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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

OF John Kimball, deceased, and to all
persons holding claims against his es-
tate, to present the same to the under
signed executrix at the office OF VIM.
Swain, in Pullman, Washington, which
is her office for the transaction OF the
business belonging to the estate, within
one year from the date of the first publ
cation OF this notice, or be forever
barred.
The first publication will be on the
18th day of November, 1908.
HANNAH KIMBaLL,
Executrix of last will of
John Kimball deceased.
Thomas Neil, Attorney for Estate.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22
Fruit Growers
Short Course

The department of horticulture
has completed arrangements for
giving it's first annual short
course for fruit growers. This
course will open February list.
and continue for two weeks. The
work will cover the entire field
of commercial orcharding in the
state of Washington and deal
with practically all kinds of
fruit, both large and small. Prof.
A. L. Melander, the college and
station entomologist who has
done more than any other man
in the state in promoting the in
terests of fruit growing with his
remarkable success in combat
ing fruit insects, will deliver a
series of lectures on orchard in
sects, briefly describing each and
giving the most recent methods
for combating the same.
Prof. Beattie. who has done a
great deal of effective work in
the handing and treating of APP
pie scab and pear blight, will
present lectures on orchard dis
eases of the state, stating how
they may be kept in check or err
adicated entirely.
Trof. w. S. Thornber, profess
sor OF horticulture, will give
three series of lectures on nurs-
cry practices and orchard man.
agement, fruits for Washington
orchards and harvesting, mark
citing and storing of fruits.
Special lectures on the improve
ment of fruits, selecting fruit
for exhibiting purposes, the max
ing of sprays, judging of fruits,
fruit production, and kindred
subjects will also be given dur
ing the course.
Several machine companies
have already made arrangements
to display a set of their orchard
tools during this session.
The Orange Judd Publishing
Co. of Chicago and New York,
will place an exhibit in the horti-
cultural department fine line of
ooks, dealing with horticultural
and kindred subjects, for the
benefit of short course students.
The books will be here about the
first of February, and will be
open to inspection as quickly as
possible.
There will be fruit growers
papers, box labels, and nursery
stock from different parts of the
country. This is the first time
a complete course has been at
tempted in the northwest and
doubtless will be taken advantage
of by a large number of fruit
growers Of the state.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22

FOR SALE-Three room house
and lot, 50x150, at 1912 Monroe
st. Near college and north of
Edison school house. A bargain
at $3.50. Easy terms. Lots op-
posite selling at $3.50. Enquire
of John Holway' ct.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22
NOTICE.

Bids will be received at the meeting of
tina City Council February I, 1909, for
city printing and advertising. The right
to reject any and all bids is reserved.
GEo. n. HENRY, City Clerk.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22
DRY FARMING.

my III WHICH Jue results ODldlueu
in enormous yields of wheat were
almost beyond belief. We pre-
sumo that we are imposing upon
the credulity of some of our read
ers when we make the statement
that we saw wheat turning out as
high as sixty-six bushels to the
acre on land that had an annual
rainfall of only fifteen inches. OF
course, this enormous yield was
exceptional, but on making sew
eral inquiries we learned that the
average yield was about thirty
five bushels, which is an enormous
turnout for a semi-arid district.
While we have sometimes been
a little skeptical of the great
claims made for the Campbell
system, we must acknowledge
that this bunch of farmers in
Umatllla county, Oregon, have
mastered, or at least are making
a great success of the principles
OF conserving the moisture as laid
down by Mr.. Campbell But one
crop is grown in two years. This
Is practically one-crop country.
Wheat is the only cereal of any
account that is grown excepting a
little barley, and still by this one
crop-in-two-years system the
farmers are employed continu-
Ously,
Half of the lard is sown, the
other half, which produced the
crop that has just been harvested
is plowed next summer, and be-
fore blowing the stubble is burned
off. This to us appeared like a
great waste of humus. but their
reason for burning off the stubble
IS that when it is turned under it
has tendency to dry out the
ground. The plows are started as
soon as the weeds begin to sprout.
In a short time this is followed
with the harrow. The soil is kept
IN fine condition during the sum-
mer, well-covered with a fine dust
blanket to hold all the moisture
that may fall.
Conservation of moisture and
destruction of weeds are the two
principal hobbies of these farm
ers, and we can say that in all our
travels we have never found a !
problem so thoroughly and unani-
mously worked out as we found
it in this locality, A twenty
bushel yield would be considered
almost failure. This is one of
the best examples of conquering
adverse conditions that has ever
come to our attention. While we
would not wish to be partici
pant in this wholesale and ex-
elusive wheat farming, yet we
must acknowledge that these peo-
pie are making a magnificent sue
cess Of it.
We quite naturally asked why
they did not raise a crop every
year, Two reasons for not doing
so were given. One was that they
did not have time to prepare the
land for the fall seeding after the
previous crop was taken off and
the other that the land needed |
this rest every other year to give
it a chance to liberate its fer
tility.
No one can question the great
success that these people have
achieved, as there are evidences
of prosperity on every hand and
land is selling from 500 to 500
per acre. In our thousands Of
miles of travel in every arid state
in the west we must acknowledge
that these people stand pre-emi-
nent in mastering the science Of
producing enormous crops with
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22

FOR SALE--Four-horse Inter
national gasolene engine. J. P.
Duthie.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22
REPORT

On the Business Done and the Condition
of the
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22
PULLMAN SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN

for the
Six Months Ending December 81, 1908,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-22

Respectfully submitted,
+. S. BuRGAN, President.
NJ K. SNYDER, Secretary.
Pullman, Wash Jan. IL, 1909.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15
Iona Newspapers
YOUNG MEN AND FARMING

dubuque TimeS-JOurnall
Many young men who should stay on
the farm come to the city because they
like the glitter of its life or don't know
where their own field of usefulness
lies They exc out precarious living
in town when they might prosper on
the farm, because they understand
farming but have little equipment to
meet the demands of the city. Others
qualify themselves for business or pro-
fessions and succeed as they might not
have succeeded on the farm. Advice on
the subject is worth little because those
who should heed it are the last to sus-
pect that it Is intended for them.
That it is unnecessarily from the
standpoint of the country's needs is in
dicated by the increasing prices of land
in all good farming sections and by
the rush to every reservation thrown
open to settlement by the government.
Ten thousand farms of 100 acres each
are now offered in the Cheyenne and
Standing Rock Indian reservation and
the loves. estimate OF the number Of
registrations that will be recorded in
twenty days is 100000. Some estimates
run to 100000 and 100000. Those reg
istering are largely young farmers who
really intend to settle on the land If
they draw desirable quarter sections.
We need not fear for the future OF
farming in this country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15
IOWA. Is,

Ter for the city man who pays IS cents
a pound and expects to pay 40 before
the winter is we'll under way.
go
The Minneapolis man who defends
dog meat as q diet has probably been
consulting the price list on porter
house.
The man who used to find that q
shredded wheat biscuit made break
fast now finds that it makes only
three-fourths OF a breakfast The
shredded wheat people found it nee ss-
sary to reduce either the size of the
biscuit or the size of the advertise
ment and resolved the doubt in favor
of the advertisement.
President Taft describes the consti-
tuition of Oklahoma as a geological
garden of cranks," at which Governor
Haskell probably threw up his elbow.
The charge against Speaker Cannon
that he entered into a deal with Tam
delivered in the New York legislature
to defeat bills calculated to curtail il
legal voting in the interest of the tiger.
IN change for democratic votes in
congress to save Cannon and the rules
OF the house, seems to stick But still
what effect will it have? Those who
have accepted Cannon have taken him
for better or for worse and will stay
1t out with him. while all those not in
actual compact with him long since
found him out for what he is and The
heaping up of more evidence is only
by way of carrying GOALS to Newcastle.
Hearst is gaining in optimism. He
told an audience in New York .he
other night that he could see no dan
ger to that city in his election as
mayor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15

prominent and pleasant bit Of flower
gardening noticeable a quarter Of a
mile away. All this took some work,
but 1t paid q big return, and its the
kind of work we need more Of in every
court house yard in Iowa. Up in Min
nesota many Of the school house yards
are filled with growing flowers and the
lawns on the school house grounds
models for many private residences.
Here in Iowa, II any attempt is made
to have q. display Of flowers on the
school house grounds, the writer has
failed to see 1t in the thirty odd coun-
ties he has visited regularly for over
twenty years.
Speaking Of school houses, suggests
the number Of men and women in Iowa
that can not read or write. They are
not numbered by thousands, are not of
foreign birth. but just Americans,
some even born in Iowa that can not
read word Sickness when young,
lived in the woods when boy and no
school house within ten miles, one old
man explained to the crowd in the gro
Gerry store. OF course they are curiosi-
ties, but isn't there a 10-year-old boy
in your town now, neighbour, that has
never been to school?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15
THE OLD GAME.
IEldora Herald.]


An agent for an encyclopedia has
been working Hardin county among the
teachers of the rural schools. His
methods are not the best and it Is safd
to say that if he ever appears in Ger.
tain part of Hardin county again he
will receive a warm reception. In one
school, altho the teachers had all been
warned against agents by instructors
in the institute, the agent used letters
he had received from instructors in
this county as credentials, and made
the teacher think that he was an ex-
ception and had really been endorsed
by the county superintendent. He in
sisted on remaining after school with
the teacher, who asked one Of the older
girls to stay with her The agent then
ordered the girl to go home and then
frightened the teacher into signing an
ticular teacher happened to be new at
the business and timid and easily
bluffed. The agent tried the same
tactics on another teacher who took the
stove poker and threatened to crack
his head and he left. Now the teacher
who signed the order against her bet
ter judgment will have promissory
note turn up some day from some inno-
cent purchaser and will very likely
have to pay it. A coat of tar and feath-
ers and a ride to the county line on a
rail would be just treatment for such
an agent. At the same time the teacher
is somewhat at fault for not using a
poker in the beginning and letting such
fellows know just where they stand
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15

OF the Times Republican that ITO at
republican voters Of Iowa is not only
dangerous to the success in Iowa Of the
element that breaches Cannonism but
is Immediately dangerous to the repub-
lican party.
Here Is what the Sentinel Post says
of the pigh priest of standpatism
'It was not good politics to bring
Speaker Cannon into Iowa to make
speeches at this particular time. 1t
only tended to reopen the breach in the
republican party that seemed in a fair
way to close. Cannon is not popular
in Iowa. He is a load on the repub-
lican party. No man could have been
selected from outside the state more
offensive to a large portion of the re-
publican party in this state. 1t can not
be expected that Cannon can come into
Iowa and assail Senators Dolliver and
Cummins without those men and their
friends taking up the fight. 1t would
be worth a million votes to the repub-
lican party to drop Mr. Cannon out
of congress, but if that can not be do 1e
let him at least stay out of Iowa. A
dozen speeches from him would make
the state democratic"
The Sentinel-Post should have a
care. When it speaks its mind it is
verging on responsiveness. 1t can not
expect to remain in the inner circle ex-
cept by suservience. To offer honest
opinion and back 1T up with action is
progression and progressive republic
canism is crime in the camp the SEMI
nel-Post has chosen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15

companies that 1t absolutely needs
Then, by starving the others, it may
hope to come into control Of them at
very little expense to itself. When ii
does get control Of the field again, the
public will be, expected to pay rates
that will afford dividends on the In
creased investment which it has made
This calls upon the public to SYM
pathize with its plan to gobble up the
independent companies as cheaply as 1t
can.
Some time there may be courts that
will not insist upon income to pay divi-
dends on these kind Of investments
but 1t seems to be the settled policy
of the courts at this time to make the
public pay for whatever stock has been
or can be issued.
A telephone company, like a gas
company or water company or a stree;
railway company, is natural mo-
ncpoly" and should be regulated by q
different process than competition
They are so regulated in some places
This experience in the consolidation OF
the telephone companies of Iowa will
probably promote the idea of regulat-
ing them In this state. but aside from
that, the process Of absorption now un-
der way is as Interesting as 1t is to
watch an anaconda swallow q live rab-
bit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15
BOOKING ON TRAINS.
TCedar RAPIDS Gazette.1

At the union depot last night, |
following the shooting. young man
who said he had travelled some fifty
thousand miles in the last two or three
years. attempted a defense of the fell
lows who carry whisky bottles on
trains and indulge in the use of liquor
in public. He said he had never, in all
his travels seen anything out OF the
way except possibly little loud talk
ing in smoking cars. This fellow had
understood that the shooting Of Officer
Bumgardner had its genesis in the ..r
rest by. Bumgardner of jerks, who had
been indulging in whisky in quantities
and offering it to others on the train.
The liquor defender thought it shame
to enact such law as the one now in
operation prohibiting drinking on
trains and he was actually inclined to
show lack of sympathy for the
wounded officer. 1t was suggested to
him that he was in very poor business.
and that the best thing for him to do
was to keep his mouth shut.
There isn't an argument that any
man can give in defense of boozing on
trains 1t is an indefensible practice.
1t has been productive of much trouble
annoyance and disgust for the
travelling public The evil existed 50
generally and became so offensive that
it was deemed necessary to enact spe-
cial legislation for the assistance of Tho
railroad and civil authorities and for
the better protection Of the travelling
public The law works we'll. With the
new state back of them the railroad
officials are making it exceedingly hot
for the train DRINKS. And the hotter
the law makes it for the DRINKS the
better the public will be pleased.
The fellow to whom reference Is
above made. excused his defense of the
! train drunk by saying that as long as
rich people had the right to go into
a buffet car and buy liquor he did not
see why the poor man couldn't be per-
mitted to carry his whisky flask IN
his picket and drink when he felt like
it.. But it was the lamest sort of an
excuse. No man. rich or poor. has
q right to make a spectacle of him
self in public; no man, rich or poor.
has a right to be disgustingly offensive
in public And granting that buying IL
quors in a buffet car is right, that
would not make continuous boozing
and its accompanying crimes right in
the least respect. However, there is
not much occasion for arguing the
j question of the sale or use of liquor,
! at any time, under any circumstances
or in any form, on trains. The sale
or use of liquor on any part Of a train
can just as we'll be abolished.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15
a~ M~7~>>
The ludn. Said:

Wherever the dignity of the courts is
placed above the rights of the people,
The flow of justice is mighty apt to be
at very low ebb.-Judge Neill, in
Sawyer VS.. Ell Paso g. n. f. Ry Co
(Tex. Civ.) los S. w. IT'S.
1t is essential to the safety and per-
petuity of government that laws should
be observed and enforced until repeal
ed.-U. S. v. Hrasky Oil Supp IS N.
E. 1881.
1t is a matter of the highest public
policy that crime shall he punished by
legal methods. When these are disre-
garded, there is the mob between
which, in the pursuit of vengeance. and
the officers of the law. acting in its
name, but in disregard of it. there is no
distinction.-Judge Rellinger. in U. S.
V. Edgerton ID. CO so Fed. 374.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15
ITS WORTH WHILE.

Any event that attracts general at
tention and arouses general enthusiasm
over an entire continent is a world
event. 1t may be the discovery of the
north pole and the controversy of rival
explorers, battle in Manchuria be-
tween embattled lines seventy-five
miles long, Wrights' or Curtiss' or
Bleroit's flight or Zeppelins journey in
q dirigible, an earthquake or a base
ball game. Detroit won yesterday
Is baseball worth while? The crowds
and the wide excitement are the an
swer. Anything clean and decent which
attracts and engages the attention OF
practically the entire population is al
ways worth while Anything that pro-
vdes healthy and healthful interest
and the momentary absorption from
pressing cares is worth while Base
ball on vacant lot is worth while
college baseball is worth while, out ir
the country pastures of Saturday af-
ternoon it's worth while and the con-
clusion forces itself that, as it is con-
Quoted by the larger leagues, piofes.
sionaI baseball is worth while.
Saturday the teams play off the sew.
enth and deciding game of great con.
test. In view of the clean fashion i,
which Detroit has carried on Its uphill
fight and the extreme suspicion o
deliberate purpose to injure their op
ponents by the Pittsburgers the genera
hope will be for Detroit to win. Bat
ter up" Let's finish this and get bacl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-15
Looker-On In Iona

Hampton, Oct ia travelling cor
respondent was to be especially care
full in getting facts when he has any
thing to say to the discredit of anyone
But when the reverse is before him, it
is allowable to use the they say So
when a travelling man, church mem
her. told the LookerO On that the min
j. ter in Ma son City told him that
Billy" Sunday now supports fourteen
young men studying for the ministry
as we'll as nineteen men in the mission
airy field,this scribe is glad to mention it
without asking "Billy" if it is SO. So
many have asked, what does Billy do
with all of the money he gets hold Of,
that this is very satisfactory explain
alton of the question.
On the night of Oct. II, came the
first freeze of the season and it was
4 a hard one. 1cicles, two feet long,
formed on the drinking fountain here
Every pond, hole, slough and in some
cases running streams, were frozen
over. Many acres of potatoes were not
dug and the loss is serious one. The
day before all of the flowers were in
bloom as in June. Tomatoes were still
doing duty, ripening the fruit, and Of
fesiI,s fl essiii Blossoms daily The grass
was green, and the trees were in full
foliage. Corn had died of old age
reaching full maturity without feeling
the effects of frost. Every body knows
all this" of course they do, but cut thi:
out and put i. in your scrap book ant
next year it will come under the heat
of news. Can the reauer mention tn,
date of the first killing frost in tn,
fnE of 1908!
A little over twenty years ago Mr.
r. j. Mockford as janitor for the cour
; house commenced trimming some ceda
trees planted each side Of the wall
leading up to the court house at ALI
son. He started in on the sugar loa
: type and for eighteen years trimme'
r them in fine shape each year. His sue
cessor has done equally we'll, and nov
twelve to fifteen feet high they ar
, the admiration of all residents an
: visitors. This year Gamma plants wer
, set out in the same grounds in a pyra
.. mid shaped bed the size Of a car
: wheel. Around this bed OF cannas wer
placed saliva plants. On the day tn
writer was in Allison, the cannas wer
' twelve feet high and the saliva six G
v seven feet the latter covered with TIL
: well known scarlet blossom, making