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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

feet of timber located on lands hereto
fore included in the grant to the Ore
gon & California Railroad Co.
The timber will be sold at the land
office at Roseberg, Greg, to the high
est bidder, after advertisement has
been made. These and other lands
were granted to the Southern Pacific
Roalroad Co. to aid in railroad con-
struction, upon the condition that they
should be sold to actual settlers in
160-acre tracts at $3.50 an acre.
On account of failure to comply with
this condition the grant was forfeited
as to large area of the lands. After
the timber has been cut and removed,
lands that are available for agricul-
ture will be disposed of under the
homestead laws, mineral lands under
the mining laws, etc.,-Official Bulle-
tin.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
What Shall We Do With Our Garbage?
Is Question Being Asked BY Citizens

a good thing to keep the streets clean,
but it is far more important from the
standpoint of sanitation and as an as
set to the city to have the garbage
properly taken care of regularly. 1t
would not be an expensive proposition
for the city either. The move of the
city government in ordering the stop
ping of garbage collection to devote
more attention to street cleaning is
like neglecting to keep the body clean
while fiecking the dust off the outer
clothing. 1t is highly important that
the city cooperate with the citizenship
IN assuring first class sanitation. 1t is
not satisfactory solution of garbage
disposal to expect each household to
burn or bury or. otherwise dispose of
the garbage. Such solution is wor-
thy only of a one-horse village gov
eminent a generation behind the
times. Garbage disposal is munich
pal work. The present city govern
ment, in its recent action, has neglect
cd to do its duty in endeavoring to
keep Tarpon Springs in the forefront
as clean city. A backward step has
been taken at a time when it is i'm
portant that every effort be made to
be most progressive in order that the
city may attract and hold people
drawn here by judicious advertising.
What is the use of advertising the at
Effectiveness of the city and then fail
ing to do ali possible to make and
keep it clean and healthy?
Yours, ETC.,
A. CRADLE.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

Several of the prominent citizens
of Tarpon Springs have complained
to The Evening Leader about the tax
ing off of the garbage wagon and have
asked us what they were supposed to
do with their garbage.
We have frankly told them that we
didn't know; that this was a matter
entirely in the hands of Messrs. Dur
rance, West and Noblit.
The Leader was urged to call pub
lie attention to the ineficiency of the
city's administration, to which we re-
piled that this was so well known it
was not news and that it would do no
good. However, we suggested that
the stencil from the garbage may soon
call added attention to this established
fact.
Mr.. A. CRADLES wrath has boiled
over and he brought the following let
ter to The Leader Saturday and asked
us to publish it:
To The Leader:
l understand that the mayor and
city council have ordered the discon-
tinuance of the collection of garbage
because the city is said to be short of
funds. I asked what we are to do with
our garbage and was informed that
we could burn it or bury it or other
wise dispose of it. Heretofore, the
street commissioner has collected the
garbage about once week, but the
city government ordered him to dis
continue this highly important work
that he might devote more time to
cleaning the streets. Of course, it is
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
VOL 6. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
THOSE AND THESE


in their profession; and they are
crowned with a gladly given crown of
honor by the big daily men who know
that without them the course of met
ropolitan journalism would be not
smooth.
"These men who were hosts of the
press gang at the breakfast last night
are to the business world of Tampa
what the editors are to the newspa-
per ranks of the state. They are the
representatives of success, of conf
dence, of esteem, of love, and of fair
play. Composed Of a membership pick
ing the best from every business,
trade or profession, Rotary adopts
them into it's house and teaches them
the ideals of life through the one word
SERVICE.
ut is an honorable body of men;
it is a body of men whom the world
looks in the face and meets an I'M
ililC4lIilS gaze uCCcISS CllC oOUl VI HOllN
or is in them, and it looks out from
eyes as fairly turned to meet yours as
the sunfiower bends her gaze to her
god in the skies.
"The combination is a happy one.
Men of two great sections of the
world, the country and the town, come
into close contact and in harmonious
tune with the great principles that
go to make enlightened man king
among his fellows, and master over
all the earth.
"The 1918 press breakfast will long
be remembered in Tampa; and we
trust its memory throughout the state
will be one that will follow like the
scent of roses meeting you after years
covered the face of her from whom it
was waited"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

The above is the caption of an edi-
torial appearing in the Tampa Trib-
une Sunday morning and has to do
with the breakfast on Saturday night
given by the Tampa Rotary club to
the editors of Florida. Fully five
hundred men enjoyed this affair and
those present will never forget it. We
have not the time nor space to de-
scribe it but we enjoyed every minute.
1t was our pleasure to take as our
guest Mr.. j. S. McCarrens of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, who is stay
ing at the Tarpon Inn. Mr.. McCarrens
was most agreeably surprised that
Florida possessed such hotels as the
Tampa Bay and he thoroughly enjoyed
the affair.
The editorial from the Tribune fol-
lows:
"Those men representatives of the
lOTlud press WIZ WSIS UuI SuCoto
last night are named among the best
of the brain and talent and judgment
in the journalistic field of the state.
Fey play days they have; for getting
out a paper is not all. Maintaining
a paper is business proposition that
takes a man to head it. Few weekly
papers or small daily papers have an
editorial and a separate business man
agement. The men who have made
the Florida weekly shine in the galaxy
of papers in the South are 'eombina-
ton men; men who go out and hustle
for an advertisement, write it, set it
up, write the story of John Smiths
son getting married, and then pen an
editorial breathing the fervent patriot
ism of a true American man of
thought and judgment. They are kings
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

year will hold it a year, and so on I'M
til the school making the most points
in the next three years will be the
proud possessor of the cup.
Twelve schools competed in this con-
test, namely: Leesburg, Inverness,
Dade City, Eustis, Dunellon, Webster,
Tavares, Brooksville, Tarpon Springs,
Clearwater, st. Petersburg and Ocala.
Winners of the various contests
were as follows:
Literary Contests
Ready writing-Inverness, William
Miller.
Spelling-Inverness, Pearle Quinn
Perfect score out of one hundred and
fifty words).
Boys observation-disclosures, Down
ing Etheridge.
Girls defamation Clearwater,
Ferroll Moore.
Vocal quartet-Dade City, four
girls.
Vocal solo-Dade City, Lucille Fra
zee (new entry this year and very
popular).
Piano solo-st. Petersburg, Wilma
Kaiss.
Field and Track Events.
Pole vault-Eustis, Alger, 9 feet 8
inches.
100-yard dash-Hernando, Hope, Ii
seconds.
22O-yard dash Inverness, Hicks.
440-yard -Brooksville, Hope.
Broad jump Brooksville, Law, 10
feet 10 inches.
Shot put-Inverness, schofeld. 50
feet 9 inches.
Relay run--Inverness, Council. SEQ
field, Brice, Hicks.
Hurdles-Inverness, Cornell.
Half mile run Brooksville, Hope
High p-Brooksville, Law.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
R. {. OLDs MAY SOLVE PROBLEM OF
CLEARING FLOR|DAS VAST ACREAGE
Building Machine to Clear and Puverize Land in Strips 100
Feet Wide at Rate of One-anda-Haf Miles an Hour
Pulls Stumps Like Bushes--Wil Solve the Food Problem

Oldsmar, March 4.-Mr. R. E. Odds,
the famous Michigan manufacturer of
the REQ autos and trucks, while in
Oldsmar Saturday, made an announce
ment which is of great importance to
Florida and the entire United States.
Mr.. Odds thinks the world is threat
ened with famine on account of the
big war. In an interview he said:
II am bending my efforts just now
toward perfecting heavy machine
and equipment for clearing land quick
ly on an extensive scale. In general
way the machine will be somewhat
like a gigantic tank, moving along at
the rate. of about one and one-haf
miles an hour, making a sweep about
one hundred feet wide, picking out the
big stumps as though they were bush
es and piling them up in great wind
rows ready to be burned. These stunps
will furnish ashes and potash for the
land and help to put it in good shape.
Following this will be machine
recently invented and patented to pick
up about twelve inches of top soil, Ell
evate it, screen it free from small
roots, sift the earth and drop it in
proper shape ready for planting a
crop. Following this separating ma
chine will be a trailer and all Of the
small roots will be elevated into this
receptacle which will dump them at
the end of the field, leaving the land
in perfect condition for truck farming.
"The first machine built, on which
we are now working, will be built at
Oldsmar, where the climate allows one
to use such equipment twelve months
An the year, affording a very satisfs
tory coAdition in which e. perfect The
machine in actual use. When this is
done, company will be organized to
produce this heavy equipment in such
quantities as the demand will require.
1t is our purpose to put up plant at
Oldsmar for the manufacture of this
machine just as soon as the expert
mental tests have enabled us to i'm
prove it to the limit of our ability in
all of its details. I have been work.
ing on the machine for a number of
months, assisted by staff of some of
the best expert mechanics in the coun-
try. We have reason to believe this
new invention will greatly reduce the
cost of clearing land and enable us to
make great progress in speeding up
the crops.
81 am doing all in my power to get
our 37,00 acres of land around Odds
mar under cultivation as soon as pos
s1ble, in order to do my bit. can
see no reason why Florida should fail
to be the garden spot of the future. It
has the climate to produce three or
more crops year on plenty of good
land, and Florida should be able to
yield food enough to supply many of
the northern states as well as some of
the foreign countries and thus help
to win the war.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

Il have spent seven winters in Cal
ifornia, and have been coming to Flor
ida for the last eighteen years. Flori-
da is my choice on account of the eli
mate, because l thoroughly enjoy the
balmy nights which are cool enough
to enable one to sleep comfortably but
do not necessitate an overcoat the
minute the sun goes out of sight. Be
sides, Florida is conveniently located
as regards the great cities of the
east
II have been wonderfully surprised
and pleased by our agricultural re-
suits already attained at Oldsmar. We
have found that one crop practically
pays the price we have asked for the
land and the clearing of it on our own
demonstration farm. The Reolds
Farms company, at Oldsmar, is doing
much to assist and guide the men who
are buying land from us, aiding them
to get started right under the new
conditions to which they are not ac-
customed.
II thoroughly believe in Florida also
as state in which to locate manufac-
turing propositions. 1t is near enough
to the coal and iron of Alabama and
Tennessee. If the REQ Auto factory
had been located here, | believe we
would have saved many hundred
thousand dollars. In the item of heat
ing the plant, it has cost US from $780,
900 to $4,000 year, practically all of
which could have been saved in the
South, to say nothing of the great
saving in coal to the workmen in heat
ing their homes.
"The cost of building is much low
|er in Florida where deep foundations
are not required to protect against the
effects of frost in the ground. One
has to construct warmer buildings in.
the North and provide against storms
and extremes of heat and cold which
are absent in Florida. The costs of
the heating equipment and mainten-
ance are also lower here.
81 believe the greatest work man
can do today is to plan into the future
and help the world to produce all of
the food we can. The old days have
passed when the majority of people
had gardens and chickens to supply
their own tables. Someone else must
produce the fruits of the land on a
large scale in order to keep the world
alive. The real way to reduce the high
cost of living is to produce crops in
great quantities in a land of sunshine
and length of season where one can
raise several crops year, to say moth
ing of the advantages to the laboring
man by living in beautiful sunshine as
against the snow and ice of the north
| have been surprised to see the num-
Der of farmers who have discovered
the many advantages of Florida, and
the steady influx of some of the best
people from other states proves that
Florida's wonderful climate is being
appreciated"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
TARPON SPRINGS AWARDED FIRST
PRIZE At THE JACKSONVILLE FAIR

The following telegram was received
this morning from Mr.. j. C. Beekman
who is in charge of the Tarpo1
Springs exhibit at the state fair il
Jacksonville:
Jacksonville, Fla, Mich 4.
The Evening Leader,
TarpOn Springs, Fla.
Tarpon Springs Board of Trade
exhibit of spOnges in Building of
Varied Industries of State, award
ed first prize on Florida spOnges
on Saturday.
J. c. BEEKMAN.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

Mr.. Charles Cass, of Paramount, ILL.,,
left last night for his Northern home.
He has been much benefited by his g.
weeks stay in Tarpon Springs and
expects to return next winter with his
wife.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
Timber on Oregon
Lands Ordered Sold
at Public Auction

A step which will lead to the devel-
opment of lands in western Oregon,
heretofore held out Of use, was taken
when Secretary of the Interior Lane
ordered the sale of nearly 100000
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
WILL HEAR SOUTHERN PINE ASSO-
CATION MARCH IL

Washington, March 4.-Chairman of
the Senate Committee Duncan U.
Fletcher, has set March IL as the date
of hearing representatives of the
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
Moorehaven to Have Large
Canning Plant in Near Future

has seen much of his produce go to
waste due to bad market conditions,
poor shipping facilities and other
causes.-Hastings Herald.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. No. So
--LATEST ASSOCIATED PRESS D|sPAICHEs|
CALL TO-DAY FOR 10000 MA
CHINISTS, ETC.

Washington, March "A call was
issued today for ten thousand machin-
lists, mechanics, chauffeurs and other
skilled workmen which are needed at
once by the aviation section of the sig
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

Southern Pine association regarding
the supplying of timber for wooden
ship building program.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
PART OF AMERICAN PATROL
CAPTURED

which went out when the raid began
and haven't been heard from since.
The enemy obtained no prisoners from
the American trenches.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

nal corps. 1t was also stated that adj
ditional increments must be obtained
from the same classes in the near fu-
ture.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

With the American Army in France,
Saturday.-The Americans whom the
Germans claim they have captured on
Chemin des Danes probably were the
larger part of patrol of thirteen men
ASSOCIATED Press Disratche!
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04
ALLAND ISLAND OCCUPIED BY
GERMANS SATURDAY

Christiana, March 4.-Alland island
was occupied at noon Saturday by the
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

ASSOCIATED Pres. Dispatches continued on page two>
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-03-04

All the local, county, and state
news-that is news-while it is
news. Boosting Tarpon Springs.
Wide-awake, Truthful Unafraid
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
JAIL HERE HAS 2.:OO
 GALLONS OF LIQUORS

About 2.58O gallons of intoxicat- ing liquor. seized at different times by the authorities here. are held in the Anchorage headquarters of the Uni ted States Marshal. awaiting instruc- tions from federal officials at Wash ington city Of the 2.50O gallons about 400 gallons are in barrels and kegs and the remainder is in cases, which number about 88O.
 None of the liquor will he destroy ed or disposed of until final word is received from the Washington offic- ials, according to letter received from United States Marshal F. R. Brenneman at Valdez by Deputy Mar shal Clarence H. Mossman.
 The United States Marshal's office at Valdez wrote to the war depart ment asking for instructions regard ing the disposal of the liquor.
 It is expected that the war depart ment will issue orders to ship the liquor to the States where the alco- hol vii be extracted from it for use in the hospitals in the war ZOne.-An- chorage Times.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
POPULATION OF 900
 CLAIMED BY NOME

Conservative estimates place the population of Nome at the present time as between 800 and 300. says the Nome Nugget. According to the report of the customs house officials. the number of people that arrived in Nome during the season last summer was 787. The number departing dur ing the same period according to the report was 1,343, to which must be added eight more. who were taken aboard the Umatilla after the report was made up. making the total num- Der of departures 1881.
 Taking the difference between the arrivals and departures 1t appears that the population now is about 500 less than last year.
 It must be remembered. however, that not all of the departures as in- cluded in the customs house figures were from Nome. Many old timers of the Candle, Council and other dis tricts who had not been outside for years, are included in the list. AS no figures are available it Is impossible to more than estimate the number of outside district residents who deport- ed but it is thought that they number close to 200, leaving the excess of Nome departures over arrivals at ap- proximately 800.
 AS the population of the camp last winter was estimated as being be- tween HOO and 1900. the deduction of 300 from the minimum number leaves . balance of 800 as the pres ent population.
 It is probable. however. that the actual population is closer to 300 q pany persons have arrived in Nome from interior points to. take up per manent residence there.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
MARSHALL AT TALKEETNA
 HAS RESIGNED OFFICE

The office of the United States mar ,;hal at Knik has been discontinued and Deputy Marshal Harry R. Brown, who has been stationed there has been transferred to Talkeetna. according to Deputy Marshal Clarence H. Moss man. of Anchorage.
 Deputy Marshal M. J. Healy. who has been the deputy in charge of the Talkeetna office. has resigned.
 Deputy Marshal Brown has been located at knik for several years. De- puty United States Marshal A. F. Hoff- man. with headquarters at Matanus- ka. late yesterday brought Gown na- tive named Negafil from Knik. who was convicted of the charge of va- grancy and sentenced to serve 120 days in the Anchorage jail.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
COLD WEATHER CAUSES
 EPIDEMIC OF PNEUMONIA

DAWSON. Y. T.. Jan. 11.--Con- tinued cold weather for the month during which the thermometer has ranged between fifty and sixty degrees below zero, has resulted in a fatal epidemic of pneumonia. colds and whooping cough. Eighteen persons have died during the cold spell. but no funerals have been held, as nc graves can be dug until the weather moderates. The hospitals are filled with patients.
 Among the dead are Peter Brochu a pioneer of Caribou; John Nicholl the noted mining promoter. and Geo Henley, former librarian of the city of Dawson.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
CZECH REPUBLIC
 BEEN FORMED
Austria, Alarmed at Demand of Small States on Southern Frontier,
 Doubles Garrison

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1.-The Czech leaders of Silesia and Moravia met at Prague today and adopted set of resolutions demanding that a Czech republic be formed. according to re- ports received here today.
 The Austrian government has be- come greatly alarmed at the growth of republican sentiment in her south ern provinces and has doubled the garrison at Prague.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
CORK STOPPER VALUABLE

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1.-The hum- ble cork bottle stopper has risen to high honor in Germany. Heads have been broken in restaurants over the question of who owns the cork, the proprietor, the head waiter or the customer who orders the bottle of wine. The magisterial verdict has been returned that while the head waiter has . right to the cork by tradition and custom, he must not disobey his master. the proprietor. should the lat ter demand 1t. being handed over to him. The customer, it appears. has no claim at all. High prices are being paid for corks, especially for those of champaign bottles.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
D(Ni FISH WILL NOT SELL;
 GREYFFSH IS POPULAR

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. H. Quality and price of new fish foods put on the market through the assis- tance of the department of commerce must conform to standards set up by the government or the producers will not reap the benefit of the official rec ommendation of such foods.
 Secretary Medfield said today that an official label recommended by the bureau of fisheries" was being pro vided for all new fish products which
 meet the government requirements. Two manufacturers recently were de- barred from use of the label. one be- cause he attempted to take advantage of the growing demand for the new foods to profteer by increasing prices. and the other because he allowed the quality of his product to deteriorate.
 Secretary Redfeld recalled that to-
 matoes once were sentimentally
 known as Hove apples" but were re-
 garded as poisonous and used only
 for decorative purposes. What has been accomplished with tomatoes. he expects to be accomplished with gray fish, alias dog fish. of which 10,00o.- 900 cans have been sold since the name was changed. Menhaden. eula- chon, shark and whale also are eaten in increasing quantities. On the Pa cific coast. especially. whale meat Is meeting with high favor.
 Leather shortages are being miti--
 gated by the use of fish skins. sam ples on which have been put on ex- hibition in the secretary's office. A soft, pliable leather. suitable for shoe uppers or heavy gloves. was made from the intestine of . whale. Tho skin of . porpoise produced fine grain, thick leather; shark skin was tanned into . coarse. tough leather for mechanical purposes and the gray ash produced acceptable leather for book binding.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
ASKS TROOPS
 BE SENT QUICKLY
peal for Dispatch of American Troops Quickly

LONDON, Jan. H. Lord Church ill, British minister of munitions. ad- dressing the American Club today at a luncheon, made an eloquent and powerful appeal for immediate dis patch of American troops in as large numbers as possible to Europe quick ly. He stated that the allies need for more men was imperative. and that victory depended upon the number of men which could take the field in the spring.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-11
MOTORMAN IS ARRESTED

' PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 11.-H. H. I.ingler. motorman of the Knoxville street car that ran away in the South Hills tunnel late Monday and was wrecked with the death of twenty persons and the injury of eighty-two others. was placed under arrest this afternoon on a charge of manslaught- CT. The action was taken as the result of an exhaustive investigation of the accident.