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The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
Telegraphing.

In overhead telegraph systems, un-
der practical conditions, 1t is found
that about 400 miles Is the greatest
length of aerial wire that can be op-
Grated by means of double current Rey-
Morse apparatus. The highest per-
missible voltage in use Is 12O.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
War on Maqples.

Denver, Colo.-Colorado has de-
clared war on the magpie.
Walter B. Fraser, state game and
fish commissioner, is directing the cam
poicn. He terms the magpie "the Hun
of the bird world" declaring they serve
no useful purpose, and apparently are
bent on only one mission-disturb-
ing the peace.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
Time to Watch Them.

The sagacious old New York Her
aid says there is no gallantry in poll
tics. Oh, yes, there is. but when the
politicians begin to act with gallantry
the chances are they are getting ready
to bamboozle you or slit you in the
back.-Houston Post.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
Too Many Prunes.

Portland, Ore.-Prune growers say
that before the war closed the mar
ket. the chief buyers of Northwestern
and California prunes was Hamburg.
Germany. Now, with that market
closed, the growers are trying to find
other markets to take care of the big
surplus of their crop that boarding
house residents will not eat.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
Birds of Nebraska.

Although 400 different species of
birds have their home in Nebraska, 1t
is said that no more than 200 are to
be found in any one locality.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-06
Handlcap In struaale.

Some think more of the game, and
some think more of the prize; but who
ever loves either one too much will not
win the other
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
Preparedness.

An American Sammy entered res taurant in the Rue Richelieu and after carefully studying the menu, ordered rdejeuner.
 The waitress brought him bacon and eggs, cheese and pint of beer. When he had finished eating he paid his bill and called the waitress.
 "Now 1 want some lunch."
 This time she brought him a plate of roast beef, vegetables and chicken, which he washed down with half a dozen cups of tea; then he paid his bill and called the wondering wait ress back again.
 "Now, my dear, I want dinner"
 He ate some beef, vegetables, ap- ples and drank a bottle of wine.
 At 1:30, after having taken all thre meals at once, the soldier left the restaurant, and little while later set out on mission to the front.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
KEPT HER AWAKE
The Terrible Pains in Back an1
 Sides. Cardui Gave Relief.

Marksville, La.-Mrs. Alice Johnson, of this place, writes: "For one year l suffered with an awful misery in my back and sides. My left side was hurting me all the time. The misery was something awful.
 l could not do anything, not even sleep at night. IL kept me awake most of the night :. took different medicines, bui nothing did me any good or relieved me until took Cardui ..
 Twas not able to do any of my work Tor one year and got worse all the time, was confined to my bed off and on. got 70 bad with my back that when stopped down I was not able to straighten up again =. decided l would try Cardw .. By time had taken the entire bottle 1 was feeling pretty good and could gtraighten up and my pains were nearly lll gone.
 l shall always praise Cardui. con- Hnued taking it until was strong and we'll" lfyou suffer from pains due to female complaints, Cardui may be just what you need. Thousands of women who once suffered in this way now praise cardui for their present good health. Give 1t trial. Nc-l0
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
WEEKLY KANSAS CITY
 STOCK MARKET. REPORT

KANSAS CITY STOCK YARDS, Nov. 4.-Cattle receipts today sur prised everybody by running up to 39,000 head, mre than twice as many as last Monday, market steady on best beef steers and stockers and feeders, 10 to 25 lower on cows. Hog supply was 1900, market steady to 10 lower, top $18.25. Sheep and lamb receipts lambs $16.25.
 Beef Cattle Lower.
 Receipts last week were heavy and after Tuesday the gain of the first two days of the week was lost before the close. Prices today are about steady with last Monday. Best steers here today brought $16.75, others $16.00, these being short fed steers from Kansas and the sales were call ed steady. Best steers here last week brought $17.60. Colorado and far western states are sending some good grass beef steers, which sell at $11 to $15, some weighty Wyoming steers today at S14.50, plain light grass steers from all sections selling at $9 to SIP. Cows lost more than steers last week and they are selling 15 to 25 lower today, good cows at $7.50 to $10.50, canners $5.25 to $6.CO. Kan sas City packers slaughtered 246,000 cattle in October, exceeding their pre- vious record made in September by 10000.
 Stockers and Feeders Steady.
 Stocker and feeder shipments to the country in October were 174,000 head, an increase of 44,000 over last October, and 14,000 more than in Sep tember this, year. Prices are holding up pretty good, though there were some cheap cattle sold late last week. Feeders bring $9.50 to $14.50, stock steers $7 to $12.50, stock calves $7.50 to $11.
 Strong Prices for Hogs.
 Outside buyers paid steady prices early with top of S18.25, but pack CTS held back at first, paying up to $18.10 on the early market. The market finally closed strong with packers top s1S.2O for heavy and me- dium weights and SIS for light weights, bulk of all sales SIPS to S18.10. Stock pigs sell at $15.50 to S17, few pigs weighing 130 lbs. around $17.25. According to the Food ruling the minimum of average prices any day in Novem- Der at Kansas City must be $17.10 or better, St. Joe and Omaha, $1700 or better.
 Sheep and Lambs Fluctuate.
 Fat stcckers and feeders advanced 50 cents to $1.00 last week, but the market is 25 to 50 lower today, one deck of native lambs in Chicago today s16. Fat ewes sell up to $9.50, most of the good western feeding lambs s12.75 to $13.50.
 J. A. RICKART,
 Market Correspondent.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
Enough for Her.

A woman who was for many years a housekeeper in the family of the late Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish founder of the Noble Prizes, was leaving to be married. Mir. Noble wished to reward her services and asked what she would like for we'd ding gift, saving that he would be glad to give her whatever she asked for. After consulting with her fiance the woman approached Mir. Noble and said she had decided what she wanted but doubted whether she would get it.
 "Go ahead" said the rich dynamite maker, I told you to ask for what ever you wished"
 Twill you give me your income for one day. then, Mir. Noble?"
 It took II men to figure it out, but the housekeeper received for we'd ding present the sum of $2S,000.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
\OLD|[R5' (ORh[R
 ITEMS OF INTEREST - ABOUT OUR BOYS OVER
 HERE AND "OVER THERE"
DOLPH TREAT MEETS
 FRIENDS IN FRANCE

The following letter from our old friend Dolph Treat to John Sheehan tells of an interesting leave of ab- sence with Bill Wilson and of meet ing Keith Warren:
 "Oct. l, 1918. DEAR JOHN:
 "I received your letter and was glad to get it. It has been quite a while since 1 wrote and 1 have been doing little of everything since then.
 Riding motorcycle for while, and now 1 am driving truck. have my troubles right along and it is pretty steady graft, but l like this better than any l have had so far.
 Bill Wilson and 1 had our seven day leave about week ago and we sure had fine time. Uncle Sam paid our room rent and chow bill in one of the finest hotels in France. The town we went to is called Ak la-Bains. It is on the border of Switzerland and we could see quite a bit of the Alps. The scenery was very pretty but could not beat some that have seen in the U. s.
 We had swell room and the best of everything in the hotel and that is saying something, as there were all classes of people stopping there from princes and dukes on up to buck pri- yates in the U. s. army. Bill, say, for the first two or three days we rattled around in there like a young mule in tin barn and I'll say it did seem kind of strange after ten months of camp life.
 We spent about six hundred francs in the time we were gone and didn't have half enough. am going to have a thousand or nothing the next time go.
 q am putting ten dollars in the Arizona Central every month now. l will need a little money when I get back to fix up my teeth and I don't think the Germans will last so many more moons the way things are going right now.
 q met fellow l used to know on the reservation, last week. His name is Keith Warren. He had trading post at Red Lake.
 "Well, it is getting about chow time, and I have to drive this after noon, so l will ring off. Thanks for the tab of paper.
 "As usual,
 'DOLPH. q will have the Stars and Stripes sent to you soon.
 "Wag. James A. Treat, "3rd A. A. Battery CO. A. C.) "A. E. F., France"
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
BRADSTREET TELLS
 OF WOOL SITUATION

Outside of the discussion of what may happen to the wool trade after the war is over, most interest at Bos- ton centered this week in an effort to secure some modification of the plan under which the clip of 1918 is being handled. Appointment of a representative committee to consider plans and make suggestions, which later may be submitted to the War Industries Board, was suggested. A reaffirmation of the statement that there will be no wool available for civilians, however, comes from Wash ington. It is not certain that this idea will meet with cordial recep- tion from the wool division, though Secretary Mcclure of the National Wool Growers Association says that his constituents will favor paying a reasonable commission to consignees, something that is admittedly not be- ing done in the handling of the pres ent clip. With the subsistence of the influenza epidemic, the various wool houses are able to forward their work of grading and shipping wool, and an increased movement is already noted. A tremedous quantity has been val ued during the week past, especially of foreign wool, which has been ar irving heavily of late. Recent cable grams from Buenos Aires report the arrival of the United States buying commission in that market, and they will shortly begin operations. Under the syndicate, whose operations are now terminated, 35,000 to 10000 bales of wool are estimated to have been bought for the government in the Buenos Aires market.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
Raising Cain.

A Chicago literary light was talk ing about Hall Gaines new knight hood.
 "It's astonishing" he said, "the way the English knight their literary third raters, and ignore their first Faters. Quiller Couch, Rider Hag- gard, Conan Doyle all got knighted while the Bernard Shaws, and Kip lings, and Wellses, have to get along as best they can without handles to their names"
 "In Hall Gaines ease, however," he added, it was for propaganda work, and not literary work that the knight hood was bestowed. As propagand- ist, they say Caine is able"
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
TEN THOUSAND 4
 MORE NURSES NEEDED

More than ten thousand addi- tional nurses will be needed for the Army Nurse Corps by January first and another twenty-five thousand nurses will be needed by June first.
 This is the information wired to the State Council of Defense by the Field Division of the Council of Ma tional Defense this morning. The impression that no more nurses are needed in military hospitals is abso- lutely wrong. Nurses are needed and needed badly and the government calls on the patriotic women of the nation to enroll in this worthy work which means to much to the soldiers and sailors of the nation and which has so great bearing on the win ming of the war.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
"Useful and NobIe," says General

Useful and Noble" says General.
 Useful and noble" are the terms General Debeney of the French army chose to describe the use of funds raised in the United States to contin- ue the moral-stiffening services of the seven agencies combined in the United States War Work campaign. General Mangin, whose name has be- come more familiar daily to Ameri- can readers as result of his successes on the western front, joins General Debeney in wishing great success for the raising of funds to extend this work which they are in the best posi- tion to appreciate.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
NOTICE TO STOCK MEN.

Pm off for the war and will sell you Smy station and stock range cheap. I have acres with water piped into 3 buildings and carral, store and stock of goods, kitchin and dining room, bunk house; also 40 fruit trees, some of them bearing; 20 square. miles of range only three miles from the Hassayampa, with running water the year round and no snow. Auto road and daily mail, except Sum- day; 12 miles north of Wickenburg in Yavapai county. A Paradise for a man with small means and who can stay at home, run the store and look out for the cattle.
 Come and see for yourself.
 LARRY SIGRED,
 Saver, Arizona, Yavapai County, via Wickinburg. Nov. 8-3m.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
CIemenceau Praises War Worker,

Clemenceau Praises War Workers.
 Thanks to the American welfare organizations for giving to the French army a substitute for home while in the field are conveyed in a letter by George Clemenceau, Premier of France, to Emmanuel Sautter, dierc- tor-general of the Foyers du Soldat. The Foyers are financed by the American Y. NJ. c. A., which furnishes also half of the workers. Mir. Clem- enceau expresses sincere hope for the success of the financial drive which the Y. M. c. A. is making in connec- ton with six other organizations in the United War Work campaign.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
Good Common Sense.

John Ratt, fullblooded Cherokee Indian of Cherokee county, Oklahoma, being drawn in the draft of selected men, was sent to Camp Travis, Tex, for training. After he had been in camp for several days, he was hailed before the adjutant for failing to sa- lute an officer, and gave the follow ing explanation for his default:
 "Me live at Yelling, Oklahoma. When me meet .nan there we speak to him one time. No speak any more to same man all day. Down here me salute everytime me pass man ?"- Chronicle, Spokane, Wash.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
Praises United War Work C.mpa

Praises United War Work Campaign.
 "One of the finest things done dur ing the war;, is the verdict pronounc- ed by Lloyd Harris, chairman of the Canadian War Mission on the war work of the Y. M. c. A., in a state ment urging support of the United War Work Campaign. Mir. Harris designated the one organization with which he was familiar of the group composed of the Y. M. c. A., Y. w. c. A., National Catholic War Coun- cil K. of C., War Camp Community Service. Jewish Welfare Board, Amer ican Library Association and Salva- tion Army.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
The Saving Grace.

Rudyard Kipling was spoofing a young woman who is married to a poet whom he counts as one of his best friends. f
 "And isn't is awful to be married to poet?s he chaffed.
 It has its disadvantages, I'll admit" retorted the lady, Out there's one thing about it, no one ac- cuses him of being a profiteer."
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08

About $50 head of the Berry, Peter son cattle were shipped last week from Navajo. John Eager, republi- can candidate for sheriff. looked after the loading of the cattle.-St. Johns Observer.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08

By this time next year if you want to get in communication with the kaiser you will have to page him at St. Helena.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
Appropriate Army Pets.

ApprOpriate Army Pets. For trench-diggers: moles. For engineers: cranes. For quartermasters: seals. For aviators: eagles. For submalne sailors: sharks. For men at listening-posts: ferrets. For General Pershing: the kaiser's goat.
The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08

It is reported from Amsterdam that the kaiser was so encouraged by the Republican victory in Maine that he is talking of resigning.. se
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26
PIGS PLENTIFUL IN GERMANY
Capture Of Roumanlan Corn Crop
Made Raising OF Porkers Possible
and May Prevent Famine.

Pigs is pigs, even in Germany. The
porker has saved the Teuton food
situation, according to a neutral
traveller recently out Of Germany
who arrived in America recently. Ac-
cording to him, the allied victories in
arms are coming just in time, for the
hope Of starving out Germany and
the German army is gone.
The capture Of the Roumanian
corn crop saved the German pig
herds, and the German pig herds in
creased and multiplied according to
their kind. Now every family has
a household pet or two, which will
be converted into bacon and pork
and all the other several hundred
things which German cooks make
out Of a pig.
This is the first direct word Of the
German food situation that has
reached this country since Ambassa-
dor Gerard left.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26
GOOD
ROADS
IMPORTANCE or WAGON ROAD
One Drawback to Fall Of Rain Is That
Roads Are Made impossible
for Several Days

But Tor one fact. all Of US could re-
joice IN this rnin. meaning rs much
ms u does to the growing crops. To
one drawback Is the unfortunate fact
that the rain will make the roads al
most impnssable for several days. But
the rain Is not TO blame for this state
Of affaIrs. We are. We ought 10 have
roads on which the only effect Of rain
would be TO wash them clean-Just as
Il does with the city pavements. And
It's not for the joy-riders alone that
we need such roads. says Wichita
Eagle. II we had good roads, farmers,
who can't work In their fields after a
rain. could do their hauling on such
days. Now the rain that prevents
working the fields prevents hauling to
market. except light loads, and at n
prohibitive cost. The wagon haul OF
agricultural products Is lnfinitesimal In
distance. rs compared with the rail
and water haul, yet II costs actually
mo-c. according 20 government sta
tistics. For the benefit OF the farmer
we need good roads.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26
MAINTAIN ROADS WITH DRAG
No Better or Cheaper Way Of Keeping
Highways in Good order Than
by Using Implement

Road dragging is so simple an under
taking. providing the road TO be drag
ged Is first graded. drained and shaped
properly, that a summary Of Its bene-
fits cannot be presented too often,
writes George II. Harrison In Farmers
Mail and Breeze. Anyone can make a
drag and even a hoy can keep n piece
Of road In good shape with the proper
Instruction AZ the beginning. A 10
inch or Pinch log between and o
rect long or two 3 by II planks with
2 by @ reinforcing strips Of the same
length. four Cross sticks, chain,
boards for the platform and metal
wearing strip are certainly procurable
anywhere.
The theory in road dragging which
has proved practicable for road i'm
provement is to smooth and shape up
the puddled earth of a road to Ill the
ruts and holes and force the water OF
the roadway. "Puddled" earth on a
road Is the wet earth which has been
worked up by traffic so that II Is dense
and when compacted will not let the
water seep away. II this compacting
IL done without any direction ruts and
holes appear and hold the water and
make bad road. But II the puddled
earth be spread smoothly over the sur
face Of the road with somewhat OF n
rounded effect It dries firm and hard
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26
FLOODS IN NORTH CHINA.

News from far-off Tientsin is that
the recent foods In north China
have wrought damage of over ST.
0O0,000,000. Streams have been
turned into rivers two miles wide
and in some places 100 feet deep,
while a densely populated area Of
over 10000 square miles has become
an immense lake reaching depth Of
from twenty to thirty feet. These
foundations il is feared will render
Tientsin icebound and uninhabitable
during the winter months, and it is
doubtful whether the authorities
will succeed in draining it of until
the end Of 1919.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26
JAPANESE TRANSLATE BIBLE.

Great interest has been created by
the announcement that the new
japanese translation of the Bible,
which has been in progress for seven
years by a committee Of eight learned
Christian scholars, representing four
sects Of Protestant Christianity, has
been almost finished, and shortly
will be sent TO press, says the Kansas
City Star. The translation work,
undertaken by the American Bible
society, wss started by a specially
formed committee in May, 1910. The
new translation is said to he written
in more colloquial Japanese than the
existing versions.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26

injured Horse Abandoned In STREET 10
Ole Cited by Writer - Present
Day illustration.

As car turned corner the pas
sengers could see a horse stretched
on the oobbles in the rigid abandon
ment Of death. writes Mamie Lam
caster in the Washington Star.
He was q common brown horse
that had worked out his youth and
strength and life, as those long ago
brown men who dragged the stones
to make Egypfs sphinx worked out
their youth and strength and life,
and then died and were forgotten, as
the horse would be forgotten az soon
a some boss has finished blaming
driver and sold the carcass TO who
ever buys dead horses.
\ The few passengers in the car con-
tributod an ejaculation or two, and q
man said to the woman with him:
There's the end Of one poor stii.'
I He said IL with offhand kindhnes
and with the fnslity Of one who
Knows humiliation when he sees II,
and yet
Balaam's ass earned eternal pas
turage in the Elysian felds-and-
TO change from Koran to Bible:
Did not he say that every laborer
is worthy Of his hire3
And as the horse on the cobbles
had labored with no return in this
world
Oh. well, what's the use! One
can only ask the same old question
that living humanity has always
asked Of the dead:
'Whither goest thou"
And answer there is none.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26
Ninth St. Christian Church.

Corner 9th and Liberty SITS.
EVERETT S. SMITH, Minister.
Bible School, $3.50 TO 1890.
Busy Mems Class, main auditorium.
Women's "
Org. Senior Glasses, private rooms.
Infts Junior Dept's, Main b. s.,
auditorium.
Church Services, l0:45-l2.
Prayer service.
Communion.
Preaching.
Gospel Invitation.
Christian Endeavor, $3.50.
Evening service, rs.
Mid-week meeting, 7:l5-S:15.
Choir rehearsal, Friday eve, 7:l5
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-01-26
Road Drag Hitch.

and the water, instead Of standing In
the road and making the holes deeper,
must run of to the side-Rnd the trav-
eler has good road.
The road dragger, or "drngman," as
he usually Is called, Is like n clay work
or when he shapes up the puddled
earth and smoOths the road. lie puts
the surface I'm condition and gets the
standing water of, and the roadbed
dries In that condition instead of hold
Ing the water and letting the traffic
work the ruts deeper. The dragman
could not shape this up with dust any
more than the clay worker could fash
ION his Image with dry dirt. But II he
gets out right after Il rain, while the
earth Is puddlcd. ne can work his road
and the traffic will help him, for the
water will be forced out and of the
surface. That Is why II Is so import
ant 20 drag when the roads are not too
the traffic is sufficient to cut up the
road after II is dragged, and this dis
ourages the man who does the drug
". But in that case he should fol-
b over the road and do II again II
~ Ssary and win the fight for a good
sea II he waits until the road Is
,aA cause the vehicles rut up his
~ - road he win simply plane on
raggso ce and not remove the trou'
he sufea drags a second or perhaps
lie. n he G he will work toward a
third. um impervious TO water and
ard surfhce. m OF dust, which Is the
18th a miniml well-dragged highway
violence. Of vehicles cut a road
erhaps, n the 'ng dragged, the driv
'nen 10 N nrst beA led 10 drive by thu
rs may be persuaN lie, while the road
de, II that Is feash freezing.
FIRST drying out on