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The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-29
BACKYARD IS AN
 INDEX OF CHARACTER

From a seventh story window we looked down on two back yards. They lie behind the houses of the same character; they are of one size; they are bounded by the same tight board fences. There the likness ends
 One yard is bare and brown, with patches of mud here and there. At sheds not actually out of repair, but evidently hasting thither. Against them is piled rubbish that has over flowed the original attempt to pro- vide containers. The yard is a patch of ugliness, waste of the space.
 The other yard is carpeted with the bright. fresh green of the season. through which runs a neat walk to orderly sheds that show no signs of decaying from neglect. Two little trees give promise that some day there will be cool shade on warm summer afternoons, a breathing spot in the midst of the downtown dis trict
 It isn't difficult to argue from the difference in these yards the differ ence in tO, people who occupy the houses. It means a difference in habits of living, ill ideas of cleanli- ness and thrift, and even beauty. Sometimes children play in the gras- sy yard, out in the neighboring alley is more attractive than the muddy yard. And yet one might be made as attractive as the other, not in moment, for neglect has gone too far, but with a little care and attention, which could be found as readily by the dweller in one house as the dweller in the Milwaukee Journal.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-29

IIV-VER-LAX relieves all HIS u the Liver Stomach. Get 1t from ne'- terly Drug Store. AoV~
The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-29
TEST QUE ESTIONS.

Will wives testify that since saloons came to town and husbands began to patronize them that poor and miser- able homes are now changed into places of light and happiness?
 Will the mother tell you that since there is a saloon in the neighborhood and her boy spends his evenings there, he has changed from an idle and diso- bedient son into a kind. noble and Christian man?
 Will the saloon stand this testt- Nebraska Issue.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-29
TEMPERANCE COMING.

GNTlNSG SONiiiNOts
 In her stirring address before the National w. c. T. U convention at Asbury Park N. J., and later speaking before the house judiciary committee in Washington. Mrs. Mary Harris Ar nor, the Georgia cyclone" gave some of the reasons why we may look for a "saloonless nation in 1920.' We quote:
 'I believe that Jesus Christ meant what he said and said what he me ant when he declared, All power Is given unto me in heaven and in earth and believe that the God who made the sun stand still on Gibeon, and the moon on Ajalon. at the cry of his lighting. praying believing servant, Joshua, is perfectly able to smash the liquor traffic into everlasting smither- eens, whenever we get ready.
 "'The old order changes, giving place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways. He has promised the destruction of the liquor traffic In these words, Every tree that bringeth mot forth good fruit Is hewn down and cast into the fire Certainly no man would say that the liquor traffic brings forth good fruit; hence the liquor traffic must go.
 "One of the ways in which God Is fulfilling this promise Is through his eternal truth in science. King Alec hol has marched down the ages for these thousands of years, conquerlng and to conquer, until the centuries sob with a ceaseless sorrow but at last science has burst the blood-rust- ed chain that bound her for thou sand years, has seized the shining two- edged sword of Gods eternal truth and challenges the monster to mortal combat To doubt the issue Is to doubt the sanity of the human race and the power of the everlasting God
 "I believe we shall have q saloonless nation in 1920 because public senti- ment is opposed to the liquor traffic. The persistent education along scien- tific temperance lines, instituted by the Woman's Christian Temperance union years ago, is bearing fruit today in a mighty army of young men and young women in the various religious and philanthropic organizations in our schools and colleges, and even in the halls of congress.
 The liquor traffic is doomed to speedy destruction because it is op- posed to common sense. Hasn't it al ways been opposed to common sense? Yes, but people have not been exer- cising their common sense in this di- rection until comparatively recent years, for two reasons: First, be- cause Gods eternal truth in science had not been revealed on this ques' tion as 1t is today; second. the world Is better today than ever before, and the public mind is obsessed with the idea of the preservation and prolonga tion of human life. Eugenics is the most popular fad of the day. City. state. and national governments are
The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-29
TAX ASSESSORS NOTICE
JOIIIN IT, AOLg Commissioner of Agricultur

will meet the property owners of Nevada County at the following time and places for the purpose of permit ing them to give in their taxes on their personal property
 Boughton, Boughton, Monday June 29.
 Prescott, Missouri, June 30 to July 25-
The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-29
Reduced Rates.

National Order of Mosaic Templars of America, July 21st to 25th at Tus- kegee, Alabama, for this occasion the St. L. I. M. & s. Ky will sell tickets to Tuskegee for $23.90 for the round trip, tickets on sale July 18th, 18th and 20th, return limit midnight of July 2Sth.
 c. A HAYS, Agent.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-29
Ex-sALooNkEEPER ON BEER

l claim that beer has developed and caused more drunks than whisky, and l can prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt If you want to see what our young men are polluting themselves with, just step into any saloon and watch the drinkers. You will discover that thore are fifty glasses of beer sold to every one of whisky The people get just as drunk, drinking beer, as they do drinking whisky. and it costs them the same in the end Beer Is the first intoxicant our young men get drunk on.
 LIV-VER-LAX! Better than Calo- mel. No bad effects. Ask Hesterly Drug Store, Advt.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Milk Bottle Losses.

According to figures furnished by
forty dealers to the United States de-
partment of agriculture, a milk bottle
will last for from six to fifty trips, the
average being 22k trips. If these es-
the average dealer would have to OBJ
tain a new supply of bottles every
22h days. If he delivers 10000 bot
ties a day and they cost him SIC each
his daily expense for bottles would
be $15.55 or $5,575.75 a year.
These bottles are not all lost or
broken; many of them are merely
strayed. Some of the bottles get into
the hands of other dealers and some
are dumped into the ash barrel by
persons ignorant of their value. One
million five hundred thousand bottles
were rescued from the city dumps
during three years by a milk-bottle
clearing house in n city.
Milk-bottle clearing houses, estab
lished in many cities, have done
good deal to reduce the losses in bot
ties. The clearing house helps the
dealer to recover his own bottles
Ashmen and others are paid from ~
to nc for each bottle returned. The
usual charge for bottles returned tt
the owner is from one to 1hc each
Employees of the exchanges visit thu
establishments of different dealers
regularly and return bottles not be
longing to the dealers to the ex
change headquarters, where they ar
washed, sterilized and sorted.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT.

Puyallup will vote upon an issue OF
$4,000 bonds for additional freight
ing apparatus.
Willapa Harbor fish and clam can
neries will operate at capacity during
the season opening September l. and
indications point to large and profit
able pack.
The Columbia Basin Condensed
Milk Co., backed by Portland and Sc
attic capitalists and Kelso business
men, is arranging for the establish
ment of a milk condensing plant at
Kelso.
The Willapa Harbor Oil Co. has in
a~ugurated drilling operations at Ray
mond, with two 12-hour shifts, and un
less prevented by accidents, expects
to sink a we'll 1000 feet deep within
go days.
E. R. Voorhees, and John Daniels O
Lewiston, Idaho, have leased the OLE
Sunnyside Cannery Co. building a
Sunnyside, Wash, and are opening vi
a tirst-class completely equipped
steam laundry. Messrs. Voorhees, ant
Daniels also operate a laundry at Lew
iston.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
SPOKANE WEEKLY REPORT.

Apples-There has been no change
In the local market On apples as to
prices, but the grade of stocks com
ing to hand are of better quality and
there is a good passing demand.
other Fruits-Lemons still hold at
last weeks figures but black and dew
berries are a little easier. Huckle'
berries are now offered at SC per
pound. The range in the price or
peaches has narrowed down to 400
60c and egg plant is also down to sc
@75c. Sweet Water grapes r now
offered at 5o@75c with other grades
unchanged.
Potatoes-Local stocks of the Irish
variety are now rather plentiful and
the jobbing figure is $1.25 per cwt
Sweets are off 75ce this week, the fig
r being $3.50 per cwt.
Wheat-That the growers are die
tating the wheat prices to a large ex
tent is the assertion from various
sources. 1t seems that they have the
idea thai the price is going to be mucl
higher and as o result are holding
onto their stocks, and as result there
Is very little wheat moving. That THU
state of affairs cannot hold out mucl
longer seems within the range of rea
son, az advices from the coast are t,
the effect that the terminal ware
houses are full to capacity.
There have been advances thil
week in timothy, red clover and al
falfa seed and a reactive decline il
Il 4
advance, due largely to the fact tina
the price has been kept down durinI
the last two years because of tn
large quantity of high grade German
stock imported.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
SPORTING COLUMN

The Washington state college foot
ball squad has been p%racticing stead.
lily for a week.
Harness racing in western Washing
ton is enjoying M of the best years
in its history.
Konrad Wohlfeld of the Illinois
Athletic club, national springboard
champion, recently took National A. A.
U. high diving championship.
Members of the Nelson and Gran
brook lacrosse teams are practicing
daily for their series of three games
at the Interstate fair at Spokane.
Because of the inability of Johnny
Dundee to make the required weight
the fight of the featherweight challen.
ger against Johnny Kilbane, champion,
has been called off .
More than so running and harness
horses are now Q%uartered at the
Baker county, Oregon fair ground race
track stables, preparing for the fall
race meet this month.
AT the request of both the horsemen
in Montana and British Columbia, the
~enteries for the running C at the
Spokane Interstate fair, which were to
have closed last week, have been
thrown open go close abolutely or
September ID.
With model hydro-aeroplane
launched and controlled by wireless
apparatus William Dettman won the
first prize in the event for machine!
launched by their own power at ths
aviation meet held under the auspices
of the Seattle public library at Seattle
Manchester Vt.-The twentieth
golf amateur championship of tn,
United States was won Saturday b.
Francis Quimet, of Brookline. Mass,
a member of the Woodlawn Golf club
who thus obtained national honors TO
the second time. He defeated Jerom,
D. Travers of Upper Montclaire, N. j
the 1913 title holder, by a score of
up and 5 to play.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Germans Destroy Belgian Town.

1.-THE Germans have destroyed the
Belgian town of Dinant, 15 miles south
of Namur, after shooting hundreds of
the male inhabitants because, it was
alleged, shots had been fired from the
heights overlooking the city.
THE Germans in a few hours, by
shell fire and incendiarism, destroyed
Dinant, on the Mouse. Hundreds OF
male inhabitants were shot including
one party of 100 prominent citizens
who were executed together in the
Place d'Armes.
while the shooting and burning
were going on the women residents Of
the city were confined in the con
vents"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
ON PACIFIC COAST

The body of Captain Alexander Nc
Lean, known as the "Sea Wolf, was
found recently in a shallow reach of
False creek, near Vancouver, B.. G..
He was accidentally drowned.
Denmark took title Saturday to the
site on which that nation will raise In
1915 a pavilion of exhibits at the Pa
n~ama-Pacific international exposition.
Ground was broken by the Danish
consul and there were many dedica-
tory ceremonies.
The state ~canvassing board of Ore
gon declared Judge Henry l.. Benson,
the republican nominee for judge oil
the state supreme court by one vote
over Justice Charles l.. McNary, that
being Benson's lead as shown by the
amended eturns.
Mrs. Kota Pierce Helm, known since
her arrest at Los Angeles for passing
worthless checks at Portland as June
the Blonde" was released from prison
on parole recently, and two indict-
ments for forgery returned against her
were quashed, after she had been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for an inter-
inmate term of from one to five years.
Sever Sikhs were shot, three prob
ably fatally, while attending a relig-
ious ceremony Saturday at the Sikh
temple at Vancouver, B. c. Those in
iured were members of a funeral par
-. .-I~.aI h,,t a fnx- hnllrc hnfOTp had
attended the cremation of the body OF
Argan Singh, who was fatally wound
ed Thursday a week ago in his home
in the same district in which the
shooting occurred Saturday.
The Alaska coal land leasing bill
which is to work with Alaskan railway
law for the development of the coal
resources of Alaska, was passed Satur'
day by the house. 1t now goes to the
senate. The bill provides a leasing
system for Alaska coal beds, under a
royalty of 2 cents a ton 1t particul
arly affects the Boring coal fields com
| prising $4,000 acres, and the Mattan
uska coal fields, 100000 acres. The
government railway will furnish the
means of transportation for opening
I'D these Royalties are tt
go into a special fund for developing
Alaska, particularly the railways.
In spite Of dry weather, threshins
returns from the D. M. Donnell!
ranch, near Sedro-Woolley are aggre
eating $50 bushels to the acre.
Burglars blew the safe in the stor'
of the Gardiner Mill Co. at Caroline
Monday and stole about $4,000. Their,
is no bank at Gardiner and the con
pany carried a large amount of cas-
i on hand.
, 1t is reported from southern Califol
MIA that from 10000 to 10000 tons o
: the finest walnuts rel grown in tn
: world will be harvested there thi
fall. For the first time in history, tn
crop will be marketed by an associf
e ton of walnut growers, who will pla
a system of distribution and sal
throughout the country similar to tn
. California F~ruitgrowers exchange.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
HEADS CIVIL WAR VETERANS
David J. Palmer of Iowa Elected Com
mander in Chief of G. A. r. at
National E~ncampment.

Detroit.-Comrade David j. Palmer
OF Washington, Iowa, member of the
Eighth and Twenty-fifth Iowa regi
ments in the civil war, was recently
elected commander in chief of the
G. A. r. at the closing session of the
4Sth national encampment, which has
been in session here a week.
Washington, d. c., was unanimously
chosen for the encampment place next
year.
Other officers elected we're:
Senior vice commander in chief, ].
B. Griswold, Grand Rapids; junior vice
commander in chief, f. w. Kommers,
Dallas, Texas; surgeon general, L. S.
Pitcher, Brooklyn, N. Y, and chaplain
in chief. Orville ]. Nave of California.
A committee of past commanders in
chief was appointed to frame a con-
gressional bill providing for the re
tention of all civil war veterans in
public employment, irrespective OF
their age. The resolution providing
for the appointment of the committee
was received with much applause by
the aged soldiers. Another resolution
adopted unanimously. opposed any
change in the national flag.
Commander in Chief Palmer has an
nounced the following staff appoint
ments:
Adiutaut general, George A. New
man, Des Moines; quartermaster gen
eral, D. E. Stowitz, Buffalo; assistan
quartermaster general, j. H. Holcomb
PHILADELPHIA.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Prices Show Big Raise.

Prices paid to producers for meat
animals during the month from July
Is to August Is advanced 3 per cent,
compared with an average advance
during the same period for four years
of eight-tenths of / per cent.
Figures made public by the depart.
ment of agriculture show that on Au'
gust Is the price to producers for beef
cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs and
chickens averaged $7.63 a hundred
against $500 last year, $3.50 two years
ago, 1857 tire years ago and 1861
four years ago,
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Pope in Favor of Prayers.

Paris.-A Rome dispatch to the Ha'
vas agency quotes the Bologna La
Tribuna as saying that Benedict XIV.
the new pope, in a letter August sc
wrote as follows regarding the war:
81 would regret that any cure should
show preference for one or the Other
of the belligerent nations. My ides
is to have it understood that they
should ask God for a cessation of the
scourge of val without indicating the
means"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Aug. IS, Aug. IS, July

The department of agriculture, at
Washington, D. c., On August "a, fore
casted the apple crop of the United
States at %210,000.Ooo bushels; $4,000
600 bushels more than in 1912, 25,0Oo,-
600 bushels less than in 1912 and
about 4,oO0,0 900 bushels less than In
1911. Washington state leads the
west with a forecast of 7,600,o 600 bush
els; Oregon, 3,300,o0 Idaho, 1900,
600; California, 100000, and Mon.
tana, 100000 bushels.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
homeless seIsians in London.

London.-Homeless Belgians are ar
irving in London by the thousands
daily. Mothers with tear-stained faces,
tired children and elderly folk are
found on each train arriving at Char
ing Cross from Folkestone and are
met by Red Cross nurses and volun-
eeer committees of boy scouts and car.
ried in motor cars to institutions pro
Vided for the refugees.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Austria Faces Revolution.

Paris, Sept. "a P%etrograd dis
patch to the Havas agency says that
according to information received at
the Russian capital the Austrians fear
that a revolution will break out in
Bukovina, crown land of Austria-Hun-
gary, in the region of the Carpathian
mountains, where Hungarian senti-
ment is reported to be growing in IA
vor of Russia.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
raas for $4,000 Dead Germans.

London.-A dispatch to the Observer
from Antwerp says that a bag con-
tanning $4,000 aluminium Identification
plates of Germans who have been kill
ed In the fighting has reached Brus-
sells from France. These plates are
destined for Berlin.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Germans lose Again.

London.-A telegram was received
Monday from General Pau announc-
ing a victory by the allied forces at
Percy Sur Disc.
The imperial guard under Crown
Prince Frederick William is reported
to have been annihilated by the Brit
ish force whic hopposed them.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Paris Schools Now Hospitals.

Paris.-AH the public schools of
Paris have been ordered closed until
further notice. The reason for this is
the occupation Of the school buildings
by the military, chiefly for hospitals.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Texas Coal Mine cayein.

Adamson, Okla.-Gas halted rescu-
ers who had forced entrance from an
adjoining mine into the shaft of the
Union Coal company, where LIZ men
were entombed Sept. 5 by a cavein.
Every fan available was started in an
effort to reach the imprisoned miners.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Missouri Horses to Canada.

st. Louis.-Horse and mule dealers
here and at the national stock yards
in East ST. Louis admit that they ship
ped between Is and 20 carloads OF
horses and mules to different points
In Canada.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
say Prince Erneat Killed.

London, Sept. 6.-German papers re-
ceived here show that Prince Ernest
of Lippe, a nephew of Prince Leopold
W., has been killed. This is the third
casualty In Prince Leopold's family.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
KANSAS CITY FLOOD
GREATEST RAIN STORM EVER
EXPERIENCED CAUSES GREAT
Loss, LIFE AND PROPERTY.
THOUSANDS OF HOMES CONE
Hundreds of People HomeIess-Tur.
key Creek over Mile Wide-AIl
Wire Communication Stopped
Rained 7 Inches In IL Hours.

Kansas City. Mo-, Sept. S.-As a re-
suit of the greatest rainstorm ever
experienced here more than 5000
homes have been flooded and hun.
dreds of persons driven into the
streets.
Despite the fact that the waters are
receding, there is much danger from
collapsing buildings. The loss is esti-
mated at 81, 100000. Telephone service
throughout the city is demoralized and
street car service suspended in many
sections. The flood already has cos
three lives.
Water 20 Feet Deep.
Overlooking streams flooded the
Country club district, the south side,
the east and west bottoms, Sheffield
and other sections. The greatest dam
of the city and in Rosedale, Kan, a
suburb, where the water stood % feet
deep in places.
Turkey creek, a drainage stream, al
ways treacherous, was a harmless
thread of murky water when the men
and women who live in the valley
southwest of the city went to bed
Sunday night Then came rain, which
continued 10 hours and so minutes,
and was 6.94 inches.
Swishes Under SIeepers' Beds.
Turkey creek began to rise, silently
at first, and then iwth a roar, until 1t
was a mile wide. The water crept up
the streets of Rosedale and into homes
and the city hall. The water rose SO
rapidly that many were not awakened
until it was swishing under their beds.
Mill creek, a small stream flowing
through Country club, an exclusive
residence section, rose and carried
away outbuildings and vehicles of all
descriptions. In the eastern part of
the city Mount Washington cemetery
was inundated. The Blue river rose
10 feet in a few hours and washed
away much property belonging to
manufacturers near Sheffield and
C~entropolis.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
Britain ForbIds Food Export.

London, Sept. "a dispatch to the
Post from Melbourne says the govern
ment has prohibited the export OF
wheat, flour timed and other meats
to any place outside Of the united
kingdom, except with the govern
ment's consent.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
PUT ON SPECIAL TAX
CONGRESS TO RAISE MONEY TO
MAKE UP FOR THE LOSSES
CAUSED BY WAR.
MUST SECURE $lOO,OOO,OOO
Levy on Beer, Liquor and Cigars AS
sured-Moving Picture Shows, Az
tos and Magazines May Get AS
sessed-Must Meet Deficit.

MISUNDERSTANDING members
of the ways and means committee
have virtually agreed upon commodi-
ties susceptible to special taxation to
realize $4,000, 900 of the 500, 600, 900
requested by PRESIDENT Wilson to off
set the loss in customs receipts caused
by the conflict in Europe. What shall
be taxed to raise the other 10000 900
has not been decided, cores of com
modities and means of taxation being
proposed.
Although no announcement was
made, it is certain that beer and fer
mented liquors will come first among
articles taxed. The additional beer
tax will be either so or so cents a bar
rel, prof. ably so cents, producing $780,
900, 1000 a year A tax of 20 cents a
gallon is probable on domestic wines,
bringing in from $4,000, 900 to s15,-
900 900.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11

Field Secretary Tretz of the cham
Der OF commerce of the United States
is touring the Pacific coast.