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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04
WILL APPEAL FROM
THE RECENT DECREE

The losing party in the Swauk
homestead case will appeal from
the recent land Office decision,
which was rendered at the North
Yakima Land Office A report
dated at North Yakima on the 22nd
of April says:
A recent decision of the officials
of the United States land Office in
this city in the case of A. +. York
and others against Dodge Alley,
involving the rival claims of miners
and agriCulturists to land in the
Swauk mining country, OH Will
liams creek, recommending the
homestead entry for cancellation,
is, according to attorney I. J..
Bounds of Snively & Bounds, who
have been handling the case for the
homesteaders. unsatisfactory, and
he is positive in his statement that
the decision will be appealed to the
head commissioner of the general
land office at Washington.
The particular case on which the
decision was rendered is only one
of several of familiar nature in
volved the relative values of the
William creek land for agriCul-
tural and for mineral purposes ard
the action of several other claim
ants will probably depend upon its
outcome.
The tract involved in the deci-
sion is one of sixty five acres in
Wenatchee National forest, stu
ated in a narrow canyon and de-
pendent upon irrigation but not
differing, any other section of the
Kittitas valley i'll variety or quality
of crops which can be produced.
Mining, according to miners op-
ponents, has been carried OH in a
desultory way for the past twenty
five years, but not within the last
ten years has it paid in any great
amount, the question of the value
of the land for mineral purposes
being dependent upon the ability
to reach bedrock, the depth OF
which has never been determined.
The decision Of the land officials
laying chief stress upon the fact
that the homesteaders rights to
water have not been fully estab-
lished, and that the value of the
land, according to their own testl-
mony. is not more than 500 per
acre, found for the miners and re-
commended that the homestead en-
try be cancelled. Thirty days are
allowed within which the appeal
may be made
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04
LEST YOU FORGET
We REMIND YOU

Lest you forget, remember the
democratic party when you say
your prayers. Pray that it may
not be led into populistic tempta-
ton. but delivered from socialistic
evil and saved from downright
idiocy. '-Houston (Texas) Post.
Pray, also, that it may be pro-
tected from those who in the guise
of conservatives would make it
the instrument of the special inter
ests and finally wreck it Just as
he republic an party has been
wrecked.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04
A DRY MEETING IN
TURNER'S HALL

There will be a meeting of the
citizens of Ellensburg in Turner's
hall, over The Dawn Office, on Fri
day evening at s clock. The
meeting is called to hear the report
of the committee appointed at a
meeting held some time ago in the
Methodist church. The committee
is to report a constitution for a
"Noler' S League, y the purpose of
VIII ich is the elimination of the sa-
loon from this city. Every citizen
interested in the welfare of this
city is urged to attend thu meeting.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04
THE HOUSE IS
ON THE SQUARE

The democratic house of repre-
sentatves has the thanks of men of
all political parties for the prompt
ness with which it passed the
resolution providing for the cleo
ton of senators by the people In
the senate the resolution has been
referred to the committee on judi
ciary. This reference was mad
after a hot fight by the friends of
the measure.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04

When medicine must be given
to young children it should be pleas
ant to take. Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is made from loaf sugar,
and the roots used in its prepara-
ton give it flavor similar to
syrup, making it pleasant to take.
1t has no superior for colds, Group
and whooping cough. For sale by
Owl Drug Store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04

In cases of rheumatism relief
from pain makes sleep and rest
possible. This may be obtained
by applying Chamberlain's lini-
ment. For sale by Owl Drug store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04

Lame Shoulder is nearly always
due to rheumatism of the muscles,
and quickly yields to the free APP
plication of Chamberlain liniment.
For sale by Owl Drug Store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04

Constipation brings many all
ments in its train and is the prim-
arv cause of much sickqess. Keep
vour bowels regular madam, and
Won will escape many OF the all
ments to which women are subject
CONSTIPATION is a very simple thing,
but like many simple things, 1t may
lead TO serious consequences. Ma
tire often needs little assistance
and when Chamberlain Tablets
are qiveu at the first indication,
much distress and suffering may be
avoided. Sold by Owl Drug Store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04
Vol. XVIII
ANALYSIS OF WATER
FOUND TO Be GOOD
Pullman, WASH. April IS, 1911
Nh Samuel Krcidel,
Ellensburg, Wash.

Dear Sir
beg to submit the following re-
prt of an analysis of Ellensburg
water shipped to us on or about
April 10th 1911:
Chemical analysis for organic
III a tt er:-Frec ammonia, O.OO4
parts per million.
Albuminoid Ammonia, O.O2 parts
per million.
Nitrogen as Nitrate, O.S5 parts
per million.
Nitrogen as Nitrate. 600
Chlorine, ! parts per million.
Psychological Analysis:
Typhoid organisms none
Bacillus Coli-COmmunis none
Other pathogenic bacteria none
Total number of species of baC-
terra, I Call harmless)
Cumulative test not made, because
of age of water since drawn from
source The number of bacteria
per cubic inch of water was quite
latge, but not unusual for water so
long in transit.
should state in closing, that
you have a very good, all purpose
water.
Trusting that the above analysis
proves satisfactory to you. am
Respectfully yours,
II. B. Humphrey
Ellensburg WASH, April 10, II
Mr.. Samuel Kreidel
Ellensburg, Wash.
Dear SIR
In answer to your question rela-
tive to the report you have received
from Mr.. II B. Humphrey of Pull
man, Washington of analysis of
samples of water | submit the fol-
lowing.
The problem of securing a
source of water for the city of Ell
lensburg that would prove to be
not only adequate but pure and
wholesome has to my mind seemed
hard to solve. After looking over
the report you handed to me | feel
YOU have a means at hand whereby
all difficulties can be overcome.
Let us analyze this report from a
sanitary standpoint and see if | am
correct.
We find free ammonia present III
O.OO4 parts per one million per
water and albuminoid ammonia in
O.O2 parts per one million per wa
ter.
When free ammonia is present
in large quantitief sewage pollution
is SUSPECTED, while abuminoid am
monia is derived from vegeta
bic matter and found in large
quantities when the source O.
water passes through sw a III Ply
regions. From he trace
of free ammonia found one would
hardly expect sewage, but we
will see the percentage OF otller
organic matter fonnd which IS de-
rived from sewage which will help
rs II was found to contain nitro
gen as nitrates in 0.S5 parts per
million. The sources from these
is found to be from oxidation OF
organic matter as we'll as from the
atmosphere and soil. The chlef
source is from the latter. Here
thev are found in the form OF M
trio acid or nitrates in considerable
amounts and are dissolved by the
rain.
The nitrates however when pres
Constipation brings many all
nents in its train and is the prim-
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04


ment. For sale by Owl Drug store
ent in large quantities indicates the
presence of sewage or other organic
matter in the state of decomposition
The sample contained no trace of
these nitrates; then if the free am
monia found was derived from
sewage We should naturally expect
to find a large amount of nitrates.
The amount of Chlorine found
was four parts in one million. The
earth contains many salt deposits
with which the water may come
in contact. And the salt fro NJ
the ocean diffusses through
the earth for cons iderable
distance inland and natural water
may contain large amounts of
chlorides from these sources.
Salt is used universally in food
and for this reason is found in the
urin and sewage and may indicate
contamination when found in con-
siderable amounts, The amount
derived from the soil and ocean by
the water of a given region is
known as the normal chlorides for
the region. When the amount is
found in excess of the normal
chloride, contamination of the
water with sewage is indicated as
almost all natural waters including
rainfall contain chlorides in greater
or lesser amounts, only that amount
of chlorine which is above the av-
erage of similar, but pure water,
can be nsed as an argument con-
demning the water as Contamina-
ted.
We find the absence of typhoid
baCilii or germs, the colon bacilli
or germs, which are found in
health in the intestines or bowels
and when present in water indi-
Gates sewage contamination.
Some bacteria were found how
ever but not of kind to be HARM
fnl; we take such as these into our
system daily with food without any
i'll effects. The number of these
was not computed at this time ow-
ing to the length of time that had
elapsed since samples of water
were collected. Germs multiply
very rapidly and sample of water
to show the exact number of those
present should be analized imme-
diately.
When | was city health officer |
had some experience i'll collecting
samples of water to be analized by
the state board of health and the
samples were prepared in spe-
cial way by me in Ellensburg,
rather than allow time for the
growth of germs in transit and
unauthentic report.
feel that this water is very good
and the members of the City Coun-
Gil should be congratulated upon
their work. Respectfully
c. L. HOEFFLER, M. d.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04
THE FARMERS
AND FREE LIST

ces largely consumed by FARMERS
The farmer has been the chief suf
fsrer from the principle of protec-
ron and it is only fair that relief
should begin with him. The re-
ciurocity treaty is God-send tc
him. not so much because it con-
fers great benefits upon him but
because it leads to greater reduc-
lions. The opponents OF the reclp-
rocity agreement have tried to hide
behind the farmer but the farm
es' free list will drive them
from under cover and compel them
tovote with the democrats or quit
talking about the farmer. Look
at the list.
Flows, harrows, headers, har-
vesters, reapers, threshlng ma
chimes. cotton gins and other agri-
cultural implements--I5 per cent
ad valorem.
Cotton bagging, gunnv cloth g,
and similar fabrics used as cover
iugs. etc.-6-IO of a cent per
square yard.
Grain, buff and split leather
y. per cent.
Band. bond, betting, rough
and sole leather--5 per cent.
Boots and shoes made of bo-
vine cattle hides or skins-lO per
cent.
Harness, saddles and saddlery
0per cent.
Leather cut into shoe uppers
mvamps, etc.-1O per cent addi-
tonal duty.
"Barbed fence wire-34 of a
cent pound.
Wire rods, strands or wire rope,
woven wire for fencing and other
kinds Of wire suitable for fencing
$40 to 6-13 of a cent per pound.
Fresh beef, veal mutton, lamb,
pork and meats of all kinds-1l2 ,
cents per pound.
Sailed, picked, dried, dressed
and preserved meats-25 per cent
d valorem.
Bacon, hams and shoulders
@cents pound.
Lard-ll2 cents a pound.
Sausage and sausage meats
Sper cent ad valorem.
Buckwheat -four, wheat -four
kmonlina-25 per cent.
Cornmeal-4O cents per 100
pounds.
Rye -FOUR of cent a
pound.
oatmeal and rolled oats
esuta pound.
Biscuits, bread, waters and
umilar articles, not sweetened-2O
h per cent
sewing machines per cent.
Salt Tin bulk)-7 cents per 100
pounds.
Salt Tin bags, sacks or barrels
II cents pound.
Shingles-5O cents per 1000.
laths-2O cents per 900.
Timber (hewn, sided or squared
~ round timber used for spars in
'4u0lng wharves)-l2 of a cen,
paeubic foot.
sawed boards, planks, deals
other lumber (dressed)-5C
us to Sl.So per 900 feet board
aeasure."
4 NC ABOVE list shows the add
sa' TO be made to the free list
~ the tariff now collected
~ - alone will be a great boon
sas 'anss Of the beef trust will be
4 when the consumer can bu,
eat in the open market. TIL.
H., @us' has taxed the farmel
H. : ways in buying and in sell
'ne meat buyers of the cit,
..u as the farmers will be bene
8 By free meat. Let t', the e| I aoo,
- on; the democrats are
N excellent beginning
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04
JOHN |. RAMSEY
KILLED MONDAY

In letter from c. l.. Ramsay of
Kingston. who is we'll known in
this CITY and valley, we are in
formed that his son, John l.. Ram
say, who was slightly known here,
was killed at 5 O'Clock p. M, in
Cook 5 logging camp, near Kings
ton on Monday, April "a He
was tending hook when the log
swung and struck him in the
breast and face, killing him in
stantly.' The death was a sad
blow to the family.
A large number of friends SYM
pathize with the bcrevead, both at
home and abroad.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-04

Our baby cries for Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, writes Mrs.
T. B. Kendrick Rasaca, Ga. II
is the best cough remedy on the
market for coughs, colds and
Group. For sale by Owl Drug
Store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
KILLS WIFE FOR
 CHICKEN THIEF Remains of Mrs. J. H. Green Are Inferred Near
 Cullman

Cullman, August s.-(SpeciaD. D.-The re- mains of Mrs. J. H. Green, who was shot for chicken thief by her husband by mistake at Wren, Miss, Saturday night, were inferred at the family burying ground in this county near simcoe, Mon- day afternoon.
 It is said that MT. Green thought he heard some one after his chickens Sat urday night, and both he and his wife got up and went out to the poultry house, Mrs. Green preceding her husband a short distance. It seems that MT. Green lost sight of the fact that his wife went into the yard with him, and seeing the dark outline of her figure fired. to find later that he had killed his wife
 The family only left Cullman two years ago and went to Wren, where the hus- band owned a very fine tract of land and was very prosperous farmer. They were well known here and both MT. and Mrs. Green came of very prominent fam flies in this county. The terrible acci- dent was shock to the entire com munity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09

in Bresnahans foot was broken. It will be several days before he will be able to play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
Cases in Which Monkey, Hens, Eagle
 and Goose Have Been at the Bar
From Case and Comment.

From Case and Comment.
 Animals of various kinds have been having their day in court. That no fish were on the ark and that therefore the creature is not animal was the posi- tion taken by St. Louis city attorney in a case against a peddler accused of cruelty to animals.
 The case was dismissed over the em- phatic protest of Judge Pollard. who argued that the dictionary defined a fish as an animal The peddler was charged with advertising his fish by displaying a live animal from a string on his cart, that his Hopping might attract the eyes of prospective purchasers
 There can be no doubt, however, that a monkey Is an animal of high degree. A five pound simian slumbered peace fully in his cage at the Kentucky State fair grounds a few months ago. while four attorneys fought a wordy battle in the magistrate court as to whether state fair visitors should be permitted to amuse themselves by throwing balls at the monkey.
 To champion his cause and see that justice was done to little Jocko half dozen Louisville club women were pres ent After an hour and half of testi- mony and legal oratory about Darwin, monkey prostration," nervous fatigue and other things that the ordinary lay man would not believe monkey was heir to. the magistrate decided that the owner should pay a fine of s25 for let ting the visitors at the fair make his monkey a tarket for rubber balls.
 That it is against the Ohio law to hold bald eagles In captivity was the ruling received from Attorney General Hogan by Elmer Fawcett, logan county farm CT Fawcett had one of the birds and the attorney general ordered its release. The eagle was taken after a fierce fight several weeks ago. Fawctt discovered it with it's talons fastened in the woolly back of a lamb, seized a pitchfork and captured the bird after a lively struggle The attorney general holds that na- tive eagle cannot be held captive in ohio.
 The much disputed question 'is a hen a bjrd?" which the treasury officials passed up as too complex for them has been presented to the new court of GUS toms appeals. The present form of the problem is this: "If birds eggs are free under the tariff and hens eggs are taxed 5 cents dozen, why isn't hen bird ?' An importer who paid the duty wants to know.
 Also there is goose case now pend ing. In a certain barnyard an agent of North Carolina Society for the Proven ton of Cruelty to Animals discovered a | goose whose webbed feet were nailed to 1 a board one stage in the process to make it's liver become pate de foie gras. | A meeting of the society was held to con sidef the case and the president. who had been in consultation with encyclo-
 paedists. doctors, lawyers. humanitar-
 ians and others insisted that in addition | to the bodily injury there also the question of mental anguish on the part of l the goose. Accordingly the society voted
 to hale the gooses owner to court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
Cause of the Chestnut Blight

Philadelphia Dispatch to the New fork
 Times.
 Thomas Davy Candy, of Langhorne, near here, declares that he has discov- cred the cause of the blight which is whitening chestnut trees in the middle and south Atlantic states. A boring beetle, one-sixteenth of an inch long, black in color, which lays its eggs be- tween the outer and inner barks, is the primary cause, he says. Grubs are hatch ed from the eggs, and these penetrate the soft inner bark, following it's course around the tree trunk. Above the path of the bo1er occurs the blighted appear ance Myriads of the tiny worms were found upon the single tree upon which Mir Candy has concentrated his search, and the total result of their depredations was so extensive that the tree, he says, appears to have been scorched by fire
 The blight has become so serious in Pennsylvania that the legislature ap- propriated s275, 600 to a commission ap- pointed by the governor to investigate the cause of the disease and to devise ways for exterminating it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
DUST RAGS AND OTHERS Things That Once All Housewives Made and Nowadays Many Buy

From the New York Sun.
 When l was a girl" said the house. wife, we were certainly more econom- ical than we are now. Whether from custom or because We had to be we were saving of everything; we never threw away anything that could be put 10 any use, and we put various things to various uses and then kept on us- ing them until they were completely worn out.
 We got along with what we had, or made what we had do; for very many special. uses we never bought anything If we could help it; we turned some thing that we had in the house to that use. Take, for instance, the vari- ous kinds of rags and cloths used every day in every home; dust rags wash rags, and so on.
 We used to make all such things from worn out things or remnants. In those days everybody wore white stockings Worn out stockings made excellent wash cloths and were used as such. Worn out towels. old clothes of various sorts, and remnants Of thigs we had made up ourselves, all sorts of things. were utilized for all these various household rag and cloth purposes. For such uses we never thought of buying anything.
 But how different 1t all Is now. Today thousands and thousands of people buy such. things in the stores Nowadays we buy all made up and ready for use wash cloths and dust cloths and dish cloths and pot cloths and polish ing cloths; all sorts of cloths that once we never bought but made uE from things we had in the house. The change is to some extent due to our changed ways of living. For one thing, we don't begin to make SC many of our own clothes IS we used to; we buy many more things now made up, and so we have at home fewer remnants and odds and ends, but some of this change is due also to our greater prosperity and to our far greater extravagance; all sorts of peo- pie spend money now for things that in old times they wouldn't shave dreamed of buying, that they would have fixed up for themselves some how or have gone without; and then some of this change is due to the in- ventors who are all the time try ing to think up things that they think people would buy if they saw them.
 But whatever the reason for these things may be, certain 1t is that since my girlhood days there have been many great changes in housekeeping ways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
ANIMALS IN COURT

Randy and Dudley. Umpire, Norcu (Seven innings)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
Gulls Sign Amateur

Bay Minette, August S.-(Special. )-This afternoon Ed O. Beasley pitcher for the city team of this place, in the presence Of lot of friends, signed a contract with the Mobile team of the Southern league. Bessley will go to Mobile tomorrow and Nwork out for the first time in the after noon He has pitched for the local city team for several years and has the goods and will probably deliver
 A large number of local rooters will go to Mobile to witness the work out to- morrow afternoon. His work all season has been phenomenal and through Frank Stone of this place the young player was signed by Mobile Several other tsams have been after him and his work will be watched with interest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
"Rajah" Fails to Break Bone

l St. Louis, August S.-An X-ray ex- animation was made today of the right foot of Roger Bresnahan, manager of the St Louis National lea gue baseball club. to find out If q bone was broken Bresnahan was hit by foul ball in yesterdays game.
 The foot swelled to double it's usual size and Bresnahan was not able tc walk from the clubhouse. Prior to the development of the X-ray plate the at tending physician expressed the be- lief that Bresnahan was suffering from a severe bruise and that no bone was broken.
 The X-ray plate showed that no bone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09

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