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The Nome daily nugget., 1911-11-03
ARMsTRoNn aouNp ouER.

a man named F. Armstrong was bound over Co Che grand jury this afternoon lu tae eommissioner's court. charged wlfa stealing a robe under. .iathius and other articles from out on The creeks hear rhe Bessie roadhouse.
 Eal aae fixed lu the sum Of 5000
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
TEACHER SEARCHES PUPILS
Each of Fifty Scholars In Room Sub Jected to Ordeal After s1.6o
 Is Missing.

Wichita, Kan.-Miss Katherine Mur- phy, a teacher at the Lincoln street school, is in trouble with the parents children in the room searched after she had missed $16O from her purse.
 Miss Murphy searched the girls, while the janitor searched the boys. Then the pupils went home and told their mothers and fathers. Immedi- ately there arose a protest that was heard all over Wichita Fifty fathers Immediately placed the case before the school board, which is now con ducting an investigation.
 Miss Murphy Is the teacher of the sixth grade, and the money was con tributed by the pupils to buy drawing paper. During a recess the money dis appeared from Miss Murphy's desk. She called in Miss J. R. Daugherty. Four pairs of eyes cast searching glances toward the desks where the 50 pupils sat, all innocent of the sus- picions-
 In sharp, short and decisive words Miss Daugherty announced the disap- pearance of the money and demanded that the guilty pupil step forward. Eyes opened wide, heads shook mega lively as if to say:
 You can search us."
 That was just what the teacher and the principal decided to do. The two teachers marched the girls into hall way and searched each of them, de spite fearful protests of innocence
 The janitor took the boys into an other hallway and put them through the third degree. When the search was over the s1.6O was still missing
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
IT'S COSTLY TO BE SINGLE
Pennsylvania Town Now Proposes to Tax All of It's Unwedded
 People.

Ebensburg, Pa--An ordinance was Introduced in the council here to place a tax of s25 on every unmarried man and woman in the city over twenty-seven years old. The city clerk is to take a census of unmarried persons and the tax list will be made up from this report
 The ordinance provides that men who shall swear that they have pro posed to three unmarried and unbe- trothed women and shall give their names shall be exempt from the tax, and women who have never received a proposal shall also be exempt while those that have refused proposal shall be taxed an additional $10.
 The only opposition to the ordi- nance was from Second Ward Coun- cilman J. c. Bench, who argued that a woman who has never received a uroposal should be taxed double in- stead of having her tax remitted- He argued that a woman who has never received a proposal is to blame, on the ground that she has never taken care of her feminine charms.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
PROPER FEED FOR DRY COWS
Should Have Run of WeII-Protected Warm Yard During the Day and
 StabIed at Night.

Dry cows that will come fresh in spring should have the run of a we'll protected warm yard during the day and stabled at night. A COW that will calve in spring cannot be kept in good order on straw and fodder alone. She should have little grain in addition. Two quarts of wheat bran and two quarts of crushed corn and cornmeal given daily to each will keep them in good thrifty condition and the calves will be stronger and healthier. Feed may be saved by cutting the fodder and straw and mixing the meal with the cut feed. Mix one bushel of the cut fodder and straw with the corn chop and bran. Mix with just enough water to make the meal stick to the fodder. Give the mixed ration morn ing and night. Each one should be haltered in her own stall. She can then eat her ration without being crowded out by greedy cattle.
 After the mixed feed is eaten turn out in the yard when weather is suit able. A little salt sprinkled over the cut feed will make 1t more palatable.
 Heifers and yearlings should be well fed. They are growing and can not be kept healthy unless they have enough nutriment to provide for their natural growth.
 The heifers should have a roomy pen to go under in stormy weather and at night.
 Keep the calves in a separate pen Bed heavily with straw. If the straw Is clean and dry a large portion will be eaten. By giving thick bed the cattle can be kept comfortable. They will eat less and keep in good thrifty condition. By this method a large quantity of manure may be made, as all the urine will be absorbed by the
 traw.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
34ZACE 0< IzE -ua04R A14ARZ0ZzH ~6S

world, you come to the markets, rows and rows of straw huts with a man or a woman squatting in each, ready to chaffer interminably for the eggs or tomatoes or the chickens or the green stuff spread on the ground outside. As you wandAE through, look along every street of low mud houses and you will see 1t stretching away dead straight to where the town ends on the desert For complete contrast go over to Om- durman. Eleven years ago this was still the Dervfsh capital. the residence of the false prophet who made his pow CT felt over nearly half Africa. It was a slave-trading center, a vast prison, where every man felt himself a cap tive and knew that a turn of Fortunes wheel might at any time number him among the victims who were hanged on high gallows in the market place every Friday to strike the Khalifa's terror home to every heart It was also vast harem where women raided from many tribes were herded togeth- CT to give the fanatical Baggara fore taste of their bestial Paradise.
 Eleven years ago it was death or captivity almost worse than death for
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
n. HAMILTON FYFE.
welahts and Measures.

London has what New York has not. namely, cheap and easy access to authoritative standards of weights and measures. At the Royal observatory of Greenwich these standards are fixed on the outside walls, so that any shopkeeper or householder or other doubting Thomas can go at any time and get information and an easy con- science without waiting for inspectors or red tape unrollers. The various lengths are decided at Greenwich by passing the measure to be tested be- tween raised points in metal plates. There is a pound balance there by which any weight may be verified. In Trafalgar square there are standards of 100 feet and one chain (60 feet) on brass plates, with accurate subdt visions. These brass plates are set in the granite steps on the north side of the square. There are other sets of standards in Old Palace yard. New York might have them outside the city hall and in the public squares here and there.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
INJURY WROUGHT BY WEEDS
sseds of Many Plants VIII Retain Their Vitality for Fifteen to
 to Twenty-Five Years.
Rx H. Fl. sHEPARpO


 Weeds rob the soil of moisture. Ex- periments show that for most of the cultivated grasses from three to five hundred pounds of water must actual ly pass through the plants to produce single pound of dry matter.
 This is doubtless the most import ant of the weed injuries. for 1t must not be forgotten that the moisture In the soil is the all important thing.
 Ask the average farmer why he cul- tivates his corn and he will say ito kill the weeds" when as matter Of fact it should be for the purpose of conserving moisture in the soil. The weeds are killed purely as an inci- dental matter. A perfectly clean corn field needs cultivation as badly as weedy one.
 Weeds crowd the cultivated plants, depriving them of light and space in both soil and air.
 Weeds rob the soil of food element required by other plants.
 Weeds harbor injurious insects and plant diseases
 Weeds sometimes injure by killing farm stock, or by rendering their pro duct unstable.
 Annual and bi-annual weeds are produced almost entirely from seed. Plants of these classes especially spring up in the most unexpected places. It has been found that the seeds of many weeds will retain their vitality for 15 to 25 years, possibly longer, and not all of the given years seed grows in any one year.
 This great vitality will explain in part at least why 1t is so hard to com pletely eradicate any weed from a given piece of land, even though all reseeding may be prevented.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
SEEK A MISSING MAN
KANSAS sEER IN SEARCH UN- EARTHs THREE SKELETONS.
FInds Bones of Adult and Two chIL dren In a Farm sandhiII-Mys- tery Has Aroused Neigh
 boring Farmers.

Offerle, Kan.-Guided by Jacob Min gle, hermit, who claims the power of ! seer, in a search for Paul Reich, a bachelor farmer who has been miss Ing. farmers unearthed from a sand bill on the Reich farm, near here, the skeletons of three unidentified per Bons. One skeleton is that of an adult and the other two of children. Reich has not been found. The discoveries of the skeletons intensified the search Tor Reich. Search for him had been going on for some time, and prior to the finding of the human bones, many Bearchers had given up the quest, con- Vinced that his body was not on the farm But when it became known that parts of three bodies had been found a band of searchers far larger than the original one gathered. Every Inch of the farm will now be investi- gated before the quest is abandoned. To Mingle the discovery of the skele- tons was as much of a surprise as 1t was to the men who unearthed the bones. In the communications to the searchers, issued from his home after he had retired alone and studied for hours the few clues connected with the Reich disappearance, he spoke only. of finding the body of the farmer. Mingle drew rude charts for the guid- Rnce of the searchers. It was one of these that led to the sandhill where the bones were found. Neighbors of Reich believe he has been murdered. The night before his disappearance he telephoned a physician he was H. The following morning his house was found in disorder and he was gone Blood was spattered on the telephone. Reich was not known to have any enc mics. Officials are checking over the list of people who have disappeared in the last few years. in an effort to Identify the remains.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05

Scotsmen and Irishmen, not forgetting Welshmen, "some day this vast coun- try will, instead of being mostly desert, be covered with wheat fields and cot ton fields. Work and water will turn the barren sand into one of the great producing countries of the world. In that day Khartoum will no longer be the head place of a province which Is still looked upon as the Cinderella of the British empire and treated accord ingly.
 Tt will be the capital of a rich and powerful dominion. Whether 1t will be fitted to play this important part in the world drama, and set an exam pie to other capitals, depends upon us," said these Britons, filled with a great hope and pride; and they map ped out the place accordingly.
 Even in the native town away back from the river there is order and de- sign Passing through the vast open space of Abbos square. which will in time rank as one of the finest in the
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
Pure-bred Colts Pay.

Good, pure-bred colts are worth at a very conservative estimate at least s20O per head as yearlings. The cost of raising them Is but little greater than that of raising good grade colts, aside from the greater initial cost of the mares. When we take into con sideration the fact that pure-bred mares are sold at from $500 to $500 per head, while good grade mares are worth from $250 to $350 per head, 1t may be readily seen that the mature mares will sell much closer to grade mares than pure-bred colts will to grade colts. Pure-bred yearlings that are brought along in frst-class shape very frequently sell at from $500 to S350 per head.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
A SAVINGS BANK ON WHEELS
Paterson, N. J., Has Novelty In Shape of Auto Bank, Fire, Bull
 let and Burglar Proof.

Paterson, N. J.-The city of Pater- son now has bank on wheels. It is fire-proof, bullet-proof and burglar proof, and can travel 50 miles an hour when being chased by would-be loot CTS. This auto-bank Is expected to revolutionize the banking business, especially in the outlying districts.
 The car is fitted up with desks and compartments for books, checks and papers. A solid steel safe is in one corner of the machine. A small win dow guarded with heavy steel and brass bars and liberal supply of fire arms, afford the clerks protection from "hold-up" men.
 Officers of the trust company are of the opinion that the sending of the bank" through the country will be welcomed by depositors. especially those who have no place for keeping cash or other valuables in their homes or business places.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
church Fosters Love-MakIno.

St. Louis.-A big club parIoa with easy chairs and cozy corners, ad- vantageous shadows. a gas log and chimney hearth. are the agents with which the Rev. J. B. Toomay, pastor of the Fountain Park Congregational church. will stimulate social activities among folks of his community. The club will be in the basement of the church, and there will be no chape rons. overseers or restrictions and pro. hibitions.
 '+The young people of my congrega, ton are presumed to conduct them selves properly" said Dr. Toomay. 'Love-making is natural and proper. expect the young folks to act prop. erly."
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
WHERE OIL IS MOST NEEDED
Chauffeur Lubricates Automobile Thoroughly but Overlooked the
 License Number.

Giles" said De Whizz to his chauf- feur, before he started on his run across the state. have you oiled the machine thoroughly"
 "Yes, sir"
 Are you sure, Giles?"
 ''Yes, sir. have filled the spring cups and the engine reservoir and l nave greased the cornet-a-piston. the pluribus unum, the exhaust pipe. the muffled tread. the thingumbob, the rigamajig and both the the hot boxes" !"
 Are you sure those are all the parts you have oiled, Giles?"
 ''Yes, sir"
 You have forgotten the most i'm portant place of all. Take the can and squirt few drops of oil on the license number so that the dust will collect on it and make it hard to read. Always remember to lubricate the li- cense number, Giles. ."-Lippincott's
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05

any white man found in the Khalifa's sphere of murder, robbery and rapine. Today you step into steam tramway car in Khartoum, which takes you to a steam ferry; and from that again you board another car and are set down in the heart of this once-terrible Omdur- man Even in what Is still complete ly native rabbit warren of city there are signs of the tidying-up process on every side. Police Post" you see written up at frequent intervals. Gov ernment School" 70. M. s. Dispen- sary," the placard of an English fire in- surance office on a storehouse, the tall. spindle-shanked, but eminently soldierly Soudanese sentries at the barracks, the numbered armlets which the donkey boys must wear-an tell the same story, not of civilization" l" but of strengthening out Whether in its crowded, narrow, awning-hung bazaars, where you greedily seek lit tie shade from the burning sun, or down by the river, where the export trade in gum and grain Is busy, Om- durman seems to be still heaving @ sigh of relief. The people are cheerful, but there is a shade of apprehension in their faces yet And here, far more than in Rhartoum, with. its English gardens and English faces. you realize why.
 H. HAMILTON FIFE.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
CIGARETTES FLOURISH
sTATIsTIcs SHOW ALARMING IN-
 CREASE IN USE OF "PILL."
Efforts of AntI-clgarette Forces In 1910 Baked by Increase of 1,s56,- 4s7, 1908 Cigarettes In coun-
 try's Output.

New York.-Like a tack in a taxi- cab tire comes the news that the ef- forts of the anti-cigarette forces had no other result in 1910 than to in- crease the output of cigarettes in this country by some 1.S56.478,308 of the little cousins of my Lady Nicotine
 Except to freshmen and sophomores of "frats," where pipes are frowned upon, the idea of one billion, eight hundred and f1fty-six million, four hun dred and eighty-seven thousand, three hundred and eight cigarettes is mere mythoplastic figure, fiexed to ht the fancy of the mathematical mind For the benefit of all citizens not in- cluded in the foregoing these statis- tics are furnished Taking the aver age length of an honest cigarette at two and one-half inches, the increase for 1910, if placed end to end. would make a string 73,403 miles in length. This would be sufficient to build an unbroken line of cigarettes around the world, and then third track the system. These, be 1t understood, are cigarettes of American make, from the native straight cuts of Virginia to the actual and only pills" smoked by the sultan, and made somewhere down in Greenwich street.
 No one in the trade know why there has been an increase. Probably boys who read novels have more money, says one. That the increase is due to the fact that hotels provide smoking rooms for women is denied Dealers do point to the increase in the enrolment at the larger schools and colleges as possible factor.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
BULL TERRIER FIGHTS BULL
After a Furious Battle Both succumb to Wounds, but the Bull
 Dies First

New York-A fight to the death be tween a thoroughbred English bull terrier and Holstein bull took place at the stock farm of Eben Grover, at New Durham, N. J. The dog was a perfect specimen of the breed and was valued at $75O. It took a dislike to the bull, $1,500 animal, immedi- ately after the latter was brought to the farm. The other night the bull was placed in a large box stall. When an employee opened the door the dog slipped in and in two seconds the bat tie was on.
 The dog whirled about the stall with lightning speed. leaping at the bulls throat with snapping teeth. Twice the dog was pinned against the wall of the stall by the horns of the brute, but finally by a quick spring sank it's teeth in the throat of the bull. The great animal, roaring with pain, swung the little dog about and dashed it's body against the walls. but it would not let go.
 The battle had ragged for an hour and Grover, with his sons, had en- tered the stall twice at the peril of their lives when the huge bull sank to his knees and toppled over dead The dog, loosening it's hold for the first time, limped into corner of the stall and died within few minutes Growers right leg was badly torn by the dogs teeth.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
Roastera.

For roasting young fowl about full grown, but still soft meated. is used, and to roast satisfactorily it must be moderately fat Roasters are roughly classed as "small roasters" and Large roasters." The greatest demand Is for small roasters weighing four or five pounds each. though the demand for large roasters. weighing eight or nine pounds each. is steadily increasing. Yellow skin and yellow legs are more generally demanded than white skin and dark legs.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
n.nk Rroken 15 Yeara.

Bloomsburg. Pa.-His back broken fifteen years ago fin stone quarry cave-in, Frank Shaffer of Bloomsburg, aged thirty-seven years. died here. Medical men agreed at the time of the accident that he had only a few days to live, but he improved, and after a time was able to sit up, al- though he had no use of his legs. He was able to use a wheel chair and conducted a poultry farm, caring for the chickens himself
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05

garden city of Africa It has
 been laid out with that view. lN The immensely wide streets are
 bordered by small trees which make the hot, dusty expanses of road way seem dustier and hotter by mock ing the wayfarer, as if thirsty man should have a thimbleful of water of fered to him. But growth is rapid here. Before many years are past these sap Iings will spread their leafage wide, and everywhere one will walk beneath a cool canopy of whispering leaves.
 At present nobody walks. The first morning was here made a great mistake I went out for stroll round to get an idea of the town. Frankly thought 1t was a detestable place. There Is about enough here," I said. ~to make a decent-sized village, and they have spread 1t over an area big enough for the site of a city" It was very hot. It was also windy. Dust lay thick all over except in the very mid dle of the road. I saw no white peo- pie about. I came back to the hotel sticky and tired and in a bad temper. buI aII6I d COOl III Q AOA3 OA4e~-A on the balcony looking over the river and over the great stretch of desert bounded by fascinating far-oR hills, I reflected and began to understand. In this dry atmosphere thirst becomes a habit, and 1t is necessary to drink often of lime juice or lemonade. As I cooled of I became more reasonable. I mo- ticed the gathering of donkeys and of 'rickshas drawn by small ponies near the gate of the hotel on the riv- CTS edge. Everybody who went out took one or the other. Since then l have done likewise, and have no fur ther complaints. There is one walk. and very pleasant one, left-handed along the river toward the point where the Blue and White Niles meet, keep Ing each its distinctive color for many miles down, and when the steam ferry plies to Omdurman on the further bank But no one would dream of walking even here under the palm trees until the sun has dropped low. Rides in the early morning freshness over the desert sand and lawn tennis as soon as the shadows begin to lengthen-that is how we take our ex- ercise in Khartoum.
 The distances would really be dif1- cult, even if the roads were not so dusty and hot. You are told that some place you want to go to is lat the end of the street" This means at least a mile, and sometimes nearly two. Yet the buildings are scattered only here and there. There is but one good Eu- ropean shop. There are bits of pave ment in places, but for the most part roadway and sidewalk have not yet been separated. Consequently one has the sense of wandering about suburb which is still in the builders hands and only just beginning to be occu- pied. Well, for suburb" read "city." and that is perfectly true of Khartoum. It has been planned with an eye to the future.
 Some day." they said to themselves, these far-sighted Englishmen and
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
And Yet HeLlved.

Spotted fever" received some queer treatment in John Wesley's day, ac- cording to Wesley's Journal of Septem. ber, 1746. A man named John Trem, bath had the fever and Wesley wrote: Tt was the second relapse into the spotted fever, in the height of which they gave him sack, cold milk and apples, plums, as much as he could swallow. I can see no way to account for his recovery. but that he had not vet finished his work"
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
As f. IIs.d to Be.

Have you got a good part?" asks the friend of the actor who has been engaged to play in Bill Shakespeare company at the Globe theater.
 Parrish" answered the player. i've got "Mercutio' in Romeo and Juliet I'm glad, because I think if a fellow can do one or two seasons in Shake speare's plays he can get big enough reputation to go into melodrama- Life.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
Soda for Hena.

As soon as the weather permits ac- cess to them throw in few grass sods occasionally and see how eagerly the hens will tear them to pieces, contact with the fresh earth having quite as much charm for them as the bits of fresh green or the possible insect which has failed to seek less shal- low wintering place.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
His Old Job.

Have you never done any work?" asked the considerate lady, as she cut the third piece of pie.
 "Yes. ma'am." replied Hungry Hank, T used to work at bossin' me chauf- feur an me valet. was a nabob in them days, ma'am."
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
eraduatlon In ExercIse.

Acquaintance - Nudge, you look tired. Still holding that job in the department store? It's time you were promoted.
 Young Father-Well, have been, in a sort of way. I'm a counter jump CT in the daytime and a floor walker at night
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-05
Joke Lands Him In JaII.

Sioux Falls, s. D.-As the result oi a practical joke a barber living al Artesian has been arrested on e charge of disorderly conduct because he partially shaved the head of a resi- dent of the town, the complaining wit ness against the barber being the wife of the individual thus decorated.