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The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04
Station in the Interior Proves
 Its Worth to the
 RanChers There.
GEoRGESoM ON A TRIP
VIII Visit the Interior for the First Time in Two Years and
 Make Report.

One of the beneficial uses of the United States agricultural experi- mental stations in Alaska was ex- emplifed this year at Fairbanks when the station there loaned to farmers in the Fairbanks district several hundred bushels of grain for seed purposes. This spring the Fairbanks farmers found themselves short of seed for sowing. Dr. c. C. GeOrgeson, head of the service in Alaska, took the matter up with the Department of Justice and ar ranged for cooperation between the service and the farmers through which seed was furnished the farm ers and the latter are required to return the quantity of seed furnish led in the fall.
 It is said that this action of the United States experimental station has allayed some feeling that had previously existed against the ser vice on account of alleged com petition with the farmers in ag- ricultmal products because the sur plus products of the station at Fair banks, as elsewhere in the United States, were sometimes sold in the markets.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04
Two Million Dollars for Steel WilI Be Spent in This Country
 Immediately.
TO EQUIP OWN MILLS
Japanese Are Building a Large Number of Manufacturing
 Plants.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 4.-S. ok umura, agent of Ataka & Co.,. with head offices in Osaka and branch office in Tokyo, arrived in Pitt9. burgh to arrange for the purchase of more than $2,OOO,OOO worth of iron and steel goods from local shops.
 "The trouble is to get early deliy- cry of orders, mainly because your mills are now over six months be- hind deliveries" he said. "Aftcr you make the goods for us. you have no merchant marine to help us get what we bought here into our harbors."
 Mir. Okumura will buy machinery Of all kinds used for the equipment of iron and steel mills. and some tinplate and household utensils. but will not purchase any electrical sup plies, he 0ald In speaking of the manufacturing conditions in Japan he said
 "Japanese enterprise is building a great number of manufacturing plants of all kinds, but we are not ready to supply more than a frac- ton of what the country. is demand ! ing. We all must head for Pitts. burgh to get just what we want and the quality which lasts.
 "The imperial government adyer- tises for so much tonnage in iron and steel or shipbulding material to help industries On publication, private interests flock to close the contracts. For instance. a large part of what I buy in this city in tho shape of machinery for shipbuilding, will be sold to the government. Not enough mills, nor enough other fac. tories are available to meet one. tenth of what is called for in ihc present needs of Japan"
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04
"BETTESr TOWN IN
 NEAR DRY STATE"
E. ". Chain Former Prohibition Candidate for President, Tells of the
 Dry" Iowa Town.

The following confession from E. W. Chain, who once ran for President on the Prohibition ticket, and 'stumped" the cOun- try for the 'drys' as a member of the fa- nous Flying Squadron, was entirely un- expected
 It came in this dispatch from Des Moines to the Davenport (Iowa) Demo crat-Leader:
 The wetiest dry state in the unionl
 Thus does E. W. Chain, at one time candidate for President of the United States, sum up the situation with relation to the suppression of liquor sales in this state.
 Iowas prohibition laws do not prohibit, declared the noted temperance worker and reformer. MT. Chain left his home in Ari- zona several months ago to stump Iowa in the interests of prohibition and woman suffrage. He has made more than 300 speeches Tn Iowa.
 Chain attacked the private consump- ton clause in the Iowa liquor statutes and urged Iowa prohibilionists to eliminate this clause at the next general assembly.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04
JAP PANESE TO BUILD LARGE
 SHIP FOR NAVY
New WarShip Will Have Displacement of al
 Least Thirty-two Thousand Tons.
TO BE TORPEDO PROOF

TOXIC, July 27 (specIaD Ut is reported that guns Of 15-inch calibre may be mounted on q sup er-dreadnought which has been or dered by the navy department and will be laid down in the Japanese navy yard at Kure. This ship was authorized at the lest session of the Diet, and sho will be the larg- est battleship in the Japanese navy. She will be called tho Nagato after one of the provinces in southern Japan.
 Although the official figures have not been announced, 1t is said the warships will have a displacement of 32,OOO tons and a speed of 24 knots. The displacement exceeds by 14OO tons that of the dread nough Yamashiro which was launch ed at Yokosuka last November. The Yamashiro is about the same size as the United States super-dread- nought Pennsylvania.
 If the announced figures prove exact, the Nagato will be bigger than the celebrated Queen Eliza beth of the British navy, more speedy than the YamashIro by two knots, and faster than. the Pennsyl- vania, of the United States navy. by three knots, although she could be outdstanced by the Queen Eliz- abeth. A feature of the proposed ship will be improved equipment for defense against torpedoes.
 The question of main armament seems not yet decided. It is un- derstood that the navy favor l5- inch guns. but guns of this size have never been made in Japan, and it is likely that they would have to be imported from England. It is doubtful if England could turn them out during the war.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04
.IF ARMIERS OF
 FAIRBANKS
 HELPED OUT
MANY FARMERS IN THE DIS-
 TRICT.

One of the significant things con- nectcd with the seed transaction was that 42 farmers borrowed seed from the experimental station. so many farmers were engaged in raising cereals in the Fairbanks dis trict was not generally known.
 The Fairbanks experimental sta tion is making some wonderfully successful experiments in the devel- opmont of cereals that are both suitable for Alaska's short sum- mers and prolific. Grains that are suitable to the short summers of Siberia have been imported by Dr. Geoygeson and crossed with the great producing cereals of the Unit ed States, and hybrid has resulted that meets the demands in Alaska. This experimentation began with barley, but it is now being chiefly carried on with wheat.
 DR. GEORGESON TO VISIT
 STATION.
 Dr. c. c. Georgeson, head of the United States agricultural experi- ment stations in Alaska, is now in Juneau, and will leave for the in- terior soon, probably on the steam CT Alaska, due to sail for Skagway Sunday. He will sail from White horse on the White Pass steamer Casca, leaving for Dawson August @, and connecting at the latter place with the lower river steamer Yukon August II. He will visit the stations at Rampant and Fair banks. It will be his first visit to the interior for two years.
 TWO IN oNE-The EMPIRES way for everybody. The EMPIRES ads" keeps the housewife informed of all sales and the news columns arc right up to the minute on the days news.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04

Adjustable pontoons, intended to make any small boat unsuitable, have been patented in England by an Australian.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04

EMPIRES claaaiflods pay
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-08-04

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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-13
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Agnes Edison is visiting in
Seattle tnis week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Carlson are
visiting various Puget Sound uities
this week.
The NJ. E. Ladies Aid society
will hold a bake sale at Jameson
store, Saturday, July Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Larson and
daughter Gertrude of Blaine spent
Sunday with relatives in LINDEN.
Miss Emma Bennett has as her
guest her sister, Miss Harriet Ben
nett, of Philadelphia.
Miss Crete Topping and Miss
Madge MacKinnon made a trip east
o. the mountains last week TO regis
ter for Co,ville lands.
The Supreme Court of the State
decided favorably this week on a
case pleaded before it by R. B. lie
Coco, Lynden attorney. The case
was an Island County drainage suit,
Involving the drainage of valuable
swamp lands. lie Cocq won the
case In the lower court, and the ST.
preme court affirmed the decision.
D Chautauqua ticket selling is bro
ceeding now under the direction Of
two generals, each with an aYIny OF
high privates. The winning squad
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-13

expects to be entertained by the los
ers. The sides are as follows: Cen
eral Serrurier, and Privates Feen-
house, Seat, Baker. Blonden, Helder
Scovill. Pace, Haveman, Averill
Van Rossum, Jones, Davies, Smith
Elder, Wander Griend. Weber, No
Leod, Frick, Mcdonnell, Beckes,
Storey, Hammond; General NAPLES
and Privates Powers, Edison, Wood
Pixley, Tromp. Bauman. Colby. Tay-
lor, Boerhave. Lewis. Ashby, Gale,
Steinhauer, Knapp. lie Coco, jamie
son, Van Hemert, Haveman, Somers
Mounter, Stuurman, russo and Lar
son.
TIE Kensington Club has discon-
tinued its meetings until September
Officers elected for the next season
are Mrs. George Hall. president;
Mrs. George Carlson. vice-rresident
Mrs. Mark Hammond. secretary
and Mrs. Molly Stark-Williams,
treasurer.
Christian Hanson of Delta has
purchased a fine automobile. Han
son, his neighbors say, is now learn
ng to run the machine in his barn,
and can already play fine tune
OF the horn.
The Electric Theater was re-
opened this week under the direc-
ton of A. Mcdaniel. Mr.. Mcdaniel
has secured an excellent film serv-
ice, and a good show will be given
regularly.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-13

The Tribune this week. NJ. II. Ger
ZACH, ST., will hold sac of furni-
ture Saturday. July Is. at the Coop
erative Public Sale Rooms, 3rd and
Front Streets, and w. e. Oban VII
hold a sale of live stock, imple-
ments and household goods. Thurs
day, July 20. at his place ~ vi
south and Il mile west of Haynie
Corners. Full details are given on
pages and 5 of this issue of The
Tribune.
Mrs. s. j. Harmeling and son,
Llewellyn of Me Farland, Ca, are
guests of DR.. and Mrs. F. L. Wood.
Herman Oordt received forty
fine white Leghorn cockerels this
week from Tacoma. The birds are
from one of the finest laying
strain in the Northwest.
The Lynden ball team will pay
Friday Harbor Sunday. An excur-
sion of fans and friends of the
team is planned, leaving Lynden at
a. m, and Be'lingham at s a. IN.
York's Band will accompany the
party. An argument resulted In
Deming FORGETTING Sundays game
to the ,ocal boys, 9 to 0.
Miss Esther Hawley returned Sun
day from a visit in Blaine
There is more feed on 40 rcres
around Lynden than on $50 acres
in most sections of the Northwest
declared G. X. Woodwork of Wood
worth aud Barton, Seattle, his
week, following a tour of the Lyn-
den district purchasing cattle. Ow-
ing to shortage of pasture through
out the Northwest, the price of cat
tie has dropped because of the num-
Der that were thrown on the mar
ker. Local farmers are holding
their stock above the present mar
ket value, and the outside cattle
buyer can find little 10 make his
visit here profitable.
Miss Orah Hardness, advance ag-
ent of the Lynden Chautauqua,
July 81 to 81, arrived in Lynden |
Wednesday. and will remain during
The next ten days to assist in the |
Tx ket sale Miss Hardness met |
with the members of the executive |
committee last night.
The Lynden Confectionery is |
now being conducted under the
management of George NAPLES |
MIR. NAPLES has already made sew
eral changes for the benefit and |
Of lovers of good ice cream |
and candies, and promises to run |
modern confectionery.
Rev. E. Breen is expected TO re-
turn TO Lynden Friday.
Mrs. George NAPLES and daugh-
ter are visiting in Snohomish this |
week.
Don't run short on your milk. |
Call at Steinhauer's for sprayers
and fly chaser.
The ten-year-old daughter of Al
fred knutzen underwent an opera |
lion for appendicitis at Bellingham
Tuesday.
The baby son of Mr.. ard Mrs. |
Dan Mcleod burned his hand on a |
stove Tuesday.
Born Wednesday to Mr.. and Mrs. |
S. II. Lucas, a son.
Mrs. Van Hemert. mother of P. ].
Van Hemert. was i'll this week.
p. S. Flemming of Bridgeview |
Farm is suffering from an infected
finger this week.
DR.. s. S. Howe. Oculist and Aur-
list. At DR.. Mounter's office Tues
days. Glasses accurately fitted.
The son of A. M. Olson cut his
foot on a hoe last week, and a case
of blood poisoning resulted.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Arie VAN
der Hook. Sunday. a daughter.
Mrs. s. Finney was struck by
CT ance on the head by stick of
wood Monday evening. badly bruis-
ing her and cutting an artery.
Tents to rent by the day. H. S.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-13

We merchants. undersigned, will
close our several places of business
a. goo on the dot, TO allow our
selves and our help, the privilege
OF attending each and every after
noon session of Chautauqua, tx
cept Saturday, while same is in
progress. All stores to open I'M
mediately after the performance.
Signed:
Armstrong-Hammo Co.
F. E. Knapp
Star Grocery Co.
S. Starkenburg
City Market
r. L. Averill
X. r. Helder
The Lynden Tribune
Elder aud Pace
Gale and Cooley
Henry and Powers
Lynden Market
Y. H. Tromp
Fred Whipple
e. Edison
L. J. Matthews
Farmers Mercantile Co.
Lynden Cooperative Co.
Lynden Dept. Store Inc.
A magnificent lecture staff and a
musical and entertainment program
not to be excelled, will be heard in
Lynden.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-13

Full stock of trunks and suit
cases Steinhauer's.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-13

Tribune Want Ads get results.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
PROMINENT COOS BAY
BANKER PASSES OVER

Marshfield, Ore, Sept. ISL. W. Ben.
nett, banker, politician and attorney,
died at his home in this city last night,
following short illness.
Mr.. Bennett was native of Bandon.
ireland, and came to the United States
in 1873 in company with his father,
George Bennett, brother, G. a. Ben
nett, Harry Baldwin, deceased. of Ban.
don, and George NJ. Seeley, now a resi-.
dent of Portland.
His career was carried. he having be.
gun as rancher, from which he
branched out into the legal profession,
newspaper field, and later became q
banker and part owner Of the Coos Bay
water system.
Mr.. Bennett was identified Us part
owner OF the Coos Bay News from 1876
to 1884, when he began the practice OF
law.
With Patrick Flanagan, he organized
the Flanagan & Bennett bank here IL
1880, later opening branch at Myrtle
Point.
Several trips were made to the ole
home in Ireland by Mr.. Bennett, an,
on his return from one he was accom-
panied by a bride. who was Miss Grac,
Bennett, the sweetheart of his youth
and daughter OF the Rt. Rev. Thoma
Bennett, bishop Of the Episcopal churel
at Cork.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16

Journal Want Ads Get Results You
want-Try one and see.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
MAYBE THERE'S MONEY IN IT

Farmer up in Morgan county, lndi-
ana, had worthless hill. Found out it
was superior quality of blue clay.
Now they RE cutting it down and ship
ping it away by the ear load to be used
in the manufacture of pottery. That
hill was worth more than the rest OF
tae farm.
Man down in Connecticut had worn
out piece of land. Couldn't even give
it away. Bdt it would grow trees. Son
studied forestry and went to work In
the right way. Woodland now increas
ing in value every year, and worth
more than good corn land.
Limestone lodges, phosphorus rocks
auarries, swamps-all have their val
ue. Even the gravel beds and the sand
pits, according to the L. s. geological
survey, yielded S2S,lsl,6l7 during the
last year.
So it goes. Do not be discouraged il
you have a piece of bad land. 1t may
be worth something, some day. There
| is mighty little waste in the economy
OF nature.-Farm Life.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
REFILLING sILos

Recently We asked FOR information
about refilling silos in the winter and
spring with dry corn fodder. From
reports received at this sffice, it 10
apparent taat the practice is not com
mon. Most of our correspondents ad-
NIT that they have never seen it done.
However, j. D. Harper. assistant in soil
and crop extensions, Purdue Universi-
ty, has the following to say: "Refll-
mig silos with shock fodder is entirely
practicable. 1t must be borne in mind,
however, that it is necessary to add
water as the silo is being filled. Ono
farmer friend tells me that he filled
fifty ton silo with shock fodder, and
that he added fifty barrels of water.
This in his judgment was hardly suf-
ficient. He says if ne refills his silo
again this year he will add more wat
er. Farm Life.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
Thousand Franciscan
Friars to Chant at
Catholic Charities

Washington, d. c., Sept. 16.-To the
chant of a thousand Franciscan friars
the fourth biennial meeting of the ma
tional conference of Catholic charities
will convene at the Catholic universi,
ty mere tomorrow, President the Rev.
Thomas j. Shahan VIII preside.
Five hundred delegates are to seek
consolidation and coordination of Cath
Ollie charities all over the country. Lit
erature Gin which religion and social
ideas of charity shall find dignified
expression will be sought and boost
ed.
The woman IS section Of the confer
ence is meeting in Mcmahon hall, un-
der the direction of chairman Mrs. S.
X. Wilson, president of the Catholic
women S league of Chicago. Kentucky s
former lieutenant governor, Edward j..
McDermott, editor |. P. Fenkel of the
st. Louis Central Blatt & Social JUS
tice and Rt. Rev. Msgr. c. F. Thomas
of Baltimore are on the program to
make speeches.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
A POOR UNFORTUNATE

There is wholesome sermon con
tanned in these lines of Frank l.. Stan
ton s. They are worthy to be placed in
some conspicuous place and read FIRE
quently.
His hoss was dead an his mule went
lame;
He lost six cows in poker game;
A hurricane came on summer s day,
An carried the house where he lived
away;
Then a airthquake come when that was
gone,
An swallered the Ian that the house
stood on;
An the tax collector, ne come roun'
An charged him up for the hole in the
groun'!
An the city marshal-he come in view
An said he wanted his street tax, too.
Did he moan an sigh9 Did he sit an
cry
An cuss the hurricane sweepin by!
Did he grieve that his oil friends fail
ed to call
When the airthquake come an swaller'
ed all9
Never a word of blame he said,
With all them troubles on top of his
headl
Not him--he clumb to the top o. the
hill
Whar standin room wuz left him still
An bearin his head, here what he
said:
"I reckon it's time to git up an git
But, Lord, | hain't had tne measles
VIII - -.......
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
HAVE A HUNCH VILLA
WILL GET BUSY SOON
Think He Will Make Series Of
Border Raids Just Before
Election

Washington, Sept. 15.-The private,
whispered hunch of many members of
the army general staff circulated
through the war department today is
that Francisco Villa is planning what
he hopes to be mixture of sweet re-
yenge and the coup d. etat Of his up and
down life. Personal letters received
from officers in the field by officer
friends at the war department, are the
basis of the hunch.
Inquiry among several members of
the general staff today developed the
same answer to the question, "Do you
believe Villa is alives" the answer in
evitably was 81 most certainly do. :"
And almost inevitably detailing of
the hunch followed. Each officer EN-
phasized it was "pure hunch, - but
based on letters that read very much
like similar letters received month
or two prior to the last Mexican crisis,
which caused at least one major gen
eral to prophesy just what afterward
occurred.
The hunch is that Villa, nursing re.
sentiment over the Carranza recognition
by President Wilson, plans series of
lightning like border raids, just as close
to election time as compatible with
strategy. Army Officers generally do
not fear any real Villa activity until
Paneho has spent several weeks more
gathering ammunition and as many of
his old followers as possible, in order to
make it necessary for the Carranza- Uni
ted States field armies to enter into op.
erations against him on a larger scale
than either would want to at such a
| time
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
ONLY HOP DEMAND FOR FUGGLEs

Portland, Ore, Sept, 15.--Hop dealers
in this state are interested as yet only
in fuggles They are delaying their bid
ding on the late crop until they know
something more about harvest prospects
Picking is going along fine and it looks
now as if the outturn might be larger
than was estimated few days ago. The
sale of 126 bales of fuggles by John
Seavey, of Eugene, was announced yes
terday, The price is understood to be
10 cents.
In California there is more activity
than here. Eight hundred bales of So
nomas were sold according to wire:
received yesterday, al private terms, al
so between 200 and 500 bales of Sacra
mentos.
The New York state market has ad
vaneed another cent.
Imports of hops into Great Britain
les sexports for the months of Septem
Der to July last, both included. wert
l76,6s6 hundredweight, as against l59,
0S5 hundreweight for the corresponding
period one year ago and 2l0,S59 hun
dredweight two years ago.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16

match. 1t is Just as careless to build
fire trap as it is to burn one through
lack of proper precaution.
II you are going to build Il house far
removed from town or city'S fire pro
teciion, see that it is built safely, The
cost is Il little more maybe but the
chance Of its destruction is lessened
nightly.
Some do Nots'
Do not store damp hay. 1t is prolific
cause OF fire. In n test made out in an
open field, matches placed in the cen
ter Of haystack that had been thorou'
ghly cured, started that haystack burn
ing in less than three hours
An oily rag tossed under kitchen
sink may begin to smoke and then burst
into flame, while the one who threw il
there is sleeping, Spontaneous combus
ton starts many an unexplained fire,
Matches should be kept in metal cover
ed rceeptacles aud high enough from the
floor to prevent children from getting
at them,
Every farmhouse should contain, at
least, rudmentary means of fighting
fire when il starts. There should be
small hand extinglishers that child OF
woman can use. There should be water
pals in the entry way and the pals
should not be used for scrubbing floors
That is why round bottom pals cannot
be carried about and used. Every room
above the floor should be provided with
at least rope, if not portable fire
escape, There should be ladder out
side of the house long enough to reach
the ridge pole of the house.
These things are inexpensive, but they
may mean saving your home from des
truction, Saturday, October 8, is Fire
Prevention day, anniversary Of the great
Chicago fire. See that ON that day your
home is free from rubbish and that yor
have some means Of protecting yourself
from the flames.