Evening star., 1923-05-10

so-called great American desert
with no value whatever except as Il
range for wild buffalo and wilder
Indians Neither had the black hills
any commercial value. The gold thev
contained was unknown.
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When the Northern Pacific railroad
was projected by Jay Cook it was
understood that the Red River valley
! was always flooded for many miles
in the spring. because the river
flowed north and SO melted at its
southern source earlier tnan It Gid
at its mouth. Owing to that belief il
was supposed that the Red River val
| ley-now the richest wheat region in
the world-was worthless. The build
| ers OF the railroad contracted TOY
, miles of trestle to cross the f1oaded
valley, but later learned that the
trestle was unneeded, and litigation
/ with the contractors over the cancel
/ lations of the trestle contract occu-
! pied the courts until late in the nine
| ties
! \
| While the Dakota land now is valu-
able, at the time il passed into the
| possession Of the government il was
desert" A treaty with the Sioux
was made by Gen. Sherman in 1868
but it was not satisfactory To Chief
/, Sitting Bull, who was later captured
and held. In 1876 a force Of 100 men
! under Gen. Custer, was attacked hr
| 5000 Sioux and wiped out. in what i
known as the Custer massacre.
TlaS.s Isi
scendants - who are now claiming
pay-apparently at today's valuation
for millions Of acres Of land. VIII
! they get it?
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There is one rooster Of Winchester
Va, which has learned to mind his
peas, if not his q's He was 50 fond
/ Of peas that he dug up and swallowed
most OF what his landlady had plant
ed She captured him, and. like the
| farmers wife who turned on the three
| blind mice, she used a butcher knife
] on the rooster. opening his crop and
| recovering her pint Of peas which
! she planted again. Then she sewed
| up the crop and turned the rooster
| loose--a Sadder and a wiser bird. The
question as I" whose crop those peas
will finally enter remains to be seen
| tTrue story)
! 1t sometimes pays TO put your foot
in it, An osteopath is an invisible
, bacillus. according to regular prac-
titioners." but after practicing oste-
opathy in Washington twelve years.
! one of these "baciIli" actually treated
d sprained foot Aha He was ac-
! cused Of practicing podiatry withou.
a license This man might rub the
! spine and replace a dislocated meek
with impunitv as well as with os-
/ teopathy. But he had actually mas
saged a sprained foot
| The Court Of Appeals decides tina,
| podiatry is no more vital than other
manipulations Of bones and also tina,
| osteopathy is 4 recognized medical
/ practice. That's bitter pill for some
| to swallow.
| The man who knows that ne :
/ tolerating a barberry bush and makes
| no effort 10 eradicate it is as much
! of a violator of law and destroyer
| Of his neighbor's property as if he
committed incendiarism or poisoned
the well from which cattle drank. A
single barberry bush according IL
DR.. +. c. Stakman of the Department.
of Agriculture, Is known to have
caused damage to grain TO the amour;
| of s12.520, besides causing Other
| bushes to grow from Il. From this
| single bush stem rust was traced
| through eighteen farms. Il distance ur
| five miles, and covering IN damag,
| 963 acres. 1t cut The wheat yield IL
al average OF 81 bushels. where til.
| yield untouched by this infection ay-
eraged 21.4 bushels
| That bush might have been kille,.
| with ten pounds OF salt. or with az
| hours work with a grubb.ng hoe
! The fact that the damage field en-
! tends five miles is the answer to the
! question a. TO whether town people
! cannot keep their harberry bushes
! for ornamental use. SO far from grain
| fields. No. There is heavy fine for
| doing so and the law should be rigid
! ly enforced.
! tCopy-igh 1873. ry T. Y. Collirst