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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
HAMBURG MAY BE MADE
WORLDS GREATEST PORT.
Deepened Channels and New Docks to
Cost $5o,ooo,ooo.

The authorities of the city OF Ham
burg are determined TO make their
port the greatest in the world. To
that end 100000 is to be spent dur
ing the next four years i'm deepening
the channels Of the river Elbe and
constructing new docks and railroad
connecting branches. Several Of the
existing docks which now accommo-
date only river craft are TO be deepen
ed for seagoing ships, and quay space
viii be cleared for the erection Of
miles Of new warehouses.
The main channel Of the Elbe below
Hamburg is 10 be deepened to thirty
three feet and TO be made n minimum
width Of 1888 feet. The connection
Of the new basins requires large
number Of drawbridges and tunneling
under the river bed.
The works at the Kohlbrand branch
Of the Elbe are I'm PruSsian territory
but with the consent Of the bundesrath
they Will be included In the Hamburg
free harbor district The existing Gus
toms line will be pushed back 10 the
west. being marked by q string Of
barges
Germany is showing equal energy I'm
extending her inland waterways
Rapid progress is being made with the
canal between Berlin and the river
Oder, which will make it possible for
GOO ton vessels 20 reach the capitol
from the Baltic sea. Thi, canal IS 81
part merely an Improvement @, th.
Finoe canal built by Frcderick thu
Great to connect the systems OF the
Elbe and the Oder.
The improved canal Is TO have four
locks, each with a difference Of Level
of thirty feet, instead Of the original
seventeen. Each lock takes two GOO
ton boats at the same time and are
thus among the biggest In Europe. A
ship elevator which will do the work
more quickly will afterward be built
II traffic justifies the expense.
Not far from Berlin, before the new
canal joins the old one, the sandy soil
is being found so permeable that the
whole canal bed had TO be lined with
concrete
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
Padding Causes Recounts.

Several western cities were accused
Of padding, and recounts were ordered
The most conspicuous cases were those
of Seattle, Tacoma and one other city
In Washington. Portland, Ore; Fort
Smith, Ark, and some others were
also involved. Reductions were made
by the recounts.. and few enumer-
ators were arrested. The reverse proc
ess occurred in Atlantic City. y. ].
There the mayor complained that the
showing was too small, and a recount
showed a slight increase.
Taking the country as a whole, we
are a rather large proposition. one
prophet looks ahead 250 years ana
says we shall then have one-half the
people on the globe, trihe under
1000, 900, to be prophetically exact
evidently case Of census figures on
the brain. But without Boosting we
are mighty people, not only when
counted by the head. but when meas
ured by other standardization example,
the power 10 do things. As for the
future, we still have plenty Of room
and who can set the bounds on the
coming years?
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29

sort. however, Is that Of New York
and the cluster OF cities aud villages
in northern New Jersey. For twenty
or thirty miles, or even more. men
commute daily from New Jersey into
New York In business interests and
In all other ways. except that of resi-
dence, they are as much New Workers
as those living on Manhattan Island
All north Jersey is practically becom-
ing one solid city, made up for the most
part Of commuters The tunnels under
the Hudson river are rapidly adding TO
this class. 1t is q conservative claim
that there are at least 100000 Of
these Jerseyites who really belong TO
the great city, and some estimates
have put the number considerably
higher.
Within the fifteen mile radius Of
New York are 10 be found ten New
Jersey cities Of more than $4,000 in
habitants each, Jersey City, Newark,
Paterson, Bayonne, East Orange, Eliz-
abeth, Hoboken. Orange. Passaic and
West Hoboken having a combined pop
ulation OF 1,094,303 Within the same
radius are vast number Of smaller
cities and villages, such as the other
Oranges, the Montclairs, Hackensack
Bloomfield, Plainfield, Englewood,
Rutherford, Arlington. Nutley and
many more with a population that
would swell this total to probably
100000. OF course all these are not
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29

Minnesota can contend that the two
are essentially one in all but name and
that a true rating can only be given
them by consolidation. Thus IL Min
neapolis and st. Paul were combined
we should have 516 152, ranking as the
ninth city I'm the country.
There are many other cities that
would considerably augment their pop
ulation by little expansion. The case
Of San Francisco, Oakland and Berke-
ley has already been mentioned. Like
wise Omaha and South Omaha prac-
tically constitute one city. If the two
were Joined together they would have
150,097 instead of the 124, 096 given to
Omaha now The cities In northern
New Jersey would be most affected by
consolidation, however. Thus Eliza
beth, the Oranges and several smaller
villages contiguous TO Newark would
give the metropolis Of New Jersey
more than half million. Bayonne
HobOken, West Hoboken and several
other towns are really a continue ton
of Jersey City. If these were added
the total population would run close
second TO the greater Newark.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
New York commuters, but the vast
ma. ~ are
IS Radius Large.

rs Radius Large.
Besids, Yonkers, Mount Vernon,
New Rochelle and other cities in New
York state are really part Of New
York city, although not in the cor.
pOrate limits. \ large number Of com
muters also so into Connecticut If
all of these were added to the metrop-
oils its total population would proba-
bly, exceed 100000.
The states likewise show gains. New
York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio
retain their relative rank as first, see
ond, third and fourth respectively, but
there is a shift in fifth place and I'm
most of the others. Texas goes to fifth
place, Massachusetts TO six, and Mis-
souri, becomes seventh. The state Of
Washington shows the greatest growth
In the decade, with oklahoma a close
second. Both have more than doubled
their populations. Nevada has also
shown a great growth, although she
remains at the foot Of the list despite
her gain. Others that show phenome-
nal growth are New Mexico. Califor
mia, Colorado, Florida, Oregon, the two
Dakotas and Washington. The av-
erage increase the country over is ap-
proximately 20 per cent. A comparl-
son shows that the great Industrial
states are well over this figure. while the
agricultural states usually fall behind.
The most phenomenal growth in the
entire nation, outside of one or two of
the recently admitted commonwealth.
is on the Pacific coast The south av-
erages well and has kept abreast of
the entire country. The states with
out Industries other than farming are
the ones that suffer most. Yet a close
analysis shows that the loss here has
not been so much in the rural districts
themselves as in the small villages and
towns.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
SHARK is POPULAR FOOD.
Cut In Strips and Sold as Picked Sea
Eel Along North Sea.

Cut In Strips and Sold as Picked Sea
Eel Along North Sea.
Recent investigation has revealed the
fact that the common shark forms no
inconsiderable Item I'm the food Of fish
er folk along the shores of the North
sea. The consumption last year amount
ed to nearly "a million pounds weight.
The fish naturally does not come TO
market under its proper name, but Is
first smoked or picked in strips and In
this form is sold as sea eel The sharks
are captured as they pursue herring or
mackerel shoals or lie I'm wait for ray
md place along the coasts.
Another coarse and condemned fish,
the pike, is also eaten I'm large quaint
ties under the name green bones, so
called because OF the intense arsenical
green color the pixies bones take on
when cooked. On the shores Of the
Baltic the devifish is marketed under
the high sounding designation stur-
geon trout.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
93.402.I5I NOW LIVE
ON UNCLE SANS LAND
Cities Show Heavy Growth
and Agricultural States
Corresponding Decline.
Many Remarkable In
creases Noted.

N. c.; Chattanooga, Tenn; Lynchburg,
Va; Macon, Ga; Norfolk, Va; Ports
mouth, Va; Roanoke, Va; Shreveport,
La, and several other cities, in addi-
ton to those already mentioned, show
something of the advance movement
In the new south.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
San Francisco Undaunted.

Another pleasing fact is that despite
her disastrous earthquake and fire San
Francisco has increased from 342, ISL
in 1900 to 416,912 in 1910. Oakland
and Berkeley are virtually parts Of
San Francisco, and both have grown
prodigiously. If the two be added to
the larger city the total population is
increased TO more than 100000. More
over, the enormous increase of Los
Angeles and other California cities
shows something of the growth that
might have taken place in San Fran
cisco had 1t not been for her disaster.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29

Taking the cities of Los Angeles, Oak
land, Berkeley. Sacramento. San Die
go, San Jose and Pasadena. they show
an aggregate increase from 300, 252 in
1900 10 653.317 in 1910. or l51 per
cent. If San Francisco had enjoyed a
like growth she would have had in
1910 total Of S6O,3S3.
While it is too much 10 claim that
but for her calamity she might have
reached this result, since q large city
Is not apt TO show as great a percent
age of increase as small one under
similar conditions, ii is entirely within
bounds TO say that the city beside the
Golden Gate would have gone up TO
a half million or 100000 but for her
disaster The more force is lent to
this contention by the fact that some
of the increase i'm other California
cities is due to the fugitives from San
Francisco.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
Census Does Not Include.
Little Brown Brothers"
of Philippines, Which
Would Make the Total
1O1, 1OO,O 600.
By JAMES a. EDGERTON.

ME population of the United
States is 93,402,15 This in
clGdeS Alaska, Porto Rico and
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
State Lines Retard Totals.

All the expansions mentioned could
be readily made, since the cities to be
consolidated are in the same states.
There are n number of cases, however,
where state lines intervene. Notable
among these are Kansas City, Mo-,
and Kansas City, Kan. Omaha, Neb.,
and Council Bluffs, Ia, furnish an
other case in point, and so do St
Louis, Mo-, and East st. Louis, Ill.
Then there are Cincinnati, O., and
Covington, Ky; also Philadelphia, Pa,
and Camden, y. j. Chicago would also
gain enormously by adding contiguous
Indiana territory.
The most conspicuous case of the
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29

tIf the territories We're included Porto
Rico would rank 81 the District of Co
lumbia a., Hawaii 80 and Alaska 30. the
states below these numbers moving down
accordingly
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
Boston's Suburbs Separate.

The Bostonians claim that the cen
sus figures represent only a part OF
the population of their city, since Bos-
ton actually includes Cambridge and a
number Of other cities that are return
ed separately. If there were a greater
Boston, as there is a greater New
York, her population would be 1905
791 instead of the 670,5s5 now re-
turned.
In like manner the Twin Cities In
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08
BLACK HILLS PROGRESSIVE

One of the pertinent facts brought
out by the recent primary is that the
Black Hills have swung almost solid
ly into the progressive column, Con
gresham Martin at the Huron con-
ference of stalwarts declared that the
counties west of the river would give
the stalwart ticket majority OF 5,
900. He was far wrong in his esti-
mate as is shown by the official count.
Only three counties west of the river
were carried by Elrod, Lawrence, Fall
River and Gregory. Of these Fall
River gave Elrod only five plurality
over Vessey. Gregory county is on the
southern boundary where the river
sweeps to the east and is farther east
than Sully, Walworth, Campbell Pot
ter and Hughes, which are all east
of the river. 1t cannot properly be
called a western county. The only
Black Hills county in which Elrod
made my showing was in Lawrence
and the falling off in the stalwart
vote there is remarkable. Two years
ago the sialwart candidate for gov
ernor in Lawrence county received
] ,585 votes more than the progressive
candidate. This year Elrod's plurality
over Vessey was but 3l1.
Stalwart newspapers in trying to
make showing of strength in the
primary persistently ignore the fact
that there were two candidates run
ming upon a progressive platform
while there was but one stalwart can
didate for governor. The total pro
gr ssive vote is equal to most OF the
vote of these two candidates less the
illegal voting of democrats who voted
for one or the other. This, of course,
is an unknown quantity, but any reas-
enable estimate shows large progress
sive gain in the total vote.
In contrast to this look at the vote
for the stalwart candidate for gov
ernor for two years. In 1908 Browne
received 39,S60 votes while this year
Elrod received but 20,335.
Martins own vote in the counties
west of the river which he has always
carried, fell off this year to 1,62l votes
less than he received two years ago.
Sioux Falls Press
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08
RATES REDUCED.

Decisions were handed down June
29th, by che interstate commerce com
mission of country wide importance.
They affect freight rates both class
and commodity on all transcon-
tineutal lines operating between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Exten-
sive reductions are ordered, in some
instances so per cent.
The decisions are in what are popu-
larly known as the Pacific coast cases,
and all the reductions ordered affect,
ed rates from Mississippi river trans
fer points to Pacific coast terminals
and intermountain points
The commission found remarkable
rate situation existing on the Pacific
coast. and ermoun,ain territory.
Shippers in some cases complained
that they were required to pay Pacific
coast terminal rates, plus the local
rates back from those terminals, al
though the freight was discharged by
the railroads on the western trip.
These local rates, in most instances,
amounted to two fifths or more of the
entire rate from eastern points of
origin to'the Pacific coast terminals.
A petition for rehearing was filed
in the supreme court today by the
railroads in the Missouri River rate
case.
Astonishing facts were developed
by the commission at it's hearings con-
corning the earning capacity of the
Pacific lines. The commission shows
that during the last two years the op-
Grating revenues of the Southern
Pacific Company's Pacific system in
creased eight million dollars while the
operating expenses decreased FIVE
millions thus producing an increased
operating income Of over twelve mil
lion or net Increase of about two
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08

Miss Wilson and Mr.. Emil Mel
son, of Huron, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. I'll. Hall over Sunday.
The union services next Sunday
evening will be held at the Congrega-
tional church, Rev. Sanderson, of the
M. E. church, preaching the sermon.
Misses Alvina Rehfeld and Lulu
Schaub accompanied by Ben Rehfeld
departed Tuesday for weeks outing
at Bigstone. Misses Middle and
Frances Schaub will join them today,
M. o. DeWall is planning to
erect barn 60x60 feet on his farm
west of the city. When this struc-
ture is completed the DeWall farm
Will be one of the best in the county.
The ladies of the Evangelical
Aid surprised Mrs. Chas. Rehfeld
Tuesday by gathering at her home in
the afternoon to help celebrate her
birthday anniversary. The ladies
brought with them an elegant supper
which was served at $50 They left
as memento of the occasion a hand
Soma SiIvar dish
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08

The Cleveland Leader says the
graduate of the agricultural college,
if he does not go to farming for him
self, finds that there is demand for
his services in installing dairies, pre-
scribing for unproductive farms, lay
ing out land so that it can be better
utilized etc. If he desires to teach
he can command a better salary than
he could if he were a professor of
Greek or mathematics. The federal
agricultural department is on the
lookout for foresters and similar ex-
perts. The big dairies and cheese
factories need men scientifically train
ed for their work Tt looks as though
the agriculturist has decidedly fa-
vorable position among the college
men at present.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08
THE COST OF A FIELD OF GRAIN

Few farmers know the labor cost
of a field of grain, says the Farm
Press News published by the Univer-
sity of Minnesota. Few know whether
the crop harvested pays the labor
cost. It is less difficult than trouble
some to keep record, but if the farm
er will carry little book and make
a memorandum of the hours actually
spent in plowing, in preparing the
seed bed. in sowing or planting, in
cultiyating, in harvesting in fact a
record, by hours, of all time consumed
by man. or man and team, he will
discover a new light and begin to
find remedies. An account should
be kept with zach field, as with an
individual. Charge the field with the
labor at a price the farmer would pay
for it if he hired the work done. Each
item of cost should be charged to the
field. If machine is broken, charge
the expense of repairs to the field in
which the accident occurs. When the
crop is taken off, credit the field with
lis value The difference between the
two footings will show where the loss
or gain falls. Going further in book
keeping, the cost of seed, 10 which
the cost of cleaning, etc, might be
added and made part of the record.
When the farmers are making but 4
per cent on their investment in Min
nesota, on an average, as shown by
Experiment Station reports at Uni.
versity Farm, some making, others
losing money, each should know fol
himself what he is doing, and, if los,
ing, apply the remedy and stop the
leak with prosperity.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08

thousand dollars per mile of the road.
Referring to the other lines of the Pa
cifc system, the commission says:
"If we take the Central Pacific alone,
we find it third in the list of Pacific
coast roads in tons carried and high
est of all in freight earnings per mile
-.S13,453 per mile in l9O7-while it is
one of the three railroads in the west
carrying over million tons of freight
per mile of road. The earnings of the
Central Pacific per mile are 65 per
cent greater than the average for the
United States and 100 per cent greater
than the average of the roads west of
Chicago.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08

You all know they made splendid
progress, they assure us. In 1870 the
prohibition party failed to get pro-
hibition enactment in this state. We
didn't come within thousand miles
of it, and neither did the Anti Saloon
league with county option in this state.
There isn't any more show for county
option in Wisconsin than there is that
the Pabst Brewing Co. will operate a
plant in heaven.
Recently we are told that the Anti
Saloon league had sixteen governors
lined withit. There's the biggest crop
of Exes in the history of the country.
Elk. Governor Folk, ex Governor Hooh,
Ex-Governor Peckham, Ex-Governor
Smith, ex Governor Harris, Ex Gov
ernor Hanly and so they all went
after the league endorsed them. The
league ought to be arrested for taking
money under false pretenses when
they get to taking collections up in
the churches for their movement. 1t
isthe biggest piece of political graft
in the United States except the cleo
tion of Lorimer in Illinois.
You will never stop the sale of
liquor or destroy the traffic until you
stop the manufacture in the United
States.
County option is farce. The en-
forcement would rest among republi
can and democratic politicians. The
republican party represents greed and
the democrats furnish appetite"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08

EVEN the Wall Street Journal, the
able advocate of the financiers of our
metropolis, and usually found de,
Tending all sorts of explorations, can
not stand for the piracy of the great
express companies that operate al
most entirely upon franchises and
statutes as the investment. Read
the following comment by that paper
upon the Wells Fargo express COM
pany:
1t looks as if the Wells Fargo stock
holders have been able to "eat their
cake and have it, too" After increas-
ing the capital stock 200 per cent, and
declaring 800 per cent cash divi-
dend some time ago, quarterly divi-
dend has now been declared on the
increased amount of stock at the
same rate as prevailed before that in
crease took place. This is the real
argument against parcels post, and
yet the consumer remains ungrateful.' .
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08
ANTI-LIQUOR FORCES FIGHT
EACH OTHER.

That the cause of temperance will
experience setback as the result of
antagonism between the two great
temperance forces is almost certain.
In way both the prohibition party
and the Anti Saloon League have ad-
vanced the temperance cause in the
past, but with the two fighting each
other little hope of a forward move
ment can be entertained We do not
endorse the position taken by E. w.
Chain, the prohibition leader, but
publish below report of his address
to show the position of that party:
Milwaukee, June 30. E. w. Chain,
last candidate of the prohibition party
for president of the United States, un4
questionably put the official stamp of
disapproval on the Anti Saloon league
as an organization when in the course
of his address before the prohibition
convention. he denounced the league
as a graft movement politically, say.
ing the leaders are none too anxious
TO succeed because their salaries would
then end. You shouldn't speak i'll of
the Anti Saloon league because it is
dead" said the former presidential
candidate. "It's the deadest thing
politically in the United States. I
said it wouldn't get bill through
single Legislature after the last cleo
tion and although the legislatures Of
all states met, it didn't. The organiza-
tion raised $75, 600 in New York, $5O,-
600 in Pennsylvania, $4,000 in Ilf-
nois and SO on, and what did it get
with it, In Indiana it came within
an ace Of losing the local option law
it already had. In Illinois it was the
same sndwhat did it do here in Wis
cousipi
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-08
Whole No 1886.

ALVIN Stimson departed Tuesday
for trip to Kansas City, st. Louis,
Chicago, and other points. He will
be absent until the first of August.
The wind storm of Tuesday night
caused the destruction of one of
Ringling Bros big show tents at
Watertown and the injury of four
performers. 1t also caused the death
of one of the men in the railroad
yards where the loading of the circus
train was in progress. There were
1000 people in the tent when the
storm first struck but all were able to
leave the tent without injury.