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The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
AIaska Has Successful Cooper
ative Marketing System.
Uncle Sans Engineering Commission
Evolves Plan to Bring Grower
and Buyer Together.

Uncle Sam has made a trial of
cooperative marketing system in the
far northern territory of Alaska, and
1t is said that it has proved great
success. The system was evolved by
Che land and industrial department OF
the Alaskan engineering commission.
AS q result, it is declared that the
farmers of Alaska have no difficulty
In marketing their produce, as mar
kets are assured in advance for every
particle of food that can be raised.
At the beginning of the season, there
is sent to each farmer blank form,
containing a list of questions for him
to answer. First, he is asked for
description of his land and for state
ment showing the acreage under cul-
tivation.
Then follows long list of products,
both farm and stock, with blank spaces
where the farmer fills In his report on
the crops he expects to raise. Here
he states how much of the crop he
will sell, when it will be ready for
market, and how much he expects to
get per pound, per bushel or per ton.
In addition, other questions are
asked. How far is your farm from
water transportation? How far is 1t
from the line of the government rail-
road? How far from the nearest town
where your produce can be sold!
How can you get your produce to
market? Have you any prospect of
being able to market all you can pro-
duce, if so, where? What are your
crop prospects this year? VIII the
crops in your vicinity be early or later
Are you in need of road to enable
you to haul your produce to market I;
if so, state how many miles of such
road, and to what point it should be
built?
Corresponding information is asked
from merchants and dealers. They
are sent lists of supplies, and after
the name of the product they fill In
the quantity desired, the place and
date of delivery, and the average price
now paid for goods delivered at the
store.
Through this system, the grower Is
assured of market and the dealer
knows he will have something to sell.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
CICUTA IS DANGEROUS
Little Known Plant Menace to
Men and Domestic Animals.
ing Against Poisonous Roots Not
Generally Recognized.

Many deaths, both of human beings
and domestic animals, are caused every
year by cicuta, or water hemlock, a
poisonous plant 1t is the most vio-
lently poisonous of temperate region
plants, yet it is not generally recog-
nized. Learn to know 1t and look out
for it is a warning issued by special
lists of Uncle Sans department of
agriculture who have published cir
cular which describes this plant and
gives remedies, though cases among
domestic animals must be considered
as practically hopeless so far as treat
ment is concerned.
Cicuta is widely distributed. Unfor-
,tunately, it resembles number of
harmless plants and is not easily
recognizable. 1t belongs to the same
family as carrots and parsnips. 1t has
a number of popular names, of which
the most common is "cowbane," or
water hemlock" In the mountain re-
gions of the West it is frequently
called "parsnip" or wild parsnip."
Other names, less common, are "snake-
root" "snakewood," beaver poison"
"muskrat weed" spotted hemlock,"
and spotted parsley"
The plant grows in wet places and is
especially common in some parts of
the West along irrigating bitches. 1t
has a thickened rootstock with roots
which sometimes take the form of a
group of tubers. The cicuta is most
readily distinguished from plants of
similar appearance growing under the
same conditions by the transverse
chambers in the rootstock. These can
be seen by making longitudinal sec
ton.
Only the root of cicuta is poisonous.
Cases of poisoning are more frequent
in the spring, partly because the roots
are more likely to be noticed at that
time and partly because they appear
to be more poisonous then than later
in the season.
In cases of the poisoning of human
beings the recognized treatment is to
give an efficient emetic, followed by
cathartic Some form of opium may
be given to control the convulsions
when they are violent. If free vomit-
ing is promptly produced, the patient
is likely to recover.
So far as live stock is concerned,
about all that can be done must be in
the way of prevention. If the land is
plowed where the plant grows, care
should be taken that no roots are left
where stock can get at them. Where
the plants grow in great abundance, as
they frequently do along irrigating
bitches, it is desirable to dig them
out. When this is done the roots
should not be left on the surface, but
should be destroyed. 1t is seldom that
stock are poisoned when grazing, I'M
less they Craze along bitches, where
the plants sometimes grow almost in
the water with very little soil and can
easily be pulled up.
Perhaps there is no way to prevent
some cases of poisoning of children, it
is declared. Something might be ac-
complished however, if parents and
teachers would attempt to make clear
to children the danger of eating
strange roots.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
WILL COMBAT FOOD INSECTS
New Branch of the Department of
Agriculture Is Gre
ated.

Another forward step in Uncle
Sans campaign to conserve the ma
tons food as war measure is the
creation of new branch of the de-
partment of agriculture which will be
devoted exclusively to control of in
sects infesting stored food products.
DIR. e. A. Back of the departments
bureau of entomology heads the new
office.
This change will permit DR.. F. H.
Chittenden, in charge of the depart
ments food insect work, to devote all
his time to pests of truck crops, a
work of great Importance now.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
WOULD REDUCE FIRE RISKS
Insurance Companies Start Campaign
for Greater Precautions With Back
ing of Uncle Sam.

dertaken to obtain the backing of
state councils of defense in a war
measure campaign to reduce fire risks
by educating property owners concern
ing the Importance of cleanliness and
orderliness in homes, industrial plants,
and grain, food and cotton storages.
Director Clifford of the council of
national defense sent to state councils
the offer of the national board of fire
underwriters to do this work, with a
cepted.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
French Lessons Part of
Marines War Training

"Ray-vay-yay mwha kong Ter
dee-nay ser-ah pray" is the
proper way to tell a Frenchman
to wake up when dinner is
ready, according to little
'Frencn in one lesson" that has
been distributed among the
United States marines who are
going to France.
Every sea-soldier on the firing
line will be supplied with a
handy little pocket dictionary
that contains about thousand
practical words and phrases, to-
gether with the phonetical pro,
nunciatiOn, according to Hanni-
bal, Charlemagne, or whoever it
was that originated the French
language. 1t is just the size to
fit handily into the breast-pocket
of uniform.
Doubtless the little poilu will
lend a hand to his American
comrade When it comes to a par
ticularly knotty problem. Should
the sea-soldier become peeved at
the intricacies of the language,
he may say: "Ock-oo-pay"-
just like that. 1t means,
Busy"
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
Wood Oil Tree.

The department of agriculture has
experimental successfully with the
cultivation In this country of the wood
oil tree If domestic planters would
raise these trees the large American
markets for the oil could be supplied
by several Southern states. The oil
now comes from China.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
No National Flower.

The United States has no national
flower but efforts have been made to
have the goldenrod adopted. This
flower is abundant through an enor-
nous area of the continent.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-30
Chile Wants American Stores.

Uncle Sans consul general at VAL
paraiso, Chile, reports that there is an
opportunity in that country for the in
PRODUCTION of American department
stores
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-20

tons. Many of the new build
ings include special rooms for in
struction in agriculture and eco
Monies.
In North Louisiana and in many
other sections of the State, cot
tages, as annexes to school build
ings, for instruction in agricul-
tureand domestic economy are
being built, Chas. F. Trudeau. of
the State department of educa-
ton, said Friday night. A spec
ial instructor to have charge of
home economy for the State has
been employed.
Il know of no tendency ON the
part of the people in rural dis
tricts to take children from school
to harvest crops" said Mr.. Har-
ris Friday afternoon. THE far
mers are better able to hire labor
i to harvest crops this year than
ever before"
Mr.. Harris has just issued q
circular, however, calling atten.
ton to the compulsory attend.
ance law and urging its enforce.
ment.
The compulsory attendance Law
applies to children between Z
and Ia years of age. District:
courts have jurisdiction over al
violations of the law. Under thu
law parish school boards have
authority to furnish school book
to poor children
A book on the subject, on ply
steal culture. enumerating tn
kinds of exercise and games chi
dren of each grade in the schoC
should participate in, is bein
prepared for use in the sc nool
of the state.
| The junior extension depar
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-20
veIve. Beans On CUT Over Land.

velve. Beans On Cut-Over Land.
Meridian, Miss, Oct. 2. Are
markable growth of velvet beans,
indicating another use to which
cut-over lands may be success
fully put, is reported by c. w.
Bailey. of this city. who has just
returned from a visit to western
Alabama. Mr.. Bailey said that
he saw $50 acres of cut-over land
near Halsell, Ala, that had no
blowing, on which velvet beans
planted with a hoe had grown in
every direction, some vines being
forty feet long and covered with
beans. A year ago this acreage
was burned off, the small trees
being killed. On these trees,
some of them of good size, the
velvet beans had multiplied in
plofusion.
Mr.. Bailey announced that the
next year he would plant velvet
beans extensively on cut-over
lands he owns. Velvet beans
planted in April gain an enor-
yoo,,c oroufh apd Weld
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-20

ment of the State University is
having printed for distribution in
every school in the State general
instructions for the agricultural
club work which is to be recog-
nized by the State by allowing
credits for graduation for salts
factory work.
The work will be under the di-
rect supervision of w. R. Per-
kins, E. S. Richardson and T. H.
| Harris.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-20

will show an increase. The State
Normal will show an increase IN
enrolment this session, espec-
tally in the lower classes.
New school buildings are going
up all over the State to remedy
the over-crowded conditions an
ticipated that exist in many Sec
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-20
Louisiana Public Schools Show q, 00t
Increase.

Louisiana Public Schools Show %. 200
Increase.
Baton Rouge, La, Sept. %. i
War will have no ill-effect on the
public schools of Louisiana this
session.
In fact, indications are enroll
ment in the same 5000 schools
will show an increase this ses-
sion over last of 10000. This is
the prediction of State Superin-
tendent Harris. Isl
With the exception of L. S. u.
none of the state educational in
stitutions will show a decrease
in enrolment this session.
About 1000 of the 5000 pub
lie schools have opened, and the
remaining 1000 will begin their
scholastic year Monday. One
thousand opened Monday, Sep
TENDER 10, and 1000 opened last
Monday. September II. L. 5.
u, Southwestern Industrial In
stitute, the State Normal and
the Industrial Institute at Rus
ton all opened this week.
Registration in those public
schools that have opened is said
to be heavier than usual; like
wise the enrolment at the State
Normal and the two industrial
institutes. l.. S. U. will not fall
behind last years enrolment q
1888 by more than 100, President
Boyd said Friday night.
High prices being received by
farmers for their produce and
the general abnormally prosper
Gus condition of the state are
causes given by State .SuperiK'
tendent Harris for the increased
enrolment.
| Agriculture is expected to prove
the most popular course in the
public schools and in the higher
educational institutions.
/ Physical exercise and health
| will receive special attention this
session in the public schools.
! Food conservation will also be
stressed. A pamphlet containing
10 lessons on saving food has
been issued for school use. Pu-
pills Of the public schools will be
taught the object and issue OF
, Liberty Bonds, among the special
, subjects because of the war.
Pamphlets for this purpose are
} supplied by the government.
The decrease at L. S. U. is due
! to a large number of the Older
students going into the officers
reserve corps. The lower classe:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-20

17H Maxwell. I'd dis 81. 10 90
1871 Blackshear, I'd dis g.. 10 O0
10 Keller. road dis 81. 20 90
$500 R F Henderson. I'd dis s.. 10 90
A Tracy, road dis - %
2-CCLong. road dis 81. &c 70
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-20

When you have backache the liver
or kidney are sure to be out Of gear.
Try Sanol, it does wonders for the
liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial
35c bottle will convince you. Get it
at the drug store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06

Who does not punish evil invites It
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
BARS PAClFISTS AT CHICAGO
Governor Lowden Orders Troops 10
City When Mayor Thompson
Sanctions Meeting

Chicago. Sept. 5.-Governor Lowden
and Attorney General Brundage con
ferred in Chicago over the city's mayor.
At the conclusion Of their meeting II
was announced that the pacifist stu.
alton was we'll I'm hand. Chicago was
assured that there will be no further
happenings such MS that Of Sunday,
when the delegates of the Peoples
council held a meeting here under pc.
lice protection.
The governors action in sending
troops to Chicago TO enforce his or.
ders was conclusive as TO whether he
expects his orders obeyed.
That the "'mailed fist" will be used
on agitators and others who seek 10
stir up riot and disorder during the
war period. even though their pro Ger
man demonstrations have the sanction
Of the mayor, was made known
forcibly.
That the governor has full author
lty to take a firm hand in any si!ua-
ton which may arise In the city was
the advice given by Attorney General
Brundage.
The city council will meet I'm special
session 70 consider resolutions thank
ing Governor Lowden.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
DISCOVER SPINAL MALADY
Waukesha Young Man Is Stricken
With Dangerous Ailment-Home
Under Strict Quarantine.

Waukesha-A case of cerebro-splnal
meningitis, rare and usually fatal
disease, similar to infantile paralysis,
has been discovered here. The sub
ject is Tony Lift, IS year old son of
Anton Lift. and employed at a local
manufacturing plant. The house is
being held under strict quarantine.
Diagnosis of the case made by DR..
w. II. Murphy, attending physician,
was verified by the state laboratory of
hygiene at Madison, following an ex-
animation of serum taken from the
spinal cord of the patient. According
to the Madison report germs of men
ingococcers, were found.
DR.. Murphy has administered two
injections of Flexner serum from the
laboratories of the Rockefeller insti-
tute and state the subject shows some
Improvement.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
JOIN OVERSEAS DIVISION
Three Companies of Second Wisconsin
Infantry Leave Camp Douglas
for Somewhere"

Camp Douglas - "Goodby and good
luck" rang through camp when Com
panies E, f and G., the Second Wis
ccnsin infantry units now known as
the 150th machine gun battalion, left
for Somewhere" These companies
will join the overseas division in what
may be a brief period Of intensive
to France.
All day Camp Douglas was on keen
edge, and the farewell setting was i'm
pressive. The soldiers marched
through a great avenue of olive drab
nearly 10000 me nhaving been
brought into line for thrilling send
off
Bands played, hats were thrown into
turned into mighty roar as the boys
boarded their trains. See you in
France" was the favorite parting,
The bravest soldiers in the surging
crowd of khaki were the mothers who
came to say goodby.
GuardSmen who left and those who
remained behind realized that this was
a very genuine war farewell. Their
next meeting will be in mo Mans
land" Here and there a serious face
peered over khaki uniform, but for
the most part the soldiers were gay,
glad to be on their way for the in
evitable meeting with Hans and Fritz
Cardinal pennants and American
flags fiuttered from many car win
dows. Bands were playing "On Wis
consin" when the troop trains disap-
peared around the bend. The men
travelled in tourist cars, with colored
porters clad in snow white suits to
look after their wants.
Both trains were generously provi-
stoned and carried enough Camp Doug
las water for the trip. From now on
there will be a steady departure of
troops. 1t is understood the two bri-
gade headquarters will be the next to
leave.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
ALL BACK PRESIDENT
WAR AIMS OF THE ALLIES MADE
CLEAR BY WILSON.
Washington Offcialdom Regards Note
as Sounding the Doom of
HohenZollernism.
WASHINGTON STAR.

Washington, Aug 81. - President
Wilson'S rejecting the pope's peace
proposals was regarded here as finally
settling the question of dealing with
present German rulers, unconquered or
uncurbed at home. The president
makes 1t clear that lasting and dur
able peace can be negotiated only on
complete understanding with the Ger
man people, and not alone on unstable
guarantees of the existing government.
kilograms from all parts of the
country began to pour into the White
House approving President Wilson's
reply to Pope Benedlct's peace propos-
ais.
Upon motion of Senator Brady, who
characterized 1t as last farewell 10
the autocracy OF the world, President
Wilson's reply TO the pope'S peace pro-
posals was ordered printed In the Con-
gressional Record.
"Whi!e It rejects the pope's propos-
ais" said he, sit points the way for
the other nations to reach peace In
fair and honorable manner"
President Wilson's reply met with
appreciation at the Russian embassy.
"The reply of the United States to
the pope's peace note" it was said at
the embassy, "seems to us Russians to
be an act of highest political wisdom
and closely corresponds to the prin-
ciples and aims of the Russian people
as formulated in the declarations or
the Russian provisional government.
"The Inspiring expressions of this
document have once more outlined the
fundamental aims pursued in this war
by the league of democratic nations.
THE statement President Wilson
made Is to facilitate to the German
people their entrance in the path of
democratic revival and gives thrill
ing anticipation of the final triumph
of democracy and justice throughout
the world.
"Militarism and the imperialistic
aims of the German ruler have thus
received new and powerful blow
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
100 OFFICERS FIGHT BANDIT
Three Chicago Policemen Wounded
by Payroll Robber-Taken
After Long Battle.

Chicago, Sept. With thousands
of persons looking on, 100 policemen
fought a battle with Edward Wheede
a counterfeiter. suspected Of being Il
member of the bandit gang in the
Winslow iron foundry robbery. who
was intrenched in his mothers cot
tage at 2637 Thomas street, here, on
Thursday.
The battle lasted for three hours
After three detectives had been
wounded and the police were prepared
either to fill the house with fumes
from formaldehyde, or ms a last resort
to blow 1t to pieces with dynamite
the outlaw surrendered and was
rushed away in an automobile.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
USE ARMS TO RESIST DRAFT
Wisconsin Men Are Held After An
Attack on Ofcers-Gun Used
BY Former Bluejacket..

Manitowoc - Nicholas Voss and
Emil Helm, the first citizen of Wis
consin to resist the army draft with
force of arms, were taken to Green
Bay to be arraigned before a United
States court commissioner.
Voss is charged with attempted
murder and armed resistance of the
consumption law. Helm is charged
with aiding and abetting Voss m the
alleged commission of the crimes
stated.
Voss is a graduate of the United
States navy. from which he secured
an honorable discharge in December,
1913.
Helm is the son of a Lutheran min
lister who heads congregation at
Ada.
Both have lived recently in strong
ly pro-German settlements and. ac-
cording to officials connected with the
arrests, have been indulging in dis
loyal talk against the draft, against
the war and against the allies of the
United States. Voss is credited with
having said a few days ago that he
would like to see any blank blank
federal officer place him where he
would be compelled to fight against
Germany"
The case has many features that
indicate what the poison of pro-
German propaganda is doing, and what
it is likely to result in unless curbed.
Contempt for the law of the land and
the government were brutally paraded
and backed up by an assault.
Both of the accused are German.
Helms, who supplied the weapon used
in the assault, is a farm hand.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-06
MEETING is BARRED
HUDSON CITIZENS ARE AGAINST
PEACE CONFERENCE.
City Officials Prevail on Crowd to Let
Pacifists Get Out of Town
Unmolested.

Secretary Lochner of the
Peoples \ Peace council, Publicity
Agent Williams, Charles Kruse of the
New York brotherhood Welfare asso-
citation; Miss Florence Margolies of
New York, president of the Workers
council; her woman secretary and a
woman stenographer from the head
quarters of the National Peoples
council were run out of Hudson by a
mob, estimated to number 1000. They
were not harmed, owing to an impas-
stoned appeal from County Attorney
N. o. Varnum, who urged the mob to
let them go quietly and not commit
violence
The action of the crowd was pre-
ceded by public massmeeting held In
front of the armory at which speeches
were made by Maj Sam Campbell, a
veteran of the civil war; Mayor Con-
dit, and others, and at which resolu-
tons were adopted protesting against
the peace conference.
Previous to the massmeeting the
city council held special meeting
and adopted a resolution forbidding
the peace council to hold any meet
ings or convention in the city.
Any attempt by the Peoples Coun-
Gil of America for Democracy to hold
Its projected convention in Milwaukee
or an; other city in WisCt nSin was
given its quietus when Gov. Philip
sent a telegram to Sheriff McManus
requesting him to notify any persons
who are planning to arrange for the
meeting that lie did not wish it to take
place in this state.
The governors message to the sher-
if follows:
Il understand that an effort will be
made to hold a meeting of the Peace
Council in Milwaukee. This meeting
can not be held without endangering
the peace and good order of the city,
and | ask you therefore to notify the
party, which | understand will arrive
by train. that do not wish the meet
ing to take place Call me by tele-
phone for instructions.
Gov. Philips Instructions to Sheriff
McManus came after a day during
which the states executive had close
ly followed the actions of the peace
council leaders in their attempts to
find a city in which they might hold
their meeting.