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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

- HAS NUDGE, a farmer, hear
- ing that an uncle had died in
Colorado and had left him a
small mining property, con-
cluded to go out and look after it. But
the hay had to be got in and the fruits
shipped, and it was three months be-
fore Silas started
In Denver he fell in with a drum
mer, who was inclined to make game
of the simple farmer. One evening
the drummer, being asked in the ro-
tunda of the hotel where Silas was
staying, who's your country jake
friend?" replied: THAT fellow? That's
Pinkerton's crack detective. He's on
the track of some big rascality. What
do you think of his makeup?"
A man sitting near heard the words,
started and walked quickly away.
That night as Silas was going to
bed there was a knock at his door,
and a man followed the knock.
I'm on to your game" he said
Reckon 1 don't understand you,
stranger said Silas, astonished.
81 know what you're here for. It's
a certain mining company"
"Well4' exclaimed SilaS, with eyes
and mouth Open
GU can lOOl NE WIFI luaI
business. You're a detective out here
to look after US fellows who are get
ting up the Nudge Mining company.
Now, you're off your base. The thing
isn't a swindle at all, but a bona fide
transaction. The only weak spot in it
is the Nudge property, which isn't
worth SO an acre. The other proper
ties are all right. We got our deed to
the Nudge land from a rascal who
personated the heir. He fooled us
beautifully. But we don't want any
suspicion cast on our company, and
we're ready to do the right thing about
this Nudge property"
you mean you're ready to pay me
somethin' fur goin' back home an
maxim no investigashun.''
Wen take you in on the ground
floor If you can promise that the real
Nudge heir, whom suspect you repre-
sent, will give US a quitclaim deed to
his property. There's So, OO0, 900 of
stock, all of which we own. We're
going to put 100000 of it on the mar
ket at a dollar a share Wen give you
$50 900 more stock for the same pur-
pose"
Nudge was no fool. He thought for
some time and finally closed with the
man A contract was drawn, a notary
was routed out of his bed, and all was
made complete
81 see." said the nromoter- elancinr
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

If you have an organization of bust
ness men in your town, no matter
what it may be called, no matter if it
be seemingly dead, revive it for a Wig
orous campaign in favor of home trade
protection and home town development
and improvement. You can organize
around this question when all other
ties fail to bind. The first duty of
local business men or organizations of
business men is to hold the business
of the town. Do this first and now,
then go after outside propositions.
There is now on foot a national
movement for the protection of the
home trade of the home town. In this
movement the manufacturing and job
bling interests and the local press are
Interested
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
A Natural Disguise
By ARTHUR NJ. HOPKINS

over the paper, ''that you have put
everything in the name Of the heir"
"Jes' So"
s'Wel, then, he'll have either to call
for the stock or send you a power of
attorney"
The promoter gave the supposed de-
tective a curious parting glance, as
though he wondered at his motive for
keeping up his country character, then
left him.
When the promoter entered his Office
the next morning at 10 o'clock Silas
had been waiting for him three hours.
The papers were ready.
"Send these papers to Silas Nudge"
said the promoter, 'and when they're
presented here, duly executed, We'll
deliver the stock
Silas took the papers and studied
them for a long while. Finally he
asked:
"Hev you got the stock ready"
"It's in that safe.''
"Git it out"
But you don't expect us to deliver
it till you produce Mudge's receipts?'
"Git it outH' repeated Silas.
The promoter brought out the stock
"Whatll you give fur it in cashT'
"Cash? Why, let me see. Fifty per
cent of par
''Pll take it,
The promoter, still believing that for
some purpose of his own the supposed
detective was keeping up his charac-
ter of countryman, drew a check for
S25, 600
Don't want that. 1 want the mon
ey"
81 can have it certified"
Don't want nothin' certified. Gimme
the bills"
The promoter went to the bank him.
self and brought back twenty-five one
thousand dollar bills. Silas put one
hand on the pile and with the other
signed the papers.
"Silas Mudger' exclaimed the pro-
moter.
'Jes' so.'
Silas showed the bills into his capa-
cious pocket and moved toward the
door, leaving the promoter gaping.
The stock of the Nudge Mining COM
pany went on the market at par and
gradually sank to nothing, 2OO, OCo
shares having been disposed of at an
average of $45. The promoters made
a handsome thing, the public were
gulled and Silas Nudge was content
with the sale of his patrimony.
Il spec the ga1oot what pretended
to be me-" said Silas, "was one of the
COMPANY" ToA1
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

should be made at the time of dig
ging Should the grower fail to make
inspection previous to placing the crop
in storage and later finds a large per
cent infected it will be wise to give
the storage conditions particular at
tention.
1t will certainly not be advisable to
place badly infected seed in cellar
storage. A much safer plan would be
to select out the amount required for
table use and sell the remainder for
early consumption. If the crop is so
little infected that the diseased parts
of the tubers may be cut away then 1T
may be advisable to select out the
amount necessary for seed and place
this in a more favorable storage. If
no better method is available the out
door pit storage, when properly car
ried out, will answer very well.
1t is a pretty sure indication that the
crop has ripened prematurely when
the potatoes are carrying high per
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
BIRDS AS lNCENDIARIES.

Strange Story of How They Set Fire to
Town In Germany.
How flock of starlings set fire to a
small town in Wurttemberg is told in
the German Electrotechnical Review.
The town is lighted by electricity, and
one evening there was a series Of ex-
ploSions. Most of the fuses blew out.
and the people ran out Of their homes,
some of which were burned to the
ground. 1t was some time before the
true cause was aScertained.
1t happened thus: A hawk had been
chasing flock OF starlngs which had
sought refuge In corner Of the power
house and had crowded together in
terror between the overhead high ten
sion wires and a lightning conductor
Thus a short circuit was established.
which would not have had serious con-
sequences had not the ground been in
an extremely dry and parched condi-
ton.
The absence of moisture in the soil
put the earth connection out of action,
and the current had therefore to seek
another outlet, with the result stated
1t was not until a little heap of car
BOMBED starlingS and an electrocuted
hawk We're found on the spot that the
mystery was cleared up.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
POTATO BLIGHT COSTS
FARMERS MUCH MONEY.
Prescribed In Bulletin of the Ohio
Agricultural Experiment Station.

In q bulletin on 1.-The Fusarium
Blight and Dry Rot of the Potato" the
Ohio agricultural experiment station
says the Fusarium disease of potatoes
is both a field and a storage trouble
1t is characterized by unevenness of
stand, retardation of growth, whiting
of foliage, discoloration of tubers,
shortening of the life of the crop and
other symptoms expensive to the
grower.
The disease makes its attack by way
of the root system The first requisite
is to know the disease. The later
stage of the disease-viz, dry rot-is
easily recognized. The potato grower
should become familiar with the
internal symptoms as to recognize the
disease al glance. Determination of
the depth and percentage of infection
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
Towns Life Is Home Trade
ORGANIZE TO HOLD BUSINESS.


The Lord helps them who help
themselves
1t is up to the local merchants to
put their shoulders to the wheel and
help by sustaining the local press and
the national movement.
1t must be made clear to those who
are the natural customers of the coun-
try merchants in every rural commu-
nifty that the apparent temporary adj
vantage that they imagine they obtain
by sending their trade away from home
is deceptive advantage and carries
with it an inevitable ultimate loss
much greater than any possible pres
ent gain. That this truth can be made
clear to every one-so clear that he
who runs may read-admits of no
doubt, but it necessitates the active
cooperation of the local country mer-
chants with the local press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

ALFALFA NO LAZY MANS
CROP.

A writer in the Saturday Even
ing Post says:
Alfalfa demands good farming.
1t declines to grow on poor, wet,
weedy, sour ana untitled lands.
Many fail with it on first trial.
Some have become discouraged
and called it hard to grow, yet
it is almost a weed in its rank
spread in specially favored local.
tiles. This fastidious nature has
hindered its progress in the IA
vor Of careless farmers, who ig-
more its cardinal requirements.
+. Its three simple demands are a
dry, sweet, fertile soil. But
these involve about all there is
to good soil management-nam
ly, drainage, lining for acidity
when needed and adding the
needed fertilizers, with proper
tillage Alfalfa refuses to be
made a side issue. It demands
the best field care of the farm
er to establish it. 1t develops
his patience, as it must be cut
sparingly the first year and must
not be rudely trampled.
Farming was not so hard be-
fore we knew alfalfa complain
ed a Kansas farmer alfalfa
is no crop for a lazy farmer"
a.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
Department on Agriculture

cent Of infection, though the fungus
may not penetrate very deep. 1t is also
true that such seed will not have the
vitality or keeping qualities of seed
that has properly matured-
Potatoes which are so badly marked
internally as to be unfit for table use
may be fed to the hogs or other stock
when. properly handled The fungus
will in no way injure the animals.
Manure produced in feeding badly in
fected raw tubers should be spread on
permanent pastures or applied so as
not to carry the disease to areas which
will be used for potatoes.
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Survey Of the Worlds News

tically all of the murder cases in New
York state, said the death penalty
should be continued.
Cornelius V. Collins, former super
intendent of state prisons, has long
opposed the abolition of capital pun
ishment.
IF a guard in our prisons incurred
the enmity of a life prisoner" said Mr..
Collins, there would be nothing to
prevent the prisoner from killing the
guard and as many others as he want
ed to. 1t is the fear of the electric
chair that puts damper on Staying"
y %
PRINCETON'S NEW HEAD
DR.. John Grier Hibben, the new pres
ident of Princeton university, was
born at Peoria, III, April 10, 1861 He
was a student in the Princeton Theo-
logical seminary 1886 and studied
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
UNCLE SANS VOCABULARY

The American navy department idea
of sending two lieutenants to Germany
to famihariZe themselves with the lam
guage and German naval affairs is an
innovation The officers detailed for
this service We're detached from the
presidents yacht, the Mayfower
While in Germany the lieutenants will
be under the supervision of Captain
Niblack, naval attache of the United
States embassy
1t is the first time American naval
officers have ever been assigned to
learn the language of a European
country Several in recent years have
been sent to Japan for such purpose.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
IMPRovERs WHO HELP TRADE.

THE citizen who speaks good word
for his town wherever he goes
THE good looking girl who carries
herself well on the street.
THE. married woman who brings up
a Rooseveltian flock of five or six
to swell the population.
THE farmer who sells his produce in
the town and buys things from the
town stores instead of sending to mail
order houses.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
Farmers Time Is Valuable.

The following shows wherein it is
profitable to plan the farm in such
way as to involve tremendous saving
in time and energy in travelling to and
from the fields: 1--WE know of two
farms of equal size and character, one
of which is so planned that men and
teams travel an average distance of
but twenty-eight rods from the farm
buildings to the fields. The other is
so planned that an average distance
of siXty-nine rods must be Travelled
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
BUYING CATS IN BAGS.

pie time to examine their purchase be-
fore paying over their money.
Why they prefer thus to buy their
cats and their pigs is a question that
the local merchant would pay money to
have answered
Why will people otherwise sensible
pass up the goods which they can ex-
anime before purchase and pay out
their good coin to a catalogue house.
trusting to the picture and a promise :?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

Would you buy a cat in a bag. pig
in a poke? No2 Then you are not one
of those who contribute $250,OOO, 600
annually to the support of the cata-
logue houses in payment for their pic
tured wares
Yet there are millions who are doing
that very thing, buying the cat in the
bag and pig in the poke. and of
stranger. when for the asking they
might buy of a neighbor and have am
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

THE clean swept sidewalk in front Of
the well dressed show window.
THE folks living next to the railroad
who keep their back yards neat and
thus improve the railroad view.
THE merchant who advertises regu-
larry in the home paper and there
by attracts trade to the town.
A LII these are town improvers who
help the trade in their town to
grow. And there are others.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
WINTER ORCHARD WORK.
Advice Regarding the Pruning of Dead
Limbs of Trees.

Limbs of Trees.
While the fall is the best time to
prune apples, much can be done in
mild winters. In the spring it is Of
ten a difficult task in pruning to dis
tinguish the live wood from the dead.
After the crop is harvested is the best
time of the year to go through the
trees pruning out the dead branches.
They can then be distinguished easily
and the work more rapidly and thor
oughly performed. In pruning off the
dead limbs always be sure to cut back
to live wood, making the cuts clean
and close. Long stubs never heal, but
will soon start to decay. The rot that
has now Travelled into the trunk of
many of the older trees in our orchard
started in this way, and year by year
the trees grow weaker.
About week after pruning all the
larger wounds should be protected by
painting them with mixture Of re W
linseed oil and good white lead.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

Photo Q by American Press Association.
Governor John A. Dix, Who Denounces
the Death Penalty.
life has many supporters. The Right
Rev. William Croswen Doane, bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of Albany, n.
Y, said:
Capital punishment is right. The
objection to it is purely sentimental.
Those who have been declaring them
selves in favor of the removal of the
death penalty overlook the one great
significant instruction Gods own
word-'Whoso sheddeth mans blood,
by man shall his blood be she'd -
Edgar NJ. Cullen, chief justice of the
sos,rt of appeals, which passes on prac-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

from the farm buildings to the fields.
The second farmer is handicapped by
a good many miles of unnecessary
travel for himself, his teams and his
machines. Planning ahead will often
avoid this handicap."-Kansas Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
is EXECUTION RIGHT

The urging of Colonel Joseph f.
Scott, superintendent of New York
prisons, that capital punishment be
abolished in that state has received
the approval of Governor Dix. Il am
in sympathy with Colonel SCOTS
views on the subject" said Governor
Dix 81 think it would be the right
thing to do.'
Governor johnson of California de-
clared not long ago that his opposition
to capital punishment would impel him
to insist upon special legislation doing
away with the extreme penalty for
crime in California. Other prominent
men are fully in accord with the two
governors views on this subject.
On the other hand, the theory that
the state has q right to take life for
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
AVIATION SQUAD

Four more officers of the regular ar
my have been detailed to the signal
corps for duty as aviators.
There are still about forty young of-S
dcers in the army who are eager to be
assigned to the aviator corps.
The officers who are being selected
will be required to furnish a surgeons
certificate as to their fitness for aerial
work and must be volunteers for that
branch of the signal corps work. They
must also be bachelors and with no
intention of getting married at an ear
ly date.
The officers after assignment are be-
ing ordered to Augusta, Ga, where
they become pupils of the army avia-
ton school, of which Captain Charles
DEF. Chandler, U. S. A, is the head.
A bill was introduced in congress to
double the pay of all officers assigned
to aviation work.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

Use For Road Dust.
Road dust will serve to hold the nj
trogen in manure using 1t In the sta
BILE gutter.-Professor s. w. Cavanagh,
Experiment Station, Ithaca, n. Y.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

- AN having mastered the art OF
" flying the suggestion that II
N is possible to cross the At
lantic ocean in an airship Is
being taken up with the utmost ser1-
business and confidence. The failure
of Walter Wellman and Melvin Vani-
man to accomplish the feat has in no
wise deferred others from planning for
such a conquest. Even Vaniman him
self Is hopeful that the honor will fall
to him.
Meteorological authorities have been
impressed with the outline of plans
published by DIR. Paul f. Cans OF
Munich, Germany, who has announced
that he will set out on his spectacular
sea fight in March of this year in his
dirigible balloon, the Suchard- He
thinks he can make the trip across in
five days. He proposes to end the
fight at Barbados if necessary, but to
continue to the coast of Florida If pos
sible.
DIR. Cans says the main obstacle to
overcome will be atmospheric dis
turbances that might divert the air
ship from its course and the ability to
remain. aloft the necessary length of
time. He thinks he has solved both
difficulties. The first he thinks has
been eliminated in the selection of his
route.
He has figured that his airship will
lose weight from the instant of its
start due to the consumption of food
and drink and of oil and fuel, and pro-
poses to add to the weight of the Su-
chard by taking on sea water as bal
last. This will be accomplished by the
use of fish shaped buckets let down
by a steel cable operated by a motor.
A committee of the Royal Aero club
OF London took charge of James V.
Martins proposal to attempt a trans
atlantic fight from Newfoundland to
Ireland next August. Mr.. Martin for
merly was manager of the Harvard
Aeronautical society, and the scientific
arrangements for his contemplated
journey were referred to Harvard pro-
fessors. He plans to rise from the sea
and keep in the track of Atlantic
steamers as closely as possible.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09
THE BRITISH NAVY

Great Britain's twenty eighth Dread
nought, which will be one of five new
armored vessels provided for in the
program of 1911-12, will be completed
In 1914. The ship will be the largest
battleship hitherto constructed in Eng
land. displacing between $4,000 and
&C. 900 tons.
Although Dreadnought cruisers of
the Lion class are much longer, the
new vessel will be slightly heavier,
besides throwing heavier shells. A
number of improvements have been in
troduced in the arrangement of the in
ternal subdivisions, intended to mini
mize the danger of a torpedo attack
while the vessels anti-torpedo battery
will consist of sixteen siX-inch guns,
whereas her predecessors have been
armed with only four inch guns for the
purposes Of encountering torpedo
boats.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

Successor at Princeton.
also at the University of Berlin. In
1887 he was ordained to the Presbyte-
rian ministry and was a pastor at
Chambersburg, Pa, 1SS7-91. From
1891 to 1898 he was instructor in logic
and psychology in Princeton and later
professor in logic in that university.
DR.. Hibben's works as an author in
clude 'Inductive Logic" 1896; 1.-The
Problems of Philosophy" 1895; He
gals Logic" 1902, and ''The Philoso-
ply of the Enlightenment" 1909.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-09

Ar AN having mastered the art of
" flying the suggestion that 1t
EVU is possible to cross the At
lantfc ocean in an airShip is
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-04-12
FARMER KILLS NEGROES
Had Been Having Trouble With Them.
 Occurred on Main Street.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Marianna-Three negroes whose names could not be learned were vic tins of the unerring aim of William Lynn, young farmer of this county, on the Main street of Marianna fol- lowing a quarrel between Lynn and the blacks.
 The first negro fell mortally wound ed within a few feet of Lynn, the second was shot down while running and at distance of about 95 yards, while the third who had fled in an opposite direction, was killed at distance of about 50 yards.
 According to local officers, the ne- groes had previously worked for Lynn on his plantation, about nine miles from this city, and Lynn had several ouarrels with them on labor matters. The bottoms in this vicinity have been flooded, making farming impos- sible, and Lynn come to Marianna. He met the negroes in front of the Bank of Marianna, where the discussion arose. One of the negroes is said to have made an insulting remark to Lynn,
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-04-12
BRAKEMAN FOUND DEAD MAN
Body Found With Hole in Head--Was
 Identified by Papers.

Hazen-His body propped aga the side of the interor of box c-~s' and a bullet hole through his head, A. J. Tagney, thought to have been from Venice, H., vas found dead by brakeman on Rock Island freight train nine miles west of Hszen.
 Two barkemen on t lrain sa'a. that when the freight t Arg asa they found four men in a coai car. They ordered the men to leave the train at the next station, nd when the train stopped thought the men had obeyed orders. In going over the train again short distance oGE oi Hazen, one of the brakemen djfaover- ed a man seated against the side ot the car and apparently asleep. When the brakeman ordered him to leave the car and he made no response, the brakeman pushed over what proved to be the lifeless form of Tagney. Let ters found in his pocket led to his identification.