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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22
GETTING Into Hard Soil.

Iu raising a good crop it must be
conceded that traction farming is far
ahead of farming done with animal
power. 1t is we'll known fact and all
agricultural authorities agree that deep
blowing and the packing Of the subsOil
produce II better crop than is possible
with the ordinary method of shallow
blowing 1t is almost an impossibility
to plow deep with horses and the COM
mon horse plow because the entire out
fit is too light to get down into the
hard soil On the other hand. an Ell
ginr IS heavy and strong enough to be
forced deep enough to secure good re-
suits. At the same time it Is far cheap
er to plow with an engine thu i is to
rlow with horses. -Amer.can 'gricul-
turist.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22
MELON" CULTURE
HOW IT'S WORKED

In these days of 'pestiferous in
reference public service corporations
that make excessive profits on their
investment are loath to advertise the
fact. There are two stock devices
for hiding such profits from the in
cuisitive public. One is known as
watering the stock" The other is
called cutting a melon" When a
corporation is exceptionally success
full it often resorts TO both methods
of concealing it's prosperity.
Not long ago the country-and it
is a country accustomed to bonanzas
was given a thrill by the news that
an express company had "cut mel
On" CT s24,O0O,000. How was that
"melon'' cultivated? The answer
that leapcd to most lips was excess
sive rates" Undoubtedly true. Yet
it appears to be only part of the
Commission, now digging into the in
side affairs of the express compan-
les, has unearthed the interesting
fact that shippers are constantly
overcharged. They are required to
pay more than the fixed and pub
llshed rates-high as they are. Re-
marked Commissioner Lane: by an
examination of the business OF the
companies for one day, we find more
tran 1000 overcharges. One COM
pany turned into it's treasury, in one
month s67,O in overcharges.
Let the commission continue its
work of enlightenment. 1t is con-
Quoting valuable course in melon
culture.-La Follette's Magazine.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22
.PEDAG0GUE WINS
THE CHAIN PRIZE

A flutterng of scores of little card
board tags attracted the attention OF
Mr. A. S. Pope last Saturday as he
passed the headquarters of the
Chamber of Commerce temporarily
located under the Washington Ma
tional Bank Each tag was tied to
link of a log chain which hung
fectooned on the iron railing guard
ing the basement stair. A legend
informed the passerby that dollar
awaited the first man to name the
chain"
Mr.. Pope Immediately went down
stairs and added I'm Union There Is
Strength [ the a,ready long list of
guesses 80 r'~ This phrase was
so near ~ in Secretary
SCOTS mind when he hung out the
chain that he handed over the dollar
to the pedagogue when the list closed
Monday evening. "My phrase was
The Power Of Unity" said Mr.. Scott
in The Dawn office today. Il don't
believe anybody will fail to get what
the chamber of commerce means
when it says that If unified in
their efforts the people of Kittitas
MAJ hold their commercial social flu
tire in their own r"n's."
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22
D|SL0YALTY TO
K|TT|TAS VALLEY

Editor of The Ellensburg Dawn,
Ellensburg, Washington:
Sir:
For an example of disloyalty to
ones home, for an example of I'M
sportsmanlike spirit and of essential
unfairness, we commend the follow
ing:
Resident: How do you like Ell
lensburg?"
Newcomer: Fine
Resident "Oh, we'll, wait until
you have experienced some of our
spring winds. Then maybe you won't
he so enthusiastic"
You've heard tbs bit of CONVERSE
ton. What do you think of it.
In the first place. people of long
residence in this valley, accustomed
tC a mild and calm atmosphere as the
rule of the weather, are deceived in
to thinking that the winds that come
ct certain seasons are real winds. 1t
is enough to make an IllinOisan or
a Dakotan laugh. In the second
place, whence blows the kittitas
breeze? 1t blows straight from
Gods mountains. Breathing its
freshness, our men stand straight
and strong, our wives sing about
their work, our sweethearts are fair
to see, and our children wear roses
On their cheeks.
But supposing it were not so; sup
posing that this spring wind were
indeed the trial that it is named
by the timid and the grouchy; how
low spirited the men who would
then so far forget the brightness of
the Kittitas sky the dryness and the
temperatures of the Kittitas winter,
the peace and beauty of the long,
sweet Kittitas Indian summer, the
honesty and trueness of the Kittitas
neighbor, the richness and surety of
the Kittitas crop, the solidity and the
contentment of the Kittitas business
life, how low spirited he would then
so far forget these Kittitas blessings
as to select the one item of Kittitas
weather that he could not praise, and
offer it to the newcomer in words of
gloom, instead of extending the
hearty welcome that is that new
comer's right!
Fortunately, there is not much of
this sort of thing. But it exists;
and should not every good Ellens-
burg man and woman make it per-
sonal duty to laugh down and frown
down the spirit of complaint? No
body would care to go on record as
denying that the winds do blow in
Ellensburg. But neither should any
one of us forget that these same
winds, of bracing, tonic freshness, are
one of the factors of nature in MAX
ing the climate of this valley one Of
the most temperate, invigorating ana
delightful of those enjoyed by the
most favored agricultural districts
OF the world.
Yours very truly,
Ellensburg Chamber of Commerce,
Quincy Scott,
Secretary.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22

Care has been taken to exclude
from this estimate states that might
be considered inimical to Clark on
general principles; New York, for
instance, because he is too radical;
California, because he is not radical
enough. Surely no one will dispute
the states named are likely to turn
to the Missourian if compelled to
accept a second choice-to the Mis-
sourian rather than to real dark
horse" and there are many of them
Wisconsin and Kansas and Iowa,
and Oklahoma, for instance-that
could not be induced to turn to I'm
derwood They are one short of a
majority, however, but Arizona
would furnish six.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22
CLARK'S CHANCES
ARE EXCELLENT

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 29-The
Telegraph of this city has just an
nounced its views on the presidential
matter as follows:
Clark is a learned man and has
been a deep student of politics for
forty years. Folk is a pleasing per-
sonality who makes an acceptable
Chautauqua address.
With Wilson and Harmon elimin-
ated, or with the convention dead
locked, it is the general belief in
Washington that Clark has the best
chance. He is popular. The men,
bers of the house of representatives
like him, and they are influential in
their respective states. Unless I'm
derwood develops strength Clark
might have the entire vote of the
south. He has always supported
Bryan, but somehow, he hash any
reputation as a hairbrained revolu-
zionist. The worst that can be said
of him is that he is democrat and
that he walks chalk line in the
middle of the ro2d."
But it is a democratic convention,
and almost any state delegation
could consistently go TO the speaker
Of the house The following would
be most likely to in certain con-
tingencies:
states That May Switch to Clark.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22
local DEVELOPMENT
IN TANUM CANYON

I'VE fully expect to be able to put
this coal on the market in commerce
Cial quantities the coming winter. 1t
this coal on the market in CONNER
ial quantities the coming winter. 1t
is the policy of our company to push
development as rapidly as possible,
and we hope to be putting out five
hundred tons a day in time for the
cold weather trade, and at least to
double that amount within the year,
as development progresses, because
there is a sure market for all of this
coal that can be mined"
This statement was given to the
Record today by Charles E. Sever
ance, who is in Ellensburg looking
after the interests of the Tanum Coal
company The coal referred to is
the strike found few years ago by
Mr.. Wilson in Taenum canyon. For
a long time, lacking capital, Mr. Will
son worked the vein himself, in
primitive way, using pick and wheel
barrow and driving his own coal to
his own private customers.
Mr.. Wilson's findings and the drill
ing operations of the Milwaukee rail
road attracted the attention of a par
ty of Yakima men, among them
George Rankin and Arthur Poole.
They arranged for the development
of the mine. About January LIST of
this year w. S. Malloy with Col.
w. a. Abercrombie, Harry w. Wood
en- and other Spokane men became
interested, and the Taenum coal COM
pany was reorganizeu at $4,000 cap
italization.
Last week Messrs. Malloy and Sew
erance took a party of business men
Of Ellensburg out to the property,
to show them the development that
has been In progress. Miners led
the visiting party about seven hun
dred feet into the hill and showed
them a vein of coal of very clean
quality varying in thickness from
eight to twelve feet. At one point a
fault in the vein caused it to drop
under the floor of the drift, which
was continued at grade, and struck
the vein again two or three rods
further on. At the end Of the entry
on which work is now being pushed
there is eight feet of coal in the face
of the drift. The coal is hard and
pure and on account of the solid
sandstone roof of the vein, is free
from dirty cleavage"
THE further in we have gone
said Mr.. Severance today 1.-The less
we have found; and now
that we have passed this fault and
find eight feet of coal in the face of
the drift. our experts believe that we
have reached a point too far into the
mountain to be affected by the an
cient slides. and that the vein lies
fat before us"
F.rgress now averages about eight
feet a day, or two hundred feet in
month. If that rate is maintained,
and the apparently justified expect
atoms of the company materialize,
this valley may look for an industry
at its northwestern end that will en-
ploy large number of men. The
estimate of 500 tons per
day would mean the employment of
800 men, very many of whom would
have families.
The visiting party was composed
OF Messrs. Kreidel, Flummerfelt,
Payne, Faust, Mehner, Simpson,
BrutOn and Scott.
These gentlemen express them
selves as delighted with the prospect
of such an addition as this promises
to be to the resources of the valley.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22

You are probably aware that pneu-
monia always results from cold,
but you never heard Of cold re-
sulting in pneumonia when Cham
herlain's Cough Remedy was used
Why take the risk when this remedy
may be had for a trife? For sale
by Owl Drug Store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22

In olden times Il bonfire was kindied
in honor Of the god Thor. a procession
was formed. and huge log was drawn
to the srot and thrown upon the fire.
This was the origin Of the Yule log
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22
MACHINERY COSTS MONEY.
Ever thought Of oiling machi

Ever thought Of oiling marhin-
cry before yen put it away: 1t
will prevent the gearings. chains
and bearings from rusting and
how smoothly they will run next
season. Have system in she'd
ding your machinery. The i'm
PIGMENTS that will be needed first
next spring should be leXt t. the
door so they will be no trouble to
get out in their order as nee1' 4
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-02-22

ACK speakers candidacy the majority " the Demo
indeed
sides Of the chamber that his nomination would
his
Missouri
forceful
alu
the
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16
sherwood Bill Defeated.

Washington. = The Sherwood So
called "dollar-a-day" pension bill was
rejected by the Senate committee on
pennions. and another measure. which
would involve an annual expenditure
OF $24.000.000. proposed as a substi-
tute by Senator Smoot Of Utah, was
adopted. Senators Brown of Nebraska
and Curtis of Kansas gave notice that
in the Senate they would press the
Sherwood bill as a substitute for the
Smoot bill. Senator Shoots estimate
of $24.000.000 as the cost of his plan
is based on the pension bureaus COM
putation of age and length of service
of the veterans. The Sherwood bill,
according to the pension bureau,
would have cost about S75,o00.OoO a
year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16
GENERAL.

Thomas A. Edison recently cele-
brated his sixty-fifth birthday and de-
clares he feels only twenty-five.
Thomas F. Ryan is now credited in
Wall street with being in complete
control of the American Tobacco
Company.
The historic mansion at Springfield,
Md, birthplace of "Betsey" Patterson
and home of Governor Frank Brown,
was burned.
Mrs. Henry w. Taft, sister-in-law of
President Taft, has renounced the
Episcopal faith and was received into
the Roman Catholic church in New
York.
The price of beer will be advanced
from SOC to 81 a barrel by several
Milwaukee breweries because of tho
increased cost of hops and other raw
materials.
Truman C. White, former justice Of
the Supreme Court, who pronounced
the death sentence on Leon Czolosz,
assassin of President Mckinley, and
presided at many notable trials, is
dead at Buffalo, N. Y.
1t has become known that officials
OF the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-
featuring Company, at the East Pitts
burg plan. will make final test of a
discovery of color photography which
excels all methods now in use.
The vacancy on the Supreme Court
bench. the fifth that has occurred in
the present administration. probably
will be filled by Secretary of Com
merce and Labor Chas. Nagel of st.
Louis. President Taft is expected to
| send the nomination OF Mr.. Nagel to
the Senate within few days.
The national park bill recently in
troduced by Senator Smoot is to re-
ceive early attention. This bill asks
for central authority to control all
national parks and scenic reserva-
tons. and recommends that appropri-
ations be made Immediately available
for development of these places.
When the stockholders of the Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana. formerly
a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey, hold their an
nual meeting March 7th, the capital
stock will be increased from 81, 900 GOO
| to s3o.o00.000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16

A man walked into a jewelry store
In Chicago, picked up two sample
cases full of jewelry. worth 100000,
walked out and has not been found.
Three children were burned to
death one man fatally and one wom-
an seriously injured in a mysterious
explosion which destroyed the home
of Isaac Smith, farmer living near
Maxwell, la.
Police of California cities and all
coast towns are searching for Earl
Standard, twenty-four. accused OF the
embezzlement of $4,000 from the
American National Bank of Pomona,
where he was bookkeeper.
Two persons were killed. and six
others injured, one seriously at lola,
Kan, in collision between a Missou-
ri Pacific passenger train and street
car. The dead are Mrs. William
Short and Mrs. Anna Coblantz.
Citizens of Olathe. Colo. have
planned a monster celebration over
completion of the municipal water
plant. Mayors of western slope towns
and newspaper men have been invited
to the celebration and banquet and 1t
is expected more than 200 will attend.
Broadcast warnings against accept
ance of fraudulent San Francisco
postoffice money orders have been is
sued following discovery of the theft
of 100 money order blanks from a
sub-station in San Francisco. The
thieves also stole the sub-station
money order stamp.
Shunted about from place to place
as the result of the long government
investigation to determine whether he
was leper or not, John r. Earle, for
merly of Washington, D. c., has been
located at Summit, near Tacoma
Wash, and will be fenced in on an
acre of land.
Discussion as to how much money
a young man should be earning be
fore he marries led to remarkable
discovery in frugality in Chicago. Mrs
Hannah Kruger. wife of day labor
er, has raised three children on an in
come of $40 week and deposited s.
each week for six years.
Just as the chaplain was about te
pronounce the benediction at the close
of the morning chapel service at the
state penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb.
Albert Prince, negro, under sen
tence for assault with intent to kill
attacked and fatally stabbed Deput,
Warden e. D. Davis. The warden re
ceived six wounds. He died som'
hours later.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16

I Sixty representatives from counties
in central Colorado met in Colorado
Springs and organized the Lincoln
Memorial Association
Colorado's Stationary Engineers
Association will celebrate its twenty
ninth anniversary in Denver with
ball and reception.
Mrs. Clara Louisa Farley, who has
lived in Trinidad since 1882, claims to
have been for five years a housemaid
for President Lincoln.
freight rates between the Gulf and
Denver has been filed with the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
The city of Lyons has filed an In
junction to restrain the town Of Long
mont from using water from the St.
vrain river for power purposes.
At a meeting of all the commercial
bodies of the state In Colorado
Springs recently, campaign was out
lined to attract tourists to Colorado.
Andrew Berglund, native of
Sweden and a resident of Littleton for
thirty-eight years, was drowned when
he fell from a bridge into a millrace.
Boulder has asked for 1850 acres
adjoining its present city park, and
If Congress grants the petition this
will be the largest city park in the
United States.
Colorado Products Week" in Den
yer Is planned to be one OF the great
t;eo In
try ever made. The date has not yet
been decided upon.
The country around Hahn's peak is
rapidly becoming overrun with thou
sands of deer and elk. which have
been driven from their haunts in
wyoming by the recent cold.
On condition that the people of
Grand Junction provide site and s4,-
900 in cash, a concern in Muscatine,
Iowa, proposes to install a $4,000
canning plant in that city.
The states brief and argument in
the case brought to test the right OF
the treasurer to collect state tax of
$25 from each druggist has been filed
by Assistant Attorney General Chas.
O'Connor.
A deal which will mean much to ir-
rigatjon and farming in Larimer
csunty was closed when the North
Poudre Irrigation Company consoli
dated with the Mountain Supply and
Storage Company.
The Old-TimeFs' reunion at Meeker
was attended by 800 pioneers who had
been in the state twenty years or
more, and the counties of Rio Blanco.
Moffat, Routt and Garfield were rep
resented.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16
WASHINGTON.

Three army motor trucks on an en-
500-mile trip to Fort Benjamin Har-
rison. Indianapolis. The machines are
operated by soldiers and each carries
5000 pounds of sand.
The House committee on expendi-
lures in the War Department has
agreed to report favorably the Mon
dell resolution calling for information
regarding the various Western posts
recommended for abandonment by the
secretary of war.
President Taft's meditations ON fil-
ing the present. vacancy in the Su-
preme Court were momentarily dis
turbed by a communication from the
Woman's Suffrage Association of the
District of Columbia, suggesting that
a woman be appointed.
The House public lands committee
authorized a favorable report on the
Mondell bill extending the provisions
of the act permitting agricultural en-
tries on coal lands to entries under
the reclamation act, the Carey desert
land act, lands selected by states un-
der grants by Congress and lands sold
as isolated tracts.
A mild sensation was produced n
the Senate Lorimer committee hear.
ing by Miss Helen Seavers, telegraph
operator in a Washington hotel. who
testified that Edward Hines, the mil
H. r.
money to let him see telegram De
tective Bailey had just sent to H. E.
Kerr, some two weeks ago.
Worldwide Significance attaches tc
Knox at the direction of President
Taft to the countries bordering on the
Caribbean sea. European diplomats
recalling a recent speech of Mr. Kpo1
before the New York State Bar Asso
citation, looked upon the proposed triI
with interest. That speech is being
interpreted as the latest notice given
by the United States that the principle
of America for Americans must be
observed.
Dispatches have been sent to the
governors of all Western states by
the War Department asking for de
tailed information as to the war foot
ing of the state militia. This act is
interpreted as a preparation for 9
military occupation of Mexico. The
governors of Colorado, Wyoming
Utah. Arizona and New Mexico were
asked to submit at once estimates ol
the military forces which these states
could throw into the field in the
event of a call for volunteers
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16
May File on Withdrawn Land.

Gunnison.-If the United States
Land Office grants request of the
Colorado land board, a precedent will
be established in allowing homestead
ers to file upon land that has been
withdrawn under the Carey act The
request was directed to the federal Of
flee on behalf of Eastern settlers who
nave taken up 100 and eighty-acre
tracts in the Yellow Jacket irrigation
district in Moffat county and who
have been refused permission to file
On the land by the government land
office at Gunnison. The settlers have
entered on 6.347 acres which lies in
tract of 100000 segregated by the
State Land Board a year ago for the
construction of a big irrigation prof.
Get. The land will be watered from
the sheds in Rio Blanco. and is ac-
credited by the land board with being
one of the most promising in the
state.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16
Minor Mention.


A baseball club has been organized
at Longmont.
Denver showed a gain in building
operations during January.
The Boulder County Grange recently
held business session in Niwot.
The Boulder W. C, T. U. has opened
campaign for dry Colorado"
The Mesa county farmers have or
ganized permanent Farmers Insti
tute.
In La Plata county In 1911 there
were SO marriages. 20 divorces and II;
births.
Santa Fe Trail Band OF Pueblo" IL
newly organized municipal band in
Pueblo.
John Eaton and C. Smith Of Estes
Park have been arrested for killing
deer out of season.
The Elks' club rooms in Canon City
costing $4,000, have been completed
and are now In use.
The price of eggs in Denver has
taken drop. selling at % to rs cents
per dozen wholesale.
The business men OF Weld county
will try to get convicts 20 work on the
county roads soon.
The Colorado Realty Dealers Asso-
citation will hold it's annual convention
in Denver in April.
The liquor question will be submit
f1l 80
ing spring election.
Two lion cubs have been captured
alive by w. F. Porter at Ridgway and
third one was killed.
The estimated production of the
1912 crop of Steamboat strawberries
is placed at fifty carloads.
Mrs. Minnie Ward Patterson has
the distinction of being the first wom-
an minister in Colorado Springs.
E. l.. Brown has been elected vice
president of the Denver G Rio Grande
railroad, with headquarters in Denver
The $4,000 stock in the store of
the Bell Mercantile Company of
Yampa was practically destroyed by
fire.
The new creamery at Windsor has
been incorporated with capital of
$4,000. The plant has been put into
operation.
Hot soup is being served to the stu
dents of the Longmont high school
who live too far away to go home for
lunch at noon.
The cornerstone Of the new $4,000
trade school of the National Jewish
Hospital for Consumptives in Denver
has been laid.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-02-16
FOREIGN.

The Empress of Germany has ap-
pointed commission to look into the
state of the beggar children of Ger
many.
King George and Queen Mary have
returned to England from the most
memorable journey ever undertaken
together by king and queen Of Great
Britain and Ireland. After an alb
sence of three months, during which
they had been crowned emperor and
empress of India and had received the
homage of many of their princely
vassals in the vast Eastern empire,
they were given a hearty welcome
back to London.