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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

with give the result of our examine
| ton:
"Three thousand and twenty-seven
acres were reclaimed in Twenty-mile
creek bottom at a cost of $7,567.50;
| 5000 in Mud creek bottom at a cost of
$12,572.5O; 1,545 acres in upper Town
creek bottom at cost of S3,S6250;
1887 acres in upper Chiwappa creek
bottom at cost of $4,592.50; 3,1S2
acres in lower Chiwappa creek bottom
at cost of $7,925.0O; 700 acres in up
per Coonewah creek bottom at a cost
of $1,975.00; 3,407 acres in lower Coone.
wah creek bottom at cost of $8,517.50;
1858 acres in Town creek bottom at
cost of 11,470.00. Total number of
acres reclaimed 23,405. Total cost Of
reclamation, $5s,517.50.
Before this land was drained it
could have been bought from So to S.
per acre. Now it is worth from $35 to
500 per acre. From S. per acre the
maximum value before it was drained,
to S35 the minimum value after it was
drained is an increase of $50 per aero.
Multiply this by 23,4o5, the number Of
acres reclaimed, and the result is $780,
5000.
"Another swamp land district was
recently formed ia lower Town creek
bottom which begins on the north at
Verona and Plantersville levee and runs
south to city point bridge, and bonds
for $S,50O.00 issued, and still another
is in progress OF organization which will
extend from this point to Monroe county
line.
although any county can channel un-
der the present law, more channeling
has been done in Lee county than any
other county in Mississippi, except in
few of the delta counties. It will doubt.
less prove of interest to know that this
drainage system was bred and born in
Lee county. The idea of issuing bonds
for drainage was originated by the late
Gen. j. L. Finley and Hon. John M.
Allen, who succeeded in getting mea-
sure through the Legislature which APP
piled only to Lee county. Afterward
the law was made general and almost
every county in the state has taken ad
vantage of it."
The boil weevil is in approximately
thirty counties in Mississippi. DR.. w.
d. Hunter has been in charge Of the in
vestigation and planning of means to
grow cotton in spite of him for several
years and is the best posted man on the
subject in the South. Every person in.
terested in growing and handling cotton
is invited to hear him during the meet.
ing of Southern States Commissioners
of Agriculture in Jackson November 10,
II and IS. Exact date will b an
nounced later.
If the present legislature does as
much for the agricultural interests at its
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

At night colored lights are display
ed on the same posts. The lamps
will burn eight days without replen-
ishing, but are refilled every four or
five days. When the home signal is
at stop, the engineer sees the fame
through red glass. The caution light
on the distant is yellow. A green
lights means go ahead and is used
on both the home and distant signals.
Where two or more lines cross at
grade the general plan of semaphore
arms for day and colored light for
night is the same, but owing to the
complications all signals are con-
trolled by levers operated by men
from central station. The crossing
and contiguous tracks are governed
by the interlocking system. When
this is in perfect order and the cross
ing unoccupied, it displays stop" to
every track approaching the crossing.
Any change must be made by the sig
mailman. and to display proceed" he
must first lock all other approaches
with the stop signal.
There are now about 1900 miles
of railway equipped with the block
system. The only line thus protected
every inch from Chicago to California
is via the Northwestern. Union and
Southern Pacific. One-third OF the
II 900 miles Of automatic signaling il
ON the Hartman Iines--and the North-
western has more miles OF double
track automatic than any other rail-
way.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

imately ninety miles had been made, it
was possible for many more to be added
before cold weather drove the weevil to
Information
Thirty counties in the state now have
the weevil and it is important that the
people take an interest in the methods
to be used in making cotton in spite OF
the weevil. Little can or has been &C
complished in the way Of fighting the
pest, but great deal is being done to
make cotton despite his ravages. Adams
county has had an experience that it
would be well for other counties to take
advantage of. Adams is normally
about $4,000 bale county. Last year
the yield was little less than $4,000
bales. This year, it is commended by
many of the best posted citizens that
the yield will not be more than 1900
bales. 1t should be considered, however,
that the acreage for this year was less
than half of that of last year to begin
with and some of this was abandoned
later and put in other crops.
The production of other crops in
Adams has greatly increased and the
general determination is to diversity and
raise some cotton anyway. Consider
able trucking was done this year and
the corn acreage almost if not quite
doubled. Grasses and stock raising are
receiving attention and there is a move
ment on foot to build packing plant
ia Natchez to insure reliable market
for hogs. Other counties in that section
where the weevil has seriously inter
fered with the growing of cotton are
adopting similar methods.
1t only means a few more years I'M
til the whole of Mississippi will be in
tested and it is time that our people
were looking upon it as a serious propo-
sition and beginning to take advantage
of methods that will become necessary
when the weevil comes. Counties not
yet infested can easily learn of what is
absolutely necessary by the experience
of the counties in our state first infested
and begin now to make preparations for
his coming. A great deal can be saved
by this course.
1t is foolish to pretend that the Vice.
vii is a scarecrow and that there is
nothing in it as many are doing. 1t is
serious proposition and the people of
Mississippi can and will meet it in a
safe and sane manner as they have al
ways done. Begin right now gathering
information as to methods to be adopted
and put them in use. 1t will save you
multiplied dollars in the near future,
possibly from ruin.
Alcorn county people are Supremacy
happy in the success of their first fair.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

en- but she reappears again in the old bachelor, who
loses by not marrying the very thing which the bach
eor girl gains by the same untrammeled state.
The bachelor girl is seldom lonesome. She has
her friends her work and thousand outside resources
to keep her amused. But the lonesomest soul in the
world IS the spinster man. Little by little he
his acquaintance to small circle and sooner or later
he comes to the point when his smoking jacket and
slippers are his regular evenings soace. He is not
especially happy but he doesn't know what is the mat
ter with him, and he doesn't understand that he is
lonesomc-hopelessly and unutterably lonesome He
is not even ambitious any MORE because he has moth
ing to be ambitious for
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

zontal until the block is
vacated, when the arm
automatically drops and
points diagonally toward
the ground. Therefore,
as long as the engineer
sees only dropping sig
nails he can keep on 60
ing, but the instant he
finds the arm stretching
out over the track. he
must come to a stop,
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11
Some
Novel
Facts
About
Planet Mars
By CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES

weight onenth that of
100000 ons The density sody Of Mars about venens tina
planet while the density of equals about
earth Bodies and weights the Marian surface would
course upon the terrestrial surface abou one-hundes
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

The statement is attributed to Secrc-
tary Wilson that laborers eat meat three
times daily and are not content with any
but the best cuts and can afford to bus
them.
The experience of every laborer in this
country is refutation to the statement 81
the secretary.
Indeed, housekeepers of even the so.
called middle class can refute the state
ment. Housewives could tell him that the
prices of meat are almost prohibitive, SC
far as the choice cuts are concerned.
The prices of even the less choice nnrts
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11
LabOrerS
Want Very
Best Cuts
of Meat
By P. EVAN JONES

the and fast soaring beyond the moderate
purses
One good feature OF this increased cost of meat that there
This will be better the people, American
a general rule too much meat.
Such will be to the advantage Of health pockebooks
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

breaks, a battery
fails, a switch point
opens the slightest.
t h e combination
fails and the re-
leased arm re-
sumes the hori-
Zontal position. So,
when the engineer
sees the stop sig
nal, he knows that
there may be a
train on the block,
an open switch. or
a broken rail or
signaling appa :
ratllS-
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11
SpinSter
Man
Rapidly Becoming
Common Like
Bachelor Maid
By THURDE RAYLE BRUCE

UGH has been written the subject of bachelor
M She has been of the finest the
She has been said to have the mental poise independence
a and experience and like the ship in the where goes
HNl the winds stir But little said spinster
1 And he is coming to be just species the bach
4 ~ eor maid
0nI He has learned like his sister that bachelor life
many destinations to them up for the responsibilities of
family life and like his sister, he reran marrying
as long keep his heart noble
struggle But the sinster in his than
the bachelor mad w the mngles with busy world
more she grows in grace and intellect.
The spner who values his snglene uson
day discovers himself in deep t of habit He old maid the
much ndud of the expression He
little pecuaries about his food and his Enthusiastically clothes
which must be just He aarmingy things
out does not with him.
own boot trees and his bright particular clothes
fact, he is very crotchety individual is the spnse
The old ma has cticallv delout a1nnnn unnn=
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

If the present Legislature does as
much for the agricultural interests at its
next session as was done at the last,
it deserves the plaudits of all the peo.
pie, "well done, thou good and faithful
servants"
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

Alcorn county people are Supremacy
happy in the success of their first fair
1t was splendid winner from every
standpoint. Tupclo and Holly Springs
likewise.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

Lafayette county has organized for
an agricultural and live stock fair for
next year to be held at Oxford, A good
proposition and deserving of the sup
port of all good citizens.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-11-11

block it so affects the en-
ergy that is a part of sig
mailing that the sema-
phore arm remains hori-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05

Colo Medal and Garland flour at
the Farmers Elevator,
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05
q "IEnEDEMnEMn
I'LL INUnI LNUENl
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
LOCAL NEWS.
From Ell Around fhe Town and
County.

New lot Of Ladies' cloaks received
at Burkart's.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Ranklev de-
parted for st. Paul Monday.
Mrs. Wheat received the dinner
set given away last Saturday at Burk-
arts.
Miss Mary Dyar arrived from St.
Charles Sunday evening for a visit at
the DR.. B. A. Dyar home.
-Radie Bum and Miss Meyer, of
Iroquois, were guests at the Roy
Chase home in this city Sunday.
R. P. Myre intends to move his
family into this city from the farm
neal Manchester about December LIST.
Mrs. Renwick and daughter
Margaret departed for their home at
Chicago the latter part of last week.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Renwick's mother, Mrs. Masters.
DR.. Stevenson, the we'll known
eye, ear, S and throat specialist, of
Sioux Falls will be in De Smet, Tues
day, Nov. 9th, at the new Syndicate
Hotel. Glasses also fitted correctly.
Willard Bennett, of Canton,
father of Mrs. W. H. Warren, and
County Judge Brown, of the same
place, were guests at the Warren
home the latter part of last week.
While here the gentlemen enjoyed a
duck hunt at Lake Thompson.
John Dyar, of st Charles, Mimi,
spent last week in this city, the guest
of his brother, DR.. B. A. Dyar. John
combined pleasure with business and
spent about equal parts of the time in
hunting ducks and buying a bunch
of steers to put in the feeding yards
on his farm.
Mr.. and Mrs Cornwall, OF
Owatona, Mimi, arrived Saturday
evening for a visit with their daugh.
ter, Mrs. d. HI. Lotus, and family
Tuesday they took the morning train
for Redfield to visit their son, Rex,
who is engaged in the clothing bust
ness in that city.
The Halloween boys got busy
Saturday night and moved several
small outhouses into tho middle OF
Third street. We don't know where
the fun comes in such job but this
is a queer world and there is no ac-
counting for some peoples taste.
DIR. e. S. Bugbee, the we'll known
optometrist and neurologist, of Mime
apolis, will beat the Kingsbury Hotel
De Smet, S. D., Monday, Nov. 10
Eyes carefully examined and glasses
made to fit the eyes, causing head
aches, nervous troubles, o eyes
etc, to disappear like magic. SEE
pictures of cases he has treaded.
We predicted a few weeks ag'
that the early marketing OF so muci
grain would longest railroad trafii'
and make the coal supply short
What was then predicted has come t
be an existing condition. Consumer
have been warned in the matter ant
IL tkay sho,,ld srfav Inconvenience
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05

they have no one to blame but them
selves.
Eddie May is suffering from an
attack of typhoid fever.
The citizens of Arlington are
talking of electric lights for that
town.
JAS. w. Earl, the Erwin real
estate man, was a visitor in the coun-
ty seat Tuesday.
The international live stock ex-
hibition will be held at Chicago Nov.
9th to Dec. 10th.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. n. Waters re-
turned Monday evening from their
visit to friends in Wisconsin.
Have you noticed those fine dishes
in the window at Burkart's? A Al
piece set given away free every Sat
urday at 4o'clock.
-LosT-A good leather buggy
cushion, between the John Exc farm
and DeSmet, Saturday evening, Oct.
30th. Chris Berg.
Roy Downing and wife departed
Wednesday morning for Altamont,
Deuel. county, e which place he ex-
poets to rent a farm.
E. D. Horton, the district agent
for the Kansas City Life ms. Co
| who recently located in De Smet, re-
ports that he is well pleased with the
city and surrounding country, and
that he is more than pleased with the
prospects for writing business for
that old and popular company.
Ted Johnson returned Tuesday
from Madison, where he had been
surveying for nearly three weeks.
Wednesday he went down south of
Lake Preston to do some work. He
expects to go to Madison next week
to take a position for the winter In
the Office of the Mcdaniel Trimmer
Co.
"A complete single driving outfit
horse and all, was stolen from the A.
d. Maxwell barn in Arlington Sun
day night, Oct. oath. Inc outfit was
traced as far as Bushnell, IL Brook
ings county. and there all trace of it
was lost. Two men were arrested up
on suspicion OF being implicated in
the affair, but nothing definite is
known, or at least has not been made
public.
-Chas. Crawford, of Clark, former
ly a we'll known resident northeast OF
this city, was a pleasant caller at this
Office Tuesday. Mr.. Crawford informs
us that he will take his family to
California for the winter. That he
will locate there permanently is one
of the probabilities, although he will
not invest until he has remained there
long enough to know that the family
will like it.
The older residents of this city
and vicinity will be panied to learn
of the death of Mrs. d. w. Dorchester
at Genesee, Idaho, recently, as the
result of a severe attack OF pneumonia.
The remains were taken to Occur
d'Alene and there placed beside the
remains of the husband who died two
years ago. The deceased leaves three
daughters, Mrs. Frank Payn, OF this
place. Mrs. B. X. Maxwell, of North
Vile, this state, Mrs. Hattie keilar'
of Genesee, and n son, Wesley, &c
!, mourn the loss of a kind and loving
mother. Mrs. Dorchester was a Of
- ooo,S az this section and did
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
WOMAN IS CHARGED
WITH PERJURY

decoyed from his home by a note
and killed, near the steps of St
Johns hospital, last Friday night
The police believe the boy who
was heard to make the remark
about being thrown into Jail was
not telling the truth, and the
statement that the Ratchet had
been found was denied by Chief
of Police Flannery last night to
a United Press representative.
Mrs. Hancock moved to a hotel
yesterday and took her son,
yers of age, with her.
Mrs. Hancock was arrested
shortly after 8 o'clock last night
by the chief of police, who had
sworn out the warrant. She was
taken to the county Jail and
placed in cell. She did not make
any statement at the time of her
arrest. Her child, 9 years old, is
being cared for by the authorities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
5ESIF EE SRI! TEE
DASH FOR
Liberty
on LEAVING M'NEM's ISLAND
PRISONER ATTEMPTS TO
GAIN FREEDOM BUT Is RE-
CAPTURED - MUST FACE
BOBBERY CHARGE.

There was q fine footrace with
Dyr0techndc Aexhibitio nof pistol
practice in the Half Moon yards
this morning when Walter Law
renee, United States prisoner
from McNeil's island, attempted
70 escape from Deputy United
Gtates Marshal Joe Slater and
WAs making good until a bystand-
- out short his runaway career.
Lawrence finished his term at
the penitentiary today, but Chdef
Detective Sanford and Detective
oulxer of Covington, KY. had
come all the way out here to get
him and give him a free ride back
to the Blue Grass state.
He is wanted on a charge of
hold-up and attempted murder.
The Eastern officers were waiting
IT the marshaPs office for Slater
20 bring the prisoner to the city.
Lawrence evidently scented
trouble from afar and when he got
on the boat at the Flyer dock he
made q sudden leap for liberty.
Up through the yards he ran
breaking all sprinting records.
Slater started in pursuit but
was not in the race for a minute.
He pulled his gun and popped in
the air to brighten the fleeing man
but the fugitive ran only the fas-
ter. A railroader in the yards
saw the situation and grabbed
the prisoner, making a neat cap
ture.
Slater readjusted the hand
cuffs and brought him up to the
Office and he will be taken back
to Kentucky. His escape was
made possible by the fact that he
has one crippled hand and he
slipped the handouts OF this hand
and then ran.
II had the kid winded the first
two jumps and would have got
away II it handn't been for that
blame fool up along the track"
said Lawrence philosophically
commenting on his sprint from the
deputy marshal.
Chief of Police H. B. Schiller of
Covington was also coming to Ia
coma. but was caught in the train
wreck on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad and is now in hospital
at Denver.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
IN MURDER CASE IN Mon
TANA-WIFE OF DEAD MAN
LODGED IN JAIL.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
HELENA, Mont, Jan. 22.-One
Of the most sensational develop
ments in the Hancock murder case
yet recorded occurred yesterday
when Chief of Police Flannery
swore out warrant charging Mrs.
Hancock with perjury in the evil
dence she gave at the coroner's
inquest, when she stated she had
not written three letters, one of
which contained her photograph.
The next day she went to County
Attorney Henry and stated that
she had not told the truth and
confessed being the author of all
the letters. Mr.. Hancock was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
GN fhE SPOTLIGHT
2CHzNNs adGNGIZ4e. zaz .CzXGE
AT THE TACOMA.
1.-THE ALASKAN"

"The Alaskan" comes to the
Tacoma theater Saturday and Sun
day nights.
John Cort, who owns and d.
reefs this opera, as we'll as many
stars and theaters, has for its Sec
ond season given 1t much of his
personal attention and while he
has retained all the popular fea-
lures of last year, he has added
many highly entertaining novel
ties that will be of interest to all
lovers of musical offerings. The
orchestra for this engagement will
be a large one as in addition to
the regular players of the theater
the company carries its own in
strumentalists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
MANY after THAT
$50 SLOGAN prize

Everybody seems to want $50
offered for a new slogan for Ia
coma. In three days ISL letters
have been sent to Secretary l..
w. Pratt. Twenty-Five of them
are from out of town, coming
from as far as Ellensburg and
Centralia. Eleven outside cities
are represented. There are no
replies from Seattle.
All replies are numbered and,
as they come in, and the first zone
received that has the successful
slogan, gets the money. All let
tiers should be addressed to Sec
rotary Pratt and marked "slo-
gan"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
May FORTIFY
ENTRANCE TO
bELLINCHAm.

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. az.
Representative Humphrey has
discussed with George Crozier,.
chief Of the bureau of ordnance,
the question of fortifying the en-
trance to Bellingham bay. This
is a new project and the depart
ment will have to make a number
OF Investigations before further
steps are decided upon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22

the two dozen Celestials mere
didn't forget the big holiday.
The observation of New Years
lasts for several days with the
Cinnamon and will not be over
until the end of the month.
Meantime there will be a joyous
welcome in every CELESTIAL house
hold. "Open house" is the pre-
vailing custom and good cheer and
plenty of dainty eatables will be
found in their home.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
SHORTER HOURS FOR
GROCERY CLERKS

Following a meeting of the Re-
tail Grocers' association last night
the department store members
held a separate meeting and de-
cided to close their places of bust
ness at 9 o'clock Saturday night
during January and February be-
ginning tomorrow night. This will
shorten the day of the employees
one hour and it is expected that
other stores will follow the exam
pie to cooperate in the general
movement to shorten the labor
|period for the workers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
NJ LE0O WILL
TALK SUNDAY

The second in the series of sew
en- addresses by DR.. Mcleod will
be given at the Y. M. G. A. on
Sunday afternoon. Those who
heard DR.. Mcleod last Sunday
were greatly impressed with his
forceful presentation of the Cos
pei. His topic will be 81 Change
Not" and will complete the theme
of the first address. Music will
be furnished by the Y. M. G. A.
male chorus.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22

The entire Chinese population
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in num-
ber-made themselves wierdly
known at midnight with their
tom-toms and queerly sounding
horns.
Today Is the Chinese New
Years day and is a general holt
day throughout the Chinatowns
of America. Tacoma, fortunately,
hasn't any real Chinatown, but
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22
legislative
BILLS TO Be
ON FILE HERE

Librarlen Hopper OF the city
library has made arrangements
with the state printing office at
Olympia to have all the bills in
troduced in the legislature for
warded to this city. They will
be kept on public files at the IL
brary. All the bills are printed
at Olympia Immediately after they
are introduced and will reach the
local library within a few days
after the first reading.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-22

Ladies' Cravenettes and Mack
intoshes to be sold for CSC; values
up to $3.50; only so in the bunch;
come early. The Bon Marche,
1913 C st.. opposite postoffice.
Sc adv. On page IL. go