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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05
ALEX. JOHNSON
Is Married In
DALLAS TEXAS
FORMER SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE JIM BUTLER NOW A
BENEDICT.

Alexander T. Johnson, of the
Southern Nevada Abstract company,
and former superintendent OF. the
Jim Butler company, and Miss Mar
ion Stanard Scott were united in the
holy bonds of matrimony on April 20
at the home of the bride in Dallas,
Texas. The Dallas News has the fol-
lowing to say about the affair:
Last evening at the residence of
the brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs
Samuel Beverly Scott, 300 Swiss ave.
nue., the wedding of Miss Marion
Stanard Scott and Alexander T. John
son of Tonopah, Nevada, was cele-
brated. One hundred guests were
present for the ceremony performed
at 6 o'clock by Rev. Cephas Shell
burne of the First Dallas Christian
church.
1.-The house was decorated with
plants and flowers. In the parlor an
arch was built up from ferns and
carnations and the wedding bell Of
flowers suspended therefrom.
THE bride was attended by her
sister, Miss Helen Scott, as maid of
honor. She wore gown of blue
silk, draped in classic lines and car
ried a cluster of white roses.
Mrs. H. G. Hall of Aguas Calis
entes, Mexico, another sister, served
as matron of honor. Her gown was
of pink messaline and she carried an
armful of white roses.
John Rennie of Denison, as
groomsman, and DR.. T. Ben Johnson,
Jr., of Towanda, Pennsylvania
brother of the groom, as best man
attended the groom.
Little Miss Mary Hall, in laces
and ribbons, preceded her aunt
strewing flowers from a basket.
THE brides gown was of white
satin, hung rempire with princess
lace and pearl trimmings. Her flow.
ers were bridal roses.
"An informal reception followed
the service and the wedding cake
placed in state among the flowers Of
the brides table, was cut.
"Mr. and Mrs. Johnson left last
evening for New Orleans, and will be
at home after June in Tonopah
Nevada.
1.-THE groom is a son of DR.. ant
Mrs. T. B. Johnson of Towanda
Pennsylvania. ~s
LAS a prenuptial honor, dinner
party at the Southland was given fol
the bridal party Tuesday evening b!
DR.. and Mrs. T. B. Johnson and Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Murray. The out
of-town guests present for the wed
ding we're Mrs. H. G. Hall of Aqua
Calientes; Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. John
son of Towanda, Pennsylvania; Mrs
John Murray of Waverly, New York
Mrs. John Rennie of Denison, an,
Mrs. l.. F. G. Pierce of Shreveport
Louisiana"
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson are now Of
their honeymoon trip through tn
south and will arrive in this city be
tween the 10th and 18th of thi
month, when they will be at home t
their friends.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05

Location notices in triplicate-
handiest affair for prospectors and
miners - contains carbon - $50 no.
tees in book. For, sale at the Be-
nanza Office.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05

The play tonight will be 'The
Merry Grafters'.' and with it's new
songs and specialties by the chorus
will be presented. This piece is as
big laugh producer as any of the
plays yet produced and the predict
ments of the grafters produce laugh
every second.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05

Promotion Stock" and Treasury
Stock" rubber stamps for sale at this
Office. These stamps are required to
be- used by the new law.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05
WHY NATIONAL BANKS ARE BEST

WHY NATIONAL BANKS ARE BEST
p They regulation control by the United States
They are frequently by Of
c O the
They reports when called the Comptrol
Currency reports verified each exami
mu obey the United States.
grounds invite business
Nevada First National Bank of TOnOPah
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05

MRS HOLLY HEISNER. the for
mer proprietress of the Unique
restaurant, has taken charge of
the Greystone hotel, where first
class board and room may be Sc
cured at reasonable rates.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05
THIRTY DAYS FOR vAGRANoY.

A. Gross was yesterday sentenced
to serve thirty days in the county
jail, having been found guilty of vag-
rancy in the justice court.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05

THE BONANZA takes copy for adj
vertisements of all kinds up to
midnight.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS

FOR SALE CHEAP room house
with good cellar. Will sell on in
stallments. No. 129 California
St., bet. Florence ave. and Main ST..
5-4-6t.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05

FOR SALE-At a sacrifice, an up-to-
date wicker baby buggy, almost
new. P. o. Box 124, Tonopah.
3-31-tf.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
CULTIvATING THE CORN CROP
Should Receive Attention as Soon a.
II Gets Just Above the
Ground.

Do not wait for the corn to get
much above the ground before begin
ming cultivation. A harrow put on
just before the plant appears above
the surface or Immediately afterward
kills millions of weeds and prepares
the soil for the tender plant when it
comes through.
Then the weeders and cultivators
should be kept going from this time
until the corn is too big to be Guilt
waited with safety. II the season Is
dry more cultivation is necessary, be-
cause it has been demonstrated that
the average rainfall is not sufficient
to grow full crop of corn without
keeping the moisture under the sur
lace, and the importance of thorough
cultivation in dry seasons is therefore
apparent.
The first cultivation may be deep,
but after civilizations should be shall
low. The old-fashioned pillow ripping
along between rows four or five inches
deep, tearing and cutting OF the roots,
has destroyed millions of bushels of
corn in times gone by. Most farmers
know better now, but there may be
yet some unenlightened man, and to
him this warning applies.
When the corn plant is three or
four feet high the fibrous roots ex-
tend from one row to another and
form a mat from three to five inches
under the surface. When six to eight
feet high these roots have formed q
complete connection between the
rows, and it can easily be understood
that a cultivator set five or six inches
deep will tear this mat apart and thus
greatly injure the growing plant.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

pound. After taking one and one:
half bottles of the Compound, ! am all
right again, and / recommend 1t 70
every suffering woman."-MRs. MAY
DEAL, Winchester, Ind.
Hundreds Of such letters from girls
and mothers expressing their gratitude
FOR what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound has accomplished Tor
them have been received by The Lydia
e. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn,
Mass.
Girls who are troubled with painful
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Ing spells or Indigestion, should take
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IF You would like special advice
about your case write o C0n1iden.
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LYNN, Mass. Her advice 10 free
and always helpful.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
FOR BETTER DIRT ROADS.

With a sandy soil and subsoil Of
clay or clay and gravel pillow deep so
as to raise and mix the clay with the
surface soil and sand.
The combination forms a sand-clay
road at a trifling expense.
If the road be entirely Of sand a
mistake will be made If it is plowed,
unless clay can be added.
Such blowing would merely deepen
the sand, and at the same time break
up the small amount of hard surface
material which may be formed.
II the subsoil Is clay and the sur.
face scant in sand or gravel, plow.
ing should not be resorted to, as IL
would result In a clay surface rath.
er than one Of sand or gravel.
A road foreman must know not
only what to plow and what not to
plow, but how and when to pillow.
If the road is of the kind which
according to the above instructions
should be plowed over its whole width
the best method is to run the first
furrow in the middle of tie road and
work out the sides, thus forming o
crown.
Results from such blowing are the
greatest in the spring or early sum
mer.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
HINTS FROM THE HIRED MAN
Good HustlInu Farm Hand Tells Of
Qualities Necessary to Make Him
self Valuable.

An Illinois man taught me how to
raise and cure sorghum. He puts In
two bushels OF seed to the acre with a
wheat drill. This gives a uniform
growth; the plant is small, and the
yield is about as heavy as from o
thinner seeding.
never worked on a farm until
was IS years old, I had always worked
in beef-packing plant in a large city,
and l suppose that is where formed
a habit Of hustling, which has stuck
to me ever since. When commenced
farming l used to listen for the sound
Of the whistle at dinner time, but
soon learned that in the busy seasons
q man cannot put In too many hours
Some of the boys in my neighbor'
hood told me 1t was a mistake to do
any more than really had to to hold
my job, but take notice that l am
now getting $25 per month and my
board and washing all the year round
while the other fellows get about SIS
and are laid off during the winter.
Farm help is becoming scarcer ev'
cry year, but think the farmer him
self is largely to blame. Too many
farmers regard the hired man as
beast of burden, and give him about
the same treatment that they do their
mules. How can farmer expect to
keep a good man II he only pays him
$40 per month, makes him sleep In
hot loft in the house or in the hay
NOV, expects him to work Is hours
day seven days in the week during
the summer and fires him in the fall
l notice that the farmer who keeps
his hired man all the year round and
treats him with the consideration
that Is due him generally makes
money and seldom kicks about the
scarcity Of labor.
The farmer VINO leads and does moi
drive is the man who gets the most
work and the best service out OF the
hired man.
The hired man who does not keep
himself neat and clean has no right to
expect to sit at the family table.
Soap is cheap and the well is usual
ly handy.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

In the interior of continents 1t is
more difficult to find evidence Of
changes in land levels, because we
have no fixed data from which to cal
culate. But in two or three places
In New England scientific men affirm
that there have been such relative
changes in the heights Of mountains
that distant peaks which were once
visible from certain points are now
obscured by the elevation Of interven.
ing peaks.
For the most part the known
changes in earth levels have been
slow. but we cannot safely infer that
that has always been the case; and
even now the elevations are some.
times by leaps, as in the case referred
to on the west coast Of South Ameri.
ca. A noted instance occurred about
twenty-five years ago, when the east.
ern face Of the Sierra Nevada noun
tains in California was permanently
lifted ten or twelve feet for a LONG
distance by a single earthquake shock.
In general, however, we may be conn,
dent that the foundations Of the earth
ART so firmly established that no sud.
den and widespread catastrophe from
changes in land level need Be feared
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
The Cost Of Raising Potatoes.

An eastern potato company in o
cost statement gives the following fol-
ten acres; Cost per acre-Seed
1881; fertilizer, $22.36: spraying
SG.58; blowing, $4.57; narrowing, S.;
planting and first fertilization, 1913;
cultivating and weed-pulling, $2.55;
second fertilization, Soc; spraying
$685.; moving tops, soc; digging
$3.50; cleaning up, 92c; gathering and
bagging. $5.4S. Yield, 220 bushels pei
acre Of firsts, liz bushels of sec
Onds; sold at 60c and over per bushel;
average cost per bushel, S2c. Labor
and machines all hired"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
Lonn Rowa Save Labor

An exchange well illustrates the i'm
portance Of long rows by telling of 9
western farmer who had plowed land
100 rods wide and a half mile long
He made three fields. each 33 rodi
wide and 100 rods long. When plant
ed in corn he found that his mar
could cultivate It the long way Of the
row in three days, while. II going the
other way, there was four days work
Just one day extra was spent in turn
ing around at the end three times u
Oftsn-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
Care Of cuItlvator stesIs.

Take fine brick dust, mix with q lit
tie water, and scrub the rust spots
using a stiff brush. After the bad
spots are we'll moistened, mix one-hali
pint of sulphuric acid in one quart
of water; mix well. then apply with
brush. Moisten the rust spots. When
dry, polish with brick dust or fine
sand. One or at most two applica.
tons will remove most, II not all, the
rust. All steel implements and small
hand tools should be treated in the
same way. It is pleasure to work
with a clean. polished implement
More and a much better quality Of
work can be done with a cleen t00l
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01


Everywhere there are indications
that the land has continued to rise
more rapidly at the north than at the
south around the basin of the Great
Lakes. The lake ridges bordering
Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron
and Lake Michigan all show this.
These lake ridges are old shore lines
formed when the ice INSTRUCTED the
drainage to the northeast, and so were
at the time of their formation level.
But now they gradually rise, SO that
they are much higher at Watertown,
N. Y, than they are at Syracuse, and
they are higher at the northeast end
Of Lake Erie than they are at the
southwest, and so as you go north
along the shores of Lake Huron and
Lake Michigan, and in the Red river
valley along the old shore lines OF
glacial Lake Agassiz 1t is found that
there has been a warping Of the
earth's crust since their formation.
G. X. Gilbert Of the United States
geological survey, after careful study
Of the facts, shows that this deforma'
tion OF the earth's crust in the basin
of the Great Lakes is still going on,
and is gradually tipping up the basin,
tending to drown out the cities that
are at the southwest end Of the lake,
and eventually to turn the whole
drainage over through the line Of the
Chicago drainage canal into the Mis-
sisslppi valley. The rate Of this
change OF level at the northeast part
OF the basin he finds to be such that
the water level at Chicago will rise
from nine to ten inches In century,
This he calculates from study Of the
bench marks that were established In
Buffalo and other places 100 years
ago. He concludes, therefore, that
unless q dam is erected to prevent 1t,
Lake Michigan will again begin to
overflow into the Illinois river IN
about 500 years; for the summit OF
the channel leading into the Illinois
river is only about eight feet above
the present mean level Of the lake
and only four or five feet above the
high water level. In 500 or 600 years
therefore, unless a dam is built, the
water of the Great Lakes will begin to
spill over into the Mississippi valley
) during its high stages, and in from
1000 to 1900 years there viii be a
continuous flow during the mean
, stages Of the water. while in about
1000 years as much will run into the
Illinois river as now runs over Ma
CARA, and in $500 years the rock bot.
tom at the head Of Niagara river Will
be 30 high that there will be no Niagara
falls for tourists to gaze upon or Tor
electric companies to utilize for light
and transportation. The basin OF
Lake Erie will then drain into the
Mississippi valley BY way Of the Chi
cago sanitary canal.
Amoug other places where consid'
cradle changes in land level have
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

seph Is. Bowles.)
taken place in recent times, we may
mention the coast Of New Jersey,
which is sinking ut the rate Of about
two feet a century. This is evident
from the advance Of the water upon
the coast line, and from the burial Of
large trees in the New Jersey swamps,
which formerly grew on dry land, but
are now sunk many feet below water
level. DR.. Robert Bell brings evidence
to prove that the land about Hudson
and James bay is rising at at rate OF
from, five to seven feet a century.
The southern coast Of Greenland lie
slowly sinking, while that Of Scandi'
navia is rising. Darwin has shown
that the eastern coast Of South Amer.
lea has been rising since the glacial
period. In 1922 100000 square miles
along more than 100 miles Of the
western coast was permanently raised
three or four feet by single earth
quake shock. In 1919 the bed Of the
Indus at its mouth was sunk Is feet
and the village and port Of Sindree
permanently submerged, while a por.
ton of the delta Of the Indus so miles
long and 16 broad was elevated ten
feet. About 1872, Following numerous
earthquakes in the vicinity Of New
Madrid, ON the west side Of the Mis-.
sissippi river, a little below its juno.
ton with the Ohio, stretch Of country
800 miles long was so affected by
earthquakes that numerous tracts
were sunk down and others raised, 30
that many new lakes and islands were
formed and the bed Of the Mississippi
much changed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

main floor and three double ways for
hay and grain.
When this barn is built on a farm
of 1,4O0 acres, there are many small
er farms that could be much benefited
by q barn this size. The day has
long since gone by when progress
sive farmers can get along without
good barns in which to store the
provender of harvest time and give
farm animals protection from the cold
storms of winter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

In the study Of nature, as elsewhere,
familiarity breeds contempt. The most
effective natural forces work 80 silent
ly and so constantly that we are In
great danger Of not being properly Inn
pressed by the magnitude Of their OPP
erations. A drop OF water is small
thing, and each one accompanies but
the tiniest amount Of work, yet as a
continual dropping" will wear stone,
and as the drops Of water which fall
upon the earth are innumerable and
come down in constant succession, the
total work accomplished surpasses the
highest flights Of imagination.
The amount of water which falls
from the clouds and flows down to
lower levels in river beds and torren-
tial streams varies greatly in differ
ent parts of the world, and in each
locality is greatly affected by special
conditions. In q mountainous coun-
try the slope is 80 steep that nearly
all the rainfall finds its way into the
stream beds, and comes down to the
plains in torrents after every shower
or every melting Of the snow upon
the summit. The effect of these tor
rents is prodigious. Stones many feet
in diameter are rapidly rolled down
the sleeper slopes and even carried
far out upon the plain, and deep gorges
are rapidly worn in the solid rock. One
will find great accumulations of bowl
ders spread out upon the lawlands
about the mouths Of all mountain
streams.
The most impressive of all gorges
produced by river erosion is that Of
the Grand Canyon Of the Colorado,
which for 300 miles flows in a chan
mel of its own cutting 5000 feet Tor
more than a mne) deep; while tribu-
taries from every side enter it through
narrow gorges OF equal depth. On the
Pacific slope there are many other
river gorges approaching this in mag
nitude. Both forks of the American
river have cut gorges through solid
slate from 1000 to 5000 feet in depth.
The canyon of the MERGED river, where
it flows through the Yosemite valley,
Is bordered with perpendicular gran
lite cliffs from 5000 to 5000 feet in
height; while the Grand Canyon Of
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
Soil Moisture.

SON moisture determinations were
made on plowed and unplowed soil al
the Delaware experiment station. On
an average for the season the un-
plowed land contained 81 per cen.
less moisture than the plOwed soil
During the autumn and wintermonthl
the subsoil Of the plowed portion con
taIned on an average 81 per cent
more moisture Than the unplowed por
ton.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
ROAD AZ Ng !@
2sssaaFEARMlAI
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BIG TENNESSEE FARM BARN.
Plans for Large Structure Intended
for PauIlst Fathers; Useful on
Smaller Farms.

This barn was planned for the large
farm of the Paulist Fathers and is 40x
120 feet. 1t has an eight-foot base
ment, has seven horse stalls, three
box stalls, IS COW stalls, open stable
for young cattle and a large sheep
stable.
A cistern is constructed under one
approach and a root cellar under the
other, while two silos are placed be-
tween the approaches.
The barn has two driveways on the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

me regular, ana
thatI would event
ually have dropsy.
/ would bloat, and
suferfrombearing-
down pains, cramps
and chills, and ]
could not sleep
nights. My mother
wrote to Mrs. Pink
ham for advice, and
I began to take
LydiaE Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
MOTHERS
WHO HAVE
DAUGHTERS
Find Help in Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound

Winchester, Ind. flour doctors
told me that they could never make
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

The Niagara gorge, extending from
Lewiston up to the present cataract,
is but seven miles and half long and
about 300 feet deep; yet this is all the
work that has been done by that
mighty river since the drainage Of the
great lakes began to flow in that direc'
ton. Recent surveys have shown that
the falls are wearing back at the rate
Of nearly five feet a year; thus show
ing that, If present forces have been in
operation constantly, this cataract can
not be over 1000 or 5000 years cid.
The Falls of st. Anthony at Minneapo.
lis have worn back, for the Mississippi
river, q narrow gorge Of similar length
and dimensions and at about the same
rate. If the other gorges mentioned
show by their vast extent the great
length of geological time, these gorges
illustrate by their diminutive extent
the regency Of some of the most mar.
velous events in geological history.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
SOLID ROCK SAWN BY WATER

By GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. NJ, e. D.
Glacial PERIOD Etc.,
b. BowloS)
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01

Kings river IL from 5000 to 1000 feet
in depth, which the river has cut in
hard granite.
We have been accustomed to speak
Of such gorges as produced by con-
vulsions" Of nature; and there are
many chasms in the earth's surface
which have been produced in that
manner, of which the valley Of the Jor-
dan is a conspicuous example. But
the impressiveness of canyons pro-
duced by the steady action Of slower
causes is even greater than that OF
those produced by a sudden convul-
sion. When one reflects upon It, how
ever, the process seems very simple,
and the effects not at all extravagant;
for geological time is long. If river
saws down through the rocks and low.
ers its bed foot in 1000 years (which
is almost inconceivably slow It would
produce q gorge 1000 feet deep in
100000 years; whereas II 1t lowered
its bed foot in 200 years 1t would
produce q canyon 5000 feet deep in
1,000,000 years. We can easily mag
inc the rate to be many times more
rapid. In comparison with the river
gorges which we have mentioned that
below Niagara falls seems very insig-
nificant and Of very recent date.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-01
LAKES no DRAIN MISSISSIPPI
BY GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. Mr IL. D.
hor 1.-THE Ice Age Of North America" "Man and the Glacial Pa

Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles)