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The Prescott daily news., 1916-03-31
\ PECULIAR WELL IN FLORIDA.

In their investigation of the wells and underground waters of Florida the geologists of the United States Geological Survey have noted many interesting things. Among these is Q well at Welaka, on St. Johns River, from which two kinds of water are obtained.
 The well is 9O9 feet deep. The length of the casing is no feet. The we'll was first drilled to 160 feet, and from this depth ordinary sulphur water was obtained. The drill was then carried to a depth of 309 feet where 1t encountered a strong min eral water, having a disagreeable salty taste. In order to use both kinds of water an inner tubing was run nearly to the bottom of the well. Both this and the outer casing were connected with pumps, so that ordi- nary water and mineral water can be pumped at the same time. A favorite joke played on visitors is to give them drink of the weaker water in the first glass and to replace it with the brine in the second.
 Not more than half a dozen wells of this kind are known in the country, but there is no reason why similar wells can not be obtained in regions where he waters in the upper strata differ from those lying deeper.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-03-31
A DISCOVERY.

"The character of pretty Grace You1 quickly read stamped on her
 face, When you're acquainted" Declared my aunt-then when
 lamped The girls face, well, it wasn't stamped Twas painted.
 Florida Times Union.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-03-31
Local News

Friday fair, colder; Saturday fair.
 If you have cows to pasture see
 Ed Barham. Good grass, good water.
 Jno. Daly Parker, of Bodcaw, was
 here today.
 Will N. Mum, of Laneburg, spent
 this morning in the city attending to
 business matters.
 FOR RENT-5 room house in Pres
 of land, l mile south of Prescott. D. r. Andrews, phone 150. If
 Let me clean that Palm Beach suit for you. Satisfaction guaranteed. Carl E. Porter, phone 243. d2
 J. T. Stuart, Prescott route number five, was attending to business mat ters in Prescott this morning.
 Why rent Hartman will sell you home like paying rent. Phone 301 or 323. 4d
 J. W. Bryson, of Redland township, came in this morning and spent short time here looking after business matters.
 This weeks Saturday Evening Post and The Country Gentleman are now here ready for sale. Both issues are good ones. Call PAP and get one-5 cents the copy.
 . Have some good homes for sale . like paying rent See Hartman, phone 301 or 323. 4d C. A. Fincher, one of Nevada's prominent planter-merchants from Falcon, was here today attending to : business matters.
 LOST-Cameo bar pin, somewhere on East Elm street near Moore x Martins office Return to this office and receive reward. d3 WANTED-Lumber haulers to move lumber from one of the Clark Lumber Co.'S mills east of Smithton, Ark, 3 load haul, $1.50 per M, pay once a week. Inquire at Junction City lumber Go. office for particulars. The Eastern Star will meet at the hall this evening at 7:30 and all mem- bers are urged to be present. Special music by Mrs. Wilson and Miss Brad ford.-Secretary.
 W. T. Mitchell, of Delta, one of Ne vada's prominent citizens, was a busi- ness visitor to Prescott today. MT. : Mitchell has our thanks for renewing his subscription to The Nevada News, our weekly paper.
 NJ. M. Murrah, of Rosston, route number two, came in yesterday and
 was accompanied by his two daugh- ters, Misses Maude and Jewel. They are spending 3 visit in the city with
 relatives and friends.
 w. w. Ledbetter, who lives on route
 number two, Prescott, near Lackland
 Springs, was here today attending
 to business matters. MT. Ledbetter
 has our thanks for renewal to The
 Nevada News, our weekly publica-
 tion
 NOTICE-On and after the first of April l will deliver laundry for cash
 only. Will expect you to pay for bundle when it is delivered. Carl E. Porter. If
The Prescott daily news., 1916-03-31
WITH RkANSAS EXCHANGES

Four years browsing on wild oats is going to make us feel like a SM degree hog on ice.-John Hall in Salem Sun.
 From the pictures of some of the new bathing suits, we can all afford one. Take one stocking, cut the fcOt off, slide in it, then make a b-line for the water.-Nashville Times
 The Minnesota Daily, the Univer' sity of Minnesota student newspaper, asked the women students "HOw much salary must a man receive be. fore you would consent to marry and got his reply from one girl;
 What is money to me? Give mo a true loving husband and a COL tage."
 What is money? Money is he thing that enables the true, lovlng husband to pay the rent of the eoE- tage.-Arkansas Gazette.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-03-31

The Ladies Home Journal for April has arrived and will be placed on sale the 20th. Call 242 and get one.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-03-31
Report of the Condition of BANK OF PRESCOTT

Prescott. Nevada Co.,, Ark, At the close of business March 7th, IQ16.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02

Chicago - Modestino Mastrogiovan-
mis- recent bank failure found an echo
at $50 a. m. Sunday in a bomb ex-
plosion at his luxurious home at 3719
Grand boulevard, an explosion so ter
rife as to awaken the whole South
Side The entire front of the big
stone residence-it is double dwell
ing, one side being occupied by the
bankers family and the other by the
family of Ira j. Mix, wealthy dairy
man-was blown away, the big gray
stones being cracked and broken
Enemies" said Mastrogiovanni, as
he staggered out through the dusty
aperture that formerly had been a
wall of solid masonry. In his hand
he held a letter. His thought had
gone back to it when he realized, after
a few moments, what had happened
"To put them on the street, blow
up, burn or kill if the money is not re-
turned
1t was the threat Incorporated in q
letter written in Italian - for nearly
all the depositors in the Mastrogio-
vanni bank were Italians bearing
the signature of the wife of one of his
creditors.
The bomb had been placed there tc
kill-not to brighten Its destructive
power was 80 great that it reduced tc
bits stones weighing tons, and the de-
tonation was 80 great as to arouse
residents as far south as South Chicago
and as far north as the loop
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02

Petrograd- Russians are press
ing the advantage gained at Erzerum-
On the right along the Black Sea
coast, by the cooperation of the sea
and land forces, they are driving the
Turks from one position after another
to the east Of Trebizond, and active
operations against that important sea-
port are expected soon
In the last two days the Russians
have occupied Wilde (Widje) and
pressed forward ten or IL miles west
ward The fleet has destroyed several
shore batteries and by keeping well in
advance of the land forces and by de-
stroying bridges over several streams
in the path of the retreating Turks has
made their retreat more difficult The
feet had been working so close to the
shore that the warships have been
reached by rife fire from the Turkish
troops.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
A Projecting Personality.

The Ford peace trip. besides adding
somewhat to the gaiety of nations, Of
fered to the pictorial satirists In many
quarters of the world an opportunity
OF a lifetime. Two rather distant
echoes of the junket appear in the
March number of Cartoons Magazine.
One is from the Christiana, Norway,
Vikingen. and represents the Detroit
idealist as a rat leaving doomed
ship. A touch of humor is added to
the cartoon by reason of bathing
suit hung on a clothes line in the bow
of the boat The bathing suit is sup
posed to be the property OF Mme-
Schimmer
The other cartoon is from the Auck-
land, New Zealand. Weekly News, and
shows "Ford's ark" blowing across the
seas. Placards reading Buy our
cars" and Votes for women" are con-
spicuously displayed upon the sides
and roof Of the craft while Ford Is seen
trying to launch the dove of peace,
and asking it: why don't you fly?"
This Auckland newspaper, like most
of the English journals. seemed to re-
gard the peace trip mostly in the light
of an advertising campaign.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Pekin Admits Rebels Defeated
Gsvsnneat Truops at Sle-Huen

Pekin-Official acknowledgement of
the defeat of government troops by
the Yunnan rebels on the Sze-Chuen
border was withheld until Saturday,
when the State department issued a
mandate denouncing Tai 40, in which
admission is made that the revolu-
tionists surprised the regular army and
defeated small garrison.
Information received in Pekin from
non-C Chinese sources shows that the
Yunnanese, who descended on the city
of Suifu and captured it, numbered
about 10, 1000. The government gar
rison at Suifu numbered about 1000,
but these troops left for the north sew
eral days before the arrival of the
Yunnanese and consequently there was
no resistance to the entrance of the
latter. The fleeing government forces
are reported to have started north for
Tze-Chow.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Hf PRISONS MILD N IRAN
COLLISION On \. P. KjR SPOKANE

Spokane-Five persons were killed
and three seriously injured Sunday at
South Cheney, II miles west of Spo-
kane, when Northern Pacific train No.
2, known as the North Coast Limited,
ran into the rear Of Northern Pacific
Burlington train No. AZ, telescoping
an empty day coach that was being
"deadheaded" east into the rear Pull
man Of the Burlington train, which
was standing in front Of the station.
The dead: Professor Elton Fulmer,
state chemist, Pullman, Wash l. J.
Minnick, deputy oil inspector, Spo-
kane; Lee N. Conry, Northern Pacific
travelling passenger agent Spokane
B. l.. Berkey, travelling salesman,
Portland; J.. ]. White, Spokane.
Seriously injured: R. j. Spear,
Pomeroy, Wash; DIR. John Matthews,
Everett, Wash; j. A. Payant, Los An
geles.
All the dead and injured either were
sleeping or dressing when the crash
came. A score of persons had berths
in the car, but several had gone int
the dining car ahead and were not in
jured.
Both trains eastbound were being
detoured as sections of Spokane, Port
land & Seattle train No. 4, over the
line of that company between Pasc'
and Marshall, because of flood condi
tions on the Northern Pacific
The engineer of the Burlington trail
stopped at South Cheney for orders.
C. G. Lude, rear brakeman, says h
Immediately started back to flag No.
which, according to the latest repor
the Burlington train crew had, wa
one hour and 20 minutes behind tn
Burlington at Pasco.
When Lude had run a distance o
between 900 and 1000 feet-passen
gers estimate the distance at five o
six car lengths-he says he saw tn
headlight of No. 2 beginning to glo'
through the fog. He lighted fuse
but the engineer of the North Coas
Limited, applying emergency brakes
could not quite stop his train in tim
to prevent the smashup.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS


Portland Wheat Bluestem, S1.O5;
fortyfold, Csc; club, 94c; red Fife,
94c; red Russian, 94c-
Hay = Eastern Oregon timothy,
$18. 50@19- so per ton; valley timothy,
$16; alfalfa, $40.
Millfeed-Spot prices: Bran, $23. so
@24 per ton; shorts, $26@26. so; roll
led barley, s31. 50@32- So
Corn-Whole, $37 per ton; cracked,
$3s.
Vegetables = Artichokes, $101.15
per dozen; tomatoes, California, $2.75
per crate; cabbage, $3.50 q 1.65 per
hundred; garlic, 10c per pound; pep
pers, 20@25c; eggplant, 25c; sprouts,
8@9c; horseradish, SIC; caulifiower,
SLIPS per dozen; celery, $4-75 per
crate; lettuce, s240 a. ESQ; cucum-
bers, ST. 50@2- so per dozen; dollhouse
lettuce, 75c@s1 per box; spinach, 81
al. 10 per box
Green Fruits-Grapes,$ 81 per barrel;
cranberries, $11 per barrel.
Potatoes-Oregon, $1-40@1.50 per
sack; Yal<imas, $1-65; sweets, 1925
as. so per hundred.
Onions = Oregon, buying prices, 81
f. o. b. shipping point
Apples Spitzenbergs, extra fancy,
$2-25 per box; fancy, 81; choice,
81. 25@1. so; Yellow Newtowns, extra
fancy, 81; fancy, Sits; choice, $1-36
al. so; Rome Beauty, fancy, $1.50@
LEO; Winesaps, choice, $1.15@1. 35;
Stayman, choice, $1-25@1-35.
Eggs-Jobbing prices: Oregon ranch,
candled, 26c per dozen; uncandled, 25c.
Poultry-Hens, 15@153c per pound
small springs, 15c; broilers, 18@20c
turkeys, live, 18@20c; dressed, choice
24@25c; ducks, 12@14c; geese, 10c-
Butter = Prices from wholesaler t.
retailer: Portland city creamery
prints, 60-pound case lots, STANDARD
grades, SAC; lower grades, 28@323c
Oregon country creamery, prints, so
pound case lots, standard makes, sac
lower grades, 28@31c; butter packes
in cubes, &c less. Prices paid by job
bers to producers: Cubes, extras
| 29sc; firsts, 27ac; seconds, Csc; dair,
butter, country roll, 16@18c; butte
fat, No. 1, 32c; No. 2, 2ec.
Veal-Fancy, &c per pound
! Pork-Fancy, s3@10c per pound
Hops-1915 crop, 10@13c per pound
1916 contracts, 11@12c per pound
: Cattle Choice steers, Sc. SO a 6.75
} good, Sc. 1897; medium, Sc. SOFAS. rs
choice cows, $3.50 a CTS; medium
s5.25 a 6; heifers, 81 a GAO; bulls
81. SOFAS; stays, $3@5.25.
Hogs = Light, s7-5O@s- 15; heavy
S7G7.25-
: Sheep-Yearlings, $7@8; ewes. $
al; lambs, $8@9-05-
; Wool-Eastern Oregon, 18@25c pc
: pound; valley, 25@26c; mohair, Ore
gon, 28@29c per pound
Cascara bark--Old and new, 4c pc
} pound
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Wool Growers Find Good
Market by Shipping to Portland

Portland-With wool contracting for
the 1916 clip just starting in the East
ern counties, the last remnant of the
1915 clip is being sold here. The
Portland Wool Warehouse company has
not over 40, 900 pounds in its ware
house on Municipal Dock No. /, and
that is all the wool that is left in Port
land.
The bulk of these woods were
sold at from 81 cents to 22a cents for
fine and &c to 80 cents for coarse wool,
according to condition and shrinkage-
1.-The prices realized" said W. L.
Grove, manager of the company, "are
from 3 cents to cents better than
were offered in the country for the
same wools- The growers are more
than satisfied with their experiment
of sending their woods here to be mar
keted, and it is safe to say a much
larger quantity will be sent here dur
ing the coming season.
1--WE have sold wool to about IL diff
ferent customers, a dozen of whom
never operated in this section before.
We have had inquiries from dozen
other big Eastern mills, and although
we did not close deals with them we
are looking forward to their trade in
new wools-
"Our object is to improve the condi-
tion of the woolgrowers and put
them all on an equal basis By avail
ing himself of cheap money, which he
could never do before, the grower is
enabled to hold his wool until he is
ready to sell All the wool consigned
here is sold only with the approval OF
the growers 1t is different when the
wool is consigned to the East, for II
then gets beyond the owners control =
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Dye Plant pestroYed BY Fire.

Plainfield, N. j. The plant of the
Middlesex Analine Chemical company,
said to be a German-owned concern
and one of the few plants manufacture
ing analine dyes in this country, was
destroyed by an explosion and fire Sat
urday- The entire town of Lincoln,
where the plant was located, was
shaken by the explosion, which oc-
CURED before the workmen had report
ed for duty Two men were seriously
injured. The explosion was caused by
acids running together in the mixing
vats- The damage was $50, 900.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Duet.

It is what you try to throw in your
fellow mems eyes while they try to
toss 1t into yours. 1t Is what we all
spring from and to which we return,
thus vouchsafing to some solemn d.
vine the opportunity to complete the
quotation Of Ashes to ashes" II
is the substance chat impairs the
breathing apparatus Of many millions
and deals out pack of diseases--of
every degree of Importance, from the
ace to the twospot-at any blowy cor
ner or In any unswept tenement. A
devil to the housewife, 1t Is a benign
god to the maker of brooms and vac
uum cleaners. "Dust-the most per
nicious substance in the world!" cries
the intolerant reformer. Patience. pa
thence. good friendi Were 1t not for
the dust mote how would we ever per
ceive the beam of sunshine slantins
through the shadowy room? Besides
there ID star dust-Colliers.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Turks Reinforce Army.

London = Turkey is making great
efforts to dispatch troops to the Rus
sian front in an endeavor to recapture
Erzerum, says the Bucharest corre-
spondent of the Times
All ordinary traffic on the railway
from the Bosphorus to Angora has
been stopped, according to the CORE
spondent, and trains carrying troops
and supplies there are running inces-
sanity, but as the distance from An
CORA to Erzerum will consume at least
a months march there is little Iikeli-
hood of the success of the movement.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Hughes Refuses Views.

New York-In letter to Henry A.
Wise Wood, made public here, Justice
Hughes reiterates his declaration that
he is not candidate for Presidential
nomination Mr.. Wood had requested
a statement as to Justice Hughes po-
sition on preparedness Justice Hughes
replied in part: "In view of my judi
cial Office do not feel that / have any
right to take part in any political dis
cussion or to make statements of the
sort that would be expected from can
didates for Office. / am not candi-
date, actively nor tacitly."
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
The Housemaid.

The housemaid wears short skirts,
which leads us to believe that the dis
ease called ~housemaid's knee" must
be very becoming The housemaid
goes around the house very quietly
not even disturbing the dust
The housemaid's duty is to pick
things up-which she does very quick
ly. BY the time she has picked up
38 hairpins, four combs and barette
or two and has emptied nine badly
crushed cigars from the ash receiver
the news of the engagement does not
strike her in the nature of shock
The housemaid likes to read vapid
fiction. see empty plays and talk scan
dal In fact, in nine cases out of ten
she is in no way superior to her mis-
tress--Judge-
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Iife.

What is life2 1t is supposed to BE-
something that most people value
highly, yet few there are who are will
ing to preserve it For example, ev-
eryone talks about methods of attain
ing long life. yet no one cares to
practice them The commonest rules
Of health are constantly violated by
the great majority. Doctors know this
and rarely. If ever, advise their pa
TENTS how to live. but give them med
icine to tide them over some temper
airy setback
Life has been called an Illusion, =
dream, a bubble. curtain raiser and
forgetting In reality. 1t is merely
something that no man wants to part
from too suddenly, but which he will
always sell on the installment plan
to the highest bidder The soldier
CANDLES with the state for the price
Of his life, the immigrant with the
miner. the rich man with luxury
At best. life Is only what we learn
to avoid.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Government Control May Result.

Cambridge, England = In a speech
here the Ri Hon. Edward s. Montagu,
financial secretary to the treasury, de-
clared that after the war the conditions
under which the nation will then have
to live might necessitate a complete
change in its fiscal system and large
measure of state control of ships or
state control of industries The conse-
quences, the speaker said, are bound to
assume tremendous Importance and
both liberals and conservatives should
preserve an open mind concerning
them.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Greek.

EscuIapius was giving lecture
Finally" said the father of medf-
cine, write your prescriptions in Lat
in and your bills in good plain Eng
iish-"
But" asked the students. where
does our native tongue come in?"
That's just it," he answered; the
patients condition is usually Greek to
you
Cheered by this exposition. they
went forth to practice their art-Wit
and Humor.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02

St. Louis = Miss Anne Morgan,
daughter of the late John Pierpont
Morgan, will be delegate to the con-
ference Of mayors on national prepar-
edness which will begin here March 8,
according to an announcement by Mrs.
Philip N. Moore, president of the Ma
tional Council of Women. Mrs. Moore
said that on March mass meeting
would be held to ''clinch the sentiment
of the women Of the country to pre-
pare the nation to defend itself"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Potato Shipments 600 Cars.

Portland = Up to the present time
about 600 cars of potatoes have been
shipped from Oregon, and the indica-
lions are the total shipments for the
season will not exceed 1000 cars Nor
NAL shipments from the state are
about 1900 cars year.
There are between 400 and 500
cars of potatoes left unsold, said Nc
Kinley Mitchell, land these will all
clean up at some price There is no
likelihood the market will be any bet
ter in the immediate future, but there
is possibility the late market will
improve if California cleans up"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02
Market Roads Discussed.

Milwaukee, Or.-Market roads were
discussed at the meeting of Milwaukee
Grange Saturday afternoon, the main
address being delivered by c. B. Han
son, master Mr. Hanson suggested
that main market roads can be built by
district assessments to be paid for
partly by the abutting property, and
the balance by a district extending
from one to two miles from each side
of the road Mr. Hanson urged the
enactment of law by which farmers
may form road districts and take con-
troll of the district road construction
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-03-02

From Distemper, Mountain Fever. and all
other forms OF ContaRion by using Spohn's
DIstemper Compound Put on the tongue
or in the feed. Safe at all times for all
ages and sexes under all conditions
same for Dog Distemper and Chicken
Cholera. Acts on the blood. expeis the
FERNS. Removes worms from stomach
and intestines. A fine tonic and appetiE-
er Ahsolutely safe, even for human be-
tnra over i. 600. 600 bottles sold last year.
Greatest cure and preventive ever known
for Contagious diseases Nearly every
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Try Il: be convinced; let "sponn's" help
druxrist can supply you. or write to man
saie druggists handle II. Your homs
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