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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26

varieties Of the Rural New Yorker type
was profitable at the Minnesota Elk
pertinent Station during the past two
years. For late varieties Of this type,
the first application may be delayed
until the earliest varieties In the
neighborhood show signs Of the pres
ence of this disease, when the spray
ing should be no longer delayed.
Since the plants are usually of pretty
fair size by this time. the first appli-
cation should be made with two noz-
zles per row, using from sixty to sew
enty-hve gallons per acre, and the
same for all subsequent applications.
The frequency of spraying should be
about every ten days. except In rainy
weather, when it should be more fire.
Quent.
The strength of Bordeaux mixture
to use in spraying for potato blight
Is: Five pounds OF bluestone (also
known as copper sulphate, or blue Wit
rioD and five pounds of the best grade
Of stone lime, to fifty gallons of wa
ter. The bluestone can be dissolved
most readily by hanging it near the
top of the water. The lime must be
fresh and of the best grade and should
Stake readily. 1t should be slaked sew.
eral hours or more before it is wanted.
When ready to apply the Bordeaux
mixture, the bluestone solution, con-
tanning the five pounds Of bluestone,
should be poured into the sprayer bar
rel and diluted to about thirty-five gal
Ions. The milk of lime, containing
the original five pounds of stone lime,
should then be diluted to about fiji
teen gallons, and poured into the d.
luted bluestone solution. The result
Ing product is the Bordeaux mixture,
ready for use. Any poison needed for
potato beetles may then be added,
thus spraying for blight and the po.
tato bugs at the same time. -
If the lime used is Of low grade,
there is danger of burning Of the foli-
age from the Bordeaux mixture. A
good test is to hold the point of q
knifeblade in the mixture for a short
time. If copper collects on the blade,
more lime must be added. g.
Throughout all this work it must be
remembered that high pressure in
spraying (not less than seventy-flv
pounds), thorough application, con.
slant agitation and thorough straining
Ire essential to success. , - -. <
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26
COMET SEEMS TO Be
Z: GROWING new TAIL
Appendage Visible Long After
the Head Had Set.

Chicago, May 25.-Forty degrees of
new born tail for the comet and a
doubling of it's luminosity owing to
flaming hydrocarbon gas were record
cd by the astronomers at the Williams
Bay observatory after the specto-
graphic negatives had been developed.
Professor E. B. Frost, director of the
observatory, announced the results of
the computations.
-Four of us, after independent cal
culations, agree that the new tail of
the comet is forty degrees long," he
said. THE tail was visible long after
the head had set. The darkening of
the sky by the, eclipse of the moon
helped greatly in the observations. =
Observations by the hand spectre
scope showed carbon bands in the
head of the comet. - These are con-
firmed by the development of the neg
atfves made with the twelve-inch tel
escope. The internal activity of the
comet is in full blast. 1t is making
gas at terrific rate"
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Spraying Effective
in Potato Blight.
A. r. kohler, Division Of horti-
culture, Minnesota Expert
ment Station.

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There are in this country two
diseases Of potatoes which commonly
go under the name Of potato blight"
One is known as early blight" CAL
ternaria solanI and the other as late
blight" (Phytophthora infestans). -
The latter disease occurs frequently
in the states from Michigan east to
the Atlantic seaboard. 1t spreads very
rapidly in August or later, when the
weather is damp and muggy, and at
such times may destroy potato field
within a few days. The occurrence Of
this blight in Minnesota is fortunately
rare.
The blight which Minnesota potato
growers must contend with is early
blight. 1t may appear at any time
from early June on, but Is usually
most destructive during July and Au.
gust. The accompanying cut illustrates
the manner in which it attacks the
foliage.
Spraying with Bordeaux mixture has
proved to be partially effective against
this disease at the Minnesota Expert
ment Station.
The indics tons are that 1t will not
pay to spray with Bordeaux mixture
on early paintings Of early varieties.
Wherever spraying is to be carried on
for early blight on early varieties 1t
must begin when the plants are small
about eight inches high, and con
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26

an American wife? All, non, non. I
will not look for any wife for ten years
at least. You see, am only twenty
six, and no man should marry, be-
lieve, until he IS more than thirty-fiye,
and has seen and known much OF the
world. AS for women, they should
marry In their teens and early TWEEN
ties and know nothing of the world"
The Due de Montpensier, brother Of
the queen of Portugal, cousin Of the
king of Spain. and grandson of Louis
Philippe of France, thus delivered
himself.
The due intends to remain perhaps
week and then start for Mexico. He
will later visit Canada and in Septem-
Der will go west for big game. He ex-
poets to go from there to San Fran
cisco and take ship.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26

tinue about every ten days until about
10 per cent of the leaf surface is dying
off, after which it is not likely to be
any longer sufficiently effective to be
worth while. In very rainy weather
the applications should be sufficiently
more frequent to keep the leaf surface
well covered with coating of the
Bordeaux mixture
When the spraying is. begun while
the plants are small an application of
twenty-five to thirty-five gallons of
Bordeaux mixture per acre will usually
be sufficient the first time The Sec
ond application should be increased
to about fifty gallons per acre, and
the third and subsequent applications
should be at the rate of sixty to sew.
enty-five gallons per acre.
SPRAYING for early blight on late
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26
NOT LOOKING FOR A WIFE

DUO de Montpensier, Brother of Queen
Of Portugal in New York.
New York. May BLOCKING for
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26
Son Fined for AssauItino Father.

Chicago, May 25.-Benjamin Boyce.
accused by the Blackstone hotel of dis.
orderly conduct in assaulting his IA
ther, w. D. Boyce, the millionaire pub.
Usher, pleaded guilty in the municipal
court and paid a fine of SIS. Young
Boyce's attack is said to have been
precipitated by his fathers announce.
ment that he would be married on
June 1 to Miss Virginia D. Lee.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26
FOR AMERICAN SYMPATHY
Dowager Queen Alexandra Expresses
Thanks to Roosevelt.

London, May 25.-Queen Mother AL
exandra received Mr.. Roosevelt at
Buckingham palace. The two had
long chat, during which her majesty
took occasion personally to tell the
former president how much she ap-
preciated the sympathy exhibited for
her in America at the time of her be-
reavement. 49,.
subsequently the queen mother re-
ceived Lord Strathcona, high commits
sioner of Canada, whom she asked to
convey to the people Of Canada an
expression of her gratitude for their
love and sympathy. 49,.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26
Use Aliens Foot.Ea.e

The antiseptic powder to be shaken into
the shoes. II you have tired. aching feet
makes new or tight shoes easy. Cures aching,
swollen. hot. sweating feet. Relieves corns
and bunions Of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. Always use It to Break in New
shoes. Try 1t today. Sold everywhere, rs cts
Don't accept any substitute For FREE trial
package address Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy
N Y 7aIs = =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26
ROBERT S. NOAH CONVICTED
Jury Finds Him Guilty Of First Degree
Murder.

Minot, N. D., May 25.-The jury in
the case against Robert S. Noah,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree, after being out but an hour and
fifteen minutes, brought in verdict
of guilty, fixing the penalty at life i'm
prisonment. 49,.
While absolutely calm when the
verdict was read to Noah in jail later
he alleged that he had desired the
death sentence. 80. IS.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26

Couldn't Change His Appearances. =
: Customer want you to cut my hair
50 that won't look like a blamed fool.
Barber-I'm no lightning change artist.
New York Press. $
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26

If it were only as easy to practice as
It Is to preach-Chicago News. >S.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-05-26
FIGHTING NEAR BLUEFIELDs
Nicaraguan Government Troops Al
tack the insurgents.


tack the insurgents.
Bluetields, Nicaragua, May 25.-
General Lara, commanding a force of
government troops, fiercely attacked
the provisional governments position
at the rear OF Bluefields.
The government steamer Venus
landed 500 troops off lagoon twenty
six miles north of Bluefields bluff for
the purpose Of attacking the bluff in
conjunction with General Lara's force
back OF Bluefields.
The government troops began their
attack on the position where the pro.
visionals had entrenched themselves,
but they were repulsed and returned
to the woods, An artillery fire was
kept up all night until dawn, when
the attack was resumed.
The American gunboats Paducah
and Dubuque are not interfering with
the movements of the Venus.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
SOME OF THE AMAZING
SCHEMES AND DEVICES
AGAINST WHICH UNCLE
SANS WATCHERS MUST .
BATTLE CONSTANTLY
AND WHICH OFTEN
SUCCEED

r HAT there is an international
syndicate operating systemat-
icaIy in smuggling Chinese into
the United States is the belief Of
the government immigration service.
That tens OF thousands of them are
smugglsd bodily into the country every
year is admitted by those best in
formed That there is at present in
Jamaica a rendezvous containing 5000
coolies awaiting an opportunity to steal
into the country is well known That
the coolies pay on an average of $500
10 be successfully gotten past the i'm
migration authorities has been estab-
lished.
This is but the summary Of the bod
fly smuggling in the face Of the oppos-
ing statutes. Aside from this the i'm
migration service admits that probably
80 per cent of those Chinese let in
upon claims backed by many oaths of
their cOuntrymen to the effect that they
were born in this country are not en-
titled to admission. Practically all of
the Chinese living in this country
make Of themselves instruments for the
evasion Of the law and gain admission
for others from their native land by
claiming them as their sons. daughters
or wives. The vile of the Asiatic is
such that it is very successfully evad-
ing the immigration laws, which, the
service holds. are badly in need of
patching up.
The rivalry Of the tongs and the near
war that always exists among them
and which occasionally results in the
bark Of a big revolver and the death of
8 tongman is big motive back of the
smuggling. The tongs are able to do
battle in proportion TO the numbers of
their men that are admitted TO this
country. Each is therefore always en-
deavoring TO get an additional man ad-
mitted- Each therefore raises great
sums Of money to fight the processes
that attempt to return one Of their men
TO China. 1t is because Of the rivalry
Of the tongs that a humble and pen
niless Chinese gets the ablest attor-
neys in America to fight the govern
ment's attempt before the courts to
send him back.
But in al this fight of the Chinese
cody TO ger into the land of opportu-
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
a eNINA1dAN OI@eUTGGO AS a MEXIo AN
IAfRGSTcO AT GL PASO

nifty there is much that is strange and
interesting. much of adventure, of
pathos, of humor For the east and the
west here come together in contest
Of wits and the result is Illuminating
The cruder Of the methods of SNUG
Cling the Chinese in lies in getting
them past guards that patrol the Mex
lean and Canadian borders or that
watch ports where boats land 1t is
in this deliberate smuggling that there
is unquestionably an organization that
is almost world wide. The immigration
service has intercepted letters that
show conclusively that men in New
York are regularly in communication
with those in Canada. Mexico, Jamaica,
China. They keep each other posted
as to where there is a lax point in
the governments exclusion lines and
where there are numbers of men seek
ing admission When the regulations
effective as to make admission impos-
sible the tide flows to Mexico. If it
is not possible to get in from that
point they may rendezvous on an island
in the West Indies When the barrier
becomes too formidable the coolies may
be brought together at some convenient
point and maintained for months or
years until way is found to get
them in.
El Paso is a point of great activity
for smugglers. Outlaw Mexicans and
Americans operate in conjunction with
the orientals. A favorite method is for
an American to assume responsibility
for a party of half a dozen Chinese
He is to receive so much each for them
if he gets them across the border and
on the way to the interior. Under
cover of the darkness he attempts to
get the men across the river in boat
There are many miles OF river front to
watch and the task of the guards is no
mean one. The smuggler operates in
the immediate vicinity of the city. for
he must get his men started to the
interior and the railroads are the in
strument At small center party of
Chinese would attract much attention,
but in El Paso they have chance to go
unnoticed.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

the Cinnamon were drowned and the
smuggler was captured and convicted.
In the Gulf of Mexico the smugglers
operate on a larger scale. Larger
boats are employed and the Cinnamon
are landed score at a time. The
coolies are got from points along the
Mexican coast or from Cuba or ia
maica Then the attempt is made to
land them, usually at some point from
which Galveston or New Orleans is ac-
cessible Numbers of cargoes have
been known to be so landed and to
have succeeded in escaping into the
interior Other numbers have been
frustrated, captures have been made
and the smugglers sent to prison.
The north Atlantic coast has also
known some spectacular cases. That
to attract most attention was the cap
ture of the Frolic at Providence four
years ago with so Cinnamon on board.
similar cargo is known to have pre-
viously landed successfully. Even in
this case in which the smugglers were
arrested half of the Cinnamon sue
ceeded in escaping and getting into
the country.
The report came to the immi grafton
bureau three years ago that great
numbers of Cinnamon were congre-
eating in Jamaica for the purpose of
getting into this country. An inspector
was sent down there and found that
there were praCLlCallV no Cllname0
in Jamaica except those who were
legitimately at work there. Last year
an inspector made a similar trip of
inspection and found no less than 5000
unemployed Cinnamon on the island,
living in camps and boarding houses,
evidently waiting for an opportunity to
come to the states. This condition in
dicated that the smugglers regarded
this as the best point from which to
gain entrance. Steps were taken to
block any attempt from this quarter.
The Cinnamon are still being main
tanned there and still waiting their
chance. 1t is believed that the or
ganization that is in the wholesale
smuggling business is maintaining
them, probably supported by the con-
tributing tongs.
In New York city's Chinatown there
is a certain educated, Americanized
Chinaman who poses as a great philan-
thropist, who takes an acute interest
in all his countrymen coming into this
country AS the years pass he wakes
hugely rich with no known business
interests that would occasion this The
secret agents of the immigration
bureau have sufficient evidence against
him to convince them that he is the
head and front of the organized SNUG
Cling of the nation. They believe that
he gets a piece of money for prac-
tically every Chinaman who is passed
illegally over the border and that he
it is who always knows the govern
ment's most vulnerable point and di-
rects the big campaign. If a govern
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

ment guard can be bought and so
Cinnamon put across the line, he
knows it. He also knows just where
to get the Cinnamon and Just the
American to aid in pulling off the
trick
Each cody pays $500 to be brought
in. He pays ii out of his earnings after
having negotiated the trick and gone
to work. 1t takes him but a year or
two to do this, and then he is a free
man to pile up such amounts of money
as were never dreamed OF in his native
land. Soon he is rich and returns to
China and is married. for no Chinaman
Will allow age to come on without
rearing family. for so would he miss
that worship that goes to the patriarch
who has many children. But when he
returns to the United States he does
not bring his wife with him. for no
Chfnaman wants his children Amer
icanized. He returns himself and will
later bring over his son for the purpose
OF making money, but never to rear a
family in the new land. While in Amer
lea he has learned much as to re-entry
and the bringing in of his sons, and
this he accomplishes without the haz-
ard of running the gauntlet of the
border.
The law allows the merchant class
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

ostensibly dealer in hay. He shipped
it in carload lots to interior points
This very wagon was to have been
driven up to car in the freight yards
and both hay and Cinnamon loaded in.
The hay already loaded was stacked
in such way as to leave an appar-
emily full car hollow that the Cinnamon
might ride in comparative comfort
A very unique method of getting the
Cinnamon across the border was also
devised along the Rio Grande. The
ingenious smuggler who originated il
arranged barrel in such a way that
the lid might be raised and closed
from the inside A Chinaman was put
into the barrel and the latter put into
the river. The man sitting in the
bottom of the barrel made that side
heavy and it remained down. The
Chinaman could put his head out for a
look at will or could entirely close the
barrel if he chose. He foated silently
down the river until he drifted to a
good landing place on the American
side, when he scrambled out. This
method has also been SUCCESSFULLY
worked on the Canadian border. where
the streams flow from that country into
the United States.
Such points as Douglas, Ariz.. No
gales, Tia Juana and a score of Others
on the southern border have to be
continually and carefully guarded.
From these points mounted guards ride
the line constantly. They watch every
trail that crosses it and follow these
down like bloodhounds. Not infre-
quently smugglers are caught in the
act and recently the guards have
found it necessary to engage in gun
fights to stop party. Just at present
there is pending case against a guard
who shot and wounded smuggler.
and the Chinese have placed the best
of legal talent to prosecute him. hon.
ing to obtain his conviction and tbus
discourage such summary practices.
Buffalo is one of the points of
greatest activity on the Canadian bor-
der. The attempt here is to bring the
Cinnamon across the lake in boats and
smuggle them into the town. Not long
ago a cargo of seven such in charge of
Buffalo white man, who owned a gaso-
line launch were driven ashore by a
storm and the boat wrecked. Four of
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

Provided the .smuggler succeeds in
getting across the river with his
charges he makes for the railroad
yards. Here he hopes to get his men
into a freightcar bound for the interior.
If they can get TO San Francisco, Den
yer, Los Angeles. Chicago, New York
or any of the bigger cities they may
lose themselves in the Chinese quarter
and get to work as laundrymen or some
such occupation. They are compara-
lively safe. The smuggler knows all
about riding freight trains and also
about the processes of subsidizing the
"shacks" or brakemen Either on his
own initiative or through a brakeman
he succeeds in getting his men into
car that is soon to leave for the in
terror They have water and provi-
sions and may remain in the car for
days or week. Eventually they
emerge into an unknown world and
take their chances with the unknown
problems. Sometimes they never emerge
alive. Not long ago a smuggler put
Chinese in the ice chamber of a re-
frigerator car in Canada He was TO
have been released by confederate in
Detroit. In some way the confederate
failed. A month later in cleaning the
car in st. Louis the frozen body of the
Chinese was found. 1t was traced back
and the man responsible for the tragedy
was arrested and convicted.
Another method of smuggling the
Cinnamon by train is to get them into
bonded cars ON one side of the Amer
lean line and shuttle them through.
The inspection officials have no author
ity to enter a bonded ear. 1t already
has the government sanction to go
through. Yet there are methods bv
which Cinnamon may have been gotten
into it and they often are successful
in such attempts.
Recently, near FL Paso, a smuggler
was seen to cross the river with a boat
load OF Cinnamon. In order to deter
mine his plan of procedure he was
allowed to land and followed. He went
into the brush Of the uninhabited river
banks. There, it was found, he had
secreted a covered wagon and this was
full of Cinnamon. The smuggler was