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The Era-leader., 1912-10-03
Save the Peach Trees,


usually at the tips of the sma]
ones first. the larger branche.
surviving longer. The tree ha.
agraylsh, scurfy appearan ce
and il the 6naernail or kn,t,
blade be rubbed over the surface
of badly infested limb, the
scale will be turned oyer and the
round bodies of the yellow in.
sects will be visible.
The egg hatches within the
body of the mother scale and the
young are very active when first
born. They crawi from under
the old scale and for the first few
hours are very busy finding a
location where the beak can be
inserted. When a suitable loca-
tion is found, usually not more
than two inches fron'the mother
scale, the beak is inserted. into
the sap and :! feeding begins. The
secretions of the body f&m Il
scale over the insect, which
grows from a tiny speck to be as
large as the head of a pin. The
females lose their legs. eyes and
feelers, never moving from the
first feeding place.
They multiply very rapidly
and soon literally cover the tree,
sucking the sap to such an ex.
tent that a tree rarely survives.
After many experiments by
different experiment stations,
the 'lime'sulphur-wash" hes
been found most satisfactory for
this pest. Directions for making
this are given in Circular No. 4
ot the Crop Pest Commission,
Baton Rouge La. Briefly, the
directions given are about as fol.
lows: Material-Stone lime 21
lbs: sulpher IS lbs.; water so Ral.
ections-Place few gallons
II water IN an iron kettle and
bring to a boil. Mix the sulpher
With water and make a thick
past while the water is heating.
As soon as the water boils. put
he sulphur paste into the boil,
ng water and stir vigorously.
hen put in the rock lime and a
'iolent boiling will begin. Stir
md add enough water, hot or
old. to make so gallons and ap.
'ly.
The lime-sulphur.wash should
'e applied this fall as soon as the
caves fall from the trees, and
hould be applied again before
be buds c''me in the spring i'll
ne orchard is heavily infested. |
! suitable sprayer can be bought |
hrouch the local hardware man
r from the Goulds Mic. Co..
'eneca. N. Y.
Peaches do we'll on these sandy
'nds' but such pests as these
'ust De guarded against. The
'arket for peaches was good
st season, but most of those
ut on market were consumed at
ace, and very few we're cauned
thousands of dollars worth of
'nned peaches will be imported
TO the State from California
I'd other States, when "a large
lrt OF these could be put on the
cal markets and keep the
onev at home. This work
mes at = time when there is
IT much else to do on the farm,
ID the small farmer who gives \
8 home orchard attention will :
doubly paid for his time, and :
we q better living at home be- (
aes. J. W. Bateman, :
Department Rural Education. :
State Normal School. :
Terms Of Court.
The Era-leader., 1912-10-03

Baton Rouge, La, Sept. 26,.
The following statement of G. (
Weber, campaign manager fl
l. L Moogan, candidate for Co
gress from the Sixth Distric
was given out by him this morr
ing:
The campaign of buster an
misrepresentation was being II
dulged in by the gentlemen fro,
Polnte Coupee, Mr.. Fred Clai
borne. has never yet been know
to be productive of good result
when the real facts are broueh
tolight and the public thorough,
acquainted with all the details
In this matter Of the joint de
bates between Mr.. Morgan an,
Mr.. Claiborne, l want to 90,
that Morgan's manager did no
balk at any offer made by Mr.
Claiborne's manager. When
Arst saw Mr.. Lecoq on last Sun.
day, morning, / stated to hin
that l was ready and willing tc
meet him at any time and place
to arrange the details for these
two debstes.
At the same time 1 stated to
him that in view of the fact that
Mr.. Claiborne came from the
western side of the district and
Mr.. Morgan from the eastern, I
consider it wise and proper that
be, as the representative of the
western candidate, ought to Sc
lect the place on the west side
Of the river and would name
the place on the east side of the
river. At that time Mr.. Lecoq
told me that he would consider
the proposition and confer with
me on the following day. On|
Monday " did not hold this con,
fsrence on account Of Mr.. Lecoq
having On appointment with 4 !
physician, aid We then fixed the |
meeting for yesterday.
I joined Mr.. Lecoq and to-
gether We went to the Morgan
headquarters, where discussed
the matter Of the places for the |
holdingof these debates. l re.
iterated to him at this conferenceI
that ! adhered to my original |
position that I considered it but !
fair to each of the candidates
that Mr.. Claiborne should select
the place on the west side ef the
river and Nh. Morgan the place
% the east.
Mr.. Lecoq datly refused to
conslder this proposition, and
submmitted to me the counter
proposition. Of my selecting the
place on the east side. This
refused to do. ! then stated to
Mr.. Lecoq that l would not re.
cede from my propositioc origi.
nay proposed, and would con.
Dult with my principal further,
lfter which I would advise him
by wire - 10 whether or not I
would accede to his demands,
md today cant him the following
kstegrsm:
Baton Rouge, L.. Sept. 25'12.
Mr.. Conrad J. Iecon
New Roads, La. III
I adhere to my original
proposition. you to select the L
point on the west side Of the ,
liver and / to select the place on I
lhe east side Of the river. Ad.
ire me Of your acceptance or
as Mr.. Morgan desires
. make engagements in various
,ortjons Of the district and does
,ot want to finally conclude them
lntil Ne have heard from you
Ie6nitely on the subject. Fl
" g. &. WrprR
The Era-leader., 1912-10-03
Morgan Is Willing,
But Claiborne ba|kS,
Chairman Weber Issues Statement About the Joint
Deoate Plan-Always Ready to Arrange Meet.
ings-but Technical Objections Were Raised by
Claiborne's Chairman.

n.
= Claiborne Campaign Commi
). tee.'
r "Mr. Claiborne's telegram I
J. Mr.. Morgan was received he1
!. this morning. In the absense {
: Mr.. Morgan I have replied (
Mr.. Claiborne in the followin
4 telegram:
: Baton Rouge, La, Sept .25'1;
! "Mr. Ferd G. Claiborne,
New Roads. La,
/ Your night letter from Nev
} Orleans just received. In th,
absense of Mr.. Morgan l am an
swering the same. You are re-
ferred to the conversation be
; tween your manager and myself
l have to-day wired him which j.
self explanatory. Kindly keel
the record straight. I deny alb
solutely. sir, that I balked at any
proposition apdmmitted BY You,
manager, but have simply stood
on what l considered to be Mr.
Morgan's rights in the premises
and have this day issue q state.
ment Of the true facts in the case
and laid it before the voters Of
the Sixth Congressional District,
If you are desirous, as you pre-.
tend to be, 10 meet Mr.. Morgan
in joint debate you will bease
this useless newspaper fiction
and have your manager name the
place on tn west side aud l will
Immediately name the place on
the east side.
G. G. WEBER,
Chairman Campaign CON-"
by the interviews given out
BY Mr.. Claiborne hs seeks 70
create the impression that Mr..
Morgan il afraid 10 meet him in)
joint debate. This I wish 70
deny and it is Mr.. Morgan's re.
gret that he is unable to give
more time. on account Of the
limited period allotted to make
bis campaign. Otherwise he
would have been pleased to have
given the people Of the district
and opportunity to compare him !
and his qualifications. face to face,
with those Of Mr.. Claiborne. Lett
them now get busy and arrange |
these two meetings. Otherwise |
there will be no time left to hold |
them. If there has been any
balk or hitch in this matter it is
due to our opponents and not us.
L have just read the wild
claims Of Mr.. Claiborne carrying
The parishes Of Tsngipahos aud
St. Helena. l want to say that l
have just returned from Tangi-
pahoo and find conditions there
. be in most excellent shape for
Mr. Morgan. In Hammond and
Amite City, where I met and
spoke to . large number Of Nor.
an men, they state that he will
AIRY those two towns BY large
and in Ponchatoula,
where Mr.. Morgan spent the day.
yesterday be reports the people
# that thriving little city to bel
practically solid. In point Of
act the situation generally is|
most satisfactory, and We safely
ely on earring that parish BY aI,'
srge majority. Mr.. Claiborne
nd his press agent at Hammond
0 one Of the New Orleans close
ouch with each other, for in :
peclal sent ont by him from|:
hammond one of the New Or
aans evening papers on last
he stated that ''Clai.
)Orne Would Qive MORGAN tho
Douglas Island news., 1912-11-06
An Interesting Problem

The Boston News Bureau says: The 100 per cent premium put on Alaska Gold Mines so soon after the subscrip- tion and allotment by Hayden, Stone & Go. is causing profound interest throughout the mining world. The market seems to be we'll established around S10 and is perfectly open and free and the people who are turning in the original bonds on the property are taking payment therefor in stock at S10 per share. This price is not really 100 per cent per premium. It is only 50 per cent premium because the stu bscrip- tion price is S10 and the first payment S5.
 The circular of Hayden, Stone & Go. is remarkable in it's indefiniteness, al- though the apparent effort of the finan- cial statement was to be most definite. Simply stated, the fact is that when the bonds of the present operating com pany are taken up, the company stands with 100000 shares issued for S1o per share cash, or S7. .5oo,ooo. Of this s3,ooo,, GOO is paid fer the property and S4,50o,- 900 goes into the treasury for equip ment and development of the property.
 This is the real secret of the enter prise. The weakness of most mining promotions is that more is paid for the claims or the alleged mine than is raised to really make the mine. In this case Hayden, Stone & Go. insisted that the purchase price should be rock bottom with no profits or commissions to the promoters except that the bankers should receive bankers commission on the subscriptions. The promoters in the enterprise have got to look for their profits on the same basis as the subscribers, the only difference being that they had priority in allotment of stock at the same cost as other sub
Douglas Island news., 1912-11-06
The N0rthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody,

Jesus Arenas was found to be insane at Wrangeli.
 The Shakan salmon pack this year is sixty-six thousand. Three women in the Kuskokwim were allowed to vote at the delegate election.
 The first mail on wheels left White horse on Oct. 28 for down the river points.
 Tobacco raised in the Tanana valley was one of the exhibits at the Fair banks fair.
 Miss de Gauban du Mont represents a French syndicate in mining ventures near Nome.
 Mariners are grateful for "blinker" light which now sheds it's guiding rays from Shakan island.
 The Ketchikap Miner is in terrible straits; the cable is out of commission and the wireless has raised the rates. At Shakan lad named "Boze" Brockman went duck bunting and shot the thumb entirely off his left band. Indians discovered placer gold sixty miles south of Lake PesliD, and brought quantities of the yellow stuff to Atlin to prove it.
 The Nome Nugget proclsims the vir- tues of the Japan current and says thet the first ice showed up in Snake river on October. l5.
 Clarence Kelly started in 6 motor boat from Dawson on Oct. 18th for the Iditarod, distance of 1900 miles, ia an attempt to beat the ice.
 A careless young lady of Whitehorse riding behind smart team by accident discharged 9 rifle into one of the steeds. She is duly penttent,
 Spruce Creek miners iu the Atiin dis trict deserted their claims to stampede to O'Donnell river, where rich discov cries are reported on the high benches.
 Charley Burr has been held over at Nome to await Che action of the grand jury. Burr is charged with selling liquor to natives--a sort of g chestnut.
 The district court has established 6 new commissioners precinct at Craig, Alaska, on the west coast of Prince of Wales island. The new commissioner is orin Kitley.
 The statement that ore taken from the 70. foot level of the Engineer mine, in the Atlin district, runs from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars ton will perhaps call for little salt, but that is the claim just the same. ! E.R. Stivers, the customs man of St. Michael who got bone lodged in his throat, is reported to be improving, al though still breathing through tube that was inserted when the swelling of | his throat closed the natural channel.
Douglas Island news., 1912-11-06

Because the Leelanaw had to leave the Arctic before October l to keep her insurance, Candle has been left without a supply of coal and is now faced by a very serious condition.
 A New York society claims to have spent 5000 this year for the protection of Alaska birds and will go S2,5O0 better next year. An exchange suggests that the money was spent for eggs.
 Dr. Emil Krulish, superintendent of the United States public health and mariue hospital service, will recom- mend the establishment of native hospital at Nome, similar to the one at Juneau,
 An exchange tells the exciting story of James Dougherty who came North two years ago for his health. He then was in poor health and weighed little over a hundred pounds. Now he weighs slightly less than three hundred and is uncomfortably healthy.
 Twelve people from Teller who drifted about for some days on the helpless schooner Belinda, deserted her and gladly accepted safety on the launch Defiance, which took them to Nome. At five o'clock the next morn ing the schooner drifted safely ashore.
 1t is reported that it only cost Krauc- Eunas, the Socialist candidate for delegate, Sl25 for campaign expenses. He begged the rest. Considering the close connection he has made for 8 number of years with the government pie counter. he might have paid it him self had he loved the dear "pepul" less.
 The Wraugeu Sentinel claims it is not mature faking" when it tells the following; eAlbert Flack and M. KatE- enneyer, since their return Sunday from a deer hunt on Kuiu island, relate the killing of female deer that has spike horns some six inches in length. The horus are still in the velvet and are peculiarly enlarged at the base.
 The ishiest part of Alaska probably is that place where California creek runs into Bonanza if you can believe 1t st all, which, no doubt, you can, says the Nome Nugget, So thick are the fish that when Flanigau $ Company were working there this fall the trout came out of the nozzle one by one with 8 jerk and were pasted on the face of the cut.
 October, 1912. will go down in his tory as the finest and most pleasant ever known, says the Whitehorse Star, During the month there was very little cold-zero not touched by several de- grees, and not to exceed an inch of snow fell in the valleys during the entire month. Except for the mountain tops, the country is as yet as free from snow as in the middle of summer.
 The Pacific Coast Steamship Com pany's freighter Meteor, Capt. William Thompson, sailed from Sulzer for &c., attle recently, with cargo of about 3,10O tons. Included in the shipments are ,59O barrels of whale oil loaded at Whale bay, Baranof island; 600 tons of marble and 25o tons of fertilizer from Killisnoo, fifty tons of copper ore from Sulzer and 42,ooo cases of canned sal mon from Rose inlet and other south eastern Alaska ports.
Douglas Island news., 1912-11-06

scribers, Sl0 per share, one half down: Another remarkable thing about the promotion is the modesty of the claim as to the richness of the ore. While the Alaska TreadwelI, across the Gastineau channel, with the largest gold mining equipment in the world, is reporting an expense of S152 per ton as it's total cost of mining, milling, treatment and all overhead charges, the Alaska Gold Mines makes claim of only S1.50 per ton recovery. The Alaska Treadwell made recovery last year of S2.35 per ton from ore assaying S307.
 The Alaska Treadwell, however, is raising ore from under an arm of the Pacific ocean and from vertical depth of more than 1000 feet. In fact, the mine is now opened under the ocean to vertical depth exceeding 400 feet.
 On the other hand the Alaska Gold Mines Go. is largely an overhead sto- ping and caving proposition in which the mining saving may be 40 cents to 50 cents per ton. The operations will be on very large scale. The value of the ore has been put at a minimum, ac- cording to other Alaska people, who be- lieve there will be much ore running g and above in these claims.
 If, therefore, there is any deficiency in the estimated cost of treating this ore it may be somewhat made up by in- creased value in the ore. Miuing peo- pie in Alaska in no way identified with this property believe that both esti- mates, the value of the ore and the cost of the treatment, are unduly low.
 As the Alaska Treadwell treats 5000 tons day under 1000 stamps, gold min- ing people believe that, even with the mine overhead instead of underneath, it will be very difficult to cut the Alas ka Treadwell's costs of handling ton of rock in half, or to greatly increase the efficiency that has been reached in the Alaska Treadwell after 30 years work.
 However, as the German banker once said: "Ererything can be improved" The people who manage the Alaska Gold Mines have made the greatest record of low operating costs ever seen in the copper field and have demonstrated, through some years of opposition and criticism, that they were right in their predictions of low costs in handling rock on large scale in the Utah Cop per mine. Ia fact, backed by the Utah Copper mine record their estimates of cost are entitled to as much weight as is the record of the Alaska TreadwelL
 A few years hence the mining world will be on the qui vive to see how close the Alaska Gold Mines Go. comes to an operating cost of 75 cents per ton. Con- sidering that Alaska has geologically very much larger gold bearing area than was ever uncovered in South Africa, the eyes of the whole world will in due time be turned to the Alaska Gold Mines Go. and the Juneau gold belt.
 The successful hotation and the handsome premium placed upon Alas ka Gold Mines shares is bound to be much more far reaching than State Street or Wall street. If the success of Utah is duplicated in Alaska Gold Mines the gold mining interests of the world will be more affected than have been the copper mining interests by the phenomenal record shown ill the Utah porphyries by the same management.
Douglas Island news., 1912-11-06

The Alaska Northern Ky. Co.,, which operates, more or less, 72 miles of rail road out on Kenai peninsula, has failed to pay it's tax to the United States gov ernment, until S24,000 is due. Officers of the company claim they bought the immunity granted the Alaska Central Company, when they bought the road. Governmental officers think not. The courts will decide the question.
 Capt. NJ. J. McNeili, who has been in Teller since 1901, believes his town is surely about to have boom that will make it prosperous. He thinks the graphite mine alone enough to make a city there, and the tin mines at Lost river, the dredges which are certain to be installed in great numbers, and various other industries will bring to life the section of which Teller Is the center.
 The low water on the Yukon river this season and the trouble steamers heve had from the many bars and shal- lows has resulted in many suggestions that the Yukon should be supplied with river dredge. Steamboat men say that suitable dredge could clear not only the Yukon so that boats could carry much more cargo, but that the Stewart river could be given the same benefits with the same dredge, and that possibly navigation on the White and other streams could be made much easier.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-12-05
4 MESSAGE
To Feeble Old People.

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system becomes more rapid than re-
pair, the organs act more slowly and
less effectually than in youth. the Cir
culation is poor, the blood thin and
digestion weak.
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strengthened and body-builder for old
folks, for it contains the very ele-
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pneumonia.
A grandneice of Alexander Hamil-
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remarked: "vinol is godsend to old
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II vinol fails to build up the
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-12-05
The fourteenth annual Ma.

The fourteenth annual Ma
chinists' Ball held at Neufind
hall, Wednesday night, was q
decided success, both tinanci-
ally and from a social stand
point. About one hundred
and twenty-five couples were
present to dance to the excel
lent music furnished by Wits
orchestra. The hall was beau
tifully decorated in streamers,
Japanese lanterns and colored
electric lights with the stage q
solid mass of color surrounding
the machinists' emblem. These
yearly dances of the machinists
are one of the social events Of
the season.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-12-05
The New Paper

The Missouri Valley Demo-
crat made its appearance Sat
urday evening for the first
time and created much favor
able comment along the street.
1t is a six column eight page
paper and will be issued each
Friday according to the saluta-
ton. 1t is published by A. C.
Hammond & Co., with A. C.
Hammond, editor, and Myron
Hurst, business manager.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-12-05
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