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The oasis., 1909-11-20
ARIZONA NEWS.

 and arrived at the Headings of the Mesa canals today. As result all canals and ditches are full of water. A great deal of water will be needed during the next two months and there appears to be plenty of it on hand.
 Tombstone Prospector: At a meeting of newspaper men held in the parlors of the Ford hotel on Monday evening, an Arizona Press association was formed. John o. Dunbar, veteran newspaper man of Arizona, who has heen engaged in newspaper work in Arizona for the past thirty years, was elected president and W.B.Kelly secretary. Committees were appointed to draft bylaws, arrange for program for next year and to invite member ship. It was the sense of the news paper men present that meeting should be held at least once each year during fair week at Phoenix, and at each other places as the executive committee should recom- mend.
 Yuma Sentinel: There was a largely attended meeting of tax payers last Friday night at Nichols hall in the valley. The meeting was presided over by A. Y. Greer. The increased tax rate for the year 1909 was discussed at length, the board of supervisors coming in for some severe criticism for the levy made this year. The sentiment of the meeting was that the rate was too high-out of all proportions. A committee, consisting of J. s. Garvin, John Gandolfo ST., and w. A. Bowies, was appointed to confer with a legal adviser in Yuma, to the end that some relief could be obtained for the taxes of the cur rent year. A second meeting will be held at the same place tomor- row (Friday) night, at which the committee will render it's report.
 Williams News: William Me- Cormick, a miner, and James Stewart, a railroad man, both temporarily out of work, were the victims of a fiendish outrage while asleep last Friday night in a shack at Ash Fork. While the two men slumbered some wanton criminal stole in, poured wood alcochol over the bedclothes and soaked the feet of the men in it, touchd a match to the highly inhammable liquid and disappeared. When the victims awoke they were shrouded in flames and narrowly escaped with their lives, the left leg of each being literally roasted by the fire. They were at once taken in charge, the county supervisors notified, and the hapless men were rushed to the hospital at Prescott, where they will probably be for some time, as their injuries are frightful, their feet being swollen to double natural size. If they recover, both men will undoubtedly be crippled fol life.
 George Crosby's Paper: We have always been an advocate ot bounties on coyotes and wild cats but friend of ours tell us that the bounty is not good thing. His view is a novel one, and we present 1t in his own words: As soon as you place bounty on coyotes, you do away with the best means we
The oasis., 1909-11-20

increase. The rabbits and the dogs hurt the farmers instead of ones who own cattle and sheep, so it only places the hardship on other people. Nature capitalized the thing about right. Of course tbe coyotes take some lambs and get calf once in a while, but when there is bounty on them they are kept killed down so close that they do not catch the rabbits and dogs as we'll as mice which is their natur- al food. If the legislature would leave the whole matter alone, it would regulate itself, and we would not have the great expense of pay ing taxes for bounties.
 Yuma Sun: The receipt of or ders from the Interior Department to begin work on the proposed siphon under the Colorado river to transfer the water from Laguna dam to the canals through Yuma valley has been the occasion of great rejoicing in Yuma during the past few days and has resulted in much accession of confidence on the part of business men and residents, an appreciation of realty values and the starting of delayed projects in this city. The news was brought from Phoenix by Project Engineer Sellew Sunday and actual construction on the siphon was begun on the California side today. Two shafts are to be sunk, one on the California side and one on the Arizona side. These shafts will be fourteen feet in diameter and will be carried we'll down into the sandstone formation which underlies the river bed at the point of crossing about 125 feet. The tunnel under the river connecting these two shafts will be 800 feet long and 14 feet in diameter. It will be carried we'll below the river bed into the sandstone The site of the siphon is about 50( feet below or west of the Southern Pacific bridge and opposite the reclamation service building. The siphon should be finished within six or eight months. This mean; that water will be delivered through the siphon to the Arizons side of the river and to the presen canal system by the first of tn, following May.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.

Every day that the trouble in the
granite industry remains unsettled
is an additional argument for a COM
pulsory arbitration law to settle Ia .
Dor disputes. There is no reason
why all of Montpelier, Barre, AMI
Mortified, more directly, and The
whole State less directly, should be
made to suffer for a quarrel that
ought to have been settled weeks
ago.
The industrial life of a State is So
closely inter-related that no impol t =
ant industry can be damaged without
harm resulting to other branches
of trade. When wages cease to be
paid buying is checked all along the
line, and tens of thousands of dol
lars cannot be taken out of circula-
ton week after week in Washington
county without working harm to the
rest of the State and far beyond the
borders of Vermont.
Compulsory arbitration has been
tried elsewhere with good results.
1t is time to put stop to
the present wasteful methods.
1t ought to be possible to
create a tribunal in which both en-
pDoyee and employer should have
confidence, that will pass upon labor
disputes, without any strikes and
lockouts, and that will deal justly
with all parties concerned.
No better illustration of the need
of such a law can be required than
the conditions we witness daily. 1t
is a good time now to begin a cam
paign for such a law, for the protec-
ton, not only of the parties engaged
in such controversies, but also of the
general public, which is very direct
ly Interested, but which cannot in
tervene for settlement under pres
ent conditions.
Today Montpelier, Barre ana
Mortified feel the effects of labor
troubles most acutely. Tomorrow,
or next month, or next year, some
in like manner. 1t is high time to
end such industrial anarchy. Let us
work from now on for compulsory
arbitration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23

ember Is it is said the Palm ear will
be sold to the highest bidder. Judg-
ing from ears of corn, it is expected
the ear will sell for more than $500.
The news dispatches also bring
another interesting corn item.
Diplomas of merit were presented
Tuesday by Secretary Wilson in his
office at the Department of Agrlcul-
ture to Bascomb Usher, of South Car
DINA, Dewitt Lundy, of Mississippi,
Elmer Halter, of Arkansac, and
Ralph Bellwood, of Virginia-all boys
under eighteen years-for special
proficiency in agricultural pursuits.
The recipients of the awards arc
among the 1880 in the boys demon
stration work in the South. Each
planted one acre of corn and cult.
waited it under instructions from the
Department of Agriculture. DR..
R. S. Knapp, who has charge of the
farm demonstration work in the
South, offered a trip to Washington
to the boy in Mississippi who should
obtain the best results. The State
Bankers Association of Arkansas
offered a similar reward in that
State. Citizens of Virginia and South
Carolina duplicated the offers in
those States. Thousands of dollars
worth of prizes were awarded this
year throughout the South, the basis
of the awards being the profits, writ
ten records, exhibits of products and
yield pr acre. The greatest yield did
not get the prize in every instance.
The diploma winner from South Car
DINA made 1929 bushels per acre,
147 bushels were made in MISSISSIPPI
pi, 1876 bushels in North Carolina and
122 bushels in Virginia. The club
averages was about sixty bushels. All
Southern States are making ar
rangements to send the prize win
ners to Washington next year.
These facts ought to arouse Ver-
monters to the Importance of raisins,
more and better corn. We can do it
if we set about the task systemati
cally. With the price of beef and
pork at the present level we ought
to raise more corn for fattening
stock. Vermont farmers are paying
out too large a proportion of their
milk checks for Western feed. Why
not give more attention to raising
corn in this State?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23
A STATE HISTORIAN.
(Rutland Herald.)

There is a not inconsiderable de-
personal fitness and ripe knowledge,
who might devote large part of his
time to preserving and arranging
the State history that is being made
every day and published in State
newspapers, as well as putting into
connected and homogeneous form the
large mass of data which the State
and the Historical Society have IN
their possession.
There are plenty of Vermont text
books, which contain the essential
facts of the States history in con-
densed form, but let the studious
person seek a single source where
all the history of Vermont is told
and he will be confronted with a
tremendous mass of documents, man
uscript, newspaper files, letters, re-
ports and correspondence, with very
few books that contain in detail the
important accounts of the States
early struggles, its developments and
final triumphs.
The history ofs Vermont has never
been written, in fact, although it Is
one of the most dramatic in Ameri-
can history, students who desire in
formation beyond the elements must
go, not to a thoroughly edited and
authentic set of volumes, but to the
archives of the Historical Society, to
private collections, to State docu-
ments or even to Canada, which has,
by the way, some Ethan ALLEN cores
pondence which has never been pub
lished.
This important work ought to be
done by some one in whom all local
students and historians would have
confidence and his work would MAJ
urally be affiliated with that of the
Historical Society in a manner that
would be of advantage to both the
State and the society
Vermont ought to have a histor :
that would contain practically every
thing ever written about the State
and the charges of the work of com
pilation would come naturally upon
the treasury of the State. The expense
would not be great and the value Vi
the work incalculable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23
CORN GROWING.

Announcement is made that Fred
Z. Palm, of Newton, Ind, has re-
ceived the prize at the National Corn
Exposition for the best single ear of
corn in the world
Another Indianan ]. R. Overstreat
OF Franklin has the best ten ears of
corn the world has even seen, ac-
cording to the judges in session 1T
Omaha who have awarded the $780,
600 in prizes offered by the show.
and have given first place in both
sweepstakes to Indiana farmers. G..
l.. kerlin Of Franklin, Ind, has also
won the prize offered for the best
bushel of corn in the world, putting
Indiana far in the lead
This is the third successive year
that the first prize for ten ears of
corn has gone to Indiana.
81 spent eleven years producing
that ear of corn said Mr.. Palm, who
has produced the worlds best ear.
MY parent stock consisted of
Reeds Yellow dent seed as male
plant, and the mother plant was from
the Alexander Gold Standard varie-
ty. The corn was planted two rows
of yellow dent and then two rows
of gold standard were detasseled
the first two years. This produced the
seed which the worlds best ear OF
corn has been produced.
MY system of farming is to rotate
wheat, oats and corn, and / used some
commercial fertilizer. Farming 28O
acres of land, the yield in the field
from which this ear was selected was
about 80 bushels to the acre.
THE ear came from among those
selected by my men, for seed, and as
soon as we examined it carefully, we
decided it was prize winner. The
credit is due to my wife or hired men
for selecting the ear. | don't take
any credit for it,"
According to l.. b. Glore, superin-
tendent of judges, the Palm ear is
not only the best ear of corn this
year, but it is finer specimen thar
the famous Pascal ear, which solo
for $3.50 two years ago.
1T is the best ear the world has
ever produced" says Prof G.
Christie of Purdue University, wht
was one of the judges. ut is al
corn, very little cob. The kernels arr
three-quarters of an inch deep ant
in perfect rows.
"There is no way of telling itl
worth, no way of estimating the in
fluence the seed from ear will hav'
on the corn crop of our State. and !
Is to be hoped some Indiana maj
will buy it,"
At. the close OF the exposition, Dec
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23

education should be broadened.
There should be made available
shorter and less expensive agricul.
tural courses. If we are ever able to
establish central Normal School
and transform two of our three
schools for teachers into agricultural
schools, we will have taken a long
step toward practical solution of
the problem. Such institutions with
model farms attached, providing
courses, some shorter, some longet,
ought to be able to turn out practl-
cal farmers
Just as we need manual training
in the schools of villages and cities,
so we need at least some elementary
agricultural instruction in the cen
trail schools of the rural communities.
More scientific agriculture Is one OF
the urgent demands of the times. We
need trained leaders. but we also
need schools FOR practical farmers.
No industry lacks trained experts
to such a degree as the business g
farming. We have outgrown the
period when it was considered cap
ital Joke to sheer at the book farm
err" We have illustrations in abund.
ance to prove that broad and scien-
tific knowledge can be used nowhere
to better advantage than in agricui-
tural pursuits. 1t would seem that
with the facilities possessed by the
Agricultural College, and with the
proximity of the Experiment Station,
that it ought to be possible, by
means of shorter courses, of vary
ing lengths, to educate men who will
cultivate the soil, men whose sue
cess with modern methods will serve
as object lessons to the communities
in which they live.
We need both the trained leaders
and the educated farmers. 1t ought
to be possible to supply both de-
mands.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23

immigration is desirable. America
has grown great and strong in part
because we have drawn upon Europe
for millions of men and women
with strong arms and hopeful hearts,
who have built up cities and have cu|-
tivated farms.
The various reports of the com.
mission over which the Vermont
Senator presides will form a body
of material on an important sub
ject which will be invaluable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

During the past few months there
have been occasional comments in
the State papers regarding the work
of the State Agricultural College, the
nature of the criticisms being that
few of the students graduated from
the institution at Burlington actually
cultivated Vermont farms. In order
to have the real facts information
was requested of the college authori-
ties ar these facts which have been
furnished to the Journal are to the
effect that the last bulletin of the
Agricultural department of the Uni
versity of Vermont shows the lines
Of work of the 50 living graduates
(not including the class of 1907
to be as follows: Farmers and
farm superintendent, %; scientific
work in department, stations and col
leges, "a; teachers, mostly of agri-
culture and kindred subjects, ~
horticulturists and students of hor-
ticulture, 4; veterinary surgeons, 4;
business, 8; physicians, s; miscella-
neous, 5. OF the last class of eigh
graduates, three are teachers of ag-
riculture and biology, and four are
employed by agricultural colleges or
the Department of Agriculture a:
Washington in agricultural investi-
gational work.
! 1t will be seen that the proportion
of farmers and farm superinten6-
ents is about one-fourth of the men
graduated. If the number of gradu-
ates acting as superintendent were
| eliminated the number of active
| farmers would be shown to be a
small proportion. The question arises
at once, Is the college doing the
work it was intended to do? AL
though nominally State college,
| Vermont does not appropriate a
large sum for it's support, the ma
tional Government contributing heav-
lily for its maintenance. The State,
however, has erected a costly build
ing for the department.
| 1t is the tendency of all agricultur-
al colleges, our own included, at the
present time, to train leaders, teach
ers and Investigators to greater
degree than farmers who shall re-
turn to the soil. AT the present time
when a knowledge OF scientific ag-
riculture is so meagre. leaders are
an imperative necessity. AS an il
lustration of what graduates of our
own STATE Agricultural College are
doing, it may be said that a Vermont
farmer boy in the employ of the De-
partment of Agriculture, at Washing
ton, investigated a very serious plant
disease, which imperiled the success
of certain crop. AS result of his
researches a remedy was found which
has saved to the farmers of the
country hundreds of thousands and
perhaps millions OF dollars. Anoth-
err more recent graduate is the head
of a large agricultural school in
New England. He has inspired many
boys to take an agricultural college
education, and has sent back to the
farm many others to practice better
and more modern methods of farm
ing
1t may be that for time this is
the best work the agricultural col
leges can do, but it seems to this
paper that the field of agricultural
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23
0ermont MMthman.
A SURPRISING NEGLECT.

Most readers of the Journal will
be surprised to learn from the al
ticle on Local Cemeteries" printed
today, that the grave of Daniel p.
literary men Vermont has produced,
which is in our own city, is unmark
ed by monument or headstone.
AS the author of THE Green
Mountain Boys" he has been known to
Vermonters far and wide, for almost
seventy years. Our first successful
novelist, one of our earliest writer's
and the author of a History of Mont =.
pelier, his name long has been q
household word in this State, and it
is a reproach to Vermont, and par
ticularly to Montpelier, that his grave
should have been so long neglected
Born in Charlestown, Mass, Oct
/, 1895, he came to Berlin with his
father in the year 1900 He studied
at Randolph and Danville, and in
1916 entered Middlebury College,
from which institution he was gradu-
ated in 1920. He went to Virginia,
engaged in teaching, studied law, and
was admitted to the bar of the Old
Dominion. Returning to Montpelier
he engaged in the practice of law.
He was soon chosen Register of Pro-
bate for Washington county, when
office, together with that of Clerk of
the House of Representatives, he
held for several years. Later he was
appointed Clerk of the County and
Supreme Courts and soon after
Judge of Probate. He was elected
Secretary of State in 1853, holding
the office until 1855. From 1916 to
1855 he was editor of the Green
Mountain Freeman. Originally a
Democrat, he became identified with
the old Liberty party and later was
a Republican. He was an ardent
fisherman and loved out of door life
In 1885 he wrote. May Martin, or
the Money Diggers," winning a prize
offered by Boston paper. The
Green Mountain Boys" appeared in
1910. Then followed Locke Amsden,
or the Schoolmaster, book de-
signed to aid in reforming the school
system of that period. THE Rangers,
or the Tory's Daughter" published
in 1851, contains an interesting &C
count of the battle of Bennington
Tales of the Green Mountains" ap-
peared in 1852; .iGaut Gdrley, or the
Trappers of the Umbago," in 1857;
and "The Doomed Chief, or Two Hun
dred Years Ago., tale founded on
the life of King Philip, in 1860. The
last works were "Centeola and a
History of Montpelier" although
he wrote not a few shorter stories
and articles. .,.r
May Martin" and THE Green
Mountain Boys" are said to have
passed through as many as fifty
editions, being republished in Eng
land, and some scenes from his books
have been dramatized. 81
The author died on June 6, 1868,
as the result of paralytic shock
1t is not right, that man who did
SO much to make, Vermont history
popular, man who added materially
to the fame Of his adopted State,
should lie in an unmarked grave.
Some steps should be taken not only
in Montpelier, but, throughout the
State, to provide a monument for d D..
P. Thompson. One year hence it
ought not to be possible to bring
such a charge of neglect against
Vermont
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23
SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
(St. Adams Messenger.)

y
1t may be that a close compari-
son of records with past sessions
will not show any material change
but it has seemed to The Messenge,
that the opening of the December
term of County Courts this year has
brought to notice an unusual number
of cases in which Judgment was pro-
nounced without trial. If this is the
fact, and if the dockets actually are
being cleaned up in this business-li%e
fashion, it speaks well for the steady
progress of a reform in court prac-
tice that has long been needed.
The Messenger believes the real
problem of court expenses does not
lie in the mere matter of paying
three or five judges of the Supreme
Court or in the number and organ.
zation of the judiciary at all, wheth :
er in the Supreme or Superior
Courts, but that it lies in the admin
istraton of the justice of the peace
and other inferior courts and in the
character of the practice of an all to }
great part Of the members of the
bar in the inferior and country
courts. The character of part of this
practice is mere shiftlessness; the
character of part of it is deliberate
design to make dollar ct the ex-
pense of the State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23

Bennington County Court resumed
it's session Tuesday morning after
the Sunday recess and took up the
case of Eliot Bishop VS.. Andrew Whit
comb. The parties reside in Sears
burgh and the plaintiff brings suit
to recover damages for injuries sus-
tanned, it is alleged, in an assault
by Whitcomb. The plaintiff is road
commissioner of the town of Sears
burgh and at the time of the assault
Whitcomb was in his employ. Bishop
had two ribs broken and sustained a
fracture of the skull, for which ne
underwent an operation at a North
Adams, Mass, hospital. There is al
so a criminal case against Whitcomb
on account of the assault which will
be heard later in the term.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23

Jos. McQuirk, formerly of Rutland,
now of Sandy Hill, N. Y, who was
hit by a baseball at a game in Rut-
land last summer, and who sustained
serious injuries at that time, was the
victim of another accident few days
ago. The freight house in Sandy Hill
caught fire, and McQuirk was among
the spectators when the roof of the
building caved in and struck a group
were injured, more or less seriously,
Mr.. McQuirk being discovered with
broken leg and other slight in
juries.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23

The second commitment to the
House of Correction at Rutland for
the month so far was made Friday,
when william V. Morse of Chelsea, was
sent from Orange county to do from
Is to 10 months for burglary in the
daytime. Morse entered a gristmill
in Chelsea about four months ago and
broke into the cash register, taking
away $13 in cash, all of which, he
claims, he has since paid back. He
was arrested soon after he committed
the offense and has been in Jail ever
since awaiting sentence. Nellie Jou-
bert of Newport, was transferred from
Orleans county jail to the Rutland in
stitution Friday. She will serve a
sentence of from so to 70 days for
petit larceny.