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The Lamar register., 1914-10-28
NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY

Estate OF Mary ]. Koonce. Deceased.
The Undersigned. having been APP
pointed Administrator of the Estate of
Mary J. Koonce, late of the County OF
Prowers in the State of Colorado. de-
ceased, hereby gives notice that he
will appear before the County Court OF
said Prowers County. at the Court
House in City of Lamar. in said Coun-
Der. A. d. 1914. at the hour of 10 o'clock
\. NJ. of said day. at which time all
tate are notified and requested to at
tend for the purpose of having the
same adjusted. All persons indebted
to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment to the Undersigned
Dated at Lamar. Colorado. this 18Th
day of October. A. ID. 1914.
NORBERT TELLER,
Administrator OF the estate of Mary ].
Koonce. deceased.
First pub. Oct. IL, 1914.
Last pub. Nov. Is, 1914.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28
Civil Service Clerk
Carrier

An examination for clerk ana car
rier will be held at the postoffice in
this city on November %, 1914.
Age limit, 10 to 45 years on date
of the examination.
Married women will not be admit
ted to the examination. This pro-
hibition, however, does not apply to
women who are divorced or those who
are separated from their husbands
and support themselves, but they are
eligible for appointment only as clerk.
Applicants must be physically
sound, and male applicants must be
not less than feet inches in height
in bare feet, and weigh not less than
125 pounds without overcoat or hat.
For application blanks and for full
information relative to examination
qualifications, duties, salaries, vaca-
tons, promotions, etc, address i'm
mediately
ERNEST D. HOUSEHOLDER,
Secretary Board of Civil Service Ex-
aminers, Postoffice, Lamar, Colo.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28

You and your wife and any visiting
Sir Knight and wife are cordially in
vited to a turkey supper to be given
by Lamar Tent No. 10 X. o. T. M. on
the night Of October 29th, next
Thursday. And you are requested to
meet at Sir knight Watson's office
over Huddleston's store promptly at
1880 P. M. on that night. Don't for
get the date.
Frank Wheeler,
Phillip Clark,
Geo. A. Watson,
Committee.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28
SCHOOL NOTES

A number of the high school boys
with Coach Koonsman attended the
conference for Older Boys of the Ar
kansas Valley at Rocky Ford last
week. They report the conference as
very successful and helpful. The boys
in attendance were Earl Whitaker,
Donald Church, Robert Adams, Hoyt
Roberts. Byron Stahl, Ralph Traxler,
Eugene Shilling, Robert Ford, Wilbur
Kerr. Earnest Allen, Clair Smith.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28
To the Voters of Prowers County

AS you are probably aware, am
the republican candidate for Commits
sioner of the End district of Prowers
county.
On accepting this nomination and
asking you for your support, l stand
on my record as a bushes man. In
the lase five years 1 have closed over
200 real estate deals in Prowers coun-
ty, and no one can even intimate that
have ever misepresented a piece of
property.
The Burr T. Beachel Realty Co.
is Incorporated under the laws of the
state of Colorado. The capital stock
is paid in and invested in Prowers
county land. We are now interested
in subdividing the old Graham ranch
into small well irrigated tracts, and
if we are successful in this undertake
ing, it will put Prowers county on
new basis.
l am a strong advocate of the home
steader and believe dry farming a
success when it is carried on in con-
nection with dairy farming, poultry
and stock raising.
While l am not an old resident of
Prowers county, will say that q years
lof my life was spent in Wisconsin,
the most progressive dairy state in
the country, and as Prowers county's
greatest resource is the dairy bust
ness feel that l am qualified to help
promote this resource.
| If Prowers county ever enjoys pros
perity as it should, it will have to
come through the legitimate develop
ment Of its real estate. / have had
ID years Of experience in this line Of
work.
l regard the Office of county COM
missioner as being very important
one and think any one elected to the
Office should be qualified to help pro-
mote the resources Of the county.
II l am elected on November Bird,
l will encourage these four things
Good business and legitimate develop
ment; good roads and better Prov
ers county.
also pledge myself to transact the
business of the county on a careful
and economical basis and guarantee
the citizens of Prowers county 100
cents in value for every dollars spent.
Sincerely yours,
BURR T. BEACHELL,
Republican Candidate for Commits
sioner End District.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28
Compulsory Education

Anyone who has information con-
corning any child between the ages of
8 and 16 years who is not attending
school and who has not been excused
from attendance by the superintend-
ent of city schools will confer fav-
or by reporting to ]. H. Haskins, at
tendance officer for school district No.
IA. It is believed that the school at
tendance is very near 100 per cent at
this time.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28

Monday, l a. M, at ............
Tuesday, 2 a. M, at ..............
Wednesday, 3 a. M, at .........
Thursday, 4 a. M, at .........
Friday, 5 a. M, at ...............
Saturday, a. M, at .............
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28

The democratic party is some gen.
erous. It proposes to give the state to
Patterson for a birthday gift; the
beet sugar industry to Thomas to
trade for government jobs for his
friends and relatives! the state SOW
ereignty to the federal Office holders
who are trying to build up perma-
nent ownership and control of west
ern natural resources.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28

Thomas was only an accidental SEN
ator anyhow. But he has made a rec
ord Of having done more harm to Col
orado in a short terms than any SEN
ator ever did in a long term.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28

If the national democracy wants to
reward Senator Thomas, make him
minister. to Belgium. We want a
Colorado senator who is for Colorado.
The Lamar register., 1914-10-28
Ammons for Patterson

Gov. Elias NJ. Ammons has consent
ed to deliver speeches for Patterson
at the following dates and cites:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
GOOD RULES FOR WORKHORSE
Many Faults Avoided-Give Water
in Moderate Quantities.

Start at a walk, and let your horse
work very easily for the first half
hour
A heavy draft horse should never
be driven faster than q walk, with or
without load.
Look to your harness. Avoid these
faults especially: Bride too long or
too short Binders pressing on the
eye or tapping. Can open bride is
best for most horses.) Throat-latch
too tight. Collar too tight or too
Goose, or dirty on the inside. Shaft
girth too loose. Traces too long.
Breeding too low down or too loose,
Inside reins too long, in the case of
pairs.
Do not let your horse drive him
self; but handle the reins gently. New
er jerk the reins; to do that is the
sure mark of bad driver. d"
Try to work with as little backing
as possible. Backing a heavy load is
apt to strain the hind legs.
Take the horse out of the shafts as
much as possible; and If you drive a
pair or four, unfasten the outside
traces while the horses are standing;
they will rest better that way.
Teach your horses to go into the
collar gradually. When load is to
be started, speak to the horses and
take a firm hold of the reins SO that
they will arch their necks, keep their
legs under them, and step on their
toes. A loose rein means sprawling
and slipping, often with one horse
ahead Of the other.
Water your horse as often as pos
sibIe. Water in moderate quantities
will not hurt him, SO long as he keeps
moving.
Blanket your horse carefully when
he stands, especially if he is at all
hot. Repeated slight chills stiffen and
age horse before his time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
BIG MUTTON FAMINE
Wool Growers Told Scarcity in Next
Five Years Will Become
Very Acute.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-A mutton
famine was predicted here by ]. E..
Poole, editor of the Chicago Livestock
World, in an address before the Ma
tional Wool Growers association,
meeting in annual session. During the
next five years, he said, the scarcity
would become acute.
Mr.. Poole said that for the last five
years the west had been marketing
eve lambs in the same reckless man
ner as it sent heifer calves to the
butcher from 1900 to 1910. Good au-
thorities, he said, estimate that 80 per
cent. of the eve 1ocks of the west are
over aged and that bad winter
would scatter their carcasses over the
ranges. thus precipitating a mutton
scarcity that in any event cannot long
be delayed.
"One short lamb CROP" said Mr..
Poole, would put both lamb and NUT
ton in the same category as lobster
ana terrapin."
Charles A. Butler of Chicago, in an
address on the legal relations Of sheep
shippers and railroads, declared that
all the live stock contracts he had
seen carried provisions contrary to
the federal laws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
Bottomless Hog Crate.

through the posts and clinch. The top
Stats are nailed to the upper Stats on
ends. You now have a complete hog
crate, and one without bottom.
Now for the loading. Take your
wagon as near the place as possible
where the hog is to be loaded. Lay
boards about ten feet long from the
rear end of the wagon to the ground,
with few cleats nailed on under side
apart
Stand the crate on end nearby.
Shell a little corn close to crate, and
when the opportunity presents itself,
drop the crate on over the hog. You
are now ready to load Mr.. Hog, which
is done as shown in the accompany
ing cut.
Simply walk up the boards back
wards, pulling the crate in front,
which compels the hog to walk right
into the wagon bed. Unloading is
done in the same manner, except
that the hog walks out backwards.
1t is a good idea to drive a stake
hog from overturning the crate. This
is not necessary if there are two men
to do the loading, for in such a case
one can stand at each side Of the
crate.
Select the kind of hog you want and
then grow the best. If you go in for
bacon hogs, don't make the mistake
Of buying the lard types of sows.
It's a mistake to have pigs come in
the middle Of winter.
Some farmers are liberal with their
feed, but stingy with their shelter.
They will shovel out plenty of corn
then see their pigs pile up in bunch
in a fence corner and SILVER for hours
in the cold wind, thereby losing all
value of the corn.
Do not neglect to keep plenty of
coal or wood ashes where the pigs
can get at them all the time.
If you find a runt in the litter don't
him up, but look after the good ones.
The young folks ought to know
why trees and plants grow as they do,
and how to help them grow. They
should be taught the names Of the
trees, grasses and grains Of the coun-
try. And would it be altogether i'm
practical to teach them something
about actual farm business? The
bookkeeping might relate to farm OPP
erations, instead of things away in
city and town. 1t would be a good
thing to put into the arithematic
good many problems bearing on farm
life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
Slaughter Four Hundred Thou
sand of the Rodents.
Biological Survey of Department of
Agriculture Destroys Animals In
Western Reserves to Preserve
the Forage.

Washington.-The biological survey
of the department of agriculture has
destroyed about 100000 prairie dogs
in the Cochetopa and Pike National
forests Of Colorado and the Tusayan
and Coconino forests of Arizona. It is
estimated that the amount Of forage
that the rodents feed upon would be
sufficient for about $500 sheep or
about 1900 head of cattle, which
would be valued at about S150,000.
This was done at cost to the depart
ment of about $4,000. In view of the
fact that American and English fur
riers secure better skins from Siberia
for five cents apiece, no market for
the hides of the prairie dogs has been
the skins are rather small to be
worked up economically.
Last year the biological survey used
$4,000 pounds of oats, 1000 pounds of
carbon bisuIphid, and about 1900
ounces of strychnin in the Cocheto-
pa forest in the work of dog destruc-
ton. The local oats were Of very fine
quality, and it was found that the
heavy oats that weigh about forty
pounds to the bushel were very much
more economical than the lighter
oats. The dogs shuck the light oats
so readily that they escape the poison
which is in the form of coating; but
the heavier oats are more difficult to
shuck.
The agents of the survey prepare
the poison, which is mixed with
strychnin with a starch mucilage Of
about the consistency used in starch
ing linen, and by applying this to the
oats, each kernel receives fine film
of poison starch. Many rodents which
carry the grain in their pouches are
poisoned by absorbing the poison from
the pouches without swallowing any
Of the grain. This is the case with
the California ground squirrel. Agents
have found hundreds anG hundreds of
dead squirrels with their cheek pouch
es full and no grain in their stom-
achs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
TELLS OF FUTURE RELIGION
1t VIII Be Based on Science, De-
clares Camille FIammarion, Noted
French Savant

London.-An article on 1.-THE Relig-
ion of the Future" by Camille Flam-
marion in the current number of the
Occult Review is attracting good
deal of attention. AS far back as 1861
M. Flammarion became a member OF
the Paris Society for the Study OF
Spiritualism, and for many years past
he has kept in touch with most of the
psychic phenomena observed through
out the world. His forecast of the re-
Hgion of the future is that it will be
scientific and will be founded on a
knowledge of psychical facts" He
says:
This religion of science will have
one great advantage over all that has
gone before it-unity Today a Jew
or a Protestant cannot believe in the
miracles of Lourdes, a Musselman
hates the dog of a Christian, Budd-
hist cannot accept the dogmas of the
western world.
mo one of these divisions will ex-
list in a religion founded on the gen.
era1 scientific solution of psychical
problems"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
to Have Inspired His Judg-
ments.

London. - The Negus Menelik' S
death at last having been officially es-
tablished, after so many false reports,
many anecdotes about this picturesque
character are appearing. One of them
is in the Times, and is reminiscent OF
King Solomon. Menelik's reputed an
cestor.
In Abyssinia the Mosaic law Of an
eye for an eye holds good in default
of blood-money. Two men were gath
ering pIums, one in the tree shaking
the branches and the other below col
lecting the fruit. A branch broke, and
the climber fell on the gatherer and
broke his neck, himself escaping with
injuries from which he eventually
recovered. The family Of the dead
man sued the survivor for the blood
money, some $120. He had no money
and refused to pay, whereupon the
plaintiffs demanded his life.
The case worked its way up to the
supreme tribunal of Menelik himself
by which time bitter feeling had been
engendered, and the claimants now re-
fused to accept blood-money, even II
offered, and demanded their full right.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
GREAT WISDOM OF MENELIK

Very WELL" said Menelik. You
have the right to claim this mans
life; but the law also says that the
murderer shall be killed in the same
manner as his victim. Therefore, let
one Of you climb that ree"-pointing
to huge sycamore fg-"and fall
from it's branches on the culprit.
None of the plaintiffs would take the
risk, and the innocent homicide es-
capped.
True greatness of spirit was shown
by the Negus when, many years ago, a
favorite and trusted DejaZmatch re-
VOTED. He was a chief Of influence
and power, whose suppression in
volved considerable trouble and anxi-
ETY., but he was eventually captured
and brought in chains before the Ne
gus Menelik asked him why he had
rebelled, and he replied: ITO make
myself Negus" "Ah!" said Menelik,
do you think it is such an easy or
pleasant thing to be king of kings?
Go back to your country and learn
wisdom"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19

the nationwide agitation, pro and con,
regarding slavery. When in 1916 q
bill appropriating 100000 for the
purchase of Mexican territory outside
of Texas was introduced in congress,
Mr.. Wilmot, then a representative
from Pennsylvania, introduced his IA
nous amendment, that as an express
and fundamental condition of the &C
QUESTION of any territory from the re-
public of Mexico by the United States,
neither slavery nor Involuntary servi-
tude shall ever exist in any part of
the said territory, except for crime,
whereof the party should first be
duly convicted" After his service in
the house, Mr. Wilmot served in the
United States senate and later became
a judge of the United States court of
claims. His death occurred in Towan-
da. Pa, in 1868.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
TEASING MADDENs A CONVICT
Angered Man Fractures Skull of One
of His Tormentors With
Ratchet.

Ossining, N. Y-Maddened by the
teasing of other convicts in Sing Sing
Michael Sullivan attacked Peter Laga-
tuta, his nearest torn antor, with a
hatchet He fractured the mans skull.
The assault took place in the ship
ping department There were eigh-
teen or twenty prisoners in the room
at the time. Sullivan, who is twenty
nine years old, was sentenced from
New York county on May IS last to
from ten to twenty years for man.
slaughter Lagatuta, who is twenty
seven years old, was sentenced for
burglary to from two years and six
months to five years.
Sullivan has been considered weak
or simple minded and the prisoners
have enjoyed teasing him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
TO LOAD LARGE HOGS
BOTTOMLESS CRATE Is HANDY
FOR LONE-HANDED MAN.
Illustration Shows How Big Animal
May Be Driven into Wagon by
One Man-Some Farmers Are
stingy With Shelter.
By R. A. GALLIHER.)

The lone-handed farmer often ex-
periences no small amount of incon-
venience in loading a large hog. For
the benefit of a farmer who never
thought of a hog-crate without the
bottom, will give my plan for max
ing the crate and the way to load the
hog into the wagon.
For corner posts Of crate procure
posts of poplar two inches square and
three and one-half feet long. The
ends, slide and top should also be
made Of poplar strips, one by two
anc one-half inches. Cut strips for
sides and top about five feet long and
for the ends, about two and one-half
feet long.
These dimensions may very accord
ing to the size crate you desire, but
be careful not to make the crate so
wide that the hog can turn around
in it.
Nail side and end strips to posts
with wire nails that will reach
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
ALWAYS In Demand.

There will always be place in the
market for fresh country butter. In
many places the demand meets with
practically no supply and the city
woman signs in vain for glimpse Of
the farmer who once catered to his
regular customers once week, but
who has now gone out of the bust
ness" Had he been able to command
the fancy prices now obtainable, he
would still be on hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
DIFFERENCE IN VIEW POINT
Cows as Another Does With 40
Tester Was Lacking.

One dairyman produced $4,000 worth
Of milk from 20 COWS, or 500 per
COW; a neighbor bestowed twice as
much labor on 40 COWS and sold only
$500 worth of milk, or $45 per cow,
barely paying expenses, while the first
man made a profit of over $1,000.
Yet the second man said he had no
time to spend a few minutes each day
weighing and testing the milk from
each cow.
Instead, he spent four long weary
years in raising and harvesting crops
on a 160-acre farm and feeding and
milking 40 COWS to make as much
profit as his neighbor did in one year
with half the cows, half the lands and
half the labor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
MarVeIous Makeup.

George Robey tells this story in an
interview in the Motor: I do not
remove my makeup in driving from
one London hall to another, but trav-
Ell with the grease-paint still upon my
face. One night we had little al
tercation with the driver of vehicle,
who quite forcibly declared that he
had not seen US coming towards him,
which was quite true, because he had
been fast asleep. At last 1 looked out
of the window at him, when, jump
ing back in surprise, he demanded:
'Oo's the old fright you've got
aboard? My master is Mr.. George
Robey,' responded my driver, with dig
nifty. Well, you tell i'm said the
man. scrambling up into his cart
that if ed sit on the engin', with that
face and nose and them eyebrows, e
wouldn't want no 'eadlights in q
fogp"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
PLOT TO LOOT CITY VAULTS
Attempt of Yeggmen to Reach Frlsco's
S6,ooo,ooo Cash Is Barred by
Call for Guards.

San Francisco.-An attempt to crack
the city's vaults, holding S6,000,000,
in the ruins of the old city hall, was
barred when City Treasurer John E.
McDougald asked for additional po-
lice to guard the vaults and for car
penters to block up the catacombs IN
der the vaults.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19

1t. Thinking his request had not been
complied with, the governor again ex-
pressed a wish to see the tango, ana
seemed surprised when told it was
the much-talked-of dance that they
had been witnessing most Of the even
ing. Though they did not dance the
Governor and Mrs. Ralston led the
grand march, and seemed to enjoy the
evening as much as any of the 10
couples present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19

This action was taken after inVestl-
cation of the circumstances that two
men, believed to be yeggmen, were
found emerging from a passageway
leading directly under the vaults,
whose steel floors are exposed under
meath.
In the foundation of the old city
hall at the exact spot where the
vaults are situated, there are holes
drilled for dynamite. These were put
there during the days of the 1906 fire,
when it was planned to dynamite the
ruins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
KILL PRAIRIE DOGS
LEADS GOULDS INTO FOLD
Lady Decies Takes Initiative In PIa-
cling Her Family in the Ranks
of the "4oO."

New York.-Lady Decies, once Wv
len Gould, granddaughter of Jay Gould,
the first of the great American specu-
lators, has proved to New York now
that she and her family are firmly es-
tabIished in American society. Jay
Gould himself, though one of the very
richest men of his time, never got
closer than the front doorstep of the
-Four Hundred" of his day His
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19

granddaughter was the chief attrac-
ton in society tableau held at the
home of Mrs. Reginald de Koven, who
has long been in society. The Gould
family has struggled ever since the
death of the founder of the house to
get a place in society. The marriage
of Miss Gould, daughter of George
J. Gould, eldest son of the old specu-
lator, has brought about a realization
of that ambition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-02-19
EGGS for Setting.

While the chill of winter Is still in
the air do not place more than IL
eggs under an ordinary sized hen Of
the American breeds. These are all
she can cover properly, and if she is
a little understood, ten eggs are a
great plenty. There is always a
temptation to go beyond the proper
limit in furnishing the early settlers
with eggs. Broody hens are apt to
be scarce at this time Of year and
the disposition Is to make the best
possible use of the few which can be
secured