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Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

A peculiar incident happened at Globe this week in connection with a fire in the yards of the Arizona East ern railroad, where it was impossible to obtain assistance of the Globe fire department The dilemma was solved ty taking the fire to the fire depart ment the department could not 20 to the fire. A box car was ablaze and it's "ontiguity with other cars made the fire dangerous. The fire department was called but after a trial it was found the hose was not long enough to reach the fire The intrepid train men thereupon connected an engine to the burning car and hauled it to a position where the hose could be play ed upon it effectively.
 A movement on foot at Williams for some time to acquire a city water plant has taken a definite step for ward this week when the town coun- Cil of Williams decided to obtain ap- praisement of the property of the water company. The application was made to the Arizona Corporation Com mission. The company holds the sale price of the property at $125.0O0.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11
Depreciating Our Currency.

Word from Mexico that the Carran2a govern has decided the United States currency should de- precate The assigned is that this government is the brink of with Germany The custom houses along the Arizona border, it is understood have been given orders not accept currency but will accept American gold and silver.
 Whether to get mad or to laugh is the question: not what will the effect business United States?
 Mexico has penchant for pulling" "bone heads. Mexico be somebody in this world and like the in any line of life Out without the money and financial standng), will do anything to at the attention anyone who will stop look listen
 On the whole it doesn't look though America is go ing protest very strongly. If such protest is made will probably from business in Mexico, who
 like gold and currency for the latter is gold ried in light packages. When the government Of tha United States totters, then will currency deprecata our border. When that occurs, Mexico and Sonora may well consider the problem of getting out from under.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11
PRACTICE GAMES MANY

DALLAS, Tex. Mar. 10. - Dallas Texas league, ? New York Nationals 1.
 NEW ORLEANS. Mar 10.-Cieve- land Americans 1; New Orleans So. Association. 1. O4 innings.b
 GALVESTON. Mar. 10.-St Louis Americans i; Galveston, Texas league 0.
 SAN ANTONIO. Mar To- St Louis Nationals 8; San Antonio. Texas league l.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

The board of supervisors of Gila 'ounty at their meeting this week. ordered the county engineer 10 secure estimates on the probable cost of the proposed road from Winkleman to Globe, twenty-five miles of which re- mains to be completed. The road has been built into the San Carlos reser- v7'ion and only that portion from that point to a point that intersects the Dripping Springs road. This done mother route will be opened for tray al from Globe down the Gila to Win ;-le~'an, Christmas and those points which have so long felt they were more @ part of Pinal county than of Gila county. Already more than s10O.000 has been spent on the route Nut the highway remained a long way rom being completed. The action of -he Gila county supervisors meets with universal approval.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Q intense is lov efor the good old 2-tionaI game in Miami that several Nundred fans presented themselves to the management Sunday morning and
 -ouested to be put to work iuprov- ing Ire baseball grounds, so that canes can soon begin. Refreshments were furnished the baseball boosters, and before the day was done good deal of the fence enclosing the grounds had been completed. This is the first time on record that the pup lie of any city turned in and regard ed efforts for baseball ia the same light as has been brought to bear on cad building
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Comparing wholesale prices New York City of two months ago with Saturday potatoes have gone up 100 percent onions 366per cent, cabbages 212h per beans 300 per cent bees 100 per and caulhowers 100 per cent. A Washington market merchant bought onions at s bag and sold when they reached $4 per 100 pounds, clearing s5OOOOO Norfolk commission is said to have all potatoes raised in Virginia this year. They bought $5O s per barrel and selling at $9 to $95O per barrel
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

". J. Francis. the thirty-nine year T son of Arthur and Mrs. Francis
 time residents of Globe, died in '"ntly one day this week as result If being shot with a sixteen guagc shotgun. Francis was contemplatins a hunting trip and in some mannei the gun was discharged. At first it was thought that Francis had commit ted suicide but this theory was scout ed by the relatives and friends of tho man.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11
OHIO GUARDS ENTRAIN

FL PASO. March 1O.-The Eighth Ohio Infantry, Troops E. C and D Of thc Tennessee cavalry. and the See ond South Carolina Infantry left o. night for their home stations to De mustered CT. ot ,Ge tederg! service
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

John Meglen of Jerome. has sued Mike Protcheff of the same place, for S1,500 damages for damages received when the latter is alleged to have at tackled the former and carved him up a bit Meglen cites, in particular. 9 knife wound in the abdomen. four inches deep. He declares, in his con plaint that the knife. after having en- tered his body, was wiggled around thereby causing great pain and neces- sitating considerable sojOurn in a Jerome hospital and causing perma nent injury.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Holding that the acts alleged 10 rave been com itted did not cOnsti- tute 2 crime in violation of the terms 0f tNe statutes, Judge Frank Lyman, in the superior court of Maricopa county, Thursday sustained the demur Ter r'ade by the attorneys for Arthur L. Behringer. This case attracted 2 great deal of attention some time ago when it was discovered that Behring- CT ar some other man had attempted to use distagraph from one roop to another in the Adams Hotel in PhOe- nix The court held that the alleged crime did not constitute wire tapping of any character.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Because he had no money, and highwaymen had gone to the trouble to hold him up at the point of a gun, Ignacio Ascero. an employe of the h. spiration Consolidated Copper Com pany, at Miami, was shot through the knee and left to his own devices on Tuesday night The outrage occurred on Miami Hill Ascero tells that he was stopped by two masked mer, who, at the point of gun. searched him and then incensed because hc had nothing of value, each fired at him once. one bullet hitting him just below the right knee, breaking the bone.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Another Copper Company has been hauled on the pet by the corporation commission and it's license sell stock revoked High salaries, low copper contents and desire to promote make combination that is profitable for a few but disastrous for many.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Hing Wing Lo Chinese resident of Tucson arrest ed by motor cop for not having his tail light burning It is not known in what business he is engaged but must be selling produce and particularly potatoes.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11
StateHighGrade.

Superintendent W. V. De Camp, of the Blue Bell mine in Yavapai coun- ty, testified in a suit against his com pany for $50,0O0 damages, that it would have been impossible for AL fred Switendich to have been knock ed from the skip into the shaft if he had been riding the skip correctly. The superintendent testified that the man must have been leaning over the edge of the skip to have been hit in the manner brought out by the con- plainant's attorneys.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Antonio Chavez, arrested at Pres colt recently for burying Chris Ras- '~ussen alive near Middleton on the Grown King road last week. has con fessed his part in the peculiar crime. According to Chavez, he had d com panion, SalaZar-first name unknown who was the controlling force of the illegal expedition. and if SalaZar had not insisted on having this sort of thing done the idea would never have entered his head. Officers are now out looking for Salazar. Ras- mussen created excitement at Pres colt last week by just dragging him self into Grown King with weird story of being buried alive by two , MeXicans.- after having been assailed and robbed. His story was scarcely believed until Chavez was arrested and identified,
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Potatoes at Caribou, Me, reached unprecedented price of SS4O barrel 5000 barrels were sold at that figure Prediction is made that they will reach S1O barrel be fore the season is over. ?. ..tf f't.- .t .'..
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

That secretary of the German embassy who found to have 200 suits of pajamas in his possession when his trunks searched Halaax haXe expected to do heap of sleeping when he got back home.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Bisbee had windstorm yesterday. Yes sir guest of wind came into the city with Douglas stage and re maincd just long find that there wasn't any for t
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Masquerade suits for rent ai Me Donald's Marinello Shop. Place or d"rs -Adve,tise,nC-t eel
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

The residents of Yavapai county pleaded guilty in the federal court, which is now sitting in that district, to selling liquor to Indians. Each has been in jail for several months. The men will be sentenced at the conclu- sion of the term.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Frank O. Hermance is the plaintiff in a $10,0O0 libel suit brought against D. L. Anderson, F. A. Nelssen, J. M. Hipkle and the Arizona Publishing Coz pany, publisher of the Arizona Republican Anderson, Nelssen and Hinkle are the trustees of School Dis trict No. of Maricopa county where Hermance was employed He was dismissed from the school and bases his suit on the order which was pub lished in the Phoenix paper.
 Failing to secure an agreement from Campbell's attorneys that they be per mitted to introduce additional evi- dence whenever they found it, Hunts attorneys closed their side of the con test case yesterday noon. They had failed to make proof on Bisbee pre- cinot No. l. Oatman, Kingman. Frisco Mine, Camille and Gila Bend, in which precincts they had stated oral testi- mony would be introduced to prove certain spoiled ballots. A nasty com pilation shows Hunts gain in the court recount to be approximately 232 votes. Seyenty-five of these are said to be in precincts where the court count does not check with the poll books. which have not yet been introduced.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

sight for sore eyes: Douglas. any day in March
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we had light rains and a day or two
cloudy.
Very respectfully yours,
WILLIAM L. SERRAO,
Lihue School.

y. Lihue, Kauai, Ian. IL, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-BnIletin.
Sir: Below you will find necessary
information OF conditions, etc, Of the
Lihue school farm prior to the enter
ing of the Agricultural Contest.
Condition Of grounds: Open field
with few trees; partial slope of IS
degrees; packed clay soil; the grounds
were used last year. ....-.
- Preparation and perseverance: In
the line Of preparation we have loos-
ened the soil with picks, shoyels and
hoes. Several large rocks were re-
moved from the desired spot. Irrigat-
ing bitches we're dug as the heavy
rains prove destructable. The rains
do much damage when not drained off.
Furthermore, in order to have things
grow, we had to fence in our plot with
wire to keep the fowls and animals
out.
f =, Very respectfully yours,
.~ WILLIAM l.. SERRAo,
r: Lihue School.
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|HAMAKlJAPOKO To
TRY FLOWERS, TOO

Hamakuapoko. Maui, Jan. 10, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin. -
Sir: The children in our school
are interested Id the School Farm
Contest. The boys spend lots of time
working in the garden. They have
beans. lettuce, peas, carrots, onions,
beets, radishes and tomatoes. They
are to plant other things soon.
The boys are starting a flower gar.
den in the back yard. This Is to be
the girls garden - =.
We want to enter the contest. We
like to work in our garden and we
should like to win prize. One of
our teachers helps US. =, -
Yours truly, Is =. -. -
TAXED oKUNo. s
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and beets. Our garden was first all
clay. The rich soil was all washed
off and only clay soil was left. We
sold some Of our beans and lettuce.
In our school garden there are nine
gardens of vegetables In some OF
them are beans. lettuce, beets, car
rots. tomatoes and onions. We plant
ed our school gardens on November
s. 1916, and some of them grew in
three or four days.
We sold our lettuce and II is only
two months cd The garden is about
1913 square feet. In each of the gar
dens we put about 80 cubic feet of
manure. ! will close my letter.
Yours truly.
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lines to tell you how my garden is
getting along.
planted lettuce, radishes, carrots.
turnips and cabbage. planted It all
on December 30. All the vegetables
are growing pretty good. but the
chickens come in and scratch the gar
den, but made one fence, so that
the chickens cannot come in and
scratch. Every afternoon water the
vegetables and take out the weeds.
The weather has been very poor
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=
our Irrigation ditch. We attach q
short hose to a nearby faucet from
which we run water into the box OF
fertilizer. This scheme gives us the
additional advantage Of avoiding the
rayaees OF ants which are yery, fond
Of working in ground that has been
Enriched with manure.
veeetahies PAINTED
We are planting such vegetables as
have proved most profitable in our
experience OF the past two years. Our
most promising crop commercially
and otherwise IL lettuce and We are
planting Il on. more than half OF our
patch. We produce the lettuce plants
IN boxes and only transplant the most
vigorous plsnts. They are set four
inches apart BY harvesting the heads
% they mature room 10 made for the
SIGNATURE heads and the most inten.
sire use Is made of the ground. As
tocn as we have harvested q row OF
lettuce We expect 70 plant that row to
dixon redish which h our next most
profitable crop. Chinese cabbage. also.
n much pfise1 m this place and we
shall use Il II q rotation crop. At
the present time we have three rows
planted 70 Chinese cabbage, three
rows 10 dixon radish. one row TO car.
RITA. one row to beets. one row TO
oer plant with scarlet turnip radish
bftween the egg plants, and SIX rows
ere producing lettuce. We also have
role lima Deans In our fence row. We
hope that the beans viii beautify the
fence. act as 3 windbreak on pro-
tuce some profit. These vegetables
seem. 10 Be the most resistant to I'm
e6ct pekis, hardy, and the most desir-
ia b. the people OF this community
end We hope 10 show that such q
patch would add very materially 70
ne welfare Of every family.
Prof. kr1uss Hflps
We are greatly Indebted to Prof..
KfanBs Of the Haiku experiment sta
tIhn Tor much valuable advice. We
have occasion 70 telephone to him
frequently and we always find him
on the fob. IN the best OF spirits and
bfIm fuIl Of information We have q
cornplets stl OF bulletins issued by
Toe Hawaii Experiment Station and q
FIJI set aof y. s. Farmers Bulletins.
Most 81 our pupils have various seed
n ftio(ues from which they gather
much good information.
an Enclosing some drawings OF
some Of our young gardeners. These
Vert made this morning IN the exnerf
mental patch under consideration.
You VIII note they include the koa
bush and The o6stof bean, which are
I@r.a -
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.KANE0HE SCHOOL IS
SELLING VEGETABLES

Kaneohe, Oahu. r. H., Jan. 4, 1917.
Editor Honolulu ar-Bulletin.
Sir: In our school gardens We have
many kinds Of vegetables. When We
first started our school garden we
first enriched the soil and when It
was rich enough we planted some let
.tuee, beans. tomatoes, carrots. onions
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Upper photo shows kaneohe
teheoI garden November 6, the
day u was planted. Lower photo
shows garden January s. The
soys are picking Kentucky Won
der teans. -Ero.
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-. -.
When we were read we planted two
beds OF peanuts and one of carrots.
This was on October 80. At present
they are doing we'll. On November 2
We planted bed Of string beans. The
weather was very wet and disagree
able and so they did not do at all
well. After q while they all died out
and we planted in their place bed
Of runner beans These were q new
variety and they we're doing well,
when they were all destroyed by O
horse q few days ago.
In place OF the half bed OF radishe3
that had been spoiled we planted this
patch with some Big Boston" lettuce
on December l. Now they are grow
Ing fine. Since then we have trans
planted some Of the lettuce between
our peanuts. Next week we are go
ing TO sell some TO one of our teachers.
During the month of December there
was large amount Of rain and this
was Z bad thing for most of our yege.
tables as they were yet young. The
rain washed az the soil away from
the roots and SO II did not do any
good.
After this on account Of the examl-
nations and vacation, not much was
done 10 the gardens, and when we
returned they needed considerable
wedding. We spent the first week
after we had come back to school In
doing this and after that we were
free. a
On January I q horse came into the
garden and destroyed one bed Of car.
rots, q ruarter bed Of peanuts and let
tuce. This did not harm us much as
the carrots were not doing very WELL
The peanuts and lettuce were doing
well and We were well paid for them
On January 10 we planted some more
lettuce where the others were de-
stroyed and In the place Of carrots We
planted colrabi and Japanese rad
ishes. As this radish grows well and
there Is q ready sale for it, it Is a
profitable crop to plant
So far very few pests have at
tackled our crops. The melon fly. as
II Is called, has attacked the cabbage
and colrahi belonging to the other
boys. but no pests have attacked our
crops as yet
My partner and and large mum.
Der Of other boys think that this has
been the most successful year yet
that they have taken agriculture.
More boys take It and they are all
well satisfied with their gardens.
They al expect to make some profit
this year so they are contented
Respectfully yours,
ID. FORBES. :
p. S.---I am going to send some pic.
lures Of The gardens as soon as they
are developed
fuller report to make on their work
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Pearl City School,

Pearl City, T. H, Jan. 10, 1917.
Star-Bulletin School Farm Contest,
Star-BulletiH Office, Honolulu, T. H.
Dear Editor: The condition Of the
garden Is wet. We could not work
the ground. . ...a
Our plants are growing very fast
The rain helped the plants. q
The chickens are pests. We are go
ing to call the garden '''Our School
Experiment Station"
~ OSHIGE MATSUMOTO.
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Pearl City School,

Pearl City, Jan. 10, 1917 friday.
Star-Bulletin School Farm Contest,
Star-Bulletin Office. Honolulu. T. H.
Dear Sir: The garden Is very wet
and muddy.
The vegetables are growing very
well. ~ ~
The weather is good, but we could
not walk to see the garden.
We call our garden the Pearl City
School Farm Experiment Station, and
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IS WET
At PEARL CITY

Pearl City school is busy with its
contest gardening, but recent wet
weather has interfered. with the cul-
tivation. Here are number OF let
tiers telling of the work:
Pearl City School,
Pearl City, r. H., Jan. 10, 1917.
Star-Bulletin School Farm Contest
Honolulu, n. H.
Dear Editor: There is so much
water In our garden that We cannot
work The rains are good for the
vegetables. They are growing better
than any week yet We will have
some pictures of it, the first very
clear day.
We are going to dig trench, as
Mr.. Bryan said when be looked at our
garden Thursday, to try to drain off
the water that fills the garden paths
like Venice.
The cabbage butterfly Is here, in
spite Of the rains, SO more spraying
must be done.
We like our school Farm Expert
ment Station" It is just mauka of
this new, unfinished bungalow. II
that new building could be completed,
how fine 1t would be! You see, one
division OF the first grade could go in
there, out of the wet, while the other
division fills Room 1, and when they
were not using 1t we older ones
would have merry time playing with
the basketball and football Santa
Claus brought us,
Yours truly.
PUPILS OF THE SIXTH AND
SEVENTH GRADES, PEARL
CITY SCHOOL
Pearl City School.
Pearl City, r. III.
Star-Builetin Office, Honolulu, r. III.
Dear Editor: The condition of the
ground is wet.
The names OF products are cabbage,
beans, onion, radish. muskmelon. let
tuce and eggplant. Our cabbage
grows well. Our weather condition is
such that we cannot work.
Yours truly.
KATSUMASA.
Pearl City School.
Pearl City, T. H.
Star-Bulletin School Farm Contest,
Star-E Bulletin Office, Honolulu, T. H.
Dear Editor: Condition Of ground is
too wet so we could not work In the
garden this Friday
We planted muskmelons during this
week.
Our vegetables are growing well.
There Is too much rain for US. but
ii is good for the plants.
Yours truly.
TELU KATAYAMA.
Pearl City School,
Pearl City, T. H
Star.BuIletin School Farm Contest,
Honolulu. T. H..
Dear Editor: I am writing letter
to you. Some OF the plants on our
ground are not growing well. The
children did not care to plant onions.
Ny cousin planted some and they
grew nicely. Mrs. Hafford, the prin-
cipal of Pearl City school, bought
and took some home to eat think
they tasted good. Excuse me for all
Yours truly.
MARY MESANE.
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PUlJNEE School
6ETTINGRESlJLIS

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Chewing gum is becoming popular
among the Chinese in Hongkong.
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Pearl City. Jan. 10, 1917.

Pearl CITY, Jan. II, 1911.
Staf- Bulletin School Farm Contest,
Star-Bulletin Office, Honolulu, T. II.
Dear Editor: The condition Of the
ground is very wet these few days.
The plants grow very fine. The
children do not need to water them.
The ground has been very muddy,
but now it is dry.
We call our garden the Pearl City
School Experiment Station.
Yours truly,
.a MARGARET HAUPU.
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4 fuller report to make on their worl
next week.
Very respectfully yours.
e. A. BROWN.
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here these few days. Il rsined very
hard.
Ny garden Is Is feet by Is feet. :
That's all that ! am going to tell
you this time. By and By | win send
you the pictures Of the vegetables.
Yours truly.
JOE S0UZA.
Within the heel OF, q recently
patented shoe for women 3 contained
complete vanity case:
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PROGRESS MADE
IS TOLDB PUPIL

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