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Cheyenne record., 1914-04-09
FoRElcN.'

Lord Roberts was elected president
Of the League Of British Covenanters.
General Francisco Villa ordered that
the 600 Spaniards Of Torreon be de-
ported.
Susanna Ibsen, widow Of Henrik Ib-
son, the Norwegian dramatic poet.
died at Christiana, Norway.
Thirty-five thousand miners working
in the Yorkshire coal pits struck to
enforce the demand for minimum
wage.
The widow Of Thomas Henry Hux-
ley. the celebrated English biologist.
died at Eastbourne. Eng. Thomas
Huxley died in 1895.
When General Villa took Torreon he
took only thirty prisoners alive and
unwounded, according to information
received at Chihuahua.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard announced
in Paris that she intended to make q
tour of the United States, Australia,
Russia and England. She will open in
New York in October.
There were rumors at Willemstad,
Curacao, that revolution broke out
in the interior of Venezuela. 1t is
stated that the movement started in
the state of Falcon.
The steamer Bellaventure arrived at
st. Johns, N. f., bearing sixty-nine of
the dead and fifty of the crippled sur
vivors Of the disaster that overlook
the hunters of the steamer Newfound-
land on the ice floes near Belle Isle
straits.
President Yuan Shi Kai gave an au-
dience to Prof Henry Carter Adams
and Thomas G. Stallsmith, commits
sioners of the PaRama-Pacific Exposi-
tion at San Francisco. He said $780,
900 would be devoted to the Chinese
exhibit.
The deposition Of Raimond Poin-
care, President Of France, was taken
by NJ. Forichon, president of the Court
of Appeals. in connection with the in.
quiry into the killing of CASTOR Cal
mette, editor Of tho Figaro, by Nine.
Caillaux.
Cheyenne record., 1914-04-09
SPORT.

A scrub baseball league, composed
OF fourteen teams, has been organized
among the students Of the university
at Boulder, Colo.
George Edward Waddell, the famous
"Rube," as he was known wherever
baseball was played, died at sani-
tarium at Galveston. TexS victim Of
tuberculosis.
N. L. O'Neill, president Of the West
ern League, issued a call for his um-
pires to gather at Des Moines,~ Iowa,
April 1G, to receive final instructions
for the season.
Emile Van Bever, former University
of Wisconsin football star and now q
Chicago lawyer, was married at Chi
cago without announcing the cere-
mony to his friends ar relatives. His
bride was Miss Rose L. Bush of San
Francisco.
Douglas promoters who proposed to
test the Wyoming anti-boxing law by
staging a middleweight contest at
Douglas April II, have abandoned the
idea. They were notified that under
no circumstances would the contest
be permitted.
Lieutenant Lankmeyer, a German
army aviator, was killed and Lieuten-
ant Ruchti, whom he carried as pas
senger. was seriously injured in an
aeroplane accident at Munich, Ba-
varia. Their propeller broke while
they were flying at low altitude over
the aerodrome.
"Tex" Wetzel and Barney Schreiber
twirled well-nigh alright baseball Sat
urday in Denver, the rest of the Bears
backed them up with some Of the
same in field and at bat, and the
Bears won the first game Of the series
with the Chicago White Sox, 5 to l..
In the game Sunday. the score was
to in favor Of the White Sox.
Cheyenne record., 1914-04-09
WASHINGTON.

Warren Robbins Of the Paris en-.
bassy will be transferred to Mexico
City to assist O'Shaughnessy, on ac-
count of the latter's i'll health.
Telephone companies rights to cut
off service to an individual because
Of failure to pay a bill for past service
may be passed upon by the Supreme
Court.
The War Department has named
July to study the methods Of military
science while detailed with French
regiments.
Testimony of the eastern railroads
in support Of their application for a
per cent increase in freight rates
virtually was concluded before the In.
terstate Commerce Commission by
President Samuel Rea of the Penn
sylvania system.
Souvenirs are to be sent by the gov
ernment to George Washington's heirs
as the only compensation for land that
once belonged to the first Presidents
estate In Ohio. The souvenirs consist
of copies Of hearings before the House
public lands committee on the claims
of Washington's heirs for the land.
Confirmation Of Winthrop M. Dan.
iels of New Jersey as member of the
Interstate Commerce CommissionS aft
or the notable three days Senate fight,
was followed by the revelation that
Daniels asked President Wilson to
withdraw his name and thus stop the
contest, which he believed to be en-
barrasslng to the President. and that
Wilson refused.
Cheyenne record., 1914-04-09
CONDENSED RECORD OF the
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN q .. ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Gas Is to be piped from the great
gas fields at Mexia, Tex, to Dallas
and North Texas.
April 81 LAS been tentatively select
ed as the date for the Mother Jones
labor demonstration planned for Wich-
ita Falls, Tex.
John Flanagan. his wife and 2-year.
old child lost their lives In the col
lapse of dugout on the Flanagan
claim, near Alvah, Okla.
Though past 113 years old, Aunt
Elmira Wagner, who lives a few
miles south Of Protein. Mo-, is prepar-
ing to'put in her spring garden.
A dispatch from Cody, Neb., says
vollney Hyde, business man Of Lin
coin, and his wife were found dead,
pinned under their automobile, eight
cen miles from that place.
Bull frogs are in great demand on
the farms of Kansas, according to L..
L. Dyche, state fish and game warden,
who is distributing fish from the state
hatcheries. He says many farmers
asked for frogs.
Gold coin amounting to $8S,684,-
1926 is piled up in the San Francisco
sub-treasury. and William ]. McGee,
assistant treasurer, said that before
long the accumulation would reach
$100.000,000.
10 Miller, farmer Weighing 1876
pounds cloped from West End, Ia.
with Miss Sophia Won Lob, weighing
1884 pounds. The couple were mar
ried at Morris, MINI. Sophia is the
champion fat girl OF Iowa.
An innocent invitation from q min.
ister's wife to attend missionary tea,
which Jeu Hon Yee refused to let his
wife, Ngo Quong Ho, read, SO aroused
her that she hacked him to death with
q hatchet at their home in st. Louis.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has been
summoned before the subcommittee Of
the House mines committee in Wash
ington to tell what he knows of the
Colorado coal strike and just what
interest he has In the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company.
Suit for $25O.0oo damages was filed
in the Circuit Court at St. Louis
against the Livestock Exchange Of
East St. Louis, the National Stock
yards, two packing companies and
twenty Individual dealers, charging a
monopoly for dealing in livestock.
Gov. J. F. A. Strong of Alaska ar.
rived at Seattle from Juneau by
steamer. From = Seattle Governor
Strong went to Tacoma to take part
in an Alaska railroad celebration.
Then he went to Denver to attend the
conference Of Western governors, and
finally to Washington to confer with
President Wilson.
Cheyenne record., 1914-04-09
No Interruption.

ibid that young man kiss you last
night. EthelT'
Eyes, mother"
"And you allowed him tor"
"Why, he Just did. mother"
why didn't you stop him?"
"Why, mother, you told me must
never interrupt any one."
Cheyenne record., 1914-04-09

It may be all right to take the
thought for the deed, but no man ever
got rich that way.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07


There Is no one subject OF more lii'por-
lance to every class of artisan today than
that of economic transportation. To the
farmer 1t spells better returns for his la
Dor. To the mechanic 1t spells more rro-
duce for his money. To the merchant It
spells larger expanse of trade terrl.ory.
The interest of the three are lceatical.
The absorbing question Is. how to get
cheap transportation. There are many
forms, each in Its spehere, commanding
the best thoughts Of experts. The mode or
transportation that we are here discussing
is that utilized by the farm producer TO
market his product, to educate his chill
Cren, to visit his neighbor and to worship
his God--the public highway.
pn,Iic hiybu,av buildinp used to he a
han hazard SORT Of business To the ex-
nerse ana regret of many communities
4, 10 s,m too much az hut I'm the main
A. ls coming 10 he recognized an all alb
sorhiry tonic and ia commanding the hest
talent In the engineering world. II is a
deplorable fact that too many communi-
ties waste time and energy upon the sub
.jects "The Ideal Road" THE Most Sat
isfactory Road Surface" when they would
better be giving thought to the subjects.
"What Are Our Local Conditions" and
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07
GOOD ROADS

, to distribute the water to natural chan
nels so that the side bitches do not carry
too much water Cross culverts require
great deal OF care and attention II
they are too large, they run ne expense
needlessly high, If they are too small,
the heavy rains not only take out the cul-
verts but the road as well. Too many
times boxes and culvccJs are put into a
road without any care 90 thougFt. only
to be washed out with the next fro shet
because of insufficient capacity or care
less location. The writer recently had
several hundred fees Of railroad. be-
cause of improper culvert size washed
entirely away This road was built up 10
a height Of some five or six feet and cul-
vert openings were made too small when
the road was constructed. During a very
heavy freshet the strain became too
great and part Of the bank gaze away.
small bridge would have cost but 4
few dollars and saved several thousands.
Grade and Alignment.
The other very important question is
the grade and alignment. While the road
may be built and traversed and becomv
very useful on a poor alignment aud with
a steep grade. the question of cost in
hauling over the road is an item to which
serious attention should be given The
cost of future maintenance also enters
largely into consideration and d. a'rage
bears intimate relation to gradient and
alignment. 1t is far more difficult to
maintain bitches on a steep grade or
crooked road than on a fiat straight road.
. io
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07

,,- ,. 5o,tt,. t,,,or+a,. 7,
=, .,.,,' l.,.o-,t,,, lii, han,,ta,
-. -. -, go, d,ri4,r, i,sots
~, -, -, M. -,
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=, -, -. ~ -, ,,,,,ar lin
80 -, -, -. ,r,,o,, -, So.
=, 49, s',,'',.ai,,a,, o,,ar ,ho road ,,,iII
s.r,,,t,, ,,.,,,, ,,,ri,,,rs Tha s,do Si,chas
along the road are likewise important
They not only care for the water shed by
the crowned road. but they Inherent and
carry off the water coming to the road
WAY from the adjacent country. The cross
culverts make another Interesting study
and much time and thought is necessary
to obtain culverts sufficiently large and
of such character to carry the water
away The crown of the road answers
the same purpose as the roof of the
house. The purpose of the crown Is to
shed the water from the road. the
crown is too flat water Will collect IN
slight depressions and continuous traffic
increases the depressions TO good sized
hole. II the crown were sufficient to
drain the water falling to the side ditches
the road surface would be Kept compare
lively dry. The amount OF crown depends
upon number OF things, such as width
of roadway the grade oil the road ana tne
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07
By L. M. HEWITT

large measure limits the allowance
amount of expenditure for grade reduc-
tions. In the mountain sections railroads
often cover many miles TO reach points
In a straight line only a few miles apart,
but the grades allowable require the ad-
ditional mileage.
In theory, the best road is the short
road. but in practice this is not true. It
is far better and will mean great saw
ing in transportation costs TO detour so
as to avoid the heavy grades even at the
expense of distance. On a 5 per cent
grade il is estimated that horse will pull
about one-half as much as on level road
on a 10 per cent grade it will pull not
over one-fourth as much The necessity
for grade reduction becomes very appar
ent in the immense saving in transporta-
ton.
Again, while oftentimes a deviation
from the straight line will cut OUT neavy
grades, there are other causes for align
ment changes. Bridges are not on:y ex-
pensive, but they are troublesome in
times of freshets. The fewer bridges one
has in his road the better. Oftentimes by
changing the course of the road a creek
crossing may be avoided and the road
gotten up and away from the creek bed.
Maintenance.
A successfully kept earth road means
a constantly maintained earth road There
are so many things to affect the road
that each one must be looked after The
little soaking showers soften the surface
and the vehicles cut the road. The wash
ing rains follow every rut collecting morc
water as the little stream flows down the
roadway until II leaps over the side arc
washes gully in the BERN OF the
bitches. A rock or stick In the surface
makes a hard spot Wagon wheels drop
off to the softer earth and the little hole
soon becomes a big one. This goes on
until the road becomes a series of holes
and high spots. Then during the dry
summer weather the soil is puverized.
Dust particles are mixed with pulverized
vegetation and animal excreta until
there is no cohesion of the Particles The
dusty material has no life. 1t is worth
less becoming soft with the slightest
rainfall and unfit for the road in wet
weather
During the dry weather 1t is so soft ana
light as to become a terrible menace.
Maintenance is not difficult proposition,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07

but it is a case of eternal vigilance" and
constant, intelligent care.
More harm is done earth roads because
Of unlntelligent work in an endeavor to
maintain them than can be estimated.
The constantly recurring drainage ques-
ton is ever at the front. The great Rich
ellen once said that three cardinal traits
wre necessary to successful career. the
first, audacity; the second. audacity, and
the third audacity" So with earth roads
the three cardinal requirements are drain
age. more drainage and again drainage.
To properly maintain your road the
culverts must be kept clean. the cross
bitches clear and the side bitches always
open and free from obstacles to impede
the rapid flow of water. willows. weeds
and underbrush must be kept down and
the bottom of the bitches clean Side
bitches play such an important part on
the road maintenance that almost the
first requirement is to keep them open
and free from Instructions. Upon these
bitches depends very largely the drainage
of your road. The surface cannot be kept
dry unless the bitches are OF sufficient
depth TO rapidly take off the surface wa
ter and unless the bitches are free from
obstacles the free flow OF the surface
water is impeded and oftentimes so
stopped and damned as to force 1t back
into the road.
Especially is the condition dangerous,
on the sleeper grades Surface water ,on
grades flows so rapidly that once 1t gets
out of the bitches into the roadway even
the little rains make great gullies. The
hillside roads, too. are very difficult to
maintain because the surface water has
a tendency to follow the ruts made by
horses and vehicles rather than run into
the side bitches. They demand a great
deal of attention and care.
Closely related to the side ditch prob
lem is that OF the crown and surface OF
the road. II the road is kept well crown
ed and well surfaced. the water will easily
flow into the bitches. Too often, how
over when a road begins to latten out.
a grader is put into service and the weeds
and grassy soil from the BERN are
scraped into the middle of the road. Con-
tinued traffic over the road has already
pulverized the top soil and mixed it with
vegetable matter and animal excreta uu-
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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07
The Paramount Issue in
Farm & City Development

, is a relic Of the dark age and should be
frowned upon. Only recently conveu.
ton of prominent engineers refused TO
recognize water bound macadam as a
proper road surface. The writer will not
acknowledge that either earth or maca-
dam roads can or will be relegated to The
past. Gradually the main roads, as traf-
fic demands. viii be improved with more
permanent surface But there will al
ways be many roads. and for many years,
some main roads, which will remain as
earth roads. Rather than attempt to rel
egate the earth road problem, we must
face conditions as they are, and as hey
will be for years to come. We must real
lie that the earth road question is prob
lena neglected problem, and that IL
must be solved. More attention must he
given to earth road construction and mo .
intelligent care must be given to mainre-
nance.
one of the main reasons for poor earth
roads is absolute lack of system in either
construction or maintenance. 1t has be-
come largely n custom to neglect entirely
any thought in connection with either the
location or construction OF this character
OF ROAD. IN no small way THIS Is uue To
more or less haphazard system. A
foreman is appointed and he calls upon
those liable for road work to come OUT
and work the roads. A thorough system
has not been thought Of as a necessary
requisite.
Like every other kind of construction
work. to be successfully built and main
tanned. earth roads depend upon several
essential requirements. Two of these are
the drainage question and the grade and
alignment Upon the way In which the
surface water is handled maymPimost be
said to depend the life OF the road. II
the drainage is badly and carelessly ham
died or allowed to go neglected, certainly
1t means the destruction of the road. 80.
too In a large measure is the life of the
road dependent upon the proper align
ment and grade. Oftentimes change
up the hill or down the hill; curve in
stalled here and one eliminated there, or
new channel for the neighboring small
creek will mean salvation for the road
Drainage.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-07
Drainage.

Too much cannot be said OF the impor-
lance of this subject, 1t is important in
connection with any character of road
construction but taking into considera-
ton the soft surface of an earth road the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-06

ct ux to Charles E. Ralph. lot 49,
block 3; $40
HOWARD UNIvERSITY-John II. Lloyd
ct ux. to Lewis c. Smith. lot IS, biock
:; $40.
NORTH RANDLE HIGHLANDs-W;;
Thomas Ledbetter ct ux. to aired
Case. lots ~. 80. 81. square ai3s; $40;
NO. 1914 GOTH STREET NORTH w ES1 l.
William D. West ct uN. to Joseph }.
and Matilda S. Little, lot 1877, square
1852; $40
TENTH AND c STREETS NORTH
EAST-Annie C. Cunningham ct al. to
Mary r. Humphrey, lots IS to 5o'
square 9e3; SO. Mary r. Pumphrey
conveys same property to Annie "
and Mary c. Cunningham; $40
NO. 1926 11H STREET NORTHWEST
John w. Childress ct al, trustees. to
Charlotte Daley. lot 81, square 300;
$500
NO. 1884 WARDER STREET NORTH
WEST-Dogma S. Standish ct viz.
Leon, to Melvin F. Fischer, lot 63,
square 3O37: $40.
VIRGINIA AVENUE SOUTHEAST be
tween 9th and 10th streets-James L.
Kenyon ct ux to Mary A. Hendley,
lots 80 and "a, square south OF 9ol;
So
NO, 7s2 18TH STREET NoRTHWEsT-
Harry G. Laycock to William J. Won
derheide. part original lot H. square
$40: $40.
NO. 1341 SOUTH CAPITOL STREET
MISUNDERSTANDING Paper Bottle
Corporation to Purity Paper Con-
tainers Corporation, original lot IS
and part original lot ~, square $50;
SO.
NO. 1903 F STREET NORTHWEST
Parke \. ,GaIleher to National Saw
ings and Trust Co. part original lots
l and 20, square 253; so
MOORE & BARBOuR'S ADDITION
Chester r. Ogden to. Eleanor E.
lnf 4 lrrfr o.
HIGHWAY-Harry Wardman ct al. to
Anne Davidson. lot Il, square E. of
1875: $40.
BRIGHTWOOD PARK-Elizabeth NJ.
johnson to Joseph H and Florence
NJ Hawkins, lot 80, square 1888; SO.
NOS. 464s AND 466 LOUISIANA AVE
NUE. THWEST-National Capital
Investment CoRapany 70 Capital city
Benefit Society. original: Hot Is. square
400: 100000
NO. 1923 LAMONT STREET NORTH
WEST dhe EIwood apartments)-Car-
RE l.. Lucas ct vir, Edward D.. to
Howard University. lot 50. BLOCK 81,
Columbia Heights: $40.
G STREET NORTHEAST between 9th
and 10th streets-Samuel s. English
ct ux. to Emeline G. English. lot Is.
square $50; $40. Same to William T.
Belts, lot 63. square 933: $40.
NO. 1910 1ST STREET NORTHWEST
George B. Good ct ux. to Maud E..
BARRY FARM-Catharine E. Brown to
Thomas l. and Mary NJ. Coleman, part
lot b. section Z: $40.
NOS HOG TO ITO 4th STREET SOUTH
EAST-Thomas E. Jacobs to Charles
G.. and Elsie NJ. Nauck, lot 16, square
south of s25: SO.
TWENTY-SIxTHA AND VIRGINIA AVE-
NUE. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES G.. Lay
cock to James +. and Mamie o. Poole,
lots 81, IS, 49, square 6; so.
WISCONSIN AVENUE EXTENDED
Arthur Rosenberg to Martin and Jo-
sephine d. Gering, part lot 346, square
1900; $40. Same to Marion, Z. Scran-
age, part lot 346, square 1900; $40.
Same to Eleanor B. Hereston, part
same lot: SO Same to George c. De
Wilde, part same lot; SO.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS-Lee B. Floyd
ct uX. to Patrick f. Hannah lot 81,
block 8; SO.
RENO-John Banks ct .ux. to Wesley
Banks, lot 81, block /; $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-06
FOLK WORKS OUT
APR|MARY PLAN
Outlines His Ideas at Luncheon
of the Common Coun-
sci Club.
KEEPS STATES AS UNITS
IN NATIONWIDE VOTE
Believes Some Such Program Only
One Which Has Chance of
Adoption.

Outlining plan for presidential pref
eiehce primaries. which he declared ia
ee the only one that stands a chance of
being adopted, Joseph w. Folk, solicitor
OF the State Department, former Cow
ernor of Missouri and president of the
newly formed Common Counsel Club, de-
ilvered an address today at a luncheon Of
that organization, he'd at the University
Club, following which his scheme. was
discussed in detail by cabinet officers and
members of the Senate and House of
Representatives who were present
Mr.. Folk based his belief expressed
to reporter for The Star. that the
plan he outlined is the only one that
stands a chance of being adopted, on
the ground that it preserves the rights
of the states, as against other plans,
which do not. He added that infor-
NAL discussion before the luncheon
and after it by senators and representa-
t1ves who were present showed that
they agreed with him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-06
GARDEN TRANSFER
AID TO j. s. POLICY
CONTINUED from First Page.)

Mexico, is now in London. in consulta-
ton with the foreign office on the sub
ject of his projected appointment to
Mexico.
Sir Lionel Garden will, it is understood,
remain at Mexico City for another two
weeks, as the term of six months for
which he was appointed does not expire
until January IS. The date of his de-
parture may be postponed till after that
date, in order that his successor may
have time to arrive at the legation and
take up his duties. Mr.. Marling. who is
in his fifty-second year, is Companion
of the Order of the Bath, and also of the
Order Of ST. Michael and St. George. He
is son of Sir William Henry Marling
and a graduate of Cambridge University.
officials of the foreign office would
not discuss Sir Lionel Gardens forth
coming transfer from Mexico City to
Rio de Janeiro. They were consider
ably surprised to discover that the In
tentions of the government had leaked
out. 1t generally is understood the
government takes much the same view
as the public, that the minister has not
been entirely discreet in handling the
situation in Mexico, although the gov
eminent does not believe he has done
anything to justify severe criticism.