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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
Big Fire at Buffalo.

Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 26.-Fire de-
stroyed the dry goods and shoe store
of ]. NJ. Becker & Co, Joseph White IS
clothing store and Joseph Wolfe's mil
linery shop in High street. The loss
is 100000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
Drastic Measures.

CT win kin MYSELF" shouted the
half-cfazed mans struggling in the
arms of the officers of the law.
No Won won II" said one of the
policemen.
81 viii, 7 VIII I'll commit suicide or
die in the attempti
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
HARTMAN MERGER
Hartman System in Three States of
Northwest Valued at S115,415,oo0.

An aggregate valuation of sll5,415,-
900 was placed on Hartman properties
in the northwest when they were taken
over by the Oregon Washington Rail
road & Navigation company December
"a. The values on the roads included
in the Hartman merger are distributed
as follows:
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
More Eggs

Chicken feeders can buy ground
green bones at the Idaho Meat
Market.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31

Avoid pushing to the froA fy going
back on your friends.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
To Be Spent in Five Years.

The $4,000, 900 is to be spent within
the next five years and the interest on
the loan is to be charged against the
projects.
The following projects completed, or
nearing completion, carry recommends
tions for the funds from the general
reclamation act sufficient only for main
tenance and operation: Orland, Cal;
Carlsbad, N. NJ; Hondu, N. M; Garden
City, Kan; Kittitas, Wapata and Len
ton, units of the Yakima (Wash.) pro-
ject.
For the following existing reclamation
projects the board of engineers in the
report approved by the president, recon-
mends allotments from the general re-
clamation fund: Missouri pumping, N
D.; Bellefourche, S. D.; Shoshone, Wyo.
Minidoka, Idaho; Huntley, Mont; Sun
river, Mont; Lower Yellowstone, Mont;
Okanogan, Wash.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31

OF IHV IOdu5 IHU OIVBOH " d7HIHB VVH
Railroad g. Navigation company paid
the stockholders of the Oregon Railway
g. Navigation company $55,000,00O for
their property and assumed the mort
gage of $23,3s0,0O0.
The new company will Immediately
issue bonds, thus reimbursing the Union
Pacific for it's expenditures.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
sUNNYsIDE AND TETON $1,s15,ooo
Apportionment of Fund for Reclamation
Has Taft's Approval.

President Taft has approved the re-
port of the special board of army engi-
neers recommending the apportionment
of the $2O,OoO,OoO fund, provided by
congress, among the following reclama-
ton projects in the vest
Salt River, Ariz., $495,00o; Yuma,
Ariz., and California, 81, 100000; Grand
Valley, Col, $1,OOO,OOO; Uncompahgre,
Col, $1,5OO,OOO; Payette-Boise, Idaho
So 900, 900; Milky River, Mont, $1,000
OOO North Platte, Wyo., and Nebraska
50 900 900; Truckee- Carson, Neb., 81,
1913 900; Rio Grande, N. NJ, Texas and
Mexico, 81 500, 900; Umatilla, Ore, 1925,
600; klamath, Ore, and California
$6OO,OOO; Strawberry Valley, Utah
So ,272 900; Sunnyside and Tieton, Yali
ma, Wash, $1,25o,OOO and $665,oO0, re
| spectiVely
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
MONTANA.

R. E. Porterfeld has been awarded a
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27

Mary Hartman as Country Girl.
Mary Hartman has as keen an in
stinct for guarding tie cents as her
father demonstrated in his business
career. AS the manager Of the 3d.
00o-acre farm in Arden, n. Y, she
works with an eye to profit The re-
sponsibility of the farm is not new
to her. For several years she prac-
tically hell control, her father sell
dom interferinS. and then doing little
more than offering suggestion. Har-
riman was proud of his daughters
talent for management. They were .
familiar sight driving together over
the farm. Hartman, as rule, holding
the reins over one of his fast trotters.
Miss Hartman cares more for her
farm than for society She Is a keen
Judge of a horse. and scion gets
the worst of a trade
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27

ZIG. vI.-MANURE PILES IN OPEN YARD.
large chunks, as is usually done, with
q pitchfOrk. Still worse is the prac-
tice Of dropping the manure in piles.
leaving it nearly all winter and then
toward spring scattering it about with
q FORK. In addition to spreading the
manure more evenly, the spreader
saves work enough to warrant any
one who has much stock in buying
one.
The spreader should be kept in use
practically the year round Manure
left in the open yard for six months
loses nearly half its fertilizing value.
Manure kept in sheds does not lose in
value nearly so rapidly. A practice
that is sometimes followed on dairy
farms is to have a shed In connection
with the barn. keeping the cows In this
shed most of the time. turning them
INTO the barn only long enough to be
MIXED. A plan that is preferable to
this is to have a small shed over the
door where the manure IL thrown out
The spreader can be backed into this
shed and the manure loaded directly
on to 1t at seasons OF the year when
manure can be spread directly upon
the fields. At other times the manure
can be thrown out into the shed and
left there until 1t can be hauled.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27

This table shows at glance the
great economy, considered from fer
tility standpoint, of marketing grain
in the form of live stock. Adding fer
tilizing materials to the soil, however,
ts only one of the ways in which ma
nure is beneficial. 1t helps to break
down the unavailable minerals. 1t
adds humus, and this is of kind that
mixes readily with the soil. Thus the
physical condition and water holding
capacity Of the soil are improved even
more than where clover is used. In
stead of blowing under clover it can
be fed. The resulting manure will do
the soil almost as much good as the
clover would if turned under. Thus
both the feeding and fertilizing values
are obtained from it. By using regular
rotation with clover and feeding all
the rough feed and most Of the grain
on the farm the soil can be brought
up to a very high state Of productivity
and kept there for an indefinite period
Of time.
In an experiment at the Ohio expert
ment station where manure was ap-
piled every three years to rotation
of corn, wheat and clover at the rate
of eight tons to the acre the average
increase in yield was 14.7 bushels OF
corn. 1856 bushels of wheat and CSC
pounds of clover. The value Of the
increased yields due to the eight tons
of manure was $17.32, or $217 per ton
for the manure This was for manure
that was obtained in the open yard.
Manure that had been tramped down
In sheds where it was under shelter
had value of S2.95 per ton in increas-
ed crop yields.
The results obtained on little run
down farm in Pennsylvania strikingly
show what can be done with manure.
This farm was so badly exhausted
that it would produce scarcely any
thing. Dairying was introduced and
the manure applied to the land. After
q few years Of such treatment and
without the addition Of any CONNER
cial fertilizers whatever the produc-
tivity of the farm was so greatly in
CICdSeU tudt dU duuud1 ICNCuuC VI P~oo
to the acre was received from it.
The effect of manure continues for
. great many years after its applica-
tion. Experiments with MANFRED and
unmanured land have shown that the
yield in the MANFRED plots was con-
siderably greater twenty years after
the last application Of manure was
made.
Applying Manure.
The best results are obtained. how
ever. when manure is applied fire.
quently and in comparatively small
amounts. For the ordinary field
crops an application Of eight tons to
the acre is sufficient at one time. TO
get the required amount on each
acre and to get it applied evenly a
spreader is necessity. Manure spread
evenly over the ground is much more
effective than that thrown about in
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27
Appearance Of Neptune.

Neptune, the most distant known
planet of the solar system. presents
to the telescope only a small, green
ish disk on which no distant mark
ings are visible. But during the past
year the great telescope of the naval
observatory at Washington has re-
vealed indications of the existence of
streaks on Neptune bearing a resem-
blance to the belts of Jupiter. A few
years ago similar streaks were seen
on Uranus. Saturn also possesses
them, so that it may be said that
cloud-like belts are a feature common
to all the four great outer planets.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27
Fats Give Alarm.

Conlns over on an ocean liner an
old lady complained to the captain
that she had seen a rat In her state
room Keep it there, madam" said
the CAPTAIN. why do you like rats?"
asked the old lady. We'll, madam,
I've got a nest in my cabin" was the
answer, and, though I'm not SUI
perstitious, when the rats leave the
ship, | do"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27

IWYHEREVER grain is grown
NV continuously for a number of
w years the soil decreases in
yielding power. If the prac
tee is kept up the yields will finally
become SO low as to be Improbable.
and the land is said to be worn out.
The fact is it is not worn out any
more than sickle is worn out when
It becomes too dull to cut. Both the
sickle and the soil need certain
amount of treatment before they are
ln shape to use again.
In the case of the soil nature will
restore it to its original productivity
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27
Why does Great Britain buy
its oatmeal of us?

Certainly it seems like carving
Goals to Newcastle to speak of export
ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every
year the Quaker Oats Company sends
hundreds of thousands of cases of
Quaker Oats to Great Britain and
Europe.
The reason is simple; while the
English and Scotch have for centuries
eaten oatmeal in quantities and with
regularity that has made them the
most rugged physically, and active
mentally of all people, the American
has been eating oatmeal and trying all
the time to improve the methods of
manufacture so that he might get that
desirable foreign trade.
How we'll he has succeeded would
be seen at glance at the export re-
ports on Quaker Oats. This brand is
recognized as without rival in clean
illness and delicious favor. q
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27
RULES OF THE CONTEST

ue when properly filed out and brought to this
office.
The publisher is not to tell whom anyone votes
for except in of alleged irregularity.
Each contestant is requested to send us as soon
possible cabinet size photo for publication
Make up your mind whom you wish to vote for
before coming to this Office, the editor will post-
lively not decide the matter for you.
The result of the voting will be announced on
January 6, and weekly thereafter Coupons and
votes must reach this office not later than p. m.
Wednesday of each week to be counted for current
week.
All coupons and votes are at once deposited in
locked box The key to the ballot box shall be in the
possession of awarding committee during contest.
An awarding committee of three of the best bus
mess men is to be appointed to make final count
and distribution of prizes
Free votes will be published in paper first four
weeks of contest.
Contest shall about four months. The day
of closing will be announced at least 80 days in adj
vance
The contest shall close at o'clock on the day an
nounced. On the preceding Wednesday, after the
last count to be published before the ending, the
judges to count the votes in ballot box lock and
seal same and take to the bank announced in news
columns, where it will be kept on table during
business hours and in vault at night until close of
contest, when awarding committee takes charge
During the last week all voting must be done in
the sealed box at the bank. Cash ballot slips will
be left at the bank: these must be carefully filled
out, signed placed in envelope, sealed and placed in
ballot box This guarantees square deal to every
one.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27

Announcement This piano contest will be con-
Quoted business principles, with justice TO all
concerned. Under such conditions piano contest
is sure to prove success.
Prizes-The first prize shall be tine frst-cass
piano, one of the best made, value $3.50. The other
valuable prizes will be given the contestants in
their order according to the number of votes; each
contestant having choice of all prizes after contest
ants standing higher have taken their choice. Be-
fore the close each contestant must hand the editor
a list of the prizes arranged in the order in which
she would select them If any contestant fails to
submit such list, the awarding judges will make
the selection in her turn.
Canddates-Any young lady in Stearns, Todd,
Pope or Douglas counties is eligible to place in
the contest. The most popular young lady is the
one who shall receive the most votes; to her
shall be awarded the beautiful piano. Other cand-
idates receive their choice of prizes in ORDER
according to number of votes.
Glasses OF Notes.-The votes are issued in coupons
of the following denominations:
New Subscriptions, $l.25 per year, 500 votes.
Back Subscriptions, 81, SO per year, 400 votes.
Renewal Subscriptions, 1925 per year, 400 votes.
Five-year subscriptions, 1925, 5000 votes.
General Instructions
Results of voting will be published regularly.
Votes will not be allowed on subscriptions less
than regular prices
No employee of this paper shall be candidate
work in favor of any contestant.
Votes once cast cannot be transferred to another.
Votes obtained from merchants giving Contest
Coupons shall be credited to contestants at full val
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27
Home Course
In Live Stock
| Farming
III. Live Stock Farming
and Soil Fertility.
By C. v. GREGORY,

Author Of Home Course In Modern
Agriculture" Making Money on
the Farm" Etc.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-27

Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-11
DuRAND MAN FOR SPEAKER.
Has Represented Buffalo and Pepin
Counties Tor Last Two Terms.

G. A. Ingram, Durand, Pepin county,
gave notice Wednesday that he is a
candidate for speaker of the assembly
in the event of his reelection. His
district comprises Buffalo and Pepin
counties in the western part of the
state, which he has represented in the
lower house the last two terms. Mr..
Ingram4 stands as a supporter of Sen
ator LaFollette.
Asseniblyman Ingram was the lead
er Of the LaFo1lette forces in the last
legislature. Two years ago he was a
candidate for the speakership.
Assemblyman Ingram has issued a
statement Of principles for which he
stands. He pledges support to the prin,
ciple of the initiative and referendum,
and stands for the submission of the
County Option question to the vote OF
the people. =
Assemblyman Ingram was born in
Pepin county in 1867 He is a grad
uate of the state university and law
school, finishing the latter in 1892. He
was district attorney of Pepin county
from 1898 to 1897, and has since been
engaged in the private practice of law,
in farming, newspaper work and bank
ing. He was elected to the assembly
in 1906 and 1908.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-11
BIG INCREASE IN BUSINESS
American Telephone and Telegraph Go.
Shows Increased Earnings.

A summary Of the business of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company and it associated compan-
les in the first six months this year
shows an increase Of $685. 800, 11.8
per cent in gross revenue over that in
the corresponding period last year. The
expense of operation increased 81, 1884,
078, or IA per cent and current main
tenance increased 81 per- cent. The
amount set aside out of the revenue to
provide for reconstruction and remov-
ais was $13,S94,974. Of this sum 3d.
969,743 was used for these purposes,
while the balance, $10,925,231, remains
as reserve for future requirements.
The net earnings show an increase
of $1,547, 1859, while interest charges
remain substantially the same. The
net profits available for dividends in
creased $1,576,431, while the dividends
paid increased $619,S3S. Of the $18,-
72o,448 net profits, $12,618,026 were
paid out for dividends, leaving a sur
plus for six months of $6,102.422, an
amount substantially equal to half of
the dividends paid.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-11
ESeal)
Dill

Kenosha merchants and business
men should join with the business men s
associations of other cities in the de-
mand to be made on the interstate COM
merce commission for an investigation
and REIMBURSEMENT of express rates. The
present determined efforts to get this
matter before the commission promises
to bring results and this city should
be ready to do its share to help the
good work along in every possible way.
It will benefit by any rulings against
extortionate rates which may be OBJ
tanned from the commission and the
business men and manufacturers of the
city should be willing to bear their
share of the burden of making the
fight, The Industrial association could
perform a great public service by in
teresting itself in these proceedings and
ascertaining what evidence will be
needed from this city to support the
case of the shippers against the express
companies.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-11
Forest Fires in Wisconsin,
Minnesota and OtherStates
Did Great Damage
BETTER PROTECTION URGED

Lumber losses have been unusually
heavy this year, largely because Of for
est fires in Wisconsin. Minnesota and
other northwestern states. This fol
lows an unfortunate experience last
year, and is complicated by the fact
that lumber rates have been tending
downward for some time, being given
material reduction by the Western
Union last year. Rates on retail yards
have also been materially reduced by
the competition of interinsurance con-
Germs which have specialized on this
class.
A tabulation Of the lumber losses re-
ported for 1909 shows total of $685.
$4,000 in 326 fires, an allowance hav-
ing been added of Is per cent for small
and unreported fires. The lumber trade,
therefore, was responsible for lib per
cent of the entire fire loss of the Uni
ted States and Canada. There were
Sixty live HIeS, lHNOlVluS ~ 1ooo VI PLooj
900 and over, the bulk of the losses be-
ing on piled lumber. The losses were
heaviest in the south and lightest in the
east, and in a very large number of
fires there was no insurance or made
quate insurance to value.
Of the 326 large fires reported the
cause Of Al was given as unknown, 10
as incendiary, IA as started in '.ilns, s
by sparks from locomotives, six by fur
naces in the boiler houses, six by forest
fires, and four by hot boxes or friction.
Fire protection experts urge, in view of
the peculiarly hazardous character of
the lumber and wood workers industry,
that there be efficient watchmen serv-
ice and adequate private fire protection
to stop blaze in it's inception.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-11
NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION.
State Of Wisconsin 5.
Department of State

Department of State
Notice is Hereby Given that at
primary election to be held in the sew
eral towns, WARDS, villages and election
districts of the State of Wisconsin, on
the first Tuesday of September, A. D.
1910, being the 9th day of said month,
the following officers are to be nomi-
mated:
A United States Senator, m place
of Robert NJ. La Toilette, whose term
of Office will expire March 4th, 1911.
A Governor, in place of James o.
Davidson, whose term of Office will ex-
pire on the first Monday of January,
A. D. 1911.
A Lieutenant Governor, In place of
John Strange, whose term of Office will
expire On the first Monday of January,
A. u. 1911.
A Secretary of State, in place of
James A. Frear, whose term of Office
will expire on the first Monday of
January, A. D. 1911.
A State Treasurer, in place of An
drew II. DAHL whose term of office will
expire on the first Monday of January,
A. D. 1911.
An Attorney General, in place of
Frank l.. Gilbert, whose term. of office
will expire on the first Monday of
January, A. D. 1911.
A Commissioner of Insurance in place
of George E. Beedle, whose term of of
fee will expire on the first. Monday of
January, A. D. 1911.
A Representative in Congress for the
First Congressional District, consisting
of the counties of Racine, Kenosha,
Walworth, Rock, Green, and Lafayette.
in place of Henry Allen Cooper, whose
term of Office expires On the first Mon
day of January, A. D. 1911.
A State Senator for the Third SEN
ate District consisting of the counties
OF Kenosha and Racine, in place of
Isaac T. Bishop whose term of office ex-
pires on the first Monday of January,
A. D. 1911.
A Member of Assembly, for Kenosha
County, in place Of Walker M. Curtiss,
whose term of Office expires on the first
Monday of January, A. D. 1911.
Also all county officers required by
law to be nominated at such election,
Given Under My Hand and Official
Seal at the Capitol, in the City of Madi-
son. this Goth day of June, A. D. 1910.
(Seal)
j. A. Frear,
Secretary of State.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-11

That advancement association which
is to be formed to carry through a
publicity campaign for the develop
ment of the unsettled portion of the
state should do good work if 1t can be
kept out of the hands of the specula-
tors. Many valuable citizen has been
persuaded to take up land in the west
who could have done much better for
himself right in his own state had he
had any knowledge of the advantages
offered him in Wisconsin. It is to sup
ply that knowledge that the proposed
association is to be formed and if it
can once win the public confidence it
should be able to do much to advance
the state by settling up the thinly popu-
lated districts in the north.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-11
HIT EXPRESS COMPANIES
Unreasonable and Unjust Rates of the
Great Express Companies.

What are declared TO be unreason-
able and extortionate rates and prac-
tees of the express companies are now
under fire in every section of the Uni
ted States.
On top of several Investigations and
orders reducing interstate rates made
in recent months by the railroad COM
missions Of over d dozen individual
states petition has been filed with the
interstate commerce commission asking
that body to make a general investiga-
ton covering the rates, rules, regula-
tions, classifcations, and practices of
all express companies engaged in inter-
state commerce.
The petition, which also pleads for
reasonable rates in the future, is in
behalf of 124 commercial organizations,
representing practically every state in
the union.
The compliments include the Chi
cago Association of Commerce and
boards Of trade and commercial clubs
of New York, Boston, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, New Orleans, Cleveland,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Indianapolis,
Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas
City, st. Louis, Spokane and scores of
smaller cities, who have combined
against the express companies under
the auspices of the Merchants Associa-
ton of New York