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Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
Page Says Legislation Not
 Needed.
Special to Independent.

Special to Independent.
 Little Rock, Oct. 1.-Legisla tion is not needed to reduce the cotton acreage to a minimum according to John H. Page, State Commissioner of Agricul- ture. He believes that it is in the power of the landlord, the general merchant and the small banker to control the sit uation and do more than any law.
 We have between 10000 and 10000 tenants on small farms in Arkansas, states Commis- sioner Page, 'who have been re- quired to plant sufficient a. mount of cotton to insure the rent before the landlord will permit them to occupy the place. Then the merchant who supplies this planter requires him to plant a certain amount of cotton to insure the payment of his bill. The small banker re- quires the merchant to have cot ton contracts before he will grant him a line of credit. All we have to do is to get these men to change to diversified farming to make this class of farmers |self supporting. This will make Ia reduction of over fifty per cent of the cotton growing land in the state.
 Another twenty-five per cent of the cotton lands of Arkansas is owned by farmers who have their places incumbered. The bankers require them to raise cotton in order to insure the in terest and payments. They could just as easily require stock and grain.
 'The balance of the lands in the cotton section are owned by men who are independent of merchants or banks, and they can plant what they want, but if you will check them over you will find they grow very little cotton any way.
 'When the men I have men, toned change their specified tions for farming, and give the tenant land on which to make living, instead of planting it all in cotton, then will Arkansas become one of the most prosper ous states in the Union."
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
Arrested at chiId,s Grave.

A pathetic scene took place at : Geneva cemetery the other day. wller a French couple. who had been ex peled from the town, were arreste' as thy were attending the burial c their only child While the priest wa reading the burial service, the dete. lives informed them that they woui be conducted to prison but they wei allowed to remain until the end ( the ceremony.
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
Snos.

Build your Silo of reinforced concrete and it will last forever without paint or other repairs. The first cost is but little more than wood. For instance: Our 16 X 30 about $450, owing to To- cation. I am prepared to do the work, have a modern concrete mixer and will look you up if you will drop me a postal card.
 3. c. UTLEY,
 43dtf Newport, Arkansas.
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
nms to Beware.

If ever you meet woman who sue ceeds in convincing you that you are an exceptionally fine fellow, be very very careful. She has far more intel ligence than you.-Jay Denby. in Let ters tpom China
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
You Can Earn A Good Salary

You Can Earn A Good Salary
 By equipping yourself in good business college. The Inde- pendent has scholarships in many of the leading business Colleges of the South and can save you money. Scholarships sold at half price. btf.
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
Garland of Gardens.

You must have lovely cities, said Ruskin, crystallized, not coagulated. Into form; limited In size, and not casting out the scum and scurf of them into an encircling eruption of shame. but girded each with It's sacred pomoerium. and with garlands of gardens, full of blcssoming trees and softly-gutded strealns.
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
Worlds Meanest Man.

We have just heard of the worlds neanest man. He doesn't liks his wife's red hair. so he is trying, by nll. ng her days with care. to cause 1t to urn white
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01
When Money Take.

"Pa. what does 1t mean when you say that q man hasn't the courage of his convictions?" That he has opin. ions. but isn't willing to bet money op tnem. ."-Detroit Free Prass.
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01

Baker-'Tn five years you won't see a horse on the street" Wayburn- Yes; they would be safer on the -idewalks The Causeur.
Newport daily independent., 1914-10-01

If you wish beautiful, cl> white clothes, use Red Cros Ball Blue. Large 2 OF. package 5 cents.
Douglas Island news., 1914-03-18
The MOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody,

Wraueell trollers are catching big, 6ue spring sslmOn.
 A movement has been started to get a Norwegian vice consul appointed for Juneau.
 B.M. Stone, formerly owner of the Nome Nugget, is again seeking ioca- tion iu Alaska. Arrangements are beiug made to form a subordinate lodge of the Knights of Pythias in COrdOva. Fairbanks saloous will close on Sun. days. They are also required to keep a record of all bottle sales.
 Tue head o6ice of the Northwest Mounted Police at Dawson was de- stroyed by fire last week.
 At 8 o'clock iu the afternoon on Thursday, March I2, President Wood row Wilson sigued the Alaska railroad bill.
 Puget Sound mill men have pur- chased the saw mill of the Pacific Coast i & Norway Packing Company at Peters burg.
 August Snyder, convicted of using profane language in the Skagway post- office, was fined $50 by the commis- sioner.
 The scarlet fever cases at Ketchikan have recovered, the house hes been fumigated, and it is belived that all danger is past. Five sscks of Irish soil were shipped across the water for use at the St. Pat rick's dance at Ketchikan. There's nothing like the "ould sod" Troubles never come singly; the women of Fairbanks have decided to jump into the spring municipal elec- tion with a ticket an their own.
 Bishop Rowe, preaching Ht St. Marks church, Seattle, said that Che salvation of the Eskimo, as a people or as an in- dividual, is dependent upon Christian ity.
 When the news that President Wh- son had signed the Alaska railroad bill reached Alaska, celebrations were held in many towns and there wac general rejoicing.
 The cableship Burnside mude Che run up from Seattle to Ketchikan in less than sixty hours, arriving on the 7th inst.. and in a few hours the cable was working again.
 Forest Supervisor Weigle, of ketchi. kan, has notified the Wrangell chamber Ior commerce that be has asked for an appropriation of s4,OOO to build a trail 1 up the Stikine river valley.
 Last week B. M. Behrends, Che Ju- neau banker, effected the purchase of a 1 prominent business lot and will begin at once the erection of a modern build ing to be used exclusively by the bank.
Douglas Island news., 1914-03-18

To illustrate the Dlgness or hIasha, Congressman Falconer, of Washington, in a speech on the government railroad in the house a month ago, made the following com parisons regarding "her magnificent distances" "Alaska placed on the map of the United States, with Ketchikan at Charleston, S. C., and Ju- neau at Knoxville, Tenn, places Skag- way in Southern Kentucky, COrdova at St. Louis, Mo-; Fairbanks in Northern Iowa, Nome in South Dakota, Point Barrow in Northern Minnesota, Seward in Western Missouri and the western extremity of the Aleutian islands northwest of Los Angeles, Cal"
 William Thomas Lopp, the noted Alaska educator, has recommended that congress provide a vessel for train- ing the Alaska Indians in seacraft. Professor Lopp has been in charge of the United States bureau of education for the Northern division of Alaska since January 10, 1910. It is the opinion of Pref. Lopp that the Indians would take to sea life, and that tue training that the government would give them would make many of them useful peo- pie. The recommendations made by Prof Lopp will come before congress in regular form in a short time, and it is believed that they will receive ap' proval.
 Another pay creek has been added to the list during the past week, and it is thought by a few @ho are familiar with the locality in which the creek is located that the new discovery will prove the best in the district, says the Idltarod Pioneer. The find was made by Herman Wilike and partners or Flat creek, a tributary of Timber creek, the latter creek said to be as large or larger than Poorman creek. Willicke and partners bedrocked their shaft last Sunday, pannings from which showed % cents to % cents. It is now said that a couple of thaws in drifting show about three feet of gravel that will run about S2 to the foot.
 c. F. Metcalf, formerly of Alasks, hnt who has been conducting a hotel and general store at Hope, B. O., for the past two years, is among the late arrivals at the Northern, says @ Seattle paper. "Jibboom, as Metcalf is best known to most Alaskans, followed the sea until 1896, when he got the Alaska fever. In 1897 and 1898 be and Dr. L. S. Sugden, who is now in the city and guest at the Rainier Club, made a small fortune piloting boats through the Wbitehorse rapids, They parted in Che fall of '98 and have not met since, but tbey hope to do SO in the next few days and tried to and one another yester- day. Among other things, Metcalf had the honor of being the first man to take mail into Nome from Skagway in 1899. He reached Nome at that time on March 10. Two years ago he came outside with the intention of staying and went into business at Hope. He is now closing out his business there and is preparing to return to Alaska. His present. plans are to go into Southeast ern Alaska. "Alaska is the best coun- try in the world, and there is no doubt about a man making good if he goes there and stays. There is no better country to live in, and the people are the best in the world" he remarked.
Douglas Island news., 1914-03-18
DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA


 The s75,OOO allowed by the navy de. partment to mine 900 tons of Matb nuska coal and transport it to tide water has been exhausted, and Sl2OOo more is needed to finish the job.
 E.J. Ives, one of the best known mining men operating in Alaska, has placed his stamp of approval on Chi saua as a mining camp after making a second examination of the properties of W. E. lBim James and Nels Nelson,
 The Ketchikan Miner thinks it pretty good joke on a prominent citi- zen of that town, that he went south last tall to enjoy the sunshine aud flowers, suffered all winter with rheum stism and has come back to Ketchikan to got we'll.
 They say that the Hon, Leviticus Theosalus Erwin, high sherif of the Fourth division, is strongly opposed to an insane osy lum in Alaska. He claims 1t would be extremely detrimental to freight traffic over the government road.-Valdez Commoner
 Fred Hanks, an old and popular Nomeite, is now in New York, where one of his songs recently made a big hit at a concert given at the Cort thes- tre for the benefit of the anti-vivisec. tiou society. The song was sung by Jack Hines, also an old Nomeite.
 Real estate ia Seward is beginning to move already as the result of the pas sage of the Alaska railroad bill Two lurge deals were pending yesterday, and it Is understood that one has gone through today with a good prospect of the other deal being closed tonight'-- Gateway.
 At its last meeting the Juneau Dem. ocratic clue passed a resolution "That Che Juneau Democratic club is unalter ably opposed to any person being the democratic candidate for delegate to congress who is not at this time tried and true democrat" Jim Wickersham, please take notice.
 FIT. Hamshaw, who last year was in the Chisaua camp, where he secured bonds on a large number of placer claims chat were afterward allowed to lapse when the payments became due, is now exclusive sales representative for Alaska for wholesale rubber goods company of Akron, Ohio.
 The seine boat Thelma, Capt, B. Carl son, which was seized more than year ago by Canadian officials on the charge that her master had carried on fishing operations within Canadian limits in violation of treaty agreement, reached the Salmon bay dock yesterday, after victory in the Ottawa courts by her owners, says the Seattle P.-I. of the 9th inst.
 The Cordova Times says; GA sad sit- uation has arisen at Nome. They tried to form a republican club there' but 1t was found that most of the republicans of the district were holding offices un- der the democratic administration, SO the project was dropped in order not to embarrass the office holders. The members of the G. O. P. seem to have the happy faculty of adjusting them
Douglas Island news., 1914-03-18

Tbe Tatom property, located at Port Wells, now owned by the Granite Gold Mining company, recently organized by Col. B. F. Willard, has proved the most sensational feature of the past season. The company is incorporated for s5OO,0OO and Col Willard recently offered 5O,OOO shares to local people for % cents per share. The majority of the stock was taken by miners who have worked for him in the Cliff and other properties here. The miners in the tunnel recently encountered a body of wonderfully rich ore. 1t is said that one round of shots brought down be- tween s2oOOO and S25,OOO worth of ore, The stock has been taken off the market, Valdez Miner,
 Washlngton.-A bid for carrying the mails 5000 miles in the depth of an Arctic winter, over the mountains of Northern Alaska when the snow lies so deep there is scarcely a bottom, was re- ceived by the postofice department. The bid came from Charles D. Brewer, of Point Barrow, Alaska, the most northern postofice on the continent, and a close rival for northern honors with any in the world. Brewer wants to carry the mail from Poiut Barrow to Kotzebue sound, 300 miles southward. The man who gets the contract must make three round trips each winter when the streams are frozen and trans portation by dog and sled overland alone is possible in that region. His bid was sent to Commander Bertholf of the revenue cutter service, whom he knew in the Arctic and by him for warded to the postof1ce department. Brower's letter was more than two months in getting to Washington from Point Barrow. Brewer has lived in the Arctic 50 years, and is the only white man who inhabits that far northern community. He is employed by an American fur company.
 Wednesday, February IS, 1914, will go down into history as an important date in the chronology of Seattle and Alaska. On that day the house of rep resentatives passed the Alaska railway bill and Charles F. MundRy and Archie W. Shiels were acquitted in the federal court of the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government iu the location of coal claims in the Katalla district in Alaska. It was an unusual coincidence that their acquittal by United States court should come on the same day as the passage of the railway bill, the coal claims case being settled representing the end of the foolish conservation policy and the epoch of strangulation in Alaska: the railway bill marking the beginning of industrial development in that much abused territory. There never was any reason for the charge of fraud. The Alaska coal cases grew out of miscouception of the facts, per- sonal hatred and animosity and de. sire for popularity and aggrandizement on the part of the Roosevelt-Pinchot forces. Out of those cases, however, developed one of the bitterest fights ever known in the West and misrepre- sentation of Alaska with the subse- quent annihilation of her industrial progress, practically, were the only re- suits obtained.-Railwsy and Marine News.
Douglas Island news., 1914-03-18
Closing Out Stock

Cbafiug Dishes, copper and nickel, ut sbout half price. PercolatOrs, cop per and nickel, Casserols, copper and nickel, R can Pots, copper and nickel Large Fancy Trays.
Douglas Island news., 1914-03-18

The s75,OOO allowed by the navy de- partment to mine 900 tons of Mata nuska coal and transport it to tide water has been exhausted, and Sl2r0O0 more is needed to finish the job.
Douglas Island news., 1914-03-18

E. J. Ives, one of the best known mining men operating in Alaska, has placed bis stamp of approval on Chi saua as a mining camp after making a second examination of the properties of W. E. (Bnp James and Nels Nelson,
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-27
AE1NN=PS9 PAN-E for smofAnd ronad
gComdes
BIC MEETING ON
MONDAY DEC. 9TH

paid tn, the bslanEe OK the debt being
secured by grain. It is proposed to
have tho elevator managed by Q board
OF directors consisting largely OF.
farmers. bt
Az explained at the meeting at the,
Chamber Of Commerce early In the
week, the erection or O grain eIeya-
tor here would create O market Tor
graini purchase grain from the farm
ers at standard market prices and ray
them cash for The same; clean and
grade the grain and put It In COM
mercial shape. Facilities for storing
grain will, Of course, be included in
the lay. out and farmers not wishing
to sell their grain just at the time &c
Is brought to the elevator can store
It just as they now store ana hold
their cotton.
Fair weather prevailing on Decem-
Der Z, there is every reason to believe
that the court house will harbur for
this grain elevator rally one OF the
largest gatherings OF Anderson Coun.
~ farmers and business mon on rec.
ord.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-27
now TIME TO PLANT
SEVERAL VEGETABLES
ENGLISH PEAS AND IRISH PO-
TATOEs SHOULD BE PuT
in GROUND
HOW TO PLANT
Potatoes Should Be Cut and Roll
ed IN Air-slAclsed Lime.
Plant Dsep.

Now is the season for the planting
OF several varieties OF vegetables, es-
pecially English peas and Irish pota-
toes, according TO FuFman Smith, the
well known scotsman. Thrifty gard
ners are doubtless aware OF this fact
but those who are not SO well yeraed
In matters OF thins kind will find the
suggestion OF value IL they intend
planting their own gardens.
english peas planted now or in
early December will furnish the plant
er thereof With food OF this tyne in
the forepart OF the spring. As for
Irish potatoes, Mr.. Smith says that
the best information, obtainable on
the subject advises cutting the seed
potatoes and rolling them fin air.
Stacked lime and planting deep. Ths
lime. 1t is stated, will prevent the po-
tato rotting and the dep planting will
protect 1t from freezing. Cotton seed
meal only should pe used to fertil-
fze Irish potatces now. Mr.. Smith
says that fss irish Cobbler iB the best
variety of potato for planting ut thib
ume or the year, though the BlisA
Is well adapted to this section.
Not only is 1t time for planting
peas and potatoes, says MIR. Smith, but
~ ~s.-eaAO PhOPSf tAhtC LOEf QutuuE OUT
cabbage and lettuce plants.
Seed Wheat Scarce.
Continuing his talk on the subject
OF seeds, Mr.. Smith stated that wheat
can be planted in this. section sintil
the latter part OF December. Seed
wheat in this and adjoining couaties
Is particularly scarce. Recently he
spent four days touring Ocoiise, Pick
ems and Anderson counties in search
or seed wheat and was able to pur.
chase only IL bushels. He says that.
the demand for seed wheat is heavy
In ell parts Of the country and espe-
cially the lower part OF this state. He
declares that there are not more than
ten farmers In the county who plant
wheat. Every year South Carolina
sends out OF the state some twenty
millions OF dollars for flour and yet
South Carolina raised wheat is n
better food product than the western
wheat, he says. Mr.. Smith has been
receiving seed wheat from Christian
county, Kentucky.
MIR. Smith also states that a con-
siderable quantity js sogiiaTii cane fa
going to be planted I'm Anderson
county this year, Judging from the
number of Inquiries he has received
about cane seed. There are two var
ieties well, adapted for this section.
he states. the sugar drip and the Jap
anese ribbon.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-27
OF FARMERS AND BUSINESS
MEN TO CONSIDER GRAIN
ELEVATOR MATTER
THE PROP OSITIoN


Persons coming In from the rural
districts report that farmers generally
are much interested Ia the gathering
to be held here In the court house
next Monday week for the purpose of
thoroughly understanding and "Putt-
Ing across" the proposition OF erecting
in Anderson o grain elevator.
The general co.dEnittee which was
appointed for the purpose Of working
mp interest In the gathering hRs not
been fdle. The members have spoken
to their friends ana acquaintRnces On
the subject and requested them to
turn out for the meeting 20 be held
In the court house on December sales
day, which will be the 7th. This gen.
eral committee consists OF we'll known
business men OF the city and promi-
nent planters. Consequently the peo-
pie. In the rural districts are hearing
about the proposed gathering as well
as those living in the City.
The subcommittee which was i,p-
pointed for the purpose OF arranging
o program for the gathering will con-
Ter early next week and get every
thing in readiness for the meeting.
It is understood that they will get
two or three good speakers for TIA
occasion, and after the proposition
has been thoroughly explained to
those present viii make o strenuous
effort TO raise enuught stock subsErir
lions on the spot to warrant steps be.
Ing taken toward erecting the eleva-
tor.
The general plan, en- discussed at
the gathering Of farmers at the Cham
ber OF Commerce last Tuesday, is to
establish here q $4,000 elevator. II
10 proposed to organize d stock COM
pany and. sell shares OF stock for $50
each. It 10 understood that II Ii pos.
aible to erect the elevator when 90
per cent; OF the capitaI stock has been
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-27
1t Takes Time and Intelligent Effort
OF ReadJust q Cropping System.

:. a reorganization or rearrangement
n1ent OF Southern cropping Is d ns5ees- TITS =
sity. mt hlnne ha.e..se Ss s tsiol tsTo low ON
price OF cotton, but also because It il
irnpracticable TO maintain or increase
soil fertility when SO large pre-
portion OF the laud Is planted TO one
crop. The greatest hardship results
from the necessity for o sudden
change
II during the past i've years some
force could have gradually broneiit
about the changes which are now be,
ing suddenly attempted, nothing biit
good would have resulted. But it IL
make such changes as,. are now da-
Inandsd without great loss and much
hardship. The ehangea now being
made are practfcalIy al aaairs.I,io
and if they could be made sSadiisiIe
during period ub three or four vea,r
they w09,d prove profitat,fe: mt fksFe
Is 30 much involved In the 'raiifafssa-
fieht OF q sygteha OF f.rsnins tsat fsii :
ufes are inevitable and these faiItirsa
viii drive many back Into tie OH
pne-crop system Of FARMING. even
Though the price of cotton should re-
main 90 near che bare costj or proiiic-
ton. 81 Ss,l3y Is 5
q is NO nnals task s.,r d, ,iaonia a.,
H.. =
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-27
Liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26.--Cotton, spot,
In fair demand; prices firm; Alneri-.
can middlins fair 5.l8s good naiddiing;
4.S0; Iiliddiing 4.4S: low iiiiddIiHg 3,97
good ordinary s.2e; ordinary 2.7s.y.
Sales 5000 bales, inciuiing $500
American una 500 eor speculation and
export. ReceiptB 1920 bales, includ-
ing 11,Ts8 American. IS
i Futures closed qliiet. May aad
June 4.1S; July and August 4.2s Is2:
October and November 4.aa. Noysms
Der and December; January ana
February 4.4e. "a: q