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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-08-28
The non-reservation Indian farmer

ion. The non-reservation Indian farmer
was an experiment about eight per cent
successful. Once the theory was held of
distribution and settlement among white
farmers Isolated, unprotected and proved
upon by the unscrupulous whites; exploited
and demoralized by the purveyorS CT red
liquors, Lo had only fighting chance away
from, Reservation restrictions Too much
money and too much temptation are tests of
character for the strong. Everest and his
two farmers, S. ], Stienstra and Arthur |.
Doane, find their greatest usefulness in con-
structive work among the remnant Of nom
reservation Indians as we'll as among the
alIottee farmers.
There is sneaking notion prevalent
that this same red liquor was the lure which
stimulated non-rescrvation farming. So the
success of the Indian farmer cannot in all
fairness be judged by the failures of this
experiment
The patience, unfailing courtesy and re-
probably for much Of his success in develp-
ing the splended farms now in the making.
About 1900 persons are under the care Of
the agency. He is a graduate of the Wis
consn College, is splendid live stock man
and an experienced dairyman. His assistant
Mr.. Doane was recently transferred from
LII, To-
MINI, where he has had seven years Of SIM
liar service
The Government will probably build
roads rapidly to reach more of the eighty
acre allotments. The Department is inclined
to give Mr.. Everest free hand in his plan
of fam development and the 20 per cent
of agriculture will increase as rapidly as
roads are built and land is cleared. The
good example of the few is making the
change--a change in two years which is
almost incredible to those who have prophet
ed failure. Chief George Messenger, one
of the recognized chiefs Of the band looks on
with approval. Long ago he turned lo'the
ways Of the farmer. Ge-ga-ki-ash or Chief
Blackbird. meaning the destroying wind or
the hurricane, owns some mighty thrifty
looking acres Of bottom land in clover and
wheat and oats. Stienstra SAYS it IS worth
s200. 90 an acre. Mr.. George Messenger
speaks no English. He is pure Chippewa
and some farmer himself
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-08-28
OF INDIAN FARMS
Continued From Front Page,

the life in the open, are proud of their farms
are fond of their live stock VIII they
make good? The agent belives they will.
Example is great teacher and the John
Forcia barn has been wonderful Stlmulant.
Five hundred acres Of the most fertile land
in Ashland County has been cleaned within
year on the reservation, Twelve of the
finest barns in the county belong to the In
dams. John Rabideax, an Indian farmer
is also carpenter and his place is a JOY to
behold Jim Bungo and John Frost have
teams of sleek, sound horses, big fellows OF
the true workable kind The Mike Couture
heard Of high garde Holsteins is a promise
of dairy wealth to come. Frank Smart,
one of the younger set Of good habits and
and clean mind has fenced $40 acres Of
pasture land. MIR. Everest has encouraged
him in his ambition to summer feed beet
cattle on the knee high clover OF his ranc H.
He will try this out next year. Live stock
Farming is the Indians natural choice of
agricultural pursuits. The pastoral life for
him.
What better way TO conserve the Indian
funds than in developing the acres of the
most fertile lands in the county which are
contained in the Bad River Reservation?
The agent encourages farm buildings Of per-
manent structure, concrete piers, concrete
celIers. Charley Manypenny Las modern
| equipment throughout, hay carrier, swing
| ing stanchions, vermin proof granary and he
| is proud accordingly and praises the new re-
giIne IN Indian affairs which permits him
and his trihesmen to put their funds in plac-
| es where the moths and booze joints cannot
corrupt and the degenerate white men steal.
| Be it said to the credit of the dignitaries
at Washington, they are in full accord with
the policy of this man Everest. So called
government employees called "Indian far
mers' there Rave been on the Reservation
| in the past. Weather or not they were
misnomers from choice or necessity under
i the old regime, certain it is that they are
not now mere CLERKS. The Bad River Band
has two agricultural representatives if you
please. They perform the same functions
as the regular county agents They slim
ulate. advice, serve and act for the farmers
and the agricultural development of the In
dams farms. Swivel chair effort and advice
has no place in the new scheme of contract
with the man on his own land and in his
own environment. Barn plans. drainage
problems and ratations schemes keep these
two instructors on the jump.
Not al Of the Band is On the Reseryat-
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-08-28

JOS. Connors and wife were in Ashland
"Wednesday last.
Pat Dornedy was in the village Wednes-
day II the interest Of his campaign for sher-
itF 81 Ashland county.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
American Farmers in Canada.

While thousands of our American farmers
who went TO Canada have seen the error of
their way and returned, the stream Of emigra-
ton northward has not ceased In March OF this
year. reports show, $500 experienced Yankee
farmers took up their homes in the western
provinces of the Dominion. They represented n
combined capital of S1,776,OOO in cash and
$1,132,0O0 in settlers effects In the year 1918,
of the $4,000 newcomers to Canada, lie, 900
we're citizens of the United States. Thus we see
that while many are returning to the States"
after giving Canada fair trial, others are going
to take their places.
One effect Of this migration for Canada will
be good farming in its newer sections. Another
effect for both Canada and the United States
will be undoubtedly closer mutual relations,
both from business and political standpoint.
Commercially, this effect is already reflected in
the demand for American made agricultural
machinery, immense quantities of which are now
going from our factories to Canada's farms
Thus already the migrating American has Gre
ated new markets for home industry.
Then the American investor has followed
the farmer, just as the American drummer fol-
lows the missionary into the Businesses OF for
egn lands more distant than Canada. In 1913,
for example American investments, according to
reliable sources of information, amounted to
$G97OO0,O00. as against $417, 900, 900 in 1911.
OF this former sum $3.50. 900 900 went into
land, mills, mines and factories in British
Columbia and $4,000, 900 into the prairie prov
inces. In 1913 Canada sold 1851, 900 900 Of
new Canadian industrial bonds and the United
States took more than did Canada ITSELF while
Mother England bought only one-fifth OF the en-
tire issue.
Just here II is interesting to note a revival
of the fear in England that this steady coming
together of the business elements of Canada and
the United States is sure to produce what
Mother England pleases to call the American
isation OF Canada" From the figures just
quoted. It appears that the dear old mother is
not doing all she might In the premises to ward
off such baleful contingency. Canada and the
United States are bound TO come even yet closer
together from every standpoint, simply for the
reason that II is TO their mutual advantage and.
80 far as Americans are concerned, they are
not greatly exercised over these periodical tides
of emigration flowing into the Dominion
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
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Brief OoutE1butions On tiznsly
TOPICS Invited. Ths nee assumes
no responsibility for ogtnaons 81
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jeot 70 cozhsnsatiOn by sdito1.
Her. = Bunch Of Prediction.

Here's n Bunch of Predictions.
NORTH BOUP. Neb.. Aug. 2s.-To the
Editor Of The Bee: There has been a
great amount Of discussion in recent
years with respect TO planetary disturb
ance on the earths atmosphere by which
weather conditions and rainfall arc af-
fected.
About fifteen years ago 1 began the
study OF this subject by sending each year
to Washington, d. c., for the work known
as the Ephemeris. or Nautical Almanac.
This work IL prepared three years in ad-
vance by the government, at hundreds
of thousands of dollars of expense, and
all positions Of the planets. down to the
minute, are recorded so that those posi-
tons may be known by turning to the
proper table. At the beginning of each
year 1 copied into a small pocketbook the
various positions and configurations of
the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter Saturn, Uranus. Neptune and all
moon changes, showing exactly the day
and hour of the phenomenae and the
combinations of those phenomena.
This gave me an opportunity to make
notes on the weather condltions-tempera-
ture, wind velocity. tornado and rainfall.
Many years studied weather conditions
from that data. 1 find that magnetic
conditions stand at the bottom of most
weather changes Those magnetic condi-
lions are certainly caused from reversed
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES known as positive
and negative.
II have reached the proper conclusion.
Venus has a greater influence over our
atmngDhnFA than al.
sun. This Is from the fact that it's orbit
Is adjacent 10 the earth and sun. Mag
netic conditions vary by the same rule
by which heat and light are measured
since Venus. being n very small planet
ana Jupiter very large planet, the
former being near the earth and sun and
the latter far from the earth and sun. to
apply the rule OF heat and light would
greatly diminish the magnetic force of
Jupiter on reaching the earth's atmo-
sphere. To double the distance of the
source of heat and light divides the force
OF heat and light by four.
In the study of this science for twoptv
years j feel >certain that a set Of rules
may be established by which the wet
ana dry periods of the seasons. on any
part OF the earth's surface NAV he de-
terInined In advance of the phenomena
IL this shall be accomplished the benefit
70 farmers in sowing and reaping crops
ana the benefit TO transportation COM
panies In protecting from floods would
amount to hundreds of millions of dollars
annually.
some of the most exceptional planetary
positions are to occur 70 the month y,
september 1914 Reeinninp ,,,,.L A. 49,,
ol .ne month and continuing period of
twenty days. II you see extensive floods
""idstorns' hail and tornado. especially
III the mississippi valley. do not be sur
prised' am saying this because condi-
lions seem exceptional.
WALTER JOHNSON.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
Answering When Opportunity Knocks

The new president of the Burlington rail-
road system, Hale Holden. is a comparatively
young lawyer, with almost no experience as
rallroader. His chief claim to fame just now is
that he had an opportunity thrown in his way
one day and cinched it clean and cold" as we
say here in the west.
Chosen to represent the railroads in the IA
nous Minnesota rate case at time when he
was recognized as a fairly good lawyer at the
Kansas City bar he had sense enough to know
that this was chance Of a lifetime. Maybe John
j. ingalls, was right, after all. Anyway. Hale Hol-
den was taking no chances on opportunity
knocking twice at his door. He laid himself out
on that brief. He was right in thinking II
might land him something big
The brief caught the eye of James ]. Hill.
and II must have been exceptional to do that.
Mr.. Hills eye is small, but 1t never fails to get
all round the biggest objects. Mr.. Hill in 1897
offered Mr.. Holden the position of general at
torney for the Burlington, and three years later
he was advanced TO assistant to the president
and then vice president Now. at the age OF as.
Mr.. Holden becomes president of the road.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
workmcn,. Comnen.ntinn.

OMAHA Aug, 2S.-To the Editor of
The Bee The writer OF the letter signed
"A Taxpayer" assumes that the so-called
workmen's compensation law enacted by
the last legislature will go into effect
when the referendum vote is cast at the
coming election; that the law will put an
end to personal injury litigation as be-
tween employer and employee; and that
on account OF the decrease in litigation,
the number of judges in this district
should be reduced. TO save a few thousand
dollars expense TO the county
"A Taxpayer" puts the dollar above
the man. The so-called compensation
law. which in my judgment was passed
through the tireless efforts OF the insur-
ance lobby, is not compensation law
in any true sense of the word, but is
purely and simply a confiscatlon law Of
the worst description. II confiscates or
takes from the lahoring man practically
every right that he has worked more
than a generation to acquire. And fur
Their than this, It would not do away
with litigation or lessen litigation as "a
Taxpayer seems to think.
There Is no provision in this so-called
compensation law which insures the pay
ment OF even the meagre allowances
which Il provides II the employer re-
fuses TO pay the installments from week
to week. the injured employee will be
obliged TO bring suits in endless num-
Der. which instead OF decreasing, will
increase the litigation.
Where. at the present time. for total
disability the laboring man. would get a
Ia.eg -. eurn ma
more, II eventually successful under this
law. get probably 5000 OF 5000 in the
course OF thirty years,
But II the lsboring men of this state
will read this law and use their brains
TO think about Il; and II the people of
this state in general will exercise their
humanity and their consideration for
their fellowmen. this law will be over
whemlngly defeated.
So far as the injured man is concerned.
the best provision in the law is that re-
lRting TO total disability. and this pro-
vision Is so inhuman as to be almost I'M
thinkable.
WIN the people OF this state vote for
such an inhuman thing as this so-called
compensation law. and forever deprive
the laboring man OF the rights that he
now has. even In order 20 reduce the
number OF our Judges. or save "A Tax
payer" the few pennies that he may have
to contribute to tho matltainsnce OF our
courts as at present oohducted2
More than 500 OF tie electors OF this
state filed q petition asking that this
question be submitted TO the voters al
the referendum election next November.
and they will then have an opportunity OF
answering the question
GEORGE e. NORMAN,
Former President Central Labor Union
| OF Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
The German Advance

Allowing for bias and cooring, the only
conclusion possible from official reports ema-
mating from all the different military intelli-
gence bureaus is that the German advance
across the French and Belgian borders has been
going steadily forward.
Had the kalser's armies dashed across the
frontier at the outset it would not have evoked
great surprise. for the reputation Of the German
military machine had been built so high that Il
was believed to be capable Of almost any mag
Unable achievement at arms. That the allies
have held the Germans in check for nearly a
month, and made their progress as slow and
costly as 1t has been, merely testfies to the fact
that the armies and Notifications OF France,
Belgium and Great Britain were popularity I'M
derrated, particularly their preparedness to re-
slst sudden onslaught
The Germans, however, concededly have the
numbers, the implements Of war, the war chest
and the master military minds, which in COM
bination constitute the formidable engine for
aggressive campaigning. Germany has been
able to pick for itself the field Of operations and
its armies are not disappointing expectations
Repeating an expression already quoted by
The Bee, THE Lord fights with the battalons. -
While the fortunes Of war may smile on one side
or the other, in the long run the only way the
Germans can be kept from the supreme victory
is by the development by the allies OF a superior
military force. for which, II possible at all, time
and money will be needed
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
~ eHzS Az.svt~ GsuM4


The paving Of Farnsm street toward the com
pletion OF which it's merchants have long cast any
ious eyes. was finished today The street car COM
pany completed it's Fart OF the street and ran i,s
track up 20 the west line OF Fifteenth which look
81 II Il Intended at distant day 20 run its cars
past the court house
new republican state committee has been organ
ized with c. Z. Yost chairman. The Omaha mem
oers are Isaac Hascall and W. F. Beehel
The Union Pacifics outcassed the Keolxuks IN
their game. which resulted in a TO nothing VIC
tory for the home team.
The resignation Of General Manager s. H. H. Clarx
OF the Union Pacific y officially announced by Pres
Gent Charles Francis Adams. The same order makes
9. r. Galloway second vice president and general
manager. effective September L
Rev. T. C. Hall ana bride returned from Europe
today.
Miss Annie scanneil. who has been visiting her
uncle. John Hussie. left fer her home in Chicago
Goodly Brucker returned from an extensive west
ern trip lasting six weeks during which he went as
far as San Francisco and Portland.
Andy McAusland Of New York City Is IN Omaha
visiting relatives and friends.
J. NJ Fairchld the expert electrician. who has
been here for the last nine months Installing the
electric light plant, has returned 10 New York
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
In Other Cities

Paris has about Us residents to the acre
to London's fifty.
Pittsburgh is making determined efforts
TO abate smoke nuisance.
Philadelphia is now using It's new North
east boulevard, which cost S3000,OO0.
wnliamsville. n. Y. has celebrated a
Come Back Day" for the benefit Of eX-
lies.
Cleveland will enforce city ordinance
prohibiting sale OF parlor matches after
September l.
Water from King solomon's sealed
fountain is now plped through the streets
Of Jerusalem.
Cleveland's city paving is said oy sono
automobilists to be the worst in the
United States.
Philadelphia is completing two new lnu.
nicipal piers between Catherine and
Christian streets.
st. Paul Christian Scientists have
opened a new temple at Summit avenue
and Grotto street
Philadelphians plan erection Of an office
and religious building as a memorial to
DR.. Philip Schaff.
Hollidaysburg, Pa, has demolished a
building erected in 1865, TO make way for
q business structure.
Memphis, Tenn, school board has dis
charged number of veteran teachers for
age reasons, without pensions
photograph carried in a case resemb-
ling a camera by a man who freIuents
crowds is a Partisan advertising novelty.
The Asiatic town of Maiwatchi on the
borders of Russia, is inhabited by men
only. Women are forbidden entrance
to IL.
An enterprising laundrvman IN Paris
uses captive balloon TO lift the clothing
which he washes high into the air to dry
and bleach, uncontaminated by the dust
of the city.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
THE LESSON.

Ella A. Tanning in New York Sun.
She gazes at her little brood,
Their clamorous wants she must supply.
New tenderness is in her tones
oh, blest and happy mother I!
But yesterday this humdrum life,
Its homely BURDENS, wearied me.
Impatient l, and discomfort
My cares were all that l could sect
From dawn to dusk new tasks arose
How blessed each one seems todayi
The plain farm duties How joy
Here, safe, protected, dull, to stayi
The plenteous fields are stretching wide
The quiet village lies below,
No rumor comes of pillage. want
There's no alarm of threatening foel
Gay hollvhocks nod by the wall,
The boughs with ripening fruit hang
low.
From yonder oat field sounds the voice
OF one whose fealty we'll I know!
God pity woman oversee,
Who husbands, sons, must give to die!
God make me thankful! They deserved
Love, safety, peace, as much as IT,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
Price Boo.tinE Masn,f,ea.

OMAHA. Aug a.-To the Editor OF The
Bee: j think something ought to be done
to get after the INSCRIPTIONS price boost
ers right here in Omaha. A lot of our
shopkeepers have marked things up that
nave been standing on their shelves for
months or years Just because they have
tho war pretext. friend of mine broke
MS glasses and when he had the lens
replaced discovered that he was being
charged quite q little more than he paid
the last time, and when he protested he
was told that the price had gone up be-
cause some OF the lenses used by optl-
clans come from Germany. Are people
going to stand for that all along the
line! KICKER.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
The War-WhO's to Blame?
shadow Of the Russian Bear.
Hams Heinz Ewers in Fatherland.


This war had to come Everybody in Europe mas
known 1t for years Sooner later il had to be de-
cided which was TO be master I'm Europe the west or
the east. The west-that means Germany. France,
England and Italy. The east-Russis.
Germany's only foe first and last is Russia RUS
STA, first and is the eternal Of England and
Austria Should Hohenzolern and Hapsburg be de-
feated, Russia would be the nvincibe and con-
queror Of England Italy and France. The defeat Of
Germany in this would result in nothing else than
the beginning OF Muscovite throughout the
world a supremacy which sooner later, but quite
Inevitably would ovcrrun Asia and America as
well.
Let the Yankee well the Japanese bear this
in mind! For this Is the most signal weakness OF all
diplomats: they go in for a day-to-day policy
They lack that far-sighted breadth of vision which
Bismarck had and whichever though only by In
stinct-has governed every of Russian diplomacy
for The defeat she sustained in the japanese
war but a pin-prick in the hide Of Russia just
the Crimean hardly feeling IT, she pushes
her masses steadily toward Berlin and Stockholm,
she does toward Constsntinople, India and the
shores Of the China seas.
This is not an essentially German point of view:
1t is the positive knowledge of farsghted Euro
pean. Bernard Shaw expressed this idea just as
clearly / do.
And so convinced of this is the German emperor
that he lays aside all other considerations with the sole
object Of preventing it, He is fighting for Germany
but the time he Is fighting for the civilized
world
Hence the violation of the neutrality of Belgium
and Luxembourg hence the desperate queries to Italy,
Sweden, Belgium, Holland Are you with us or
against us?" Which neither more less
than: Are you with against yourselves
Just as the Magyar for centuries the guardian
OF the west against Islam. today is Germany the
guardian OF the west-that is to say the worlds cu-
ture-against the Turks successor, the Russian.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-29
People and Events

The estate of b F.. Keith. the theater owner, ad-
mited probate in Pittsburgh. Is valued at 100000
Gus Bruno, at time prominent character
comedian died Monday in New York. aged IS years
Thomas G. Plant. a retired shoe manufacturer OF
wolfboro N. H., fined cent and costs for beat
ing reporter who tried take pictures OF his estate
Plant has appealed the case.
The American minister at The Hague, Prof Henry
Van Dyke denies a report published in Berlin that
his had enlisted In the German army
Forencio Constantine the operate tenor, lie again
confined to prison for debt, His bondsmen gave him
up. He owes $4,000 to Oscar Hammerstein on Jug
ment for bnAch of contract
Three Smiths have filed for places the primary
ticket at Atlanta. Ca. They. Frank f. Smith.
city tax collector; John Y Smith recorder. and
Charles W. smith, for alderman.
son was born In London Monday TO the Prin-
cess Arthur OF COnnought Prince Arthur and ths
duches Of Fife were married August rs 1913 at St
James Palace He is a Of the duke OF cOnnaught.
BENJAMIN NJ Bolton. biologist OF the Maryland
agricultural experiment station at College Park Nd.
has been engaged by the Cuban government TO take
charge determination Of hog cholera IN the island
republic