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P CEN 6s West Pac IS. 70 7oA
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Nero Nj BIZ :. 65 Cyp Lawn O
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
TRAIN WRECKED BY A WASHOU1
At Levant, kan., on the Rock Island,
One Man Was Killed and
Three Injured.

Colby. Kan, May 3.-Maurice Dun
mean, roadmaster, was killed and En-
gineer Erickson and Fireman Nicho-
las were probably fatally injured
when a Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific work train was wrecked three
miles west of here. The train ran
into a washout while on the way to
repair damage by another washout.
A cloudburst had washed out more
than 200 yards of the track of the
Rock Island road near Levant, the
first station west of Colby. A work
train was made up at Norton and
section men were gathered up at each
station. AS the train was running
Just west of Levant it ran into place
where the ground had been washed
from the track The entire train was
derailed. Four inches of rain fell at
Levant within an hour.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
shot WIFE AT DINNER PARTY
st. LOUIS WOMAN KILLED ~
sPURNED HUSBAND.
Frederick Hoehn Was eEnraged Be-
n cause wife Refused ReconciIia-
Y tion-Captured by Officers.

st. Louis, May 3.-While seated at
. dinner party at her home in the
midst of merry crowd. Mrs. Emma
Hoehn was shot and killed by her
husband, Frederick, who is enraged
because she had spurned his efforts at
a reconciliation. They had been sep
arated six months.
After the shooting Hoehn ran and
was pursued to the cellar of his home
by a deputy sheriff, where he was
captured and turned over to the po-
lice. He expressed no remorse be.
cause of his act.
Hoehn is 81 years old and painter.
His wife was 40 years old and had
been married before. She had sew
eral children by her first marriage,
and Hoehn told the police 1t was be-
cause Of quarrels over the stepchil-
dren that they separated.
Il wanted to return to my wife and
forget the past he said at the sta
ton. Il went there for that purpose.
to plead with her to come back and
live with me. She met me at the
door and refused to have anything to
do with me-"
The diners had just seated them
selves at the table when the door was
thrown violently open and Hoehn
strobe into the room.
WELL" he said, addressing his
wife, lis it all right now?" Mrs.
Hoehn, recovering from her surprise,
told him there was no use of resum-
ing their old argument and started to
sit down again.
Then take your medicine" he
shouted and fired at her. In his es-
cape Hoehn passed a soda factory
where the employees tried to capture
him by bombarding him with empty
bottles.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
Tariff BILL 70
PASS THIS week.
viii Be Very Few Changes, the
Leaders Say.
NO CURRENCY BILL At PRESENT
However the Measure Will Probably
Be Drafted In Time for the
Regular Session Which
Meets In December.

Washington, May 5.-The Under
wood tarift revision bill is expected to
pass this week from its scene OF
rushed consideration in the house to
be weighed in the steady balance OF
senate deliberations. It probably Will
be passed in the house not later than
Wednesday night. just as it came from
the ways and means committee. with
free raw wool, free sugar in three
years, it's income tax, free meat, free
flour and slashing reductions In live
stock and manufactured articles.
1t is an open secret that the presi-
dent, the finance committee of the
senate and the ways and means com
mittee of the house had an under.
standing that the tariff bill should be
revised In all essential particulars in
the house, If there are to be any
changes, but whether this agreement
can be maintained remains to be
seen. Certain it is, however, that the
majority senators do not contemplate
material changes if it is possible to
void them.
Sugar Schedule to Stand.
The sugar schedule with its imme
late rs per cent reduction and fre'
sugar in three years, is almost Ger
tain to remain as it is. Wool nigh
come out eventually with a Sigh
duty. The only other changes tina:
seem at all likely relate to stock.
If President Wilson proposes to ask
congress for currency legislation at
the extra session he has not made
any definite suggestion relating to it.
The temper of the house is against it..
Majority Leader Underwood said that
the house would prefer to complete
the tariff and adjourn, leaving cur
rency legislation in the making, to
be ready for consideration next win
ter. The house banking and currency
committee will be organized, however,
as soon as possible. Representative
Carter Glass Of Virginia, who will be
it's chairman, plans to confer with
T T0SluOuL WllcOA tAA0 "COh IA nA ga
fort to get his definite ideas on the
currency.
Message Ready Soon.
It is probable that the presidents
message on currency will be ready
before the tariff bill is out of the
way. Latest indications are that he
will urge the investigation of the
problem and the drafting of bill in
time for congress when it convenes in
regular session next December. This
will meet with the approval Of house
and senate leaders.
Already the senate banking and cur
rency committee has begun its work,
subcommittee having been appoint
ed last week to draft a set of ques-
tons relating to currency reform to
be sent to bankers and financial ex-
perts throughout the country. When
these have been answered hearings
may be ordered. In the meantime the
committee may determine to call be-
fore It men OF the financial world to
supplement the hearings begun by the
house committee last winter.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08

Twenty.One of the Surviving Officers
Met in Annual Reunion at
Washington.

Washington, May 2.-Twenty-one
of the surviving officers who fought
under Admiral George Dewey in the
battle of Manila Bay celebrated the
fifteenth anniversary of the famous
naval engagement here at the annual
reunion and banquet Of the Society
of Manila Bay. Personal reminis-
censes of the battle were given by
the diners. A feature was the read
ing by Admiral Dewey Of a poem
from Edward G.. Curran of Philadel-
phia, entitled Lest We Forget"
The Alaska Jap Bill Vetoed.
Juneau, Alaska, May 2.-Governor
Clark vetoed the Anti-Alien Fishing
bill, aimed at Japanese fishermen,
just before the Alaska legislature ad.
jourped sine die.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
POLICE PUT TO ROUT BY WOMEN
Wives Of New Jersey Strikers Take
Patrol Wagon Load Of Prison
ers From Officers.

Burlington, N. j., May 3.-Women
again took a leading part in the most
serious riot which has yet occurred
in the strike of the workers of sew.
eral iron mills in this city. With the
help of men, the women, who are
mostly the wives of foreign speaking
hborers, overpowered the police and
deputy sheriffs and rescued a patrol
wagon load of prisoners. The police
and deputies used their clubs on the
men, but no person was injured Sc.
verely.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
JAPANESE ENTER A PROTEST
Baron chinda Instructed by the MI
kado to Object to Allen Land Bill
Passed In California.

San Francisco, CAL, May 5.-A ca.
blegram from Toxic to the Japanese
American, Japanese daily paper
here, states that the Japanese gov
eminent cabled instructions to Baron
Chinda, Japanese ambassador at
Washington, to make formal protest
against the Alien Land bill enacted
by the California legislature and now
awaiting Governor Johnson's sigma
ture.
The message adds that the position
taken by the japanese government is
that the United States government is
responsible for the finding Of salts
factory solution OF the situation in
California.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08

While no set rules al to- what crops
pay best on Missouri farms can be-
given, It has been determined pretty
definitely that when one crop Is
grown continuously on the same land
It ceases to be a paying crop. The
experiment station at Columbia plant
ed corn on the same land every year
for II years. Beside this, and during
the same time, was grown q rotation
Of corn, wheat and clover. And on a
third plot was grown a rotation of
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
corn, oats, wheat, clover and timothy.
On the seventeenth year of the trial
the yield per acre Of corn was as fol-
lows:

Plot l. Corn II years ..........11.S
Plot II. Corn, wheat, clover, II
years .......... ....... ..oO.1
Plot III. Corn, oats, wheat, clover,
timothy, II years ............54.2
1t is seen that by the continuous
growing of corn the yield was reduced
to where the crop was losing propo-
sition. Similar land yielded over four
times that amount when rotated.
1t is not to be inferred from this
that the fertility of soil may be built
up. or even maintained, under sys-
TEN OF rotation. Even under rotation
the elements of fertility are being con-
tinually used from the land, and it Is
only a question of time until they are
lacking to such an extent that the
crops are diminished. Where only one
crop Isl grown, the yield diminishes
more rapidly. because the roots are al
ways feeding In about the same layer
of soil and make heavy drains on the
same elements. BY rotation the soil
is made to grow crops probably
longer.
AS a rule, land that has been heav-
lily cropped with almost continuous
grain growing produces markedly bet
ter crops for several years after a
good rotation system is established.
Especially is this true where little or
no manure has been applied to the
land. This is not because the rotation
adds plant food to the soil.
There are number of advantages
derived from growing variety of
crops on the land. In the first place,
there is given to the soil variety of
treatment. One year it will be cult
waited and the next it will be covered
with some hay crop. ffhis makes tt
harder for weeds and insects to estab-
lish themselves. II the same crop is
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08

grown year after year, the enemies Of
that crop are nearly sure to thrive in
the soil. II it ia clover. the soil be.
comes what we call clover-sick. If It
il potatoes, potato-scab becomes estab-
lished. II our cereal grains are made
to follow one another, the land be-
comes foul with weeds. When one
Of these crops is planted only every
other year or every third year, the
disease is more or less starved out be.
tween times.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
Valuable Wedding Gifts.

Berlin, May Sit is estimated that
tho value of the gifts which Princess
Victoria Louise will receive on the
occasion of her marriage to Prince
hnest Augustus May "a will be 2A
million dollars.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08

Then there is a difference in the
way the roots feed in the soil. The
clovers go deep, while the grasses
feed near the surface. Again, clover
is a heavy feeder Oh some elements,
while one of the most important ele-
ments is taken nearly entirely from
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
Admits : Rock Island Holdup.

Fort Smith, Ark, May 3.-"Bob"
nAthis. youth living at Howe. Ok.
hna confessed he took part in the
Alo1up Of . Rock Island passenger
h9in between Howe and Wister. Ok.
October 3.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08

the air. Peas and beans draw heavily
on potash and lime. Wheat takes bu
small amounts of these, but feeds
heavily on phosphorus.
Now, there is an abundance of phos-
phorus in most of our soils, but only
small amounts are available to plants
at any one time. The amount is so
small that wheat often suffers from
want of it; so that wheat may be 3
paying crop if grown every third year
where it would not pay if grown every
year.
The distribution of labor throughout
the year is minor point, and yet is
an argument in favor of rotation.
Our rich lands are slow to show the
need of rotation They have shown t.
In the East, and are showing it more
and more in the corn belt.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08

cScSp%>N<SeSSSSSN<SeO OrS<S>>>><~ SSeASS~>~<>>
one-rourth the total crop. Fortunately
there has been found method OF pre-
venting smut.
The treatment is generally applied
~ follows: Mix one pound OF com.
mercial formalin with 40 to SO gallons
Of water In a barrel. This formalin
can be secured at any drug store. Att.
er the seed oats have been famed.
spread them out on clean floor and
sprinkle them with the solution until
damp enough to pack in the hand
Then turn with shovel until all have
been well dampened. Then shovel into
q pile and cover with old sacks or car.
pets for two or three hours. The oats
should then be scattered and turned
occasionally until dry. AS soon as dry
the oats are ready for seeding, or may
be kept until ready to use.
The solution is poisonous In consid.
cradle quantities, but as recommend
ed Is very weak. It will not injure the
hands and is perfectly safe to handle
II the oats are to be returned to the
sacks from which they were taken, It
10 well to sprinkle the sacks with
some Of the solution.
Smut IL getting to be serious dis
ease In Missouri, and very little trou.
BILE VIII bring large returns.
Besidss tanning the seed and test.
Ina for smut, the use Of 4 varietv
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
'()ne-( 'rop + arIning Evil
When Crops Are Not Rotated lie Soil Becomes
\ Sick and Diseased and Crops No Longer Profitable

Ssudens II CdIs1. q Agriculture Unvsy Missouri
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07

Jobs" II the crook refuses TO stool for
the detective.
The professional stool pigeon must be
a cleverer man than any OF the others.
He must do the most important part Of
the detective work on many cases and he
must all the time seem to be ION the
square" with the crooks. with whom he
hangs out. though not one of them. The
professional stool pigeon makes believe
that his income is from gambling or some
thing of that sort. AS a matter of fact.
the professional stool pigeon gets not less
than $50 week from the detective in
whose employ he Isl but this salary is not
clear profit. for the professional has eX
penses II is usually necessary for him
10 have young fellow or two in his en-
ploy TO minimize the likelihood OF the
professional being found out when there
is easy work to do. such as trailing or
following suspects or known offenders in
the collection of evidence. The profess
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07

woman of "A suspect.
II would be interesting and surprising 10
know how many valuable tips come 10 'ne
no,ice through those getting even
This variety of stool pigeon usually gives
only tho one tip to the police to sausiy
his grudee.
The stool pigeon who is making a
practice of law breaking is the worst ''o','
several points Of view. He is a ua,''i -
his fellows. he allies himself WIN '"s
police to gain immunity for hlInSeii anu
:. ,.,,t,c,I source of dishonesty among
policemen. for when an officer whose
dutv il is to apprehend criminals pu.s
himself under obligation TO one q MN
he COMPROMISES between honest uuls -
the law and duty TO his own ui ,"', 60
cavorite. Yet this kind of stool pigeon 70
frequently made use Of and iouiu ''s".y
, t.'lusble This stool pigeon is closest to
the activities of the criminal oand or ;.
the gang. knows the detail OF the 'o''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07

r,batover IL may be- pulled off on Leon
I'D etreet last Saturday afternoon
.yybo is this taking asks the de'ec-
tive Never mind who II is Inc ma,
,'an want is so-and-So and the GOODS are
=, ,be stable on Allen street-you NM"
n,here mean ''--'s?' Yes ana
VIZ .n1.so lives on the third floor front
>. az East ith street and hangs out
evenings in Pinkey Pats saloon %, OF 90, A, the
~ Goodby." The angry man leaves tne
18th -. somewhat appeased The soo .u,,
ooo'", .overed and an arrest made by
o,o,er detective work.
or the keeper Of "stuss ..., house na s.s
grudpe against another 'stusS nouS .
%aener or feels his competition 700 ~"
w. He writes or has written i, LOT ~ "''| tha
,st,er 70 the police. complaining oa , t"g
competitor gambling place ana oee Sror,
that n be closed up ito save my .tor -
r ."%, . and signs it "A sorrOwins Mo' i,.
IT,, - ,,o letter TO the police doesn't or'"S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07

action and the man Is stlll anxious To
put the other man out OF business ne
writes another complaint this time to
"Mver Gunner" about the harm to his
store" and to the younger boys from
the crowd hanging around the gambling
mace ,of his enemy. and signs the letter
"A Citizen
A woman stool pigeon is as rare as
Chinaman with side whskers' woman
incensed by a grievance against man
may be mis- most dangerous enemy but
,,'o',,,.,,, i, the business of treachery TO men
sho docs NOT hate and who trust her Is
ncxt 70 unknown. Most every sangster has
mis- woman. and criminals also, but the
:. o,ortion OF captures through treachery
Of women is very small When a man is
caught through his woman =. . saIe 10
conclude that she was seeking revenge
80 r,o,e probably. carelessiy but unin-
,ertionally gave a clew TO the police. 1t
g common practice to shadow the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
A CASE OF SAMPLES.

These are the particulars OF one case:
case OF Salesmans samples. worth
about 500. was stolen To replace these
samples would have taken several weeks
and cost the merchant who lost them
thousands Of dollars " orth OF lost trade.
4 clever stool pigeon. a proft ssional. who
now has his own private detective
agency, found out that the case of sam
plies was 100 miles away. IL was agreed
with tie merchant that the goods should
be returned to him and 40 arrest made.
Inside a week the samples were returned
TO the merchant upon his payment OF
1920. Smerliug had gone after the goods.
paid the man in the distant city. who in
nocenuy bought them. $40 TO buy them
back more than the man had paid for
thcm). and the remaining $500 of the 20
was split four ways" one share went
TO the professional stool. one to the de-
tective OH the case, one 10 the fence"
for expenses and one TO two subordinate
stools employed by the professional and
the detective to rush the case
\ truckload or chickens furnished an
other profitable job for a professional
stool pigeon. In this case the stool
caught on to the theft before he hal
been assigned 10 hunt for ii. He CHANGED
TO see a man. whom he knew for loafer
and thief. bring a double truck loaded
with live poultry over on the ferry. He
spotted" where the load was delivered
and then got in touch with the police, 80
that when the theft was reported this
professional stool was communicated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
6z4c7 5s p sse s S % Fo1ee mo VIE

can furnish information with the least
delay. can even tell the copper ~ a
plan for a crime before it is carried out
and is an invaluable ally when ii is Ge-
sired 10 frame an offender whom ;he
police want TO get" but on whom they
have nothing" that will convict
Talk about "ftame-ups' has been COM
mon of late There is small ground for
concern. In the first place "frame-ups"
are not often attempted, and usually
when one is the "frame-up' consists Il
getting the victim to take part In an actu-
al crime at which he is caught red-hand-
ed through the previous knowledge gained
by the police that the Job" was coming
of. The Job" may have been planned
at the request or direction of the detec-
tive, though that is not a common &c
currence. Even when an offender is
caught through a "frame-up" he is one
whose absence. while he is doing his
bit" will do the community no harm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
The Writer Introduces Now That Sinister but
Necessary Figure, the Stool Pigeon
the Human Decoy for Criminals
and Explains by Anecdote
His Activities.
His Activities.

agency under direction OF a police de-
tective.
The first variety il Of small importance.
The Young chap seldom has important
information; ne is not close to the crimi-
nal. but probably has heard a little gos-
sip or seen something suspicious and
aspires to have the important feeling
which acquaintance with the patrolman
or detective will give him He Is TO be
scorned. as merely a Lobby guy'-one
simple enough TO be used as tool with
out any commensurate benefit 10 himself.
About Stool Pigeon No. ?: An angry
man in a carefully closed booth in a
drug store calls Spring. three-one-hun-
dredr police Headquarters comes the
answer The angry man gets detective
on the wire and SAYS: I've got straight
tip for you on that loft burglary tor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
The Distinction Between the Ordinary Crimi-
nal and the Cangster Criminal-''Frame-
Up" and Double Dealings-Some
Typical Episodes Of the
Underworld Life.

sional. however. frequently has important
commissions received from the cases
which he enables the detective to carry
through successfully. For example:
Smerling. the noted fence" Geceiver
Of stolen goods, now convicted. stood
well with certain detectives. Smerling
was arrested and brought before magis-
trates many times but never got into
serious trouble until the recent case on
which he was convicted. Smerling was
not really a stool pigeon. but was profit
able to the police who knew him; lie
worked with them when Il was neces-
sary to restore stolen goods which came
u his place
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
AT A CRITICAL TIME.

It was just before a Jewish holiday.
when the demand for kosher" chickens
is greatest. The marketman who lost the
load was in dire straits. for If unable ID
supply his customers at such critical
time. it would mean the loss of many
of them; hence IL was golden oppor-
tunity for the apprehenders. The man
robbed Of chickens horses and truck paid
the full value of the load TO get IL back
approximately $1,000 only $500 of which
had 10 oe paid TO the one who had bought
the stolen goods, threats OF trouble suffic-
ing TO make him tractable. although the
poultry could not possibly be identified.
II is necessary for the detective 10
work through stool pigeons The police
detective cannot possibly afford sufficient
time to hang around the haunts of gang
sters and criminals and be one OF them.
The detective must spend much time in
court. at Headquarters or at the precinct
station. making reports and keeping
closely enough in touch with politics So
as TO stand well for promotion. he must
be careful. also, to stand we'll enough
not TO be reduced from $3.50 year e.
81. 400. as can be done without bringing