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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-17
Liquor Case Lost.

One of License Inspector Fennell s
liquor eases from Wahiawa was lost IN
police court yesterday. The japanese
proprietor of the store in which Mr..
Fennell some time ago arrested Chi
nese employee, was arrested recently. He
fought the case, but the Chinaman
pleaded guilty The evidence given be
fore the Judge was to the effect that
the proprietor did not know that his
employee was selling liquor, and he was
therefore discharged.
Eleven gamblers, mostly Portuguese
arrested for gambling, were fined SC
each. \ few boys were given Reform
School sentences, with eight weeks
probation in each case under the direc.
tion of Court Officer Fred Weed. Some
of the gambling cases were set over tc
various dates, as many of the detec
lives were on duty in other courts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-17

be denied, and the judge promptly ruled
the matter out of court.
Attorney Achi was practically en-
deavoring to get Judge Andrade to do
what generally falls to the lot of the
Governor, for a commitment in this case
would amount to mitigation, of the
death sentence.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

has advanced from 100000 600 acres to 1880 900 acres,
an increase of nearly $40 per cent.
With more intensive methods of cultivation larger
yields will undoubtedly be obtained from the same area,
yet the area itself under agricultural crops will have to
be increased, especially if we are to remain an export
ing country.
In Belgium the arabic land forms SO per cent. of the
total land area, in Denmark 68, in France 48, and in
Germany At. These countries are not exporters of cere-
ais, although their methods of cultivation are highly de-
Veloped. France is especially interesting as a criterion,
because its methods are most intensive and it is the
only country that is selfsustaining; it produces SO per
cent. of all the cereals which it consumes. There is
little doubt that our population in the next so years will
reach 5~0,0OO,OOO, or about SO persons per square mile.
Whether the acreage of improved farm land will in
crease at a much faster rate than the population. as has
been the case in the past, or whether 1t will grow at
the same or even a slower rate than the population, the
future alone can tell; but increase it must.
In mountainous Switzerland only II per cent. of the
land is cultivated, and in Sweden and Norway, situated
in an unfavorable climate and with a scanty population
(29 and IS persons per square mile, respectively, the
proportion of arabic land is 81 per cent. and 13 per
cent, respectively.
Land chiefly valuable for grazing will form about one
fifth of the extent of the United States proper. This
land originally lay west of the one hundredth meridian,
in the plains and mountain valleys, but with the advance
of dry farming its eastern boundary has been shifted
farther west to about the one hundred and third merid.
ian. This land receives but a scanty rainfall and can
produce neither forest nor field crop, but supports a
vegetation of hardy grasses. 1t was formerly the natu-
raj range of millions of buffalo and is now the grazing
ground of herds of cattle and sheep. This land will re-
main largely a natural range, since the area which can
be irrigated and thus reclaimed for agricultural pur-
poses, or which can be used for dry farming, is COM
paratively small.
According to government estimates, the available wa
ter will be sufficient to irrigate 100000 acres, or one
acre in TX of the whole region. The reclamation ser
vice, however, does not expect to reclaim more than five
per cent of all the arid land. This area, together with
that used for dry farming, will barely suffice to counter
balance the reduction Of the productive area in the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
ROMANCE OF PLAINS
Two Braids, Apache Chief, Finds
Ke Is Not an Indian.
After Forty Years with the Red Men
Thomas Struggled Applies to
the Government to Be Re-
stored to Citizenship.

Washington.-Two Braids, chief OF
a tribe of Apache Indians, has lat
application to the government to be
restored to citizenship, and this brings
to light a strange story, for this IN
dian chief is not an Indian at all.
For nearly forty years Two Braids
has been known as an Indian n mas
supposed himself to be an Indian, but
he has just learned of the fact mat
he is really Thomas Struggled, whlte
man, who was captured "A years ago
by a band of Apaches in a raid in NC
Mullen county, Tex. His father.
mother and elder brother were killed
in the raid, and his little sister was
left for dead, with several ugly WOUNDS
from the Apaches' tomahawks. But
the little girl survived, was adopted
and reared by al uncle and is now Nv
ing not many miles from the scene
of the massacre. Her name is Mrs.
Ida Hatfield, and she and her brother
have been reunited.
Two Braids tells an interesting
story Of that part CT his life which no
remembers. Reared in an Indian
camp, it was natural that he should
fall in love with a of his race,
and about thirteen years ago he mar
ried Bright Moon, daughter of another
Apache chief and niece Of the no
torious Geronimo. Two children were
11Yy af fh;r union n Iat1Ohfnr N1IaK1
Two Braids, who is now Cen years old
and has won fame for her horseman-
ship and rife shooting, and Starlight.
a bright little son now three.
Two Braids first learned the true
story of his life from an old warrior
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

named Death Face, one Of the most
.treacherous of Apaches. About a year
ago on his death-bed this Indian told
Two Braids that he had not a drop of
Indian blood in his veins, and that he
was a p~aleface and had been kidnapped
by the Apaches 40 years ago in Texas.
Death Face could not remember the
name of the place, but he described
the incident and the locality. Two
Braids took up the trail, which he
followed with logged ~tenacity for IL
months. When he had found the spot
and met old residents who remem
bered his parents he received permits
sion to leave Fort Sill reservation in
Oklahoma, and, taking his daughter
with him, he Travelled back to the
scene of his childhood days. He met
his sister, and the battle-scarred UNI
couth warrior and the gentle paleface
woman wept for joy for their recogni,
ton was mutual and positive.
Though living with the Apaches for
40 years, Two Braids swears he never
took a human life and that he worried
about the crimes his brothers COM
mitted on the raids to which he was
a party. T~wenty-three years ago,
when a band of Apaches was rounded
up and captured in western Texas
after a long series of depredations in.
Guiding murders, burning of farm
property and pillage, Two Braids was
in the band. They were taken to
San Antonio and shipped from there
to Florida and later to Fort Sill, Okla.
Two .Braids hair is long, but not as
black and not as coarse as an Indians.
His cheekbones are not high.
With his sister he visited the graves
| of their parents, who were laid to rest
at the mouth of San Jose creek and
on the banks of the River Nueces.
Two Braids is raising a fund with
which to erect a marble shaft to the
memory Of his parents and the sub
scription list has grown to several
hundred dollars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

in Nevada, in Utah and in Oregon in the form of arid
basins. Ice-bound deserts are found in Alaska and on
the glacier-covered mountains. This land must, so long
as the climatic conditions of the country continue as
they are, remain unproductive.
The land chiefly valuable for growing forests will
shrink to about 800, 100000 acres, less than one-ffth of
the wood lots, which will continue to form part Of the
mately 450,O 600 acres, or a fourth of the total land
area.
Will this area be sufficient to provide a population
Of ~150000,000 people with all the timber needed for con-
struction, ties, poles, pulp and, all the various uses for
which wood seems to be the only suitable material and
to protect the soil from erosion, regulate the stream
flow and exert it's wholesome influence upon the lives
of the people?
With the exception OF those countries which have
naturally a humid climate, like Great Britain or the
Netherlands, the countries with a forest area of only
20 per cent. or less show usually to a marked degree bad
climatic conditions, with prolonged %droughts, frosts and
alternating floods and low water, as a result of the re-
duced forest area. Portugal, with a forest area of only
3h per cent. of the totali Spain, with is per cent;
Greece, with Is per cent; Turkey, with 20 per cent and
italy, with IA per cent, are good examples.
While the area absolu tely necessary for the regula-
ton of streams and the protection of soils can be deter
mined only approximately and indirectly, the area nee
essary to make a country selfsustaining as regards the
production of timber can be found with greater accu-
racy. II we compare the exports of the different coun-
tries with the forest area for every 100 inhabitants we
find that countries with 92 acres or more per 100 inhabi
tants have a surplus of exports over imports, while those
with IS acres or less have a surplus Of imports over ex
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

America on an average yield less than Is.
If a far-sighted national policy in the conservation of
natural resources is to mako provision for an ever-in-
creasing population, then the greatest possibilities lie
in the direction of developing the land in all its forms
feld' forest ana range-for, Notwithstanding all possible
economy in the use of the non-renewable resources. thew
are bound TO decrease as time goes on.
One hundred years ago the United States east of the
Mississippi river was an almost unbroken forest, com
prising something over 1000, 900 square miles, or about
10000 900 acres. Now, after about a century of settle
ment, there are not more than 300, 600 square miles of
merchantable forest land in the eastern United States.
About $4,000 square miles have been cleared for farm
land. The remainder has been cuued of its valuable tim
Der and devastated by fire or else turned into useless
brush land. With the growth of population and the
greater demand for agricultural land, the ratio between
farm and forest land will change still further. The for
ests will be more and more crowded into the mountains
and upon soils too thin or too poor for agricultural pur-
poses. 1t may be safely assumed that in so or 100 years
the proportion of land devoted to the different purposes
will change almost as much as it has during the past
century. These changes will occur especially in the east
ern part of the United States, because there the forest
is not confined, as it is in the west, to high attitudes,
where agriculture is generally impracticable. In the
west the forests, with a few exceptions, as in the low
country around Puget sound, are in the mountains, which
rise In the midst of semiarid plains, and their original
area Of 100000 square miles, half of which lies in the
Sierra Nevada and in the Cascades and half in the Rock
les, has changed but very little since settlement. In the
west the increase of agricultural land must be secured
chiefly through the irrigation of the semtarid land.
II we take a long look ahead into the future and try
to picture to ourselves what will be the ultimate proper
ton Of farm, forest, range and desert in this country SO
years from now, in the light of the increasing demand
for agricultural land and Of an approximate knowledge
of the climatic conditions and the physical properties of
the different lands in this country, we shall get some
thing like the condition shown in the diagram.
The area devoted to agriculture in a half century,
instead Of being II per cent. OF the total area, as it is
now. will be nearer so per cent. That this is not an
oyerestimate Is indicated by the fact that during the
last SO years the improved farm land in this country
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
Charts Of so,omon,s Temple.

The Masonic lodges Of Boston and
Worcester, and a few others in vari-
GUS parts of Massachusetts, are to re-
ceive charts of King Solomon's tenn
pie at Jerusalem. The charts will be
presented to the lodges through the
Boston Herald. They are the gift Of
Mrs. Aaron Morley Wilcox Of Wash.
ington. Mrs. Wilcox presents the
charts because Of the recent move
ment in Massachusetts looking to a
restoration Of the ancient temple at
Jerusalem, and in placing the charts
with the Herald for presentation to
the lodges In memory Of her husband.
Mrs. Wilcox expresses the hope that
the temple may at some time be re-
stored to It's original form. With each
chart is a folder giving lettered and
numbered keys to the historic signii.
canoe of the temple from the outer
wall to the innermost chamber.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

try. In 1909 he. visited the United
States on his return from another
journey to Europe. 1t was at this
time that he became an enthusiastic
admirer of republics and made up his
mind to free Venezuela from Spanish
despotism. From that time on war
was his portion.
In 1918 he entered Caracas as CON
queror, was hailed as the liherator Of
his country and made absolute dicta-
tor in civil and military affairs. He
met with reverses, however. at the
hands Of the spaniards and II was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

ho MOVE tho, double the present area ana thls Is en-
+;relv o+ 80 tho question. Much of the land now unoer
forest hit capable of producing crops, will nave 10 pc
cleared and titled to provide for an increased popuia'
tion All the evidence, therefore, is that the land IN
der forest will during the next oo years 20 neuueou W
$50 OOO. 900 acres and this reduced area VIII nave ~
provide for a population almost twice as large a .ne
present. Nor will there be much hope LOT covering ehe
shortage of our home production by importations from
abroad.
The demand for timber is constantly growing all over
the world. 1t increases at the rate OF fve per cent
annually. If we compare the total excess or imports
over exports of all w~oodimporting countries OF Europe
with the total excess of exports over imports Oh an
wood-exporting countries we shall find that there Is a
deficit for Europe Of ~141,000,QO0 cubic feet, Whlcn IL
met at present by imports from North America. Swe-
den, Norway and Austria-Iiungary have ALREADY touched
the highest point in their exports. Russia could PROD
ably increase to some extent its exports from the north,
where there are still large areas of virgin forest, put
the growing scarcity of timber in the other parts OF the
empire make 1t very unlikely that larger supplies OF
timber for export will be available. Canada is still able
to increase Its exports, but the drain upon the Canadian
forests is growing every year and. they will remain the
only source of supply to satisfy the urgent needs OF the
rest of the world for coniferous timber after Austria
Hungary and Russia cease to be exporting countries
The growing demand for wood material must be met
then. not by an increase of the forest land nor by dc
pending on imports from abroad, but by an increase IN
the productiveness Of the forest and a decrease In the
waste. to which chiefly is due the fact that the United
States has the greatest per capita consumption IN ms
world.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

during a period Of defeat on the con-
tinent that he convoked a congress in
Hayti, instituted a government and
abolished slavery there. That was in
1916. Thereafter he was successful
against the Spaniards In South Amer
lea. and in 1919 at Angostura, Venez-
uela, he was chosen president with
the power Of dictator. When New
Granada unitedwith Venezuela he was
made the first president By 1922 the
new republic was completely cleared
Of foyalist troops.
Bolivar was summoned the same
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

year to help the Peruyians, and In
1924 was named dictator Of Peru. BY
1926 the S~paniards were driven out
OF Peru also, and Bolivar, calling a
congress at Lima, formally resigned
the. dictatorship. Soon after that the
southern part Of Peru was erected
into a separate state and named Bo-
livia, and he could have been dictator
for life. However, troubles In Co
lombia kept him busy. Venezuela
broke away from the rest Of Colom-
Lila III 1929. Bolivar was denounced
for his ambition and he was virtually
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

ports. Apparent exceptions to this rule appear in the
cases of Bulgaria and Servia. These countries, while at
present importing more wood than they export, possess
considerable areas of forest, now inaccessible, and. with
the development of means of exploitation and the IN
creased demand for lumber they will in time become ex-
porting countries.
From this we may infer that a country in order to be
selfsustaining as regards its timber supply must nave
an area of about 100 acres of forest land for every 100
inhabitants. The area necessary to supply all the WOOD
needed for home consumption will vary of course with
the per capita consumption; and the 100 acres per lOo
inhabitants must be considered the minimum area, be-
cause it is based upon a moderate per capita consump-
ton such as is found in densely populated countries OF
Europe, like Germany or France.
The same minimum area for every 100 inhab1tants
necessary to make a country selfsustaining can also be
deduced in another way. At present Germany imports
1853, 000 600 cubic feet of wood from abroad. To produce
this amount of timber Germany would have to possess a
forest area of II, 1000, 900 acres in addition to the 35,000f
900 now available. In other words, she would need
81 00,0 900 acres of forest in order to meet her own tim
Der requirements, or 932 acres for every 100 tnhabi'
tants. Germany is an extremely good example with
which the productivity of the forests of all other coun-
tries can be compared, because her
forests can be taken as a standard OF
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
Good Answer for Small Boy.

Bobby's father, who was a minister,
asked his little son If he could tell
him how God knew that Adam and
Eve had eaten the apple from the
tree Of knowledge Of good and evil
This was a hard question for such a
little fellow, and after thinking for
some time he replied: II don't know,
papa, less twas by finding the peel
ings. The Delineator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
STORMY LIFE OF LIBERATOR

sisted in making ii a republic in 1925.
Bolivar had been writing bis name
large in South American history for a
long time before that date, however,
earning for himself the title Of the
washington Of South America ST.
mon Bolivar was born in Caracas,
Venezuela, In 1888. Of d noble and
wealthy family. He studied law in
Spain, travelled much in Europe, mar
ried and returned to his native coun-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

In this country, where the per cap
ita CONSUMPTION is six times as great
as that in Germany or France anu tne
annual growth per acre may De estf
mated roughly as one-thlrd OF thdt ~
those countries, the forest area Woulu
have 10 be 1000 acres for each loo III
bahitants.. or more than twice the 7
ont area. in order to maintain the pres
ent cut. The present area of 775 acres
for every 100 inhabitants at the pres
ent per capita consumption ana an
nuaI growth per acre would De SUM
ciant TO meet our own needs II there
were not present a supply of virgin
timber. the accumulated capital OF
centuries. to meet the deficiency. With
the exhaustion of this remaining VIZ
gin supply, which can last only about
30 years more, there must come a time
when not only all our exports OF liM-
her must cease, but there will not De
enough wood for home consumption.
Even as it is, the total exports OF
wood from this country amount to only
five per cent. of the lumber cut, While
tho surplus of exports over imports Is
only 1.8 per cent.-an insignificant
amount. This shows clearly that we
have practically ceased to be an ex.
porting country and the tendency will
he more and more toward becoming a
wood-importing country.
How shall this shortage be met?
With an increasing demand for land
for agricultural crops there is ilttle
hope Of increasing the extent OF forest
land. AS we rave seen, the r nee
essary for this purpose would nave to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
simon Bolivar, Who Freed South
American Countries from Spanish
Yoke Had EventtuI Career.

Bolivia, the South American our
civ which Is Just now feeling very I'LL
disposed toward certain Of It's neigh
bors gets its name from Simon. Boil.
Val. The land has had as stormy 4
history as did the liberator who Az
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
What ha nid knn,u

Weddcrly-My wife imagines she Is
growing taller.
Singleton-Is chat SO? What do
you think about 1t?
Wedderly--Well, perhaps she 10,
Anyway. know she keeps me az,
short al ever.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02
They Ara Harn.

PA, what is meant by the piping
times Of ~peace?'"
They are here now. my boy. mas.
much rs the ~janitor has let the fur
mace FIRE 90 out we are no longer dis.
urbed in tho mornings BY the rattle
Of the steam pipes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

mother of labor and the father OF all
products necessary to sustain human NE
The richness and prosperity of a country
therefore, depend on the presence OF nat
ural resources within its borders, such as
water, minerals, forests and cultivable SOILS
on the one hand, and intelligent human Ell
eTsy on the other to shape them into the
forms necessary for the needs of man. Or
th9 two elements the natural resources are
indispensable, for in a country like the des-
ert of Sahara all human effort would be
of but little avail. The growth of a nation
depends. therefore, upon the extent of the
natural resources and upon the knowledge
of how to use them with as little destruc-
tion as possible,
Thu resources of a country fall natu-
rally into three groups-water, minerals
and land--which represent, respectively, re-
sources which are inexhaustible, resources
which are eXhaustible and cannot be re-
newed, and resources which are exhaust
ible but can be renewed 1t may be ques-
toned. indeed, whether there is such a
thing as an inexhaustible natural resource.
Even water, through the denudation of the
drainage basins, may become irregular in
its flow, or through the careless disposal
of refuse may become polluted SO that it
cannot be used. Mines are illustrations of
resources which are eXhaustible and not
renewable. Gas, oil, coal and iron once
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-02

gone are gone forever,
OF all the natural resources the
only n which contains within itself
the possibility of infinite renewal is
land. The nation should therefore be
most vitality concerned with the con
servation and Improvement of this re-
source. Human control aver such nat
ural resources as minerals is limited,
The only possible means of conserva-
ton is the avoidance of waste. but
their ultimate exhaustion is unayoid-
able. With agricultural and forest
land, however, it is otherwise. Land
can not only be conserved, but con.
stantly improved and its yield in
creased. While in England the iron
ores and the coal are becoming con.
stantly harder to get and their ex-
haustion is threatened, the agricultural
land, after a thousand years of %cultiya-
tion, is now more productive thar ever.
The wheat fields of England, under in
tensive cultivation, yield 80 bushels to
the acre., while the virgin fields of