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The Snowflake herald., 1914-02-14
Public Land

INFORMATION concerning Government land
= promptly furnished. Guaranteed script for SALE
Lontests conducted, plats furnished, school Land
mineral land patented, water reservoir and rights of
way applications prepared.
!. Ten years with General Land Office, Washing
20 3 D. c., and five years Receiver U. S. Land Once
at tPhoenix.
HAMPTON 6 ARNOLD, p#otsix' asi, ''si1s ARIZONA
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belong to a cone bearing tree no
longer found in this hemisphere,
but resembling somewhat the
cultivated Norfolk Island pine.
They now rest on a plateau of
about 5000 feet altitude.
AS to the way the logs were
silicifed, it is probable that aka
line solutions, containing soda or
potash, permeated the beds. AS
the logs decayed, their organic
matter was replaced, molecule by
molecule, by silica. Mineral
matter, mainly silica, thus re-
placed the wood, retaining it's
exact forms. Brilliant red and
other colors are due to small
quantities of iron and mangan-
csc deposited with the silica, and
to super-oxidatio1, as the trunks
were exposed to the air. The
most brilliant colors are thus to
be found in chips lying on or
near the surface.
Prior to 1906 the forests were
subject to vandalism by curlos-
ity seekers and those CONNER
cially inclined, and quite an in
dustry was carried on in polished
sections of the sounder and more
highly colored varieties. Public
attention was called to this, and
by a combination of territorial
and federal authority the forests
were set aside as a national park.
Visitors have since then been
prohibited from breaking or in
iuring the logs in any way, but
they are permitted to carry away
chips set aside for that purpose.
Ell Paso Morning Times.
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B5EI y:,,o
f'D''' stock Market Letter

r.osas City Stock Yards Feb, /.
hIlL'"0 5914 Except for the break OF Of
+ .I4tz 10 ~ we'll this week. Receipts
Prst'y sa been light since Tuesday,
Pa5S az saJes yesterday, also the few
Pllu 4ao here to-day, were stronger.
Eaa Ea','c coId wave sweeping over the
ll',trv ne tr,,' to-day, and billed to ap-
Esol,ir Psar IN : the East before dissolvlng,
PSaL noina in to help the cattle market
E,Et Etlye week. Saturday is the big
lSaet sai buying day in New York
gnd other consuming centers, ana
H. N, fact that last Saturday was a
|lsrr,. ,' maggy day there cut down
l.ast sales, and left dealers with tn
a,ob meat on hand to run I'LL
H. middle of this week, hence
H. r. slumpy cattle market the first
tbie week. This condition will
\ reversed at the end OF this
IL Fancy natives would bring
EDWARDS to SO, bulk of the steers,
E|ronding Westerns, ST. Is to $50,
n mill steers this week S6.70 to
B6 heavy native COWS up to
S72O, bulls the same, calves
sIigbtly lower, best at $1,000.
Hackers and feeders eased Oft lo
{o25 cents this week, particularly
Beavv feeders, but all grades con-
sinnp at the very high range of
s65Oto8, stock calves up to S8.5O
Sbeep and lambs have had a very
Bad week. Colorado shippers
|Oaded lightly this week, and will
N that manner tell buyers what
lhey think Of the recent break of
B0to 5Ocents. Anything of quail
lvwould have sold higher to-day,
but the 1000 head here were most
. \ light weight lambs, around 66
] bs. at $3.50. Prime lambs are
Ruotable at up to $3.50, yearlings
R650, wethers SIS. Is, ewes .35,
NTH prospects favoring better
triceS next week.
J. A. RICKART,
Market Correspondent.
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For Sale

Six town lots at Lakeside.
Four of them are together and
one of them has 2-room house
and young orchard.
Also one lot in Shumway with
good house and orchard; also a
good garden spot.
For prices, see
ALVIN E. RHOTEN,
j24-1m Shumway, Ariz.
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No v. long wait. No short weight
!. lIe HERALD on Job printing.
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OF STOCK
In the Navajo Southern Railway
Co., and the Navajo Lum-
her. & Timber Co.

will sell one hundred shares OF my
personal stock in each of the above
companies at it's par value of one hun
dred dollars per share. This positively
is all the stock that will be sold IN eth
er of the above companies in Arizona
parties desiring to purchase will make
their checks or money orders payable to
the undersigned and state in which
company they wish their stock issued.
Address all communications to,
w. H. CLARK
Holbrook, Arizona
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The Parcel Post
To Be a Provider

!
With Congress cooperating,
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
and Postmaster General Burleson
have begun Investigations look
ing to the use of the parcel post
on an enormous scale as a means
of reducing the cost of living.
The initial step should be study
of the situation as it will effect
the railroads. Any plan that
does not include the payment of
fair remuneration to the railroads
is doomed to failure.
1t is proposed that farm pro-
ducts, including dressed fowls,
butter, eggs and many vegetables
be supplied by the farmers via
parcel post direct to the city con-
Sumers.
lhe entire elimination of mid
dlemen's profits is sought. In
time, if the plan works we'll, a re-
volution of the present system of
providing great part of the food
supply of cities will be brought
about.
Fully informed of the principal
object of the two Cabinet officers,
the House Committee on Agri-
culture voted last week to in
crease the appropriation for the
maintenance of the bureau of
markets of the Department of
Agriculture from 81, 900 to $194, :
900.
Last years appropriation for
this division provided merely for
it's creation. It is now in full and
lively operation and the large sum
will be used in expanding the
scope of it's inquiries and activi-
ties.
A liberal amount will de devot-
ed to the scheme of direct ex-
change between farm and city.
An elaborate system is to be
developed of informing city con-
sumers where, in what quantity
and at what price consumers,
without going to the middlemen,
can purchase the foods they
desire.
Provision for such a system
must be made by the Postmaster
General. The plan under con
sideration would work as follows:
Notices would be posted in the
post offices serving farming areas
and circulars distributed along
the rural free delivery routes,
advising the farmers fully of the
facilities of exchange offered by
the postal Service.
These would ask farmers desir-
ing to supply city customers, first
to record their names at the most
convenient Post Office and then,
periodically, to file statements of
the produce they wish to market
and the price they want.
The circulars also would con-
tain detailed information as to
the best methods of packing
perishable products, such as eggs
and butter, for shipment. This
data then would be carefully
classified and distributed dy the
city mail carriers in bulletin form.
In short, an elaborate scheme
communication between the
housewife who wants to buy and
the farmer who wants to sell IS
proposed.
The wife would write to the
farmer in the evening; he would
receive the order following morn
ING and the next evening or by the
second morning Uncle Sam S par
eel post wagon would deliver the
shipment. By use OF the tele-
phone the process of exchange
could be hastened twelve hours.
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Sugar IS pounds for $1.OO.
Lard 5 lbs. 9Oc.; 10 lbs. $1.7O.
Cottolene 4lbs. 95c.; 10 lbs. $1.6O.
Flour So. SO per hundred.
Oats So SO per yundred.
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;vestock, Ranching and
Kindred News Items.

B9FFRereeee
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The Farmers Pork
Barrell the Biggest

The house agricultural exten-
BiOn bill passed the senate with
is amendments without a dis
Benting vote. The bill provides
fOr demonstration on farms Of
approved methods and scientific
discoveries as to farming and
|hOme economies as made in state
agricultural colleges, their eXper-
mental stations and in the fed
eral department of agriculture.
The secretary of agriculture
Rnd land grant agricultural col
egeS are to outline plans for car
fylng out the demonstrations.
Us agreed to in the senate, the
|pII would appropriate uncondi-
|Flonally $4,000 annually in each
Pate, in addition to the sum of
FOOOOOO for the coming year,
|Nth a yearly increase of $500,
gOO for the next seven years, to
pc provided for distribution
among the state on the basis of
aelr rulal population, condition
Fo on each state appropriating a
Fun \ equal to it's portion of the
FEDERAL fund. After seven years
ae bill provides for a permanent
|PprOpriation of 81, 800, an
|nually.
NO long wait No short WEIGHT
The Snowflake herald., 1914-02-14
ssThe Best Laxative
Know Of

81 have sold Chamberlain's
Tablets for several years. Peo-
ple who have used them will take
nothing else. | can recommend
them to my customers as the
best laxative and cure for constl-
patton that | know of, !" writes
Frank Strouse, Fruitland, Iowa.
For sale by all dealers.
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PETRIFIED WOODS OF ARI-
IONA ATTRACTING
ATTENTION

um of Natural History in the
last week, impelled by a dispatch
from Jackson of the discovery of
a petrified forests in Mississippi,
have received object lessons in
the silification of trees which
could be bettered only by a trip
to prehistoric scenes, says a re
cent New York dispatch The mu-
scum has acquired specimens
from the petrifed forest of Ari-
zona, which is superior in ex-
tent and interest to that in Mis-
sissippi, and DR.. George P. Mer-
rill, curator of geology, has writ
ten description of the Arizona
field which the lay reader may
easily understand.
In the gem room of the mu-
scum are several finely polished
slabs of agatized wood from near
Adamana, Arizona, the mineral
collection having a tWo-foot sec
tion of an agatized log, and in
the corridor on the ground floor
leading to the building-stone col
lection are numerous specimens
from the forest illustrating its
phases of growth and fossilation.
There has also recently been fin
ished map, prepared by the
geological survey, showing the
location and topography of six
separate forests that compose
the Arizona field. An attentive
visitor may learn in an afternoon
the results of scientific investi-
cation covering several years.
The trees huddled over these
six forests areas are probably
millions of years old. They con-
sist today of many colored agate,
an exceedingly hard and tough
stone. One of them forms a So
called natural bridge. 1t spans
a chasm nearly fifty feet wide
and twenty feet or more in depth.
Other logs lie about in various
stages of decay. Some of them
have broken, under alterations
of heat and cold, have splintered,
Clipped, oxidized and polished,
until the country for an area of
many square miles is covered
with a bewildering array of bro
ken trunks and fragments of ag-
ate and Jasper, varying from
nearly colorless, through yellow
and red, to the most brilliant
carnelian.
The forest begins some six
miles south of Adamana, a sta
ton on the Sante Fe road, in
Apache county, Arizona. 1t is,
of course, prostrate and resem-
bles collection of saw logs pond
ed back in a boom and waiting
their turn at the mill, but which
have waited so long that they
have become waterlogged, sun
ken and buried by sediment.
DR.. Merrill says there is moth
ing to indicate that the trees
ever grew near the locality where
the logs are now found. They
appear to have grown at some
distant point and to have drifted
by stream action into eddies af-
ter having been reduced to mere
trunks by the loss of their leaves
and smaller limbs. The natural
bridge lies in the forest nearest
Adamana. 1t cannot compare in
beauty or size with the second.
third and rainbow forests, fur
ther to the south and southwest.
In the second and third forests
there are trunks up to five feet
and more in diameter and from
sixty to 100 feet in length. The
Rainbow forest is the most faci-
mating on account of the richness
of the colors, although geologic
ally it is wreck.
Prof. Lester F. Ward, of the
geological survey, who worked
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NOTICE

One hundred and sixty acres of
land under ditch, for sale, near
Showlow. For particulars, in
quire of FRANK ELLSWORTH,
j16-4t Showlow, Ariz.
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VXTUV not give your lad
VIII the same training?

"When was a growing lad, and came
upon many words IN my reading that
l did not understand, my mother, i'm
stead of giving me the definition when
applied to her, uniformly sent me to
the dictionary to learn it, and in this
way gradually learned many things
besides the meaning of the individual
word in question on-among other things,
how to use a dictionary, and the great
pleasure and advantage there might
be in the use of the dictionary.
Afterwards, when went to the village
school, my chief diversion, after less
sons were learned and before they
were recited, was in turning over the
pages of the Unabridged of those
days. Now the most modern Una
bridged-theNEW INTERNATIONAL
gives me a pleasure of the same sort.
So far as my knowledge extends, it is
at present the best of the One-vOlume
dictionaries, and quite sufficient for
all ordinary uses. Even those who
possess the splendid dictionaries in
several volumes will yet find it great
convenience to have this, which is so
compact, SO full, and so Trustworthy
as to leave, in most cases, little to be
desired' Albert s. Cook, Ph. D., LID,
Professor of the English Language and
Literature, Yale Univ. April %, 1911.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
leaders TALK
PEACE; AGENTS
RENEW THE Fight
Mavtorena's Villaistas and
Hills CarranZistas Hurl-
ing Lead at Midnight.

Naco, Arizano. Oct. 7.-Notwlfh-
standing General MaytoreAa's an
rouncement today that he would not
attack General Hills army Until ne
lad been advised of the octcoma OF
the Aguas CaGentes peace conference,
a battle has been raging since ,
o'clock. At midnight many bullets are
striking in Naco, and Gene:1l Ii'iis
whole line is in action, apoaren lily
suffering considerably srom the
sharpnel fire of the Maytorena forces.
Maytorena sent word at 8 o'clock TO
Colonel Guilfoyle, the American COM
mander here, that it was his Intention
to resume the battle. Erie was open
ed suddenly on both flanks Of Hilfs
army. The action followe ed an adj
vance of Yaquis lasting all afternoon
and a bombardment of the Mexican
garrison, during which thrna Inch
shells demolished at least one build
ing.
The United States has added to It's
precaution TO insure that no Mexican
soldiers shall cross the international
boundary. The American flag has
been hoisted on one of the st )Ga Piles
marking the boundary.
Six more troops of the Ninth and
Tenth cavalry are on the way here
from Douglass to aid in patrol:ng the
border.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
Big DREDGE runs
AGAINST "SINKER''
Large Hole Ripped in Hull Of the
Taber, Rut Is Soon Repaired.
Working Toward City.

Little Rock, Oct with hole
rammed entirely through her hull, the
giant dredge boat, H. S. Taber, con-
tinued to work near South Bend, on
the Arkansas river, and within six
hours the damage was entirely re-
paired. The Ta5er. which had re-
Gently completed it's test after being
delivered in the Arkansas river. was
being moved from one sand bar to
another when it collided with a sub
merged log and great whole ripped
in the bottom. The end of the log
came through to the deck, SO great
was the force of the collision. After
the boat backed away the log was
removed so as to spare navigation.
The Taber and the other dredge
boat recently delivered to the govern
ment for work in the Arkansas, are
now working daily cleaning out the
bars about 100 miles from the mouth
of the river. These boats pump the
sand out of the river and clear a
channel through which boats may
pass. 1t is claimed for them that
they will pump the water from under
the boats so fast that it is impossi-
BILE for them to Sink.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
Holding COTTON
SHOW AT CAPITAL
Leaders Of Washington Society Pat
rons of Cotton Fashions Show.
Opening Yesterday.

Washington, Oct. IA national
cotton fashions show" is being held
here today and will continue through
tomorrow, under the patronage OF
Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife OF the
vice president; Mrs. Champ Clark,
wife of the speaker. and other lead
ers of official society. The show is
part of the movement to have Ameri-
can women wear clothing made OF the
south's product. A number OF the
ladies have designed gowns made
from cotton materials, among them
Miss Genevieve Clark. Miss Caille
Hoke Smith, Miss Lucy Burleson ana
Miss Mabel Stone, and these will be
on exhibition at this show. After
ward they will be seen at the New
York American Fashions show, and
then they will be sold for the benefit
of the Red Cross fund. Miss Stone
has designed a gown made OF Missouri
cotton. Mrs. Josephus Daniels has
used North Carolina cotton and the
Misses Burleson have used cotton
raised in Texas for their designs. Dur.
ing this week it is planned that all
large stores throughout the united
States will hold bargain sales OF cot
ton goods.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
FRENCH AIRMEN
WIN THRILLING
BATTLE IN AIR
With Maxim Rapid Fire
Gun German Aeroplane
Is Destroyed.
SHOOT ONE MAN;
OTHER ROASTED
Petrol Tank OF German Machine Ex-
pl0ded After One Operator Is Shot
Through Head, French.
men Escaping.

Bordeaux, Oct. 1.-THE most thrill
ing air battle of the war is officially
reported tonight. although the exact
location is not given out.
Sergeants Franz and Queanalt, driv-
ing an aeroplane on which was mount
ed a light Maxim rapid-f gun, pur-
sued a German aeroplane, which had
flown over the French line, manned
by an aerial observer and an aviator.
Flying to the same height of the Ger
man machine they turned the Maxim
broadside on and, after few shots,
caused the petrol tank Of the Germari
machine to explode.
The German machine fell to the
ground in flames and the two Ger
man flyers were 1ead when they hit
the earth. One had been burned tc
death by the blazing petrol and the
other, almost untouched by The
flames, had been shot through the
head by Maxim bullet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
BOOZE, BEER,
Wine and GUN
TAXED HEAVILY
Senate Caucus Completes
War Tax Bill to Raise
$108,000,00O.
BANKS, AUTOISTs,
CHECKS NOT TAXED
Pullman Car Tickets to Bear Cent
Tax - Proprietary Medicines and
Perfumes to Share Burden.
But Not "COkp.~

Washington, Oct. AFTER being in
session all day the Democratic eau
Gus OF the senate completed the war
tax bill. The bill as amended is ex-
pected to raise $10S000, 600 new reve-
nue.. Senator Simmons, chairman OF
the finance committee, announced the
committee would report the bill to
the senate tomorrow, and that he hop
ed the debate would be ended within
a week.
The principal burden of the tax in
the bill, as framed by the caucus. falls
upon the dealers in rectifed spirits.
The tax on beer is S1.l3 barrel
and the tax on rectified spirits } cents
gallon.
The tax on gasoline and automo-
biles has been stricken out. The eau
Gus also eliminated the tax on brok-
ers. The tax on bank capital and sur
plus was reduced from 81 to 81 a
81 900; the tax on Pullman car tickets
from 2 cents to I cent. The tax on
wines remains unchanged as recon-
mended by the committee.
The caucus refused to put tax on
coca-cola and on bank checks.
The tax on tobacco, cigars, cigar
cites, etc, remains as recommended
by the committee with the exception
that the committee is to recommend
a graduated tax on the amount OF
cigarettes manufactured.
The tax on proprietary medicines.
perfumes. etc, will be levied as ~
the Spanish war tax bill. Chewing
gum will be taxed 4 cents on every
dollar package sold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
LOUISIANA SUGAR
PLANTERS Will
Fight TRUST
Arrange to Erect Refinery
If Combine Carries Out
Threat to Close Factory.

New Orleans, Oct. THAT the
Louisiana sugar planters WILL wage a
va, on the sugar trust became known
today when it was stated that The
sugar planters were preparing plans
to have a refinery erected to handle
tie crop of their lands, in the event
he trusts refinery here is closed
down in the next few weeks.
Many of the sugar plant""s nave
filed suits against the sugar trust and
it is stated that the threat has been
made by the combine that unless the
suits are withdrawn the refinery VII
will he closed and thus the plant ars
will be unable to have thei" sugar
refined. The trust has not purchased
any sugar here since September.
1t is believed an custer sui viii
he Instituted against the trust.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
Stringent Law for Texans.

Austin, Texas, Oct. 7.-Governor
IColquitt today sent special message
Ito the legislature urging that law
be enacted prohibiting any individual
or farm from growing more than 20
acres of cotton in 1915. Bills en-
bracing the 20-acre restriction were
introduced in both houses. The meas
lure was drawn by the attorney gener-
| al. Should the bill be passed and en-
forced it would probably reduce the
cotton production of Texas next year
| to less than 100000, as compared
with a normal yield of about 1000, 600
Fbales. The bill provides that any per-
son who violates it's provisions shall
upon conviction be sentenced from one
ITO five years or to pay fine of $4,000
Tor both.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
From the Germans.

Berlin, va Amsterdam and LONDON
Oct. THE following official corr
unication was given out by the head
quarters staff of the German arm!
On tbe evening of October g.
continuous French outflahK.ns
movements against our right Wlhf
have extended the battle front untl
it is now north of Arras. west G
Lille and west of Lena, nine mile
northeast of Arras, our advan2'
guards are in touch with the enemy
cavalry.
"No decision yet has been reachc(
in cur counter attacks along the lih'
between Arras, Albert and Roye.
"The situation remains unchanged
along the battle front between III
Disc and the Meuse in the vicinity o
Verdun and in Alsace-Lorraine. Ther
is no news from Antwerp.
"In the eastern theatre OF the wa
the Russians advancing against Eds
Prussia through the province OF 81
Walk have been checked. we nav
been successful in our attack agalns
the enemy near the town of SuwaiEl
This movement BEGAN yesterday.
On Russian Poland our troops o.
October 4 dislodged Russian brlgaa
of the Garde Fusiliers from an en-
trenched position between OpatoV
and Ostrowiec. The Russians lost -
600 prisoners and several machln
guns.
"Ihere was an engagement on Us
tober : in the vicinity OF Radon be
tween our forces and two division
and half of Russian cavalry VIZ
portions of the Invangorod reserves
The enemy was repulsed and fel
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
Promises to Support Move
ment for Federal Aid to
Cotton Growers.
|TEXAS SOLONS TO
LIMIT PRODUCTION
GoyernOr Urges Passages OF Measure,
Introduced in Both Houses,
Limiting Farmer to
20 Acres.

Washington. Oct. 7-Tentative
| plans for relief of the cotton situation
/ in the Sou1n were mapped out today
lat conference between President
Wilson, members of the North Caro-
lima congressional delegation and Of
Ulcers of the North Carolina Farmers
|union.
The president has agreed to support
Ia movement to get before congress
this session senate bill to provide
flor federal licensing of warehouses
(which the house recently refused to
consider. He also approved the move
|ment started in st. Louis for launch
ling bankers pool to raise $50, 000,-
loco to be loaned to cotton raisers on
Warehouse certificates.
Secretary McAdoo and the federal
reserve board already have indicated
their tentative approval OF this plan.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
Real Estate Dealers to Organize.

indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 7.-For tne
first time in the history of this state,
realty dealers from all corners OF !!
are gathered in this city in the ilrs'
annual convention of the INDIANA
Real Estate convention. Nearly one
thousand delegates are here to perfec'
permanent organization of a state
association and to lay plans for legls,
lation to be secured from the neX'
legislature which will materially pen,
eft the owners and realty dealers o.
The whole state. The meeting Will las
three days.