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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16

lIIe IdNu HIIlCI "dN l)ldlltu III
milo maize this year had paid
him $3.50 per acre net rent and
that he thought it would do bet
ter than that next year as the
land would be in better shape
having been in cultivation longer.
j. X. Jenkins Of Meadow
Grove. Nebraska, was also an
other one Of the prospectors last
week who bought land. He pur-
chased a section lying about two
miles north Of town and expects
to make a model farm out of it..
He grows registered cattle and
hogs and will bring them with
him. Speaking of the coutry he
said: Il am awfully well pleased
with what ! have seen. | like it
better here than in Nebraska for
| believe the soil is better and |
know that the climate is all that
any one could ask. | believe the
milo maize and kaffir corn,
which is a sure crop, is better
than Indian corn for the raising
of cattle, horses and hogs and |
think ! have found the exact To-
cation that | have been looking
for for a long time. / will come
down just as soon as / can make
my arrangements TO leave Ne.
braska. "
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16

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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19
THE ODD SECTION GRAB.

1t is to be hoped that the suit which is being brought by the
federal government to set aside the alleged rights of the Southern
Pacific company to some of the alternate sections embraced in the
twentymile grant, which are mineral and not agricultural lands,
will be productive of the restoration to the mining men OF the state
of thousands of acres of the richest mineral lands in Nevada. And
yet, we hardly dare to hope. 1t seems to us chat the action of the
government officials is negligently tardy in pressing these suits, for
the time limit is almost up at which the lands in question will pass
to the possession Of the railroad, and they can only be recovered by
litigation which will cover years and mean the expenditure of hun
portion of those alternate sections in the strip twenty miles in
width to either side of the railroad, which were granted the road by
a prodigal government when the road was being built. have abso-
luteiy no feature by which they may be designated as agricultural
land, and yet the government granted to the railroad nothing but ag-
rcultural lands, reserving all mineral rights, Many prospectors have
been over these lands-which in many cases do not afford susteaanee
for sagebrush, eyen-loeated claims and proved lip rich Lodges Of
mineral, all the time mindful of the provision that the government
granted the railroad no mineral lands. And these same nrospectors
have been driven off of their claims by railroad employees, some
times, it is alleged, by show of arms and threats of violence.
Every miner, prospector, or resident of Nevada who knows Of any
of these abuses, or who has had his property taken away from him by
these means should at once communicate with United States Attor-
ny Platt at Carson, and tell him Of the evidence which may be used
against the railroad in this connection. If the railroad succeeds in
holding to this mineral land it will remove vast and rich beds OF
mineral from the mining districts Of the state. for the railroad will
hardly develop them, but will hold them until it can dispose OF them
at prices which will be prohibitive for half a century to come.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19
THE PASSING OF THE VETERANS.

Colonel Sterrett is in Salt Lake TO make arrangements for the
grand encampment next summer. says Goodwin's Weekly. In reply
to a question, he said: "Twothirds Of the men who enlisted in the
great war have gone to the other side. The record OF last year was
that one veteran died every six minutes and IA died each day; a
full regiment of 1000 died each week; a brigade of four regiments
every four months, and two great corps, each of $4,000 men, died
during the year.
1t will be seen by that how swiftly the whole goHhed host is pass
ing on, and how a few years hence there will be none left. They
went out in the flower of youth; they interposed their breasts, a Iv-
ing wall between their country and their country's foes. Many died
in battle, many died in hospitals, the host has been lessening ever
since until two-thirds have passed away. At the rate they died last
year the last one will have gone in fifteen years more, but the great
majority will not last that long.
They offered all they had for their country, they survived every
ordeal, but now the inexorable years are having their way and the
march is almost done. With a renewed reverence each year the
steady their steps. to cheer their way down the last decline.
Think of it, every six minutes the folding doors of death swing
back to receive one of their number; every day 144 pass away, and
every week a full regiment. In the old days during the war, even
in the most exciting periods of it, there were rests. There is no rest
to this march toward the grave: and the record in the south is almost
as great.
We believe every officer of exalted rank who fought in the war
has passed away. except General Howard, and the rank and file are
swiftly following. There is a perpetual sounding of taps. Let us
hope that every morning the reveine in the land beyond the stars,
sounded on silver buges and softly rolling drums, brings out the
full contingent and those that, failing to answer roll call here, will
answer in the beyond, and rejoice that the Elysian fields have been
won and the long march finally finished.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To j. C. Sullivan and j. G. McVicar:
You are hereby notified that / have
expended, during the year of 1907,
the 5000 for assessment work on the
following named claims. situate in
the Golden Arrow Mining District.
Nye County, State of Nevada, in or
der TO hold said claims under the Re-
vised Statutes of Section 1924 of the
United States, and within ninety days
from the publication of this, or
within ninety days after the publica-
ton thereof. you fail to or refuse to
contribute your portion of such ex-
penditure as a co-owner, which
amounts to $75 each for your inter
est in the said claims, will become
the property of the subscriber, your
co-owner of the Irish Lad, Desert
Mine and Grant mining claims.
EUGENE LOCKE.
First publication: November I,
1908. INV.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19

whole, nine out of ten counties are either holding their own in tins
respect Or are gaining in fertility. This matter, one of the first in
importance to the country, has been thoroughly studied from more
than one point of view. and the above statement is made with con-
fdence. Those parts of the country which are losing in fertility are
drawing from the original fertility of the soil and are not replacing
it with fertilizers Or practicing the method of rotation of crops.
These areas are prcportionatey largest in the states of Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, l. e, the western states
of the cotton belt, and in them are found "A per cent of all such
lands in the country.
The present low average yield is in some part due to careless
farming, but more generally to the fact that land is cheap relative
to farm labor. The highest yields per acre are found in the older
northeastern states where land is relatively high in value, and in
the arid regions of the west where water, the essential, is scarce.
The soils are not, however, producing a half of what they should
or what they will soon be required to produce if we would avoid
buying our foods elsewhere in the future. The acreage of cultivated
land is increasing much more slowly than the population and can
never be more than twice as great as at present, while by the end
of the present century we shall probably have three times a many
people to feed as now. The amount of our farm crops is also in
creasing much more slowly than our population. An increase in yield
per acre is therefore imperative. In that matter we are far behind
western Europe, and as our soils are at least equally rich it becomes
a matter of care in the selection of seed, of fertillng. and of Guilt
walton.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19

incorporated under the laws of Ari-
iona. Capital stock. I.000.O 0O shares.
Par value, Sl.00. 200 900 shares in
treasury. Principal office, Tonopah,
Nevada. Location of property. Tono-
Mining Company. Adioins the
North Star. Belmont, Mizpah Extension.
Consists OF seven claims. Equipped
with fifty horse power steam hoist.
Located 1000 feet northeast of Mizpah
l9dgc. Has several veins cropping on
the surface. carrying from two to
twenty dollars IN gold and silver. The
Boston Is a very close In property, and
Is under good mana cement. officers
y. T. Hennessy, vice-president: George
Wingheld, manager; J.. NJ. Fenwick,
secretary; r. h Davis. treasurer: ]. f..
McCambridge, superintendent
1-2Asd7~H
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19
A DIyoRCE sun FILED.

Clifie Wagner yesterday filed a
suit in the district court asking that
she be granted a divorce from
Charles f. Wagner on the grounds of
cruelty. She asks for the sum of $50
a month alimony and the custody of
two minor children. The parties are
residents of Hawthorne, where they
have lived a number of years.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19
MUST BE INCREASE OF FARM PRODUCTION.

The most interesting point made public through the report of the
work conducted during the past summer and fall by the section of
lands of the national conservation commission, of which Senator
Knute Nelson of Minnesota is chairman, is that the inventory of
natural resources has demonstrated that the fertility of the soil OF
the United States as a whole is not falling off, but rather is in most
parts Of the country, IL not actually gaining, at least holding its
own, The report declares, however. that our agricultural lands will
be required to produce at least twice as much as they do at
nresent ia order to meet the nations demand for food. Such an in
q in crop production is possible with proper methods.
There are in the United States proper, according to the report,
a trine less than 1000 600 square miles of land surface of which a
little more than one-ffth is under cultivation. About a quarter is
covered with forests, and 4 smaller proportion OF waste lands and a
relatively small amount of mineral lands, all the rest is grazing land
The soils of the United States, as measured by the yield Of crops
nor aero arr not losing their fertility. Taking the country as a
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-19

Location notices in triplIcate-
handiest affair for ~prospectors and
miners-contains carbon-15O
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
Valuable Hints for Pork-Pack.
ers' Daughters, Pugilists and
Other Giddy Climbers.

opening is 10 that your bread or
miner'
Rouge sticks and powder pufs may
be used at luncheons, but never at
dinners"
Each little counsel Is more to the
point than the last. Toward the end
of the book MI. Crowninsffield gravely
remarks: I'm saying goodnight to the
hostess have a care to bestow your
avowals of obligation in nearly the
same degree of warmth thai her bear
Ing invites. If. for instance, she Is
asleep In the conservatory. all among
the begonias. 1t is not necessary TO
shake her or rouse her by saying, I'll,
wake upl I'm going home,' etc. Sim
ply pass by noiselessly and remind her
butler to call her in time for break
fast"
A valuable chapter Is devoted to tip
ping and scales of tips, with a little
advice as to how to leave the house
early in the morning to avoid tip
ping the butler.
No longer will climbers have to climb.
With this little guide book to extra
ultra-etty-ketty they can soar as on
wings to the place where those who
scroogle their soup are merely called
eccentric, so safe is their position.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16

of the Four Hundred" which will
make your social future seem like a
row on a duck pond after a stormy
passage out to Block Island.
Mr.. Crowninshield has left no detail
to the ~imaginations Of ignoramuses
like you and me. He has given us
manners for every minute and some to
spare. His book is one Of the most
gently humorous and refreshing that 1t
has been our pleasure TO read in some
time; the sort that causes quiet
chuckles, rather than mirth.
1.-THE telephone, co-education, wire
less telegraphy, motor cars. m~illionaires'
bridge whist. woman's rights, .Sherry's,
cocktails, %pianolas, steam heat, direc-
toire gowns, dirigible balloons and talk
ing machines have all contributed to an
astonishing social metamorphosis,' he
declares, adding: ITO our newer mil
lionaires and plutocrats it should be a
very present help in tim of trouble
for 1t is undeniable that many OF these
captains Of industry, however strong
and virile their natures, become utterly
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
You Can Get Into the -Four Hundred
Euen if the Peas Roll off Your Knife

helpless and panic-stricken at the mere
sight of a gold inger-bowl, an alabaster
bath, a pronged fork or the business
end Of asparagus"
An important item In his advice for
all occasions is: I'm motoring. avoid
running over hens, dogs and Italian
children. They are almost certain to
stick up the Wheels"
Among other potent words of warn
ing are the following:
IAN unprotected lady should be care
full not to employ c~onvivial or tippling
buffers. We are acquainted with a
widow who was recently .petrified with
horror when her drunken butler en-
tered her sleeping apartments In the
dead of night n proceeded to lay the
table for six upon her bed.
I'm a country house. il you find. up
on going to your room to dress for
dinner, that no studs have been put
in you evening shirt, complain at
once to the stud groom
I'm criticising a play or a novel Dc
careful to avoid long and discriminat-
ing criticisms. You should either
knock or boost Try to remember
that there are only two kinds of plays;
they are either bully or rotten.
"In discussing literature at a
luncheon or dinner try to remember
that there are but a few very fashiona-
BILE authors. They are as follows: MRS
Wharton, Colonel Mann, Mrs. Glyn'
Robert Kitchens, F. Peter Dunno, John
Fox, jr., and Billy Baxter.
AT a dinner a gentleman sitting be-
side a debutante should congratulate
her upon her debut, and In a few we'll
chosen words should discuss the usual
debutante topics. viz, p%latonic lie,
banting, Ethel Barrymore. French
dressmakers, John Drew. the relative
merits of Yale and Harvard, 10y at
first sight, the football match n the
matter of great personal charm ana
beauty. Try always to remember that
the chief and most interesting topics
are herself and yourself. Serious topics
are very properly deemed out of place
in society.
Women should not complain of their
husbandc in public. All married women
have a great deal to contend with.
Everybody knows h a married men
make very poor husbands.
"At a dinner the safest conversational
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE?

To get power away from thu people is the motive of much of the reform
that is pretennouNy paraded. In al agest thu pretense of REFORM as coaked att
tacks upon popular rights and liberties. The history of American politics from
times Is a record of he struggle between those who believed. with JEFF
fMson, in the widest diffusion of power among TIT people and those III with
Hamilton, commended for restriction of popular rM and for GENERALIZATION Of
power. "Shal the peope rue?' was asked by Thomas Jefferson more thar a
age. an hi demand has been borrowed by State politicians in our
day who actually favored measures to restrict tn people in their liberties Sell
dom that a Legislature does lot witness a contestb between the two principles in
peared In bills to take from he peoples elected representations h power to
impanel grand juries. 1t vas fought overin the la passed to strip the munich
tpalntes of controi over their local licenses an give 1T to judges appointed by the
FGoverno. 1t appears again in the proposition to give control o licenses in
to a State commission appointed by the Governor. thu creating
power that could b. potenty used to defeat the majority will o. the people at
the baHot-box. Beware the professed reform that takes from the people m
right or power. Beware he refrmer no has no faith in he capacity of
the people to govern themselves ad HI want to impose o them all kinds
'of restrictions for their own good. 43
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
NO MONEY VISIBLE FOR Blo STATE ENTERPRISES.

II IS just as wen not % nam a chicken beforet is matches nd 1T nay be-
1tusta as well to postpone giving an individual name to thu proposed ocean boule
ward until after the Legislature shall have appropriated the mono and au
thorized its construction. There are som obstacles to surmount. The incoming
which Just 20 is not satisfactory. The Legislature last winter made appro
pratons fol the present fiscal year amounting to $5asa T4 This did Tot include
the usual annual appropriation for school axes For iast he legislature
voted $500 0Oo n yet the appropriations for the present year come wthin about
$4,000 of Tasty years appropriations As there was a considerable treasury dehct
IN October 81, these statutory expenditures n h appropriations to be made in.
the supplemental appropriation bill for this year must be provided wholly out
of this years revenues which have been partly eaten Vi by the treasury deficit
For the last fiscal year the supplementary appropriations footed u s7s2oos2
The total receipts of he treasury for HI year ending october 81, 1907, we're
$46020ss. The fact that there was a deficit o n October 81 last shows that the
receipts fol he last fiscal year decreased. and yet there has been authorized
already N expenditure for this year of sa52s2T4 and the supplemental appro
prfatons are yet to be made to augment this years expenditures. Will the State
20 an richer in reyenuen next year? Probably, II thu Legislature shall larry
out the suggestion Of indirectly imposing a State tax on tn people. Evidently
1T is by such means that certain contemplated large State Improvements are to
be finance by the State treasury.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
NOVEMBER 1s, 1908.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY RHHABAirA TON.

The opinions given in the Post oil Saturday by prominent Democrats as TO
the reorganization of the Democratic party are nearly Ill pitched in the same
key There's should be reorganization at nce,a and IN sane lines; thu parys should
be brought bak to Its cardinal principles a nd to the purposes that it departed
from twelve years ago 1t will not d o to delay. else the party In it's recovery
from the protrahon Of defeat nay drift on rom he rocks Oh which it has been
to thu rocks ant shoals that lie ahead. The ship of Democracy needs
a trustyp ot and firm hands an coo heads TO navigate her There are nearly
four years in which to reft the ship m start her OF a course guided by the
great compass that Jefferson equahedt to the Democracy 1t is something done
for party reorganization hiatt this symposium Of views las been given. Action
should follow. That great Democratic unit the South. should tax the initiative.
The vote of Georgia in the presidential election Is In fact, a warning to the
Southern Democracy of Its own possible dsintegraton -four year hence if the
Democracy is permitted to drift as it has drhted for twelve years; if
Northern ad Southern Democrats do not ONE forward n rehabltate the
party In a way to command III support of thu vast number of voters ho have
been anenated from it.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

S 2. Each State chooses as many cleo
tors as it has Senator's and Congress
men combined.
9. This intricate way Of choosing the
President was fixed in the Constitution
at the time of the foundation Of the
government.
4. The electors meet in their several
States on the first Monday of January
and vote for the candidate Of their
party, and the vote is sent TO Wash
ington and counted by Congress in Feb
ruary. The one Who has the largest
number Of electoral votes is named as
President, and the one with the Q
number Is elected as vice-President.-
Ed
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
PERHAPS A NEW EPOCH IN CHINA.

In the death Of he Dowager Empress of China the world may ave witnessed
fhe bhth of a new era. The demise Oft the so-caned Emperor whichT Immediately
preceded that of he imperial dame o departed, vas IN event only Tor the
gazete to chronicle as he vas merely a dademed puppet Chinas rMer was the
Dowager Empress, a Catherine II. in her mperious will The nominal Emperor
Chun, a man n has Travelled, h mas been brought in lose contact with
Western civilization. and who mas modern n progressive ideas The success
feton of Prince Chuns son continues the Manchud dynasty, which is a n interioper
homes, representing his desire of tbs great bulk of ne nation, is to replace the
Manchu dynasty with a Chinese emperor. New travels slowly in China, and it
will take some time for intelligence of the imperial deaths to Nitrate through the
vast population. What will h effect be? The feeling OF tn people Of he in
terror cannot be guaged by the conduct Oft those at he seaports M China is
ruled from Its heart her III real Chinese sentiment exists Chinas awaken
ing has been a theme of late for ommentator on China, u it remains to be
seen whether Manch ruer with Occidental IDEAS can sustain his policies and
dynasty against the stubborn conservatism Of four thousand years.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16

The attempt to murder Francis ] Heney, the prosecuting lawyer in the Abe
Ruef trial in San Francisco, seems likely to prov a great public blessing Eeney
is recovering his woufd-be assassin mas committed suicide, and the. rial pro-
ceeds with renewe energy. Public vigilance hs been thoroughly aroused, and
will see to 1T that Indicators shall not escape justice II Ruef expected to
benefit from h death of he relentless man who has pursued him nd his con
federates in crime he has made a wofulm mistake, fol hsc easel looks blaeker now
than it ever did. And terrorism by the thugs in sympathy with the indicted
actions in San Francisco 10 now sure OF conviction and punishment. II Hsney
had died Ruefs life would not have been worth an hours purchase
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
New York Writer Says Soup
"Scroogling" Is a Mere
Social ldiOsyncrasy.
BY ADELINE STANLEY CARRICK.

IF you've spent
your life In
coming money
at the expense of
your have
no fear. If, when
in company, your
hands seem to loom
before you like
mammoth fappers
belonging to no
definite place, your
feet assume the
proportions of four
day liners. your
voice I'M
certain and your
grammar UNI
to itself wings, con-
sole yourself. Fran
els w. Crownin-
shield has written
a hooI "Mannerq
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-16
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
To the Editor OF the Evening Star.

1. Who elects the presidential cleo
tors?
2. How many votes does it take to
make one electoral vote?
8. Why do we. vote for the electors
and not for the President?
A. Fully explain everything in con-
nection with the presidential electors.
Orange. q. E..
II. They are nominated at the con-
ventions Of the different parties and
elected by the people on the first Tues
day after the first Monday of Novem-
Der. an