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The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04

1t is reported by the Los An
geles Tribune that 1000 people
have shipped from Seattle for
the land of the Yukon since the
bill for the opening up of Alas
ka's resources through the con-
struction of railroads was signed
by the president.
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04

The only way we can figure to
stop the war in Mexico, is for all
of their citizens to take turn at
being president and then after
they have all had a try at it, to
elect a regular president from
among the presidents.
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04

Now that Ireland has got home
rule after so long a struggle,
they are fighting amongst them
selves, and it looks like Johnny
Bully would have trouble in max
ing his Ulster" fit.
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04

New York is said to have 700,
900 men out of employment.
The worst of it is, these figures
refer only to the laboring classes
and do not include the multitude
of millionaire buns and molly
cOddleS.
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04

Dean William Scarlet Of Trinity
pro-cathedral, Phoenix, and DR.. R. d.
Kennedy, a Globe physician, have
been appointed members of the board
of regents. This makes eight mem
bers. Governor. Hunt plans to IN
crease the membership to the legai
limit of ten.
Chief Justice Alfred Franklin has
issued signed statement denying that
he is a candidate for United States
senator, and announcing that he hopes
to succeed himself on the supreme
bench. Former Chief Justice A. c.
Baker has stated positively that be
will not enter the senatorial race
Roland Johnson, business man of
Tempe, is democratic candidate for
the corporation commission.
1t has been announced that two of
the trotting stakes at the state fair
this year will be known as the "Calu
met & Arizona" and the Copper
Queen" This has been decided upon
by the commissioners to show their
;e,+o u
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04

The Mexicans are losing valu-
able time by not putting Villa in
as president, so that they can
start another general revolution.
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04
Graft Pig Eye
Into Child'S Head

Sight was given to the left eye
of David Kane, the nine months
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Kane of Gettysburg, Maryland,
through grating of the cornea of
a pigs eye to the child's eye ball.
According to the statemento of the
physicians at the hospital the
cornea of a pigs was used be-
cause it is said to more closely
resemble the human cornea than
that of any other animal.
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04
Neos a,s heos
From
e't Capitol sf6rlzooa

Issued by Arizona News Bureau
Arizona gheepmen are experiencing
their first satisfactory season In four
years, according to Hugh E. Camp
bell, president of the Arizona Wool
crnmnrs, assnciatinn Though the Clip
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04

LOST. "A stop watch. Finder
please return to HERALD office
and receive 81 reward. M28tf
The Snowflake herald., 1914-04-04
A Paper for the Home Circle.

Snowflake is town of TOO population
with over 800 surrounding population,
ranchers, farmers, stockraisers. 1t is
the home of Snowflake Stake Academy.
Just built at a cost of $4,000. And
home office of Supervisor of Sitgreaves
National Forest, containing the largest
body of standing pine timber in the
United States.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

grams show the position Of these beds.
The larger bed measured fully twenty
feet in width with twelve inches of
deposit in center, diminishing to
point at the edge. This bed was ten
feet from the surface. Other beds
were from three to five feet from the
surface, but a great deal smaller and
showed a more cup-shaped deposit of
alkali These deposits. were very dis
tinct, consisting of a solid layer of
very white mass of salts and fine
silt. Apparently the soil beneath had
very little alkali and the alluvial soil
deposited by overflow above them con-
tanned none.
1t is very difficult to get a stand of
any kind OF crop on these spots, II
even a very light rain falls shortly
after planting before the grain has
any chance to make growth above
ground. Even If a stand is obtained,
at the first dry spell the crop will suf-
fer. Cultivation is difficult, as the
condition of the soil in these depres-
sions never corresponds with that of
the surrounding soils, being either too
dry or too wet.
have employed two methods to i'm
prove these depressions. In small de-
pressions, l haul soil from portions OF
the farm where 1t can be spared, and
fill in. For the larger depresslons, !
take team and scraper (road Slip,
commencing on one side, taking out
one scoop full of the alkali, carrying
1t off some distance out of the way;
then bringing back two full and de-
post in the depression.
These operations must be kept up
until the soil on the alkali spot is
somewhat higher than that surround
ing, to prevent the gathering of storm
water. A load of manure will repay
the surroundings of the ex-alkali spot
for the soil taken away to fill the de-
preston. The work required is not
of such amount but that it will pay
for it the first season and could be
done during odd times in fall and win
ter, if the proper energy can be mus
tered up.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
JUDGES PROVIDED FOR FAIRS
A. and M. College Aids Counties in
Agricultural Exhibits

Providing judges for state, county
and local fairs is part Of the varied
duties assumed by the extension divi-
sion OF Oklahoma A. and NJ college:
Representative from the college act
ed as judges at forty-eight of these
fairs in 1918 and a much larger num-
Der could be handled if the college
were notified, IN time to arrange
schedules for these experts.
The expert sent out from the col
lege is more than Judge of exhibits.
He is a teacher with object lessons
to draw on. He mingles with the
farmers and answers questions or
takes names and addresses of per-
sons who want bulletins on special
subjects Frequently the fair manage
ment makes arrangements for infor-
NAL lectures in connection with the
exhibits.
In order to facilitate the work of
judging fairs this season, Dean Pit
tuck is sending out to fair managers
questions as follows:
"1-Where will your 1914 fair be
held?
"2-When?
"S-Is it to be county or local
fair?
"4-What class Of exhibits do you
want the college to furnish expert
judges for-Farm crops? Livestock?
Home economics?
"5-On which day or days OF your
fair are the exhibits to be judged?"
Where possible, county contests in
the A. and M. college boys and girls
agricultural clubs will be held in con-
nection with the county fairs. These
contests are in corn, kafr, milo, fet-
erita and cotton, peanuts, and cow
peas, pig and poultry raising, sewing,
cooking and home canning. Yields
made last year in these contests were
highly creditable. Where county fairs
are bald on dates that will permit the
clubs exniohs to be brought to the
fair and the fair management will pro-
vide quarters for these exhibits, the
county contests will be decided at
that time.
1t is necessary in these county
clubs contests that the exhibits be
judged by a representative of the col
lege or some person appointed by the
college. If held at the time of the
county fair these contests could be
judged by the representatives sent
out TO judge other exhibits and waste
full duplication could be avoided,
AS a great many county. fairs are
held just prior to the state fair in
order that the hest exhibits may be
sent to the big fair, early September
is usually a busy period for the ex-
tension division workers.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
ALKALI SPOTS
A DETR|MENT
LARGE PATCHES EXIST ON MANY
FARMS THROUGHOUT
OKLAHOMA.
FILLING IN THE BEST REMEDY
BY Hauling In Good Soil From Other
Parts Of the Farm, the Defee-
tive Spots Can Be Per-
manentIy Buried.

Many farms in Oklahoma have al
kali spots scattered over the fields
which materially diminish the average
production of the whole field Small
amounts OF alkali are beneficial 10
most OF the crops, but large amounts
art detrimental. Some legumes, sor-
ghum and beet family, will do fairly
well on such land and will take up
large amount of the alkali, but their
feeding quality diminishes with the
amount so taken. These alkali spots
are low depressions in the field and,
from the opinion of the best authority,
are the results of I've water gathering
after the lands have been burned off,
followed by rain, and after evapora-
ton leaving the solid alkali mixed
with fine silt as deposit in these low
depressions.
1t was my good fortune, some thirty
years ago, to be for several days in
company with the Texas state geolo-
gist and we had the opportunity to
notice number Of these alkali beds,
where the river had cut new chan.
mel and left the bank very abrupt to
the height of 10 to II feet. The dia-
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
WAS NOT A REBUKE
Little Comfort for Republicans
in New Jersey Election.
District Is Normally Republican and
the Result Could Not Come as a
Surprise to the Leaders
of the Party.

The result Of the congressional cleo,
ton in the Seventh New Jersey dis
trict appears to have been reversal
for President Wilson to the precise
extent that failure of the local Demo
crat candidate and his hackers to
keep the Progressives and Republic
ans apart may indicate a Democrat
failure. All the personal appeal OF
the candidate and all the support
given him by the president, in pub
lie letter OF commentator and by
authorized oratory from Senators
James and Lewis, did not avail to
argue large number of Progressives
out of voting the Republican ticket
Some political diagnosticians may re-
gard this as proof of Democrat weak
ness; others will not.
This Seventh New Jersey district
is normally Republican, by an over
whelming vote. In the Republican,
Progressive split of 1912 Democrat
congressman, Representative Brem-
ner, whose ill health created great
deal of sympathy, slid through. When
Bremner was elected the Progressives
polled 4,476 votes. In the recent cleo
ton they polled GIG. What Progress
i've party strength may have gone to
the Democrats, as an eastern com
mentator of wontedly judicious tenn
per observes, was easily Offset by
Democrat defections to an unusually
strong Socialist candidate. Whether
this detail is exact or not, the obvious
showing, as the New York World re-
marks, is that Republicans and Pro-
gressives saw a chance to make a kill
ing by getting together, and they got
together.
In Boston district, nominally
Democrat, It will have been noted
the Democrats held their own and re-
turned Democrat congressman
Neither result seems to have had a
legitimately national application for
the enlightenment of those seeking
light as to the trend of opinion in the
matter of the tariff, canal tolls and
other large questions. The issues
were the same in both districts.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Runs The Limitation.

The McCully bill, proposing an
amendment to the constitution levy
ing a gross production tax of three
per cent on oil and gas will not be
submitted to vote of the people, it
having failed to be initiated by expira-
ton of the legal time within which
petitions must be filed. The proposed
amendment was filed January 81, 1914,
and the legal limit of ninety days has
therefore expired. 1t was proposed by
McCully to place tax of three per
cent on the gross production Of oil
and gas wells in lieu of other taxes.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Candidates Begin to file Names

Secretary Ben Riley, of the state
election board, has begun to receive
applications of those who wish to file
as candidates in the statewide pri-
mary election of August 5. Mr.. Riley,
for some time, has been sending out
application blanks to those asking for
them, but few candidates as yet have
asked for filing blanks.
The first Democratic candidate to
make application for filing blank was
]. R. Strang, of Hugo, who is a can
didate for DISTRICT judge. Thus far
Mr.. Riley has received no inquiries
from Republicans, but a number of
Socialist candidates have asked for
information and filing blanks. Under
the law all candidates must file with
the secretary Of the board before
their names can be placed on the
ticket in the primary election.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
OIL Firm Asks Mandamus Writ

Application for writ of mandamus
to compel the Texas company 10 show
cause for refusing to transport the
oil production of the Quaker Oil and
Gas Co. in the Cushing field was filed
in district court at Oklahoma City.
The Quaker company alleges that the
Texas company, as a common carrier,
has a esix-inch pipe accessible to its
field, but has failed and still refuses
to take its output, although it regu-
larly handles that produced by wells
on adjoining oil fields.
The Quaker Oil and Gas Co., in the
petition, represents itself as the own
er of an oil and gas lease on the
Jeanette Richards allotment, known
as northeast quarter 4-17-7 east, in
Creek county,
1t is alleged that the plaintiff be-
gan operations on that lease January
/, 1914, and now has five wells pro-
ducing oil thereon, and is drilling five
or six more wells. 1t is set forth that
the first well drilled produced rs bar
rels of oil per hour and that the other
wells have produced a good flow. 1t
is alleged that all the wells combined
on the plaintiffs lease are now pro-
ducing 10000 barrels daily.
According to the plaintiff, the lands
adjoining its lease are covered by
leases owned by Gunsburg and For
man, the Prairie Oil and Gas Co., B.
B. Jones, T. B. Slick and the Produc-
ers' Oil Co. 1t is alleged that the
Producers Oil Co. is corporation
engaged in marketing oil products and
that its stock is owned almost en-
tirely by the Texas company.
1t is told in the petition that the
Producers Oil Co. owns an oil and
gas mining lease covering what is
known as the Anna Mcintosh allot-
ment, comprising eighty acres. 1t is
alleged that this lease has wells pro-
lucing $500 barrels of oil daily and
that the Texas company runs this
production to market through its six
inch pipe line, which is also accessi-
BILE to the lease of the plaintiff. 1t is
stated that the pipe line has a capac-
ity of 10000 barrels handled daily, put
that defendant refuses to purchase
and transport the production of the
plaintiff.
The petition contends that this pipe
line is depended upon by the plaintlff
for marketing its production and that
while the defendant pretends to be in
business to transport oil without dis
elimination against any particular
product, 1t refuses. to handle that Of
fered it by the Quaker company.
The plaintiff alleges that it has de-
veloped its wells at heavy expense,
drilling to depth of about $500 feet
under the requirements of its lease,
and has struck layer of oil sand 70
to 100 feet in thickness,
It is further stated that the plain
tiff is required by the department OF
the interior to develop the wells on
it's leased land diligently, but is pre-
vented from so doing by the failure
of the Texas company to assist in
the marketing of its output. &c.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
1855 #%#**+*+**+ ::
, !
+ RULES FOR RAISING BEEF i

= RULES FOR RAISING BEEF i
! !
+ + + + + 80 ! = + 81 = = = !
Uuseful rules for raising beef sue
cessfully in the South are given in
Farmers Bulletin $50 just issued by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture under the title of Beef Pro
duction in the South" After discuss
ing in some detail the available pas
ture lands and grasses, the Bulletin
summarizes conditions as follows:
Eradicate the tick
Good pastures are essential.
Plant pasture grasses over the
waste lands.
Use purebred beef bulls for grading
up the native stock.
Always select the best heifers for
breeding purposes.
Use the coarse fodder, straws, and
the stalk fields for wintering the
breeding herd.
Wean the calves when pastures get
short. Put them in the corn field and
pea fields while weaving and teach
them to eat cottonseed cake or cot
tonseed meal.
Raise and finish beef cattle on the
same farm when possible.
A mixture of cottonseed meal, cot
tonseed hulls, and alfalfa hay is a
good ration for fattening calves.
Silage is the best roughage for fat
tening any class of cattle.
More care is necessary in feeding
calves than in feeding grown cattle.
At the present prices corn silage is
cheaper and better feed for fatten-
ing beef cattle than cottonseed hulls.
Hulls and cottonseed meal make an
excellent feed for a short feeding Pc
riod, but do not produce good gains
on cattle after the third month
1t is not entirely satisfactory to use
corn stover as the sole roughage.
When Johnson grass hay cost $40
and hulls 81 per ton it is more prof
table to feed the hulls alone.
ouhimVi lCSulu6 vi INC pasture 10
usually more profitable than winter
feeding.
Finishing cattle early in the sum
mer is usually more profitable than
finishing them later in the season.
Fattening steers on grass and cot
tonseed cake is nearly always more
profitable than grazing them without
| feed
Thin steers make larger and cheap
er daily gains than fleshy ones when
put on pasture.
Pound for pound, cold-pressed cot
tonseed cake is not equal to the COM
mon cottonseed cake.
The use of a small amount OF corn
in addition to cottonseed cake has
proven profitable for feeding steers on
grass.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.

May 5-S-Copfederate Veterans re
union. Jacksonville. Fla
May 5-S-state Firemen's convenuon'
Oklahoma City.
May S-S-stete Editorial Association
Ardmore.
May s-,state spelling contest, Oklahoma
City.
May 1O-12-Knights of Columbus state
convention, Guthrie.
May 11-14-State convention and 0VLh
anniversary celebration, knights OF Fyh-
las, Oklahoma City.
May 26-27-ozark Trails Good Roads
Commission, Tulsa.
May 27-Annual Santa Fe picnic, Guth-
RE
July s-Aug. Cotton school, Still
water.
Sept. S-9-1O-Caddo county fair, Binger-
Sept. photographer convention
Oklahoma City.
Sept. 22-oct 3. 1s14-state Fair. okla
homa City.
Oct: 7-17-Dry Farming Congress-
Wichita.
october--southern Commercial Con-
gress, Muskogee.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Triumph for the President.

President Wilson deserves the re
spect of every sound thinking Ameri-
can for his refusal to yield to the men
who advised the withdrawal of the
nomination OF Winthrop M. Daniels as
Interstate commerce commissioner.
The objections to Mr.. Daniels were
based on his respect for property
rights and his determination, while
serving the state of New Jersey, to
prevent the despoilment Of vested in
terests. Men of this kind are needed
in our public life. The interstate
commerce commission is just entering
on the appraisal of the railroads, and
It is imperative that the commission
should have on 1t men familiar with
railroad values and unprejudiced
enough to make proper estimate Of
their value.
Mr.. Wilson was not only brave
enough to refuse to yield to the men
who objected to Mr.. Daniels, he was
strong enough to bring about the con-
firmation of his appointee. This is q
victory for fairness and justice.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

eighteenth o
Pyhas
the will LeeIuckn
the local and $50 delegates officers
be in attendance
The will be called H. by
Grand Chancellor Stwe
grand lodge rank will be held The balance the morning afternoon will
of business
will be held and adjournment will be taken at after the o K
M Neey Royal Sir Wah Temple
Mrs Marie Ryan grand chief of the Phan Sisters will preside at their
Grand officers who expected Grand Chancellor
R. VcChancelor Donneny
Gdny
W. H.
of L.
N A.
City; H.
andH v. Chandler
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
FIremen VIII Meet in May

The twentieth annual contention
and tournament of the Oklahoma
State Firemen's association will open
at Oklahoma City May and continue
on the 6, Z, and Sth. The tournament
held annually by the association has
attracted unusual attention in recent
years because of the modern meth
DDS Of fire fighting that are exhibited,
having been introduced from time to
time into the various departments,
The convention will open with a
reception of the delegates at the Skin
win hotel Tuesday morning and the en-
tertainment for the women during
that time will be shopping tour. The
meeting will open at $3.50 o'clock on
Tuesday morning at the Skirvin with
an address of welcome by Mayor
Whit M. Grant. The Afternoon will
be devoted to the tournament at the
state fair grounds.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
school Ground For oII prIII

The Pleasant Hill Oil Co. was grant
ed a charter by Secretary of State
Ben Harrison last week. The COM
pany was organized for the purpose
of drilling for oil on the Pleasant
Hill school district campus, which is
composed OF two acres. The school
district is located in the heart of the
Cushing oil field. This is the first
time that school property has been
used for oil purposes. The incorpor.
ators Of the company are: ]. R. Had.
ley, A. L. Griffith and c. B. Mcbride.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Everything Golno Well.

The Underwood-Simmo tariff law
rs six months old. and the country, to
all appearances, still lives and does
business. With the coming Of spring
bank clearings, the only certain ba-
rometer of trade, show steady gains
over 1918, and only the railroad situa-
tion is in any way clouded. We have
mot heard, however that 1t is claimed
that there is any direct connection be-
tween the railroads and the tariff.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

President Wilson talks OF paying
Colombia $25,0OOOOO for the territory
to which we helped ourselves when we
happened to need 1t in the canal bust
ness. Rush the news to Armageddon!
Have we reached the pass where we
unprotestingly permit pusillanimous
subservience to common honesty to
dim the glory of him whose fairest
boast is: 81 took Panama"?-Hartford
Times.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
raft,s Tribute a Fine One.

Mr.. Taft, with generosity which
a defeated president has rarely ex.
hibited toward his successor, gives this
tribute of praise: II rejoice in the
existence of a situation in which the
party in power is fulfilling its prom
Uses made in the platform, and is do
ang so by following the guidance of
the head of the party, who is charged
by the people with the party's respon-
sibility."
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Few plssruntled Ones.

After all, probably not one man in
two hundred ever applied or ever will
apply for federal office, and while
that one may mourn that his claims"
are disregarded, the 1879 rejoice that
the nations chief is In better business
than the mere distribution of jobs
Chicago Journal.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Another Inning On Rate Cases.

The famous. Oklahoma passenger
rate case will come up for trial on
June 1 before Judge Youmans of the
western district of Arkansas at Okla
homa City.
The case will now have to be tried
upon its merits. The roads are fight
ing enforcement of the two-cent pas
senger rates in Oklahoma, which is
provided for in the constitution. The
railroads obtained an injunction
against such enforcement in 1908,
which is still in force, but the rail-
roads by stipulation last summer re-
turned to the two-cent rate during
the tendency of the suit in the fed
eral court.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Brick Making For States convlcts.

In letter to Governor Lee Cruce,
" v. Hardcastle, assistant city coun-
sellor Of Oklahoma City, has suggest
ed that the state convicts' labor be
used in the manufacturing of paving
brick for state roads as is now being
done in New York, Ohio and other
states with marked success. 1t is also
suggested that for diligent labor the
convicts be allotted certain portion
OF revenue received from the brick
or that it be given to the support of
the convicts' families.