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The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-08-03

Stock of all kind do well on the
open range all winter without
feed or shelter. Diseases are
almost unknown among the
stock. II the people of the east
ern states only knew the many
advantages of this country. it
would be thickly settled in few
years. Why they will try to live
there where it rains all the time,
| cannot understand. AS the old
negro said, They have the dry
drouth and the wet drouth
both to contend WITH, and gen.
orally both the same year. Now
/ have not begun to give one half
OF the many advantages of this
great country, but will now give
all the disadvantages as see
them: % We have not enough
of real farmers here and too
many idle hands. GU Too many
people living in town. (3) Land
is too high, but worth what they
ask for it. (4) 1t gets dry here
sometimes, but believe we can
make a crop any year. 90 The
wind blows here the same as in
other countries, but sometimes a
little 'samer. CO Sometimes
dust gets mixed with the wind.
GU We have some weeds here
in our fields that are the Devil
opment of this country, namely
/. e. They develop the muscles
of the young manhood to Grad
icate them. We need some NJ.
DIS. who car live without prac-
tice. (S) We need some grave
yards for our nice churches; they .
look so odd without grave yards.
co. We need 5000 school children
to attend our many nice country
schools. | brought 9 children
with me and put one school in
operation that was about closed
for want of children.
To those who are dissatisfied
where they are, and want 10
better their condition, | invite
them TO come and see for them
selves what this country offers
them. Come where you can have
health and live in peace. Where
you can sleep all night by the
open window and be famed by
the cool soft breeze and awake
next morning feeling refreshed
instead Of being tired and worn
out. This is the best place in
the world TO sleep. Rip Van T
Wrinkle was only taking a nap
compared with sleeping here.
Come where your wife or daugh-
ter can stay alone at home and
feel perfectly safe, or take a trip
alone any distance without fear
of being molested. Come where
there is scarcely any drinking
and no rowdiness. No blind
tigers or bootleggers.
Now ! feel that ! am sincere
in what have said. ! have no
land to sell, nor am ! directly IN
terested, only in the feeling |
have for common humanity, and
if | can better the conditions for
some one, ! will feel that ! have
only done my duty. ] have tried
10 give the true conditions and
am doing il WIDELY unsolicited.
OF course we have our disadvan-
tages, but ! think our many adj
vantag.s so overshadows them.
until they are not to be compared.
OF course love my native state,
my friends and my relations; but.
give me West Texas 20 live in
and Mississippi to visit from now
on. Yours truly,
SMITH SHAW
How ahout that electric iron
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-08-03
Waren- Notice

The FacJe Of those people
who ha\e Een swimming IN my
tank musI stop This Is fair
warning fdAC yone caught from
this date Twill y prosecuted 10
the full extent bf the law.
WA.8ACON. ?,
Mrs. r. A. Long and childreg,
Of Plainyiew visited relatives
here the first Of the week
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1911-08-03

S. =. RobbiHs and Company
are dealing a nrssySe TO the peo-
pie that ifcb4 9ll follow.
means long aphfhpH life tits
this keeP-Sfp NJ1r insurance.
3 2t.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-24
(Under All Conditions

In the February 1st issue we dis
cussed the advantages of occasional
deep tilIage tor the purpose of retain
ing in the field, the rain az it comes
to US in great quantities in short
time, particularly in the months of
May, June and July.
Since that article appeared W. were
asked at one of the Farmers lnsti-
tutes about draining a pond or slough
in the center of d cultivated field.
Many of these ponds and sloughs
would not annoy us our normal sea
sons if the portion of the field under
cultivation were in condition of til
lage that the water was retained In
the soil on the hillside, instead of roll
ing from there down into the ravine.
The farmer who has a slough or pond
in his cultivated field, that fills up
with water during the growing season,
or at any time when there is no frost
in the ground, should never complain
if it doesn't rain often enough to pro-
duce a crop under such conditions.
If the elements furnish a sufficient
supply of moisture during the season
to produce the crop, it is the business
of the farmer to retain it where he
wants it for that purpose when this
can be done by tillage of the field.
capIIIsrity.
There probably is not any place
known where there is enough rainfall,
and at just the right times, to produce
crop of anything from the benefit the
plants derlye from the water as it
falls. Wherever field crops are sue
cessfully grown they necessarily are
supplied with moisture by capillarity
during some period of their develop
ment. Capillarity is law of nature,
the same as gravity. When the soil
is saturated at the surface, but not
at greater depth, the tendency of
the surface water is downward by the
law of gravity. This movement con-
tinues until the particles of the soil at
the surface become dry. AS soon as
Il dry particle lies in close proximity
to and above a moist one below it,
the moist particle gives up some of
it's moisture to the dry one above, and
in turn draws upon the more moist
one below it for some of its surplus
moisture. This movement of the
moisture in an upward direction
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-24

time pass from the lower cake into
the upper.
How often the farmer in turning a
furrow slice leaves under it layer of
stubble, weeds or trash. 1t is COM.
mon thing to see man blowing turn
ing back layer of this material that
was plowed under the year before.
When turned under there it held the
soil turned by the plow apart from
the subsoil, and no moisture would
come into this furrow slice until it had
been compacted sufficiently to bring
it in close proximity to the bottom of
the furrow into which it was turned.
Sufficient work was not put upon the
surface of the field to make this con-
nection. Probably the season way dry
and the rains insufficient to do this
work. AS result, the grain planted
in a seed bed prepared in that way
does not germinate readily, or if there
happens to be moisture enough in the
soil to germinate it when sown, as
soon as that moisture escapes the
crop suffers
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-24
The Kerosene Lamp.

The kerosene lamp burned in our
homes is one of the most perfect de-
monstrations of this law of capillarity.
If the wick has been saturated with
oil so that its particles are swollen
enough that they come close together
the oil in the bowl of the lamp passes
upward through the wick as long as
the lamp continues to burn. However
when the flame is eXtinguished this
movement of the oil upward ceases.
So long as the fame is there it is dry
ing the uppermost particles of the
wick, and these dry particles draw
upon the PARTICLES adjoing them close
ly for some of the oil they contain.
These in turn draw upon those below
them, and so the oil is gradually
drawn from the bowl to the flame in
NATURES effort to moisten the upper
most particle of the wick which is in
close contact with the moist particles
below.
When the flame is eXtinguished this
movement of the moisture upwards
ceases as soon as nature has by the
operation of this law moistened the
dry PARTICLES LETT by the flame when
it was put out, which were in close
proximity with the moist particles
below. We sometimes find dry or
charred coal on the top of the wick,
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-24

through the soil, when the physical
condition of the soil is right, is as
certain and unerring as is its move
ment downward by gravity when the
soil is saturated.
A cake of loaf sugar demonstrates
this movement of moisture very nice
ly. Touching one end or corner of it
to the water the moisture immediate
moves upward through it to the up
permost particle that is a compact
part of the cake. If, however, we put
some pulverized sugar on the top of
this cake, the moisture will enter the
pulverized sugar but slowly. 1t is the
same sugar, but the particles are not
compacted together as they are in the
cake itself. In other words, they do
not come in close enough proximity
to each other that the moisture will
move from one 10 the other by capil-
larity, except as the one settles
against the other in time by gravity,
or by its own weight.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-24
Particles are Compact.

If we examine the condition of the
soil under these different articles, we
find it to be compact, or the particles
in close proximity to each other. This
is the same condition we find in the
lamp wick which gives good flame,
in the cake of sugar we referred to,
and in any other article through
which moisture is carried by capil-
larity.
The next step after the moisture
has been stored in the soil is to make
compact seed bed that natures
law of capillarty may be put in op.
Grafton as quickly as possible.
We have probably all had the ex-
perience of finishing planting a field
and then for some reason or other
having a wagon drawn across it.
If the seed bed was at all dry. the
grain came up in the wagon track
long before it did in the loose soil
alongside it. The writer has seen
many fields in The Dakota Farmer
territory within the last twenty-five
years where that wagon track could
be followed across the field at harvest
time from the fact that the grain was
so much larger and better in it.
We have probably all noticed too
that where We were working loose
soil containing little moisture the
grain would come mp first where the
horses tramped it at the end of the
field; another demonstration of the
influence or Importance of getting the
particles of soil contained in the seed
bed in close proximity to, or contact
with the particles below.
Water in its movement downward
through the soil will make more rapid
progress in loose soil than in com.
pact one, but in it's movement upward
it absolutely stops when a layer OF
soil is reached which has not been
compacted sufficiently to bring the
particles closely together. These il
lustrations we have referred to dem
onstrate the Importance of a compact
seed bed, and are object lessons which
probably all of our readers have OBJ
served.
How compaeted.
The first step in procuring this
, character of seed bed is to turn the
soil, il possible. in a condition that i
will be the most easily compacted
and that gravity, or the weight of the
soil itself will most aid in bringing
about that condition II we were Il
take two of the cakes of sugar we re
, ferred to, and should lay the thinnes
blade of grass between them so the,
were held apart merely by its thick
ness, moisture would never pass from
one cake of sugar into the other &,
long as the small space existed be
! tween them because of the blade o
! grass being there. On the other hand
If the surface of each were perfectl,
smooth and nothing interyened be
.. tween them, by pressing them tight,
10 u as.sU NVU. II
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-24
Always Moisture.

We always find moisture under the
large stone that has lain in one place
for a few years 81 it has become
slightly settled in, or in close contact
with the surface of the soil upon
which it rests.
When we remove the old stack, the
manure pile, or the old building the
roof of which has shed the moisture
away from the soil underneath it pos
sibly for years we always find mois-
ture.
There is always a good growth of
grass Immediately around the stone.
This grass may not be more than an
inch long six inches away from the
stone, but Immediately around it, it
has always made good growth.
This moisture is found under the
stone, the old stack, the manure pile,
and the building for two reasons;
first because it was coming up through
the soil, and second, these articles
prevented the sun and wind from car
rying it away in the form Of evapora-
ton. There is, or was when there
was moisture enough in the surface
of the ground in the vicinity of the
stone az underneath it, but the sun
and wind got that, while the stone
protected the moisture thar came to
the snrface underneath IT.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-24

but with the least touch it rolls off.
This part has not been moistened be-
cause in the process of forming it
separated itself slightly from the par
tioles below-the connection was not
perfect enough that moisture would
pass into it.
The oil IN the wick does not evapo-
rate as does water, and hence the oil
in the lamp is not materially lessened
when the wick is not lighted, or
burning.
1t is by this principle that the mois-
ture stored in the soil by the process
of gravity when there is surplus of
moisture at the surface, is brought
back to feed the plant when that sur
plus ceases to exist within reach of
its roots.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-14
BANK CLEARINCS

NEW YORK. Oct 1s.-Rank clear
ings In the United States for the week
ending October 10. aggregate So
SIS, 1000. against s3,a3s.221. 600
last week and S2,6IS.s25,00o in this
week last year Following are the
returns for this week with percen-
tages OF change from this week last
year;
New York I.4s5.s1s, 1000; increase
LIS,
Chicago, s22s,s4s.ooo: decrease,
40,
Boston. $1a3.3s2,ooe. decrease,
Ills.
Philadelphia, s11s,4o7.ooo: de-
crease. 1s.2 ..-.s.... .-.s:.s. .,,s,s...s...;
st. Louis, ssI.o24, oo0; increase,
"a.
Kansas City. sss,4os.ooo; decrease
pittsburg. sss.754.ooo; decrease.
San Francisco. ss7.4oo.ooo; de-
crease. 90.
Baltimore. sso.72o.ooe; decrease Z.
Cincinnati, s1s.e54.ooo: decrease !:
80.
Minneapolis. s27,sl7.ooo: Increase.
26
Cleveland. sl7.ess. 900: decrease. o.
New Orleans. $1s,423.o 900; decrease
IL.
Detroit, s1s.430. 900: increase: SIS.
Omaha. s13.72s. 900: decrease. ia.
Los Angeles. s1l.sss.00 decrease,
lS:
Louisville. sle,44a,ooe: decrease 80.
Milwaukee. s1s.650.o0o: increase.
1T.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-14

heifers. $2.25Gss.5o; stockers and
feeders, ss.ioG$5.70; Texans, s4.75 a
$50; calves, $95a
sheep-Receipts, 10000; market
steady. Natives and Western. s2.25M
st.35; lambs. $3.50 n sS.os.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-~~Tn the live
stock market to-day steers were SLOW:
choice and prime steady; others 10 a
l5c lower; bulls slow; cows steady to
1oc lower. Steers. $4.s06s7. 40. bulls,
1915 q SIS; cows, s1.75 s475. Dress
ed beef steady to firm at a IL Lee
for native sides. Calves duh and Is @
soc lower Neals, ssns10; culls, IS
Gs5.50; grassers. $3.50; Southern and
Indiana calves. s4.25 s5.25. Dressed
calves slow and lower. City dressed
wells, II q 16c: country dressed. LOG
10 l2c; choice, lac; dressed grassers
and fed calves, "a IS Lac. Sheep weak !;
lambs, 30 q soc lower. Sheep, $3.50
d$4; culls, 81. Lambs. s5@ss30;
one car. s8.45: culis. $3.50. dressed
mutton slow at 12ase: dressed
lambs, e1-2 q II Lac. Hogs lower at
$40 nS7
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-14
LEGAL NOTICE.

VIRGINIA.:
IN THE Law AN Deputy COURT
W. I. Johnson, who sues, etc.
j. r. Pollard, executor Of Thoma. H.
Jenkins deceased; o. II. Funsten.
Banks Braxton and Augustus Banks.
IN CHANCERY.
Extract OF decree entered In the
above styled cause on October 10. 1911.
18th. An account Of all the
debts and liza bilities OF the said Thomas
And the said commissioner shall Eive
notice of the time and place fixed upon
by him for the execution OF the NTH
enquiry herein above directed by pub
paper published Ia the city OF Rich
mond, once a. week 70 rfour successive
weeks. which shall be equivalent to per
sonal service upon all persons inter-
To the creditors OF Thomas H Jenkins.
!. deceased. and all others interested;
l have fixed upon my ONCE, room FOL.
mond. Virginia. as the place. and Thurs
day November Is, 1911, at 10 o'clock,
4. NJ. as the time for executing the
decree Of which the foregoing In an
cution OF SAID decree be not COM
menced. or IL commenced. be not COM
plfted at that time and place further
proceedings Will be adjourned before
me at the same place from time to
time. between the hours OF o'clock.
A NJ. and o'clock, p. NJ, until COM
pleted
Given under my hand as commits
sioner In Chancery OF the Law and
Equity Court of the City OF Rlchmo nd
Nirg inia, this 18th day OF October. aali.
PHIL b. SHIELD,
Gommissioner in Chancery.
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New York Produce.


NEW YORK. Oct. l3.--Dressed
poultry. Fresh killed turkeys, dry
picked, per pound. l29 22c: ,sealded,
10 a l5c, turkeys, old, l5e lsc; chick
ems. dry packed. IA liz % csc: squads.
broilers. iced. per pair. Philadelphia,
per pair. 25 u 40c, best do. 23025c;
Western, 124 Ice; fowls dry picked.
14m17 lac: iced, 131-2M15 1-2c:
scalded. ~ l-20 l5c; squads, as to
size, s1.a5 @$s.75 per dozen; spring
ducks, 1711sc.
Frozen poultry-Turkeys. 1463sc.
Wkeat--No. l Northern Minneapo-
lis. $1.10 is: No. 2 red, winter, $I0I;
Northern Duluth, $1.lal-4.
Corn-~Exports. No. 2, II Lee.
Osts---No. 2 white, 53c.
Rye--No. 2 {. l. I. Buffalo, csc.
Mailing. $i.146*Le5. c. |.
T. Buffalo.
Flour--Spring patents, $3.50: win
ter straights, $4.20.
Millfeed--Western bran, $26.10.
Pork-Mess. $17.
I.ard--Middle West. spot. 1895.
Tallow-Prime city. 65-sc.
CofYee-Rio No. Z, on the spot,
Is Lie.
sugar--Grannlated. ss.760$Gso.
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roR SALE.
S1,40O,0o0.

$1,40O.000.
-Four per cent bonds ofthe City Of
Richmond, Va.
The Council OF the City Of Richmond,
Va. adopted an ordinance approved
September 49, ts1i, authorizing the
Committee on Finance to issue four
per cent bonds treGistefed or coupon
convertiolel. 70 m amount not exceed
ing 1900. 10000 the proceeds OF the
sale OF said bonds to b used Tor the
making OF Permanent Public Improve
ments.
The bonds will be issued Ia multipfes
Of $1,000. dated July 1. 1911. and hAv-
ing thirty -four years TO run from date
Of issue.
At = meeting OF the Committee IN
Finance held September -. 1911. the
Auditor WAa Instructed to advertise tor
sale Of AL or any part Of said issue,
bids to b. resolved until ~ ~. oetobeS
date.
n ne s,sat 3 ssises .ay - n 49,
. ~ ]: ssTIs !. I IN nm N
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LEslAL xorscn

n
ii TIE sI,sA Nc. H.. co "! !. 81.
OF OCTOBER, 1911. a
Caroline G. Beattie, Hugh 3. b4Qe
Harry c. Beattie. Robert ~. 0An4
Joseph q. Beattie. Agnes b. gteW
and Marian d. Cooley, PlAintfAa
d. Rand Wexford. trustee; Rschr
Trust and safe Deposit Compamxs
nninfstrator OF the estate OF CN31
l. Steel. deceased, Bank OF RichQe
Inc. assignee and successor Of 811
mond Trust and Safe Dsposat g.
pany. administrator OF the esteke%
Charles /. Steel. deceased. BY neIJ
and consolidation of Metropolis
Bank Of Virginia and Richmond IT,
and safe Deposit Company, ~
Rawlings; J. Herbert Mercer. SHE
of the city OF Richmond and ~ 1C
administrator - the estate Of L.
Rawlings. deceased. and All OtN@
persons interested as parties W
known. defendants.
IN CHANCERY. $
The object OF this sui, IL 70 obt2l1
through decree of the court the RI
lease and discharge OF certain 6N3
of trust. more than twenty years mn
ing elasped since its maturity rai13M
a presumption Of payment, which ~
ance OF purchase money, bearing a.
on the cath day OF April 1883, and "a
corded on the 1th day Of May, 1855,
the Clerks Office Of Henrico CouMk
Court In DB 127 page liz. was -
cuted by Joseph g: Beattie conveyin91
1913 in this plan Of sydney and now
the city OF Richmond at the south
eastern corner of Hanover and R0M
land streets and purchased by the ~
Joseph g. Beattie Of Louis Haw1inol
f.. G. Rawlings, and Charles l. SteA
In trust to secure to the holder OF thtS
certain negotiable notes the pAyM141
OF the sum OF te.244.53 evidenced
said notes each dated April ~, IT,
drawn by J. G. Beattie to his own q
note for $4,000. one note for $741.1
and one note for S769.3b payable N
spectiveiy In 6, IL and IS months At
date at the First National Bank
Richmond.
And afidavit having been made ~
flied that the said r. @. Rawlings 10 a
q resident of this State, that the nAm4
OF the distributes or iegatees Of Lou
Rawlings. deceased, are unknown ~
that the names OF their personal re1
resentAtives, II they be dead. are 81
known. and that the names OF this hold
er or holders Of said negotia BILE n0te
are unknown, and all such persona ~
the bin states may be interested In b
made parties defendant to THIS M
by the general description OF pArtts
unknown. it Is ordered that r.
Rawlings. and such unknown al
tributes or legatees OF Louis RawIinG
deceased, II they be living, and II tins
be dead their unknown personal re1
resentAtives, and the unknown holGe
or holders OF the said negotiable mott
do appear here within fifteen days u
ter due publication Of this order ~
do what Is necessary to protect the
interests In his suit.
A copy. Teste:
CHAS. Q. SAVILI4E.
Clerk
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-14
VICTIM OF WRECK
LEAVES NO ESTATE

Robert E. Byrd. the Richmond
and Potomac fireman
who WAS killed in wreck near
Laurel several weeks ago, left prac-
tically no property. according te
papers filed In the chancdry court yes
terday when Wilbur G. Dudley quail
fed as his administrator. The nomi-
nal value OF the estate was placed al
$3.50.
A. ]. Chewing Jr., qualified as
executor Of Susan r. Boitz, whose
estate L. valued at $1,000
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-14


VIRGINIA.;
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF Thu
CITY OF RICHMOND. THE 4TH DAXS
OF OCTOBER, 1911.
City OF Richmond. municipal corporASa
Ton, chartered under the laws OF th95
state ot Virginia. complainant.
Unknown heirs at law Of Frank As
Colon bani. and others. defendants. 83
Order of publication against tho de-
PENDANTS whose names are UNKNOWN
The object OF this suit is to enfcrces
a lien in favor OF the City Of RicnsS
with interest on 1854 part thereet.
from October 4. 1911. until paid. befnaGs
the amount OF delinquent taxes aseessrs
ed in the name OF Mary Colombian fOIs
OF land OF irregular shape. lying In thA|
city OF Richmond. Virginia. fronting
thirty seven and one haif tS1h) !ee4a
on the south side OF the James RtvsrS
Arch streets and extending back on 10
east line eighty-six $50 feet seven t71
inches. more or less. ana on It's WeS&5
line one hundred and eight I0sp fesfS
six 90 inches, more or less. b0unde6S
on the east and south BY the Land eh|
MERS and on the west by the land ukl
the TREDEGAR IRON coMPANfx|
MARY COLOMBANI. interstate. passseaa
to her sole heir at law, the said FRANZ
j. COLOMBAN1.
And afY1davIt having been made An6S
filed by r. c. Walford. collector Of DE-
linquent taxes, and as such. agent fp3I
said corporation, that the heirs 1T taW;
of FRANK J. cOL0MBANI are uIsss
known and that due diligence has bee
used by and on behalf Of the plainttae5
in this cause to ascertain who aucl43
persons are, by making inquiry Of per-
sons who were intimate with aAi4s
FRANK j. cOLOMBANI, without effecksS
t II rs ordered that the said unknOwN9
heirs at FRANK J. COLOMBANI do 49,
gear here within fifteen tl5l days akfoM
due publication of this order. and Az
what may be necessary to protect their
interests In this suit.
Copy, Teste: n
CHAS. o. SAvILLE, MI n
Clerk HI
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-14
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
lny M,ller 4 CO.. I1o7 r. M.in SD. !,

NEW YORK. oct. I3.--Liverpooi sent
las lower range of cables on .oolitical
situation in China and Turkey and un-
easiness at home in the industrial
world, bred by the decision against one
Of the industrial trusts.
At opening. purchases by satisfied
shorts held the market for short
time, but nothing could withstand the
tidal wave of selling from the South.
The market made new lows and
closed barely steady.
Liverpool due / - up to down.
Sell cotton.