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Evening star., 1916-04-16

The poultryman who fails to keep an
accurate account of his transactions
is travelling over the road of uncertain
ty that leads to failure.
Evening star., 1916-04-16

Flowing modifes the physical condi-
tions of the land considerably. The
degree of beneht from this operation
will be determined by the condition of
Evening star., 1916-04-16

EG(;S-Barred Rock. best strain, 81 per setting.
s5 per hundred; sitting hens. 81 each. 3112
South Dakota ave. me-, woodbridge North
1910.
PENS of 10 White Leghorns and Barron male
Rhode Island Reds; same price sl5; hatch.
ing eggs from White Leghorn hens, headed
by Barron male. SO per 100. 81 per l5: Rhode
Island Red eggs same price These Barron
males are from hens that laid from 2O3 to
as4 in one year VIM. Tullock. Hunter Sta
ton, Washington and Mt. Vernon Ry. Post
once, Alexandria. Va Route /.
Evening star., 1916-04-16
DISPOSITION to Become Broody.

Between the laying of each litter
there is a tendency for the hen to sit
and hatch brood of chicks. Hens OF
the heavier varieties are especially
prone to this form of domesticity.
II is not known whether a hen can
control the development of an egg once
the yolk is well formed and has Ieft
the ovisac, but it is certain that she
can influence or check the development
of the yolks at the beginning of the
process, and she also has the power to
hold the finished egg for consider
able time.
on farms devoted to egg production.
where the incubation and broo11ng ls
done artificially. the hen is not re-
sponsible for the production Of next
seasons pullets. AS soon as she shows
signs of shirking her task her broodi-
ness must be discouraged and her in
ternal workings" stimulated and
spurred on to further achievements.
Even on the general farm. where
chicks are reared naturally, there are
times when more hens become broody
than are ever needed to hatch the
Young flock, and because they are al
lowed to sit as long as they choose.
without Interference from the farmer.
although he may not give them eggs to
sit upon, the habit soon becomes con-
firmed and there is "A very noticeable
decrease in egg production
Evening star., 1916-04-16

a roughage ration of any kind is not
sufficient during the winter A little
grain helps out wonderfully.
Evening star., 1916-04-16

Sweet corn for early market is plant
ed from ten to fifteen days earlier than
the field corn.
Evening star., 1916-04-16
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Axh5xk&*~
CURING BROODy HENS
TO|NCREASE EGG YIELD
Should Be a Part of Daily Routine
at This Season Of
Year.
Starving and Keeping Hens From
Water Are Wrong and Defeat
Their Object.
BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG.
BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG.


Contrary to the opinion OF man!
poultry keepers, egg production is not
a seouence of so much nourlshment
taken into the body daily, digested, as
simulated and then converted into the
materials for making eggs. Ihe egg
cells. of which there are many hundred
in the we'll bred. vigorous fowl, are
formed in series. sometimes called
"clutches" each cluster being deVel-
oped or retarded in accordance with
the hens physical condition. and her
ability to consume sufficient quantities
of the proper nutrients. Between
these clusters there is an interval OF
non-production. which varies consid-
erably with different breeds and speci-
mems.
There may be dozen eggs to lit
ter. or fifty. and in rare cases hen
will continue to lay almost without
cessation for a couple of years. Usu-
ally, hens that lay short litters take
but few days to the intervals be-
tween them. whereas the hen that lays
a series of forty to sixty eggs. IN al
most daily succession. will require a
rest period of a couple of weeks.
Evening star., 1916-04-16

The successful poultryman possesses
ability. determination, never loses cour-
age and has perseverance.
Evening star., 1916-04-16

Keep the house plants clean and you
will not be bothered with mealy bug or
aphis
Evening star., 1916-04-16

For the home garden choose vege-
tables of best quality. Quantity is not
the important thing.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
How the Police
Reconstructed the Case.

It was discovered. first that the cog when
found was still alive. 1t was battered-instead
Of being scratched and torn as it would have
been from a fall; battered as though It had
been hurled out into the air for the more than
one hundred foot descent from the boulevard.
Furthermore it's weight was not more than
fifteen pounds, and so light a body would in
evitably have been caught by projections and
brush on the cliffs face. The police concluded,
therefore, that ii must have been thrown.
Examination of Mrs Prices body showed
bruises such as would have been caused by
rolling down the cliff face. Neither her
clothing torn as 1t would have been II she had
sim ply tottered over the edge and had crashed
down through the brush and over the rocks.
Minute examination OF the face Of the cliff
revealed no trace Of the psssage OF any heavy
object such as her body.
The wound that had caused her death
Jagged, crushing cut on the mead. There were
no stones nearby which could have produced
this particular cut. There was no mark of
blood or hair the cliff face. The wound
appeared though it had been made by the
bringing down of a heavy three-cornered rock
upon her head while she lay where she was
found
Mrs Prices body was fifteen feet from the
base of the cliff. Experiments with dummies
OF her weight and size showed II was practical
liz impossible for her 10 have fallen OFF the
cliff and to have landed on that exact spot
but dummy OF her weight and size hurled
from the cliff did strike the exact spot
where she was found.
Close examination OF the defective spark
plug led the police TO believe that it had been
only recently installed and that IL had been
defective when installed
The police, reconstructing the tragedy along
scientific lines. drew picture entirely at va
rance with that of Prices. IL had been
planned they argued. to stop at this the
dangerous, point on the boulevard The de-
fective spark plug had been substituted to give
an excuse for stopping. Mrs. Price had been
persuaded TO leave the car. She had then been
hurled over the cliff. The dog had been thrown
after her. Mrs Price had not been fatally
hurt and she had been killed after her fall by
someone battering in her head with rock.
Mrs Price whose family is very rich. had
Just received. II was also discovered. $4,000
from one Of her sources OF income. Price.
Immediately after her death, had himself de-
clared her heir and executor.
The police wished however, 70 make abso-
lutely sure and, keeping Price continually IN
der surveillance they sought confederation of
their theory.
On last December. one year after Mrs. Prices
death. they received information concerning
Etchison that made them act They arrested
Price on a charge OF hi~amv and few days
CoDyril
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12

indistinct TO me, but through It ali I hoped
Price would rot have the nerve.
81 was nu - with cold. l got out of the
car and moved toward Price, but he avoided
me- Then / started toward the woman. BY
this time she standing near the cliff. /
heard a scream and then something touched
me and heard the body fall.
price beckoned mo to follow him. Hardly
able to stand, and stiff from cold and fright.
stumbled along the path. Price walked quickly
to the bottom of the cliff.
There 1 saw the woman stretched the
ground. Slowly she turned TO one side and
drew her legs UP under her Then she
moaned. was almost paralyZed. Price stopped
over the woman and Strengthened out her legs
and arms, placing her arms at her side. Still
she moaned. Price didn't say a word I
him stoop again, and l turned away. Their
heard the crunch Of rock against bone, and the
woman was still.
he told me, and get someone TO help US up
road. There l met a man. | told him there
had been accident and begged him TO
hurry. Then an automobile came by l stop
ped IL and several men and women got out.
81 led the way back down the cliff. SUD
denly Mrs. Price moaned again. Four men
picked her up and carried her TO the road
Once I was asked 10 help and I tried TO do
so, but couldn't. Someone called an ambu-
lance, I don't know who. II came. / found
myself In the Price machine and someway
drove 20 the home o. Mr. and Mrs. William
Dye, the latter the womans sister / took
them 10 the hospital In Midway, where l was
told to come. How ] made that drive viii
never know.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
THE Dark
Ride to Death"

Toward the Price home at Spruce Place he
drove. and hoped the ride would end there
but once the house was reached, he asked his
wife to 60 in and get the dog and We would
get little air.
mo one will ever know how I felt when
saw Price plotting the machine In the direction
Of the dark river road. Mile after mile we
travelled without a word. Mrs. Price and the
dog were on the back seat Several times
tried TO talk but Mrs. Price would not listen
In a ride Of what seemed hours We finally
reached the road that skirts the river The
machine stopped. Price said he had TO fix the
engine. A light from a nearby house shone
across the path he had shown me.
Price jumped from the automobile and !
recall his asking his wife 10 give the dog
little exercise What happened after that is
1e. by the Star Company, Great Britain Rights
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12

81 had a puncture and drove from the hos
pital to a garage to fix the machine Later
Price came out. She is dead, he said softly.
9" Did the fall kill herr I asked.
" No. Price replied, 1t didn't
ale asked me IL had seen the dog.
81 said had not. Later policeman brought
the dog to the hospital. It was the night
Price went with me TO my room at the Ven
dome Hotel and there we slept. He had
bottle of whiskey with him and took several
drinks. Once l said, Price, that was an awful
thing to do
"T know IT, he said, but It had to be done
and now il is all Don't worry. You will
get your money, and that's all you have to
worry about
The next day We had breakfast and sepe,
rated We avoided each other until the day
of the funeral l attended. because l could not
stay away. I saw Price there and he nodded
All you have to do. he told me, IS TO keep
your mouth shut
Morning and night / could hear the means
of the woman as we found her lying at the bot
tom OF the cliff Later Price came 10 me with
my notes for $1,000 and paid me $500 In
bills promising there was more 70 come
soon as he had sold the bonds his wife had
received from her father. I took nay wife
and went 10 my home in Illinois and spent
Christmas Ny wife asked what was worry
ing me. | again thought OF going 20 the Off
GERS and telling them what knew. Then l
went to Washington. There Price sent me his
personal check for 800 and bank draft OF
$1,000. That was all he ever gave
Then came the arrest IN Washington. I
told my story 70 Mr.. Armstrong. Assistant
County Attorney IN Chicago, and il brought
relief. l will repeat it again on the witness
stand. II is the truth and the whole truth.
Never before have I been IN trouble. All
the trouble / have ever known in this world
has come TO me through Price. ! have no
attorney. I need none. I will tell the Court
and the jury my story II I have done wrong
they will punish ne. But IL IS the truth that
I did not believe Price would really carry out
his threats or murder I an innocent. I was
an unwilling witness 70 the killing OF a woman
who had always been sweet and kind 20 me. %
Price himself declares he is innocent. that
Etchison is a drug user and his story q com
plete fabrication.
The Minneapolis police have found that Price
was named twice before he became the hus-
band of the woman who died so tragtcaliY
and. shortly after her death married again.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
'fHelp Me Do
Away With My Wife"


"One day he came to my room in the Ven
dome Hotel and after a few generalities
startled me by saying that he should have
money-no matter how he got it. / suggested
he borrow from his wife, for he had always
told me her family had money. He replied
that was impossible. This conversation was
in October, 1914. At the conclusion of his talk
Price turned to me and said suddenly:
Fred, listen. I've got to have money even
II have to do away with my wife
81 thought him joking at first. and paid no
attention to what be said. Swiftly Price turned
to me- repeated the sentence and added, and
you have got to help me-
Help you do what? queried
Do away with my wife," came the answer
and he continued: Il will pay you well. Not
only will give back the notes for the money
you owe but l will give you some more, once
she is out OF the way
II did not know that Price was serious !
tried to laugh Ii off | knew he had been drink
ing a little and thought his talk wild. but he
came again with the same proposition I
thought seriously of going to the authorities
and telling them what he was proposing but
| knew he had influential friends and would
probably prove TO them I had lied. Being In
his debt, / fenced for a time and apparently
acquesced to his plan
IF you don't help me- Price. frequently
told me, I will kill my wife in your presence
and do it in a way that the blame will fall
upon you. You have got TO help nee, and
have the plans all made
ION the day before November 2S-the day
Mrs. Price was killed-Price came and asked
me to get tickets for some theatre. after that
win take automobile he said with a
look l did not like. / again thought of going
TO the authorities. but l doubted if they, or
even the little wife, would believe what had
to say
Il sought the tickets. The play was the
Prince of Pisen' at the Metropolitan. Mrs.
Price enjoyed the play and laughed. Price
watched it moodily. / nervous. l tried
to catch Prices eye, but he avoided me.
II watched Mrs. Price-she was a dear,
sweet little woman. and a warm friend Of mine.
Not for the world would have harmed a hair
of her head. Even boy hated death and
pain. I never shot rabbit back In the days
when / lived with my father and mother on a
farm near Decatur, H.. but I was sorry
II watched the little wife as she laughed at
the play and wondered. / was afraid of Price,
and fearful of his power to take away my be-
longings. But through 1t all came the thought
that Price would really do It.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12

later he and Etchison were Jointly indicted by
the Minneapolis Grand Jury for murder in the
first degree.
Persuaded by his wife in dramatic scene
Etchison made confession. The confession,
printed below, is, If true a brief for the meth
DDS Of the modern scientific detectives
In his first statement Etchison said that
Price had deliberately removed a good spark
plug and had substituted a defective one &c
provide him with an excuse for stopping at
the place where he had planned to throw his
wife over the cliff. His second statement in
full was as follows:
1T was about five years ago that l first
met Price ] answered an advertisement for
statesmen. He was manager for a concern SELL
ing scales. | employed by him. and for
about three years were much together.
Then we drifted apart but kept in touch with
each other. Later | came back to Minneapolis
and started TO work selling stock for a local
concern. In the meantime / unfortunate
in business ventures and borrowed $1,000 from
Price. For this loan he held my notes.
Frequently he pressed me for payment and
threatened to commence an action in the courts
and take my furniture and other belongings.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12
W the New Scientific Defective Methods
Are Trying to Decide Whether Mrs.
Prices Death Was An Extraordinary
Accident or a Peculiarly Cruel Murder

STT HERE is an Old adage that murder will
out, and another that the seeds of a
mans destruction lie always in himself
Both Of these expressions of human experience
are repeated in another form by the formula
of the modern scientific detectives, who claim
that no criminal can so initiate natural oc
eye. OF HIS own handiwork.
In other words, no man bent upon the COM
mission OF crime arrange the circum-
stances of that crime that it will afterwards
appear, point by point, accident
Particularly is this OF murder.
II is upon the lines of this theory that the
famous French and German scientific de-
tectives have achieved such startling successes.
The same methods responsible for the
recent arrest Of Frederick I. Price, of Mime
apOlis, the charge of numbering his rich
young wife little more than year ago, and
when ne is tried these methods will be equally
trial.
On the evening of November %. 1914. Price
took Mrs. Price riding in his automobile
along the Mississippi road the principal
pleasure-drive of that city. With them
Charles T. Etchison, friend of the pair. Mrs.
Price took with her little pet dog.
At one point the road along the edge
Of a cliff about one hundred feet high, looking
down into the valley of the river.
Here the auto stopped few minutes later
men, attracted by the shouts of Etchison, came
running to the spot Descending the cliff with
him they found Price bending over his wife.
She died without gaining consciousness.
Price told the police that defective spark
plug had caused him to stop at the place he
did. Mrs. Price had gotten out with her dog.
The dog had fallen over the cliff and, In an
effort TO save it, Mrs. Price had herself fallen.
Prices story was accepted at the time, but
the scientific analysis Of 1t was begun.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-12

COPYRIGHT 1919. By II
Arizona republican., 1916-08-29
JUDGE ST|[WELL OPENS CAMPAIGN

In pleasant address before an or derly audience at the City Hall plaza Judge w. H. Stilwell opened his cam palgn last night for the republican nomination for the United States sen atorship. The address was rather reminiscent, relating to mining and irrigation legislation in which he had actively and successfully participated In the courts of this and Cochise coun- " and before the supreme court of the territory. He referred briefly to his service on the bench.
 He had learned with some surprise that he was a stranger in Arizona. He had thought that a residence of twenty-three years in Phoenix, follow ing a residence of twelve years in tombstone should entitle him to some recognition as an inhabitant of Ari Zona.
 In conclusion, he said that the rec era he had made as hard working at torhey' should be regarded by the voters as an earnest of the work that ne would perform for them as their rep IesehtatlVe In the senate of the United states. A broad field for his efforts iay m the matter of the charges for the irrigation project. The relief of .ne farmers, 1T any, he said, would have to be afforded by congress.
 Judge Stilwell said that his cam palgn was not directed by an organi- zation and that as a senator he would be placed under no obligation to any except the whole people of the state
 Judge Stilwell will leave today for Tucson where he will address a meet : lng tonight. Thence he will visit CochlSe county
Arizona republican., 1916-08-29

vestments by the Woodmen of the World in their emergency fund to August r:
 Yavapai county school district No 1, S35,000.00; Yavapai county school district No. l. s15,OOO.OO; Maricopa county school district No. 4, $90. 0o0.08; Yavapai county school district No. g, S25O0O.00; Greenlee County school district No. 19. $30000.00; Maricopa county school district No. 8, S1e,00O.00; Apache county road, $125,000.00; Yuma county road, s100,- 000.00; Gila county school district No. 26, s75,000.00; Yuma county road, S33,000.0G; Greenlee county road and bridge, $49,O00O0: Pima county, gen eral road, s300,00O.0O; Santa Cruz county road and bridge, 145,000.00: Mohave county Union high school district s25,00000; Gila county road and bridge. s96, ,0GO.O0; Graham coun- ty school district No. f, $40,00000; Mohave county road, $S0,00G.00: Santa Cruz county high school dis trct No l, $50,000.00.
Arizona republican., 1916-08-29

Annie" was some state house at tache, or an army mule attached to the regiment. He presented the cap tain with all the sympathy he had in his system, and inquired for de- tails.
 'Annie's'' full name it developed is Annie Mometer' or putting it in it's scientific phase Anemometer. Her duty during her long stay in Arizona was to loaf around all militia rifle ranges, and gave the speed with which the wind was blowing. in neat accuate figures. She had been sort of a tradition with the guardsmen. They have been so used to consulting "Annie's' arms, when they wanted to know she velocity of the wind, that it is thought they will never get used to going to another's arms for such information.
 She" was overlooked when the regiment was sent to the border, and Captain Temple thought that his precious pet was going to be left here for all time. In his accounting of the proerty to the government. he was forced to account for Annie | The war deartment. decided that the 1 climate of Phoenix would not be good i for one so delicately constructed as , She is, and ordered Her trans ferred
Arizona republican., 1916-08-29

eight-hour day but postponements of its effectiveness until the railroads had had an opportunity to prepare for it. Hope of persuading the railroad managers to agree to such a plan had not been given up tonight.
 After their conference with Mir. Will son the executives gave out a statement in which they said they had laid be- fore the president suggestions in the nature of a proposition for progress toward a solution of the questions at issue"
 Although it seems certain that there will be opposition from the republicans in congress to legislative suggestions of the president, administration leaders think it will be possible to get the laws through within a reasonable time.
 The visit of the brotherhood heads to the White House came within half an hour after the president had left the capitol They hurried from their hotel to the executive mansion and arrived shortly after o'clock, while the president was at dinner. Their con- ference with the president was brief. He handed one copy of the railroads counter proposition to A. B. Garrett son, spokesman for the employees, and
  way It is known, however that the brotherhood men gathered that he did not strongly approve of it. Conversa- tion about the strike order followed, and then the brotherhood heads de- parted.
 Every effort was made to keep the call at the White House secret. The union heads returned to their hotel singly and by separate routes. After passing out the word that they would meet the committee of twenty four to- morrow morning to discuss the pro- posal, they went to their rooms, decln- ing absolutely to discuss their confer ence
 News that copies of the strike order sent out yesterday was in the hands of the railway presidents, occasioned no surprise among the brotherheods. After 1t became known yesterday that they suspected three of their number as act ing as spies for the railroad heads, they said frankly that they expected the strike order soon would be in their employers hands. More than 5000 copies of the order. it was learned to- day, were mailed out of Washington last night. and each of the committee of $40 received a copy. Copies in the to have been mailed back here from nearby points.
 There was one traitor among the i twelve disciples" one of the brother hood heads said. and our average ap- pears to be higher than that 1 Labor Day was agreed upon as the