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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Ichthyoi.

The importation of ichthyol, a Pc
culiar asphaltic material found in Aus
tria, which finds application after ap-
propriate chemical treatment as very
important medicamept, has been, along
with many other products, cut off by
the war. The raw material comes from
a fossiliferous deposit near -Seefeld, in
the Austrian Tyrol. 1t is carefully Sc
lected and subjected to dry distillation.
The distillate thus obtained is then
sulphonated and subsequently neutral
lied with ammonia. The use of this
material has greatly increased in the
last few years, and it has proved very
beneficial Almost Immediately follow
ing the beginning of the war it's price
doubled, going to over 60 cents an
ounce. Already, however, firm in st.
Louis has a material on the market,
which has been favorably recommend
ed as an efficient substitute, closely re-
sembling ichthyol itself.-United
States Geological Survey Bulletin.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
A Profession and a Home.

That a married woman can keep up
her profession and her home as well
is being successfully proved by the
principal Of one of the largest schools
for girls in New York.
She has broom apartment run
by a capable maid and a Japanese
cook She took up her teaching again
when her daughter was two years old
and has managed to prepare her
daughter for college at the age Of fif-
teen.
Anne Warner, the authoress, also
has been married three years and
does her writing at home by settling
her housekeeping by nine in the morn
ing and then shutting herself up in
her study to write until five-the
usual hours Of business man to
which she considers herself entitled.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
FALL FLOWING BEST
FOR ALFALFA CROP
When Work Is Done in Spring
Soil Is Too Loose for Good
termination of Seed.

(By w. w. WEIR, Wisconsin Agricultur-
al College.)
Failure to fall plow has been the
cause of many unsuccessful attempts
to grow alfalfa on the loan and light
soils.
When the alfalfa seed bed is plowed
in the spring or shortly before plant,
ing, the soil is too loose for good ger.
mination and a poor stand often re-
suits. The seed, and later the tiny
rootlets; do not have the proper con.
tact with the soil to sprout and grow
well. When fall blowing is practiced
however, this difficulty is overcome
and by planting time the seed bed is
properly firmed and in the best condi.
ton to promote rapid growth.
From the standpoint of weed Grad
ication, fall blowing is also impor-
tant to the alfalfa grower. Weeds
must be quite thoroughly killed out
before alfalfa will do it's best and this
is more easily accomplished by fall
blowing. By disking the field in the
spring, when the weed seeds turned
under in the fall begin to come up,
the farmer can get rid of two or three
crops Of pests before the alfalfa is
seeded. If blowing is not done until
spring., these weeds do not come up
until about the same time as the
alfalfa.
Farmers who intend to plant alfalfa
on acid soil NAV benefit especially by
fall blowing. Such soil must be
treated with lime to correct the acid
ity and this can be best done in the
winter for then, If the land is .plowed,
the lime can be hauled directly from
the cars and placed on the field.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
FUNSTON CAN HAVE MORE
TROOPS IF NECESSARY
Secretary Garrison Informed That Sit
uation is Not Serious-Troops
Waiting at Galveston.

Washington, Nov. 10.-Ten thousand
American infantrymen and several
transports are at Galveston ready to
rush to REINFORCE General Funston at
Vera Cruz, if they are needed. it was
stated at the war department.
Cable dispatches to the war depart
ment from General Funston failed to
dispose of the alarming reports that
Vera Cruz may he attacked and that
the dangerous anti-American feeling
in Mexico City is growing.
Secretary of War Garrison teie-
graphed to General Funston that re
ports had 1t that an attack on Vera
Cruz was imminent and that there was
great unrest at the Mexican capital.
The war department wanted to
know exactly what truth there was in
these rumors, so it could rush aid to
Funston If necessary.
General Funston laconically replied:
Many unsubstantial rumors have
prevailed for long time. think II
better to discredit unsubstantiated ru
mors. There Is nothing alarming In
local conditions at Vera Cruz.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13

first week in October than to hurry
the grain into the soil before it is we'll
prepared for its reception.
None but good, plump seed should
be sown and the seed wheat that is
mixed with the cookie should be run
through a tanning mill before it is
drilled.
There seems to be prevailing idea
that wheat will run out and that the
seed ought to be changed every few
years, but when we have variety
that is doing we'll on our farm we
should be slow to make change and
when we do it should be in a slow
way
Many good farmers that know
have the same wheat that they had
ten years ago and it still continues
to produce satisfactory crops. But
these men have sown none but the
best seed and thoroughly cleaned ev-
cry peck that has been used in their
planting.
On some farms where there are two
or more types of soil it is often a
judicious plan to change seed from
one type of soil to another. This also
applies to other small-grain crops.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
PROFITABLE METHOD
OF HANDLING OATS
Cost of Threshing Is Saved When
Crop Is Handled as Hay
Animals Relish 1t.

It is often a matter of wonder why
those who mean to feed out an oats
crop should handle it in any other
way than as hay. The cost of thresh'
ing is saved by handling the crop in
this way, and all animals are fond OF
it and thrive on it. While oats is not
SO good on the soil as some of the
legumes, it fits well into the rotation
and makes one of the best cereal hay
crops, says Western Farmer.
If it is intended to feed them from
the sheaf, they should be cut several
days earlier than when they are to
be threshed. The grain will be prac-
tically as good as later and the rest
of the plant will be a good deal more
palatable and more digestible. The
later cutting gives more woody
straw, and some loss from SCATTERING
of the grain. If one has plenty OF
storage room the bundles can be piled
away under cover as soon as sufficient
ly cured. Or, if good job of stack
ing can be done oats will keep out
doors until the following spring with
very little loss with either grain or
straw. When oats are to be cut with
mower, they should be cut earlier
than when they are to be bound into
sheaves. Just after the milk stage is
the best time in this case. 1t is neces-
sary to give moved oats room in the
barn, for it is difficult to stack them
SO they will keep. If 1t is attempted
to stack the oats hay outdoors, it
should be covered.
Horses and young colts find hay of
this kind well suited to their needs,
and number Of leading cattle grow
ers have been using it for several
years and find it entirely satisfactory.
The cattlemen salt the hay in the
stacks and find that the cattle eat it
all and do well on it. It is also good
dairy feed, combining grain and rough
ness and furnishing variety in the ra-
ton.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
STAY ALL ANIMALS
At CHICAGO YARDS
Cattle Disease Now Under Con-
troll at Big Mart.
SHOW CATTLE ARE ISOLATED
Stock Slaughtered Valued at $4,000
Federal and State Governments
to Stand the Cost-Epi-
demic is Checked.

Chicago, Nov. 10.--With the excep-
ton of about seventy-five cases among
the 800 prize dairy show cattle $50
loated in the feeding stables near the
international Amphitheater, there Is
not 6. case of hoof and mouth disease
left at the Chicago stockyards.
The last cases were eradicated when
262 cattle and 100 hogs were shot ana
their carcasses thrown into the'qulcK-
lime pits. For the first time since the
stockyards opened, there was not a
living steer, hog or sheep inside tRe
yards.
DR.. S. E. Bennett, government IN
spector in charge, declared the cpl
demic was absolutely under controi
in Chicago. His men, working Win
the state veterinarian, will go out into
the state to begin the slaughter OF IN
fected dairy herds.
The first work will be done In the
south end of Kane county, where about
500 animals on seven farms will be
shot and their carcasses destroyed.
The value of the animals slaugn-
tered and buried in quicklime since
the epidemic was found at the stock
yards is $4,000, $4,000 for the cattle
and $4,000 for the hogs. The federal
government will pay half of this sum,
and Governor Dunno of Illinois has
promised to ask the legislature to ap-
propriate sufficient money to pay the
other half.
Doctor Bennett said the disease was
completely checked here, and that II
soon would be under control In all
the states except Montana. 1t is feared
that If 1t spreads to the ranges, 1t
may not be stamped out for years. He
had received no word from there yes
terday, but said government inspec-
tors were carefully guarding the train
load OF animals in which the infection
was discovered and watching for any
new outbreak along the line.
No new states have been quaran-
tined, but fresh outbreaks were re-
ported down state. About fifty coun-
ties in Illinois are under quarantine.
Two herds were destroyed in Wis
consin, and the state veterinarian OF
Colorado issued an order barring all
live stock from entering the state un-
less the cars are fumigated and the
animals passed by state or govern
ment inspector. He also asked the
authorities of Utah, Wyoming, New
Mexico, Arkansas and Oklahoma to
adopt similar precautions.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13

The introduction of improved ma
chinery, labor-saving kind, has made
it possible for many farmers to grow
large fields of potatoes and beans and
complete the work of harvesting In
time to SOW the field to wheat.
In this system of crop rotation the
hoed crop will accomplish all that
a bare fallow possibly could and the
elements of fertility left in the soil
after the potato crops and the bean
crops have completed their growth will
prove adequate to give the wheat crop
a nice start in the fall
When the potato and bean crops
have been given clean cultivation the
ground will not require blowing. In
fact, an ideal seed bed will result from
simply cultivating and narrowing.
If the land for the wheat field must
be plowed the work should be done
early and the field kept we'll har,
rowed up to the time the wheat is
seeded.
From my own experience l am OF
the opinion that the time of seeding is
of less Importance than having the
seed bed well prepared, and I would
much rather delay seeding until the
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
TWO PRESIDENTS IN MEXICO.
carranze Defies Peace Convention In
Proclamation to People.

Carranze Defies Peace Convention In
Proclamation to People.
Mexico City, Nov. 11.-Gen. Venus
tiano CarranZa issued an ultimatum
declaring himself the chief head of the
republic
The proclamation was issued at
Cordoba and directed to the military
chieftains and the civil employees of
the central government. who were or
dered to obey Carranza as first chief
of the Constituencies and to disre-
gard totally the mandates of the Aguas
Calientes convention. To the military
chieftains he said that unless they
left the conference and we're back at
their posts by six o'clock Tuesday eve
ming their next in rank would assume
their places.
Gen. Eulalio Gutierrez, who was ap-
pointed provisional president of Next
co by the Aguas Calientes convention.
has proclaimed himself the chief exec
utive beginning November 10.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Oats for Cover Crop.

Oats should be more generally en-
ployed as a cover crop wherever it is
important for the crop to die during
the winter time. This applies to cur
rants, gooseberries, raspberries, black
berries and grapes. Heavy seeding is
also important If a large amount of
vegetation is desired. A cover crop
of oats, in small fruit plantations,
helps to prevent erosion during the
wintertime.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
FEEDING Corn to Horses.

For young horses there is no feed
which excels oats, but for work horses
corn may be substituted in part or
even entirely and give good results,
says writer in Digest. Corn is used
to large extent throughout the corn
belt and it is especially suited for the
production of energy. In sections
where flint corn is grown horses find
difficulty in eating it without previous
grinding.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Guilty.

The justice of the peace in town
in Ohio, in pursuance of his duties.
had to hear and judge cases that were
brought before him and also to per-
form occasional marriage ceremonies.
He found it difficult to dissociate the
various functions of his Office.
Everything had gone smoothly I'M
J til he asked one bride: "Do you take
this man to be your husband?"
The bride nodded emphatically.
"And you, accused" said the justice.
turning to the bridegroom, what have
you to say in your defense?"
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Difficult.

French fashions have stopped com
ing over" says a New Yorker, "and
evening gowns for the winter will in
consequence be less decollete. A good
thing. too. said to a woman at q
dance last week:
"How beautifully your daughter is
dressed. Don't you find it difficult to
keep her in clothes?
Indeed / dol my friend replied.
Haven't you noticed the decollete
gown she's wearing tonightf"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
COSTLY MILE OF WIRE
ERECTED DURING SIEGE OF PORT
ARTHUR, IN 1905.
Estimated That Ten Thousand Lives
Were Lost and Millions of Dollars
Expended in "condemning" tho
Right of Way.

/ There are many Individual miles
Of city-built telephone line that have
cost. well up in the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars" remarked an Off
Ger of the United States army who
saw much of the war between Russia
and Japan a few years ago. but the
mile of telephone wire that cost, be-
lives than any other line ever built
was erected during the siege of Port
Arthur in 1905.
"For weeks and months the Japs
had been eating away at the defenses
of the Russian fortress, but with small
success. The hills around the town
and harbor seemed to have been fash
toned by nature for defense. The
Japs, though they had brought up
their great IL and 14-inch siege guns.
were able to make but slight impress
sion upon the forts and none at all
upon the town or the Russian fleet
that lay safe within the inner harbor.
The trouble was that, though the
great guns-'Osaka. babies they called
them, after the name of the town
where they were manufactured
could easily carry from their positions
into Port Arthur and the harbor. there
was intervening a great range of hills
from five to six hundred feet in height
and crowned with the most powerful
Notifications in the world to that
date Hence, the gunners could not
get sight of their targets.
Suddenly the Osaka babies COM
menced to open fire upon the town
and harbor, and the Russians smiled,
for experience had shown them how
impossible 1t was for the shells to
strike their unseen targets. But. to
their establishment, after shell or
two, one lit squarely upon the main
building in Port Arthur and shortly
after one plunged through the deck
of a battleship and sank her like q
stone.
I'm short time the town was
wrecked and the feet, with half its
ships sunk or disabled, had to put out
to sea.
For, from the telephone in the
hand of the Jap hidden on the sum-
nit of 203 Meter hill there ran wire
to the batteries where stood the great
Osaka babies and the whole thing
became as simple as kindergarten
problem. The man with the telescope
observed where the shells from the
babies struck; he reported it to the
man with the telephone, who, in turn.
telephoned it to the gunners of the
babies They modified their fire un-
der these directions and placed their
great shells as accurately as though
they were firing point-blank at tar
get.
1T was the beginning of the end Of
Port Arthur. that mile of telephone
line running up the flank Of 203 Meter
Hill. 1t was but a single wire mount
ed on poles so small that they were
invisible a quarter of mile distant,
but it cost 10000 men and several mill
lions of dollars in ammunition and
other war-cost to condemn the right
of way"
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police Chief Ia Wounded.

Sycamore, Ill.,. Nov. 9.-Chief OF Pc
lice Joe Ogden YVES shot In the head
by Samuel Atkinson of this city. Og-
den is in the Municipal hospital. His
condition lie critical. He had arrested
Atkinson on a complaint and was on
the way with him to the police sta
ton. Atkinson made his escape, but
shortly afterward shot and killed him
self. Atkinson was about sixty years
old, estranged from his family, and
had made several threats against his
wife. He had been arrested on her
complaint.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Three Die In Auto Crash.

Milwaukee. Wis. Nov 9.-Three
persons were killed and the fourth es-
capped In the most serious accident in
Milwaukee automobile history. those
killed being among the most promi-
nent people In Milwaukee, as follows:
L. T. Boyd, one Of the owners of the
Milwaukee Journal.
Charles s. Forsythe. aged forty
eight years, president of tho For
sythe Tanning company, and Mrs.
Alice Murray, who died on the oper-
ating table, was formerly head of the
millinery section of local depart
ment store.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
NO HEINZE WILL ia FOUND.

$1.5oo,oOO Estate Goes to Son-Late
Financier Buried.
New York, Nov. 10.-The body of
Frederick Augustus Heinze was
buried in Greenwood after simple flu.
neral services at the home of his sis.
ter, Mrs. William M. Fleitmann. The
estate is estimated at $500 900, and
will go to his young son. No will has
been found as yet.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Horse BREEDING Increasing.

Horse breeding is increasing fast,
but it will be several years before the
supply of good stock catches up with
the demand. Prices have been stead
lily going up for the past three years,
and are likely to stay up for a couple
of years at least.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Clean Hoo Quarters.

Give the winter quarters for the
hogs a thorough cleaning and disin-
fecting before putting in the bed
ding. It is not so easy to fight lice in
the winter. Good, clean, thoroughly
disinfected quarters will be of mate
rial assistance In keeping down lice.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Winter Comfort.

II all the cracks in the barns and
sheds where your stock is have been
well stopped up to keep out the wind
and cold. when sitting before the 'front.'
room stove this winter. your comfort
will be all the greater
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Food for Ducks.

Young ducks must have mash food
entirely; equal parts of ground oats.
bran and corn meal, bone meal and
sharp, fine grit and coarse sand. Mix
well. and use with an equal quantity
Of fnsly chopped green stun.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Married in Jail.

Mernando, Miss, Nov. 10.-With
hands clasped through cell bars. Fred
S. Simmons, under charge OF accessory
to murder, was married to Miss Lillian
O'Donnell, a Memphis society girl. who
came here in an auto.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
stous Glass Shipment.

Pittsburgh. Pa, Nov. 9.-Thousands
lof dollars worth of glass. ready for
shipment to all parts of the world. Is
being delayed In Pittsburgh by the
cattle quarantine regulations, requir-
ing the disinfection of hay and straw.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Nothina for Faker.

There are opportunities for great
usefulness in horticultural life. No
field is more inviting and no theme
offers greater encouragement to the
real student-the honest student.
There is nothing In store for the
faker.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
HELD IN $4,000 BOND.
David Lamar, Arrested on Charge OF
Impersonat no Officer.

New York. Nov. 9.-David Lamar.
known as "the wolf of Wall street"
who was arrested at the Waldorf-As-
toria MOTEL charged with impersonat-
ing an officer of the United States
government. was held in 100000 bond
by Federal Judge Rudkin. The in
dictment against Lamar charges him
with impersonating an officer of the
United Stat IS and attempts to defraud
and cheat the United States Steel cor
poration end j. P Morgan 6 Co
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Railroad Official is Indicted.

Chicago, Nov. 9.-W. L. Ross, for
mer vice-president of the Chicago
Alton railroad, was indicted by the
grand jury on a charge of violation of
the interstate commerce commission
laws
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
SIX MEN KILLED IN FIRE.

New York Lodging is Burned-Many
Others Badly injured.
New York, Nov. six men were
killed and many badly hurt in a fire
that destroyed the Waverly hotel, a
lodging house at 342 Eighth avenue.
Before the fire was discovered it
had destroyed the stairways and cut
off the escape of so men in the build.
ing. The majority of these were res
cued by firemen, but number leaped
from the second story.
Seven were so badly hurt when they
jumped that they had to be taken to a
hospital.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Care of Trees.

Why should any farmer give ground
room to trees that do not produce
the interest on the value of the land
when, by the use of few dollars
worth Of spraying material and bit
of muscle be can bring them up to
paying productiveness?
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Train Kills Two.

Bloomington, Ill.,, Nov. Sin trying
to boarl a Chicago & Alton train at
Petersburg Roy Yarmouth, aged nine
teen. of Tallula. fell under the wheels
and was killed.
Albert Jones. aged seventy-six, OF
Roodhouse, was killed at Millview by
stepping in front of a Chicago & Al
ton train. in trying to avoid another.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-11-13
Commercial Attache on wav.

New York, Nov. 5.-W H. Baldwin.
the first of ten Commercial attaches
of embassy" recently named by the
state department to leave for his post,
started for London on the steamship
Cedric.
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Lives Lost In Fire.

Quebec, Que, Nov. IA number OF
persons are reported to have been
burned to death in afire which swept
the shoe factory of Cole brothers.
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LAND SUIT is WON BY U. s.

Court Fails to Award SCI 100000 to
Railroad.
Washington. Nov. 10.-The Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad today in the
Supreme court lost it's suit against
the government for $61.000.000. the
value of the 100000 acres of land IN
the state of Oklahoma which the rail-
road claimed had been granted to 1t
by the United States so years ago.
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Buffalo Yards Tied Up.

Buffalo. N. Y, Nov. 9.-Not a head
of cattle. sheep or hogs is at the To-
cal stockyards. and from present in
dications Buffalo's stock market is to
be absolutely tied up for several days
ito come.
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c.,tforni. stons prize.FiohtIno.

SIN Francisco. Nov THE consti-
tutional amendment prohibiting prize
fighting In California appears to have
been carried.