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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-12-23

legislation passed by the House last
session took new angle last week,
and repeal meaure was passed ov-
erwheamingly to WINE out wartime
legislative powers conferred on GER
tain officials. A contest arose over
the Lever Amendment which gave
the Administration power to fix pri-
ces on fuel, food stuffs and other ne
cessities of life, measure which has
been invoked occasionally in the past.
Many members voted against except
ing this power and were for wiping
the entire law off the statute books.
This result was brought about by
fears of Government DEGREES against
organized labor and a feeling of
Southern members that price fixing
ON cotton might be attempted in the
future and they preferred to take
chances in the open market which will
be assured if the bill passes the Sen
ate and becomes a law in its present
form.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-12-23
Osen--Nelson

Mrs. Elizabeth Nelson and Mr. 0.
A. Osen, both of this city, were mar
ried at Saltwater Tuesday, Dec. Fl.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-12-23

Senator Kenyon made strong
speech in the Senate on the great
meat packer situation the other day
that covered about fifty pages OF the
Congressional Record. In his talk
based on sworn testimony before his
Senate Committee, Senator Kenyon
showed where the packers got in and
where the public gets off. No notice
appeared of it in the daily press al
though columns locally and daily were
devoted to diaries from two women
who show men because they were not
as good as they ought to have been.
The measure Of news value is one
nard to understand unless full page
advertisements of the packers in dali
" papers unconsciously influence the
news columns.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-12-23

ate and becomes a law in its present
form.
Senator Kendrick read a telegram
in the Senate last week that shows
what the farmer is up against. Sew
eral carloads of sheep numbering L.
986 sold to Chicago packer brought
$3,S7S. Freight, feed and war tax,
S2,804. Yardage, $3.50. Commission,
$24O. Incidentals, sci. Total ex-
pense, 1924. Net receipts. $653.45.
Five-sixths of the selling price went
for expense. Thousands of bushels
of apples have rotted on the ground
in Virginia and North Carolina this
fall because of inability to market at
a profit, and yet ordinary apples sell
on the Washington fruit stands at
"four for a quarter" Wisconsin 5
experience in potato marketing IS
known to everybody. Something is
fundamentally wrong when Western
farmer writes me he paid $3.50 per
bushel for flax seed last year and the
crop is now only worth $1.40 bushel.
With all due allowance for different
business conditions, the need for an
efficient, direct, honest marketing
system is apparent if we are to keep
men in the farming business. Apart
from large importations from Canada
and South American countries OF
grain and meat products another fac
tor enters into the problem with our
foreign trade due to the great differ
gnces in exchange. The English. pound
sterling normally worth $4.87 is now
around S3.45. The French franc, nor
mally worth 30 cents, is now about o
cents. The German mark, normally
worth "a cents, is now around 2 cents.
In other words, it takes about twelve
times as many German marks to buy
a bushel of wheat at the same rela-
tive price here, that it did before the
war and effects the demand for our
home products abroad. An emergen-
CIV tariff bill to cover certain agricul-
tural products has been proposed that
will be passed, if possible, without de-
low
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-12-23

The proposal to suspend wartime
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-12-23
Victor Weiss

Local Agent for The Elgin
advertisement.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
TEAM FACES HEAVY SCHEDULE

For the first time in the history of
the University of Washington football
practice has been called prior to the
opening of school, half hundred can
didates having answered the call and
if the spirit of the men means any
thing to a football team Coach Allison
should turn out team that the whole
west can be proud of when the purple
and gold play Dartmouth in the big
opening game of the Stadium on No
vember 9th.
Captain Ted Faulk was the first to
report to Coach Allison which looks
we'll for the star end who is entering
his last season. Faulk was the unani-
nous choice for All-Coast end last
year and is looked to place on one
of Camps mythical elevens this year.
"The spirit is good,' said Faulk
after the first practice. "The fellows
have confidence in Coach Allison and
his staff and you bet we mean bust
ness this year when the fellows quit
jobs two weeks before school and
come back to get in shape early"
Other old men who have reported
are, former Captain Erving Daily, Ray
Eckmann, Harold Glen, Bob Abel, Bill
Hyndman, Larry Smith, Ray Butler,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
"Zeke' Clarke, and Ed Porep.

'Zeke clarke, ana EQ fOrep.
Coach Allison will be assisted this
year by Loren Solan, former Mime
sofa captain, and Sanford Wick, who
was injured last year and will be I'M
able to play, on the varsity this year.
Heck" Edmundson, track coach, will
be trainer and Roscoe Torrance has
been appointed to assist Darwin
Meisnest, graduate manager, in the
managing.
Washington's schedule is probably
the best of any of the conference
teams in that Meisnest has not only
booked the best teams of the Pacific
Coast Conference but has secured a
game with the University of Montana
of the Rocky Mountain conference, and
is bringing the famous Dartmouth
team across the continent from Han
over, New Hampshire, to be Washing
tons first opponent in the new stadi-
UNI. The full schedule of games fol-
lows: October 8, Whitman College at
Seattle; October 16, University Of
Montana at Seattle; October %, Ore
gon Agricultural College at Seattle;
November 6, Stanford at Seattle; No
vember 10, University of Oregon at
Eugene, Oregon, and November q,
Dartmouth College at Seattle.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23

An old tree, standing in the upper
reaches of the Cedar river watershed
from which the city of Seattle gets its
water, was the means OF
bringing to the attention of Prof.
Edmund S. Meany, historian of
the University of Washington, the life
history of Thomas Pier Hastie, pio-
neer, Indian fighter, civil war veteran
and at present farmer on the Skagit
river near Mt. Vernon.
In the year 1856, when the Indians
from both sides of the Cascades had
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23

joined together in a last effort to drive
the white man from his holdings in
this wonderful state, Mr.. Hastie, with
A. Stark and II. Hill, was scouting
through those thick woods which made
such abundant cover for the lurking
foe and by way of diversion cut his
name and those of his fellow scouts in
a blaze at the mouth of Bear creek.
An engineer working up through that
heavy growth to inspect the watershed
for the city came on the carved names
and-engineer like-stored it away in
his mind only to bring it up again
when he ran across another engineer
of the same name, Thomas G. HASTE,
son of the man who carved the name.
Thus another incident of the kind
that lead to the remark about the
smallness of the world.
A Puget Sound Ark
A concrete road now runs from
Olympia to Seattle and on up into Sno-
homish county, but in the days when
HASTE first arrived on Puget Sound
the trip had to be made by canoe, as
there was not even a trial through
the woods between the two sections,
and when the Hastie family wanted to
move their cattle from the Columbia
river to WILDLY island, there was no
way for it but to build a scow and
float them down the Sound.
An Englishman by birth, and later
settler of Wisconsin, r. p. Hastie's
father came to the Sound country in
1853 after having come to this coast
some years earlier across the plains.
The first winter was spent at The
Dalles and the next spring the family
moved down the Columbia to Sauvies
island, where homestead was taken
up and a farm started. The climate
of the low river island was not found
suitable, so the new settlers took pass
age in the brig John S. Cabot, Capt.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
CANNERIES GET BERRIES;
CROP SHORT-PRICES HIGH

The Puyallup berry crop this year
will run from thirty to forty per cent
under normal due largely to the effect
of the severe winter on the berry vines
as many of the canes were frozen or
the tips nipped. Owing to the rail
way conditions, more of the berries
are finding their way into the Gamer
les than usual and the cannery prices
have been higher than usual which
may also have helped to bring in the
crop. Strawberries have run II cents
pound at the canneries, red raspber-
ries Is cents a pound, and blackberries
8 cents.
In an effort to increase the produc-
'tion of fruit in the section around the
cooperative cannery the management
is importing 10000 sour cherry trees
which will be sold to the growers at
cost, as well as large numbers of COOS
berry, currant and other berry bushes.
The pear crop in the valley is not sui.
ficient, for the cannery needs, a thou
sands tons of Bartletts having been
shipped in from the Yakima valley
last week.
The raspberry crop has been partic.
ularly hard to handle in the valley
this year, because the berries all rip
ened at once. There are three varie.
ties of berries grown in the valley and
ihey have usually ripened from two to
three weeks apart, spreading the sea.
son along and giving the cannerymen
a chance to work the crop up, but this
year-probably on account of the short
season-the berries all had to be han
died together.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
FREIGHT INCREASE
AFFECTS LUMBER
RAIL ORDERS CURTAILED
AND NORTHWEST MILLS
CLOSING FOR LACK OF
BUSINESS
Porkers Reach High Level, Gen.
eral Drop in Wholesale Prices
During August. Sugar to Drop.
Spuds Moderate.

With some mills already closed and
others preparing to curtail operations
as result of restricted markets result
ing from the freight rate increase eff
forts are being made to set as early
a date as possible for a lumber-rail-
road conference, it was announced last
week by the West Coast Lumbermen's
Association. For the week ending Sep
TENDER II only 1872 cars of new bust
ness were secured by the 1913 associa-
ton mills which was 1900 car loads
below normal. The production of lum-
Der for the same week was approx
mately 81 per cent below normal with
an actual output of 72,319,916 feet.
A shortage of hogs in the Seattle
and Chicago markets has boosted the
price to near the war time level, pork
on the hoof being quoted at $40.
Prime steers were quoted at Seattle
at 1915 to $1O25, and prime lambs
$1O.25 to $1O75.
A pronounced drop in the general
level in wholesale prices during An
gust has been reported by the depart
ment of labor, Washington, d. c..
measured in index numbers of the
bureaus statistics the decrease being
four and one-half per cent. Food
products showed the greatest reces
sion the decrease averaging more
than twelve per cent. Fuel and light
| ing materials and metals and house
hold furnishings showed an increase
over July.
England is still taking American
wheat and the price will fuctuate un
til it is known how much of the cror
she is going to need. The New York
sugar marget is dull with the whole
sale price at eleven cents, pointing tC
future drop in the local retail mar
ket
Frederick Benz, former potato king
of the Yakima reservation and now
agricultural agent for the Northern
Pacific, reports good potato crops in
the middle west and predicts mod
crate price for tubers this winter. The
early Gem crop in the Yakima valley
is now cleaned up and contracts are
being made for the late diggings, some
eastern contracts being reported at
$35 ton.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
THE AMERICAN DOUGHBOY
BEST SOLDIER ON EARTH

PARIS: THE American dOughboy
died of any army engaged in the great
war. There were some as good as he,
but none better
Thus spoke Gen. Marie Emile Fay
ollie of the French army, who used in
the counter-offensive against the Ger
mans alongside the French troops sew
en- American divisions. He was talking
before his departure for the United
States, where he is to represent the
French army at the convention of the
American Legion in Cleveland.
1.-The Americans were simply mag
nificent," he continued. "As matter
of fact some were brave to such an
extent that one might call it rash
ness"
Magnificent! Marvelous!' General
Fayolle kept repeating. Your SOL
diers were not only men as regards
failing good humor. But there was
one branch in which they were de-
ficient and it was one of the most i'm
portant.
"They could not cook, or they were
too busy fighting to bother about such
trifies as cooking"
The general will be accompanied to
the United States by Lieutenant Colo
mel Requin, a member of Marshal
Fochs mission to America, and also
Lieutenant Colonel Soubiran, his in
terpreter. This will be the general
first visit to the United States.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
WOMAN FAsTS FORTY DAYS

ROSEBURG, ORE: Mrs. j. NJ.
Lane of North Roseburg has COM
pleted 40-day fast, instituted on
her own accord for the cure OF
stomach trouble She has under
gone the fasting under direction OF
DR.. K. p. Bradford, and has taken
nothing except a small quantity OF
orange or lemon juice.
She experienced no i'll effects,
lost % pounds, and was not at any
time confined to her bed. On the
10th day she walked two blocks.
She ended the fast by taking lit
tie soup.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
GOAT BREEDERS
FORM ASSOCIATION
ORGANIZATION TO PROTECT
CHARACTER OF MUCH DE-
FAMED ANIMAL AND
PROMOTE IT'S USE
DR.. Greene, President Of Associa-
ton, Would Have Small Land
Owner Keep Dairy in His Own
Back Yard.

The mich goat as the truck garden
er's COW is the purpose of the North
west Goat Breeders Association which
was formed in Seattle recently with
DR.. l. B. Greene as president That
the character of the goat has been I'M
justly DETAINED is the belief of the
members of the association who say
that if the public in general comes to
understand the little animal and know
that its habits do not include living
on tin cans and communicating the
atmosphere more of them will be own
ed in the cities and on the one-half to
five acre home tracts.
The goat is one of the cleanest ami
mails known, according to DR.. Greene,
who has been raising them for num-
Der of years and now owns fifteen of
them Dr. Greene says that goats are
not only particular about the cleanli-
ness of what they eat, but that they
are practically immune from all man
ner of diseases particularly from tuber-
culosis. He has kept his goats in the
city and bought all of their feed for
$40 a month each which he believes
is very cheap in comparison to the
return of an average of four quarts
of milk a day.
The food value of goats milk is
higher than that of cows milk because
of the fineness of the fat globules
which are much more easily digested
than the heavier globules of cows
milk. That fineness makes it difficult
to churn the cream from goats milk
unless it has been separated with a
special separator. The percentage OF
butter fat in the goats milk is about
the same as in cows milk, DR.. Greene
says. but the amount of casein is
greater and makes better cheese.
Weight for weight DIR. Greene be-
lieves that the goat produces more
milk of better quality than the cow,
and that the time will soon come
when the goat will take the place of
the daily milk-man in many families.
Where there are children in the fami-
ly needing milk for food two goats will
supply all they need at an average
cost of less than five dollars a month
he believes, even when all of the feed
has to be purchased at feed store,
but where the family has an extra lot
and the goats can be allowed to pas
ture, or in the country run in field,
the cost would be much less.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
SOUND DA|RYMEN >
GROWING ALFALFA
SNOUALMIE FARMER CUTS
TWO CROPS AND PAS
TURES THIRD
Alfalfa Grows Well On Valley
Land; Does Not Need Re-seed-
ing; Flooding Does Not Injure
Crop.

Alfalfa, and will it grow on Puget
Sound, has perpleXed more farmers
and dairymen than probably any other
of the questions that arise in a days
valley, says it will, and by way of
proof brought fine shock of his prod
uct into Seattle a few days ago to show
the county agriculturalist, A. b. Nys-
from. The Puget Sound country has
been found to have the ideal dairy
climate And just as surely the mar
ket is here. But hay is high and
transportation charges from the east
side of the Cascades took jump on
the first of the month If alfalfa can
be grown here, several crops to The
season, it will help. Z
Mr. Sim has tried two varieties, the
common, or top root variety, and the
Grimm, or spreading root type. A
well-drained soil, a sandy loan with a
low water table he has found best for
his alfalfa fields. For three years be-
fore being seeded to alfalfa the fields
were used for corn, roots and potatoes
and had consequently been plentifully
MANFRED, and on this he cut two crops
for hay and fed the third for green
feed, getting from five to six tons to
the acre for the season.
Ground Well PREPARED
The plowing was done early in the
spring and narrowed three times be-
fore any seed was put in so that as
many of the weeds could be killed out
as possible About the first of May
it was narrowed for the third time
and prepared for seeding. He used
eighteen pounds of seed to the acre,
broadcasting it, and following the
seeder with a harrow. The seed had
been inoculated with alfalfa inocula-
ton, and was well rolled in after har-
rowing
During the first year Mr.. Sim cut
one crop and then rolled it again. Late
in the season he pastured his alfalfa
fields lightly. The second year he
narrowed the fields about the first of
April, and made his first cutting
June. He judges when to make hxss
first cutting by the shoots, going into
the field when they are from one-half
an inch to an inch long, and his sec
ond crop he cuts when the field is
about fifty percent in bloom.
Flooding Does Not Hurt
The Snoqualmie valley, like most of
the western Washington valleys, is apt
to overflow in the spring, but that has
not injured the alfalfa stand, even
when the water has stood in the fields
for weeks at a time. The fields con-
tinue to crop year after year with the
same regularity as do those east of the
Cascades. but Mr.. Sim believes it good
practice to pillow them up about once
in six or eight years and reseed. AL
falfa is being grown in other parts of
the state with success, one field being
in the White River valley and another
on WILDLY island.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23
CARVED INITIALS WHILE STALKING INDIANS;
PIONEER LEFT MARK ON CEDAR RlVEk
Thomas Pier HASTE, Skagit River Farmer, Secuted In
Cascades During Indian War Of 1855 and 1856

George Dryden, and came to WILDLY
island. where they started a new home
at PENIS Cove, about a mile north
of Juan de Fuca. The size of the ship
in which they came north can best be
Appropriated by the fact that the cap
tain took her through Deception Pass,
that rocky gorge that separates Wild
by island from the mainland and
through which the tide RACES like a
river.
Long Way From Home Folks
Hasties recollection of those first
years on the island is chiefly tinged
with the lonesomeness of the life. 1t
was two years after settling before
they had a letter from their friends
and relatives in Wisconsin, and social
life in the colony was, according to
HASTE, limited to say the least. Short
ly after reaching WILDLY island, young
Hastie was sent back to the Columbia
to get the family cattle and bring them
to the new domestic. Travelling by
canoe and on foot and stopping any
where he could get them to take him
in, he finally reached Astoria only to
find that the $50 his father had given
him to make the round trip had been
spent.
Like most boys, this did not daunt
him. and he went to work in a restau-
rant as being the nearest place to a
perpetual supply of food, and chance
to save something to get back on. The
next spring his father not having
heard from him, went to look him up,
and together they drove the cattle back
the long OK trail between the Column
bia and Puget Sound. Arriving at
Olympia, and not having any way to
get the stock down the Sound, they
came on to Seattle in canoe and
found a man building a scow, so they
agreed to help him finish it if he would
go with them to Olympia for the stock.
Inc Zip up HluoI nave Uecu very
slow and tedious, as they had to make
a landing every night and get the
cows and horses ashore and sheep to
pasture and then reload them again
in the morning. HASTE says that the
cattle became so used to the perform
ance they would go on and off with
out any trouble and hardly any guild
ance. His father sewed their four
blankets together and used them for
sail when there was a fair wind, but
that did not please the younger man,
as they were cumbersome to sleep in
at night
Two years after reaching the Sound,
when HASTE was twenty years old,
the Indians started on their famous
war party and he Immediately enlist
ed in Company l, First regiment of
Washington Territory volunteers. The
company was sent up to the head of
Ebey slough, where they built Ebey
fort, but did not do much else, as no
Indians showed up, SO after three
months service HASTE took advantage
of the opportunity to get his discharge
at Port Townsend and Immediately
Joined Company G of the second regi-
ment under Capt Daniel Smalley.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-23

A good mess of sweet corn puts the
whole family on it's ear.