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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31

other" retorted Selwood. but you've
picked the expensive-way. I was will
Ing to let you keep part Of your steal
ings-now-yOu and BartOe hand out
the six hundred dollars you robbed
this lad Of at monte"
Men crowded up. Selwood knew
every one of them He knew about
what each represented in the way Of
danger. But he abated nothing what
ever Of his aggressive insistence. At
kins, sullen and evasive, denying and
threatening by turns. was for stand
Ing pat, as he had often done before.
Bartoe, with better judgment, realized
the man they had to deal with. Sell
wood gave little heed to the war of
words kindled by his arbitrary atti-
tude-the only sort Of an effective
one with the ruffians he was facing.
When Atkins had wearied himself
with brave words. Bartoe, encouraged
by SelwOod's silence, interviewed more
boldly himself. Selwood put up his
hand to check BOTH
Atkins" he said, without raising
his voice, "this isn't the only score
I've got to settle with you, but I'll
settle this now. You robbed this fell
low; you're going to pay him back
every dollar you took. Now I'm done
with you for the present-shut up.
Bartoe"-he turned on the accomplish
eff the six hundred isn't up on
my table by eleven o'clock tonight,
I'll close this joint in the morning
and run you out of town-Or, what's
just as good, I'll give you chance
to run me out. Just get together your
friends-no. don't talk back. You've
said 1t all. Starbuck? Why, yes, call
in Starbuck. by all means" Selwood
hardly took the trouble to laugh at
the threats flung at him. "Yes, know
that, too. Just as much a gambler
as you are? Welt" Selwood caught
his breath in pleasant acknowledge
ment. Il hope" he said for the
honor Of a dishonorable profession
that l am more Of one. Anyway, If
you want a real game in the morn
ing. with Starbuck for an opener, you
know now just exactly how to get it."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31
THE STORY

CHAPTER I.-At Sleepy Cat Doctor
Carpy tells Wentworth, freighting boss,
of a shooting scrape in Bartoe's gam
bling den, in which John SelwQod,
partner, Dave Tracy, shows remarkable
skill and nerve.
Selwood, now Wentworth's representa-
tive at Sleepy Cat, driving his buck
board, comes upon a settler whose
wagon has mired in a creek. He helps
get the outfit clear, after picking up a
girls shoe and seen and been attracted
by the supposed owner thereof in Fly
ler's (the settler's) wagon. Moses Nc
Cracker, youth, is robbed of $500
In a Sleepy Cat gambling den. His
mother tells McAlpin, Selwood's barn
boss.
Continued from last week)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31

Farmers Wife (after exhibiting an
incubator to young woman boarder)
This is the very best make there is.
Young Woman Boarder-Quite in
the hen sit?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31
What Swings the Balance?


Looking into the face of a hard
ened bootlegger, it is almost impos-
sible to imagine that at one time he
was an innocent child, pure of mind
and loving of heart. Alas, that there
should come to any boy or girl such
disastrous transformation! The very
thought strikes terror to the lovers
of little children. Yet every parent
who knows the ways Of the world and
has watched the course of human
lives, realizes that this process of
degradation is taking place continu-
ally.
In understanding analysis of
certain experiences and observations,
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, in an
article entitled, First Impressions"
in the current number of Good House.
keeping, endeavors to account for
these tragic metamorphoses. Taking
the well known fact in psychology
that talents, special gifts and criminal
instincts are not fixed by heredity but
| are produced often by the combination
! of character elements or behavior
patterns" formed in the earliest years
of life while the infant is getting his
first impressions of the outer world,
she draws this conclusions:
Experience with a yearly average
of over $4,000 defendants who seek
to avoid their taxes or to enter the
bootleggers' ranks has led me to be-
lieve that inattention to impressions of
early years is the cause of crimes
too seldom faced by the government
or by parents" Defving into the life
histories of these criminals, she finds
that a startling number were in in
fancy spoiled children, the offspring
of parents who reasoned after this
fashion, at doesn't hurt children to
be spoiled little bit. The world will
be hard enough later, so / want my
children to have few years of in
diligence"
Not learning self-control in their
earliest years, they never acquired it,
but continued increasingly to indulge
their own desires, to do as they
pleased regardless of society. Having
never been trained in the Impressions
able years to decide questions of right
or wrong for themselves, they went
into maturity unprepared to meet the
crucial hours when decisions had to
be made. In the words of Mrs. Will
lebrandt," cat the thinnest spot of our
conscious personalities, when we fall
ter between the crooked, foolish path
or the wise, straight course, first con-
cepts, reactions made in babyhood,
pop up, swing the balance and decide
the whole matter for u.s."
How impressive are these words
coming from the Assistant Attorney
General of the United States, woman
with a loving mother heart, trying to
discover, as she comes in contact with
the criminal class, the cause for these
worse than wasted lives, that she may
help parents and others with children
and young people in their charge to
avoid the mistakes that have wrecked
so many human beings!
How great the need today, as al
ways, for parents to fortify their chill
dren by loving discipline, that when
the time of testing shall come they
will almost instinctively say the right
word, do the right thing, swing the
balance in the right direction, move
upward not downward, forward not
backward!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31

ers, Russell and Wentworth had
and this seemed time to "round him
up proper" as Jim McAlpin would
have expressed it.
Selwood raised his voice. atkins 7"
he said. "LOOk here q minute"
Atkins glanced stupidity over at the
three, who stood with their eyes on
him. "Come over here. Atkins" said
Selwood again.
The expression of Atkins face
promised poor response to the curt
request. 81 guess it's about as far
from me over to you as II is from you
over to me-" he suggested. making
to move to RISE Selwood wasted no
time. He walked straight toward At
kins, who started up in alarm as Sell
wood briskly approached. at may
not be any farther one way than the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31
WASHINGTON LETTER
Continued from Page y

presidents action, has revived rumors
of third party. The claim is ad-
vanced that if Hebert Hoover is NOM
mated on the Republican ticket the
farmers of the middle west and
northwest will secede from the Re-
publican party. 1t is argued in many
instances that they will be unwilling
to vote for a Democratic candidate,
and in that event would turn to a
new party as manifestation of their
protest against the treatment accord
ed farm relief legislation by the ad-
ministration. 1t will be recalled that
the third party in recent years has
polled a relatively light vote. except
in the case of the late President
Roosevelt, in the days of the Bull
Moose" movement. There is some
talk at the capitol that in the event
Frank Lowden is not a regular Re-
publican nominee, he would be the
logical candidate for the independent
or third party ticket. Lowden has
made his campaign for the nominal
ton on the basis of his friendship to
the farmers. The thought prevails
that the regular Republican party
could not endorse campaign which
would run counter to the action of
the party in holding up the pres
ident's veto on the McNary-Haugen
bill.
Showing Effects.
AS the first session of the seven
tieth congress draws to a close the
Legislators are showing the effects of
long hours and nervous strain. The
night sessions have made most of the
senators work an average of eighteen
hours day, and being harrassed by
many problems they are obviously ex-
hausted. Yet, it is significant that
they are in no hurry to return to
their homes, because they know full
well there is no rest. Many of the
local politicians and home organiza-
tions will demand conferences with
him and ask for explanations of his
vote at Washington. Others are pre-
pairing to go directly to the Houston
and Kansas City conventions in order
TO confer with political leaders from
regions outside of the nations CAPT.
tai. The session closes in its usual
turmoil.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31
w. C. T. u. COLUMN

Mrs. C. M. Nelson will give short
biographical sketches on the pres
idential possibilities, at our next
meeting.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31

Dozens of replies have been re-
ceived from many Want Ads in the
American. Try it and be convinced.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
is EVERYBODY READYp

Hey, kids, how you coming on tina
dog training stunt? You know--fol
the Doggone Handicap race that's tt
be held for boys and their dogs a
the Washington State fair on Wed
nesdsy, Valley day, September IL?
Entries are now open and vi
that big track in front of that grand
stand holds all the kids and hounds
that acts like they're going to be
in on this, they'll shove clear out
to the extra fence they're putting up
out there to make the auto races safe!
The Tunney-Heeney training camps
two weeks before the big bout that
helped Gene get married had nothing
more strenuous than is going on in
any neighborhood from Easton to
Kennewick right now. Boys, skinny
and fat, short and tall, and dogs the
same, they're galloping back and
forth as if they were possessed. And
they are possessed of a. determine
ton to win that classy Ford Speed
ster that's first prize, the busy little
car that's next prize, or some of the
other prizes that're going to the
fellows that show speed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
OUTLOOK NOT DIsC0URAG'No

There is nothing in the apple out
look to discourage unduly the COM
mercial growers who are favorably To-
Gated and who produce high quality
fruit of desired varieties at low cost.
This is the opinion expressed in the
summary of the 1e27-1y2s apple mar
keting season in the northwest. just
published by the federal bureau of ag-
riculture economies.
"This applies particularly to grow
ers who can count upon local de-
nand for a particular quality or va
ricty, or who are so located that they
can often produce good crop in years
when the total crop is below average,
the report said.
"On the ether hand, there is little
reason to expect profitable production
in orchards where returns have been
disappointing because of poor location
with respect to market or growing
conditions"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
WHEN SHOULD JONATHAN
APPLES Be PICKED

The Jonathan harvest is on in the
valley this week. Some grwoers are
picking everything that has any color
while others are picking only for size
and color. Each year the same Prob
lem comes up, whether to ger the
higher price that generally prevails
for the first shipments or wal. and get
the larger sizes and consequent larg-
er tonnage.
The Experiment Station at Frosser
has been doing some investigating
along this line and has issued the
following statement:
Usually premium is offered fc,. a
small amount of the fruit reaching
market in advance of the bulk of the
crop of this variety. Growers ponder
over the advisability of selling at the
attractive figure or of taking a
slightly lower price and getting in
crease in size, color and quantity of
fruit by allowing it to remain on the
tree week or two longer.
Factors influencing such decision
vary annually; that is, the spread
in price may. vary and the climatic
conditions that influence the attain
ment of color and size may vary
from year to year. However, some
facts gained by accurate measure
1ments, made sitile past three years,
may be of some help in showing
how much increase in size and color
one may expect under average con-
ditions.
Weekly circumference measure
inents of several thousand apples were
made from the first of August and
well through the commercial harvest
ing dates. The same apples were
measured each time and a record
kept of tie increase in color attained
and the percentage Of windfalls as
the season progressed.
The greatest growth is made about
two weeks before the fruit reaches
good picking maturity. 1t was found
that .Jonathans increase approximate
ly a size week, i. e., size $50 on
September 1st will grow to be size
1873 by Septerber 9th. For instance,
if one has crop Of 500 boxes per
acre average size $50 on September
1st, they would grow to be SAB boxes
CI AooS ny 0cpSSllUeI otAl GRIu StA1
further io-rease to 900 boxes of 125s
by September 18th. Delicious apples
SHOW this same tendency although
not so marked.
Color attainment is also very rapid
the latter two or three weeks. The
first picking Of Jonathans the last
years has averaged about August the
Goth. At this picking approximately
twenty per cent of the fruit had
enough color to go into Extra Fancy
Grade. BY September 1st the amount
of fruit going into this grade had
increased te 30. 2per, cent. .,.4s.,..-.
The percentage Of windfalls was
less than two percent up until full
picking maturity was reached and
practically 100 per cent of these
windfalls consisted of wormy fruit.
After maturity has been reached the
fruit drops very readily with slight
movements of air. This is more
true with Delicious than with the
Jonathan variety.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
ORGANIZE TO SEND |
MILLER TO LEGISLATURE

In response to q call, delegation
from nearly all of the larger center
in the county gathered in Bentol
City Monday evening and before tn
adjournment of the meeting had per
fected an organization to work fol
the nomination of f. ]. Miller o.
Prosser, candidate on tile republican
ticket for state representative from
Benton county.
Delegations were present at the
meeting from Prosser Benton City,
kernew.ck, Richland, Hanford and
White Bluffs, the number of persons
attending being around hundred.
Mr.. Miller was present and ad-
dressed the meeting. He prefaced
his remarks with the statement that
he was not the candidate of any
clique or faction and would not per-
NIT his candidacy to be identified
with either the pro-H Hartley or anti
Hartley fight; that if elected he
wanted to go to the legislature re-
presenting all of the people in the
county and all parts of the county.
He said he was particularly interested
in good roads; that he YVES in favor
of the purchase by the state of the
Kennewlck- Pasco bridge and that
he would work for north and south
Highway across the state and from
the Canadian border through We
nstchee, Beverley, White Bluffs, and
Hanford and Kennewick to the Col
umbia river at Plymouth- Umatilla
and down the north bank Of the
Columbia to Vancouver, Washington,
with side roads leading into it, from
Kennewick, Benton City and Prosser.
That he believed in the pay-as-you-
go policy of road building and was in
favor of law whereby all of the
funds for the construction of the ma
jor highways in the state be raised
through gasoline tax and relieve the
property tax payers from this burden.
He also said he was strongly in
favor of "Farm to Market" roads.
He further sad that he was in
favor OF any legislation beneficial
to irrigation and horticultural" and
agricultural development.
Several members of the various
delegations who have known Mr..
Miller for some time spoke in behalf
Of his candidacy, strongly urging
his nomination and election Included
in those who gave their endorsement
were several from Prosser, where
Mr.. Miller has lived for twenty years,
and of which city he is now mayor.
: AT the conclusion of the meeting
the different delegations each selected
one of their number to act as an
advisory committee during the cam
paign. White Bluffs selected D. S.
w lkinson to represent White Bluffs
and Denzil Mock was chosen by th9
Harford delegation.
Those who attended the ,u1esting
from White Bluffs were r. A. Eng
1ish, D. S. Wilkinson, w. ]. Kincaid,
Fred Gilhuly and E. ]. O'Larey.
The Hanford delegation was made up
of ]. w. Fenley, A. L. Brockway
and Denzil Mock.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
r. z. BLAIR IN HOSPITAL

+. E. Blair, who has been in i'll
health for come time, took a turn for
the worse Tuesday and was taken that
evening by w. M. Underhill to the
hospital at Pasco where DR.. Spauld-
ing. after an examination. said he
would have to remain for two or three
weeks. Mrs. Blair vert 10 Pasco
in order to be near her husband and at
noon TODAY, Friday. she telephone to
say that Mr.. Blair had successfully
undergone minor operation and
was resting easily.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
BuCKsKIN CALLS AGAIN

R. E. Homer, "Old Buckskin," who
showed here two weeks ago. with a
tent animal show, likes the folks in
this valley SO we'll that he came back
again Wednesday, this time with a
picture show at Liberty hall, his
favorite trick horses, Headlight, Hon.
ey Boy and Golden Rod, taking a
leading part in the pictures as they
did in real life in the tent show. Chief
White Eagle was here in person and
added variety to the show with his
native songs and dances and fancy
and trick rope spinning.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES

New telephone directories were
printed this week by the Spokesman
Tor the Columbia River Telephone
company and were distributed by the
company to its subscribers. This il;
the first directory printed in year
ard there are several additions and
changes. = It suppsants the uagboard
rnimeographed temporary directory is
sued by the telephone company a few
months ago which should be destroyed
as soon as the new directory is re-
ceiyed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31

Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Foster arrived
in White Bluffs last Friday morning
to pay visit at the Nitzschc ranch.
They returned home Sunday morning,
going by way Of Portland and taking
with them their daughter, Helen, who
has been visiting here for the past
two weeks. Mrs. Foster is a sister
of Mrs. Nitzsche. Mr.. Foster has
been superintendent of the Meridian
school at Bcllingf,am for the past
nine years but will teach the coming
year in Mount Vernon. On their
return home the Fosters took with
them load of the wonderful peaches
we grow in this valley.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
NOTICE

Next Thursday evening, Septem-
Der 6, at the regular meeting of
the Grange, some especially i'm
portant business is on the program
and 1t is desirable that every mem
Der be present.
Edmund Anderson, Master
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31
SCHOOL ALL DAY TUESDAY

On request of many people. Supt
Underhill makes the following an.
nouucement: "There will be an
all day session of school on the
opening day, Tuesday, September
9TH"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31

Mrs. F. E. Taylor drove over to
Yakima Tuesday to spend the day
with Mr.. Taylor, who has been in
St. Eizabsth's hospital since last
Saturday under the csre and observa-
ton of a physician. Mrs. Taylor
had as her passengers on the trip,
w. ]. Kincaid, Mrs. F. E. Blair and
Miss Garnet Coleman.
Evening star., 1928-06-13
STEWART CHARGES
ARE GIVEN TO Jury
Closing Arguments and
Judges Message Brief in
Oil Mans Trial.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSs.
The case Of Robert w. Stewart,
wealthy Chicago oil man, charged with
having refused to answer questions
asked by the Senate oil committee. was
given to the Jury at :05 this afternoon.
Closing arguments and Justice Siddons'
charge were brief.
Stewart, chairman Of the board Of
the Standard OIL Co. of Indiana, re-
fused last February to answer two
questions asked during the committees
efforts to trace the $3,08o,0 in Liberty
bond oil profits of the Continental Trad
ing Co. Three months later he an
swered the questions. but. nevertheless,
was placed on trial charged with .
misdemeanor. Conviction would carry
a penalty of up to one year In jail and
and a fine OF 81 900.
Harry r. Sinclair was convicted on a
similar charge year ago.
Evening star., 1928-06-13
HOOVERITES CRUSH OPPOSITION;
d. C.. REPRESENTATION SEEN LOST
FARMERS DENIED
ENTRANCE INTO CONVENTION
Stage Anti-Hoover Demonstration on
Outside of Hall After Being Repulsed in
Effort to Crash Onto Floor.

shouted "once more the farmers get
kicked out!" and Anybody but
Hoover!"
Evidences were that the police would
be able to hold the crowd in check,
although the volume of anti-Hoover
people around the convention doors was
gaining steadily and the leaders were
still insistent upon getting inside the
convention for monster demonstra-
tion.
Committee Sent into Hall
After their attempt to enter the con-
vention hall had failed, a committee
representing the protesters went into
the auditorium to ask the presiding
officer OF the convention to permit the
farmers to come in. The committee
was composed Of Senator Nye of North
Dakota. Luxe Duffy. State Senator
from Indiana, and Bush.
W. H. Settle, president Of the Indi-
ana State Farm Bureau Federation,
also one of the leaders in the demon
stration, declared that II the officers
Of the convention declined to permit
the farmers to enter there would be
no forcible attempt to storm the doors.
Continued on Page S, Column -
Evening star., 1928-06-13
BY the Associated Press.


KANSAS CITY, June ia throng
of farmers. protesting the nomination
of Herbert Hoover and gathering num-
oers as it proceeded, marched to the Re-
publican convention hall today and were
prevented from carrying their cries to
the delegates only by the threatening
clubs OF policemen.
Frustrated in their initial endeavor
to gain entrance to the interior of the
convention hall, the farmers, shouting
We don't want Hoover" at the top OF
their voices, surged outside the hall in
disorderly and noisy fashion.
Held Back by Police.
The throng was led to the very doors
of the auditorium by Edgar D. Bush,
formerly lieutenant governor of Indi-
ana and now the Republican candidate
for that office. The enrolling column Of
proteSters swarmed right up to the
front door of the auditorium and were
half way through the runway, which
borders the hall proper, when several
squads of policemen rushed up and by
strenuous methods forced them back
outside the door.
Having been repulsed in their first
attempt, the farmers stood outside and
Evening star., 1928-06-13
Ice Breaker Starts.

KINGS BAY. Spitzenberg. June 13
1p1 One of the most powerful ice
breakers In the north. the Russian ves-
sci Maligin, sailed from Archangel, Rus
sia, with an airplane. II was estimated
that she would reach Northeast Land
In about 10 days.
An Italian expedition In the flying
boat Savoia-55 was on Its way north.
A three-motored plane capable OF car
rying 10 passengers, was at Stockholm
today ready to leave tonight for Spitz-
bergen.
The London Daily Express today pub
Iished a dispatch dated aboard the
Citta di Milano at Kings Bay, which
said Gen. Mobiles party had practically
none OF the equipment necessary for
even short marches over pack Ice.
He and five companions had two fur
sacks. three blankets and tent. The
tent was colored red as a signal OF
dlgtresg.
The three men missing had attempted
To get In touch with searching parties.
It was estimated that they started q
week ago, before Gen. Mobile sue
ceeded In getting his first message
through.