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Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-09
MON EN.

New York, Dct- s-Call money steady: high 4 Ia; low B.; ruling rate { I-2: closing bid 8; offered at 1-2; last loan 3 1-z.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-09

OCTOBER finds most merchants with heavy stocks - have YOU in creased your FIRE INSURANCE to cover the additional merchandise you are now carrying?
 THE agency to handIe your ad- ditionaI insurance is OURS, for ALL of our companies are strong and
 ISAAC $. JONES
 ,n.ursnce and Real Estate Agent Riehards' Building 01 Main Ss.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
AUGUST WOLFE WILL
 FACE ROBBERY CHARGE

SEATTLE, Feb. 2.-August Wolfe who is alleged to have aided Al J. ounds. Walter Mcdonald and Oscar Lowe in the robbery of the State Bank of Bothell. December 6, will be bound over to the superior court Cn a charge of robbery. Justice of the Peace Brinker decided today.
 Mcdonald, Rounds and Lowe re- gently pleaded guilty to the actual robbery of the bank. They are under sentence of from five to twenty years in the state penitentiary. They named Wolfe as the man who furnished them with money to hire the automobile with which the robbery was carried out. They contended also that the robbery had been planned in his presence. Wolfe did not take the stand in the priliminary hearing
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

held up'' by a road agent; to re- ceive a letter or a remittance by "pony express" to "stake a claim" or to strike gold" The sombrero, the tuckskin trousers, the long hair and the mustang of the scout, the and the hunter were things familiar in the frontier settlements, towns and cities. Buffalo Bill" came and went like scores of other men no better and no worse than he, with out attracting a passing glance.
 When 10 years old he became bullwhacker. This was in 1855, and his employer was later the senior partner in the greatest freighting firm that ever did business on the plains, Russell, Majors & Waddell In the employ of this concern he drove a great numbering wagon drawn by five yoke of oxen. Or he drove mail stage or rode an express pony. When the Civil War broke out he became a dispatch bearer and devel- oped into one of the best scouts in the service. A score of general offl- cers have borne voluntary and cheer full testimony to his usefulness. He never failed on a mission, ard, from Gen. A. G. Smith to the gallant Gus ter, every commander whom he serv- ed looked upon him as his right hand.
 William Frederick Cody was a Westerner who, in whatever position he was placed and in whatever com- pany he found himself, at home or abroad, depended on his native com mon sense. He was a great man, and the last of his species.-Christian Sci ence Monitor.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
THE YELLOW STREAK.

There's fine intoxication in wide spread reputation as a man that's never showed a yellow streak; but man may know he's yellow, yet be hailed a proper fellow, and it makes him feel a little like a sneak to be given undue credit, and to let some fellow spread it round the town that he's a real grizzly bear. while away down deep inside him his accusing thoughts deride him, for he feels that in a pinch he isn't there.
 Now the fact-let's not suppress it, though it pains us to confess it is that every mans coward, more or less; there are times when every fel- low feels passing twinge of yellow. though the crowd he travels with may never guess! He may, or he may not show it, and the world may never know it, but he's haunted with the feeling that it's there; and he fears that were he tested in a crisis, he'd be bested; that he wouldn't have the spunk to do and dare!
 An, but friend, the worlds big bat ties, raging where the death-hail rat ties, are not won by men who never were afraid! Brave men fight with hearts a quaking; face the foes with knees a shaking; aye, a trembling hand may wield conquering blade! Fear is half imagination, for it grasps a situation, sees the danger, counts the chances-and sails in! Only fools are never fearful; who though afraid are cheerful, know the odds, Eut face the music-mostly win!--- Railroad Magazine.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
Caatle Garden.

Castle Garden was built by the Unit ed States ip. 1907 from the plans of Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Williams. C. t., and was called Fort Clinton. Ill 1922 it was ceded to New York city i; in 1924 it became place of amuse- ment and about 1926 got it's present naroe; in 1S45 there were Ethiopian minstrels there: in 1S47-9 theatrical companies played there; in 1850 Jenny Lind sang there: in 1855 it was closed as a place of amusement. and the com E.issioner of emigration took it as an emlsrant depot; in 1870 it suffered from fire. and on July 9, 1876. it was burned to the ground It was rebuilt at once. In 1892 the depot was moved to Ellis island, and Castle Garden re, verted to the city. which in 1896 open eti an aquarium there.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
GROUNDHOG BACKS UP.

The official groundhog came forth this morning, took a slant at the sun and slid back into his hole with his rose nipped. He is due to rea?pear in six weeks, which will be March i5. According to the statute in such case made and provided in the ccrnfed Middle West winter should end on that date, but the latitude and cli- mate of Alaska are too stiff even for groundhog. and when he comes out then he is likely to give the weather the once-over and retire for another six weeks. An Alaska groundhog ought to be given two guesses at spring.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
As Blind as Love.

As the German army approached Brussels in August, 1914. it was re- ported that the invaders might shell the city. In high state of alarm tbe Chinese minister went to see our min ister, Brand Whitlock, to see what Whitlock meant to do in the event of bombardment.
 Il do not believe there will be any assault" said Whitlock. My infor nation Is that the authorities will sur render Brussels to avoid any possibil- ity of damage. But if there should be an engagement, and the Germans should use their heavy guns. shall hoist the flag of my country over this building, and shall call upon my feI- low countrymen to come here for safe ty and protection. l advise you to do the same thing with regard to your people.'
 But. Mir. Whitlock,' murmured the Chinaman in his polite but labored English. the cannon--he has no eyes! Saturday Evening Post.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
Notice to Creditors.

In the Matter of the Estate of Angus
 Chisholm, Deceased.
 Notice is hereby given by the un- oersigned that on the 17th day oi January, 1917, he was appointed al ministrator of the estate of Angus Chisholm, deceased, and the admins trator of the co-partnership estate of Angus Chisholm, deceased, and Frank Gustafson; that all creditors of said estates and all persons having claims against said estates are hereby re- quired to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to said admins trator at the office of Donohoe & Di- mond, said administrator attorneys in said matter, at Valdez, Alaska, the said office being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to-wit, within six months after the 19:E day 'of January, 1917.
 FRANK GUSTAFSON. Administrator. Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for the Administrator.
 Publish Jan. 19, 26, Feb. 2, g, 16. St
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
CURIOUS FRENCH DUEL.
When Man and Wife Tried to Settle .
 Dispute With Swords.


 Dispute With Swords.
 Charles Coypeau, Sieur dAssouci, a French poet and musician of the sev- enteenth century. relates in one of his "Adventures' that his father and mother were one day engaged in dis cussion upon questions of law when a dispute arose between them with regard to the precise significauon and bearing of a provision in Justinians s code with respect to the rights of brothers.
 Ultimately the quarrel waxed so furi- ous that the disputants lost all control of themselves. defied each other to single combat and proceeded to settle their difference and determine the mind of the ancient legislator by n fight with swords.
 This singular duel took place in their sons presence. Coypeau pere was all advocate by profession and a mem- Der of one of tbe Frerch parliaments. Madame was exceedingly diminutive aud had to wear exceptionally high pattens to approach the ordinary stat ure of women, but she was fierce and domineering in temper. The combat appears to have been a drawn battle aud the sense of Justinian remained as obscure and debatable as ever.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
"BCFFALO BILL"

MUCH that is true and much that is fanciful will now be written >on- corning William Frederick Cody, com monly known ill this and other coun~ tries as Buffalo Bill" In the very nature of the case no character like him will ever appear again in the an nals of the United States. since the conditions of which he was product have forever passed away. Kit Car son, Davy Crockett, James Butler Hickok, or Wild Bill," the mysteri- ous California JOe"; John B. Omon- hundro, otherwise Texas Jac." even Captain Jack Crawford, who now oc- casionally addresses evangelical meet ings, were all representatives of that type. The plains and the mountains lying between the Big Muddy" and the Pacific Ocean, contained hun dreds of the class of which Buffalo Bill" was an acknowledged leader, between the late '40's and the early sos.
 The vacations and adventures around which the glamour of romance has been thrown, in these recent years were commonplaces in early Western pioneer days. It was not a remark able experience then to blaze ones trail, to encounter the hostile red man, to hunt the buffalo, to drive or ride in a "prairie schooner" to be
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
TWO GIRLS ARE HELD
 ON BLACKMAIL CHARGE

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Feb. Miss Doris Bryne and Miss Mahala Reed of Chicago were in the county jail last night, charged with malicious threats to extort and conspiracy in connection with the alleged black mailing of Franklin Junkernan. a merchant. A warrant was also issued for Harold Jirka. a Chicago attorney, who is said to have come here with the girls in the effort to blackmail Junkerman. It is alleged that Jun herman made a trip to Chicago re- gently and that the girls are threat ening to expose his conduct while there. They secured $5.000 from him on a previous threat of exposure. and wanted S15.000 more.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
ISLAND OF HISTORY.
The Story of eisily lsa cempsndium ef
 MsdfSvsi Romance.

Msdftvsi Romance.
 Sicily,s history Is as vivid and pic. turesque. as ferocious and creative and destructive, as mythical and intensely practical as the stories of all the rest of the world put together. And in beauty of nature. of climate. or man. and of beast, the island is a paradise today, whether or not 1t was ever the workless, painless, passionless elysium where our first ancestors enjoyed all the good things of life without having to toll.
 Nature itself, now in the guise of the misunderstood gods of old, now in con- vulsions or in quiet fertility that sci- ence has made plain to us, weaves Its mysterious shuttle through and through the highly colored fabric.
 And men-such men!-tower Nabove their fellows in the story like Titans- Pfndar, Aeschylus. Theocritus. Thucy- dides, Archimedes, the two great Hie- rons, Cicero, verres, Diodorus, Hamil- car and Hannibal. Roger the Count and Roger the King, Belisarius, the great crusaders Richard of the Lion Heart and Louis the Saint of France, Charles of Anjou, Frederick H., the wonder of the world," and Garibaldi. Even thls partial list reads like a compendi- um of ancient and medieval romance and chivalry.-National Geographic Magazine.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
Our First BattIeship.

The first American battleship was the old Texas of Spanish war fame. She was authorized by con. gress in 1886 and was completed six years later. The original battlaship was little over 900 feet long and had 2 displacement of 6,315 tons. The pres ent day Texas is 554 feet long and has a tonnage of 27,0O0 tons. The old Tex as ended her days as a target for navy practice.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
Late Repentance.

You should never take anything tbat doesn't agree with you." admon ished the physician.
 The patient glanced around ruefully at his wife.
 "If had always followed that rule. Lizzie, where would you be?'-Chicago Herald.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

WHAT zinc mining has done to make men rich is indicated by the re- cord of the New Jersey Zinc ">om- pany in 1916. Last year S26,60O,0oO was distributed in dividends: of this two shareholders drew over $2.GOO,- 900 each and three others received over $1,O0O,0OG apiece.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

Electrical heaters, cook CTS, percolaIors, vacuum-cleaners, will be advanced in prices after New years, by the manufacturers. Stock on hand will be sold at prevailing prices, at the Emporium.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
Cook Was Protected.

Why can't I come to see you to- night?"
 Don't blame me-" said the beau tiful girl. "Our cook has the use Of the parlor under the new domestic law"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
Plsnty of Practice,

Have you any special qualification for this job you are asking for in our establishment as hOorwalkerY'
 "Oh, yes, sir! My twins have just been teething." American.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

A LOT of citizens have so much rabbit blood in them that they want their pet newspaper to do their kick ing for them.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

MATRIMONY demonstrates the fact that a fool and his money are soon parted; and as soon as the mon ey has gone a fool and his honey are soon parted.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

ONCE in while you will run across the fellow who once paid q nickel for a charity tag "n Tag i)ay and who is saving the tag so as to get into heaven on it.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

With some people the problem oi making both ends meet depends uD on whether they are straight o, crooked.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

WE have a friend who is in favor of the saloons closing at l p. m. He claims that if a man isn't full by that time, he isn't half trying.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

EVERY man who rides a hobby imagines that he is. the Sonly jockey il the race.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

EVERY old maid thinks it perfect ly shameful they way married Wom- en fail to manage their husbands.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

IT is easy enough to taught a, trouble-when it comes 70 the other follow.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

Have you tried our poker chip candy and also our new line of chew ing gum, Candy Kitchen If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

IT IS the other fellows lot that makes us discontented with our own.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02
Depends on the Jury.

Caller-So the cashier is absent. Will he be gone very long?
 Office Boy-That depends on the jury, sir.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

Some women are not as fresh as they are painted and some men ara more so.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

Why not a VICTROLA? We have them from $15 up. Valdez Drug Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

Miner Ads. bring RESULTS.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

Hot drinks are in full swing at the Candy Kitchen If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

MOTHER O. MINE. IF were hanged on the highest
 hill,
 Mother O mine, O mother O mine! know whose love would follow
 me still, Mother O mine, O mother O mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother O mine, o mother O mine! l know whose tears would come down to me, Mother O mine, O mother O mine! If 1 were damned of body and soul, Mother O mine, Q mother O mine! 1 know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother O mine, O mother O mine!
 -Rudyard kipling.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-02-02

Panama is rising three feet in escb century.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20
HOW TO SOW.

Sow five pecks an acre when seed is drilled, eight pecks when sown broadcast. Cover wheat one and one half to three inches Buy. borrow or hire a drill. if possible Seeding with drill takes less wheat, tna wheat comes up quicker ana morr evenly. and usually suffers less fre,m winter killing. Use two-norse drills for open field and one.horse drills be tween rows of corn and cotton Where a grower is not going to SOW enough wheat to justify the cost of a drill. he can buy one, SOW his own wheat. and then rent the drill 10 his neighbors.
 When 1t is necessary 10 SOW wheat broadcast, be careful to gel il we'll GOV cred 10 the proper depth. This is seldom done, with the result Of much IOos
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20

PRESCOTT SCHOOLS OPEN
 NEXT MONDAY

The Prescott public and high schools will open Monday. Sep- tember 24. The following fac ulty has been selected: High school-Claude M. Hirst, super intendent; Mrs. Cora Mum, mathematics; Miss Annie Hatley, English and history; Miss Ruth Spears Davis. foreign languages; Miss Beulah Hesterly, home eco- monies; Miss Nellie Bush, ex- pression. Grammar schools - Miss Alice Bradford, Miss AL verne Gee, Miss Fannie Wilson, Mrs. I. o. McDanieI, Miss Jes- sic Akers, Miss Clarice Bloom, Mrs. |. J. Griffith, Miss Abbie Hale, Mrs. E. E. Davis. The negro schools, in charge of J. D. Shackleford, principal, and Ida Johnson, Hattie Smith and Myr- tie Mitchell, assistants, will open October 1.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20
DUTY OF BANKERS AND
 BUSINESS MEN.

The hrst duty Of every banker and business man who owns land in Ar kansas Is 10 al once arrange 10 SOW his share =of wheat.
 The bankers and business men in every trade center should immediate. y make the sowing of 4he needed Acreage of wheat coumunity. mat. ter in fheie trade territory They shouid see hat every man and woman understands the need and reasons for 1aisins wheat on every farm. and shonid induce every land owner. ten. .h'' Shafe-cropper and farm manager to SOW his share
 The bankers and business men shouid ascertain how many acres of "heat will be sown in their trade territories. should find the necessary 'eeo-either at home or in some oth- ef part Of the state-and should ar
 'hss to secure all seed that must " purchased and sell it at cost.
 efeolt Tor seed and the implements heeessary to prepare the land and '.eo II should be arranged for those WHO need and deserve sucn credit. IT ~. as bankers and business men will do
 's'f part, the farmers will do theirs,
 ". tssnsss will raise its o~n wheat
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20
HARVESTING.

Wheat grown on large. level nelds. free from stumps, should be cut miia grain binder. Wheat on small fields, side hills and stump land can be cut with a self-rake reaper and bound by hand. Where s farmer has only two 10 five acres, he can cut il with a grain cradle and bind 1T sy hand. or if cradle is too expensfve. he can cut with scythe anu sac. without binding.
 Bound wheat should be shocked and stacked. Wheat well stacked i'm proves in the stack sufficiently 10 h. crease the price several cents a bush el. Where there is more than rye acres of wheat it will pay to thrash it with power thrasher. A farmer with less than five acres can thrash Ii in short time with an old-fashion. ed fal. For home use. wheat laay te ground by any kind of q grinder Many families are using bread made From Nhoi1 wheat -four and 'ite r. better Han the regular four.
 IT. Fl. COTTRELr-
 tWritten for the Arkansas Proht- able Farming Committee. Little Rock Roard of Connserce.)
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20
SECOND CROPS.

Lespedeza may be sown broadcast in March in fields of wheat It needs no covering. After the wheat is har- vested il will cover the land and may be pastured or cut for hay the same season.
 Wheat may be followed the same season by June corn. 90-day corn, COW. peas, velvet beans, soy beans and Irish or sweet potatoes, making two paying crops in one year from the same land
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20
WILLIAM N. HILL KILLED
 BY LUTHER ARMSTRONG

Last Thursday morning about 9:30. Luther Armstrong, about B years old and Wm. Hill ageo about so years, net in the public road about three miles south oi Emmet, Nevada county, bott were driving wagons. Arm strong was coming to the gin ai Emmet and Hill was returning home from the gin. Armstrong called at Hiii to stop and HiIl re fusing to stop reached down i, tho wagon ard Arn stronE sup posed that ha was reaching fop ais gun, shot aad killed Hill. H. used q shot gun and fired onls one time.
 There seems to have beel
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20
PREPARATION OF THE
 LAND.

The land should be prepared in kind of seed bed. Each grower will have 10 use his judgment as 10 how this seed bed can be most eheaply made under his conditions.
 Land not in growing crops should be plowed 90 to 50 days before seed ing the longer the time the better, and prepared as recommended unGer the heading, Seed Bed for Wheat.
 When it is necessary to blow just before seeding. blow shallow. not over three inches in depth. and work the land thoroughly before seeding with the disk harrow or q cultivator and smoothing harrow. It is well to use a float between harrowings
 Grass and weeds are unusually bad this season. and where a heavy growth must be turned under it will be nee essary 10 plow deep Follow he plow with disk harrow and the disk With a packer. Alternate these with a smoothing harrow until the soil is so thoroughly packed that there are no air spaces around the trash that has been turned under,
 When wheat is 10 be sOwed in corn that is to be left standing. the land hetween the ron should be made inc and mellow to the depth or two 10 three inches with one horse cultiva- tor or l3-toothod harrow. The same method can be used where cotton is grown when the rows are wide apart. or the cotton stalks are short. Where corn is cut for fodder before the wheat is seeded. the land should be made mellow and fine 10 the depth of two to three inches with a disk harrow followed by smoothing harrow.
 Land in cowpeas, soy beans or pea nuts should be disked and narrowed just before the wheat is sown, but should not be plowed. Land iu COW peas where the vines are 10 be turned under should be plowed. The blow followed by the disk harrow and cor ruaated roller CT packer and worked repeatedly by these implements until the soil is so firmly pressed around the vines hat have been turned unoer that there are DO air spaces.
 Lespedeza pastures and meadows usually oduc. high yields when sown to wheat Thoroughly disk and harrow the land after the lespedezs has gone 10 seed. but do not blow it.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-09-20
Sow Wheat
 WHY?

a harrow or cultiyator. Such prep firm and in condition to hold mois- ture like sponge. The top TWO or three inches will be loose and fine.
 This firm seed bed will make a close contact with the subsoil. and moisture will be drawn steadily up to the top of the firm soil and held there hy the layer Of fine, loose top dirt. Sow the seed so that 1t will rest di rectly on the top of the firm soil and have the loose earth above II. This will place 1t where the moisture ac- cumulates and is held and will insure quick examination and strong early growth.
 When wheat is sown on land that is loose and mellow to a depth of four ot eight inches, the seed has loose soil above and below 1t and the loose ground does not bring up the moisture stored below. Wheat under such conditions sprouts unevenly, efows irreeularly and is likely to be winter killed The conditions are particularly bad when grass, weeds or trash are turned under just before seeding.
 When 1t is necessary to blow late the land should be disked as soon as plowed and the disk harrow followed hy corrugated roller or packer B repeated workings alternately with d disk harrow and corrugated rollef. freshly plowed land can be put in fair condition for seeding wheat
 Hundreds of good Arkansas farm CTS are going to fail with wheat he cause they will SOW it this fall on loose soil