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The Seward gateway., 1915-01-26
TAKE CENSUS
 OF UNEMPLOYED
PRESIDENT WILSON SAYS CON OPTIONS ARE IMPROVING
 CONSTANTLY.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-It has now been decided to take a census of the unemployed all over the country if possible. It will be taken probably in the cities of the east to start with and will be extended to other cities as quickly as practicable under the direction of the department of labor. President Wilson says that the work will be carried out by local municipal authorities. He also stated that in his opinion the number of the un- employed is decreasing rapidly and that business conditions are improv- ing. There is no depression in the west, he declares, and the situation in the south and east appears to give promise of a speedy change for the better.
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LAUNCH VIOLENT ASSAULTS ALONG WHOLE LINE
U. s. STEEL NOW.
 FEELS A PINCH
FAMOUS CORPORATION SUS- TENDS PAYING COMMON
 STOCK DIVIDEND.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-One of the most serious signs of the effect which the European war is exercising on cne business of this country IS that the United States steel corporation today decided to suspend the payment of dividends on it's common stock. It had been believed that the great orders for war munitions by the bel ligerent nations would have increased the business of such corporations but the truth is apparently proven by the action of U. s. Steel to have been the very reverse. The decision of the dir ectors has caused quite a furry in financial circles.
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MORE GERMAN SUCCESS

LONDON, Jan. 26.-The German official report to- day also includes an account of German success near Craonne where the allied trenches taken by ylo lent assault and least partly held against strong counter attacks Elsewhere the German offensive IS re- ported to have been repulsed with the possible exception of the attacks in Asace where the Germans are lombard ing Sennheim. This attack on Sennheim likely indicates German advance and military experts inclined to believe that the crisis in the struggle along the river Alsne is approaching It is assumed by them that the reinforce ments which the Germans recently brought from the east from the interior of Germany have now been placed m position in the front and that the general attack has been fully prepared for.
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BERLIN CLAIMS BIG
 DEFEAT OF BRITISH
Dispatches Through London Show Germans Violently
 Attacking.
GERMANS ATTACK VIOLENTLY

LONDON, Jan. 26.-The German armies in the west have suddenly taken the offensive and are making violent attacks simultaneously at several points along the entire line in France and Flanders. Berlin officially claims an important victory the British troops along the La Basse canal in France just south of the Belgian border The truth of this story doubted here but the British military authorities have given out official statement regarding the matter The German account is that the British positions extending twohirds of mile and including strong points of support, were taken by storm and have held the face of strong counter attacks The statement goes to declare that the Germans later progressed beyond those positions but were afterwards repusled by fierce bombardment.
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GEO. HAZARD
 BOUND OVER
THE BAIL HAS BEEN FIXED AT FIFTEEN HUNDRED
 DOLLARS.

George Hazard was bound over in the commissioners court this morn ing to the district court on the charge of obtaining money under false pre- lenses. The bail was fixed at fifteen hundred dollars.
 William Sauers of the Seward Com mercial company was the first witness for the prosecution. He stated that Hazard had gone to his store and presented what purported to be a government pension form. Hazard, according to Mr. Sauers, declared that the witness could write in Mir. Sauers box number in the form so that when the pension money came to Seward it would come to the post office box of Mir. Sauers who would then be able to secure payment for some goods which Hazard wanted from the store. Mir. Sauers said that on this security he gave Mr. Hazzard credit for the fifty nine dollars odd. In cross ex- animation Mir. Hazard tried to show that Mir. Sauers had known him for many years, evidently with the inteh !. tion of showing that Mr Sauers did not give him credit on the strength of the pension.
 Frank J. Cotter, merchant, was also examined. He testified that NIr. Haz- gard told him he was getting out a book about Alaska and asked him for goods on credit which he refused. Hazard then came back, Mr. Cotter said. with a pension form and told the same story, practically as that told to Mr. Sauers. In both cases ac- cording to the witnesses, Mir. Hazard enjoined the strictest secrecy "Keep it confidential, mind you" was his chief apparent desire. In cross examining Hazzard tried to show that Mr. Cotter had not examined the pension form very carefully.
 "No" answered the witness I thought I was dealing with an honest man"
 Mr. Hazard waived examination but stated that as the total sums which he was charged with obtain ing under false pretenses amounted to a little over hundred dollars bail of five hundred dollars ought to he enough. District Attorney Whit tlesey stated, however, that no one could vet tell what further charges might be brought against the prison or of a similar kind and Judge Con- roy fixed the bonds at fifteen hundred when he held the prisoner over.
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REPORTS RUSSIAN REFUSE

LONDON, Jan. 26-Berln officially reports that the Russian attacks near the East Pussian border have been repulsed with great losses the armies of the czar It is also reported that the Germans have occupied the city of Kiece which the railroad running from the Vistla to Germany In this territory the AuStl1anS are supposed to be with the Germans The taking of Kelce is important as indicating that the Teutonic allies ad vancng to the north east of Cracow further advance in that direction would mean the threatening O the right of the Russian army operating in northern Gahcia.
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BRITISH SMASH GREAT GUN

ST ONIER, Jan 26-The British artillery yesterday succeeded in destroying an immense gun which the Ger the object of sencng the British howtzers and lombard ing the city of Bethune After the destruction of the gun the British scattered the Germans in charge of it and driving them backward succeeded in establishing sim lar gun mile further behind the position which the Ger mans had occupied In the melee the British also succeed ed in smashing three pumps which the Germans were operating to drain the trenches of water Bethune is south of Lille not far across the border from Belgium
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PURCHASE LOT.

The Whitehead Realty company has sold lot 33 block 6 to Oscar Larsen and Pete Swanson. The price is $40O, The property is situated near the derrick across the railroad track from the baseball ground
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BRING IN MORE ORE FROM
 THE GRANT LAKE MINE.

The Harper Brothers and Case have arrived in the city with another load of ore from the Grant Lake property which will be crushed in the Els worth mill. Mir. Harper says the ore looks as good as that brought in at the first shipment. The amount which has reached the town is only part of the quantity to be crushed this time. The remainder is being relayed from Mile Ten and Twelve.
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BUTCHER TO MAKE HOLIDAY"

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 26-That the Germans are pre- pairing great military coup for tomorrow to celebrate the birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm there is every reason in the world to believe. All railroads in Belgium being used to rush great supplies of material to the front and without doubt tremendous conflict is about to begin As tomorrow will be the birthday of the Kaiser it assumed that the general assault has been timed for that day but whether that not it is certain that something tremendous is about to begin.
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EARTHQUAKE IN PANAMA.

PANAMA, Jan. 26.-Three short, sharp earthquakes have occurred on the Isthmus during the past three days but no damage was inflicted al- though the inhabitants were frighten- ed. The canal was not affected in the least by the disturbance.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-26

The Evans was scheduled to leave Seattle this morning at ten o'clock but nothing was heard from her to- day. The passenger list was over looked, that is if she left at all at the time stated.
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WEST VIRGINIA TAKES
 UP WOMAN SUFFRAGE,
Legislature Votes to Submit COnsti- tutiOnal Amendment on the
 Question.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Jan. 26.- The legislature has voted to submit the woman suffrage amendment. The final vote will not take place for some time.
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STEAMER COLLIDEs AND SINKS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-The Hawai- ian-American freighter Washington ian was sunk off Cape HelOpen, Del aware, yesterday by a collision with the schooner Elizabeth Palmer. The crew was taken off by the schooner and only one life was lost.
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TIIRKS FIGHTING HARD
supposed

LONDON, Jan. 26.-That the Turks are offering a stubbon resistance to the Russians in the region of Transcaucasus is made evident by reports coming here from that quarter The victories gained by the Russians there some time do not seem to have the effect promised They have certainly not destroyed the Turk power to con, tnue the struggle but believed here that they Will tell on the Turkish resistance before long.
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GERMAN CRUISER IN
 BALTIC SEA DAMAGED
Kaiser's Birthday Tomorrow May be Celebrated by
 Slaughter.
SAY GERMAN TORPEDOED

MALMOE, Jan 26-It is consistently reported here that the German protected cruiser Gazee has been tor pedoed by submarine in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Prussia. The nationality of the submarine is not stated but it is presumed to be Russian is positively known that the Gazee has returned to Sassnz damaged but the story of the attack by the submarine not con- irmed.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-26

Gus Manthey is still suffering from his peculiar malady but he hopes to improve from this time forward.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-26

Jack Roman and Robert Fleming left this morning for Kenai lake.
 Robert Morrison has left for Hope.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28

a legume hay, as alfalfa, clover or
cowpeas, Is the best for this purpose,
particularly for young stock and cows.
Economical milk can be produced
from these feeds without the addition
of grain, If the cows are not giving
more than two gallons of milk day,
and both the silage and the legume
hay are of excellent quality. Cows
giving a larger yield must have grain
added to their ration.
A pasture will carry much more
stock during spring, early summer,
and fall, than 1t will through the hot,
dry weather Of midsummer. BY help
ing the pasture out at this season with
partial soiling, the cattle not only have
better feed during this critical period,
but more stock can be carried on
given area than by pasturing alone.
AS land increases in value and farming
becomes more intensive. there Is
greater need for soiling, and the most
satisfactory method of providing a
substitute Is by means OF the silo.
It requires too much labor to cut green
crops every day and haul them to the
cows, and besides there is necessarily
a great loss in being obliged to feed
the crops before they are fully mature
and after they are over-ripe.
No crop furnishes more feed to the
acre than corn, and with the silo it
can be utilized for soiling. thus per-
hitting the whole crop to be harvested
when at the right stage of maturity
and fed when needed. saving both
feed and labor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28
THE WAY TO PREVENT HOG CHOLERA
BY J. KASTLE and r. GRAHAM

ton of cresol compound and white
wash the hog houses and fences.
SICK hogs should not be sold;
neither should they be driven along
public highways or transported in
cars from place to place, or placed in
public stock yards or pens. In other
words, the only way to properly con-
troll this disease Is to isolate it, and
though it may work a temporary
hardship on the individual owner to
DO this 1T is certainly, ultimately to
his interest and to the interest Of the
great body Of hog raisers, to do all in
his power to establish and maintain a
rigid and effective quarantine with re-
spect to this disease.
The only means Of protecting the
hog against cholera is by incubation
with hog cholera serum, or with hog
cholera serum and virus.
The serum alone confers an i'm
munity lasting from six to eight weeks,
while the double treatment unocula-
ton Of the hog on one side with
serum and on the other side with
virus), shows a lasting or permanent
immunity to hog cholera.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28
A BOLD THIEF.

The bad-road thief forces you to
haul small loads; drive slowly;
wrench and twist the life out of your
horse, harness and vehicle, often
breaking and damaging the latter
until great and expensive delays are
occasioned. It also steals your oppor-
tunity to dispose of your farm when
you wish to sell, for no man will pay
as much for a farm bordered by
poor-road system as he will for one
with well kept highway, and some
will not buy farm at all when the
road system is poor. The loss Of time
and money, where the above named
conditions exist, makes 1t imperative
that you open all the drain bitches
along the road, drag this silent, no.
torious thief to death with the King
road drag.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28
Chicken Lice

The common hen louise is pale dull
yellow in color; rather slender and
about 100 of an inch long, and Is
always without wings. It is provided
with six legs, and the head Is broadly
rounded in front.
The lice are very active, and move
about in the feathers of an infested
fowl quickly, apparently looking for
something. new, as any one who
handles an infested hen will soon dis
cover. They keep close to the host,
and complete their entire transforma-
tons on its body During the night
they move from the body Of one fowl
to another so that they may soon
spread from one infested hen through
out the whole flock.
The eggs of the common hen louise
are small and oval and are laid in
small clusters or "nits." Each egg is
attached by one end to the vanes and
barbs of the feathers. They hatch in
about eight days under favorable con-
dittons. However, they may remain
unmatched for several months in a
cool place without losing their vitality.
The young lice Matching from the
eggs resemble the adults in most re-
spects. except in size. Two or three
weeks are required under ordinary
conditions for the young louise to be-
come mature. Under favorable con-
ditions the lice may multiply so rapidly
that an uninfested flock may become
badly infested in comparatively
short time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28
KEEPING EGGS IN WATER GLASS.

There are several good methods of
preserving eggs but the water glass
method is best Water glass can usu-
ally be purchased at a local drug
store for less than 81 gallon, MAX
ing the cost abou. one cent for each
dozen eggs.
The receptacle used should be an
earthenware jar Of from five to ten
gallons. The eggs should be placed in
the jar each day, when gathered, as
the fresher the egg the better it will
keep. Care should be exercised to see
that none of the eggs is cracked, or
the whole jar Of eggs may be spoiled
in short time.
The jar should be placed in a cool
cellar, piece of oiled paper or some
other waterproof cover should be
placed over to prevent evaporation.
If this is not done, any eggs that ap-
pear above the liquid will spoil rap
idly. The eggs should be kept at
least two inches below the surface
of the liquid.
The solution recommended is one
part of water glass to ten parts Of
pure water.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28
KEEP MILK AS COLD AS POSSIBLE

The colder milk is kept, the long
er it will remain sweet. Bacteria are
responsible for the changes which take
place, and bacteria increase in NUM-
bers very slowly at low temperatures.
Therefore, do not leave milk where
it will got warm. If possible, put 1t
directly against the ice. If this can
not be done, put It in the compart-
ment Of the ice box directly beneath
the ice, for the air circulating through
the Ice chest Is coolest directly after
it passes over the ice. If no Ice box
is used, keep the milk as cool as pos
sible by putting it in the cellar, or oy
wrapping the bottle in damp cloth
and setting it out of the direct sun
light in current Of air.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28

should be about large enough to hold
a single rat.
In place of the upper head, stretch
a piece of very thick wrapping pa per
over the top of the barrel and fasten
it securely, by means of the top hoop
or cord.
Dampen the paper slightly with a
moist sponge, and it will become tight
when dry Feed the rats on this paper
head, with cheese-parings and other
things that they like, for several nights
in succession, so as t. get the rats
accustomed to coming without fear or
suspicion.
After you have gained their conf
dence, cut a cross slit in The middle
of the paper and spread the feed as
before.
The first rat that comes will drop
through into the water and get on the
rock; the next one drops through and
there Is a fight for foothold and
they argue the point with such squeals
that all the rats in the neighborhood
hasten In to find out what the trouble is.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28
ANXIOUS TO LEARN.

The steadily increasing attendance
at existing Schools Of Agriculture,
and the demand for more such schools
in addition to the demand for agri-
cultural instruction in the common
schools, show that farmers are awake
as never before in history, to the fact
that the size of their incomes from
the soil is largely a matter Of educa-
ton. The man who knows when to
plow, and why; when to plant, and
why; when to reap, and why, is seen
to have decided advantage over him
to whom the time for each Of these
functions is a mere "happenstance"
and who never concerns himself with
the "Why?" Scientific exactness Is
becoming the rule on the farm as we'll
as in the laboratory and the machine
shop: and exactness comes only with
the mastery Of principl Csc. r. B.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28

The PercherOn mas proven himself
to be the breed most adapted to the
demands Of the user Of the draft
horse, in all sections Of the country.
They do we'll on the cotton fields OF
the south and in the wheat fields or
Canada. They are popular in the east
and in the west. On the farm they
are the farmers mainstay.
In the city they are able to with
stand the hard work better than any
other breed, witness the fact that
dealers often pay as much as $40, in
the hundred, for horses bearing that
indelible Percheron color, gray. more
than for horses of similar quality but
lacking that trade mark.
The demand of today Is for horse
that can stand the strain of long
hours. pulling heavy loads over all
kinds Of roads. For a horse that is
prompt and yet quiet, one that can
move the heaviest of loads and yet,
when the occasion demaId DIS 1T, can get
up and go. The Percheron seems to
be the one horse that can fully fill
these requirements.
A thing that is much desired by the
corn-belt farmer Is economy Of MAIN
tenance. The horse to be desired Is
not only one that can do large days
work, but one that will do it on a
minimum Of feed. A case in point:
We have in one Of our teams a pure
bred Percheron mare Of 1900 pounds.
Her team mate, carrying a large
percentage of the blood of another
popular breed, weighs about the same.
These two mares do exactly the same
work. have the same attention and
yet the grade mare eats 20 per cent
more feed daily than does the pure
bred Percheron. Even then she is not
in the condition Of her mate. While
the Percheron is smooth, and in fine
condition, the other is thin and, to
the eye, unlovely.
I have q communication from one
Of the leading importers in the United
States in which he states that he can
keep his Percherons in show-yard
condition on the same feed that it
requires to keep his Shtres and Clydes-
dales in good breeding condition.
Surely here Is subject worthy of
consideration by the intending pur-
chasers of draft horses.
The thing that most serves to arouse
my admiration LII Tie VI ecu 10 IiiSiA
wonderful disposition. We find In
them combination Of almost all the
best traits Of horseflesh.
They are ever on their mettle, yet
not nervous or fretful. They are free,
prompt workers and always willing.
They always keep their heads 1t is
very seldom we find one that Is over
headstrong.
We have reached an age when the
demands of the time are for the large,
yet early maturing animal. The Fer
cheron comes very near to filing this
bill.
On our farm we breed our fillies
as two-year-olds and work our stall
lions at the same age.
It is true that it takes tribe more
feed per year, to mature them at this
early age, but, when we consider that
we save one years care and expense,
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WILL RAISE MORE SHEEP.

The American Stockman says that
the time is not far distant when the
western range states will turn out
fewer feeding sheep and lambs and
more fat ones for the eastern market.
This is equivalent to saying that the
days Of free range sheep raising are
about over, and that sheep will soon
be raised under farm conditions in
the far west. It also means the equal
izing Of opportunities for the eastern
sheep keeper. The cheap hill pas
ture lands of the east afford excel
lent advantages for the raising of
sheep.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-28
COWS HARD TO MILK,

Some cows are naturally hard to
milk; others are made hard by weak
handed milking. A woman or child
with hands not strcng enough for
milking causes a COW to become hard
for anyone to milk. To cure such a
cow, oil the teat freely before start
ing to milk, SO that the oil will work
into and soften the skin. Then milk
the COW with as much force as posi-
BILE, squeezing hard. This treatment
will usually cure an ordinarily hard
mixer. Once in a great while it is
necessary to cut the muscle surround
ing the inside of the teat with lance
like knife. This, however, is very
likely to ruin the COW If not done with
great care to avoid cutting too much
and causing permanent leakage. 1t
also makes a sore which Is painful to
the COW at the time Of milking, and
If done when the COW is not giving
milk, the wound grows together and
the muscle becomes tighter than be-
fore.-R. M. Washburn.