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The daily sentinel., 1910-04-21
(By T. j. DYER }
Especial to The Sentinel

Washington, April According
to the Hon. Fred bennett, commits
sioner of the general land office, in
an address which was printed by or
der of the senate as public docu-
ment, almost exactly one-half of the
public domain remaining to the peo-
pie in Alaska,-36S,0 S,016,03S acres;
four times enough to give every man,
woman and child in the United States
one acre apiece. Something more
than a billion, or 1,117,71S,506 acres
has been disposed of in one way or
another since 1776, a period of 134
years The remainder is going rap
idly, and 1t is pretty evident that it
will be short time before there will
be gerat demand for public land in
Alaska. In fact the demand for coal
and timber land there has begun and
in some localities great success is
being made of agriculture. What the
future of Alaska will be no one can
prophesy, but 1t is certainly destined
to have future far different from
what most people believed possible
only short time ago. In fact it
should support a bigger population
than Norway and Sweden.
The Red Cross.
1t was learned the other day by a
committee of congress that 1877 or
ganization have the privilege of using
the red cross on white field as their
insignia. Those who supposed that
the organization with which the Am
erican Red Cross society is affiliated
has a monopoly of the red cross seem
to be greatly in error One object of
the hearing of the committee before
which this fact was brought out was
to stop the indiscriminate use of the
red cross as an advertising device.
Spending Money for Charity.
Very recently there has been some
very frank criticism of the manner
in which the Associated Charities of
Washington relieves" the necessi-
ties of the poor. A prominent mer-
chant made the public assertion that
the institution collected $4,000 dur
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the requirements of the
Forest Service y,
The yoyernme

The government is
large sums annually foH
of publicity. With sevl
newspaper correspondent
writer's, local reportersI
whose business it is tot
and prepare 1t for pl
would seem that WashfnI
equipped in the line of
OF these channels of mel
are insufficient to meetE
ments of the governmef
its various department.
constantly increasing al
licity agents, who are III
under various designatios
inspection of the record
necessarily disclose al
the services rendered.
the forest service for "A
year shows that Mr.. PHI
ed a little more than ssi
that year for publicity.
in the report shows thu
900 of this was paid Il
addresses. Without delt
figures of the other dst
might be remarked thati
conduct their publicity 4
similar lines the expensI
ernment would run up 1
million dollarsa year.
or course, certain
work is necessaty to pred
out the information whit
public, but the forest ,
other departments of the
have gone far beyond 4
ment. They seem to thN
tial that they should con.
aganda, exploiting themi
necessary. flying to their
through such medium as
able to control. The ID
does not itemize its sS3,t
account, but 1t represent
ers that the money was I
in editorial salaries, the
of laudatory matter. an, /,
button. The latter item
be an extravagant one, 4
the forest service like al
ernment services, is ablei
all matter under a frank
evident that the time is !
congress will have to call
the press bureaus maints
ishly at government expo
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THINGS WORTH KNOWING
ABOUT WASHINGTON
MOVEMENTS

ing the year ending September 80,
1909, and expended about $4,000 of
1t for administrative purposes. Not
one cent in actual money" said he,
was given to the poor of this city by
the Associated Charities" The ex-
penses included $1,000 in salaries,
S1.260 for rents. $61S for telephones,
1854 for postage, S435 for car fares,
81 ,O29 for stationery and printing.
The Citizens Relief association during
the same year collected about $500
and spent 81, 200 for coal and wood
$4,000 for groceries, $1,000 for milk
and eggs, S341 for shoes and clothing,
800 for meals and lodging The
newspapers during the past year have
contained advertisements from time
to time appealing for funds for the
Associated Charities, which suggests
that 1t is getting harder to secure
money for an administrative organ
ization of that kind, and that the
newspapers are more susceptible to
appeals for assistance than the tele-
phone company, the street car COM
panies, the postoffice department, or
professional charity workers, for no
item for advertising appears in the
expense account that was made pub
lie.
Smuggling Chinese.
1t Is stated that the Chinese are
again flocking across the Mexican
border to the United States. These
contraband immigrants are reported
to find little difficulty in evading the
immigration officials, partly because
there are so few guards along the
line. The appropriation for the I'm
migration Service was $2,40O,0OO
this year, and a deficiency of $780,
600 is expected by the end of the
fiscal year. June 80, although econ
omy is being practiced as far as pos
sible. This policy results in reducing
the number of men on duty at the
immigration stations and along the
border. Inspection of immigrants is
more thorough than formerly, and 1t
Is urged that better class of in
spectors is needed to make sure that
intending immigrants comply with
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Match Is Renewed.
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Chicago. April 21.-The Zbyszwo-
Roller wrestling match, tentatively
cancelled when Roller wrenched his
shoulder during his bout with Ma
hmout, will be staged here on April
29 as originally scheduled, 1t was
announced yesterday. Roller is re-
ported in good form again and to
have won all of his recent matches.
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Papke and Thomas to Box.
Especial to The Sentinel. ]

San Francisco. April 21.-Promot-
er James Coffroth has matched Billy
Papke and Joe Thomas to box 25
rounds before his Colma club May IA.
He has promised the winner a bout
with Stanley Ketchel for the cham
pionship.
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N. Weinberger and SC
berger. of Idaho Springs
visitors to the city today
engaged in the mercant
in that town, and are We
prosperous merchants of
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Work in the first rar
last night at a busy me.
knights of Pythias.
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Mrs. Cora Tevis Groves is still very
i'll with fever at St. Matthew's hos
pital in this city.
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The Chamber of Commerce board
of directors will have busy regular
meeting tomorrow night.
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For heavy hauling call on BartoS
= Terrill, the nverymen.
The daily sentinel., 1910-04-21

Don't worry about u
affairs but see Fred Mant
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30

made available extensive tracts. ut
has proved beyond doubt" continues
Manufacturers Record, the prac-
ticability Of draining the territory that
was deemed impossible by not a few
individuals who witnessed the begin
ming of the work, but this has been
followed by the establishment Of q
State Drainage Association Of which
John A. Wilkinson is president, n
the enactment of a drainage law
which provides for the reclamation
of lands anywhere in North Carolina
as may be desired by a majority Of
the owners thereof. The Messrs. Will
kinson, natives Of the Old North State,
as they are, AVE Gin addition to IN
.creasing the value Of their land, and
that, too, with a profit on their labors),
the keen satisfaction of knowing they
were the intelligent and
pioneers in a great work which Will be
of extensive benefit to the common
wealth and their fellow citizens, be-
sides opening up to settlement vast
tracts in which bear, deer. and other
wild animals now roam, n where the
timber and underground are 50 thick
that it is practically Impossible for
human beings TO make their way
through them without first using the
axe and the knife to cut openings anu
then in the undrained sections n
must splash along in water.
1.-The farm lands provided by the
cutting and marketing of timber and
the draining and clearing OF the soil
are among the richest III the United
States. The soil is a black ioan1, gem
orally from four to seven feet deep,
but sometimes it is ten feet. Then
after it is drained the water Inderfy-
ing it makes it practically PROOF
against drought. and only an excep-
~tiona!ly long dry spell will show its
effects upon growing crops.
1T was about three years G that
the Wilkinson brothers began tAeir
extensive drainage work. whick was
to place them so prominently before
the people of their State and 7~aS also
to result in giving the country Ut large
practical demonstration OF
what breadth of vision, energy and
enterprise existed among native South
erners. They had developed some
land in a small way for several years,
but now they obtained q large steam
dredge and began cutting a canal 30
feet wide and eight feet deep. The
earth was made into a road
on one side of the canal, and this plan
Of building a canal and laying the
foundation for a roadway at the same
was followed in all the rest of
their dredging work. so that both
and canals, side bv side, now
traverse what were until recently
making this first canal. ample evidence
soon found to prove that the land
was susceptible Of drainage. Only one
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30

life of Wilkinson, and wrestling a
livelihood from his fathers clearing
resolved itself into a battle against too
much moisture. The family victories
were often near defeats with tragedy
always in the offing. When Wilkin-
son had grown into young a
railroad was built into the section for
the sake Of the timber it contained,
and the young native son made a for
tune in lumber in the fifteen years
hat followed. Incidentally he sold
lumber the country over and got the
viewpoint Of the great outside. He
began to think OF applying what he
had earned to the lands Of his native.
heath. Scientific agriculture, prac-
teal drainage offered opportunity FOE
experiment He tried these on the
farm Of his boyhood. The result was
such crops as Illinois never dreamed
of. He grew seventy-fve barrels or
potatoes and followed with seventy
five bushels of corn the same season
and sold the crop for $500 to the
acre. He netted $4,000 on a field of
cotton containing $50 acres. Sucn
staple crops as corn and cotton YIELD
ed regularly $50 TO the acre and bet
ter. Wilkinson determined to bring
the possibility Of this yield to that
100000 acres of land that skirted the
coast the two sounds He
called upon the National Department
of Agriculture to investigate its soils,
esta it's levels and tell him the
manner in which it should be drained
and armed The soils were found to
be ten feet deep with the vegetable
deposits Of age, the lands hig
enough for drainage and the matter
Of farming merely an application OF
the principle OF thorOughness. WIKI
inson secured legislation which au-
thorized the formation OF drainage
districts to bond themselves for their
own Improvement upon a vote OF
three-ffths of the acreage. lie
gained control of the necessary
amount of land to drain the whole
region and today his dredges are pIoW-
ING great canals through the forest
covered swamps twenty feet wide,
eight feet deep, and but a mle apart
HIS men are Telling the TIMBER IN
tracts of 5000 acres at a time.
a match is being set to 1t When dry
and without cultivation, corn IS oelhs
n,anted in the loose loam ana a crop
raised among the charred logs anu
ctumns that pays for the whole opera
ton This accomplishment Is mui-
tinlvipo the value Of the lana py
twenty and its productiveness oy one
tbo,sand It is converting the most
desnised region in the United states
ip+o a armin community when WI.
lot M Hays, assistant secretary VI
a~ericuIture. says will surpass Iowa II
i making wealthy the eoon huntths
companions Of the youth Oh the ih~'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30

creeks, natural streams unnln
through this property with the canals
dredged up to the heads of the three,
Systematically draining the entire ter
rjtOrv and showing in every farm the
depth of the rich loam- The Wnkin-
sons bought this land to develop and
sell. They could make four or five
hundred per cent by keeping it and
developing all Of it themselves, but
their original determination to help
their section of the State by bringing
to it the right kind of holds
firm and the prospect is that there Will
be many to go to hat section in the
next thirty days with a view to set
Ting. And it is almost a certainty
that those who go will be conquered.
The fan and winter will find many
farms being cleared and next spring
a great cloud Will rise from the east
telling OF the destruction Of the thick
growth now covering the land and
foreteling the growing of the greatest
crops that the newcomers have ever
seen, That thousands of forest acres
TO-DAY will be thousands Of acres OF
crops a year from today, that lands
now producing no revenue will then
De bringing to many families a bOun-
uiui livelihood, means a great change
IN conditions in this section-a change
lor which the State owes much to the
t"o UEOthfrS who have devoted tnelr
Cile and money in efforts to trans
Iofm their home section from a will
u'rneSs Of trees to waving fields or
growing crops.
me transformation of the forests
I''' the most fertile and desirable or
arms IN bringing to this section a
ne" people who will find better farm
ny conditions VIII also give outlet to
ne hsh and oyster market at Bel
n@fen. The seafood and truck here
MAKE hVlng cheaper than far inland
Gnu me proximity of the farms to the
"iFlAS and enterprising town of Bel
''aNth with its big school an the con-
.9"iehces Of city life are additional
attractions.
LIE newspapers and magazines OF
,"S country lave for the past three
9 devoted much space telling OF
~ work Of the Wilkinsons as it has
~ ''HSed from one stage to another.
press has been united in praise
~ me enterprise and public spirit
l mas actuate the two brothers
- lueIr great undertaking which has
o.0iuuonIzed conditions in their
4ona4I9hlty. Tha they have taken a
- opNSd country and so transformed
fl @t Ihere car be no overflow after
~ I'hS rainy spells that have visited
tbo. 'puhtry for the past few years.
va me porous soil yields up this
crog 10 n canals and gives to the
nm'PS only the proportion needed for
irp' growth shows that the Will
''"" iaIth in the soil has been re-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30

warded. They have opened m this
anu mat Will from time Of its settle
iheht double and trebIe in yalne v1tbf,
the next year. Day and night +heir
labors and the labors Of The nm
uredS OF employees, three locomotives
TWO dredges and five skiGdine ma.
tnines nave been Winning ont
,ie lorest and Transforming the great
Aioemarle Swamp and now there IS
anotner picture that attracts the ewes
OF the whole country.
me Washington Post tells Of the
statement from the Agricultural De-
partment of the National Government
mat this section will be SO fertile hat
the results viii Iowa an in
an editorial last September on the
subject: What One Man Can Do
said
John A. Wilkinson lives at Bel
maven. N. c.. He was born on a back
woods farm, seven miles from his pres
eht residence. That was before Bel
maven came into existence. for Wiki
lnson has built that prosperous town
OF tour thousand people. That sec
ton of North Carolina which lies be-
tween Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds
was practically a swamp in the early
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30
DAFT OF WILDERNESS
NOW FERTILE FARMS
continued from page tWo.)

-..:z.7 into sections of six hundred
cl'. -4,. acres or a mile square, and
#nu IS cut up into eighty acre piats,
.+.h gives a fourth Of a mile front
acs On the road and canal and goes
.L one half mile These sections
n 10, he cut up further into sixty, forty
W.. .rrantv acre farms should it be
t,,rd that any want it that way. But
gart. farm will face the road and
,,,ra1 and the drainage system viii
t%srabv be maintained for all
~he crops here are proof sufficient,
4b-ea DeoDle say. that there are no
ends in us country that will eclipse
hose as to fertility and the life OF the
e,ir 70 produce crops without ferti-
,tzors The depth Of the heavy black
ioam is never less than four feet and
IN the average ranges from seven to
ten feet. This is in evidence from
',1 tn end of the big canals and the
1s+sr9I ditches throughout the entire
DroDertv. Pantego, Broad and Pungo
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30

who is doing this work. 1t is feeding
Inc multitude and building a monu-
Inent to It's moving spirit that will en-
oufe forever. Yet, men have been
roWlng up in this section for three
Rundred years and missing its oppor-
tunltias. The possibilities We're not
apparent. Similar chances rest latent
N 8 thousand communities for the
men who are able to see them"
Shortly after the appearance Of this
article in the Washington Post and
similar articles of recognition of the
valuable services rendered his section
n otAer large newspapers, The Manu-
lacturerS Record sent s. q. Wilmer
70 BelhaVen to see the great work and
tel the story Of what the Wilkinsons
had accomplished. In May. that mag
acme appeared with photographs IL
lUstraung the work of reclamation
and showing the remarkable crops
that were being raised on this fertile
land.
Writing months ago. Mr.. Wilmer
said that while the amount of land
which the Wilkinsons had the clear
ed and cultivated e, 900 acres) was
small as compared with their total
holdings, their drainage system had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-15
This Homemade Cough
Syrup ,U;l1 Surprise Yo,.
Stops Even Whoopins Cough
Quickly. A Family Supply
at Small Cost.

Here is a home made remedy tina
takes hold Of a cough instantly and
will usually cure the most stubborn
case in "a hours. This recipe makes
a pint-enough for whole family.
You couldn't buy as much or as good
ready-made cough syrup for $3.50.
Mix one pint Of granuiated sugar
with u pint of. warm water. and stir
2 minutes. Put 2A ounces Of Pinex
(fifty cents worthy in pint bottle.
and add the Sugar Syrup. This keeps
perfectly and has pleasant. taste
children like it. Braces up the appe-
title and is slightly laxative. which
helps end cough
You probably know the medical value
Of pine in treating asthma. bronchitis.
and other throat troubles. sore lungs.
etc. There is nothing better. Pinex is
the most valuable Concentrated COM
rich in guiaicol and all the natural
healing pine elements. Other prepar-
atoms will not work in this formula.
The prompt results from this mex
pensive remedy have made friends for
it in thousands of homes In the United
states and Canada. which explains
why the Llan has been initiated often.
but never successfully
A guarantee of absolute satisfaction.
or money promptly refunded. goes with
this recipe. Your druggist has Pinex
or will get It for YOU. If not. send to
The P;nex Co.. Fl. Wayne. Ind.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-15
Southern Io1un Items

for the hosting of iron or steel beams
about the upper surface of the cellar
walls. Some of the granite has already
been set at the rear of the structure
and this work Will be prosecuted with
haste to get as much of the masonry in
before the frost stops the work. An
accident to the top of the large der
rick has put that mechanism out of
commission for few days and occas-
toned some delay to the work. Most
of the filling in about the walls along
Third and Court streets has been fin
ished and the walls are thus protected
from frost.
MeehaniesviIle.
u. c. Gillilland and son Haven, and
Walt Dougherty went out in an auto
mobile to the bridge which Caldwelrs
engine went thru, to view the wreck
age, and when within q quarter Of
mile OF the bridge the auto ran into all
inch rope which had been stretched
clear across the road for the evident
purpose of diverting vehicles into some
other road AS it was about dusk and
the auto lights were not lit the rope
was not visible until the party came
within a very few feet of it, too late to
stop the car. The glass wind shield
was up and this fact saved the occu-
pants of the car serious injury if not
broken necks. The rope struck the
Shield and skidded up the rods which
supported the shield and then came
down with great force on the bodies OF
the two men in the front seat Mr..
Gilliland and Haven. The former was
struck in the ribs and it was feared
several of them were broken. Haven
n a n ~ ri hn sta arir hoo
and the rope badly bruised his arms
Dougherty was not injured. The car
was considerably damaged.
Daven port.
Duke" Rowlands, whose popularity
bestows the title upon him. came into
his own in Denver. while on his va
cation recently. Duke" is civil en-
gineer in this city, and has been over
from the John Bull country only two
years. His serene and genial dlspo-
sition and his general good fellowship
among his acquaintance in Daven-
port was the cause of the appellation,
and as he didn't object, it stuck. Duke
made "Trip to the west with a couple
of friends and when he returned he was
bubbins over with the triumph which
came to him. On the train his friends
We're particularly jealous that his title
should be sounded about in order that
it might enter other cars and on the
observation car the report went the
rounds that the Duke of Lancaster"
was on board. The central attraction
of this piece was not willing to apply
the erasure to the error and as a con-
! sequence he was relicitated and made
the lion of the hour in Denver, a ban
quet being given in his honor at the
leading hotel. speeches being delivered
after the viands had been disposed Of
After the reception the duke" allowed
each Of the distinguished hosts to
shake his hand and invited each to join
him in fox hunt and a Toll around the
dukedom should they ever visit Heng-
land
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-15
Toledo News Notes.

Special to Times Republican.
Toledo. Nov 15-Hi Cole, of base
ball fame. with his wife. is out from
Chicago to visit Mr.. Coles mother and
sisters.
Mrs.'M. d. Riley is home from "A visit
with her sons in Amboy. MINI.
Will Hid and wife. of Des Moines.
are visiting at the William Hid
home.
Leon Berger. the 15-year son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Berger. died at his
home west of town last Wednesday.
Last spring he contracted pneumonia
from which he never recovered. few
days ago an operation was performed
thinking that relief might be obtained.
but to no avail. Funeral services were
conducted at the home Friday after
noon by Rev. Roscoe Sires. assisted by
Rev. G. l.. Nye. Interment at Wood
lawn cemetery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-15
CONSTRUCTION OF DAM AT WEB.
sTER CITY WILL MEAN FINE
ARTIFICIAL LAKE.
14o HORSE POWER
WOULD ALSO BE DEVELOPED
Chairman Miller, Of State Drainage
and Waterways Commission Reports
That Dam Proposition Across Boyer
River is FeasibIe-Wouid Mean Much
for Webster City.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Webster City, Nov. 15.-Hon. A c.
Miller. of Des Moines. chairman of the
Iowa state drainage. Waterways and
conservation commission, has written
II. NJ. Sparboe, secretary of the Web
ster City Commercial League to the
effect that the report of the survey OF
the Boone river shows that this city,
by constructing a dam. could have a
fine lake whose depth at the dam would
never be below thirteen feet More
than this, the dam would not only
maintain the lake. but would develop
$40 horse power twenty-four hours in
the day.
The waterways commission selected
Boone river as an example to be util-
lied in Forthcoming report to show
what development is possible along the
smaller streams of the state AT one
time the Boone supported six mills.
Mr.. Miller says in his letter to Mr.
SparbOe that dam in this river is
feasible just above the north bridge
over the Northwestern. a dam at that
point twenty-eight feet high and 1900
feel long would create 1000 acre feet
OF water.
A movement will be started to get
an enabling act thru the legislature TO
enable the city to issue bonds and
buy sufficient land to carry forward