davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27

ever, will work wonders. The great
est apple seeding industry in the
world is in the Kaw valley and To-
peka is q center.
]. L. Pelham, secretary of the Kan
sas State Horticultural society. firm
1y believes there are great possibilities
Tor the Shawnee county fruit men
who adopt modern methods of caring
for their orchards. The Shawnee
County Horticultural society, with G..
F. Doane as secretary, il now a live
organization. 1t advocates the i'm
prOvement of methods. A meeting
will be held Thursday. March 4. in
the office of the state society, capitol
building. Current topics in reference
to horticulture will be discussed.
The San Jose Scale.
The San Jose scale, one of the
worst enemies to be combated by the
horticulturists. exists in scattered dis
tricts in Kansas. The scale can be
controlled by judicious use of pruning
hook, ak and fire, accompanied by
thorough application OF homemade
or prepared nme-sulphur. or of home
made or prepared miscible oil.
The scale exists in Shawnee county,
according to the state entomologist at
Lawrence. In his report for 1854
is the following statement:
THE San Jose scale exists in Wy
Sedgwick, and Shawnee counties It
Is also found in Labette, Pawnee and
Ford, but is here pretty well under
control. It has been found but IL be-
lieved to be eradicated from Douglas,
Reno, Rice, Pratt, and Wilson coun-
ties. Cooperative spraying work with
interested fruit growers has been Wig
orously pushed"
The San Jose scale is said to have
been imported from China in the ear
Nv seventies. 1t reproduces and
spreads with startling rapidity. 1t ID
one of a number of pests with which
orchardists contend. F. L. s.
Editors note: This is the third
Of a new series Of articles by F. l. s.,
published in the State JOurna1.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27
Convention Held IN Topeka
Every Other Day.
Merchants Association Fund
IL Not Adequate.
A New Entertainment Plan IL
Being Worked Out

Conventions are being held in To-
peka 10 thick and fast this year-17
Of them in January and many since
that time-that it will be necessary to
work out . plan for raising more
money for the entertainment OF the
thousands OF Topeka visitors. 1t 10
estimated that by the close Of the year
100000 persons will have attended
capital city.
sons will be here for the jubilee con-
vention of the State Sunday School
association the fore part of May and
here in November for the annual
meeting of the Kansas State Teach
Week. Is revived early y in the sunamsr
and the chances are good that Il
will be-. 200 or 1900 Kansas mer-
but few of the many conventions.
Costs to Entertain.
In speaking OF the conventions and
and the methods of handling them
the Commercial Club Bulletin says:
1t takes money to provide enter
tainment for the conventions held
here. The convention fund Of the
organization consisting of about IS
members who have the good Of Toe
peka at heart. and who provided
81, 500 for meetings in 1914. is not
adequate. The Commercial club
raised an additional $500 last year
and the first of this year there was q
deficit of $500.
One Of the first items Of expendi-
ture for 1915 was $3.50 for the inaug-
uration of Governor Arthur Capper
and the state officials. The accounts
and claims committee refused to pay
this money which tho Commercial
club guaranteed.
New Entertainment Plan.
This year 1t will either be necessary
to increase the fund of the Merchants'
association or adopt some other plan
Of raising additional money. This ID
one of the questions that will be dis
cussed by the new convention com.
mittee under George Godfrey Moore.
This committee will work out q new
plan for social entertainment.
The conventions that have been
held in Topeka since January l. in
clude those OF the Kansas Independ-
ent Telephone association. Kansas
Veterinary Medical association. KAN
sas Improved Stock Breeders aaDo-
citation. state board of agriculture.
Kansas State Bottlers' association.
tional council, Kansas Sheriff. ass0-
citation, Kansas State Bar association,
Kansas State Editorial association,
State Y. NJ. C. A.. Farmers' Union.
and statewide peace conference. The
meeting Of the intercollegiate Pro-
hibition association closed the first
day of the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27

the Mississippi river. Two of the
most famous criminal trailing dogs in
the country, Red Panther and Lady
II, are owned by the Concordia sheriff.
Fifty-nine hours on a cold trail and
following a trail sixty-three hours old.
are records made by the Moore blood
hounds. The dogs, in addition to be-
ing to great extent responsible for
criminals in Cloud county, are famous
in q number of states west of the
Mississippi river, including Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma
where they have worked.
On Long Trail.
The record of following a trail
sixty-three hours old was made at
Ellis, Kansas, where the blOOdhOundS
were taken to hunt down a man who
had been making a practice of cutting
fences on a ranch.
A murder which took place at Con-
suits that may be obtained by trained
bloodhounds. Frank Kelly. a Con-
cordian, was shot by an unknown per-
son, about s o'clock in the evening.
The Moore bloodhounds were rushed
to the scene of the shooting in charge
of Francis Swafford, undersheriff.
The dogs took the trail and followed
unerringly to the home of a girl, who
afterwards made written confession
to Carl Moore, sheriff. Other than
shooting there was little evidence for
the Cloud county officials to work on,
and had it not been for the man trail
ing dogs, it is probable that the iden-
tity of the murderesS would never
have been proven.
That a bloodhound is no respecter
of persons and circumstances is prov
en- in case which occurred not long
ago at Glen Elder. A farmer at that
place, missing 4 number of chickens,
G. Y,f fnr. hnv-iff 4~,l
When given the trail. the dogs follow
ed it for more than four miles, bring
ing up at wagon owned by a rela-
tive of the farmer who lost the chick
en-.
Rum Down a Burglar.
In a recent burglary case which oc-
Cured at CORTLAND the dogs were
sent for and put on the trail and after
following the scent given them for ten
miles. through rain, brought up at
section car on the railroad tracks at
Lowell. A Mexican living in the car
was arrested.
| One of the most pulling arson
cases the state has known for a num-
Der Of years and which originated at
JetElore was solved by Red Panther,
Moore's most famous dog. A thresh-
ing machine was destroyed by fire I'M
der mysterious circumstances. Moore
and STAFFORD. with Red Panther ar
rived at the scene and the dog was
given the scent of a horses hoof near
the burned machine which he follow
ed for nine miles to barn. On open
mig the barn door the dog ran to the
heels of one of the horses. The owner
of the horse was found in the house
asleep. was awakened and a confess
| sion obtained.
In Pratt, Kan. another knotty prob
! lem was solved by the Moore dogs. A
! banker was shot while sitting in his
house by a man standing on the out
side shooting through the window.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27
TUESDAY.

Like the famous Hammatt black hand
case in Topeka the only clue found was
tracks in the, mud. ]. C. Swafford,
trainer. took the dogs to Pratt and al
though the trail was 53 hours old, the
dogs picked up the scent and follow
ed to a cell In the Jail where a man
was confined who had been arrested
shortly before for flashing knife
and threatening to kill q man. The
man in the cell later confessed to the
shooting.
Case at wellington.
At Wellington, Kan. man and his
wife and daughter were found muir
dered, their heads crushed by a base
ball bat. The bloodhounds were given
sniff at the bat and put to work.
They picked up trail and rounded Up
the son OF the man and woman who
were murdered. He was arrested.
At ConcOrdia brick was thrown
through the window of teWelry
store and jewelry and money were
stolen. Given the scent from the brick
it to q depot. The agent remembered
a strange man who that morning had
bought a ticket. The sheriff went to
the place where the man bought the
ticket, found and arrested the man,
on whose clothing some of the jewelry
was found.
A record for trailing a man through
streets where traffic is heavy was
made by the Moore dogs at the Kansas
City dog show last winter. The man
who played "criminal' was given a
ten minutes start of the dogs. They
were allowed a whiff of his handker-
chief and told to work" Red Panther
and Lady II were the two dogs used.
Got Their Man.
The two powerful hounds took the
scent and starting at Thirteenth and
Broadway, tore down the street like
an early June cyclone, knocking over
a half dozen or more pedestrians who
did not get out of their way. The dogs
got" their man.
The use of bloodhounds and blood
hound evidence was unanimously en-
dorsed at the last meeting of the Kan
sas State association of sheriffs held
in Topeka. A damage suit against a
Kansas newspaper, the Concordia
Blade, for $4,000 alleging that blood
hound evidence was libelous was re-
Gently decided in favor of the defen-
dant in the district court.
In this decision bloodhound evidence
was given the acid test and upheld
by the jury. Rarely has case been
known to fall through when blood
hound evidence was placed against the
man charged with the crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27
LITTLE THINGS.

IT'S little things that give him JOY.
A song that some one sings,
The merry laughter Of his boy,
butterhy's soft wings,
A rosy sky at break OF morn,
flower by the way,
A waving field Of rustling corn,
And rest at close of day.
Oh there are pictures every day,
For those who care to look,
The apple orchard DER the way.
The willow by the brook.
If we but take joy by the hand,
When We are wont to roam,
She leads us to her native land.
lis in the heart Of home.
MRS. EUNICE SPRINGER BAIR.
1853 Western Avenue, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27
YIELD MORE FRUIT
Old Apple Orchards To Be Re-
vived in Shawnee County.
Agricultural College Expert Do
ing Important Work.
before AND AFTER TAKING"
A Topeka Experiment Orchard
Will Show the Results.
Insect Pests in Orchards and
How They Are Fought.


The adoption of scientific methods
has made Doniphan county famous as
an apple producing district; the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27

Snal offenses committed in Cloud
county are small, in fact. among the
smallest of any county In the state.
The man trailing dogs have been
used in Cloud county for eight years
and during that time they have
brought about arrests and secured
convictions in hundreds Of cases. in
all parts of the state. They are of the
English imported breed and are
trained by Francis Swafford. The
Moore kennels are the largest west of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27

Prompt Action WIN Stop Your Coaeh
When you first catch Cold (cften In
up at once. The idea that ut does mot
matter" often leads to serious complies
tons. The remedy which Immediately
and easily penetrates the lining Of the
New Discovery soothes the irritation.
loosens the phlcgm. You feel better at
once. TT seemed to reach the very spot
timonials. 500 at your Drugg1st.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27

methods will revolutionize Shawnee
county from a horticultural stand
point. Old non-producing orchards
will become q source of profit. There
is a strong revival of interest in hor-
ticulthre in Kansas. and Shawnee
county has caught the spirit.
The state Agricultural college is do
ing a great work in showing the
orchardists in Kansas how to obtain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27

LONG RECORD OF SUCCESSES
Have Run Down Many Persons
and Got Convictions.
Trail Man Through Crowded
Streets of Big City.
SUNDAY.

An example of communities where
crime is hard to find, and where
hloodhounds have been instrumental
in eradicating it, is Cloud county, Kan
sas. the home of the famous Moore
hloodhounds which are owned by Carl
Moore, Concordia, Kansas, sheriff of
Cloud county. The number OF GRIM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27

son why Shawnee county orchards
should not produce bountifully: in
fact, it has been already demon
strated what spraying and care will
do. There was time when the or
chards were free from disease and
the trees were young when the pro-
ducers believed that little attention
was necessary. Proper pruning. care
full spraying and cultivation, how
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23
INSPIRATION OF
THE COUNTY FAIR.
BY Peter Radford.

When you enter the agricultural de-
partment of the county fair, you feel
your soul uplifted and your life takes
on a new power-that is the inspira-
tion of the soil. You are overpowered
by the grandeur and magnifcence of
the scene-that is the spirit Of the
harvest. You can hear the voice of
nature calling you back to the soil
that is opportunity knocking at your
door. 1t is good chance to spend
quiet hour in contact with the purity
and perfection of nature and to sweet
en- your life with its fragrance, elevate
your ideals with it's beauty and expand
your imagination with it's power.
These products as food are fit for
the gods, and as an article of COM
merce they ought to bring tip-top
prices on any market in the world.
The products of the soil are teachers
and preachers as well. Their beauty
gives human life its first entertain
ment, their perfection stirs the genius
in artists; their purity furnishes mod
els for growth of character and their
marvellous achievements excite our
curiosity and we inquire into the won
derful process of nature.
Before leaving the parlor of agricul-
ture where nature is parading in her
most graceful attire and science is
climbing the giddy heights of perfec-
tion, let us pause and take retro
spective view. How many of you
know that after these wonderful prod
ucts are raised, they can seldom be
marketed at profit? Take the blush
ing Elberta, for example-they were
fed to the hogs by the carload last
year. The onion-the nations favorite
vegetable-every year rots by the
acre in the Southwest for want of
market and as a result hundreds of
farmers have lost their homes. Cot
ton-natures capitalist-often goes
begging on the market at less than
cost of production.
II is great to wander through the
exhibits while the band is playing
Dixie" and boast of the marvellous
fertility of the soil and pride ourselves
| on our ability to master science, but
it is also we'll to remember that there
is a market side to agriculture that
does not reflect its hardships in the
exhibits at a county fair.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23
annual. MEETING
Of AMERICAN
PLOWMEN
National Farmers Union Renders Un-
selfish Service to Agriculture.
BY Peter Radford.

The National Farmers Union will
hold its annual convention in Lincoln
Nebraska, on September seventh, and
will round out the eleventh year of
its activities in the interest of the
American plowman. When that con-
vention is called to order every farm
er in America should pause and bow
his head in honor of the men gath
cred there to render a patriotic and
unselfish service to agriculture. That
organization, born in the cotton fields
of Texas, has grown until geograph-
ically it covers almost the whole of
the United States and economically
it deals with every question in which
the welfare of the men who bare
their backs to the summer sun are
involved 1t has battled for a better
marketing system, rural credits. cheap
money, diversitication, scientific pro-
duction, agricultural legislation and
has carried on its work of education
and cooperation in season and out.
The Farmers Educational and Co.
operative Union of America brings
the question of organization squarely
before every farmer in this nation.
Without organization the farmers can
neither help themselves nor be helped
by others and through organization
and systematic effort all things are
possible.
The farmers of the United States
contribute more and get less from
government than any other class of
business. They have better securities
and pay a higher rate of interest
than any other line of industry. They
market more products and have less
to say in fixing the price than any
other business and they get more
political buncombe and less construc-
tive legislation than any other class
of people The farmers can only ac-
quire such influence in business, in
government and in economics as will
enable them to share equitably the
fruits of their labor through organiza-
tion and every farmer on American
soil who desires to help himself and
his fellow plowmen should rally
around the Union.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23

careful study of the problem schan president of
railway
roads investments, said
1T of
n popular
prominently finance people
of the of
nothing
billion dollars American railroad
the hadns-whe the other
million small
modest savings of lifetime into these securities order that
old
securities is depressed or perchance DESTROYED the hardship
monaies good bad who have figured
Hundreds millions
these myriad nstuionsdrecy policy
holders
millions dollars
railroads
the
bndy striking railroads
sands who have committed but the
We should remember how nerdpenden
republic Of ouha each truth brothers
goods the toll and of to
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23
GRASpIKG At The SHADOW

No man-especially if he is mar
ried-would deny woman any right
she demands. Take the earth and
give us peace, but why does woman
long for the ballot?
When all is said and done, is not
the selection Of the butcher more i'm
portant to the home than the election
of mayor; is not the employment OF
the dairyman far more important
event in the life of the children than
the appointment of postmaster; is
not the selection of books for the
family library more important than
voting bonds for Jail and court house?
Why does woman lay aside the i'm
portant things in life? Why leave the
substance and grasp at the shadow?
Be it said to the credit of woman
hood that it is not, as a rule, the
woman who rocks the cradle that
wants to cast the ballot; 1t is not
the mother who teaches her children
to say Now lay me down to sleep"
that harangues the populace: It is not
the daughter who hopes to reign as
queen over a happy home that longs
for the uniform of the suffragette. 1t
is, as a rule, the woman who despises
her home, neglects her children and
scorns motherhood that leads parsdes
and smashes sindows.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23

this right
a
thing settled in the
natural right but
the sole be discussed
will be
than by the suffrage
element the mteoty
inferior but it is that woman is
certain
other functions
noble influences of her character
feeble and
unfamiliar which unable
harsh unlovabe repulse
whom confess submission the heaven removed from the earth
The science of protecting life and
divine distribution
II with will
o
bthright
judgment this whole arises
of the o
The will when the line of demarcatn the
osophy believe that an attempt to turn backward the line of
the march towards higher nober and civilization which
higher differentiation
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23
POLITICAL G0SSIPS

When one class of people has any
thing to say, it has become largely
the custom to make a political issue
out of it instead of a friendly discus
sion, to print it in a law book instead
of newspaper and to argue it be-
fore jury instead of to settle it in
the higher courts of Common Sense.
As a result, political agitat0rs, pOlit
ical lawyers, political preachers and
masculine women are powerful in
politics and dissension, seltishness, in
tolerance and Mysteries run rampant
in public affairs, for when the low,
damp murky atmosphere of misun-
derstanding envelops public thought
it breeds political reptiles, vermin,
bugs and lice which the pure air of
truth and the sunshine of understand
ing will choke to death.
We have too many selfappointed
interpreters of industry who are in
capable of grasping the fundamental
principles of business and who at best
can only translate gossip and add
color to sensational stories. No busi-
ness can stand upon error and might
ruIes-right or wrong No industry
can thrive upon misunderstanding
for public opinion is more powerful
than a Kings sword.
a When prejudice, suspicion and
class hatred prevail, power gravitates
into the hands of the weak, for dema-
gogues thrive upon dissension and
statesmen siCken upon strife.
The remedy lies in eliminating the
middleman-the political gossip-and
this result can be accomplished by
the managers of business sitting
around the table of industry and talk
ing it over with the people. Inter
change of information between indus
tries and the people is as necessary
TO success in business as interchange
in commodities. for the people can
only rule when the public under
stands Away with political interpret
ers who summon evil spirits from
their prison cells and loose them to
prey upon the welfare of the people
in the name of My Country"
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23

for evident that this makes large sums in the
available employment labor development
community But much accomplished than the of the money
actually the banks drafts
notes the efficiency of money multiplied times over very large
little
being labor and
9th
community everybody paid all
receiving check
the bank evidently
would
slightly changed
other offset themselves
This called
large there Clearing House where representatives of the
daily with each other.
bank constantly receiving from its customers particularly those that
other cities which usually sends for deposit few correspondent
which
question He
business with such
thing credit that shall always be the
as
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23
PHILIP

Philip, the Macedonian king, while
drowsy with wine was trying a case
and the prisoner after sentence was
pronounced, exclaimed, Il appeal.
And to whon do you appeal" in
uuired the astonished monarch. Il
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip
sober" replied the prisoner, and the
king granted the request and at a re-
hearing gave the prisoner his liberty.
The people drowsy with the wine OF
discord ofttimes pronounce verdict
on public questions which they reverse
in their more calm and deliberate mo-
ments. The next best thing to make
ing no mistakes is to correct them.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-07-23

Hamburg of the three German free ports now ranks the second
world 1913
$6OOOOOO under that of New York
financial
made possible by the recent currency act would stimulate international
financial the world
America become the
Netherlands
world should yield the
brings the
shipping linking with America Africa
then concludes:
commodities by bringing great quantities of goods
will
houses which hold goods for indefinite period without the Of
article
the trade demands the whole world It will upbud international credit
and shift America increasing ultimately share
international exchange
Finally world
this oveookd reciprocal
only be paid by exchange of wealth"