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The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1917-10-25

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weddings. the arrival or departure
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umns you will very often learn for the
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ness OF death Of come neishbor o. &C
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The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1917-10-25
The letter Of the quartermaster

The letter Of the quartermaster
follows:
FROM Depot Quartermaster.
To w. B. Richards, Glendale, N. D.
Subject Purchase of Public Animals.
1. You are informed that the prices
quoted on horses and mules in your
letter of September 9th. are salts
factory. This Office will arrange to
have a board of inspection at the
points named by you, at the earliest
possible date. You will be notified at
least five days in advance of such
time, in order that you may be able
to have the required arrangements
completed.
BY direction,
(Signed)
w. A. Austin,
Captain @. M. c.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1917-10-25
woman's Club

Date-Oct. 3Oth. $3.50 p. m.
Hostess-Mrs. Earl RamEarter.
Roll Gala short story writer and
something of his life.
Program-A short story by each Of
the club members.
Red Cross work.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1917-10-25
Wanted for speeiaI sarxlcs.

New York, Oct. 23.-An appeal for
volunteers for the "Gas and Flame
Service" regiment of the United States
army was issued here by Major Earl
]. Atkinson, who will command a bat.
talon. Chemists and machiu1sts are
specially needed
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1917-10-25
WILL HOLD INSPECTION
Arrangements Being Made For Dates
at Monanso, Fullerton
and Cakes
Glendale, Oct. is, 1917.

AFC baFtleLC,
Oakes, N. D.,
Friend Bartlett: For your informa-
tion wish to inform you that the
government has accepted our prices
on the army horses as we were quot
ing them to the farmers when the
preliminary INSPECTIONS were made
and that they have agreed to send an
inspector at an early date. Wien
this will be cannot say. It has taken
longer to get an inspection ttan had
anticipated. 1 fear some of the farm
ers think that we are not going
through with the proposition.
Some of the horse buyers have told
the farmers that the government
would not send inspectors and that
they could not be sold in this way. I
wish you would counteract this report
wherever you can. I an enclosing a
copy of letter received from the
Quartermaster at Ft. Keog, Remount
Depot, which shows that we can get
an inspection. have arranged for an
inspection at Monango, Fullerton and
Oakes. and in case we do not get
carload at each place, hope to have
them brought from one place to
the other.
They notified me, however, that they
are not buying the heavy artillery
horses at the present time, or nothing
over 1400. They will take Is per cent
of mares and mules. The mules went
in at $175 for lead mules and 5000 for
heavy mules over 1850.
I wish you would send me the names
of parties who have horses or mules
that will meet the requirements SO
that can notify them of the date of
inspection.
Yours Truly,
w. B. Richards,
County Agricultural Agent.
Those having horses or mules are
requested to inform Mr.. Richards
either personally or by letter so he
can notify of date.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31
Housing Laws Needed for Protection Of
the People in Every State .
Bv MRS. ALBION F. BACON

only number of states have tenants legal right to sun
light and air. that have housing laws They are the
only States protection against ums and state every
city, every town has slums or sum spots
So it those states which have housing laws are not
especially them most They only the ones that are
the most enlightened.
Most housing provide not only for the correction OF sum but
that shall properly constructed at least SO as
to be sanitary evident that good housing comes both by grace
and bv law housing be controlled only by law and housing
laws deal only vital essentials to deceny and
safety. ,
There housing in the country that requires more than the
minimum standards safety conceded by sanltara
architects legislators and property They all Craze the DANGER
line and everything below is to the community
Above the law deal OF bad housing
variety of discomfort and to say nothing OF
things abhorrent to architect that untouched by only be
prevented cured by grace
builder the public sentiment the civic spirit OF the
community for all housing beement that cannot
be dealt by law Public sentiment however, needs great deal
educaon and great deal Of poddn to stand for even the
essentials demand the enactment and OF housing laws
Wherever they found it shows triumph OF public sentiment
What think, then, Of the states that have none?
What most all states law that will forbid the
housing any family in place that is unfit and unsafe
At me when the life Of every individual is douby precious to
country that lives should be sacrificed by prevent
able disease bred in sums Of our cities
The should all protected against disease by the
laws of their states.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31
Statutory Suffrage las Been Achieved
in Defiance of Public Will
By MRS. KATHERINE T. BALCH
President Of Wom.ns Ani-Sufase Association Of Massachusetts

Except parsey settled states Of Montana and Nevada where
there every where had scarcely the sem
bnce organization there has not been victory for full
since 1912 only other suffrage have been victories or
statutory surage-vctores achieved defiance the people, victories
in fragrant representative democracy victories tor
ation and bold and bullying feminine lobby
weak and shameless legislators
On the hand victories have been popular
for and by the peop-and they have been big and constant AS
result of the organization ducaion states having aggregate
on of forty million have recently rendered
nopuar yerdicts against suffrage.
We have that while suffrage thrves indifference and
reach the voters with the facts and
arguments suffrage doomed Is wonder that the ua
one of their greatest leaders has expressed red OF appealing
the voters with their secret ballot?
The voters caed ntmdated to vote for suffrage
With the politicians different and the politicians the ura
piss have turned in Encouragement and desperation
Because we anturags" good many people hnB
our movement merely opposition movement Nothing couo
further from 1t essentially constructive movement 1t
not what fighting against but what fighting fo that the
rea] substance and inspiration of our work.
We regard woman-sufage movement obstacle IN the
Of PROGRESS tending destroy the thing vital to highest
zo Our this destructive 1orc
our ultimate direction Of womens thoughts and
into those they be Of highest service to society
the great of from hamperng
cal enanglcmen that they attain he greatest
natural and unseifsh service for humanity
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31

The salt works were soon covered, SET
tiers were driven from their homes, the
railroad had to move its line farther
and farther back, and at Mecca, the
town itself was in imminent danger OF
inundation before the flood was hnally
checked. Then the sea began to re-
cede again, until it's present boundaries
were reached, some 40 miles long and
12 miles across, with the water surface
some 225 feet below sea level.
At Mecca the depression below sea
level is 1S9 feet and the distance TO
the present shore of the sea is about
six miles. In the open desert, just out
of Mecca, if one will stand up on one
of the clumps Of sagebrush around
which the wind-blown sand has piled
and look off over the desert to the
southeast, in the distance the sea can
he seen shimmering In the desert sun
light. This shows how evenly the
desert slopes into the bottom OF the
basin.
Along the Mud hills, some five or
six miles from the north shore of the
sea, is perhaps the most weird, DESC
late and peculiar part of this mysteri-
GUS desert land. The Mud hills are OF
CLAW formation, and through them are
,cut MANY extraordinary canyons,
among which Painted canyon and
>Shavers, or Box canyon, are the most
distinctive
As is characteristic Of all desert re-
gions, storm waters pass off with a
rush. and this rush of water hes cut
the canyons through the soft clay
formation of the Mud hills with very
Drecipitous walls. In Shavers ana
Painted canyons this is very marked,
and the local erosion of the walls has
carved in the many-colored clays fg-
ures and forms that are at places very
fantastic and spectacular.
Painted canyon possesses some OF
the most wonderfully colored walls IN
existence hence its name. Maroon,
blood-red, pink, orange, slaty blue and
yellow clays all appear In the same
cliff. The Mud hills themselves are
45esolate in the extreme, very little OF
even the hardy desert vegetation find
ing it possible to subsist upon their
steep sides, and this adds to the wild
and unreal aspect of the canyon. The
canyon floor is the wash Of sand, level
from wall to wall, and woe be to the
desert traveller who find himself there
during q cloudburst in the mountains
above. I recall the case of team
ster travelling up Shavers canyon with
wagon and mule team. 1t began to
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31
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rain in the mountains above, and be-
fore the rain had passed he heard a
dull roar, rapidly increasing in VOL
ume and coming down the canyon. Sud-
denly a wall Of water rounded the
bend in front of him, but, as luck
would have it, a side canyon opened
into the main gorge, just at that point,
and with great presence of mind, he
turned into it just as the water rose
floods pass almost as quickly as they
come, the water soon abated, and in q
few hours he was able to continue his
journey.
The cross-desert road from Mecca to
Blythe passes through Shavers cam
yon, and while coming toward Mecca
one evening, just at the opening Of the
canyon, I was treated to one of the
most magnificent sunset effects that l
have ever seen upon the desert. Just
as the canyon opens out into the des-
ert the. walls frame the picture per-
fectly, and the great wash Of sand and
gravel slopes gradually from the can
yon's mouth for five or six miles down
to the shores of the dead sea. That
evening the sky was filed with light
citrus clouds, and in the glow from
the sunset they were Of the brightest
red imaginable upon background
of azure. The soft gray of the des-
ert led the eye down to the shores OF
the sea- where the emerald-green wa
ters lay placid in the perfect peace
Of a quiet desert evening. Across the
sea stood the Santa Rosa mountains,
yelled in heliotrope haze. The whole
scene formed one exquisite symphony
of soft and strong colors, unreal, yet
peaceful and satisfying to the lover OF
the desert.
Well Named Dead Sea.
When clouds drift over the noun
tains and cast their shadows on sea
and desert, the view from the north
shore of the sea is magnificent. The
scene is a picture in very high key,
play of strong color contrasts and of
bright light. When the waters OF the
sea are quiet the clouds above are
mirrored on it's green surface, and
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31

across, the purple mountains stand in
the sphinxlike silence of the desert.
The bluish-purple cloud shadows fall
ing on the desert intensity color effect,
and transform the whole scene into
one Of subtle enchantment. Down at
the waters edge the skeletons OF dead
sage and. greasewoOd remind us that
this body Of water we'll deserves Its
name, the Dead sea.
About six miles east of Mecca is the
oasis of Dos Palmas, once an impor-
tant watering place on the old Chucka-
walla trail, from Mecca to Phoenix, via
the Ehrenburg ferry. 1t is about six
miles north of Salton station. at de-
preston of about 80 feet below sea
level. Native fan palms grow near
the spring, as well as an abundance
Of salt grass feed for animals. Also
there are several acres of cat-tails
and reeds. When the mines were in
operation in the Mccoy mountains,
northeast of Dos Palmas, rOadhouse
was kept near the spring, and in those
days Hotel Dos Palmas was a popular
stopping place for the desert rat or
prospector. The spring is of fair quail
ity, slightly sulphurous and rather
warm, but is considered good In re-
gion as dry as that to the north of the
Salton basin.
Although the summers in the Salton
basin are almost unbearably hot, the
spring, fall and winter are almost
ideal, and this, coupled with the fact
that it is one of the most healthful
spots on earth, brings many into this
region, who, once falling under its
spell, find it hard to leave "The Lind
Below the Sea-"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31

4 LAKE in the desert! Nor is 1t
~ the hooking fantasy Of the
~ mirage that is spread before
- us as we look down into the
bottom of this strange desert basin
from the height between Mortmere
and Dos Palmas, on the road from
Mecca to INLAND, north of the Salton
sea.
Quite q stable body Of water the
Salton sea is yet, writes Stephen 81.
Willard in the Los Angeles Times, and
with the drainage of the irrigated area
of the Imperial and Coachella valleys
pouring into it, the promise is for it's
area remaining the same indefinitely.
Years ago the Salton basin was I'M
doubtedly part of the Gulf Of Cali
forla, and the Colorado river emptied
into it about midway Of the whole
length Of the gulf. But the ''River of
Red'' slowly pushed its delta out across
the gulf, and then came time when
the Salton basin was cut off, and an
inland sea, a dead sea in fact, as 1t
had neither inlet nor outlet. Gradually
Its shore line receded from the Mud hills
on the north and from the rocky slopes
Of the Santa Rosas on the south, until
only very small area Of thick, briny
water remained in the very bottom OF
the basin, at about $50 feet below sea
level. With the loss of the cooling ef-
feet of this great evaporating surface,
the climate of the basin became one
of the hottest in the world, and even
the Indians, who once hunted and
fished along the shores Of the great
gulf, took to the mountains and aban-
.-doned the valley as land too hostile
to wrest living from.
When 1t Was Flooded.
Then came the white man with the
railroad, and commercial use was made
of the immense salt deposits covering
the bottom of the old seabed. But
later, with the development Of the I'M
perial valley, came the break in the
Colorado river intake and the conse-
quent enormous thrush of water to the
bottom Of the basin. With the entire
volume of the Colorado river pouring
in, the basin was rapidly filling up.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31
Practical Problems Needing Solutie

Practical Problems Needing Solution.
At recent meeting of the French
Academy Of Sciences Henry LIE Cha
teller urged that a list of problems
having immediate Industrial interest be
sent to scientists with a request that
they be solved before purely theoretic-
al problems.
AS examples of problems calling
aloud for solution, he mentioned the
following: In glass-making, the limits
of the variation Of viscosity OF glass
in terms of temperature and chem
ical composition; in metallurgy, the
measurement of hardness of tempered
steel; in heating, the calorific conducti-
bility of porous substances, such as
friedrich; in agriculture, the laws OF
termination of grain, in terms OF hu-
midity, temperature and oxygen sup
ply. =.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31

training will definitely withdraw them from the active and specc
pursuits of life.
association poor youths with wealthy YOUTHS of the sons OF
America with the of foreign lands cannot fail to create spirit Oh
fraternity of nauae value to the citizens OF common country
that universal training the United States Will
rather than For if any nation Is
disposed attack country will be deferred by the knowledge that
country prepared to resist invasion For these am per-
that the military training of American manhood OF vital mpo
lance for the welfare and security of this nation.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31
Universal Military Service Will
Invigorate the Nation S Manhood
By JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS

believe in preparedness and in compulsory mill
tary training for an Of the nation Universal serv-
ice is the best means Of preparedness.
The discipline which young men acquire will de-
velop their character and improve their physical cond-
ton; the daily exercise will invgorate their manhood
the habit Of early rising and retiring to rest Will
strength their will to resist evil Discipline will instlll
into them the spirit Of obedience to lawful authority too
often forgotten in our land of freedom.
The few years our youth will spend in military
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-31

4 LAKE in the desert! Nor is it
~ the hooking fantasy Of the
~ mirage that is spread before
u TIC &c wo look down into the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-09-12
The "Peace Plot"

The whole absurdly inflated. dropsi-
cal. topheavy spouting of peace talk
which comes necessarily from Stock
holm and Zurich and Berlin, the
paciGsm which persists despite the
most brutal discouragement-all this
is designed to slow up American war
preparations!
This, at least. is what the State De-
partment thinks. Nothing in peace
gossip now but a mirage; nothing but
straw man to be knocked down
when convenient. 1t reflects, I'M
doubtedly, ardent German and Aus
TRAN desires for peace; but its primary
motive is to give the American
people the IDEA that further sacrifices
are unnecessary because peace will
come before American forces in con-
siderable number reach the lighting
front in France.
The extraordinary nature Of the Ger
man peace propaganda, its out
groupings in all quarters of the globe,
its curious iteration and reiteration
on a single droning chord, should be
given a larger significance than this,
however. Even If a considerable pro-
portion of the American people were
fooled by 1t, 1t would make little diff
ference in the actual physical facts
of our war preparations. because they
have already progressed into the
middle stage. When American blood
is being shed through the bombing
Of hospitals-and when it is shed in
the trenches-there will be little or no
thought in the true American mind
then Of any turning back or slowing
up merely because peace possibly may
come in a few weeks. On the con-
trary, the war spirit then will be
more vital than ever.
We incline to the belief that the
German propaganda is ordered
primarily because Hohenzollernism Is
in a hole" 1t is true that the COM
ing winter is not going to be che
without its moments Of deep pes
simism and gloom for the allies.
Anything and everything may happen
to Russia. The submarines may main
tain their steady toll. The Italian Of
fensive may disappoint present ex-
pectations But none of these things
will outweigh the quiet assurance or
the allies that their immensely
superior resources are going to count
in the end. Nothing will outweigh
their faith in America, and certainly
nothing will outweigh Americas con-
fidence in herself. 1t is probable that
these facts are perceived, dimly
enough. perhaps. in Berlin. At any
rate. il accounts for much of Ger
many's desperate anxiety to procure
peace without delay.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-09-12
Local Hotels Swamped
By War Visitors

Washington hotels cannot accom-
modate the flood of visitors which is
pouring into the city on account of
the war.
This statement was made yesterday
by the manager of one of the lead
ing hotels of Washington, when ques-
toned on how the swarms of visitors
to Washington are being accom-
modated.
Men accustomed to an entire suite
of rooms, and the most pleasing
apartments of hotel are stuck into
little cubby holes at the top of the
building usually with no baths.
Work on the completion of several
new and larger hotels is being rushed
in an effort to take care of the city's
increased den'ahd for quarters.
The largest amount of space
hotels is taken up by committees and
delegations called here from different
organizations to confer with the heads
of various departments regarding the
prosecution of the war.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-09-12
Kerensky or Kornilof!

The tragic spectacle of a Russia
torn by intrigue and dissension, the
football Of radicals who know neither
discipline nor any form OF restraint.
is presented in the crisis which has
arrived in the relations of the two
leaders, Kerensky and Korniloff.
A few weeks ago the world was
idolizing Kerensky as the savior of
Russia" He has lost considerably in
prestige since that time. Not because
he has failed to do the impossible, but
because it seems that he has failed in
grasp and in vision. He is so deeply
enmeshed in Socialistic doctrine that
he does not always see the immediate
duty for his hand. As a dictator he is
still-the Socialist. He does not al
ways dictate.
Korniloff, a militarist, sees iron con-
troll as the only salvation of the coun-
try. He is not an autocrat, not one
who would restore the Car to the
Winter Palace. But he sees what ap-
parently Kerensky does not see-that
the forces rending and ripping Russia
now will be broken and destroyed by
nothing less than force. He is in
favor of applying army methods to
the nation. Kerensky is still the con-
ciliator, the "fixer." He is attempting
a task which daily grows more i'm
poss Ne. He is on the wrong track.
It's a pity that two such men must
clash. 1t is a pity that. with the
enemy at the gates, with Teuton in
trigue growing more brazen than ever,
two men sincerely devoted to the flu
ture OF Russia should reach an i'm
passe which means, practically, that
anarchy must ensue for a period. But
an idealistic government, such as that
to which modern Russia aspires, now
that the despotism has been cast into
the scrap-heap. does not come without
a struggle. More than three-quarters
Of century passed before the United
States, blazoning liberty and democ-
racy to the world, abolished the curse
OF slavery. Russia cannot expect to
rise fulI-panoplied into the glory of
an ideal democracy. Indeed, she must
be on her guard that her own folly
does not give its discarded autocracy
a cunning chance to slip hack into
power. Such a denouement would
cause despair throughout the civilized
world.
For the nations leagued with Russia
under Prussianism. there is only one
thing to be thankful for. Winter, the
ancient friend of the Muscovite in
war, is fast approaching. Hindenburg
may reach Petrograd, winter or no
winter, but he will win merely a
pyrrhic victory. He may strike for
Odessa through Rumania. and the
capture of this Black Sea port would
be the biggest German victory of the
past twelve months. But it would
bring Germany no nearer to a decision
than she was before