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LEASE AND SALE OF STATE LAND
Rules Governing, as Issued from Office
of State Commissioner Of Pub
lie Lands at Cheyenne.

For the benefit of many people who
are interested in the leasing or pur-
chase of state lands in Wyoming, the
following information on the subject,
as given out by A. Baker, state COM
missioner of public lands, is published !:
Leasing State and School Lands.
The state of Wyoming has approx
mately 100000 acres of land for lease,
scattered all over the state. Applica-
tions for lands already held under
lease will not be filed until so days
prior TO the date of he expiration of
the present lease, II will not be con-
sidered until the date of expiration.
Applications for vacant lands will be
considered in the order received. If
there is no conflicting application he
lease is granted by the commissioner,
hut conflicting applications are present
ed to the boards for their considera-
ton.
Term.-Leases are issued for a term
of five years subject to sale at the op-
ton of the boards.
Rental.-Rents shall be paid annual
Iy in advance. The minimum rental
is: Grazing land, &c per acre in the
counties in which the demand for
leases is not great; TIC and 10c in
others dry farm land, 12Hc per acre Z;
irrigable and natural hay land, 25c
per acre: but no lease shall be granted
for less rental than $500 per year.
Amount One Party Can Hold, Ac-
cording to LAVA party or corpora
ton is prohibited from leasing more
than 640 acres of school land, but can
also hold 1920 acres of land classified
as state land. Leases granted only for
lands which the state OWNS and not
for other lands which parties desire
TO designate and select.
Reservations-The state reserves the
right TO lease and dispose of all min
erals and timber within and upon leas-
ed lands. together with sufficient sur
face rights and right of way for o II
hucting the necessssy work for devel-
opment of minerals or the timber
tlCiton. II itdHt IL SubJttt y III
legally established rights of way and
rights of way which may be granted
from time to time.
Security.-A bond signed by two re-
sponsible parties is required.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS must
be purchased by the new lessee, either
by agreement with the owner or at
the valuation fixed by the boards.
Leases Assignable.-All leases are
~assignable.
PrefeIence.@The board e%ndeavors
TO grant the lease to the party who is
equitably entitled to it. and where it
will be to the best interest of the state.
The supreme court declares hat sec
tion 613, Wyoming Compiled Statutes
1910, is unconstitutional insofar as il
relates to school land consequently
the old lessee or his assignee has not
a preference right to renewal of the
lease on uch land. Section 615 gives
a preference right to the party who
resides o lands to which he owns
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The work of removing the old build
ings occupying the property on Bridge
street, recently purchased by Peck
Bros. for II garage site. was begun yes
terday. and within Il short time these
old landmarks Will be out of the way
TO make room for Il modern concrete
garage structure.
The new garage will be about rs feet
in width by 115 feet in length and the
construction work thereon will begin
as soon as the old frame buildings are
out of the way.
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Miss Elizabeth Hugus Married.

The Republican says: Cards were
received in Rawlins the first of the
week announcing the marriage of Miss
Elizabeth Hugus to Mr.. Louis L. Ma
son, Jr., of Modesto, Calf. The we'd
ding occurred at Modesto on June 24
and was solemnized i'll the Episcopal
church of that city.
Mrs. Mason is the eldest daughter of
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title. nearest the lands applied for,
such preference to extend to an area
equal to twice the area to which such
resident citizen holds title, not, how
ever, to exceed $40 acres of school land
or a total of 1850 acres of state and
school lands. The legislature of 1915
changed the law in regard to prefer
ence right under section 615, by add
ing this clause: provided, that such
preference right shall not be given as
against the application of the old lessee
who has made valuable improvements
upon The lands applied for or on lands
in the vicinity thereof, if the board
shall find that sue preference right
will work extreme financial hardship
upon such old lessee" This clause
does not give the old lessee the pref
erence right, and frequently one pref
matter of granting the lease is left
to the discretion of the board.
The attorney general holds that
title to a homestead which has not
been proved up on. is not such title as
will bring the party under the provi-
sions Of section 615.
Where neither party has a prefer
ence right to the lease, it is offered TO
the highest bidder, as provided for in
section 6O9, c. S. 1910.
Sale of State and School Lands.
All leases are issued subject to sale,
and the board may, at any time, direct
the sale of state and school lands in
such subdivisions as may appear to
be to the interest of the state.
How Sold.-No preference can be
given except to actual BONA fide set
tiers on state lands prior to the adop-
ton of h constitution of the state of
Wyoming. such settler shall have the
preference r>gnt to purchase the lands
whereon such settlement has been
made, not exceeding 100 acres, for a
sum not less than the appraised value
thereof; otherwise, the land shall be
disposed of only at public auction to
the highest bidder, after having been
duly appraised by the board, and shall
be sold at not less than three-fourths
of the appraised value thereof, and for
not less than $40 per acre.
Where Sold.-All sales of state lands
shall be@held at the &2o0r OF the cuurt
house of the county in which such land
is situated. and the sales must be adj
vertised for four consecutive weeks in
a newspaper in the said county, the
cost of advertising to be paid by the
purchaser.
Improvements.-Any improvements
ON the land must be purchased by the
purchaser of the lands, either by pri-
waite agreement with the owner or at
appraised value fixed under the author
ity of the state boards.
Terms of Payment.-Not less than
10 per cent of the purchase price, in
cash, on day of sale; h balance in
not to exceed IS equal annual pay
ments. with interest thereon at the rate
of 4 per cent per annum, and g per cent
per annum on all amounts not paid
when due. Payment may be made i'll
full at the time of sale or at IL time,
if interest is paid up to the date of the
next annual payment.
Mineral Rights Reserved.-A1l lands
are sold subject TO and reserving to
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spent some time visiting mere about
three years ago. During her stay here
she was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bible. and she made many
will wish her every happiness in her
marriage.
, 1919-07-03

Miss Blossom Sirois returned home
last Sunday from Santa Monica. Cal.
where she had beer attending school
for several months.
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Miss Dee billiard arrived here last
Sunday from California. where she
had resided the past year. She will
spend the summer here with her sister,
Mrs. w. p. Hays, and will be employed
in the Hays drug store.
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PLANT OF PIONEER.

OF "Hardpan Jake" from the head of
the lake,
With hair on his breast-that's me!
I've paved this earth since my day of
birth
With a spirit wild an free.
I've seen the West at it's worst an best,
I've rolled EN- wide an high,
But | lose my sand an Hay my hand
When S~aratogy's dry.
What would they do-that roarin' crew
Them wolves that | used to know,
If they'd hear the news that we can't
nave booze
In this land where the %jag-vines
grow?
Ireckon they'd shoot any dam galoot
That threatened to stop their rye
But they won't be here, my soul to
cheer,
When S~aratogy's dry!
Dig me a grave where tn willows wave,
At the rim of tn lonesome swamp,
Where tn lizards creep an tn tree
toads cheep
An tn tuneful bullfrogs romp.
Throw me an my jug that | used to lug
In tn hole an say "Goodbye"-
It's no place here for a pioneer
When Saratogy's dry!
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Continued on Page Four)
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-08-08
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, FA-
NOUS IMPRESARIO, DIES.
Continued from page 799
August 8, 1919.

ten years, at the same time relin-
gushing their holdings in the Phila-
delphia Opera House, receiving in
return sum said to have been
100000.
But Mr.. Hammerstein was un-
daunted by this failure which would
have crushed a less valiant soul.
Soon he announced that if America
did not want his opera he would let
England hear it, and that he would
build him a house in London in
which he would give performances
on the same pretentious scale that
echoed the name of the Manhattan
around the world. And having made
the promise he proceeded to carry
it out
In 1911 the beautiful London
Opera House in Kingsway, a short
walk from the Strand, was opened
with 81 Puritani" Again there was
no question as to the artistic worth
of the performances given; again
the resourceful Oscar presented the
newest operas and established new
singers. But London was apathetic,
and while the British public ex-
pressed an interest in the most en-
tertaining American visitor, that in
terest was not registered through
the box office After a wretched
season Mr.. Hammerstein withdrew
and came home, protesting his dis
like of all things British and his in
tense love of America Subsequent
ly he sold his interest in the Lon
don house, which has since become
the home of musical revues and
movies
Opera was now his ruling passion,
and scarcely had he landed before
he was planning chain of houses
to link together the large cities OF
the country. When this proved al
together impracticable he began agi-
tating the giving of opera in English
in new temple of art. The Metro
politan Directors were incredulous
at first, but when work was begun
on the Lexington Avenue Opera
House they gave the Century opera
in-English project their support and
began legal proceedings to restrain
Mr.. Hammerstein from starting OPP
era in any form, basing the suit on
their contract with him. 1t was the
adverse decisions of the first courts
in which the suit was tried and the
eo.u;c4;ox, tba nrnhah1u he would
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
Sick II Years Relieved BY
Taking No. 40 for the Bid

For II years | was troubled 4
dropsy and bad blood. | took eTI
kind of medicine that was rec
mended to me without benefit u
! got a bottle of Number 40, and
helped me so much that | sent |
got two more bottles, and since /
ing the second bottle, am feel
fine. ! wish TO recommend NUM-
40 to anyone needing blood nj
cine, as ! believe it is as good
recommended. Mrs. Jane Good1
Gideon. Mo-" Number 40 is dernaI
ed in depraved conditions of the 1
tenn, especially of the blood 4
general health. In chronic enlaI|
ment of the spleen or liver
chronic nalarial poisoning. Ren01
the causes of disease by stimul't1
the removal OF waste, thus encor,
ing nutrition. Employed with 4
cess in blood poisoning, chNI
rheumatism, catarrh, eczema 4
skin diseases. Made by ]. c. "
denhall, Evansville, Ind. 40 yean|
druggist.
Sold by McGrath Bros.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
JAY-WALkING.

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: The
proposal to abolish "iay-walking' in
New York City brings up an inter-
esting achievement in that line ac-
complished by a western city.
Davenport, Iowa, modestly an
nounces that it is the only city in
America, SO far, which has tackled
this reform and put it over.
The experience of Davenport is all
the more interesting because many
people are likely to consider 1T really
a "jay-town" to which "jay-walking
is Indigenous and excusable. Certain
ly the eastern metropolis, which has
about 5000, 900 people to Davenport's
$4,000, would SO consider 1t.
Nevertheless, Davenport has stop
ped careless pedestrians from cross
ing streets like cows or chickens or
cats, wherever and whenever Ii might
happen to strike their fancy, as they
did aforetime, as people still do in
almost every city in the United
States An ordinance was passed
forbidding the practice. The cross
walks were all painted, so that no
body could make any mistake about
the proper place to cut through the
stream OF vehicles. On the side
walk at every corner in the business
section was painted the adnonition,
Don't Be a Jay-Walker." The news
papers were filled with comment on
the subject until it soaked into the
public consciousness. Violators were
arrested and fined. And pretty soon
that whole town stopped the practice
and pedestrians became as orderly
and sensible in their movements as
automobiles and milk wagons.
There was a corresponding reduc-
ton in accident cases in Davenport,
as there has been in every commu.
nifty making a serious effort to regu.
late it's foot traffic.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
THEN AND NOW.

Golfers Weekly: Imagine family
living in 1880. There Is father, a
mother, two sons and daughter.
The parents each work twelve hours
n day, and the children each ten. In
a week the family has accomplished
374 hours OF work. Their recreation
consists in going to church, in occa-
sional walks, buggy rioes, or sleigh
ing, with sweethearting for the young
people on Saturday and Sunday
nights only All this costs practically
nothing. Here Is typical picture OF
today: In a similar Family the father
and the older son Fork forty-four
hour sa week, the mother forty-two
hours a week, the morner forty-two
daughter not at all. Their total
week.. output amounts to 100 hours
of work, or a little more than. a third
OF that of the 1880 family. Their
usual diversions are movie shows and
automobile trips, costing them week
ly the pay for about thirty-five hours
work. This leaves some ninety-fve
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
THE NEED OF OUR COUNTRY


The need of country not to lift marble the orteh
of Office building but to lift the level of char
acter; when the with the sails of commerce.
but TO develop those simple facilities and homey virtues
which are the chief defense of nations
When Tennyson wrote The Crossing of the Bar, Inc
did for civilization than if he had built oceanner
man of-war
Thomas Stevenson did much for England when he built
the lighthouses which send their radiance each night the
tossing waters of the channel But his
Robert Louis Stevenson because he taught how
kndlea light Within how keep the soul and stead
fast in the face of pain and death
When Mllet seized his brush and painted the "Angeus
the bit of that him three francs did
for labor and the aboring than if he had spade
and worked for fifty years in the fields of France
Not the men who add to quantity of materials but
the who deepen the quality of living the real
benefactors and educators of the world
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
UNDERPAiD MINISTERS.

Kansas City Times: The Rev.
Charles A. McAlpine, head of ma
tional Baptist church organization.
may not be serious when he says
that ministers who receive no more
than $500 year, which is the aver
age salary of Baptist clergymen,
ought to form a union and strike.
Probably he does not expect that
remedy for an admittedly bad condi-
ton to be applied, but does expect.
or hope, to rouse his church to a
realization of the injustice suffered
by a class of men SO circumstanced
as to be unable to help themselves,
The services demanded of pastor
are worth living salary, and
church that refuses to pay it prob
ably is not in very high spiritual
state. A congregation that really has
some notion OF why it Is congrega-
ton will not desire to be served
cheaply. It will realize that 1t is
necessary to attract men OF ability to
the secerdotal office, and that 1t will
not attract them unless 1t promises
the rewards which every self-respect-
ing man Demands proper living
for himself and his family, the means
and the leisure for study and some
prospect of independence for old age.
There are. Of course, highly paid
clergymen in every denomination,
and perhaps it is true in the minis
try as of other professions that the
able men go to the top and the wolf
gets the hindmost. But the applica-
ton of economic law ought not to be
so rigid in the church, because the
poorer communities need spiritual
guidance as much as the well-to-do
1t will not do to say that only highly
paid pnlpits shall be filled. and that
.hocks unable to be we'll served shall
go unshepherded. The smaller con
gregations ought to pay what they
can, and what is lacking to make up
a living salary ought to be paid by
the church at large. The blame OF
$500 ministers rests equally, 1t must
be said, on the individual congrega-
ton and the body of the church
itself 1t concerns both to act If the
ministry is to be recruited to the
strength it must have IL 1t is to con-
tinue to serve mankind.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
MooRE's PROSPECTS.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The with.
drawal of Chas. A. Rawson from the
field of candidates for the republican
nomination for governor. leaves a
somewhat clarified situation so far as
Ernest r. Moore's candidacy is con-
cerned. Mr. Moore is now lieutenant
governor and seeks the nomination for
the higher office, reward that he
has amply earned by clear-sighted, and
courageous administration in the
lower office. In Cedar Rapids we
may De somewhat partial to his candi-
dacy. but aside from personal consid-
erations those who know him and who
know the requirements OF the office
cannot come to any other conclusion
than that the man and the office
would fit each other admirably Mr..
Moore is business man who has also
been a hard-woking man. His record
from start to finish is good and
straight and white. There are no pre-
lenses about him and no political
caterings.
One cannot feel otherwise than that
Iowa is on the point of a new bust
ness development, not only on the
farms, but in the cities. The state
stands commended before all people az
one of sanity and of opportunity. Even
the manufacturing world IS looking to
states like Iowa to escape congestion
and the delirium OF the centers of
population in which workers have
been massed like animals, producing
all manner of mental and moral as
well as physical diseases. We believe
that in the next few years Iowa will
be invaded by greater industries than
this state has SO far enjoyed. To have
a business man in the governors chair
will from any and every viewpoint be
most desirable and in Ernest R. Moore
the state has such candidate be-
fore it
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
GIVE PRAIsE--0oN'T KNOCK.

Irish World: Encourage those
around you to believe in themselves
and in their power to achieve sue
cess. Show appreciation. Give praise.
Don't be "knocker." Sometimes a
kind word is a more welcome gift
than an aims to give. And kind
words are easy to give. Get the habit
of giving them. They are sweet.
They are welcome. They stimulate
to good will and to noble endeavor
For most persons an atmosphere
of disapproval, Of criticism, of dis
couragement to incentive and to self
respect, Is hard to bear. 1t is also
the cause OF many disaster to
character. through leading to the self
depreciation and to the Indifference
that makes effort seem useless. Those
who take US at generous valuation
inspire us to our best. Even IL what
we regard as our best may not be
much more than seeming, 1t never
theless draws from us recognition
of true worth. Furthermore, it plants
in the mind an ideal that may flower
into reality.
Many a weak character has been
made strong through being trusted
and loved. Many strong character
has been MANNED and enfeebled by
mistrust and disapproval my wife
makes me feel that | can really be
something" ! once heard man re-
mark. At the same time what he
called luck was running against him.
But 1t met powerful foe in those
two spirits, united by love and sus-
tanned with confidence. Now the man
is successful and vigorous. He has
become the power that his hopeful
wife made him feel that he was.
There has been an immense amount
Of power lost through the discour-
ayers of the world, physical, mental
and moral. On all sides one sees
them operating. Sometimes they are
inspired by unworthy motives, such
as envy and jealousy. Oftener they
are enslaved by the critical habit
SO common in our life and by the
spirit of conservatism that instinc-
lively recoils from enterprise.
1t is so much easier to find fault,
to ridicule and to dishearten than to
discriminate, to understand. and to
stimulate. The real helpers of the
fellow beings are few. The hinderers
are multitude.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
The Art Of Good Dressing.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: What
delight it is to find q woman who
Is SO perceptibly versed in the diff
cult fine art of dress that she makes
1t subtly enhance the flavor of her
personality and express her nature!
She knows the effects that are be-
coming without being spectacular.
She does not dress with the low mo-
tive of making other women en-
vious by the display of SO much prop
erty upon one person. She is not
trying to carry a fortune, as the snai.
carries its house, upon her back. She
has the innate adherence that re-
fined people feel for vulgar display
of any sort. Moreover, she Is deter
mined not to play into the hands of
some devious and willy arbiter of the
modes who is trying to foist upon her
what she does not need by making
her feel lonesome among women who
must have the last word in fashions
as in conversation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-30
TESTING SHEEP DOGS.

London Post: Sheep dogs are usual
" OF two cIasses-the collies variety
and the bobtailed type. On the hills
in the north Of England and Wales
the bobtail is fine performer, but
frequently one observes the most in
telIigent work done by dog which
can only be described as of collie an
cestry. The sheep dog trials, which
are highly spectacular affairs, are
little known in the south. Here and
there-at Tring show, for example
one may study the shepherd and his
four footed assistant. the wonderfully
varied style of working, and the man
ner in which the dog interprets the
whistled instructions of hts master
In the more exacting trials on the hill
the dog is required first to handle"
the sheep; that is to say, to bring
three or five f1eet-footed wethers from
a distance. say, of 800 yards. For per-
feet handling" thirty points are al
lowed. Then he would be required to
drive the sheep away through two
poles thirty yards apart; and, in the
third place, what is known as shed
ding" that is, separating two marked
sheep from the others--in which the
dogs are very skillful-may add an
other rs points to the 10 allowed for
perfect performance under the second
head.
The sheep dog trial is judged on
maximum Of 100 points. and is framed
upon the ordinary daily work Of the
dog. In addition to the tests already
alluded to a perfect performance in
penning sheep earns 10 points, and ac-
cording to canine proficiency in the
Handling" of single sheep yet an
other 10 points may be scored. There
is much in the training of a sheep dog,
and he is usually rough or gentle, willy
or clustering, as he has been trained.
Style. therefore, cannot be ignored,
and Is points may be given for the
manner of working. Naturally the slow
dog is at disadvantage, and no trial
must exceed fifteen minutes. The Park
trials introduce variations, such as
driving sheep round a flag-usually
three hill sheep-tlirough between
two hurdles, the space being about