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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
browns In Two eet of Water.

WATERFOWL, S. D., April 20.-Thrown
from the buggy when her horse took
fright at a passing train, Mrs. Ludwig
Klatt, aged seventy-nine years, land
ed in a railroad ditch, containing
less than two feet of water, and be-
fore help could arrive drowned.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Wariike Activity in Nicaragua.

Mexico City, April 1S.-Private ca.
BILE dispatches received here confirm
the advice received from Washing
ton on military activity in Nicara
qua. Troops are said to be concen.
trating in the bay of Fonseca, and
two small expeditions are reported
to have been turned back by the Sal
yadcreans.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
FIND BODY ON cow CATCHER.
other Portions of Farmers Remains
StreW 500 Tracks.

SCTGW 500 TTaCNS.
Thief River Falls, Mimi, April 20.
Last Friday Knute Mazson,a we'll to-
do farmer, met death on the right Of
way of the 500 road. When the daily
passenger train from the cities reach
ed Thief River Falls it was discover
ed that portions of a mans body were
attached to the COW catcher and on
the front of the engine.
The discovered that the re.
mains were those of Mason, who
lived near Galloway, where the acct.
dent occurred. The superstition is
that he laid down or the track and
was run over by the train.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Boat upsets; Boy browns.

Washington, April 20.-Elmer Lacy.
aged thirteen, was drowned yesterday
as a result of the capsizing Of a small
rowboat in the waters Of the tidal
basin of the Potomac river, near the
Georgetown channel.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
GRIM REAPER is BUSY.
TWO Men Commit Suicide and Two
Fall Dead.

Fall Dead.
Des Moines, April 20.-M. NJ. Elan,
fifty years old, a travelling salesman
for a st. Louis vinegar house and a
resident of Corydon, Iowa, committed
suicide by shooting at his room in
the Kirkwood hotel last night.
About the same time Axel w. Borg,
sixty years old, a grocer, was found
dead In his room. He had taken rat
poison.
James M. Sims, an engineer drop
ped dead of heart failure while cross,
ing a street, and Daniel Sullivan, an
Oskaloosa candymaker visiting here,
dropped dead in his room.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
corbett Nav Get chanc.

Chicago, April 20.-If Jack Johnson,
heavyweight champion of the world,
defeats Stanley Ketchel in their fight
on Oct. 10. he will be matched with
James j. Corbett for a battle at San
Francisco on Thanksgiving day.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Fifty Gamblers Taken

Chicago, April 20.-After breaking
in glass doors and windows with clubs
and battering down wooden doors
with sledge hammers the police raid.
ed a pool above a saloon and
arrested fifty men.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Bank Robbers Secure $1,000.

Harrisbille. Mich, April Is. Bur
glars last. night blew the safe in the
Altoona County Savings bank here
and escaped with $4,000. The thieves
overlooked $4,000 in currency. There
is no clue to their identity.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
IRON COUNTRY sEes FOR VETO.
Flood Of Protests Wired to Governor
Swamps His Office Force. \

st. Paul, April 20.-Two thousand
kilograms protesting against the
Bjorge tonnage tax bill nj calling
upon Gov. Johnson to veto it were
received at the governor office. They
came from all over Northeastern Min
nesota and from men of every WALK
in life, from mine owner and bank
presidents to teamsters, laborers and
homesteaders.
When the governors office closed
there were hundreds of messages in
waiting delivery, and they were pour
ing in all last evening at a rapid rate.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Car Jumps Track; One Dead.

Canton, Ohio, April 20.--An interur.
ban a jumped the track last night
at a curve after entering this city. and
toppled over. Herman Frease was in.
stantly killed and twenty persons
were injured severely.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
DAWSON MAN Is SELECTED.
Governor Names Former Republican
Senator for Board of Control.

Governor Names Former Republican
Senator for Board Of Control.
St. Paul, April 20.-Charles Halvor-
son of Dawson was appointed by Gov.
John A. Johnson Saturday to succeed
Leonard A. Rosing on the state board
of control. Mr.. HalvOrson came at
the governors request and had a con
ference with him, after which the ap-
pointment was announced. 1t takes
effect Immediately, and is for the re-
naming two years of the Rosing term.
The new member of the board is a
Republican and a former colleague of
Gov. Johnson in the state senate,
serving with him in the sessions of
1899, 1901 and 1902. He has been a
successful merchant at Dawson, but
retired from business some time ago.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Tue Lost with All on Board.

Cleveland, April 1S.-That the Ash
ing tug George A. Sloss was batter
ed to pieces by waves and its hulk
with a crew of sever men sunk to
the bottom of Lake Erie in the storm
OF April 6 was established yesterday
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Four Men

Glace Bay, N. s., April 17.-By the
upsetting of a sail boat in a squall at
Dominion No. G. near Port MorieA
yesterday, four men lost their liveA
by drowning. ;nd another had a mar.
row escape.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
PLANT BIG FLAX ACREAGE.
South Dakota Farmers Breaking Sod
for Record Crop.

Pierre, April 20.-Travelers on the
line between here and Huron say that
there is fully a hundred power break
ing outfits to be seen from the train
between the two towns. This means
that there will be an immense amount
of prairie sod turned over this year.
and while a part of this will be plant
ed to corn most of it will be put into
fax, which will mean the heaviest
crop of that grain ever raised in this
part of the state.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
PERSONAL.

Prof. Anton Hess, sculptor, is dead
in Munich. He was born in 1888.
Thomas ]. Hanks, first cousin of
Abraham Lincoln, died at Blooming.
ton, III. He was eighty-four years old.
Miss Caroline Holman Huidobro,
well known lecturer and writer on
South American subjects, died In New
York of heart disease.
James B. Platte, one OF the publish.
ers Of the Poughkeepsie IN. W Daily
Eagle from 1869 until the time of his
retirement in 1907, is dead of apo
plexy.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can
ada, and Joseph H. Choat have &C
copied elections to membership in the
Optimists' club recently organized In
New York.
j.. Russell Jones, United States
minister to Belgium from 1869 to
1875. died of acute bronchitis at Chi
cago. Mr.. Jones was born In Con
neaut, Ohio. in 1923.
While preparing to celebrate early
mass Rev. Joseph Fl. Singer, o. p.
the oldest member of the Dominican
order in America, M for many years
the rector Of st. Vincent Ferrers
New York, suffered a hemorrhage o.
the lungs and died before doctors
could be summoned.
Mrs. Anna Jones, ninety years old
who was said to have been a play
mate of Queen Victoria, Is dead at he
home at Catskill, N. Y. Her fatheI
was head gardener for Lord de Lislt
and Dudley at Penshur, Tunbriag'
Wells, England, where Queen Victo
ria spent much of her early childhood
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Flourinq Mill Burned

Sturgis, s. D., April 20. - The Til.
ford Touring mill was burned to the
ground. Loss, $4,000; insurance. 81.
600. The fire is supposed to have
started from sparks from a pas senger
train locomotive.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
Cir, oratorical Contest Winner.

Barron, Wis, April 20.-Lillie Aune,
representing the local high school, and
Floyd Jorstad, Rice Lake high school.
were winners in the Declamatory and
Oratorical league contest held here.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-22
CASUALTIES.

Mrs. Wilbur Baker, twenty years
old, was shot and instantly killed at
Shenandoah, Iowa, by her younger
brother, aged about ten years, through
the accidental discharge of a gun.
Three persons are dead and three
others are at the point of death in the
German Lutheran hospital at Sioux
City as a result of eating trachina
infected pork sausage. All are mem
bers OF the family of John Kolpin, q
Galva (Iowa) druggist.
In a natural gas explosion in Co
lumbus, Ohio. the front wall of
rooming house was blown out, Johr
Welsh, a lodger in the room where
the explosion took place. was divest
cd of his coat, but did not receive {
burn or scratch.
The steamer w. E. Small of the Ma
con & Brunswick Navigation com
pany struck q snag In .he Ocomulge'
river. fifteen miles below Macon, Ga,
and Immediately went to the bottom
In midstream. The cargo of mike,
merchandise Is a total loss.
The Illinois Central flyer strucl
and instantly killed Anna. Mabel an
Ruby, aged seven. eight and fourteen
respectively, daughters Of Fred Fo
dorf. four miles west of Dubuque
Iowa. The girls were walking on tn
track.
Spontaneous combustion In tn
closing room Of the City Sash an
Door company's factory at Sioux Cit
started q fire which did $4,000 dan
age to the building and contents
Fireman Lew Humphrey was enve
oped In flames when a barrel of O
exploded and was seriously burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

safer and more dependable basis; that the farmers can expect moderate and sure return every year.
 The local manager for H. Woods & Co. reports that the concern shipped 91 cars of cantaloupes from El Centro during the season just closed Ship ments up to June 20 brought net rec turns to growers ranging from $4.14 to S1.50 a crate for fancy standards. From June 20 to June 24, returns ranged from $1 to $50. From June 24 to July 1 shipments were heaviest from Imperial and Coachella valleys, run ming from 55 to 70 cars day. The bulk of the crop was marketed during that week, and the net returns re- ported by the Woods company drop ped to 72 cents.
 The Bdgewild ranch shipped through the Woods company 5000 crates of can taloupes picked from twenty acres, and ceased picking when the returns dropped to dollar a crate. Accord ing to the local manager of the con- mission house, the Edgewild averaged $1.5O a crate, which would aggregate $7,50O returns on twenty acres. The vines on that field were started un- der glass, and unusual care was given to cultivation and to picking and l m nlxinp The Edpawi1d natoh was mi an ordinary cantaloupe field.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31
PERSONALS

Ex-Judge Ansel Smith of Bl Gen. tro, has been camping with his son on Mill Creek, San Bernardino, for the past month, and will go up to Bear Valley and prowl around in the woods for the rest of the summer.
 Y
 City Treasurer Jauman has return ed from Los Angeles, accompanied by John E. Marble, Los Angeles bank CT, who is looking for opportunities for investment in the valley.
 < < *
 County Superintendent of Schools Carr, is busy on his annual report to the State Board of Education
 < < x
 True Vencill, of the First Nationa Bank, has gone to the coast on a va cation of two or three weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

ket, great quantity of melons were permitted to rot in the fields last year, that does not wholly account for the difference in the number of crates be stated that melon growing this year was conducted more scientifical- ly and with better results than last year. A further improvement in the growing and a still further increase in the yield per acre ought to be shown in the future. The improved quality of the melons this year over those of last year is attributable rather to the greater care exercised by the grower than to any difference in climatic con- ditions.
 The Press does not guarantee the accuracy of the estimate made above that the grower will net, above all expenses, including picking and pack ing 50 cents or more, but if it is cor rect it would seem that the exper- fenced melon grower, who has suitable soil and who endeavors to produce a high quality of melon, can sareiy de- pend on a net profit of $100 or more to the acre in normal years, sucn as this.
 The cantaloupe grower in Imperial Valley must pay more for his crates than the Eastern grower; more for his labor and on an average, more for his land He is much farther away from the market and must pay a great deal more to have his melons hauled thousands of miles across the country To offset these disadvanta- ges he has superior soil and superior climate and can produce more crates to the acre. >
 Estimates of possible returns to the acre based on the phenominal prices brought two years ago would be just as wide of the mark as others based on the prices of last year, when the market slumped early in the season. Imperial Valley farmers, at the end of this season, will have acquired much valuable information regarding the possibilities of the industry. They now know that it is foolishly optimistic to expect $500 or $500 an acre, but on the other hand, it is reasonably cer- tain with a careful handling of the crop. and scientific methods of grow ing, that $100 an acre can be depend ed upon as safely as with any perish able crop.
 The market for cantaloupes has pre- scented several interesting phases this year Last year the first few cars broke the market entirely, This year the market held up we'll for twenty days and enabled the distributors to place their cars with some degree of certainty. As can always be expected, the early melons brought by far the highest prices, although the cost of 1 getting the earliest melons to East ern markets by express was in some cases so great that the net returns to the grower were only little more rnan those shipped later by frieght.
 The bulk of the early melons went from the Brawley district and the av- craze price for the season was great CT there than in other sections of the valley. Date for date, melons shipped from the southern part of the valley brought as much, or more.
 Commission men say that the season
 has proved that 1900 cars can be dis. tributed to advantage and most oi them are confident that the canta loupe business is now getting on s
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

the latest brood that was matched in summer
 Generally speaking, the cotton plant makes three crops the bottom crop, and middle crop, and top crop. If the. season be long and favorable there is a considerable crop made by those late blooms which crown the top ot the plant The bottom crop grows very fast and puts on squares more rapidly than the young weevlis can consume. This may mature before the weevils have multiplied sufficiently to destroy it.
 By the time the middle crop comes on, the weevils are ready to "sting" the immature bolls. Ana there is no such thing as gathering top crop if the weevil is in the field.
 The planters of the lower Mississip pi Valley who are just entering the boil weevil fight have one great ad- vantage over the Texas farmer; they have the benefit of Texas experience and the years of intelligent study that have been given to the pest.
 But no long distance advice is sut- ficient. One farmer may read the government bulletins and profit by them; the other 999 must be shown. So the states, counties, and Federal Government united in establishing ex- perimental farms to teach the people how to raise cotton under Weevil con- ditions. The experts recommend a more intensive cultural system, the chief features of which are: first, re- duced acreage; second, thorough cul- tivation; third, early maturity of the crop fourth, various preventatives against the multiplication of the wee vii.
 The problem of the South at the present time is, first to raise cotton at all; and, next, to develop an early maturing seed that will produce cot ton of not less than one inch to one and one-s e-sixteenth inch, on hill land If this problem cannot be successfully met, then the spinners of the world must go elsewhere for cotton to make their finest fabrics.
 The boil weevil has come to stay The most formidable enemy of agri- culture that has ever appeared in the history of the world is striving to de- stroy the worlds most important sin gle product. Cotton represents more than half the agricultural exports oi the United States, bringing us back more money than all other agricultura products combined
 The boil weevil is eating into the lives of the mill operatives in Caro-. lima, New England and Lancashire; he is gnawing at the railroad and bank ing dividends of the nation. His ray ages help to fix the value of labor fol East Indian coolies, Egyptian fella- heen, and cannibal producers of vol. unteer cotton in Central Africa.
 If the farmer in Alabama. Georgia and the Carolinas hopes to escape, he has only to take map of the South west \and mark the steadily widening circle of disaster The weevil ha' gone that far, and he will surely trave a bit farther. Within fifteen years as certainly as the sun shines, he wil be in every field where cotton grows
 Planters east of the Mississippi ma, hear the warning, but they will no 4eed it, No community has ever pre- pared for it in advance, Each, for 1t self, must take its own clubbing. a Texas took 1t
 They will meet in conventions an pass high sounding resolutions. Mex year, when they meet again. they wil
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

find that nobody has done a thing, ex- cept the weevil. MT. Weevil held no convention and passed no resolutions
 but he is forty miles nearer, just the same. When the calamity comes, the farmer will be unprepared, and must suffer.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

WANTED-Man and wife for ranch work Call at H. O. Sisson ranch, two and half miles east of El Gen.
 tro, or write C.. s. Mahan, El Cen
 tro. 17-1t*
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31
TIRE WEATHER
WATER IN THE RIVER

Mean daily gage heights and dis charges of the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona, for the week ending Saturday, July 24, 1909.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

,tANTED - New alfalfa hay we'll cured. Fred Fuller, Assessors of-
 fee. 5-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

PROOF AND APPLICATION PAPERS for Government land prepared. Sam HeI Marks, AZ Chamber of Com meroe Bldg, Los Angeles, Cal, for merIy with County Clerk EldeS and late of tAa U. a. Land OfnOoN
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

WANTED--By man with family, to get proposition from some land own
 CT in regard to hog ranch proposi-
 tion. Address F. w. L., care Press Office. 16-4t*
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

BRUE O. HARRINGTON. Land Grad er-assessment work in all parts of the valley specially Imperial,
 62-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

WANTED-Man and wife, man for hay baling woman for cook. Ad- dress Chas. Hammond, Fl Centro
 5-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

WANTED-Twenty to forty shares of water stock in Water Go. No. 4. Write to B. E., Box GA, El Centro.
 16-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

WANTED-Barley or Alfalfa hay to cut and bale on shares. Call on or address Cbas. Hammond, 1 file north of Bl Centro, Psr6isr ranch.
 50-d
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

GEN. SHHRWOOD-3 yrs, old. Race record 3:2Sh. Only stallion in val
 ley with record, and the honor of winning five straight races as a three- year-old. El Centro Stables. Saturdays; Imperial, Wednesdays;
 at ranch, mile south of Imperial, on DahliA, every forenoon. B. l., Elliott, owner, b-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

WANTED-Cook to cook for two on
 ranch; an easy job. 3 miles east of
 Heber. Harry Cross. 111tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

WANTED--Woman to assist in house
 work. Cali at the Press office. 4 -tf
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MISCELLANEOUS LINERS.

LOST-1ime book Finder please re- turn to J. L. Travers, El Centro.
 17-1t*
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RAvAGES OF WEEvIL
 THE SOUTKS PROBLEM

(Continued From Page One.)
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WANTED-Cattle to pasture; 120 acres alfalfa. Lots 26 to 100 head. J. Wm. Anderson, NIB. corner Dahlia Ditch No. and Silsbee Road. 16-3ts
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WANTED

WANTED-A Japanese wants job on a big alfalfa ranch. Speaks English and drives horses. Apply to Frank Izimo, in Dunaway & Lowe Drug Store. 17-3t*
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

FRANCIS l.. SELLEW,
 Project Engineer.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

FOR SALB-Thoroughbred and high
 grade shorthorn bull, from to IS
 months old Fine stock at bed rock prices o. N. Shaw, 4 and half miles north Holtville. 48-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31
ESTIMATED PROFITS ON
 THE CANTALoUPE CROP

Continued From Page One.)
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

TO LEASE-For corn. 80 acres of
 land in good shape, hog fenced. W.
 E. Wilsie. 8-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

FOR SALE-One 2-year old Holstein
 bull at my ranch, miles northeast of Ell Centro. Arthur s. Fell. 11-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

FOR SALE-40 head dairy cows. F. J. Bates, Heber, four miles south
 west on Main Canal 8tf
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-09-20
TAFT BREAKFASTS
WITH CUMMINGS
Addressed Great Throrg at Des
Molnes--DetaiIs Of Proposed
Change in Antitrust Law.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. 20.-Giving a
detail OF the changes, which he will
recommend TO congress, In the inter
state commerce and antitrust laws.
President Taft, today. addressed
monster open air meeting here. The
president announced that he would
urge the establishment Of an inter
state commerce court, to consider the
appeals from the rates fixed By the
interstate commerce commission. He
will also recommend legislation 10
prevent one interstate railroad com
pany from owning stock in compet-
ing line.
Taking up the antitrust law. the
president declared he knew Of no dis
tinction that could DO made between
good and bad trusts. for he regard
ed all combinations to suppress com.
petition to be in the same category.
President Taft breakfasted at the resi-
dence Of Senator Cummings.
Legislation to prevent the over Is
sue Of stocks and bonds and the water
ing of stocks also win be strongly rec
commended by the president.
An incipient blaze, in the kitchen
Of the Maynower, Taft's private car.
early this morning. caused commo-
tion among those who knew Of it's
presence. The attendants quickly ex-
the. flames with practically
no damage The president did not
awaken.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-09-20
Will Anchor of Sandy Hook Tonight - Great
Reception for Explorer and Week Of Cele-
bratiOn in His Honor = Peary Supporters
Believe DenOuncement of DR.. Cook wGs
Due to Whitney's Failure to Tell
That Pole Had Been Found.

tional prestige, he should be compell-
ed to prove his own case; he should
publish at once a preliminary nara
tive to be compared with mine and
let fair minded people ponder over the
matter while the final records by
which my case may eventually be
proved are being prepared.
Il know Peary, the explorer AS
such he is a hero in Arctic annals
and deserves the credit Of a long and
hard record. To Peary, the explorer,
I an stffl willing to tip my hat, but
Peary's unfounded accusations have
disclosed another side to his char
acter which will never be forgotten
When Peary telegraphed that he had
nailed the Stars and Stripes to the
pole, ! Immediately sent congratula-
tions then believed, as do now.
that his work over a new route far
east Of my line Of travel was new
conquest. Of great Importance aid of
course that his position at the pole
would supplement my work with valu-
able data. There is room enough and
honor enough for two American flags
at the pole.s