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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
YAQUI INDIANS TO
START NEW ATTACK

DOUGLAS Ariz.. July IA dis
patch from Nogales, Sonora says
Governor Maytorcna, Villa com.
mandcr, has received an ultimatum
signed by Yaqu Indian chiefs threat
Cning to attack Hcrmosillo and make
war ON all Mexican factions unless
the lands Of the tribe are restored to
them and all foreigners now holding
rart Of the lands expelled from
Guamos The Indians are said TO be
gathering In force for concerted
movement
A delegation representing conven-
tion Of inhabitants Of thirty inland
towns i'm Sonora, who called on May
torona and offered the services of two
thousand volunteers az home guard
against the indians, have been sup
piled with five hundred riflos
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
50 Men Mustered linton service

WACO, Texas, July Eighty
men and officers Of the machine gun
company organized here were must
cred into the service tonight by Major
W. Il. Jackson of HillsbOro, battalion
commander. Texas national guard.
CAPTAIN BAH Of the United states
army, official instructor Of the Texas
militia, will inspect the company to-
morrow. The company will be equip
ped with four machine guns and is
the first full company Of its kind or
ganized in Texas.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
Nebraska Also Hit Hard.

NOEIH TLAITE, NOD. july =
Violent wind and hail storms last
night and today caused heavy damage
in Lincoln and Custer counties. The
storm was six miles wide and eX-
tended eastward many miles. The loss
will reach into hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Fields of grain five feet
tall now look as if nothing had been
grown.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
Footballin Summer School.

F'AY ETTENTLLE, Ark, July .
T. T. Mcconnell. recently appointed
athletic director Of the University Of
Arkansas. today opened his school OF
instruction for football coaches as a
part of the university summer school.
About twenty coaches of Arkansas
high schools and colleges attended the
first days sessions. Mcconnell, who
was an athletic star at Purdue uni
versity last year, coached at Doane
college at Crete, Neb. His home is
at Springfield Mo.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
NO DECISION YET IN
WILDER'S CASE
County Commissioners Take Matter
Undcr Amusement and viii De-
libcratc Until Next Week.
Special to The World.

Special to The World.
SAPULPA, okla, July The
county commissioners failed to hand
down verdict today in the case Of
Sheriff Lew Wilder, against whom
custer proceedings were instituted
some time ago by the law enforcement
league. Instead they announced that
they had taken the case under further
consideration and would not decide 1t
until some time next week.
Ii is thought that the county COM
missioners wish to develop new facts
heretofore unheard of and the pre-
vailing opinion is that the commits
doners will confine themselves to dig
ging up additional facts not brought
out at the hearing until next week,
then they have promised to render u
decision.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
Rcich Rcnis Sn,nre.

NEW YORK. July Al Reich, the
local heavyweight by a remarkable
finish in the last round outpoiuted Jim
Savage OF Orange y. j., in their ten
round bout here tonight. Reich
weighed 200 pounds and Savage 1913.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
CUSHING ELECTS
TWO CITY OFFICERS
snecinl 10 The worth

CUSHING, July AT a special
election held here today John Il.
Ryberg was elected MAYOR OF Cushing
by approximately a three to one vote.
Joe Harris was selected chief of po-
lice by substantial majority Much
interest was taken IN the election and
heavy vote was recorded
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03

growing and truck farming, and what
ever the government issues Is an au-
thority You can count on
Here, Just duplicate that order for
me, will you? I'm bit too old to join
the boys club, but Pm joining by
proxy. Joe is representing himself and
me, too,' laughed Mr.. Sopleryille I'm
really very much interested"
AS Joe and Mr.. Somervile went
down the street the merchant stepped
into bookstore.
"Lets go in here and get started. |
see the first thing on the list ii a
book for a beginner That sounds
sensible, like it was a starr from the
bottom Wen get two copies. You
take yours home. and I'll study mine
here
Cant start any too soon for me-"
answered Joe
well, here's the books. Now you
come to town next Saturday and spend
the day with me, and we'll compare
notes on what we've read When you
20 home have your father point out the
four acres we are going to cultivate,
Don't matter whether it is poor or not. :
I'D rather he'd give us the poorest,
meanest land there is on the place. ]
don't want him coming around after
ward saying we had any advantage on
the land" said Joe
That's right: the poorer the land the
bigger our demonstration will be. Get
1t laid or, and anything that suggests
itself to you why, just go ahead and
do it, I'm going to give You a check
buck and when you need to spend
any money write out Il check for 1t and
sign it Weston & Somerville.' | will
Instruct the bank to pay it."
''All right. sir, but | am not going to
spend anything ! can possibly help"
Now. let me tell yon something right
here; don't ever be afraid to spend
money if 1t is going to pay you to dc
50. If you can see where dollar
brings return spend 1t quick The
thing to do is TO spend wisely-that is
Investment"
"Well. think the first thing | want
then. is enough hog wire fencing fol
those four acres. Seems to me I've
never done anything much except chase
hogs out Of our fields"
You are starting right, Joe. That's
good sense. I'll send the wire out
Thursday and man to stretch 1t and
put it up. You get the posts ready"
.'All right. sir.
And after you get the fence up &C
ahead now and use your Judgment as
to what next to do, from what you gel
out of the book Well, here's my bug
gy. The driver will take you home
Good night, partner!"
He shook hands cordially and vanish
ed into the store. Joe, his precious
book held tightly in his lap, was soor
whlrlcd home behind the Somervillt
trotter and made up his mind that some
day he was going to have horse ant
buggy exactly like that when he go
to making money farming.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03
DIMENSIONS OF N. q w. NEW
PASSENGER ENGINES.

The eight passenger engines to be
built by the Norfolk & Western In the
Roanoke shops of the company for use
in passenger service win be consider
ably larger than any engine now used
in fast transportation work on that
system.
he engines are known as the noun
tain or Pacific type engine OF the 4-S-2
class, which have been used by the c..
& o.. Missouri Pacific and Seaboard
Air Line. They have approximately
235a by 80 inch cylinders. 70-inch driv-
ing wheels. and carry a boiler pres
sure of 200 pounds.
The tractive effort is between 10000
and $4,000 pounds and the weight on
the drivers will be nearly 100000. There
are to be four drivers in place of three
now in use on engines at present in
service and in addition there will be a
trailer.
The diameter Of the drivers win be
IS inches. The tenders will have a
capacity of IL tons of coal and carry
in their tanks 5000 gallons of water.
The weight Of the engine and truck
in working order will be 443. 900 pounds.
rhe style of the boiler is extended.
Wagon top and total heating sur
face will be approximately 1861 square
feet. The smokestack will be 15 #. Sin.
above the rail and the center of the
boiler will'be II. 6 in.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03
PROLOGUE.

All over the country there has
been the liyeliest interest among
boys and girls in scientific farming.
In Joe. the Book Farmer" there
is simply and delightfully."- told what
one boy, who made a scientific
study Of farming. accomplished.
Intensive cultivation as practiced by
this young student worked wonders
with the soil.
Besides Joe, who is the central
figure, there are introduced by the
author several other familiar and
quaint characters in country life.
The story is Of absorbing interest
to city and country folk alike.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03
CHAPTER H..
Joe Begins Experimenting.


|lHE next day was Sunday.
Tom Weston was red eyed
sand surly from the effects of
u the liquor he had drunk the
night before with Jim Sullivan and
moped about the house snarling and
swapping at his wife and little Annie
and Joe.
As soon as breakfast was finished
Joe took his precious volume about
agriculture and slipped off TO shell.
tered nook behind the barn. He pored
over It until dinner time; then he closed
his eyes and reviewed in his mind the
essential points of what he had read
First OF all that plants must have
food, just as human being do; that lack
OF enough food or proper food made
puny plants, just as II does with peo-
pie; that the principal source Of food
for plants is the humus or decaying
vegetable matter in the soil. From
this largely comes the nitrogen, the
phosphoric acid. the potash and 9th.
er essentials to plant life. absorbed
through the thousands OF tiny roots OF
the growing plant above.
Also, he learned that the soil becomes
barren and exhausted and devoid OF
these essentials with continued cult
walton; that the crop takes these nee
essary things from the soil year by
year, and something must he put back
into the land OF 1t will become sterile.
The wise provisions OF nature are
seen." said the book, lin the annual re-
newal OF the soil The grass. weeds.
trees. shrubs. NIL take from the soil in
the summer, but they pay back the
debt with interest in autumn, when the
grass dies and The leaves fall to the
ground. They are beaten into the soil
| by the winter rains and by the next
summer have decayed and have given
more to the land than the plants that
bore them have taken away"
"And never knew before" said Joe
to himself, what makes newly clear
ed ground 80 rich and give such large
crops. OF course 1t is the humus from
the leaves that have been dropping all
the years"
| After dinner he began to devour the
book again. BY dusk he knew that, In
order to get the largest amount of
plant food to the plants TO fatten them,
as II were, Il deep blowing or breaking
and loosening OF the soil was essential
until It was light and mellow. This
allowed the tiny rootlets, each with
hundreds of minute hungry mouths to
have wider range in search of the
life giving juices In the soil and there
by furnish the strength to make larger.
more virile plants The stronger the
plants the more fruit, the better and
larger fruit they made as reward to
the planter for this care.
4 Daddy" said Joe, Monday morning.
please come ON and let's pick ont the
four acres Mr.. Somerville and me are
going TO work"
"All right. III give You part Of that
field across from the oak grove. It's
so blame poor Il won't sprout peas. I
want to see what you all are going to
do with that"
Come on down. then. Let's lay Il
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03

Off. | know how poor 1t is. and the
sooner something is done to it the bet
ter"
A tape line was secured. and the plot
of four acres. two of the acres abut-
ting on the road, was marked with
stakes. 1t was poor land. distressingly
poor. as the stunted dead grass and
scantily nourished weeds attested. 1t
was part of an old field that had been
cultivated for sixty years.
81 don't guess you'll do much with
that" announced Mr., Weston. with a
triumphant grin
IT'S pretty bad, but well do the best
we can" said Joe II don't reckon
you've got any objection to my cutting
enough locust wood posts from the
thicket back Of the hill to fence thisT
Not If you trim the tops and limbs
for firewood and have 1t hauled up to
the house.
"All right, sir"
Just then old Uncle JEFF Washington
and his boy, Abe Lincoln Washington
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03

Signed.
be shown every attention. the presi-
dent will receive them especially, they
will stay week at the best hotel In
the city OF Washington, see every In.
teresting sight there and be brought
back home at no expense whatever.
This trip would cost anybody else at
least $500. That is the grand prize for
all the boys TO strive for"
''The rolls of the Boys Corn club of
this county are now open to receive
members" said the secretary. Joe
marched down to the desk and signed.
I'm going to have one OF those
prizes, too" he said his eyes swapping
with determination.
I'VE must have nj least fifty boys In
this county" said the superintendent
of education, but the sooner they join
the better II will be for them, for they
can prepare their ground this fall, and
that is one OF the main things. The
lists will remain open until March l."
I'D he mighty glad II you would give
me list of the books ought to have, >
said Joe TO the state commissioner
when the meeting adjourned.
".All right, son; here's list l had
prepared. I'll request the department
at Washington to send you their bulle'
tins on the subjects OF corn aud cotton
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03

III bet you hat that ! can take a
fourteen-year-old boy and on four acres
Of land farmed like sense and industry
and the books say, we will make more
profit off these four acres than you will
make of the twenty you pretend to
cultivate.
Come on, Joe, the farming firm Of
Weston & Someryille Is now going ont
to learn something about book farm
ingr"
Mr.. Somervile would have won his
bet about the farmers at the ngricul-
tural lecture There were less than
twenty-five who had come to hear the
experts, but the county superintendent
Of education had managed to corral
about twelve boys of various ages in
the room,
Joe and Mr.. Somerville were inter
ested from the start. for everything the
lecturers said was perfectly plain and
seemed the essence Of practical com.
mon sense, At noon the two gentle,
men were glad TO accept the invitation
Of Brierield's largest merchant to 20
to his home for dinner. Joe was intro.
duced TO both of the visitors They
were young men and graduates of az
ricultural schools. He and the state
superintendent of agriculture got to be
great friends
Il was II chap just about like you,
gafI .niafuI taunl \ Jf.nff ha 10
much chance, but ! just made up my
mind | would learn. and the rest was
easy"
In the afternoon the president of the
board Of supervisors announced that
the board understood that Boys
Corn club" was TO be organized, and
he was authorized to say that the
board had appropriated hundred dol
lars IN gold. fifty of which was to be
paid to the boy under eighteen years
of age who On measured acre pro
duced the greatest yield of corn at the
least expense, twenty five TO the next
fifteen TO the next and ten TO the next
You can Just add as prizes from
my company n complete outfit OF
clothes for the first prize entire suit
hat, shoes, underwear shirts. collars
and ties: pair OF shoes and a hat to
| all OF the next prize winners" Mr.
Somerville's announcement was greet
ed with applause.
MIR. Chairman, the Planters bank
will add fifty in gold, twenty-five Il
be added TO the first prize, So each e
the next prizes, and a lfth prize OF
$40 TO be created" chimed in the pres
ident OF the bank, who had followed
Mr.. Someryille IN TO see what his best
customer was doing at the farmers
meeting
"Now. there's something else" said
the state commissioner OF agriculture
The state. will give TO the winner OF
every prize a handsomely engraved
certificate of merit. bearing the sigma
ture OF the governor, myself and the
secretary of state. with the great sea
OF the state on It. This is testimo
NAL you can frame and keep always
And In addition the winner of every
first prize In each county will have the
records gone over in my office, and tn,
I winner OF the highest record in tn,
state will receive n free trip to Wash
lngton.
"An agent OF the national depart
ment OF agriculture will collect the
boys at various points, They will b.
taken to the capital as the honoret
guests OF the nation-the champion
corn grower OF each state. They will
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03

came shutting down the road, both OF
them with their hands in their pockets.
Want job. Uncle JeffT' inquired
Joe.
"Who? Me?"
mo; you. You heard what said"
well. sub. hit sorter pens on whit
de job is"
Getting out some locust fenceposts
"Who fer?'
"They are fer the king OF Siam
but, as matter OF fact, am having
the work done, II that's any consola
ton to you"
.Yasser. reckin LII take de job mex
week"
you'll take 1t now or not at all"
well. eff hits er hurry job. den
reckin I'll halter take hit now.
wucks fer er dollar en- two bits er day
en- mer viddles."
mot for me. I've seen you work
You kill too much time. will pay
you 5 cents post, and you must trim
the branches and tops for firewood ant
furnish your own rations."
"Wh-who gwine pay fer all disT
Joe pulled his checkbook from his in
side pocket
when write a check the Farmers
bank will pay 1t. You'll get your mon
ey all right"
Oats all l wanter know. Lead me
ter dem locuses"
Hold on minute. Do you want tc
hire Link here out for few daysT
"Whut doin'7"
Helping me. I'll give you 40 cents
a day for him and give him his dinner
1t isn't any harder work than ] an
going to do"
"Yasser, Mr.. Joe. | rents i'm ter you
Link, you do whut he tells you, en- et
you don do hit / gwine ter take dc
hide often you. Does you heah me
boy"
-Yasser, / heahs you" Abe Lin
coins glance at his parent was sad
and reproachful Abe was fat AND
lazy and hated to work.
"All right" said Joe. Uncle JEFF
go get your ak and start In on thai
locust thicket You know where 1t Is
Want the posts eight feet long"
Uncle Jeff ambled down the road to
ward his cabin. Link, big, over
grown boy two years older than Joe
stood awkwardly waiting for orders.
Come on. Link said Joe, walking
into the grove of oak trees, leaving his
father In the road eying him curious
ly. Mr.. Weston was dying TO know
what Joe was going to do next. bu
would not ask
In the oak grove the dry leaves Ia,
more than shoetop deep. Joe TOOK hi,
knife, cut good sized bundle of younl
sprouts and tied them together. max
ing stiff broom. With this he begai
to sweep leaves. and II worked nd
mirably.
Link. you take this broom anC
sweep these leaves in piles, Make on,
about every thirty feet I'll be bacl
shortly"
Leaving Link at work. Joe hustled
past his father and soon returned from
the barn with four large oat sacks
Link had several good sized piles OF
leaves ready. Joe held two sacks ant
made Link cram them full of the dry
leaves, and, instructing him to I'LL tn,
other two. Joe swung the full sack
upon his shoulders, marched across tn,
-
acres; then back and securing the TIVE
Link had filed. he empticd them, thu
Others meanwhile In turn having beei
loaded
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03
Epitaphs.

Bill Boxers taken his last drink;
He had his share on earth, we think.
His end was sad. alas. alack!
The Glove he swallowed was a tack.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03

tTo BE CONTINUED
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-03
CHAPTER |.
Joe. tho Book Farmer.

"a wv, faint no use. A poor man
IA aiH't got no chance In this
/" DANCED country II l had
Cd enough money 10 move on
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-02
HONOLULU SAILORS
IL CAN PASS TESTS

Although the Seamen 5 Act becomes
effective on Thursday, no orders have
been received from Washington by
Thomas J. Heeney, United States, in
sr ertor Of boilers, and William Howe
United States inspector of hulls, as to
the examinations Of seamen for GER
ti6cates, qualifications for which were
published in The Advertiser yesterday
morning. IT is presumed that the in
srectors will hold the examinations. A
list of vessels making this there home
rort and the number Of seamen carried
ty each was sent to Washington re
Gently by the customs house 80 the do,
Eartment of commerce would know how
mGny men there would be to take the
examinations here. 49,
Inspections of ships to see that they
comply with the Seamen 3 Act as re-
CARDS lifeboat equipment, ETC., will be
made as part of the regular semi an
nual insDections, which are proceeding
now. These requirements will have lit
tie effect on the local ships, meaning.
at most, merely rearranging equipment
aud slight additions.
There is no question as to the ability
Ct Honolulu sailors to pass the Ian
grIage test, so that the chief question
here 10 when the examinations for Ger
tifcates will be held.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-02
RUSSIANS LAUNCH
HEAVY OFFENSIVE
They Are Attacking Teutons
Along Front Extending From
Bukowina To Dyinsk
lAnsocinted Press bv rsdernl Wirnlana.l

NABSOClateu THobb Dy feuoTh "helobb.l
PARIS, November "A Russian of
fensi>c has been launched on the cast
front on 400 mile line extending
from Bukowina to Dvinsk. This infOr,
nation is conveyed here in Havas
despatch from Geneva, which says the
Russians are having considerable sue
cess in several sections.
The offensive in the southeast see
tion of the front centers on the Upper
Szczara River, short distance west
of the Bcssarabian border, and on the
Styr in Galicia; on the Stripa south
of TarnOpolO, on the Niemen in the
Baltic provinces and about Dvinsk.
The fighting is said to be desperate
and made more difficult for both sides
hy the severe winter weather, and
heavy SHOWS IN some districts.
In those sections of the Baltic pro.
vnres and Poland controlled by the
Germans railroad construction is being
rushed in view of. the approaching cold,
1t will be practically impossible to
build railroads in a few weeks because
Of the weather and if the Russian of
fpuSivr about Dvinsk proves more for
midable than believed the Germans
would he hampered in retreat. More
over, it is said there is much sickkness
among the Germans, and new railroad
facilities are needed to speed their
transportation to hospitals in Germany
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-02
GAN FRANCISCO
. REPORT REVIVED

Receipt of this announcement re-
calls a report published in The Ad-
vertiser last Wednesday, stating that
new American Transpaeific line was
in prospect. The report was received
here from f. A, Berndt, chairman Of
the Hawaii Promotion Committee, who
is at San Francisco. Mr.. Berndt Ie-
tcived the information at the iflite Of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
and wrote as follows:
"The Pacific Mail Steamship Com.
pany stated in emphatic terms auring
the course of our conversation. that an.
other American company would be in
the field before the first of next Near
taking up Transpaeific business. -
In the absence of information to the
contrary, il is thought the Pacific
Eastern STEAMSHIP Company is the line
to which the Pacific Mail referred.