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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
NOTES ON HOG RAISING

The white breed Of hogs is gradually
disappearing.
Salt buried a few inches in the
ground in certain spots will attract
the hogs and confine them pretty close
iy to such places.
1t is natural for hog to root. blu,
if you want to prevent him from doins
so simple ring in the sDout will an.
swer the purpose.
1t is great mistake to mark a hos
by mutilating its ears. Better use
metal tag.
When SOW refuses to allow her pigs
to suck pour a mixture of ten to twenty
grains of spirits Of camphor with one
to three of tincture OF opium in one
ear; she will Immediately lie down on
that side and remain quiet for several
hours. No injurious effects are mo-
ticed.
If sows are closely watched at farrov-
ing time and the pigs can immediately.
be placed in position to suck they are
not so apt to devour them.
Kansas correspondent writes: INV
sows have for the past six months had
access to the sweepings from a f1our
mill They became very fat and 1 be-
gan to fear they would not produce
good litters, but the six now have fifty
four healthy youngsters, one of them
Successful hog raisers will ALWAYS
have clover or alfalfa pastures for their
animals.
Every hog pasture ought to have an
open shed on high point of ground
for shelter from the hot sun. Teava
all sides open so the air can pass over
them.
A haif-starved sow cannot, in the
very nature of things, produce vigorous
pigs.
Keep the pigs growing from the day
they are born until they 60 to the
slaughtering pen.
The man who fmagines that he can
produce fat and lean bacon In streaJ<s
by feeding one week and starving fhe
next will be disappointed.
Provide for the hogs in late summer
by sowing at intervals of two weel.
lots to cow peas. turning the anirnal,
from one to another as they come into
good growth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
A FEW GOOD SUGGESTIONS

Dirty water troughs breed Nth and
disease very quickly these hot days.
Keep them clean by a, pinch OF cop
peras now and then.
It's downright cruelty to put young
calves into a bare lot or pasture with
out shade or running water. to fight
flies.
The lambs are three or four months
old now and they should be eating
some grain along with the pasture
grass.
We won't be so free in feeding old
corn to the young pigs now, In view of
the high price of that old standby. All
the better for the pigs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

AS much blowing as possible should
be done in the fall. The soil thus
turned up is exposed to the frosts OK
winter. and they penetrate it to a con-
siderable depth. Soils that are covered
with sod are not penetrated more than
half as deep by the frosts as are those
soils that are recently plowed in the
fall.
It is desirable to loosen the earth
below the depth to which the plow
goes. This is especially valuable in
CLAW soils. When ground is plowed
well before the coming of frost the soil
will often be frozen to the depth of
twenty inches. This means that every
particle to that depth is moved to a
certain extent. The expansion of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

TYPE OF WEED CUTTER THAT HAS PROVED
SATISFACTORY IN EXPERIMENTING
BINDWEED.
ground, varying in width from eight to
twelve feet, with a series of knives
below. all inclined inward, It's draft
is light, It makes wide cut, it can
be worked close to the trees and is
comparatively inexpensive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

which are in the soil, the yourg seed
lings being promptly destroyed by the
subsequent tfllage.
Conditions in orchard lands are such
as to offer a favorable opportunity
to get rid of this weed, or at least so
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

ing for some easy method of killing
the bindweed, and in the meantime are
letting it cover the fields and festoon
the trees of the orchard. They are
looking for some magic remedy" that
will completely eradicate the weed with
a small amount of exertion on their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

It takes COW weeks, sometimes
months, to get accustomed to a new
home So strong is this native attach
ment that a change seriously affects
her temper and conduct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

An Indiana farmer has sued a rail-
road company for the loss of fourteen
hens. Assuming that each hen would
lay an egg a day for six months every
year for life, the farmer figures their
value at $68 and wants that amount
for each Of the hens lost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

Underground parts of hedge bindweed. The
piece Of rootstock - a, b. is of a preceding
years growth. The stem-e. together with
the rootstocks from 1t and the section-b, d.
are of the present seasons growth. Drawing
made from photograph taken in October.
reduce it that it does not do much
damage. Many orchards use type of
implement that has been found very
successful in the control Of the weeds.
1t consists of beam resting on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
By H. 3. cox,
United States Bureau of Plant Industry.

The only successful methods for the
eradication of bindweed must be based
on the suppression of all top growth,
in order to starve out the underground
parts. A great many farmers are look
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
why NOT RAISE MORE WHEAT?

The average yield Of corn in Illinois
is thirty-five bushels per acre, and it
takes about thirty five bushels to paw
the expenses. But good farmer can
produce sixty bushels per acre, and
at the average price this would return
a net profit of So.
The cost per acre would be: PIow-
ing. $1.04; disking (before and after).
So cents; rolling and narrowing. So
cents; seed. $1.25; drilling, 80 cents:
interest on land, $3.50; cutting and
binding. 80 cents; threshing, $1.20:
marketing, 80 cents; wear on machin-
cry, "a cents; plant food phosphorus
in CROP, s1.15-total. Sligo Thirty
bushels OF wheat at 65.4 cents. the av-
erage price for ten years, will bring
1882 net profit. IS per acre
Estimates of this kind NAV he
shifted one way or the other, but it is
evident that wheat is worth consider
ing. 1t may net as much profit as corn
and at present figures it is likely to net
more profit than oats.
If corn can be cut early a good seed
bed for wheat can be prepared by disk
ing the ground thoroughly. The ground
should be stirred deeply and made fine
but compact, and to this end must be
prepared early.
Put the wheat in with a disk drill.
one and one-quarter bushels per acre
The date for sowing in Illinois should
be near Sept. 15.-Albert N. Hume.
University Of Illinois.
Any Of the fields full of burdock?
If this pest has a good start it will
spread all over the farm by the end
Of another season. Easy to kill 1t. The
burdock only lives couple of years
If frequently moved off close to the
ground, but the best way is to take an
iron bar, drive 1t down deeply by the
side Of the root and pry the whole mis-
cradle thing out and burn it, root and
branch. Every plant thus treated is
dead and done for.
Not too early to begin getting the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

Not too early to begin getting the
animals ready for the fair. Study ths
breed question closely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

The best way to sell the skimn,.a
milk is IN the form Of tender broilers.
Williams news., 1909-04-17
Johnny's Last Speech

You'd scarce expect one of my age, in merchandising to engage, and hope to get paying trade without the local papers aid. And yet I did that very thing; I opened up store last spring; this month the sheriff took my stock and sold it at the auction block. Don't view me with a scornful eye, but simply say as 1 pass by:
 "There goes fool who seemed to think he had no use for printers 5 ink" There is a truth as broad as earth and business men should know it's worth. 'Tis simply this The public buys it's goods from those who advertise.
Williams news., 1909-04-17
The Way to Build Up a Town

More towns die for lack of conf- dence on the part of business men and lack of public spirit than from any other cause. When a man in search of home or business location goes into a town and finds everything brim full of hope and enthusiasm at the prospects of the place and all earnestly at work to build it up, he soon becomes inn bued with the same spirit, and as a result he drives down stakes and goes to work with the same inter- est. When, however, he goes to town where everyone expresses doubt and apprehension for the future prosperity of the place, moping about and indulging in mournful complaints, he naturally teels that it is no place for him. and he at once shakes the dust from his feet while he pulls out with all possible speed for some other place. Consequently, try to make live, enterprising town out of the town in which you live. When you are working for your town you arc accomplishing all the more for yourself.
Williams news., 1909-04-17
ORDINANCE NO. 5l

An Ordinance to Regulate the Closing of the Front Doors of all Houses of Prostitution, Houses of Resignation, and Bawdy Houses in the Town of Williams, during certain hours
 of each day.
 Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Common Council of the Town of Williams, as follows tO-wit:
 Section I. It shall be unlawful for any per son, living in, carrying on, or conducting any house Of prostitution, assignaton house or
 bawdy house in the Town of Williams to keep open, or to permit to be kept open, or not closed. each and all front doors to any such
 house. which such doors face or open upon any of the public streets or avenues of the Town of Williams, between the hours of o'clock in the forenoon ard o'clock in the afternoon, of any day during any year; to permit or allow the curtains to the front windows, so facing, to
 be raised during such hours, to expose to public view any of the inmates or habitueS of any such houee
 Section j. It shall be unlawful for any per son to enter, or to attempt to enter any front door of any such house mentioned in Section of this ordinance. during any of the hours mentioned therein
 Section 3. Any person violating any of the
 provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of q misdemeanor. and upon conviction thereof. shall be fined in any sum not lees than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, and shall be imprisoned in default of payment, in such fine, until the same shall have been paid, | or served out in such jail. Section 1. The common reputation of any such house, mentioned in this ordinance, shall be competent evidence as to the character of such house.
 szSect1on }. All ordinances and parts of ordl-
 nances in conflict herewith, are hereby re- pealed.
 Section G. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from, on and after day after its passage.
 This ordinance, after having been read at
 full length by the Town Clerk, was passed by vote of majority of the members of the
 Town Council. of the Town of Williams, and presented to the Mayor for his signature, and signed by him, and attested by the Town Clerk,
 on this the second day of February, A: D. 1909. F. O. POISON, Mayor.
 Attest
 H. L. APHOLD, Town Clerk ap. 10-4t
Williams news., 1909-04-17
Send the Boy to inc Public School

Jacob Riis says that he would have every father in the land send his boy to the public schools until he was at least 12 years of age In the April Housekeeper he says. as a people we are one great family. Until we thoroughly grasp that fact, until we understand that we go up or down together, rich and poor. white and black, that there cannot be a wrong in the social fabric anywhere that does not affect the whole of it, as the scarlet fever that burrows in the slum tenements stalks from the sweat shop through the homes of the rich, dragging it's black trail through mansion and hovel alike-until then the Re- public has not come to it's rights. And so that it shall come to them by the shortest cut I would have all its people meet, the whole fam fly gathered in the impressionable years, upon this common gIound where real democracy Is natural. I would have every father in the land, whether he owns millions or live from hand to mouth, send his children, the boys especially, to the public school till thev are 12 or IA anyhow. Then, if he can afford it, let him put them under special training; but until then let them touch elbows with the boys they are to live with and vote with when they are men. It will make 1t mar velously easier, for the boys who played ball together will not be strangers and can pull together at the polls. That is common sense. and Theodore Roosevelt has set an example for us all in that as in so Duch else. His boys have all gone :o the public school while they wore knickerbockers. and how much easier to keep the school up to it's standard when 1t is not his school, not my school, but our school
Williams news., 1909-04-17

ance of $27,213.65 distributed to the various school funds, checked with stub book and treasurer's cash book and approved.
 The contract for erection of steel cells an appurtenances for branch jail at Williams was awarded tn A. F. Anderson < Co. for $75S.
 The following assignments of school land leases were approved: Sec. 6, T. 15 N., R. s E., T. l.. Reese to Campbell Francis Co., Sec. 36, T. 17 N., R. II E., Henry Cooper to Campbell-Prancis Co. Sec. 36, T. 15 N, R. g E.. Oren Thompson to Campbell Francis Co.
 The following applications for lease of school lands were ap- proved: Sec. 16, T. 24 N, R. 1 E, A. s. Johnson. w. :! of s. w I and $. ] of N. w. l Sec. 36, T. 22 N, R. , E., Hudson Barter. Sec. 36, T. p N, R, ? E., T. F. Holden.
Williams news., 1909-04-17
RECORDERS WEEKLY REPORT

The following is the weekly re- port of instruments filed in the recorders office for the week end. ing April 6. 1909:
 Quit claim deed-Harry Miner to Nita Miner.
 Deed-Harry Miner to Nita Mi ner.
 Satisfaction of mortgage-Hugo Victor to s. o. Miller ct ux.
 Realty and chattel mortgage $. o. Miller ct ux to Babbitt-Po son & Co.
 Realty and chattel mortgage NJ. Reneke to Babbitt- Poison Co.
 Land note mortgage-N. A. Nc Milan, St. Louis & San Francisco By. Co., to the New York Trust Co.,, trustees.
 Chattel mortgage-Chas. Burkes ct ux to NJ. B. Hazeltine.
 Bill of sale-Baumgartner & Had state ct al to Babbitt- Poison Co.
 Warranty deed-Julius Herman ct ux to Mark Jacobs.
 Realty and chattel mortgage Frank H. Adams ct ux to- Babbitt- Poison Co.,.
 Warranty deed-Daniel Wilson 10 R. E. Hopkins.
 Realty mortgage-Ora Wheeler to William II. Beck.
 Release of three realty mort gages-David Babbitt to Gus D. Fredenberger.
 Realty mortgage-G. D. Freden- berger to David Rabbit.
 Warranty deed-C. J. Rabbit ct ux to Babbitt- Poison Co.
 Warranty deed-T. E. Pollock, trustee, to Frank Spear.
 Warranty deed-C. w. Edmonds ct ux to Frank Spear.
 Release of realty mortgage-C. J. Rabbit to J. J. Donahue.
 Release chattel mortgage-Chas. J. Babbitt to J. J. Donahue.
 Warranty deed J. J. Donahue to David Babbitt.
 Bill of sale-J. J. Donahue to David Babbitt.
 Warranty deed-Mrs. M. A. Black and husband to Bernard c. Black.
 Contract-Joseph F. Clepp with Wells H. Bates.
 Release of chattel mortgage David Rabbit to Hayden Talbot.
 Bill of sale-Hayden Talbot ct ux to David Babbitt.
 Order confirming sale of real estate R. J. Kidd to l.. E. Hart, Adm.
 Realty mortgage-Frank Spear to C. w. Edmonds.
 Release of two chattel mort gages-C. J. Babbitt to E. N. Dick inson.
 Bill of sale-E. V. Dickinson to NJ. c. Smith.
 Chattel mortgage-M. c. Smith to c. J. Babbitt.
Williams news., 1909-04-17
Wood For Sale.

am now prepared to furnish on short notice wood of any length or size. All orders left at the Smith home or at Sanders store, will be promptly filled and satisfaction guaranteed. MARION SMITH.
Williams news., 1909-04-17
SOME LOCAL ITEMS

torial appointee, will assume tht duties of his office May 1.
 The increase in postal receipts is hailed as a sign of returning pros perity; but then perhaps they are only sending out new lot of duns for last years bills.
 If you want to have teeth like pearls you must use Princess Tooth Powder. G. c. Drug Go.
 Courtland, the new Cochise coun- ty mining camp, has had a suicide a natural death, a wedding and a birth. All it needs now to become a full fledged city is a killing.
 Don't you know that A. D. s Cough Remedy has relieved more coughs and colds than any other remedy made. G. C. Drug Co.
 Bob Irvine, the travelling man. when in Williams last week. stated that gambling in back rooms had opened up in Prescott and that the gambling interests had enaged at- torneys by the year to defend them if arrested.
 FOR SALE-The Joe Johnston res- idence property, furnished; also the business property; at a bargain See McD. Robinson, at the bank.
 Dr. Kress says people could cure their taste for alcohol if they would eat vegetables. But the trouble about taste for alcohol is that people who have it refuse to cure it by taking anything but more alcohol.
 There Is no remedy that relieves as quickly as A. D. s. Foot Relief. G. c. Drug Go.
 Tom Wilson, a saloon keeper, shot and killed ex-Ranger Colema n at Sasco, Pinal county, last week Trouble over a woman was cause of the tragedy.
 A New Jersey man has gone in- sane over baseball. It's a little early yet, but he will have plenty of company soon.
 Fruit Lax never fails in constipa. tion. G. c Drug Go.
 The $500 territorial saloon li- cense, exacted in advance, caused about a dozen saloons in Cochise county to go out of business. Of the 30 saloons in Tucson, all paid the license, amounting in the az gregate to 5000.
 Any time you want your clothes or shoes fixed in hurry don't fail to send for Jess Franklin, who will call for and deliver them any day in the week.
 On the Santa Cruz river, near Sasco, Tucson capitalists are en- gagged in constructing a storage reservoir for the reclamation of about 10000 acres of fertile Santa Cruz valley land which they have taken up with land scrip. When full Of water. the reservoir will con- tain body of water two miles wide and five miles long, with a mean depth of seven feeet and four inches. The land to be irrigated has soil that will produce all kinds of crops, both horticultural and agricultural, and it is expected that within few years a prosper ous and permanent community will be built up there.
 William Satori is now in control of the Pullman saloon and he in vites the patronage of the public Best of goods sold over the bar and courteous treatment to all. Drop in.
 Johnny's Last Speech
Williams news., 1909-04-17

V. ID. JOuuSOu, ( OU J. E. Jones, contingent
 school fund ..... 6 60
 The following changes were or dered in the matter of taxes: Can eel tax on personal property and poll tax on assessment of Lee Newman for Jear 1904; refund to J. H. Donahue poll tax 1908 acct. member fire department; add to duplicate assessment roll 1905 on assessment of St. Louis & San Francisco Ky. Co.,, lands omitted through error, and make necessary corrections on assessment of above railway company for year 1902; refund F. w. Perkins amount per- sonal property tax and poll tax with penalties on same, on assess ments lots 6 to II, blk. SD, years 19O6-O7-OS; refund J. J. Donahus $27.5O interest on back taxes 1907; cancel taxes of c. s. Cherry for 1908, acct. paid in Yavapai county; cancel assessment Mrs. B. F. Lan- ders for years 1904O5-OS, acct. wid- ow's exemption; deduct from w. H. CarrolPs 1907 assessment house. hold and kitchen furniture, $75, and apply said taxes on 1908 assessment.
 The bond of R. H. Cameron for Bright Angel trail was approved.
 The bond of F. s. Breen, covering printing and publishing contract, approved.
 Sheriff's report, showing saloon licenses collected in March, $500; show licenses, $50, less , per cent commissions. Total paid to treas urer, $332 50. Checked with receipt stubs and approved.
 Statement of receipts and expen- ditures of the Bright Angel trail for the first quarter as follows: Tolls, collected, $1977, less 10 per cent due county, $197.7O, less per cent due territory, $39.54. Labor and ma terial, $35S.4O; balance. $137736.
 af ka alo oe ] of supervisors. showing school and university land rent collections from March 1 to IS, 1909, $52.65; checked with land lease book and found correct, and forwarded by the clerk to the territorial treasurer; from March IS to 31, 1909, $2; checked with land lease book, found correct and paid to county treas urer by clerk.
 The board ordered the treasurer to transfer from the county fund $46S4.S4 to expense fund. The treasurer's report showing receipts for March, 1909, to be $156O.49; disbursements $631S.77; balance of $55, ,S5466 distributed to the various funds, was checked with treasurer's books, stubs, receipts and cancelled warrants. found correct and ap- proved.
 Pursuant to law the board and district attorney proceeded to count the money in the treasury and re- turned the following verified state ment:
 The amount of money that ought to be iii the treasury, $55. 5.S64.66; the amount of money that actually is in the treasury, 55,S5467; the kind of money is. gold $3O, silver S57.15, currency $1321,74. deposit ed in Citizens Bank $11,666.S3 deposited in Arizona Central Bank 42,77S.95. The rate of interest the county receives Is ? per cent per annum on the daily balances, cred ited to the county monthly. Not more than three months have elapsed since the last counting of such moneys was made. This counting was made the 9th day of April, 1909.
 The report of the county school superintendent for the quarter end
Williams news., 1909-04-17
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Board met April 5. Present, Chairman Gregg; Member Dickin- son; Clerk Switzer. Following de- mands were allowed:
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-01-02
Hotel Arrivals.

Elk Hotel-C. E. Skogler, Gold Point;
Peter Johnson, Calander; Jesse Root;
Leslie Belor; H. D. Brundige; H. Rich
ardson; w. H. Purdy, Sawmill; Tom
Booth, Sawmill; j. E. Brown, Uncle
Sam; J. H. Williams; A. A. Allardyce,
Spokane; F. G. Duhrkop; Glen Lamb;
R, A. Sylvester, Grangeville; A. Blom-
berg, City; A. Smith. Clearwater; Fred
Smith, Gold Point mine; j. L. Patter-
sn; M. j. Little, Dixie; E. Clumsee;
Claude Parker, Dixie; D. S. Irwin,
Hump; w. D. Lovejoy; w. E. Nolan,
Golden Crown; F. w. Thornton; Frank
Cowling; George S. Young, Golden
Crown; H. W. Cone, Newsome; c. E.
McCully, Newsome; W. A. Young,
South Fork.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-01-02
THE VENDETTA
HELD ELECTION

At the annual stockholders meeting of
the Vendetta and Orogrande company,
which was held at Orogrande on De-
cember 22nd. the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President-Dr.~F. c. Sarazin.
Vice President. F. Powers.
Secretary and Treasurer-M. E
Schouweiler.
Directors F. c. Sarazin, Superior,
Wisconsin; J. f. Powers, Orogrande,
Idaho: M. e. Schouweiler, Portland,
Oregon; T. J. Scion, Superior, Wiscon-
sin; M. p. Schmidt, Duluth, Mime
sofa.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-01-02
UMAYlLLA on
CONTRACT WORK

in correspondents With this Office,
Jacob Schlosfer ot Chicago president
of the umatlla Mining company says
''hs for th Dmatilla Ne are Nork-
lng along slowly W. changed from
day work io contract work Nr Long
hae contract io rm 900 feei on our
Yeln Nhm ho gelf fhe 200 ieei done
Ne giN conDpcl ~ another ioo, apd
fHpeei to ~ iha pnpl Ne go pnap
Qul eaai onegop a 800 late 400 A.
40 ieel NJ do ths ~ plN h0 all az
Hay on ole ufa ae meai Viih aome
disappointment"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-01-02
COLUMBIA MINE
LOOKING GOOD

c.I syenson and charley Iledeman.
who ~ driving p tunnel op the lodge
ln Al ColumbH report they are poW ln
p liiile mpe Dian 300 feei and what
ole nle) haze boon able NJ aee Without
elo.acaplpe p good loQflng Qre Since
fae present Nolh Naa siarled i0e ilr.
nel Aas b0a pushed afeae 200 feei and
a graai oea NJ Wrisee lnpoYoNenf
Aas leD W.ae naualnf neV cabin
and HFly NJ all N'e eIa|m
4Ae 1o|sal.4 aaIa|W 49, tnHea
ano p Owned NJ spoiHf and N.eh.gaO
msn