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NOT MUCH OF A TRICK
MRS. A. B. CUMMINS
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WOMEN IEAD GERMAN RIOTERS
MINERS- WIVES BATTLE WITH
POLICE AND SOLDIERS.
Situation so Dangerous That Artillery
and Cavalry May be
Necessary.
Farmers' Educational I
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and Co-Operative ;
Union of America 1
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Matters £' Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Berlin, Germany.—A reign of terror
prevails throughout the wegiphalian
coal fields, and the troops and
mounted police on the scene were
■trongely reinforced. The disorder
spread to districts hitherto unaffect-
ed and fighting is reported from Duis-
burg, Kssen, liamboron, Oberhausen
and Recklinghausen.
One of the worst riots was at the
German empire colliery. A striking
feature of the violence is the part
which women are playing in it. Some | apt to gather much fodder
of the mobs are actually led by i God loves a cheerful gi\
Hack talk seldom helps a man to
get to the front.
The golden dawn is a golden hour
>n the well-ordered farm
A mere faddist on the farm Is not
John, I'll bet you can't tell what I'm thinking about."
Bet I could come awfully •■tar III"
This Is the latest picture of the wife
of the senator from Iowa. Mrs. Cum-
mins Is well known In social life and
Is greatly Interested In philanthropic
enterprises. She is also a prominent
member of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
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FIRED AT KING VICTOR EMANUEL
ftuler Was Unharmed and Anarchist
Who Attempted His Life is
Captured.
Rome, Italy.—An attempt was mads j
to kill King Victor Emanuel. Sev-
eral shots were fired at the king, but
al! missed. The assailant, an anarch-
ist, was arrested.
The attempt on the king's life was j
made as the monarch and Queen J
Helena were going from the Quirinal
palace to the Pantheon to take partj
in the annual memorial service in
memory of the lale King Humbert.
The procession was passing along
the Via Lata when three Bhots wero
fired from amid the crowd.
Soldiers dashed up to the royal car-1
riage, where they found the king and wjfe of 0ne shot whi|e Helping Her
queen sitting calm and unmoved. Tha ! Husband—Court Already
crowd seized the man who fired the ;
shots and attempted to lynch him. [
Hillsville, Va.—Rushing in force up-
GOOD ROAD TRAIN FOR KANSAS on the cabin housing Floyd Allen,
j the desperado whose conviction here
resulted in a band of his outlaw
followers killing Judge Massie, the
I county prosecutor, and the Carroll
i county sheriff, 25 detectives arrested
Manhattan, Kan—The heavy snows Allen, his son, Victor, and hustled
of 1912 have given the farmers of them to the county jail both wound-
Kansas a valuable lesson in the neces- ed severely. Sidna Allen s wife is
sity for good roads. Farmers are go* dead, shot in a fight with a posse in
lng to lose a lot of money in the next the mountains while helping defend
few weeks because of poor roads. But her husband. Another member of
many of them will not know it be- ! the band, James Strickland was heav-
women in battle with police and sol-
diers. These Amazons show reckless
daring in rushing upon l soldiers.
In some instances their frenzy (
amounts to fanaticism
There were large additions to the
ranks of the strikers and it was esti-
mated that nearly 300,000 men are
now idle all over Germany. A long
drawn out struggle is expected as the
coal mine owners have informed the
union that they will close down their
mines before they wiU accede to the
men's demands. They also have in-
formed the government of their deci-
sion. The operators seem to have
the advantage, as they are acting in
concert, while discord prevail! be-
| tween the Socialist and non-Socialist
branches of the union.
So dangerous is the strike situation
becoming in some parts oi Westpha-
lia that artillery and cavalry may be
sent.
KANSAS FOR CHAMP CLARK
Twenty Votes to Be Cast for Him Lin-
til Two-Thirds Say He Can't Win-
Speaker Controls by 27 Votes.
THREE MOUNTAINEERS TAKEN
SLAYERS OF VIRGINIA JUDGE
MADE DESPERATE FIGHT.
Reorganized.
Hutchinson. Kan.—After a great bat-
tle, which ended in harmony, the
Democratic state convention, by a
KILLED WARDEN AND ESCAPED Jori:y of 27 votes, joined hands
Lecturers From Agricultural College
to Start From Topeka for
Week's Trip.
Three Desperate Men in Nebraska
Prison Make Bold Dash for
Liberty.
with tht
state of
and the
fields laugh for a laughing farmer
The biggest tax wo pay is 'hat for j
•upporting the school of experience.
It is good to have stubborn virtues,
hut stubbornness is not itself a vir
tue
The ways and means of some men
teem to be only bad ways and mean
actions.
Treeless farm premises are as
wanting in beauty as baldheaded
women.
The test of a good farmer Is a j
thoroughgoing test of all the seeds
ne plants.
The best repairing outfit contains
no device for mending a broken
promise
Like produces like; therefore if you
like your neighbors, they will likely
like you.
We are none of us any better than
we ought to bo and many of us are a
great deal worse.
The highest honor that can come to
1 man is to be pointed out as ne best
farmer in his community.
Texas farmers are making more ba-
?on for home use each year, but they
ire not making enough.
The wise father gives his boys an
%cre of potatoes and lets them make
their own spending money.
The consumer pays a dollar for
Tood; the farmer gets less than 50
sent a for it. Who gets the rest?
When a boy's father goes to town,
Democracy of the sister
Missouri and instructed the j let the boy go, too, with his own pro-
cause they have never figured it out.
The Kansas state agricultural college
ily armed and declared that'if he had
not been takeu by surprise he would
Is going to figure it out for them and have fought to the death to prevent
drive the lessons home by demonstra*
tion.
Lecturers from the agricultural col-
lege will start out Monday morning
with the "Good Road Special" over
the Santa Fe. The start will be made
from Topeka and stops of an average
of 40 minutes will be made at 75
towns, the trip ending Saturday night.
WRECKED WHILE BUCKING SNOW
Union Pacific and Rock Island Trains
Meet With Accidents Trying to
Open Track.
Salina, Kansas.—A Union Pacific
passenger train from this city to 13e-
loit was wrecked near Delphos when
an attempt was made to buck a snow-
drift. The two engines were turned
over and David Sneed, engineer, of
Salina was injured, but not fatally.
His fireman was also injured. On the
Rock Island near Abilene a passen-
ger train was wrecked and a brake-
man sustained several broken ribs.
No trains are running on the Mis-
souri Pacific road.
Girl Injured in Class Rush.
St. Louis, Missouri.—After a three-
day series of clashes between the
junior and senior classes at Forest
Park university, a school for girls, in
which contestants for class honors
climbed trees, went through attics
and scaled roofs, the class fight was
called off. Miss Hazel Donaldson of
Polo, 111., a junior while attempting to
wrest a senior flag hung in a tree, was
knocked senseless.
Shot by Nervous Robber.
Pittsburg, Kansas.—Thomas I. But-
ler, instructor at state normal, was
shot throi.eh the nose as he alighted
from a street car near his home. Two
boys, mistaken for students, ap-
the capture of Allen. Allen, soon af-
ter being put in jail, slashed his
throat with a razor in an endeavor to
commit suicide.
All the other members of the gang,
probably 18, are up in the mountains
off toward the North Carolina line,
well armed, well supplied and deter-
mined not to be taken.
The storming of Sidna Allen's house
late in the day was the next thing to
a bombardment.
From behind stumps, rocks, trees
| and other natural fortresses of the
mountainside, the posse fired at the
house and Allen fired at the posse as
fast as the women of his family could
reload his rifles. In a lull the posse
rushed the house and broke down the
doors.
Excitement is intense in and about
Hillsville, as Gov. Mann has offered
a reward of $1,000 for every man en-
gaged in the shooting, the men to be
brought in dead or alive. Other de-
tectives are certain to follow the
rounding up of the gang.
Judge Staples, designated by Gov.
Mann to come here to hold court, took
the bench and summoned a special^
grand jury to indict the murderers.
That one act had more to do with
the restoration of quiet than any
other. Reorganization of the court
which was all but wiped out by the
work of assassins had a great in-
fluence.
Lincoln, Neb.—Three men dead and
a fourth dangerously wounded is the
toll of a murder plot, cunningly de-
vised and daringly executed at the i
Nebraska penitentiary, four miles
south of the city.
After running with pistols througn
the prison, shooting down all who dis-
puted their path, and shattering with
nitroglycerin the steel doors which
stood between them and freedom, the
murderers, three long time convicts,
fled on foot through the deep snow
drifts, and are pursued by a dozen
posses.
The men murdered are: James
Delahunty, warden; Henry Wagner,
deputy warden; G. Heilman, usher.
Thomas Doody, prison guard, was
wounded.
The killing of the throe prison au-
thorities was done by Charles Taylor
and John Dowd, bank robbers, and
Charles Morley, convicted of highway
robbery. Firearms, a supply of am-
munition and the explosive, mysteri-
ously smuggled into the prison, were
in possession of the trio.
twenty Kansas delegates to the Deni
oc ratio national convention at Haiti-
more to vote for Champ Clark for
president as a unit until two-thirds of
the delegation believes his nomina-
tion to be impossible. No second
choice was named.
The delegates-at-large and alter-
nates, the congressional district dele-
gates and alternates and the elector#
chosen are as follows:
I)eleBat 'H-ftt-large: B. .1. Sliorldft
*>1h; A. M. Jacks.i
Martin, Marion; i
Alternaten-at-lai
lis; T. J o'NVil.
Brown, Kingman;
EI<Mtors-at-laiKt
Vatcs tVnt«'r; T.
First District;
Orr, Atchison
Pa- i
, Win Held. Henderson
S. OaltHklU, tllranl.
■: Niles Mulson, 101-
Osage City; W. L.
1 J Koctzel, Wichita.
F M Patterson,
o'Neil, Osaga City.
Delegates James W.
hn, Holton.
luce, then show htm how to invest his
money.
There may be tricks In all trades
as the saying Is, but the farmer's
most profitable tricks are the best up-
odate methods.
It Is oftener a full stomach than In-
nate goodness that keeps men from
prime; and bo good grub is often uils
taken for good principles.
CO-OPERATE FOR GOOD SEEDS
Necessary Special Cultivation to Se-
cure Best Results Obtained by
Farmers Working Together.
LIMIT SIZE OF COTTON CROP
Only Hop# Farmer Has for Securing
Fair Price for 1912 Staple Is to
Reduce Acreage.
To Southern Partners:
The holding movement Is having its
efTect The price of cotton is grad-
ually total up to wfcere It • I®
I'nder the present method of manipu-
lating the markets none can tell witn
any certainty just what the results of
the advance will be, but a firm hold
on the cotton on hand and a redui>
tion of the acreage this year will in-
sure a fair price
The man of caret til judgment who
has helped to make the holding
movement successful will not become
excited about the advance and plan a
largo crop lor 1912. Some who were
forced to sell on the extreme low
market itaj be "fooled" Into bellev-
\ lng, as doubtless the bears would like
have you, that the upward trend
of prices now. Insures a lair price for
tho next crop, however large. It is
against just such a feeling as this
that I want to warn you. It is now
planting time, and the manipulators
want to Impress upon farmers the
importance of an Increased acreage.
There may be no "bait" in the pres-
ent movement, but if there is don t
throw your resolutions to reduce to
tho four winds, swallow the "bait,
and rush to the fields to plant a big
crop.
it has been demonstrated time after
time that a small crop will realize
more cash than a large one. This is
economically wrong, but until we can
change marketing method! we mult
treat it aa a wet and theortae alter
wards The only hope you have tor
securing a fair price for the 191S out-
put is to limit the size of the crop.
You are fully convinced that this ts
true, then why don't you sign the
pledge to reduce? There are any
number of you who have not signed
the pledges sent out by this office.
Perhaps you do not want to sign tho
pledge sent out by me. If you don't,
just hunt up the repreientatlve ia
ounty of the Rock Hill Plan and
sign his pledge. The result will he
the same, and results are what we
want and must have.
One or two parties have written me
winning to know what other folks
were going to do before they signed
the pledge. ' llol,a ,he number of
such individuals Is very limited. You
reduce cotton acreage and plant lots
of com and hay. and If the other fol-
low will not reduce his lot him noil
his cheap cotton and pny you fancy
prices for your corn and hay.
The cotton of 1912 will l>o made on
tho highest priced feed known
years. You had better make
you can on the "grass" than to buy
much reed and risk the price of a
bumper crop.
A. C. DAVIS.
Rogers, Ark
Taylor, apparently the ring leader ' JjJ'y- john'T^PrMdc^Kart, Marysvill.
v mates— Stance Myers, Leavenworth; J<>-
««ph Griffin, Troy. Elector—Dr. I. H.
MeGill, Nemaha county.
Second District: Delegates Charles M. I
jreen. Kansas City. Kan.; J. 1. Caldwell, .
Kurt Scott. Alternates Paul Klein. Al-
len eountv; W. S. Kverett. Lawrence.
Elector li. C Hybee, Garnett.
Third District: Delegates Frank Co- raising
mlskv. Pittsburg: lsa«. Mines. Labette.
Alternates Mix Kennedy. Ktedonla; W
\V. Hrown. Parsons. Elector—A. L.
Wooster, Erie.
Fourth District: Delegates W. H. ( ar-
penter, Marion; \V. A. Limbo, ker. Hur- i contemplate the doing of
lington. limiiowered to select their own | business In seeds. That Is the prov-
aUernutes. Blector-C. L.) Gauls, Mel- | ^ ^ ^ 8eed!jn]an he )g to„
Fifth District; Delegates —I. U. H"s- I valuable a factor In the development
tetter. BeUevUl*; Michael Frye
\V. Long
[By C. It. BARNS, Minnesota Kx perl men t
Station.)
Another form of co-operation among
farmers, through which large benefits
may often be secured by the use of a
limited amount of capital, Is In the
selection, purchase and dis-
tribution of good seed for staple
crops, such as corn, wheat, oats and
potatoes. Such co-operation does not
general
for
what
I tan: .1
in the desperate flight, is an expert i Elector- A. M.
cracksman of bank safes and known : ' "^'uVh District:
by police all over the West.
Fulton,
Junction | , .
hat- ! of a progressive agriculture lor any
one to dream of superseding him. Hut
Washington
Delegates—p M. Saw-
yer. Norton; E. A Dye, Logan. Alter- ,
nates- Winslow Clpra, Lincoln; Peter |
Erseh, Belolt. Elector—L. C. Uhl, Smith !
Center. „.
Seventh District: Delegates—Ed. Fin- ;
nun, Garden City; David Ely, Earned. Al-
ternates p. 1>. Roblnett, Greensburg; ,
John Kelly, Hugoton. Elector—James j
Clark, Great Bend.
Eighth District: Delegates -Jerry Fitz- [
Patrick, Wichita; Robert Brideford, Eldo-
rado. Alternates Bowman Jarrett, New-
ton; David Hill. Sumner county. Elector
Chicago, Illinois.—Fully expecting a Andrew Sorrenson, Mcpherson.
Instructs For Clark.
The convention, after rejecting by a
vote of 310 to 283 a plank introduced by
the supporters of Governor Woodrow Wil-
son declaring for an unlnstructed delega-
tion, unanimously adopted a resolution
instructing the delegation for Claik.
THREATEN SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
Railroad Men To Help Cripple In-
dustrial Life of Country in Case
of Coal Strike.
Rear End Crash Kills Two.
Albuquerque, New Mexico.—Three
proached him. One" Hashed a light in fare dead five missing and a score or
more injured as a result of a rear
his face, and the other pressed a re-
volver against his nose. Nervousness
of the footpad, supposedly, caused the
gun to explode. Robbery was the mo-
tive.
Messenger Kills Two Robbers.
San Antonio, Tex.—David A. Trous-
dale, a young express messenger,
brought the attempted robbery of a
Southern Pacific train to a sudden
climax when he trapped the two rob-
bers and killed both of them.
Aeroplanes Met Head-On.
Berlin, Germany.—A cqllision took
place between two aeroplanes a ma-
chine carrying a passenger striking
violently another aeroplane. Both
the aeroplanes were smashed and fell,
only the passenger being injured.
Women Leave Torreon.
San Antonio, Texas—In the belief
that a decisive battle between rebels
and federals is likely soon and that it
will be fought at Torreon, Mexico,
3,000 refugees, mostly women and
children, are en route north from
there.
strike of the 450,000 anthracite and |
bituminous coal miners in this coun-
try April 1, when present contracts
expire, the heads of the international
unions comprising the railroad shop-
men's organizations here are laying
plans to make that strike so effective
as to cripple the industrial life of the
country.
This plan is a sympathetic strike
by the shopmen if tha railroad com- j
panies attempt to transport coal
mined by strike breakers. The scheme I
will be submitted as one of the mat- J
ters for discussion at the general or- |
ganization meeting, probably to be
held at Kansas City, April 15.
NEED MORE MONEY FOR CAPITOL
Missouri Commissioners Find Build
ing Will Cost Far More Than
Anticipated.
end collision between a westbound
extra freight and a work train on the
Santa Fe coast line at McCarthy's,
N. M„ 60 miles west of here.
Best Apples in Andrew County.
Columbia. Missouri.—The best soil
in the United States for the growing
of apples is at Savannah, Mo., accord-
ing to Prof. W. L. Howard of the col-
lege of agriculture, who has Just re-
turned from there.
Oklahoma Bank Robbed.
Enid, Oklahoma.—All of the money
in the safe of the Farmers' bank at
Lambert, amounting to $3,500, was
stolen. The robbers demolished the
brick vault, damaged the building
greatly and escaped.
Try Old-Time Fiddlers.
Topeka, Kansas.—The merchants
of Topeka are going to find out wheth-
er or not there are any real, old-time
fiddlers, the kind that stamps his
foot and wags his head as he plays
"Old Zip Coon" or "Turkey in the
Straw." So they have offered nearly
$1,000 worth of merchandise as prizes
for a fiddler's contest to be held in
Topeka's auditorium and all the fid-
dlers In and around Topeka or any-
where else in Kansas are eligible to
compete for the prizes, which vary
from a piano worth $300 for the best
fiddler to a 35 cent shirt to the worst
fiddler.
Columbia, Missouri.—The members
of the state capitol commission re-
turned after a trip of ten days to the
capitols of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minne-
sota and Iowa. E. W. Stephens, the
chairman, says that the board found,
from the investigation that more
money will be needed in the erection
of a suitable capitol for Missouri
than is available at present. . All of
the buildings visited cost much more
than the one planned for this state.
the farm Itself Is the natural source
of a seed supply for the main crops
which are to bo planted on the tarm,
and co-operation looks simply to the
I best utilization In the cost of procur-
| lng, selecting and distributing seeds.
The planting of seed plots with spe-
j cial varieties of corn and other crops,
| and the special cultivation necessary
| to secure the best results, may often
j be best carried on by a number of
| farmers working co-operatively; and
1 their association, acting as a distribut-
ing agency, will both facilitate sales
and lessen the cost of seeds to Its
members. Then, too, co-operation
does away with the absurdity or keep-
ing a corn-shaller and a fannlng-mlll
or grain-separator on every farm,
when a single Hrst-olase machine of
each kind, operated by a man who
makes such work a specialty, will do
the work quicker, better and more
economically.
An example of this kind of co-oper-
ative effort Is afforded by the "Farm-
ers' Corporation" of Minnesota, which
has recently added a seed department
to Its other co-operative activities It
had already, up to the early part of
November, contracted with the farm-
ers In Its membership for 7,000 bush-
els of the different kinds of corn
grown in that locality.
INCREASE PROFITS IN GRAIN
Co-Operative Companler In Nebraska
Show Better Prices Have Been
Secured for Grain.
Reports from tho ro-opcrativo grain
companies all over Nebraska show uni-
formly large profits for the stockhold-
ers, and this after paying from two
to three cents more per bushel for
grain than the old line elevators have
been doing. This benefits not only
those who sell to the fanners' com-
panies. but every man within trading
distance of the co-operative elevators.
The Increase goes Into the pockeis of
the men who raised the grain, which
1b Just where It should go. At the re-
cent meeting of the Cedar ( reek
farmers' Elevator company, which Is
located near Plattsmouth, Neb., a divi-
dend of 16 per cent, was declared and
he report showed more than 150,000
bushels of grain handled during 1911.
If only two cents more than old line
prices was paid per bushel this alona
would mean $3,000 for the grain grow-
ers of that section, not counting tha
increased prices that the old line buy-
ers were compelled to pay In order to
compete with the farmers' company.
Ate Matches to Avoid Prison.
Leavenworth, Kansas.—Daniel Bux-
ton, who was just received at the
state penitentiary, is in a dangerous
condition as a result of eating match
heads. Buxton was to serve from
one to ten years for felonious assault.
Passengers Were Grateful.
Oakley, Kansas.—One hundred and
twenty-five passengers who have been
marooned here on three Union Pacific
trains passed resolutions compliment-
ing the railway on its treatment of |
them during the blockade. All the
passengers signed their names to the
resolutions.
Joint Raid Failed.
Leavenworth, Kansas.—.lointkeepers
were warned of the coming of Attor-
ney General John Dawson to Leaven-
worth, consequently at only one place
liquor was found. Dawson was ac-
companied by several assistants.
Miners Killed by Snowslide.
Telluride, Colorado.—Four men are
dead, several are missing and one
man is seriously injured as the re-
sult of a snowsilde that swept down
at noon on the Black Bear mine near
here.
Keeps Both Wives.
Pittsburg, Kansas—Peter Sharp
filed a motion to dismiss bis action
fOr divorce from Celia Sharp the sec-
ond wife. His attorney said Sharp
would pay the accrued costs of the
action.
Co-operative Associations.
! There are several farmers' ex-
I changes (co-operative associations) In
i New Jersey which are exceedingly val-
■ uable In the business transactions of
| ihe members. These organizations
make It possible to purchase supplies
I In large amounts, thus securing the
j lowest rates. The selling advantages
are just as great. The whole scheme
Is highly beneficial to the community.
Why not have more farmers' ex-
changes In all parts of the country?
This Is a great movement and It de-
serves the most careful considera-
tion of all classes of producers.
A Labor-Saving Machine.
One of the big lifts on the farm Is
the machine which elevates corn to
the crib. A wagon load dumped Into
the box at one motion can be put Into
the crib In less time than three men
can shovel It.
CO-OPERATION IS BIG THING
It Is One of Farmers' Greatest Possl.
bllitiea and Will Give Them What
They Rightly Earn.
Agriculture was never of so much
Importance bb It Is today. And co-
operation among farmers offers one ot
the greatest possibilities of agricul-
ture today. Co-operation will give
tbe farmers that which they rightly
earn. Denmark has Increased tha
well-being of its people wonderfully
by co-operation. It can be done in
this country
President Waters, addressing the
Agricultural association—a student
organization—recently said these and
other pointed things. His subject was
"The Importance of the Farmer."
In the last 50 years, the president
said, the food supply has been
doubled. But the yield of every acra
has not been Increased proportionally.
The goal should be to obtain the high-
est yield possible for every acre with-
out making peasants of farm men and
women.
Meat Packing Plants.
The farmers of this country own and
operate 16 big meat packing plants.
The members of tbe Farmers' unloa
In the Bouth own and operate 5,600
manufacturing plants of various klnd
and the American Society of Equity
owns 4,300. The growth of these co-
operative plants is the most hopeful
sign for the American farmer.
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