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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-22
TO SUCCEED IN DRY FARMING
Farmer Cannot Prosper With Grain
Alons-live Stock Must ne Made
The Basis Of Production.

Dean e. A. Burnett Of the Univer.
stty Of Nebraska says dry farming can.
not prosper in the great r,a'rs area
- . grain farming system The risk
on grain is too great in Try season.
Live stock must be the basis Of pro-
duction. 1t is true that grazing lands
do not produce ~ much revenue or
profit per acre a. good crops of grain.
but neither do they entail such heavy
losses in bad years. A large amount
Of water can be stored when it falls
in anything but light showers. At
North Platte water has been stored
as deep az fifteen feet In good years
and from four to nix fest in drier
years. The season Of 1910 was, how
ever, very unfavorable to storing wal
ter and only thirteen bushels of wheat
were harvested from land which had
previously grown from thirty to forty
six bushels. No grain 1t all was
harvested from land that was cropped
in 1910 1t is likely that the best re1
suits will be obtained by keeping
three-fourths of the land in grass and
devoting the balance to forage crops!
The farming unit must probably be
large but that does not mean that N
should contain much pillow land.
The homesteader az a rule is NOT
prepared to take advantage Of thd
best scientific knowledge in the man
agement Of his land. Deep blowing
and summer following land take horse
power, frequently far in excess Of
that available to the homesteader.
The sHo and the modern dairy COW
are frequently beyond his reach, and
for this reason again we should dis
count the largest possibilities of these
areas when we seek to determine
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-22
IcARE Of THE YOUNG TREES
Plrst Year After Planted Il 10 Like
Young Child and Must Have
Constant Attention.

The first year after the tree il
planted 1t must have constant care. II
hs like child. Its first years OF
training determine it's character OF
form. After the main branches have
become fixed all the pruning the trees
require Is to give symmetry and reg.
ular outline to the head by pinohine
of the ends Of the shoots that have q
tendency to outgrow the main
branches. and to remove such a. ara
likely to be injured by rubbing to.
gether, or that are so thick az to in.
terfere with good growth and ease in
gathering fruit.
1 While young the trees should DO al
lowed to grow with rather a close
head to protect the slender branches
from the hot sun. When they begin
TO bear, the weight Of the fruit will
bend down the branches and open the
head, 80 that the sunlight and air
needed for the perfection Of the foh-
age and fruit viii enter, and large
crop Of perfect fruit can be borne on
: tree without large amount OF
foliage
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-22
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Corn silage Is almost as good as
roots as succulent feed.
If corn only is fed, the ewes be-
come too fat and produce small and
weakly lambs
Alfalfa and clover are superior to
all other feeds as a roughage for
pregnant ewes.
Hogs should not be confined in a
close pen where they will have to live
in filthy quarters.
The breeding practice should be SO
planned that the calves will be born
early in the spring.
As a food for young cattle there
seems to be nothing quite equal to
silage to insure a steady growth and
strong, vigorous health.
1t is as feed for the breeding
herd that silage has proved of the
greatest economic value.
The hog is naturally clean animal.
and should not be made to live In
contact with manure pile.
The fall litter of course suffers the
most from neglect because the condi-
lions at this time Of the year are the
least favorable for it's growth
Have the barn and feeding pens so
located that the drainage from them
will be help to growing crops in
stead Of q nuisance to the home.
The man who grows swine to fill
his fattening pens is troubled with
understood sows and runty filters and
the breeder finds his pigs in sman do
mand.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-22
Whore Arc the rool,9

After the heavy showers fall you1l
wonder why you didn't gather up the
fools you need every day o. two d..
nG the whole winter.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-22

their suitability for the newcomer of
limited means. The drier areas OF
the country which are suitable for
farming will always have their limi-
tations. They will have their bad
seasons and their seasons of abund-
ant production, but the failures in I'M
favorable seasons may be greatly re-
duced by the application of scientific
methods and the best systems OF man
agement
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-22
Dust Mulch.


We run the weeder, alternating with
the two-horse riding cultivator, until
the size OF the crop forbids, cultivat.
ing deeply at first, very lightly later,
says a writer In an exchange Thus a
dust mulch Is maintained, enabling
the plant to secure the best results
from the moisture conserved, and
keeping down weed growth. This
method leaves the fields level and in
the best Of condition for future use.
With the potato crop, in addition to
the above implements. we use disk
hitler, thus leaving ridges in the po-
tato fields. We think this necessary
that the potatoes may be well covered
and easily dug.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1912-09-14

prisingly large vote of Mrs. Stayt
somewhat staggered the ring
sters, although her success was
their own fault, for the ring con-
fined it's attention to voting for
Matson and to defeating Hervey.
Throughout the primary cam
paign, the rings official news
paper took no side in the contest
between progressive and stand
patter, but spent all it's time in
seeing that the ring candidates
were nominated. No matter of
political principle was considered
as important as that of seeing
the ring perpetuated in county
office.
AS it stands, the progressives
and the stand-patters are both on
the same ticket. Roosevelt says
that no man who is a genuine
progressive will run on a republi-
can ticket, but he does not under
stand the workings of the
Stevens county republican ma
chine, or he might have made an
exception Of this county. There
are genuine progressives in this
county running on the republi-
can ticket-progressives from
one office to another-and pro-
gressives from clerkship to de-
putyship to county office. This
is true progressivness, probably.
Shaver was. beaten for clerk.
He has not been identified with
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1912-09-14

the bunch" and he had to go.
King didn't get to be auditor
and he never will under the
present republican machine
work. Bobo got a good vote
from over the county, but he
does not belong to the inner
organization. Pollak was count
ed down and out several weeks
ago, inasmuch as he had said
several things in times past
against the courthouse manipu-
lations. Long. a recent addition
to the fold, won nicely in the Sd
district against Cooney. And
Chas. Adams by reason of his
good work in preserving the ring
in past years, is again committee
man from the Colville precinct.
Theodore Roosevelt stated in a
speech at Portland last week that
he thought he. would carry Wash
ington.
Our phlegmatic contemporary
has announced with poignant
persistency that Bryan was paid
SIS, 600 for his services in support
Of Parker in 1904. Since it took
20 times that much to make
Teddy the candidate of the steel
trust, we assume that the criti-
cism of Bryan is we'll placed in
Roosevelt paper.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1912-09-14

NeSultS IrOIl CHe primary elccC-
ion Tuesday are slow in being
tabulated, and many Offices are
still in doubt in state and coun-
ty. In Stevens county most of
the vote is known, and the prob
able results are shown above.
The democratic vote was light
in both state and county. Some
few democrats voted republican
ballots, but not many, showing
that the probable advent of a
democratic president is having
it's effect.
There were but few democratic
contests in the county, but many
in the state, and some are yet in
doubt. The county ticket is a
strong one, we'll scattered over
the county. Of the republican
nominees, 9 out of the 13 are of
COlville as usual.
The most noteworthy result OF
the primary in this county is the
uniformity with which the court
house ring elected it's prepared
ticket of favored candidates, and
defeated those candidates on the
republican ticket who were not
acceptable. Out of the 13 Offices
to be filled, the ring elected IL
of it's own members. The sur
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1912-09-14
Probable Primary Election Nominations

STATE TICKET.
GOVERNOR
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
CONGRESS-, AT LARGE
CONGRESS. THIRD DISTRICT
COUNTY TICKET.
REPRESENTATIVE
REPRESENTATIVE
SHERIFF
CLERK
AUDITOR
TREASURER
ATTORNEY
ASSESSOR
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
ENGINEER
CORONER
COMMISSIONER SECOND DISTRICT
COMMISSIONER THIRD DISTRICT
COlville.
JUSTICE OF PEACE
COMMITTEEMAN
NON-PARTIsAN.
Superior Court Judge.
w. H. JACKSON, 1882
F. LEO GRINSTEAD, 11O3
J. A. ROCKFORD, 844.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04
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(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.y
VIENNA, Oct. 4.-Dispatches
received here today from Rome
and Constantinople practically
confirm the reports that Italy and
Turkey have signed a peace pact.
LONDON, Oct. 4.-Despite of
ficial denials 1t seems certain to-
day that Representatives of both
Turkey and Italy have signed q
peace pact at Ouchy. Switzerland.
A dispatch received here this
morning from Constantinople
says that the Turkish cabinet has
accepted Italy's terms and that
official announcement of a settle
ment will be made soon.
BY the terms of the pact Tur-
key Is to abandon claims of tenn
poral authority over Tripoli but
is to retain spiritual authority
over the Mohammedans. Italy
also is to aid Turkey to borrow
a large sum of money. the exact
amount not being mentioned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04

him. If I should have anything
to ask Roosevelt, Gompers, Nor
gan or John Mitchell. ! would
send for them myself. II it Is for
the public service.
81 sent for Jim Hill at the time
of the conservation campaign.
think, too, that ! sent for Nor
gan. am certain l saw him in
reference to currency legislation,
"Others were John L. Sullivan,
Battling Nelson and DR.. Lyman
Abbott. / could go on indefinite
ly with list of those ! sent for.
If l ever find m virtue so frail
that it won't stand being brought
in contact with a labor leader, so
cialist or anyone else, will quit
public life.
Sullivan and Nelson called at
the White House once. think
they wanted to see me about some
question of public policy" Here
Roosevelt grinned and even the
committee smiled.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04
SHE'S A sPHONY" PHONE GIRL BUT SHE
CAN JUST READ ALL THE RULES TO YOU

enough" says Wanda, or Miss
Wood, in her sweet voice, show
ing her evenly set white teeth in
a mile that would make you at
once kick yourself with delight
and bite your nails from self-con-
seriousness.
Wanda should know, for she
overheard a telephone converse
tion once-in the how, of course,
bnt then it only goes to prove the
wisdom of her words - which
helped her and her old dad out
considerable and made it bad for
the man who was rude in calling
for his number.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04

Jim BIake-never heard of
Jim, eh?-wen Jim's the politi-
clan, the guy that broke Wanda
Kelly's dad-in the show, of
course, the "Woman." You can
see Jim at the Tacoma theater to-
night. But this story isn't about
Jim, it's about Wanda herself.
Wanda's ''peach." That's
where Jim comes i'm, for Jim said
this about Wanda.
Off the stage Wanda is Miss
Marjorie Wood-also a peach"
Wanda is telephone operator,
"hello-girl" IL you like lucidity.
And here are some of her cautions
to the everyday business man, the
young lover and the husband who
"stays up1with a friend
Don't speak with anger at the
invisible miss who sits at the ex-
change table in the telephone Of
fee. Say, please and thank
you now and then.
"Why? Well, here's why: You
know a hello girl is under order
from the company not to listen 10
telephone conversations. But do
you believe she always lives up to
the rule? Was there ever girl
who could let chance TO hear
a choice bit of scandal, or a frame
up ON some little loving wife, or
q lot OF much-taIk between two
sweethearts go by her ear un-
needed?
Now, that should bo hint
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04
1T KILLS ALL
IL THE FUN
The Puyallup Valley fair
is a great enterprise.

The Puyallup Valley fair
is great enterprise.
Everybody is enjoying
themselves as they should
enjoy themselves.
But there is one thing that
mars the perfect enjoyment.
1t is no fault of the fair as
sociation, nor of the eXhib-
itors, and seemingly it can't
be helped.
1t is the poor service of
the interurban lines. In re-
turning to Tacoma from the
fair yesterday two interur-
ban trains, with its passen-
gers packed like cattle, left
over 200 persons, mostly
women, standing i'm the rain,
to wait half an hour for the
next car. When train did
arrive that could carry all
the passengers, many of
them had to stand all the
way to Tacoma. 1t delay
ed at Puyallup for fully ten
minutes before starting for
Tacoma.
At McAleer IL was held up
again for half an hour to
wait for a train from Seattle.
The people have a just
kick. And the car company
has no "come back"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04

The bill to be presented to the
coming legislature for the estab-
| lishment of a domestic relations
court i'm the counties of this state
to try to stop the flood of divorce
| cases with the attendant breaking
up of homes has now been pre-
pared by Mrs. Horace G. Scott of
this city.
She expects to present 1t to the
local bench to have it approved
in a few days and when 1t is
| ready it will be presented to the
Legislative committee of the wom-
en- of Washington for adoption
and the campaign will be on in
earnest.
Mrs. Scott will go to Spokane
in a couple of weeks and will try
| to enlist the women and public
spirited men of that city in the
movement. While she is at it she
may also speak a good word for
another bill she is working on to
change the present marriage law
in this state.
81 think there should go hand
!, i'm hand with the domestic rela-
tions court a change i'm our pres
ent marriage law" said Mrs. Scott
today. ~ am working on bill
to do this and in a common sense
and practical way prevent a lot
of these marriages that never
should occur and which later go
to swell the business i'm the di-
vofce courts"
Mrs. Scott will present the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04
LITTLE BLAZE
D|SCL0SES
MYSTERY

A small smoldering fire was dis
covered this morning in vacant
store building at 943 Tacoma ave-
nue.. II was started by spontane-
Gus combustion of a handful of
matches left i'm the pocket of a
sweater. No damage was done
and the department experienced
but little difficulty in extin-
gushing the embers.
Yet this fire uncovered one of
the most puzzling mysteries with
which the police have had to deal
in many months.
1t disclosed a secret den, be-
lieved to be that of the thug who
robbed the j. G. Wood grocery,
949 Tacoma av., of $40 recently,
and who in a later attempt to
crack the safe at the same
place put up a desperate hand
to-hand encounter against the
proprietor and escaped.
One of the peculiar features of
the case was the outward skepti-
cism with which the police re-
garded Woods story. This feel
ing of disregard was occasioned
by the report of a detective who
after an investigation said a
burglar could not possibly have
escaped without having unlocked
a door or broken q window.
Mr.. Wood later discovered a
trap door cunningly cut through
the wall of his building and which
led to the cellar. q.
t. In n
derneath the stairway of the va
cant store building but few
yards down the street from the
Wood establishment.
When the fire laddies chopped
through the wall which enclosed
the space under the stairs, they
unknowingly broke into the inn
provised bedroom.
A sweater neatly rolled was
smoking in corner of the small
apartment. This was carried out
and extinguished.
Other clothing lay in a neat
pile. About the walls were hung
pictures of actresses evidently cut
from some magazine, while a
comb and a pair of military
brushes lay on a small stand made
from a cracker box. A mirror
was on a shelf against the wall
and a complete shaving set was
found inside the box.
The puzzle lay In where the oc-
cupant made his entrance.
Mr.. Wood had entered the
building and began kicking about
the Dashboard outside the bed
room. He kicked in another trap
door, as skillfully cut in the panel
as the one he found in his own
store.
The police are confident the
mysterious occupant of this room
Is the Wood burglar.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04

on passenger trains on Which
thousands of men, women and
children travelled. We will show
that these men devised an infer
nal machine whereby a charge of
explosive with long fuse attach
ed was set off by an alarm clock
so the dynamiters could be hum
dreds of miles away when their
destructive work was accomplish
ed. Every defendant here was
aware of the plot to dynamite
the Los Angeles Times building.
for which the Mcnamara broth
ers are now serving sentences IN
San Quentin prison"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04
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The "Wants"
Of the People

The Wants" of a progress
sive people are numerous and
of every imaginable kind. From
the desire for work to the need
of a home, from the need of a
tenant to the desire for a cook
they exist in endless variety.
So that the people may getI
together and swap" their
wants the want ad pages or
the Times were created.
, The Times is best for filling
wants because II has far the
largest circulation Of any daily
paper in Tacoma, and offers O.
better opportunity for the man
with a want" to find the right
party.
The Times is the peoples
paper and the peoples wants
are always
Best Filled
by the PcopSe's Paper.
Main IL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04
MILLER OPENS up FOR GOVT

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. A.
Scathing arraignment of the AS
members of the International AS
ISOLATION of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers on trial here for IL
legally transporting dynamite,
featured the opening remarks Of
United States District Attorney
John d. Miller in outlining the
government's case today.
1--WE will show" shouted Mil
Ter, pointing an accusing finger at
Frank N. Ryan, president of the
organization. that dynamite and
nftro-glycerine were ruthlessly
carried from one state to another
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04

CINCINNATI, O.-Further in
dication that Frank Chance Will
have no connection with the Cubs
in 1913 was received here in the
announcement that his stock in
the Chicago National league club
has been purchased by Harry
Ackerland of Pittsburg, The pur-
chase price is not revealed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04

Editor Times: I think
there are a great many rea-
sons why the firemen of Ia
coma should have more pay.
First: They cannot be
classed with policemen, city
hall employees or laborers,
as they work "a hours per
day instead of 8, and at the
present time do not receive
nearly as much pay.
Second: They must go we'll
dressed in uniform, and a
uniform is only good for one
fire and then they have to
spend a lot to get that one
repaired or buy new one.
Third: They run many
times the risk in fulfilling
their duty as any other city
employe.
Fourth: BY having an ef-
ficient fire department the
insurance rate is kept at a
low mark.
Fifth: The firemen are
kept from their homes near
ly all of the time and a
large number of them have
to board out and support
their families at home. There
are a great many more rea-
sons that I, an outsider, can
mention but cannot put them
in a $50 word letter.
A Taxpayer and Subscriber.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04

senate as an enemy to TN
81 hold Penrose should be
thrown out of the senate" said
Roosevelt, because of his own
admissions before this committee
that he advised John ID. Archbold
to try to purchase immunity from
government prosecution.
"Archbold testified that Cor
nelius Bliss, republican national
treasurer in 1904, tried to black
mail him. ] do not believe 1t.
AS you have seen by my letters,
as soon as there was a rumor
that improper contributions had
been made to the republican cause
| ordered them returned. / had
assurances from Bliss and Cor
telyou that there were no such
contributions and Loeb had the
assurance by telephone that the
Standard Oil company had con-
tributed nothing. Penrose says
he advised Archbold to submit to
the 'blackmail because of hos
tility in certain quarters They
could only obtain the hostility of
myself-they could only incur
that If they violated the law. Pen
roses purpose in such advice
could only have been to secure the
Standard Oil against government
action If it violated the law"
Colonel Roosevelt started his
testimony by attempting to break
down evidence that the late E. II
Hartman, cooperating with him,
raised collection of $250,000 for
the 1904 campaign. He brought
all of the letters and other cor
respondence bearing on the sub
ject with him from Oyster Bay
and read them to the committee.
Then the former president ex-
planned his dealing with the rail-
road magnate, going into the min
utest detail.
Hartman, through Loeb, he
said, asked to be given an aud
fence.
mot once during our inter
view did we refer to the national
campaign. To the contrary, at
Harriman's request, was to help
him out in the New York cam
paign.
Later Hartman urged that
Chauncey M. Depew be appointed
ambassador to France. / told
him that some of his friends want
ed James Hyde appointed. He
then Immediately backed water
on the Depew proposition"
Roos Avelt declared that II the
Standard on contributed to the
1904 campaign 1t was done with
out his knowledge and consent.
He referred to his recent letter
bearing on this subject to Chair
man Clapp. He also quoted from
a letter which he had written to
George Sheldon, treasurer of the
republican national committee in
1903.
Regarding the Hartman fund
Roosevelt said:
In the first place there Is nc
testimony against me except hear
say evidence. My traducers have
quoted the words or men now
dead. Archbold and Penrose
gave what purports to be state
ments of Bliss, now dead"
Referring to the Sibley letter,
published by Hearst's Magazine
which quoted the former presi-
dent as telling Sibley that he
would be delighted to see Arch
bold, Roosevelt said:
81 do not recall this specific in
cident but during my administra-
ton l was glad to see anyone.
I recall that Senator Jonathan
Bourne of Oregon once asked to
be brought In touch with Arch
bold.
while I was president IL any
one trust magnate, 1aborer, prize
fighter, lawyer or clergyman had
business at the white House and
wanted to see re, l saw him. II
| am asaip elected president the
sue sstaation will prevail.
sIf Rockefeller or anyone else
wants to see me. ! win send for
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-04
CR|GGS TALKS
CONSERVATION
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. A..
THAT conservation will only be
realized when it takes such hold
upon the people that any man
opposing 1t will be cast into po-
litical oblivion, was the assertion
here esterda of Maj. Griggs of
Tacoma, president of the Nation
al Lumbermen's Manufacturers
association, in an address before
the national conservation con-
gress.
Major Griggs defended his as
sociation and asserted that such
organizations were the real
friends of conservation.