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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
HATCHERIES TO
/ BE ENLARGED
State Plans New Ponds at
Bass and Tri-LakeS.

Enlargement of two State fish
hatcheries, one at Bass Lake in
Knox county and the other at Tri-
Lakes, near Columbia City, is
planned for this spring by the State
Conservation Department.
The Bass Lake property will be
increased from eight to eighteen
ponds and in order to make the
improvement it was necessary to
acquire seven and one-half acres.
Five acres were purchased and the
remainder was decided to the State
by Robert J. Virtue of Chicago.
When the two hatcheries are en-
larged to meet the increased de-
lnand from all over the State for
stock fish, Indiana will have
seVenty-eight ponds in its five
hatCheries. Requests for stock fish
increased from 274 in 1919 to 14OO
in 1927
Last year the State reared and
released in public waters 1908 1855
young fish of which 993,273 were
large and srnall-mouth black bass;
465, 489 bluegills, 46,543 crappie,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
GhOuLs SeUer Body in
Cemetery Near Bedford


BEDFORD April 6-Competey without authorities
I'D today Investigated activities of ghou trtyyear
old grave Fleetwood cemetery half
corpse. The grave that of Charles Mitchner.
cemetery graves relatives noticed
pile of fresh dirt.
peered hole glass topped lead caSket with
the lower eXtremities of the body visible.
Nearby the caSket they
the waist the
embalming combined
preserve the body officials said.
Authorities attempted communicate with Mitchner relatives
valuaoes buried with him thirty
berS of it far have unsuccessful.
believe that the ghoulS
had visited the only hours before Mrs Fleetwood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06

81, $50 rock bass or google eye, 1885,
800 yellow perch, and 100000 pike,
perch or Wall-eye.
These figures show the steady
progress and growth of the batch
cries which in 1918 only reared and
released 370,361 spawn.
Enlargement of the hatcheries
will not only increase the annual
output of fish, but will also give the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
MAN DRIVEN TO ARSON

AcquitS Father of IL for Burning
Home to Get Insurance.
AVIGNON, France, April 6.-Paul
Gougne, At, farmer and father of
eleven children, won a prize of
$4,000 francs $4,000, and bought a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
Sells Scan as Cheese

NEW YORK, April 6-Stephen
Annelli was sent to jail for three
months because six five-dollar
cheeSes he sold to a customer turned
out to be nice creamy soap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06

the court acquitted him, deciding
that being father of such a large
family gave him enough to worry
about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06

Divorce After Six Hours WedIOck
PARIS, April 6.-The worlds
record for the shortest marriage is
claimed by Madame Cormier, whose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

farm with the money. His first crop
was failure so Cougne set fire to
his buildings to collect the. insur-
ance. He admitted his guilt but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06

State added opportunity to rear
more fish to the lingering stage be-
fore planting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
APRIL 6. 1928

husband started suit for divorce IN
a Paris court six hours after their
church wedding, on grounds ct In
compatibility.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Stave Silos Are Held in
Place by Iron Hoops

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.D
Concrete Staye SilOs are built of
units which are held in place by
wrought iron or steel hoops. The
stave is a slab of concrete, usually 80
inches long, 10 inches wide and 21s
inches thick.
The method by which the slaves
are Joined differs, according to type.
Some slaves have tongued and
grooved edges, while others have con-
cave and convex edges In some in
terlocking edges are used, so that the
units will ft together snugly, and
make an alright, watertight siIo. As
q further safeguard against possible
leakage at the joints, the interior OF
the silo is given q wash OF cement
and water. mixed TO the consistency
Of cream.
The leakproOf quality OF this type
of construction has led TO its use in
building water tanks
The first concrete staye silO was
erected on a farm near Cassopolis
Mich, in 1906. Although it passed
through a severe fire several years
ago, when the barn adjacent TO IL
burned down, ii is still giving salts
factory service.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Errors as Essential to
Baseball as Base Hits

John Joseph McGraw once said
that errors are as essential TO base
ball as base hits and that IL ever the
error is removed from the game then
baseball viii collapse.
McGraw can say the same about
football. Most Of the thrills on foot
ball are the result Of errors, mechan-
ical or mental.
There would be nothing more
mOnOtOnOus in sport than a football
game between two teams whose play
was mechanically perfect II would
leave the spectators bored stiff.
Illinois and Michigan played a
game at Ann arbOr last year. II was
about as near mechanically correct as
games are played in football, but it
made no hit with the crowd. The ex-
perts were highly enthused, but the
experts were oUtnumbered 800 to L
by men and women who were COM
pletely bored.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Habits of Potatoes Stored in
Bins and Sacks.

Proverbially, there are few things
hotter than a hot potato. Conversely,
cold potato may be colder than ice,
yet rot be frozen. Scientists in the
labora tories of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture have been
studying the circumstances and extent
of injuries to potatoes by freezing.
and have discovered that the tubers
behave in rather peculiar ways under
extreme cold.
Depending upon differences in rote-
toes. varieties, seasons, and soil con-
d;tions. the freezing point of potatoes
varies. Normally it is near % degrees
Fahrenheit Because OF 'undercool-
ing" the tuhers may survive temper
atures materially below freezing. with
out damage. because no ice is formed
within them. But . slight jar may
cause cryStalliration. and the potatoes
will freeze" sometimes in half q
minute
Potatoes In bin win not freeze as
quickly as potatoes in barrels or
sacks, because there is less movement
OF cold air about them. Potatoes which
have been exposed TO q temperature
OF % degrees or less should have heat
brought TO them Carrying them TO
the heat may jolt them and cause
them to freeze. the experts say.
II was found that if potatoes are
stored for some time at temperature
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Six General Causes Are
Noted by Specialists at
Colorado College.

Greater losses in baby chicks result
from lack of care than from contagious
diseases. Each year when poultry
specialists from the Colorado Agri-
cultural college are called to diagnose
flocks suffering heavy losses they find
six general causes: Unsanitary con-
ditions, poor ventilation, overheating,
chilling, improper feeding and white
diarrhea.
Temperature Recommended.
The temperature Of 80 to 100 de-
grees Fahrenheit recommended for the
first week of a baby chicks life is
the temperature for the hover and the
brooder house. Confusion on this
point causes death loss by overhead
Ing the chicks In the brooder house.
Cleaning and spraying the brooder
house before putting the baby chicks
in is the best prevention of disease,
according to Charles N. Keen, in
structor in poultry husbandry. Fresh
sand may be placed around the hover
each morning. Over this there may
be scattered litter of fine, dry al
falfa about one-half inch thick.
Contagious Disease.
White diarrhea is contagious dis
ease. Losses from this disease are
materially lessened if sanitary and
ventilation conditions are kept ideal.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Agricultural Notes

Disturbing the beehive In winter is
not a good practice.
Try a new sweet corn this year.
There is a long list from which to
choose.
The incubator should be thorough
ly washed and sprayed before and
after every hatch.
There are three diseases that are
Of first-hand Importance. They are:
Colds, roup and chickenpox.
Start a compost heap this spring
with the spring rakings. 1t is the
cheapest and best fertilizer possible.
A set of auger bits that will bore
holes from one-quarter of an inch to
one inch by sixteenths is very handy,
but a smaller number of bits care
fully selected will do most of the
work you will have to do.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Alfalfa May Be Sown in
Early Spring in Wheat

Alfalfa may be sown in the early
spring in wheat or oats, just as red
clover is sown, or it may be sown
alone In early August on ground spe-
cially prepared after removal of q
June or early July harvested crop.
For summer seeding the ground
should be prepared and narrowed at
intervals of several days to kill the
weeds that start, before sowing the
alfalfa. From u to 15 pounds of
seed should be sown per acre. prefer
ably using a drill, either a special
seed drill or the wheat drill set to
run shallow.
Whether or not lining is necessary
will depend upon the soil; if 1t is
sour, lime should be applied. Inocu-
lation is very important, especially if
alfalfa or sweet clover has not pre-
viOusly been grown on the land.
Stable manure is valuable in starting
an alfalfa field. If the land is rather
run down, not only apply manure but
use from 400 to 500 pounds of fer
tilizer containing II per cent of phos-
phoric acid and per cent Of potash.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Durable Whitewash for
Various Jobs on a Farm

A whitewash for wood, brick and
stone is recommended by the North
Dakota Agricultural college. Follow
ing is the formula for whitewash:
Slake half bushel of unslaked lime
with boiling water, keeping it covered
during the process. Strain it and add
a peck of salt dissolved In warm wa
ter; three pounds of ground rice put
in boiling water and boiled to a thin
paste; half a pound of powdered
Spanish whiting and a pound of clear
glue dissolved in warm water; mix
these well together and let the mix
ture stand for several days. Keep the
wash thus prepared in a kettle or
portable furnace, and when used put
it on as hot as possible with paint
ers' or whitewash brushes.
This whitewash formula has been
used extensively and is also recon-
mended by the bureau of lighthouses,
United States Department of Com
merce.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
NEW ORLEANS MINT

The old United States mint at De-
catur street and Esplanade avenue
was built in 1886 on the site of Fort
San Carlos and once was the largest
mint building in all America, with a
minting capacity of $5,000,00O a
month. Supports, ceiling and beams
are Of cast iron, flooring of stone
with plank on top. In 1851 the coin
age was sS,s94,0OO gold and s1,O5O,O0O
silver.
, Louisiana had possession from jan
uary 26 to May 81, 1861, and coined
$195,O00 in double eagles and 1,240.-
600 silver halfdollars, while in the
same period the Confederate govern
ment coined $59,S20 in double eagles
and 962,63S half-dollars, all from
United States dies.
The bullion was turned over to the
assistant treasurer of the Confederacy,
May 81, 1861, and all United States
dies were defaced. Designs for
relief was too high and only four coins
were made by a screw press. These
four pieces differed from the United
States standard only in the legend
and were the only coins made diff
ferent from the United States stan
dard at the New Orleans branch mint
from 1861 and 1879, when the United
States resumed operation. In 1899,
s14,O7S,O0O, mostly silver was coined.
On April 26, 1852, United States
flag was raised over the mint by a
boat crew without orders from Far
ragut. 1t was pulled down by four
young men, three of whom escaped,
but the fourth was executed by or
der of General Butler.
A tiny 20" beneath the Liberty head
indicates coins minted here.-New
Orleans Times-Picayune.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Scintillating Remarks
bv Noisv Detroit Fans

In relating the baseball expressions
for which Hughie Jennings was IA
nous, one has been generally over
looked, and that was:
"Touch all the bases"
At times he emphasized it:
Remember now: Touch all the
bases"
1t was always shouted across the
. playing field when a Detroit batsman
came TO the plate in pinch.
If the batter happened to strike out,
or fly out, or ground out, the crowd,
if Detroit happened to be playing on
a foreign field, had its revenge. The
crowd, in chorus, would yell to Jen-
nings:
"See him touch all the bases,
Hughie?
Or, quite often:
"Hey, Hughie, that bum can't even
touch first"
And similar scintillating remarks.
But Jennings generally had his in
nings before the game was over. Soon
er or later Rossman, Cobb or Craw-
ford, would "get hold O. one" and
touch several bases while Jennings
shrieked and danced in glee, fully re-
yenged.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Big Train Beats Sport
Bows at Their Own Game

In leaving the ranks OF active base
ball players, as in leading them, Wal
ter Johnson thought first OF the boys
Reporters and friends were eagerly
awaiting his decision whether TO sign
the contract with the Newark Bears
Of the International league. All day
his telephone was ringing or busy"
All day he replied that he probably
would have something TO say in
few days"
But that night he was making a
little talk over the radio TO boys
When he felt their presence on the
invisible side of the microphone he
told them all about it. Not many Of
them realized they were getting a
choice news "beat."
Not until the radio station had
signed off were the reporters and
friends able to get the "Big Train" to
own up that he had signed to manage
the Bears.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
TWain's Tom SAWYER Dies

Spokane, Wash.-Tom Sawyer, the
boy of Mark Twain's stories of life
on the Mississippi, is dead.
The passing Of the man who In
spired Twain to create his famous lit.
erary character was revealed here By
Mrs. Flavilla Pinero, of Occur
D'Alene, Idaho. Mrs. Pinero disclosed
that the man was her, brother, Thorn
as Sawyer, who died February at
Tucson, AriZ.
Mrs. Pinero said her brothers boy
hood was spent on the banks of the
Mississippi and that Twain first saw
him aboard a steamboat.
Sawyer aligned himself with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST Paul rail.
road and helped to build that line
through North Dakota and Montana.
He spent 25 years in the west as a
railroad man,
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
THE VANISHING ELEPHANT

1t must be a fascinating experience
to think in millions of years. Henry
Fairfield Osborn, president of the
American Museum of Natural History.
looks at the vanishing wild life of
Africa and remarks that "a million
years ago the entire world, including
every continent, was filled with these
glorious animals which it had taken
millions Of years to create" Most of
us, when we see an elephant, sse only
q towering beast. Mr.. Osborn, ap-
parently, looks upon an elephant and
sees a panorama of 100000 years.
A little animal, barely a yard high,
without as yet the tusks or the pro-
boscis which spell elephant to most
of us, browses in his vision along the
river sides of north Africa, and
whole train of its descendants, march
ing across the continents through the
millenniums, connect that little ami
NAL with the pachyderms of today.
Photographs of elephant herds
seem to give reinsurance that there
Will olNdgo bC plCuIy VI ClCpudulS W
delight the children at the ZOOS. But
1t does not require even a paleontol-
ogical mind to doubt it. Africa is
changing in our generation. Despite
the great Pare National Albert which
the Belgian government has estab-
lished in equatorial Africa. it will not
be many decades before the fat goril-
la is as extinct as the little quagga
that once trotted in vast herds across
South Africa. Carl Akeley, collect
ing specimens for the magnificent
African Hall of the American Museum,
noted in 1926 that the abundance of
animal life which had delighted him
two decades earlier was already
thing of the past. Areas once rich in
game were becoming lifeless deserts
or civilized and uninteresting. Never
since the first spark Of life, not even
in the millennia when glaciers were
crushing out life or when the giant
dinosaurs were being extinguished
from the face of the earth, have whole
species been wiped out with the ruth
less speed of this Transforming age.
an Africa alone" as Mr.. Osborn
points out in the current issue of
Natural History, organ of his museum,
"there survive the offspring of 30,-
100000 years of mammalian evolution"
And in Africa they are disappearing.
A few more decades, and, unless fore
sight prevents, the motion pictures
and the museums will have all that
is left.-New York Herald Tribune.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
FARRELL BOOSTS
OLD ATHLETES
Old-Timers' Work Praised.
by Michigan Coach.

Would the athletes of Is and 20
years ago hold their own against the
athletes of today under present day
conditions? Certainly they would, In
the opinion of Steve Farrell, varsity
of Michigan, who has been training all
sorts of athletes for more than %
years.
Steve believes that the modern ath-
lete has things too easy. Walking
any distance is unthought of by the
average star today, while years ago,
riding in street cars, cabs and busses
was taboo with any aspiring college
athlete. Coach Farrell admits, OF
course, that the increased dislike for
using ones leg to travel between two
given points is only the result of the
attitude of college students as a body.
Training room attention, says the
coach, was thing unknown in years
gone by. Shin splints, sore muscles
and tendons and other ailments were
just as common in those days, but
were ignored, just because there was
nothing one could do about it. Today,
for the average athlete, the care Of
expert trainers and rubbers is c0nsid-
cred as essential as good coaching.
If the average track man today, for
instance, says Steve, were to be told
how the track men used TO train years
ago, he would laugh. The "hard work.
OUT which the present day track man
fears would be considered only pre-
liminary warming up in those days.
Any man who stayed odt for the sport
then did so because he liked it.
The aversion of the modern youth
for stiff work is shown by the increas-
ing proportion of candidates who Sc
lect the shorter running distance
events, and shun the mile and two-mile
runs. The latter require long work
outs daily, and unless the candidate
is glutton for punishment, he drops
from the squad or decides he'd make
a better short-distance man.
Steve does not 90 so far as to say
that the athlete of yesterday was any
more plucky than the present athlete.
He merely infers that their bodies
were sturdier, because of more inten-
sive training, and they were more val
liable to any team as all-around ath-
letes than the modern stars as spe-
cialists in one or two events.
To sum up, the coach feels that
given the present advantages of scien-
tific coaching and training, as well as
improved tracks and other facilities,
the athlete of the past would have
little difficulty in outsprinting, out
jumping or outdistancing the average
"star" of today.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
IyportinsSQuibs

The game of golf is played by more
people than any other sport in the
United States.
The worlds bicycle sprint champion
ships will be held in the United States
in 1929 for the first time since 1912.
Charles Hargreaves, Brooklyn catch
er, is employed as basket ball coach
at NIiddIeburg college in the winter
months.
Carl Rice, a member of a blind
mems institution in New York, is
fine bowler and boasts a high score
of 25S pins.
Young Griffo, credited with being
one of the greatest boxers of all time,
had only two knockouts to his credit
in seventy-nine bouts.
Ed Barrow of the Yankees says he
doesn't believe in gambling. But it
doesn't seem like gambling to have
little dough on the Yanks.
Although he is only fourteen years
old, Virgil Abernathy, of Cheyenne
Falls, Colo, is regarded as one of the
best billiard players in his state.
Jockey A. Pascuma, who rode JUS
30 ,ysn I'm tho Noxu
Orleans handicap, was given reward
of $1,000 by his boss for the victory.
Eighty per cent of the students Of
the Colorado School of Mines are now
taking part in an extensive physical
training and interclass sports program,
Eugene William Goodwillie, who
starred in track for Cornell for three
years, received a Rhodes scholarship
appointment for next year few days
ago.
F.B. Burrow, the old Oxford lawn
tennis star, has been appointed ref
cree of the Wimbledon tennis cham
pionships 10 be held beginning June
p next.
A new sand mixing machine is ex-
pected TO revOlutioniZe the cOnstruc-
ton Of golf links. II can mix more
soil than a dozen dubs armed with
nibIicks.
Frank Gibson, catcher last season
with the Boston Braves, has been ap-
pointed manager Of the San Antonio
Texas league club for the coming
season.
Out OF Babe Ruth's total Of 4I6
home runs made during his big league
career, the greatest number, Il. have
been scored at the expense Of Detroit
pitchers
John De Palma Is starting his twen-
ty-first year in competitive automobile
racing. He is forty-seven. his hair
is virtually white, and he has COM
peted in 5000 races.
College men In the major leagues
last season tOtaled 107, with honOrs
equally divided between Holy Cross
college and University of Alabama,
each having four alumnus.
Babe Ruth failed TO bit home run
with the bases loaded during the 1927
season until he hit his fifty-seventh
homer on September q. He did the
feat again on September %.
Harvard's system of subordinate
and interclass football competition is
believed to be the most elaborate of
any major college in the country.
Gibby Welch, captain of the Pitts
burgh grid team this past fall, says
the day when athletes in colleges
didn't have to study is now past.
Wayland Dean. pitcher, who desert
ed the Chicago Cubs last season tc
play independent baseball, has been
notified of his reinstatement by Base
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
San Francisco Player
Cost S38: Brings $1,000

Even in these days OF high-priced
baseball players, with figures running
from 5000 to $4,000 in the minor
leagues, the case Of Alfred McCurdy
stands out in bold relief.
The tall first baseman cost the
Portland club S3S.71-trafn fare and
meals from San Francisco TO the
Oregon city. He was picked up on
the "sand lots" played with the
Pacific Coast league team In 1925 and
1927 and was sent to Des MOines OF
the Western league this year in $5,-
600 cash and player deal.
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16

that he had q pad
shoulder In 1925 and
that it affected his
playing enough to ac-
count for his failure
to come up TO his
form of the previous
year. And then, early
in 1926 he says he
tore the ligaments
loose from the bone
at the ankle and sim
ply coudl not play his
game. He was also In
the hospital that year
with pneumonia. Out
side of these little
things Moore was al
right that bad year.
Playing 112 games
in various positions
for the Boston team
last year Eddie Moore
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16

On a rocky farm on the Hudson
river at Cold Spring, SO miles north of
New York city, the pure-bred Jersey
cow FOn Owlet has completed an Off
cial production test which makes her
the 305-day world champion Jersey in
the junior two-year-old class.
Fon Owlet (shown in the photo
graph) is owned and was tested by e.
]. Cornish, New York business man
who has been very successful in breed
ing high producing registered Jerseys.
Mr.. Cornish started Fon Owlet on test
when she was two years and three
months of age and in the following
"95 days she produced 656.0S pounds
# butterfat and 1854 pounds of
ailk. If she calves within IA months
# previous freshening she will qualify
The Ely miner., 1928-03-16
Tad Jones at Yale

Tad Jones, lost to Yale as coach Of
the football team, will return as chair
man of the graduate advisory commit
tee of football for 1923. The board of
control of the Yale Athletic associa-
tion has announced the appointment.
AS chairman of the advisory com
mittee Jones automatically becomes
a member Of the board of control
and as such will have considerable
to say as TO the choice of his sue
cesser as coach of the varsity grid
team.