad-
dress the author,
ALBERT GRIFFIN,
906 Madison ST., Topeka, Kansas.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-03-12
COUPON

ALERT GRIFFIN, oo6 Madison ST., Topeka, Kan
Encl esed hnd rs cents, for which send one copy
of your book
Name"...-.----... $500
AoAcSS -.-. --.---.-
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
THEIR WAY OF LOOKING Att.

In the conference of the American
in
made the following
pride institutions the
United While
1906
S12OO00 thretenhousand
600 deposits
would have deprived the dposo
trivial $12OOO
interest but
$50000,000 in the o
And yet whom would of
hardship
the hard savings
widow the all of the
which
which the
might their peace
the afuene which the
loved could
blood moneyblood
bows bodies the peohe
a to rob-
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
CLEVELAND PREDICTED TAFT VICTORY

The New York Times recently published
series ended by demise the
while
genuine
letter,
geies Nevertheless opinion well
Cleveland the letter. which
expressed himself in the following
When it of
his
could but sensible
certain though with considerably eened
safe victory sustained by the popular which
Cincinnati something underestimate
for should he the presidential chair the qualities
him be
needu him president the United
Justice
wisdom the
the trust of their collective interests while
attention pressing
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
Nixon Sent
Check for
Fire Ladies'

Senator George Nixon has sent Fire
Chief Swasey a check for $50, to be
used for the benefit of the Tonopah
fire department. In the letter which
accompanied the gift he says that he
is strongly of the opinion that the
Tonopah volunteer fire department
should be more liberally-very liber-
ally-supported by the citizens of
Tonopah. Tonight the members and
officers of the department will hold
a meeting to talk over the proposed
new gymnasium for the benefit of
the department. Money is being
raised for this purpose and citizens
should contribute literally, as the fire
ladies are ready at all times to risk
life and limb for the benefit of the
citizens of Tonopah. The gymnasium
is needed not only as place of recre-
alton for the fire boys, but in order
to build them up to and maintain
them in that physical condition
which the ardors of their work de-
mands.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
UNCLAIMED LETTERS

The following is list of unclaim.
ed letters remaining in the Tonopah
postoffice for the week ending Sep
TENDER, 26, 1908. When calling for
them, please say they are advertised
A fee of one cent will be charged on
each of the following:
Anderson, Aug; Beck, l. j.; Clay
ton, Addie; Campbell, Horace; Den
mis-, w. B.; Davis, Anna S.; Duncan,
o. p; Delano, R. c.; Fitzgerald,
James CD, Fears, D. W.. Gilligan,
James A.; Griffin, A. j.; Gelsomino,
Antonio; Gustaf, c.; Gilbard, Chas.
j.; Glover, F. s.. Harkins, Edward;
Henry, j. NJ: Harrington, Jack
Ierty, Henry; Johnson, Gus; Mahon,
Mrs. N; Kelly, A. L.. McCrimmon,
c. H.; Masbic, John E.; Marston,
Mrs. o.; Mclean, Loughlin; Nc
earthly, 7. H.; Mcbride, Arthur; Mil
Ter, George; Mathews, Archie n. !;
Mathews, E. W.; McGill, o. w;
Post, T. M; Pacific Implement Co. :;
Randolph, Findly; Robinson, ]. H.;
Rice, Fred; Sheldon, H. s.; Shurich,
D.; Switzerland, Nellie; Smith, G.
H.; Storms, Archie; Smith, c. X;
Towne, w. F.; Thur, A.; Writa,
Maude; Wiley, c. c.; WINNER,
Clara Williams, W. r.; Williams, C.
F.; Williams, Hayttie; Wade, Rus
sell; Indian Dude
FOREIGN.
OndarZo, Thomas.
MISCELLANEOUS
Stockler, Estelle; Stefano, Alber-
to; Casey, W. F.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
ROYAL TIGER MINES
MAKE LARGE SHIPMENTS

The early part of this week thirty
tons of ore-one carload.was ship
ped from the Royal Tiger group to
the smelter. The ore was sorted and
will run better than 5000 per ton.
The company that has control of
this wonderful group of claims will
from now on continue to make regu-
lar shipments. The vein is widening
out with depth and it is safe to say
that within few weeks this property
will be one of the largest shippers in
the district. Rustler.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
A LITTLE SLIP IN WASHOE COUNTY.

Through
required by state
petition The
capital
party and that the failure Legislative
that nominated
receiving the popular be
which There will of
publican its candidates
to the Democratic
condition of
conditions suggest its feasibility have doubt that
party of Washoe would repud
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
huh! THAT'S NOTHING NEW!

report from Wnnemucca
intendent
found looking
nounced fossil
To which
startling
aneed not to date prezoiac
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
A BIG WATERMELON
GROWN AT BEATTY

A. P. Garberg, of Beatty, yesterday
presented the officials and clerks of
the court house with a monster wa
termelon grown on his ranch at
Beatty. The melon was a beauty in
size and from the way it disappeared
it can be safely stated that there has
been no melon sold in Tonopah that
could equal it in lusciousness.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01

Corporation seals or every descrip
lion furnished on the shortest notice
by the Bonanza.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01
STOCK MARKET

The following quotations are fur.
nished by the reliable brokerage fra
Of Kenneth Donnellan & Co.:
Wednesday, September 30.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-01

Certificates OF location at this
Office.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17
SAME oLDWoNTEsr.
Wan Take Money In Sdeu Of seats In
Congress,

uNrHNH IT, HINEH
A dispatch from Washington to
The News and Courier gave the in
formation that Representatives. Ee-
care, Patterson and Lever, from the
LIST. I'd and 7th Congressional dis
tricts. respectively, were again to be
put to the Inconvenience and trouble
OF going through with the contests
filed by the three South Carolina ne
groes: Aaron Prioleau, Isaac Myers
and A. d. Dantzler, who want to go
to Congress from these districts.
1t appears from the records in the
Office Of the clerk in The House that
the testimony in these cases were
filed last July, and was opened ac-
cording to law, during the months of
August and September Of the past
year. The papers filed by Prioleau
cover I'll pages Of testimony and
briefly those Of Myers 119, and
those Of Dantzler ia.
The committee on elections has
announced already that unless more
damaging testimony can be secured
by the South Carolina negroes than
they have produced up to this time
thelu Is little chance for any Of the
present Representatives to be un-
seated. AS q matter Of duty the
committee is compelled to waste
much valuable time in the reading
OF afidavits from the contestants in
these cases, n In listening to long
winded arguments from their attor-
neyS.
An examination Of the briefs that
have been filed shows that they diff
fer in no material respect from those
lie heretofore. In the main they
attack the South Carolina election
laws as being unconstitutional, be-
cause Of the disfranchisement of the
negro. Around this is built up a
sentimental tale Of woe about the
negro and his abuse in the South,
which is handed to Congress at the
beginning of each new session of
Congress.
Neither of the contestants expect
to get a scat in Congress, but they
arc after the two thousand dollar
allowance that the law gives to all
contestants for congressional seats.
1t is just such forces as these cases
present every two a that con
vinces us that the right OF suffrage
should never have been conferred on
such men as Dantzler and the 9th
ers, who would cut q grotesque fig
ure III II national halls Of legis-
latiOn.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17
yuRom Died
From Heart Failure While sitting

from Heart Faluro While Sitting
On o Case.
The greatest excitement broke
forth in Part 1 OF the court of gem
eral sessions. IN New ycrk. %AAccssss 4
civil suit was being heard when II
was discovered that Moses Olenick,
Juror No. 2. who was apparently as
leep In his chair, was dead.
The clerk OF the court was calling
the roll of the Jurors, but when he
reached Olenick's name, there was
no response. He called the name a
second and q third time, but still
there was no answer. Nearest the
Juror was Thomas Moore, an agent
of the Gerry society, and Moore lean.
ed forward and touched the D
entity sleeping juror on the shoulder
Moore saw in a moment that the
Juror was dead. DR.. Frank MCGUIRE
the Tombs prison physician, was hur.
riedly sent for, but he said the mar
had been dead several minutes. He
had been stricken with heart failure
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17
Some I,lnin Talk.

The News and Courier says there
is no question whatever that the i'm
provement of the Edisto River should
have the careful consideration of the
River and Harbors Committee in
Congress. Representatives Patter
son and Lever, of this State, are en-
gagged in an effort to make this
stream navigable for boats of very
light draught from Charleston to
Orangeburg. Last year, as Mr.. Lee
YER showed in his recent statement
to the Rivers and Harbors Board Of
the War Department, 1900 bales of
cotton and 10000 tons Of fertilizers
we're sold in the city of Orangeburg.
Sixteen thousand bales of this
cotton were shipped to Wilmington
and all the rest, with the exception
of 81 bales, which came to Charles
ton by some good fortune, went to
Savannah. All of the cotton market
ed at Orangeburg should have been
sold and shipped through the port to
Charleston. That it did not take this
direction, as we have heretofore
pointed out. was not on account Of
the rates charged by the railroads
for the transportation of the cotton.
"As a matter Of fact the rate to
Wilmington from Orangeburg was
80 cents the hundred pound, to Sa-
vannah 20 cents and to Charleston
rs cents. The advantage of rates en-.
joyed by Charleston as compared
with Wilmington amounted to 25
cents the bale Of five hundred pounds,
and Of 20 cents the bale as compared
with Savannah. Something more than
the deepening of the Edisto River,
evidently would be needed to draw
the cotton from Orangeburg to this
port, and that something must be
supplied by the people at Charleston
who are engaged in the cotton busi-
ness.I
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17
FouR HORSES DROWNED.
They Had q Death stsuggle j,

IAtfHr fgs .NESGFy aEgYs ~ 49,
The State says In the tawnfey fon
OF Hogaboo swamp, geyfen mile
southwest of Columbia, X party 81
charge Of q string Of hors4s had al
exciting adventure Wednesday, night
The rains and SHOWS OF the last few
days nae poured q torreut into tn,
streams feeding the Cohgaree ant
the river had overlooked Athe swam1
SO rapidly that the partA we're no
aware Of their danger @until they
were IN the grasp Of an Icy &nd deatI
laden stream. After q narrowing
struggle in benumbing watersSin the
darkness of midnight, the m&mbers
or the party were saved.
The live stock was the properly OF
the Faulk livery stables, of which
Mr.. John II. Faux Is manager. The
horses, 13 in number, had been
bought in Orangeburg, and were be-
Ing carried to Columbia by jain
Medlin, assisted by Ferney Owens
and another boy. The road from
orangeburg follows the Congaree
river up to Brookland, where the
crossing is made on a bridge.
Inc place at which the crossing
was attempted was formerly passa-
Die by means Of a bridge. But the
bridge must have been washed away
or the swamp had been flooded by
the recent rains for as soon as the
horses entered the water, which was
under normal conditions, very shall.
low EnpV HiI nnf Gt.J
were TWO two-horse wagons and one
to the scene. The horse attached tc
not be cut loose and they were
drowned, the bodies being found lat.
er In the day when Mr.. Faulk went
20 the scene. The horse attacked tt
the buggy was cut loose and this
one II one of the remaining horses
which were not attacked to any We.
hicles have not yet been found.
Medlin and the small boy alone
came very near being drowned when
the accident occurred in their efforts
20 say the horses. Medling caught
one OF the horses by the bridal and
was by this means saved from
drowning. 1t required some time to
revive him after he had been taken
from the water. The small boy
caught hold Of one OF the horses in
the water and wan ashore on it's
back. The boy, as soon as he came
out of the water, commenced to
icream at the top OF his voice and
mis- attracted nearby persons. These
came to the assistance Of the parties
ana hres were built and all possible
ald was given them. They assisted in
resnscitating Medlin and made an
"llofl TO lind some of the lost horses.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17
ANOTHER COTTON PICKER
Mr.. Hnrvin, Of Manning, Secures
Patent on New Machine,

va bNttNlllIiSs
Mr.. G. r. Harvin, Of Manning. S.
c., has invented and patented q cot
ton picking machine which gives en-
c%ouraging promise OF doing the work
for which it is designed. The whole
apparatus is to be carried on a spec
tally designed four-wheel truck and
drawn by horse power along the cot
Ton rows. The principle on which
the machine works is something like
that of the familiar suction nue at
the modem ginnerics.
"A gasoline engine on the forward
part of the truck furnishes the DOW
er to run a pair OF twin fans that do
with the fans are four or more fex-
ible tubes, or hose, that ma be
guided along the rows of open cot
ton by unskilled labor. The force Of
the suction will draw up the flues
all well opened cotton, while a spec
ial device will pick out open cotton
that does not come freely from the
boil.
Mr.. Harvin has not made a COM
plete machine, according to his de-
sign, but he has rugged up on ar
ordinary farm wagon an outfit that
demonstrates his idea to be practi-
cable. Being necessarily engaged in
other business, Mr.. Harvin has had
little time to devote to his important
invention, but he hopes soon to or
ganize a stock company with sufli-
cient capital to push the matter in a
manner that it's importance deserves.
We hope this machine will prove q
success. There is nothing that is sc
much needed IN the farm as a good
machine to pick cotton. Labor or
the farms is so trifing that unless
some machine is invented to pick
cotton it's cultivation will be greatly
~curtailed. 1t will effect a great say
ing too in the gathering Of the cottoI
crop. Success to YOU, Mr.. lIarvin.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17
FOUND ON REEF.
Only Man Who Escaped From Wreck
of Houscboat.

The only survivor Of the five men
who were washed to sea on the Ill.
fated houseboat to Cedar Keys. Fla.
Thursday. was brought ashore, hav.
ing been found on an oyster reef by
u tug boat. After being battered
about for o time by the storm the
boat went to pieces. This survivor
and n other man managed to keeI
ahoat on part Of the w~reckage. but
while helplessly drifting in the gulf
one Of the men died from exhaus.
ton, The rescued man was In q
pitable condition when rescued, his
clothing having been torn from his
body and he was almost dead from
exhaustion,
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17

YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.
Little Girl Confcsscs to Many Seri-
Gus Crimes.

Confcssing that she was an in
ccndiary, a shopliftcr, a sneak theft,
and n burglar, a ~12-year-old girl re
Gently told tho sheriff OF Lake coun-
", Indiana, a tale Of criminal eX-
ploits which rivalled the record OF
most offenders four times her age.
She is Anna Jcnsick, of Roby.
Ind, and her confession followed
her arrest on a charge OF having sci
fire to 10000 worth Of hay owned
by the Knickerbockcr Ice company,
OF Chicago. The fire, started by the
girl and her five year old brother.
whom she enlisted as an aid, spread
to the ice houses Of tho company,
and for a time threatened to wipe
out the entire town of Robertsdale,
adjoining Roby.
81 just wanted to see it burn
said the girl. 81 know it was wrong,
but something inside of me told me
to light the hay and see a pretty
fire" This child's mind is certainly
badly balanced.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-17

ment OF taxes are fatal violations of
he Constitution Of South Carolina
md render the entire election void
md Illegal.
Wherefore the contestants pray
he said election be declared void
md Illegal for these reasons as we'll,
md that otherwise the action and
Judgment of the county board be sus-
aimed and confirmed.
ID. O. Herbert,
w. G. Wolfe,
Attorneys for Contestants.