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Cedar Creek Item

Mrs. Anna Stewart visited the
Cedar creek school, Monday of this
week.
Matt Watt has a large crew and
they are making quick time in the
hay field.
Homer Clammer and A. j. Ken
naday are exchanging work in the
hay field. They are working on the
Clammer ranch this week.
Mrs. L. W. Want and little son
Charles went up to Beaver creek Sun.
day for a weeks visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Louis Gunst Jr.
The Want Brothers are expecting
a bumper crop of potatoes this year.
The indications are good and some
are larger than ducks eggs now.
Cedric G. Poole and George Ed
wards, Mr.. Fitzgerald's chauffeur,
we're visitors at the Cedar creek
school house last Friday. While
they were there the teacher, Miss
Hensgen favored them with a charm
ing vocal solo, HAS your Heart
Grown Cold to Me-"
, 1911-08-03
Drug to Death by Horse

John P. Murray, Forest Ranger
stationed at Twin Groves, abou
rs miles west of this place, wal
thrown by a bucking horse yester
day morning about $50. His foo
caught in the stirrup and he wa,
dragged for about a quarter of ,
mile, rendering him unconscious
He was brought to this place yes.
.erday afternoon, together with
his wife and three little daughters
by John Swanson and Gus Stran.
burg, ranchmen who lived neal
the station. DR.. Price made a
careful examination and pronounc-
ed him fatally injured. He was
taken to the Wsterloo where he
died at 8 O'Clock this morning
without having regained concious
ness. Mrs. j. Mclaughlin, the
mother of Mrs. Murray, who lives
at Granite Canyon, Wyo., will be
here this evening and the body
will be taken to Cheyenne tomor-
row for interment.
The body was taken in charge
by the Modern Woodmen of
America, at this place of which
order he is a member, and all
preparation for the funeral were
made by them. Deceased carried
an insurance policy for $1,000 in
the Woodmen payable TO his wife.
Father C'onrath Of Rswlins was
phoned for and was brot over in
Mr.. Cullens car that night and
administers! extreme JUNCTION.
The horse which threw him be-
longed to one of his neighbors and
was an old well-broken animal
never known to buck before. The
injuries received were in the head,
as there were no bones broken.
Mr.. Murray has been in the for.
est service abovt two years and
was considered a valuable man.
He was born in Missouri on the
Is day of February, 1882. He
leaves a wife and three little
daughters, Sadie aged g., Cathrine
7 and Viola, 6 who have the sim
cere sympathies of every one here.
, 1911-08-03
Two Lady Champions

Cheyenne, Wyo Aug. 1.-Gold.
lie st. Clair, claiming to be the
worlds champion lady pronco bust
er, who was seriously injured in
an exhibition in the east last win
ter, and Miss Jane Bernandy of
Arizona, holding the u%ndisputed
title of champion lady roper of
United States, are planning to
defend their titles at the coming
Frontier celebration in this city
beginning August 20. Miss st.
Clair has ridden in exhibition at
previous Frontier celebrations and
has made a sensation, 80 that it is
doubtful if any contestants will
appear against her. In addition
there have been several protests
filed against a ladies bucking con-
test because of the great danger
of accidents.
Miss Bernandy, however, will
probably meet a rivil roperess in
Mrs. 8. Underhill, of Winnipeg
She elaine the championship of
Canada's lady ropers, is the wife
of a member of the mounted po-
lice of Canada and is a fearless
horsewoman.
, 1911-08-03
Hat Ranch Barn Burns

The large barn Of jackson Bro
theirs, on the Hat ranch on Pass
creek, was struck by Tightening at
1;3O yesterday and the barn and
contents were a total loss. The
loss of barn, hay, etc, is estimated
at $1,000. The ranch, cattle,
horses, etc. had just been sold to
Denver parties and the papers
signed and the property trans
ferred only Is minutes before the
fire.
, 1911-08-03

ed with those Of the United States
Our northern neighbor allows a
homesteader to perfect title in
three years, and allows him to be
absent from the land six months
in the year, in order to earn a
living-recognizing that for the
first few years the average home
stead will not produce sufficient.
One of the cheerful prospects
of the next session is a possibility
that the general land laws will be
thoroly over-hauled and liberaliz-
ed. Only the presence OF a large
representation from the south and
northumberland as to real con.
ditions and indifferent to the adj
vancement of the west-will de.
feat such a revision, it is thot.
, 1911-08-03
Replevin Suit

A. X. Reader, of Slavery, was
OVER this week, accompanied by A.
7 Morgan. He had entered suit
|Otfore Judge Blood TO replevin a
|Aors- from James T.. Wrisinger.
De was represented by Andrew
AcMicken, of Rawlius. There
Vas no defense. Mr.. Wrisinger
bad purchased the horse of
Robert Corpening, he of Hans
christensen, he of Wilbur b.
augus, he of Ralph Webster and
, 1911-08-03
Biz Gold Find Near Centennial

The owners of the Cliff property over on Middle Fork, and with
n two miles of town, have caused a small mining excitement to take
hold of this place when they struck some of the richest gold ore that
has been seen here since the palmy days of the old Centennial mine.
The find was made while two of the owners. Frank Clifford and
Percy Miburn, were digging a trench in the surface rock for the pur-
pose of prospecting that part of the claim to discover whether there
WAS not other mineral there besides that which they had opened up
further down the creek, but on the same claim.
Large chunks of the ore have been shown here and in much of it
coarse gold can be seen il plenty by the naked eye A representa- It.
i've of the Post was an interested spectator at the pannlng that was
made of some of the ore and the string of gold that was found in the
au after the pulverized rock and had been washed down WIS enough
10 excite even a Klondiker.
Not enough work has been done to give a very clear idea of the
extent of this latest find, but it shows a solid four inch streak of this
rich stuff, besides about eight inches that in itself is considered pretty
inch.
Their shaft is down but four feet and the ore improves as they go
Down. That this is a n extension of the gold belt that hs been OPP
Grated on by several companies O n this side of the mountain is very
Evident.
Those who have seer this ore are satisfied that it will run up
Yards of $1,000 per ton. Samples of the ore eau be seen at this
Ihce-Centennial Post
, 1911-08-03

Frank S. Poorman left Sunday for
the cattle ranch of Hunter, Casteel &
Hunter, on Big creek, where he goes
to take charge Of the company's
books. Mr.. Poorman will be a most
excellent man for the place and both
he and the company are to be con-
graduated on the business arrange
ment that puts him ia charge of their
books.
, 1911-08-03

the latter of a man in kawlins
whom he did not know. The
horse had been stolen from Reader
some months ago and in his search
for another horse, which had also
been stolen, he ran across this
horse in the possession of Mr..
Wrisinger. Judgement for poss-
ession of the property, $40 dam
ages and the costs was given Mr..
Reader. 1t is understood that the
Webster Brothers will pay the
judgement and make everybody
whole in the matter.
, 1911-08-03
Our Washington Letter

Clark ABLY defended the cause OF
the dry farmer, and plead with the
senate for more liberal treatment
of these sturdy men and women
who are making two blades grow
where none grew before. Certain
senators suggested the bill to go
over and await general Legislation
amending the land laws, but the
Wyoming men won out and pas
sed the measure. Speaking on
this bill, Senator Warren called
attention to the immediate neces-
sity for it's enactment, because of
a severe drouth in certain sections
and more especially on the part
of the dry farmer, Senator Warren
said:
This bill is more especially
necessary now because of the new
endeavor, comparatively speaking,
of dry farming, so-called. Lands
that were supposed to be arid and
semi-alid, where water cannot be
conducted upon them, are now
being brot under cultivation.
There have been large numbers
Of people who have settled upon
these lands and by deep blowing
and summer following ars reclaim
ing the land, making homes, and
thru their sturdy efforts they are
not only making two blades of
grass grow where one grew before
out where in some cases the land
was an absolute desert and in
others, at best, only produced
short. sparse, wild grasses. They
had in many localities a very Sc
we're drouth all last summer, and
very little snow in the winter, and
again drouth this last spring and
present summer.
"There is no class of settlers
in fact, no class of citizens-of
the United States government
than do these hardy, industrious,
honest, enterprising pioneers who
are forcing the reluctant soil to
gather and give up moisture to
insure, at least every other year a
crop worth harvesting"
Replying to the suggestion that
the remedy should be found in a
revision of the land laws, Senator
Claak agreed, but said while we
were waiting for this revision it
was highly important and abso-
lutely necessary that the Warren
bill be passed. Speaking further
Senator Clark said:
Zone of two things must happen
Either these people must be re-
lieved by the passage of a law of
this sort or they must lose their
effort for the time spent on their
lands. 1t is true, as has been sug-
gested here, that our land laws are
archaic: it is further true that
every possible obstruction is put
in the way at this time of every
man who wants to settle upon the
public lands of of the United
States, there to carve out a home.
Not only are objections put in his
way practically, but hardly an
entry is made in local landoffices
that has not the tinge of suspicion
cast upon it. Nc matter how
honest may be the settlement, no
matter how earnest may be the en-
deavor, it is almost impossible for
a man in this day to secure, with
any reasonable degree of certainty
OF in any reasonable time, the title
to the land which he has occupied.
"The conditions at the present
time in these particular land dis
tricts are known all over the
country. 1t is known that there
has been drouths, it is known that
crops have failed. it is known that
unless these settlers get this tenn
porary relief they must forfeit
whatever right they may have to
10 this land. in MANY cases. /
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31
France Saws LAST Word.

Frances final word to Germany on
the Moroccan dispute was agreed
upon at a cabinet council in Paris
that is admitted to work a most i'm
portant point in French history. At
ter a session of three hours a set of
instructions to the French ambassa-
dor at Berlin We're adopted and will
by him be communicated to the Ger
man foreign office. Although the in
structiCns cannot be regarded as sug-
costing an ultimatum, yet an import
ant step has been taken toward a
rupture or an accord depending upon
how the German government receives
the proposals. France is irrevocably
determined not to accede to any Ger
man interest in Morocco and is
equally determined not to give up to
Germany as much French Congo ter
ritory as has been demanded.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31
25 KILLED BY
A FALSE ALARM
CRY OF FIRE" WHEN A FUSE
BLOWS OUT STARTS STAN
PEDE IN THEATER.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN HEAPED
UP IN STEEP STAIRWAY.
Although There is No Real Danger
False Cry Sends Audience
in Mad Rush to the
Exits.

A senseless panic in a moving pic
ture show in Canonsburg, Pa, occa-
stoned by the blowing out of a fuse
in the picture machine, resulted in
the death of % and the injury OF CO.
There was NO fire. The picture
theater was on the second floor of the
building and 700 people had just
started to leave their seats after the
first show, when the blowing out of
the fuse started cry Of fire from
back in the theater.
Just around the turn in the crooked
second floor hallway were $50 people
waiting to take their places for the
second show. Into this closely packed
hall damned the 700 from within the
house, and in trice nearly a thous-
and persons. three-fourths of them
women and children, crowded into the
narrow, steep, ill-lighted stairway
leading to- the street.
They piled up four and five deep at
the foot Of the stairs, ha4f-doZen chill
dren were smothered to death almost
under the brightly shining arc lamps
of the sidewalk. Fully 400 people
packed into 80 feet of narrow stair
way. RescuerS, endeavoring to reach
the screaming unfortunates from the
street were unable to drag them cut
Of the tangle of limbs and bodies.
Speedily a rescue brigade was formed
from the rear and dead and dying
were carried back through the theater
and out by an alley way.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31

Tanned by the summer sun and in
excellent health the seeking of which
was the object CT their tramp, Mr..
and Mrs. Dwight Woolf, of Kansas
City, are in Boston after a 4000-mile
walk across country.
Eugene Labine, Marshall county,
Minnesota, farmer, is harvesting 500
acres of wheat with one machine,
working day and night. The binder
is run with eight horses, four to a
shift and headlight is used at night.
A $500 silver trophy is the prize
for the best peck of wheat exhibited
at the Minnesota state fair next
month.
For poking fun at two foreigners
in Rankin, a suburb of Pittsburg,
Harry Morgan, aged "a, and James
Robbins, aged "a, were given unique
punishment. Each of the foreigners
picked up one of the men bodily. car
ried him to a nearby water trough,
plunged him into the water and held
him under. A crowd gathered, but
feared to interfere owing to the for.
eigners' threats. The young men
were taken from the water in dazed
condition.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31
HARVESTING BEANS AND TREATMENT
OF BEAN FIELDS AFTER HARVEST
Weather Conditions Are Vital Factor Haest-Proper Care
of Land After Harvest Is Most Important
Consideration.
By r. J. BALDWIN,
Michigan Agricultural College


The pea bean has become one of
Mlchigan's most valuable products.
The value Of this crop depends very
largely upon its being harvested In a
manner which will prevent the beans
from being discolored. This is more
important when it is remembered that
each pound of bad beans cost another
pound to have them removed by hand
or course weather conditions are q
vital factor in the harvest, but there
are methods which shorten the period
OF exposure in the field and others
which prevent spelling in case of a
continuous rainy spell. The most i'm
portant point in curing the crop
without waste is in avoiding delay
after the beans are ready for harvest
or during harvest. This can often be
made more certain by giving the ma
chinery thorough going over before
hand and securing extra sets of puller
knives, which are kept sharp in readi-
ness to replace dulled ones. In case
the area to be harvested is very great
the work should be begun before all
the pods are ripe and while the top
green leaves are yet on the vines.
Since gathering by hand has been re-
placed by the use Of the side-rake
leaves on the vines are an advantage
in that they prevent the pods from
being shelled and make a bulk large
enough for the rake to work WELL
The usual plan followed in using
this machine is to rake two rows, as
left by the puller, into one, and on
the return trip two others are raked
on top Of these. making windrow
containing eight bean rows. There
will always be few struggling vines
left by the puller and rake which can
be gathered while the windrow is be-
ing punched by hand. If the fields
are large and labor is scarce, vines
that are missed can be left without
much loss above the cost of gathering
them. The delay occasioned by gath
ering all loose vines often results in
damage to the whole crop from bad
weather later in the harvest.
A general plan which has worked
well in many bean regions is to run
the puller and side rake in the morn
ing while dew makes the vines tough,
leaving the hand work, such as bunch
ing, to be done later in the day. This
routine can be followed until the first
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31

secured roots Of the wild grape and
wood vine and planted them along
the wire fence surrounding the yard
This work has been continued for a
number Of years and the school
ground now, if visited during the sum-
mer season, appears like bower of
beauty-shade trees. vines, flower gar
dens and vegetable gardens flourish
and the whole community has had it's
life vitalized and redirected, and the
problem OF identifying the rural
school and the home has been solved
so far as they are concerned.
In most instances it will be found
best for the teacher to select some
projects which she has mastered and
teach them to the children, and after
these another one, and so on. A lit
tie later the children may be per-
mitted to select, either individually or
by groups, the kinds Of work which
they like best. In some communities
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31
A roundup of $4,000 or 10000 elk

roundup of $4,000 or 10000 elk
in the Jackson Hole country, Wyom-
ing. has begun. Under the leadership
of number Of cowboys, the elk are
being driven to other sections where
there is better range.
Maurice Simmons, OF New York
city. was elected commander-in-chief
of the United Spanish war veterans
at Oklahoma City. Atlantic City was
chosen as the meeting place for the
next annual reunion.
A dispatch from Salonika, Turkey,
states that DR.. Edmund Richter, tho
German engineer, who was captured
bv Greek bandits and held for ran
som of 1925, 900, has been rescued on
the Greek frontier and is returning to
Salonika.
The estimates for the army for the
next fiscal year will be in the aggre-
gate about the same as the amount
appropriated by congress for the mill
tary establishment during the current
year which was $94,210,400.
After four years experimenting at
the National Plant introduction gar
dens, near Chico. Cal, with variety
OF wheat known as chule, introduced
into the United States from Turke-
stan, II. Z. Blanchard, western cereal
expert Of the department OF agricul-
ture, has succeeded in separating a
pure white seed from the mixture
which has contaminated II practically
ever since its introduction
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31

hams Vegetable Compound was rec
commended, and after taking three bot
Ties she has regained her health, thanks
to your medicine. l can recommend it
for all female troubles. Mrs. l.. A
CoRKRAN, 1903 Rutland Street, Balti-
more, Md.
Hundreds of such letters from moth
ers expressing their gratitude for what
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has accomplished for them have
been received by the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass.
Young Girls, Heed This Advice.
Girls who are troubled with painful
or irregular periods, backache, head
ache, dragging-down sensations, faint
ing spells or Indigestion, should take
immediate action and be restored to
health by Lydia L. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. Thousands have been
restored to health by its use.
Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for advice, free.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31
Agriculture in the
Rural Schools
By w. III. French. Professor of Agricultural
Education. Michigan Agricultural College

We are coming more and more to
recognize the fact that the public
schools must be brought into closer
relationship with the life Of today.
The courses Of study need some modi-
fication and teachers need broader
and better training. They need train
ing particularly in those subjects
which constitute the dominant inter-
ests of the community.
For the rural schools there Is abun-
dance of natural material with which
to supplement the text book work in
all subjects. Many teachers have been
giving successful instruction in ma
ture study and thus widening the
child's view Of education and at the
same time giving him fund of infor-
nation which will always be disable.
In many of our cities school gar
dens are becoming popular feature
OF school work. The educational re-
suits are clearly to be seen, and we
can judge with considerable certainty
that the future effects will be equally
valuable.
Any teacher with an earnest desire
to help her community may learn
enough from bulletins, books, gar
deners, farmers, ETC., to begin the sue
cessful teaching of the gardening
phase of agriculture. The teacher
should interest a few Of the people in
the community, and especially the
off n I'd &c
large enough part of 1t may be
plowed for the garden, or a small
amount Of land may be rented. The
wise teacher will begin by concentrate
ing the attention each year on a few
projects. We have many districts in
Michigan where work of this kind has
been done, thereby adding great inter
est to the school work and resulting
in almost a revolution in the life and
agricultural practice of the communi-
ty. For instance, in one district the
teacher and children used one-quarter
of an acre of land, and from this
raised products which they sold for
S75. In another instance the school
was located upon an uncultivated and
ungraded plot of ground. The teacher
interested the children in cleaning up
the rubbish and burning out the
stumps the first year. After this had
been done, some of the boys brought
spades, hoes, and rakes and q small
flower garden was arranged, together
with some climbing vines on the
school house. The flower garden pros
pered well and the succeeding year
the ground was graded, good wire
fence put around the yard and the
children planted a garden 40 by so
feet in area. The children were ar
ranged In groups and each group Sc
lected a vegetable which they would
plant and cultivate. In this way po-
tatoes, popcorn, tomatoes, carrots.
radishes and sweet peas were raised
to the great delight of the teacher
and the school. The children also
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-08-31

the teacher may begin with potato
culture, in others corn culture, in
others alfalfa, in others small fruits,
etc, etc. The teacher may call to her
assistance some expert farmer of the
community who will be glad to render
assistance, both to the teacher ana
to the children.
In working out this plan, the chill
dren will learn the different varieties
of soil, the uses of fertilizers, meth
DDS of planting and cultivating.
The garden as a whole, or certain
plants in 1t, may be taken as a sub
ject for language stories and drawing
lessons. Arithmetic, business forms
and geography can also be taught.
The wise parent in each community
will see to 1t that children are given
plots Of ground at home. the products
of which become their own, OF the
boy may be given the care, inspeo-
ton and products Of certain COW.
II the parent and teacher will unite
in assisting the child to discover
what he likes to do. they will give to
the child an end. or purpose. In life.
the value OF which cannot be est.
mated.