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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS


Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will be received by the under.
signed Clerk of the City of Kennewick
up to o'clock P. M, April 2, 1912, for
the furnishing and installation of pipe
lines for irrigation as provided for in
Ordinance No. 1873 creating a Local I'm
provement District No. q, and in &C.
cordance with the plans and specifica-
tons now on file in the office of the City
Clerk. Every bid must be accompanied
by certified check payable to the City
Treasurer for sum not less than five
per cent of the bid, and no bid will be
considered unless accompanied by such
check.
Special attention of bidders is called
to the State Law regarding the number
of hours comprising days work as
now in force; also to Chapter "a of the
laws of the State of Washington for
1911, (Workmen's Compensation Act.
Payment will be made in Local I'm
provement Bonds, payable on or before
five years from date of issue and bear
ing interest at the rate of seven per
cent per annum.
The successful bidder will be required
to give good and sufficient bond to
the amount of the contract price for
the faithful performance of the work.
The City Council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
By order of the City Council.
T. J. WRIGHT,
City Clerk.
First Publication, March Is, 1912.
Last Publication, March 20, 1912.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
GEESE ARE EASY TO RAISE

Following Is an interesting para
graph about geese in the current
issue OF Farm and Fireside:"
Geese are one of the cheapest
and easiest Of all domestic fowls to
raise. They require little shelter at
any time, and if given plenty of
pasture, will gather the largest por-
ton of their food from the fields.
They are very easily and quickly
fattened for market and bring very
good prices. Geese for breeding
purposes should be purchased in the
fall. This is my method for man
aging breeding and market geese:
Never mate over two females to each
gander. Never use females less than
two or ganders less than four years
Of age. They are allowed to run in
pasture where they have plenty of
grass to eat and water to swim in.
In winter and during the laying
season l feed them lightly the fol-
owing ration: Bran, four parts;
shorts, two parts; corn meal, one
part, and in winter cut clover,
steamed, four parts, is added. A
goose will lay thirty to forty eggs in
a season if not allowed to sit. The
eggs require thirty days for incuba-
ton and invariably hatch we'll.
Goslings are removed from incuba-
tors as soon as dry and placed in
brooders where the heat for the first
twenty-four hours is ninety degrees.
After the first twenty-four hours the
heat is reduced one degree daily un-
til the goslings are ten to fifteen days
DID,. Beginning the third morning
after Matching, our goslings are fed
as follows four times daily, by meas
ure: Bran, one part; rolled oats,
one part; corn meal and shorts, one
part. This mixture is dampened
with skin-milk until it will crumble.
Grass, grit and drinking water are
always before them. Water is given
in fountains, so they cannot get in
to it. They are fed as mentioned
toned until they are eight weeks
old, when those for market are close
ly confined to be fattened, and fed
as follows, three times daily, all
they will eat: Bran, two parts;
shorts, one part; oil-meal and beef
scraps, one part; corn meal, one
part dampened until it will crumble.
Whole corn is frequently given.
Green food, grit and water is al
ways before them"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
RAISING DAIRY COWS

1t probably costs on an average
from SIS to $25 to raise a calf until
it is two years old. The cost of
course will depend largely upon the
price of feeds as we'll as upon their
selection, but successful dairymen
contend that they can raise calves
at lower cost than the maximum
figures given above up to the age
specified.
While the matter of cost is an
important consideration, still the
man who has set out to build up a
business dairy herd is not likely to
succeed we'll unless he produces his
own cows. This is fundamental
factor in successful dairying and it
is certain to be more true in the
future than it has been in the past,
and the progressive man can af-
ford to expend twice the amount
stated above to raise calves from his
best cows to an age when he can
test their individual merits.
A very important element, how
ever, in the production of ones own
cows, is whether he has proper foun-
dation stock. The calves from COWS
that do not make a reasonable profit
upon the feed given them, are not
likely to prove successful, and under
such circumstances, the only wise
course would be for the dairyman
to go out and purchase one or more
high grade or thoroughbred COWS OF
merit with which to start. Then,
too, good sire should he available.
for without the qualities that can
be transmitted by such an animal
one will not attain the success he
should.
But neither of these conditions
are impossible, and since it is the
only business way one should pro.
vide himself with such animals and
then conserve their merits in Their
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
FAILURES IN DAIRY FARMING

Success in dairying means to close
the gap between the man and the
business, like dam across a stream
so as to make it hold results with
out leakage and thus insure profits.
Strictly speaking, there need be no
complete failures so far as bare
living is concerned. That is about
all a very large portion of farmers
who keep COWS expect. You can
measure their ideas, their hopes
and expectations and their intelli-
gence by the class of COWS they
keep.
Only about sixty per cent of
dairymen have the mind, the pur-
pose, and the intelligence to keep
COWS that will bring even fair pro-
fit. Look into the minds of the
remaining forty per cent and you
will find very poorly equipped
mental make up to start with.
1t does seem strange that so many
as forty farmers in 100 can be found
who are keeping cows for living,
who have no real desire for any bet
ter knowledge, any better judgment,
any better COWS and, in the end,
any better profits than they now
possess. All this hinges on their
desire for better dairy knowledge
and they have no such desire. 1t
is a strange spectacle and one we
would never have believed could
exist in this day, and age of the
world, had not the COW census work
revealed it.
Think of the millions upon mil
lions of money that has been and
is being expended for education and
in the bringing of the means of
knowledge to the minds of men,
and then Think of the indifference,
the lack of desire for better things,
the contentment in ignorance, that
prevails with so large percentage
of farmers who keep COWS.
1t seems almost beyond belief,
that they cannot see that their lack
of better profits, and the making OF
more money comes from the low state
of their intelligence on this dairy
question. ---Hoard's Dairyman.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
ANNUAL REPORT OF STATE
EXPERIMENT STATION

Bulletin No. 1O4 of the State Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station has
just been received at this office.
This bulletin is the Twenty first An
nual Report of the station. The
laws which appropriate money from
the United States treasury for the
support of theExperiment Station in
each state requires the Director OF
each Station to make a written re-
port to the Governor each year OF
the work which has been done at
that Station during the year. The
Bulletin is a printed copy of the re-
port of the Station at Pullman, fol-
the year ending June 30, 1911. II
describes briefly the many investi.
cations which are being carried on
at the Station, and shows the bulle.
tins which have been published and
the other methods of getting infor.
nation to the farmers of the State
A complete financial statement Of
all the receipts and expenditures Of
the Station is included. Any citi.
zen of the State who desires to be-
come familiar with the management
and methods of work of the Expert
ment Station will do well to secure
copy of this report, which may be
obtained free of charge by writing
to the Director of the Experiment
Station, Pullman, Wash.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
WOOLLY APHIS

iOACoooI "A. Il. MeldnQcr, enLO-
mologist at the State Agricultural
Experiment Station at Pullman, has
prepared the following statement
and recommendations for combat
ting this insect in the orchards OF
this state.
The woolly aphis is one of the
most serious of orchard pests. 1t
occurs both on the roots and on the
branches of apple trees. The form
above ground can be easily killed by
spraying. A spray of tobacco, such
as the black leaf dip, one part to
sixty-fve parts of water, or a kero-
sene emulsion, or even a combina-
ton spray containing these two
mixed, will easily kill the aphis on
the branches. To make sure of
thorough work, the spray should be
applied with Bordeaux nozzles and
driven with considerable pressure.
1t is necessary to wet through the
wool OF the insects. 1.-THE spraying
can be thorough, the ordinary sui
phur lime spray will destroy the
aphis above ground.
For the root form there is no sat-
isfactory treatment. Placing ground
tobacco around the uncovered roots,
or wetting the ground with the to-
bacco spray, sulphur lime, or kero-
sene emulsion will kill off small
position of the root aphis, but is
never likely to give satisfaction
The root aphis does not penetrate
deeper than Is inches below ground.
In giving a root treatment it is best
to uncover as much of the roots as
possible before applying the insecti-
eide. Banding the trees with tree
tangle-foot applied over a band OF
cotton will keep the insect root from
migrating up the trunk to locate
on the branches. In that way the
branches can be kept free from the
woolly aphis.
When the wholly aphis attacks a
tree the tree is poisoned, swellings
occur even during the first year of
attack and the growth of the tree,
as well as of the fruit, is materially
stunted. The root form causes gall
like swellings, preventing the root
action and in the course of a few
years causing a decay of the roots.
After a few years the tree is so un-
dermined and weakened that it is
practically killed.
The woolly aphis is one of those
insidious, pests which should not be
permitted to gain foothold in the
orchard.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
NOTICE OF ORIGINAL ASSESS
MENT

Notice is hereby given that the as
sessment roll for the improvement of
the following property, to-wit:
Lots to Is inclusive, Block 8,
Lots to Is and "a to 80 inclusive,
Block 4,
Lots l to Is inclusive, Block 5,
Lots to IL inclusive, Block 6,
all in Amon's Addition to Kennewick,
by the grading and crawling of Ken
newick Avenue from the east side of
Seventh Street to the west side of Paci-
fic Street and Mckinley street on the
north side of Second Street to the south
side of Kennewick Avenue, comprising
Local improvement District No. 2 un-
der Ordinance No. 13l, payable by the
mode of Payment by Bonds" is in my
hands for collection and any assess
ment thereof or any portion of such
an assessment may be paid at any
time within thirty days from the date
of the first publication of this notice
without penalty, interest or cost. Any
assessment or any portion remaining
unpaid at the expiration of thirty days
herein specified may be paid in FIVE
equal annual installments at the rate
of seven per cent per annum, under
the mode Of Payment by Bonds"
(Signed) J. L. JOHNSON,
City Treasurer.
Date of first publication, March 18th,
1912.
Date of second publication, March
22nd, 1912.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
EVERY FARMER SHOULD KEEP BEES

No one who has given the subject
OF bee culture, or the relationship of
bees to flowers, the least considera-
ton will deny that bees play a most
important part in the economy of
nature, says a writer in the Michigan
Farmer. It is not too much to say
that without bees our fruit and seed
supply would, to say the least, be
limited. Nature has wisely pro-
vided for the polarization of BIOS
SONS of the vegetable kingdom by
the creation of bees. OF the differ
ent agencies depended upon to do
this important work the bee is the
most thorough. We may plant our
fruit trees in such a way that those
prolific in the production of pollen
will be intermingled with others that
are to be fertilized; or we may de-
pend upon the winds to carry the
life giving dust from one plant or
tree to another, but there are times
when these will fail.
Bees are as necessary to flowers
as flowers are to bees. The flowers
by their beauty and the delicate per-
fume they give, attract the busy
bee to the hectares from which
they extract the honey there Sc
creted; but while thus occupied they
become busted with the pollen grains
released by the anthers when in a
state Of ripeness. This pollen. or
fertilizing dust, must be carried
from the male to the female flower
or fruit and seed would be impossi-
BILE. 1t is not expected that every
farmer or every orchardist should
become an expert bee-keeper or that
he should come in competition with
those who have made bees bust
ness and lifetime study, but the
value of bees even to them should
be evident.
The general farmer, of all people,
is perhaps the least dependent upon
his fellow men, and on every fair.
sized farm there annually goes to
waste several hundred pounds of
nectar, unless the owner has the
means of gathering and storing it
for the use of himself and his fami-
ly. It is not necessary that be be-
come competitor in the markets
with the expert bee-keeper, and in
most instances this would not he
desirabieor profitable, but the farm
er should produce at least enough to
supply his own table.
A singular idea some people have
in regard to bee keeping is that it is
necessary to plant a certain crop
and supply it to the bees. 1 was
very much amused one day when a
lady asked me, very earnestly, whe-
ther | went into the fields to gather
flowers and bring them home to the
bees. The bee is a miller to whose
mill everything that comes is grist.
She gets her honey from trees and
plants as we'll as flowers. She roams,
as sweet odors lead her, through
two or three miles of surrounding
country, and she cares not if she
transgresses property rights or filches
her stores from her neighbours flow
ers and trees.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
NOTICE OF CONTEST
(For publicatiOn)

Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office, Walla Walla, WASH, Feb.
q, 1912.
To Floyd Spaur, of Spokane, WASH,
Contestee:
You are hereby notified that Alfred
Hendricksen, who gives Kennewick,
WASH. as his post-Office address, did
on December 5, 1911, file in this Office
his duly corroborated application to
contest and secure the cancellation of
your Homestead Entry No. O4948, Serial
No. O4948, made January, "a, 1911, for
Lot 4, SW4 NW4, VIZ SW4, Sec. z,
Twp. NJ, Range 20 E., w. M. and as
grounds for his contest he alleges that
said Floyd Spaur has abandoned the land
for period of more than six months
last past; that he never established nor
maintained residence upon the land;
that he has never made any improve
ments on nor cultivated the said land,
and that same is now in it's wild and
native state.
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
by this office as having been confessed
by you, and your said entry will be
Cancelled Hereunder without your fur
Their right to be heard therein, either
before this Office or on appeal, if you
fail to file in this office within twenty
days after the FOURTH publication of
this notice, as shown below, your
answer, under oath, specifically meet
ing and responding to these allegations
of contest, or if you fail within that
time to file in this Office due proof that
you have served copy of your answer
on the said contestant either in person
or by registered mail. If this service
is made by the delivery of a copy of
your answer to the contestant in person,
proof of such service must be either
the said contestants written acknow-
ledgment of his receipt of the copy,
showing the date of its receipt, or the
affidavit of the person by whom the de-
livery was made stating when and
where the copy was delivered; if made
by registered mail, proof of such SER
vice must consist of the affidavit of the
person by whom the copy was mailed
stating when and the post-office to
which it was mailed, and this affidavit
must be accompanied by the post
masters receipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer the
name of the post-office to which you
desire future notices to be sent to you.
JOHN H. MCDONALD,
Register.
Date of first publication, March 1;
second publication, March 8; third pub
LEGATION, March Is; fourth publication,
March %, 1912.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22

Sec. 9. This ordinance shall become
effective from and after five days from
its passage, approval and publication in
the official newspaper Of the City of
Kennewick.
Passed by the Council this 10Th day
of March, 1912.
Approved this 21st day of March,
1912.
Attest: S. M. LOCKERBY,
T. J. WRIGHT, Mayor.
City Clerk. pub. 3-22-12
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given that the firm
of wheat ranchers known as Irwin
Brothers is and was dissolved by mu-
tual consent, beginning March LIST, 1912.
j. F. Irwin will assume all debts of the
firm and will collect all outstanding &C.
counts.
Dated this 9Th day of March, 1912, at
Kennewick, Washington.
(Signed(C. F. IRWIN
j. F. IRWIN
Date of Pub. 3-8. 3-29
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
In Orchard and Field
gFiappenings Of Moment to the Man Behind the Plow

offspring that the future herd may
not only be equal to, but an i'm
provement upon the present one.
This can only be done by saving the
best heifer calves from the best COWS
of the herd.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-22
LEGAL PUBLICATIONS
ORDINANCE NO. 135.

An ordinance creating Local Improve
ment district No. and providing for
the improvement of property therein by
the construction of cement sidewalks
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-05-01
MEXICAN TORTURE WOMEN
PIiuht of the Better Class Of Mexi
cans as Bad as That of
Foreigners.

Galveston, Texas.-Stories of inhu
man cruelties and barbaric tortures
of the living, with unspeakable desc
Grafton of the dead, continued to be
come known here when other refu
gees, arriving from Mexico on the
steamer Texas, submitted to inter
views. w. R. NJ. Inns, an Amer
lean attorney of Honolulu, ard j
Flexon, an American railroad engin
eer, leated such stories here.
According to Mr.. Inns, there are
but few places in the entire republic
of Mexico where Americans are safe
The bandits took a settlers wife
and numbers of them performed I'm
speakable outrages upon her while
others held her captive. AS she was
dying, they abandoned the woman
and thrust her body through with
machete, and then heaped other un
mentionable indignities on her body
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-05-01
UNKNOWN SHIP REFUSED AID
Signals Made by Officers Of the ri.
tanic Were D~isregarded by
Steamer.

Washfngton.-With succor only five
miles away, the Titanic slid into its
watery grave, carrying with it more
than 1000 of its passengers and crew,
while an unidentified steamer that
might haye saved all failed or refused
to see the frantic signals flashed to it
for aid.
This phase of the tragic disaster
was brought out before the senate
investigating committee when J.. B.
Boxhall, fourth officer of the Titanic,
told of his unsuccessful attempts to
attract the strangers attention.
Ship So Close to. the Titanic
Its Mast Head Lights Showed.
This ship according to Boxhall.
could not have been more than five
miles away, and was steaming toward
the Titanic. So close wasn't, that
from the bridge! BoXhall plainly saw
it's masthead lights, and then it's red
side lights. a....
Both with rockets and with the
Morse electric signal did the young
officer hail the stranger. Captain
Smith and several others in the vi
cinity of the bridge declared at the
time their belief that the vessel had
seen them, and was signalling in re.
ply. Boxhall failed to see the reply
signals, however, and in any case, the
steamer kept on it's course o~bliquely
past the Titanic without extending
old
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-05-01
STORM SWEEPS TWO STATES
THIRTY-TWo PERSONS ARE DEAD
AND MUCH PROPERTY DE-
STRoYED IN WEST.
Besides the Known Dead Over One
Hundred Persons Were Injured
e. in Illinois and Indiana.

Chicago.-Thirty-two persons are
known to be dead, half a score were
sc, severely injured they may die, and
a hundred and fifty others were hurt,
in two t%ornadoes, n Of which swep'
over southern Illinois and the other
across northern Illinois into Indiana,
Twelve were killed at Bush, H.; five
at Willisville. names not obtainable;
three at Reddick. ILL.,; three near Muir
p%hysboro, ILL.,, and nine at Morocco,
Ind. y
The storm swept through the north
ern part of Murphysboro, ILL.,, serious
ly injuring five persons. Ten houses
were demolished at Murphysboro, and
the Illinois Central station at Finne.
was carried 300 feet.
i Wauponsee, a village near Coal
City, was reported demolished, de
stroyed telephone communication,
making it impossible to learn the Sc.
riousness of the damage done there.
At Aileen, near Coal City, telephone
and telegraph wires were laid to the
ground for a mile at a stretch in sew
eral places. Near Dwight, a school;
house and many farm buildings were
destroyed.
TTheN Chicago, Indiana and South
ern railway station at Reddick was
blown across the tracks. Every farm
building on the property of a man
named Patchett there was destroyed,
and the family escaped injury by
clinging to the trees In the yard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-05-01
FEEDING FLOOD VICTIMS
Government Is Trying to Alleviate
Flood Distress in Mississippi
Valley.

Washington.-The government con
templates feeding $4,000 Mississippi
river food sugerers for forty-two days
at a daily cost of $4,000. Secretary
of War tSimson made this estimate
when he asked an additional appro-
priation of $2O7, 121 for the commits
sary department. Previous to this
congress voted s212,S79 for the same
purpose.
An appeal for clothing for the food
sufferers in the Mississippi valley was
sent by the American Red Cross head,
quarters here to five of its chapters
in the Middle West and South. The
appeal will be sent to other chapters
as the demands increase.
Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio, st.
Louis, Mo-, Birminghaf, Ala, and At
lanta, Ca, are the cities to which
the clothing appeal was sent.
Seven Red Cross nurses left Kan
sas City, Mo-, for various points In
Arkansas, under orders from the Red
Cross headquarters here.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-05-01
Death Takes Man of Mystery.

Digsby, N. S.-Death has finally
claimed "Gerome," a legless and ST.
lent foreigner of mystery, who was
found marooned on the beach at Mink
Cove in 1863. During nearly a half
century the nan had steadfastly re-
fused to divulge the secret of his
identity, his nationality or the reason
of his abandonment by a strange yes.
sci. Declining to talk, work or read
or even look at pictures, "Gerome"
spent his last days a ward of the
government. Nothing could be extort-
ed from him.