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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07
WESTERN CANADA'S
Phenomenal
DEVELOPMENT
ITS PERmANENcY VERY LITTLE
QUESTIONED.

There have been booms in almost
every civilized country and they were
looked upon as such. and in the course
OF time the bubble was pricked and
they burst But in no country has the
development been as great nor az
rapid, whether in city or in country.
as in Western Canada There may
sometimes be found one who viii say
Can il last?" Winnipeg, today, stands
where Chicago stands as far as be
ing the base OF the great commercial
and agricultural country lying a
thousand miles back OF Ii. II has an
advantage that Chicago did not have.
for no country IN the worlds history
has attracted TO its borders a larger
number OF settlers in SO short a time.
or has attracted so much wealth in q
period OF equal length, as have the
Canadian prairies. Never before has
pioneering been accomplished under
conditions so favorable as those that
exist in Western Canada today.
The provinces OF Manitoba. Sas-
katchewan, and Alberta have the
largest area Of desirable lands on tho
North American Continent, and their
cultivation has just begun.
Even with a two hundred million
bushel wheat crop less than eight per
cent. OF the land is under the plough.
four per cent. being in wheat. Less
than five years ago the wheat crop
was only seventy-one million bushels
1t is a simple calculation TO estimate
that If four per cent. Of the available
cultiyable area produces something
over two hundred million bushels.
what will forty-four per cent. produce?
And then look at the immigration that
is coming into the country. In 1901
1t was 49,149; 1900 being from the
United States. In 1906 II was 1S9. 06l.
OF which $1,000 were Americans. and
In 1912 it was about 10000, OF which
about 100000 are Americans In the
three years prior to 1912. there we're
35S,S persons who declared them
selves for Canada, who brought into
Canada in cash, bank drafts, stock.
implements and effects over $3.50, 000.-
The American farmer Is man OF
shrewd business instincts, and when
he finds that he can sell his own farm
at from 800 to 5000 per acre and move
into Canada and homestead 160 acres
for himself, and similarly for all his
sons who are adult and Of age, upon
lands as rich and fertile as those he
had left, and producing. indeed. sew
eral bushels to the acre In excess OF
anything he has ever known, It will
take more than an ordinary effort TO
prevent him from making the change.
He can also purchase good lands at
from So to s25 per acre.
And, then, too, there is the Ameri-
can capital following the capital OF
Drawn, muscle and sinew, following 1t
so as to keep in touch with the indus
trious farmer with which he has had
dealings for Yeas back. This capital
and the capital Of farming experience
is no small matter in the building up
of country.
Will Western Canada's development
continue? Why not? The total area
of land reported as available for cul-
tivation is estimated as 218,000,000
acres; only fifteen per cent. OF this is
under cultivation. Nothing Is said OF
the great mineral and forest wealth.
of which but little has yet been
touched.-Advertisem
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Il can sympathize with those VIC
tins or atrocity in the rubber re-
gions."
What do you know about them"
Its my business to carry our rub
Der trees In and out OF the house. ao-
cording to the weather.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07
CABINET IS Named
PRESIDENTS OFFICIAL FAMILY
ANNOUNCED BY SECRETARY
JOS. p. TUMULTY.
BRYAN kEADS ENTIRE LIST
Franklin X. Lane of California Is
Slated for Secretary of the In
terior-Thls Latter ls Change From
Previous States.

Washington, March 4-The cabinet,
completed only at the last moment,
was announced at the Shoreham no
tel by Joseph p. Tumulty. who today
became secretary to the president OF
the United States. AS given out by
Mr. Tumulty it is as follows:
SECRETARY OF STATE-WiIliam
J. Bryan of Nebraska
SECRETARY OF WAR-LindIey
Garrison of New Jersey
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
Josephus Daniels of North Carolina.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
William G. McAdoo of New York.
ATTORNEY GENERAL-J. c. Nc
Reynolds of New York.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
Franklin X. Lane of California.
POSTMASTER GENERAL-Aibert
S. BurIeson of Texas
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
William c. Redfield of New York.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
Davis S. Houston of Missouri.
SECRETARY OF LABOR-WilIiam
3. Wilson of Pennsylvania.
The announcement ended the
agonies of the Washington branch OF
the cabinet makers union. which has
been trying TO find an official family
for the president-e and suitable 70
themselves
List Not Officially Confirmed.
There is no reason to doubt the ac-
curacy of the list, though it has not
received the personal confirmation OF
the president-elect. When he was
asked about the matter he replied that
he would not send his selections to the
| senate today. as originally projected
and that this would constitute the only
announcement he would make regard
ing his cabinet.
The names of three OF the men in
| the list given out by Mr. Tumulty had
not heretofore been heard of In con
| nection with cabinet places. These
were those of Franklin X. Lane, q
present commissioner of interstate
commerce; David S. Hueston, an agri
culture president of Missouri. and
Lindley Garrison, vice-chancellor oil
the New Jersey judiciary.
Lane Not a Politician.
| But it has developed that the three
men have been on the mental slate OF
the president-elect for three weeks ano
that not even his most intimate
| friends knew of it. Mr. Lane seems
to have attracted the attention of the
| president by his work in the interstate
commerce commission in handling rail
road problems. Lane has never beer
| conspicuous in partisan politics
though he is Democrat.
Chancellor Garrison ranks high il
the judicial organization Of the home
state of the president-elect. He is Z
personal friend of Mr.. Wilson, who
holds him in splendid regard.
The name of Professor HuestoI
seems to have occupied a prominen
place in the cabinet calculations O
Mr.. Wilson for about two weeks. III
had previously considered the name!
of half a dozen men for it. These in
Guided Jeremiah Sullivan Of Iowa
Fred Lynch Of Minnesota, Professo
Dabney of Ohio and Governor Norris
of Montana Early last week Mr.. viii
son made the formal tender Of the OF
flee of agriculture secretary to Pro
lessor Hueston. His answer in th'
form of acceptance was not received
until last Saturday
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A New York woman involved in
matrimonial troubles says that the
ghost OF her husbands first wife is
the cause OF it all Why don't she
have him give W the ghost?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A remarkable duel has just taken
place I'm Hungary, where the COM
batants actually injured each other
before honor was satisfied.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

to quit Work. ana
doctors failed to do
me any good ! kept
getting worse OIL the
time, and 1t az last
turned to infiamma-
ton OF the Bladder.
and ! had given up
all hope, when one
day / received your
little booklet adyer-
a
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

That newly discovered cold light
is certainly no more effective than the
cold light which CLEANS in ones wife's
eyes when one comes home at three
o'clock in the morning after spell
OF exhausting work at the Office.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A Seattle Judge has ruled that 1t is
not proper for husband and wife to sit
on the same jury. That would only
\be eleven jurors?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07
THOUSANDS LOOK ON
New Chief Executive Is the
Twenty-Eighth in the Presl-
Dental Line and the
Eighth From Virginia.
CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE ACTS

Head of Supreme Court Administers
Oath to the New Head of the Coun-
try-Inaugural Parade an Elabo-
rate and Gllttering Display Of Sol
diers and Civiians-Regulars OF
the Army and Navy Have Right OF
Way-1,ooo Princeton Students Par
ticipate.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A Chicago professor says there are
more insane persons in this country
than college students. Some profes-
sors possibly.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

New York man. arrested for theft.
laid it on to a prenatal mark caused
BY mouse Living up to tie old stunt
OF when the cops away. the mice
will play"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

An English writer is said In a Lon.
don dispatch to have worked in New
York as n newspaper man. 4 waiter
and. In fact. in almost any capacity
I'm the lower strata of the great city"
Thanks. awfully!
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A student of such things says that
long sleep tends to produce crime. but
criminals are always trying to catch
their victims mapping.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A Moscow woman challenged her
husband to a duel and killed him, just
because he was jealous of her An
odd way of proving ones fidelity.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Germs have been found IN finger
bowls In higb-priced restaurants
Probably an exclusive and superior
kind. yet thrown ii without extra
charge.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

American monographs are popular
In all parts of the world They are
popular with their owners, of course,
not the neighbors.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

The Prince OF Wales is learning to
play the bagpipe to develop his lungs.
and probably will go barelegged to
endanger them
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Preparations are bling made TO lee.
ture rich mothers on the care OF chill.
dren. AS usual. the lecturing will be
done by unmarried women.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

So patriotic is the average citizen
that he will not express even an opin-
ion. preferring to send 1t by parcel
post
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Leap year" says an eastern paper.
proved to be fruitful" And doubtless
there were a Few lemons as we'll as
peaches.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A tutor in mathematics In an east.
ern college has entered the bank.
ruptcy courts. filing liabilities of s42l..
300. This man should certainly have
been the head OF his department
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A Boston bandit Just captured an
nounces that be never robbed the
poor. Certainly not What chance
had he?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A Philadelphia lawyer says that |;
lobster Is not a good sport. But mos
Of them are good spenders.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Western city is said to record the
names OF all It's dogs I'm the city direc-
tory I'm order to increase the popula-
ton list Writing doggerel?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

III you save your money you will be
called a "tightwad." II you scatter 1t
you will be referred to as a spend
thrift"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Blotting paper was discovered In
1465. but 1t has been mighty hard
work ever since to find any when you
want it.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Even though ii is impossible to cor
ner all the money. a fellow can try.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A man who had four aces beaten by
. straight flush called the police. max
Ing the second bad call OF the episode.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A New Jersey man, 100 years old.
says he shaves himself without
scratch. But think OF all the practice
he's had.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A divorce case at Reno took nine
minutes for trial They've got the
thing down to a system there. all
right.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

The London hotel thar gained n
world wide reputation through its
onions is making a strong bio for
fame.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A Delaware hotel has four cats regu-
larry employed 70 deal with rats.
Wonder who furnishes the rats?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07
SUFFERED FOR Is YEARS.

Mr.. r. M. F1eenor. r. F. d. SO, Otter
oein, Ind. writes: II had been suffer
,r from Kidney Trouble for about D
Years. / finally got 30 bad that had
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Budget for india Is $4,000 coo.
Delhi. India. March 3.-The budget
for India made public shows q record
surplus The amount Is $50. 100000.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

A Boston physician says whiskers
are sort OF capillary fungus. There
are some that look it.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

Perhaps the next thing will be a
pneumatic tube service between the
city and the farm
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

In a Canadian town, milk was used
TO extinguish fire. Must have been
well watcred.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07

II isn't always the most attractive
woman who attracts the most at;enr
ton
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-11

Ing postmaster mad been found. As
walked ND the street could not heip
thinking how dumfounded DAVIS Wouia
be when ne returned from his Iruil-
less chase for Crandall and listened
to nv tale of Crandall's actions. WINE
he had advised against my return 10
the city, he would have to admit mag
it had not been without result
AS I entered the post-ofice found
that Miss Cox was still in charge.
Approaching the letter window, bade
her good afternoon and asked if there
was any news Of the missing postMas-
fer. It was tate In tlso afternoon n
the last mail far the day having oeeh
distributed, she sat crochetias. SAe
motioned TO me 10 come around 10
the real door.
"How sbont it" / asked as en-
tered the osaice, has anything been
heard of fouser"
She shook her head.
"That's about the eighty-ninth time
rye answered that question today
Seems like the whole town was liz
here wanting TO know"
elias the post-oiice inspector oeen
here?
"He was In here this morning an0
made lust The routine examination. hi
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-11

he d~isappeared he had gone off on his
bicycle.
"From all / have learned" said in
conclusion. 81 am convinced that Rou-
ser was the tool-in all probability the
innocent tool-of Hugh Crandall in
carrying out his nefarious schemes.
Crandall apparently had him take the
Lock Box II mail TO some agreed
mceting-place. Il wec!3 net surprise
me in the least if CraadaIl, finding
himself in danger Of exposure, had
made away with the postmaster. !
am convinced that Grandall is aware
that he is being watched. In his das-
peration he had the hardihood to visit
the Parrish home and to abstract that
fragment Of the yellow letter, lest it
should be used as evidence against
him. / am convinced, tao. that lie has
succeeded in ~terrerizing Louise BY
the same methods that he used with
her sister, SO that she is trying to dis
suade me from pursuing Crandall
Rouser, when he left the pest Office
went away On his wheel on the reat
that leads from the station. II you fol
low that read with me, perhaps We Is.
find him. Pretty coed for cns day'
work, don't you Think"
Not bad said Dayis, IF onIy yor
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-11

lopiug that Davis would conf1de IN
ms the object cf our strange journey
"Wilom are we coming out lere aft
err" / asked.
"The postmaster and his accompllca,
Of course"
"Who is his accompIice"
I'm afraid I misstated the case"
said Davis with a grim chuckle. 'The
postmaster is the accomplice. The
other is the master criminal"
who is the other?" ! persisted. is
is Hugh Crandall?"
lie was silent for q moment before
answering. I attributed it to heslta-
ton in admitting that he had been
wrong and / right. and it was with
considerable satisfaction that ] finally
heard him answer: 81 should not be
surprised if we found Crandall some
where in the vicinity"
He continued to peer down into the
read as the horse struggled UP the nil
till we came to a comparatively Lever
plateau. !.
"stop here" he called cut authori'
tatively.
"Tra doaarted cottttago is at least q
mile farther on" volunteered the con
stable.
"yVe'll walk it," said Davis. "Ws
cannot take any chances Of the Wheels
being heard"
"Dodds pulled OF the road and fas
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-11

would not persist in nistaking your
own deductions for facts; but yon
overlooked the most important fact"
''What do you mean?"
"You didn't happen to find out from
Miss Cox or from the Widow Smith,
did you, whether Or not the missing
postmaster was l~eft-handed?"
whats that got to do with it" /
cried, convinced that as usual he was
amusing himself at ny expense.
"Much more than you think" he
answered gravely. 1T was The knowi-
edge that the criminal must, or at
least one Q. the pair, must have been
a left-handed man that gave me II OF
the most important clues in This case
"Confound you and your clues!!" !
exclaimed. where have they led
you? What more do you know about
this chain Of crime than when we
started?"
He listened unrufled to my TRADE
and as I finished remarked calmly:
"T only know this much: Constable
Dodds and I are going out at eight
o'clock tonight to arrest the missing
postmaster and his accompiice. ]
know where they both are, or Whers
they will be tonight. You may coma
with rs If yeu wish. And now ! an
going to get a couple Of hours sleep.
expect we will have q rather busy
night Of it"
AS he concluded his amazing state
ment he rolled over Oh his side AM
closed his eyes, and in a few SECONDS
was apparently fast asleep.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-11

sic ran plump over the edge OF a
precipice in the dark. We hearo tue
thud CT his body on the rocks below.
lie must have been instantly killeo.
Wen set the body in the morning. i1e
must have fallen two hundred feet.
"A good two hundred the con.
stab]n added ag Davis turned to peer
in the window OF the nut.
"And inside there" said the mspSe'of,
after a minutes survey of the interior,
SIS The other enc, the master cfiiHiilai
-gafe enough for the present. :,
"Why," eaid tie constable, WIG hsu
eouoEfd tic insp tors example III
looking through the window MhSs
that's Aleck Young"
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-11
naiiinn rlo.vn Che Nurse.

Little Franks nurse. when ltld1ng
him in mischief was in the fabt @
pye1s;ming: "What in the name 0!
n are you dolng?" one
morning, while she was bathing aiaa,
ia asked. what in the name OF or
lei cents do you mean by getting soag
"a my cyes?'
Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-11

tened the horse to q tree. Again tak.
ing the lantern Davis made a search
Of the read, finally returning the Ian.
tern to it's place, after carefully extia-
gushing it.
Come en- this way, as quietly as
you can" he directed,
give got this" ! said, showing him
the little pocket electric light with
which / had explored TIE post eiice
DO you want it,"
Keep It in your pocket. Ne rlay
| need it, but it Is better not % s4o%
O. light if we can avoid It.
/ pit it bar. in 1uy pocket ana too:l
the precantion OF placing the reTclFsr
Davis Lad given 1le il tie s~idc-poe-see
of my coat where il would be mere
easily available, Davis moved CT
sound. sly through the clear'.ns With
the constable, I close st his heels
fk1rc was moro iistst here tlhun taare
had been On The shaded road, but even
SO we could see hardly twenty fact
asacsd CT US.
"This amt nc direction OF the Get.
taga," wliep@.el E3dds.
81 know. want to fna sometime
else arst." Davis explained. keeping
straight on through the darkness, like
a hound on a fresh scent.
Ea moved rapidly forward FOR a nun.
dred and fifty yards and then brought
US I'D short with q sharp Fist" As
we strained cur eyes into blackness
we made out the shape CT al automo'
bile Just ahead. It's lights had beer
extinguished and its engine was dead
"Wait here" Davis again command
ed as he crept silently toward it tt
make sure that the tonneau was IN
!, occunied. He was back with rs in
minute.
"Let ne nave that lamp Of yours
Kent" he whispered, at the same tim
! lighting a cigarette.
as that aafe?" I exclaimed in SUI
prise, amazed that he would dare t
smoke when he had been taking sue
precautions against our being disco7
s cred.
"GGure." he replied ~laconically. "Wh'
S ever was in that automobile is at leas
6 half a mile away by now. The sias
:, on the front lamps is nearly cold.
It want to see the number, though. W
may find it useful
Taking my little electric lamp ne q
d vanced toward the machine agsl
flashing the light for q second On Il
N number, and then peering by its igl
X into the tonneau, exclaiming as !
straightened Up: Il thought So"
of If it was safe for him to smoke, Il
constable and 7 felt that it was sa
n for us, too, to relax Il %precautior
IT. and togetser we had advanced III
III we were beside him.
IN aWhat did you find?" asked, Wo
%. dering at his exclamation.
"What / expected ne replied 6
I Dramatically. &.
The manner Of his answer prcyoE
tn me and I determined then and the
m to have il cut with him.
"Look here, Davis" SAID;
~. brought ycu into this case and do J
I'D like the way you have acted about
at. T have freely told you everything
I'd. have discovered and have aided }
,ss in every way ] can, Before go a S
farther on.this trip I want to kn
mere about it"
{ @yVllat is it you wish to know"
ed: asked. The constable edged lea
for fear he might miss something
ito our caayersation.
I" "F:rst, where arc we going
:'To what IS known as the desaI
cottage, abeut a half nlfle iafif@.
nc It tla oaa cf his clearing, Q 81
CIT. f1at WIS t..lt FIR . shelter laf !