The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 12, Ed. 1, Friday, December 7, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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THE FARMER IN WE3TERN
CANADA.
The Quality of No. 1 Hard Wheat
Cannot Be Beaten. '
The Canadian West In tho past flvo
or ten years has given a set back to
the theory that largo cities are tho
backbone of a country and a nation's
best asset. Hero wo have a country
where no city exceeds 100000 and
where only ono comes within easy
distance of that figure according to
the census just taken and whero no
other city reaches a population ex-
ceeding 15000. Tho places with a
population over 5000 can bo counted
upon tho fingers of ono hand and yet
the prosperity that provalls is some
thing unprecedented In tho history of i
all countries past or present.
Tho reason for this marvelous
prosperity is not hard to seek. Tho
largo majority of tho 810000 people
who Inhabit Manitoba Saskatchewan
and Alberta have gone on to tho farm
and have betaken themselves to tho
task of not only feeding and clothing
themselves but of raising food for
others loss happily circumstanced.
Tho crop of 190G although not ab-
normal is an eye-opener to many who
previously had given little thought to
the subject Ninety million bushels of
wheat at 70 cents per bushel $63000-
000; 76000000 bushels of oats at 30
cents per bushel $22800000; 17000-
000 bushels of barley at 40 cents per
bushel $6800000; makes a total of
$92600000. This is altogether outside
the root products; dairy produce and
the returns from the cattle trade; tho
beet sugar Industry and tho various
other by-products of mixed farming.
"When such returns are obtainable
from tho soil it is not to bo wondered
at that many are leaving the congest-
ed districts of the eayst to take upon
themselves the life of tho prairie farm
and the labor of the housbandman.
With tho construction of additional
railroads new avenues for agricultur-
al enterprise are opening up and im-
proved opportunities are offered to tho
settler who understands prairie farm-
ing and is willing to do his part In
building up the now country.
This Is tho theme that Mr. J. J. Hill
tho veteran railroad builder In the
West has laid before the people In a
series of addresses which he has
given at various points during tho
past few months and having been
for so long Identified with tho devel
opment of tho West there aro few
men better qualified than ho to ex-
press an opinion upon it. Take care
of the country says he and the cities
will take care of themselves.
The farmers of tho Western States
and the Canadian West are more
prosperous than ever before and
when it comes to measuring up re-
sults tho Canadian appears to have
somewhat the better of it. His land
Is cheaper in fact the government
continues to give freo homesteads to
settlors and tho returns per aero aro
heavier when tho crop Is harvested.
Farming land in tho Western States
runs from $60 to $150 an aero and up
whereas equally good soil may bo pur-
chased in Canada for $8 to $15 por
acre within easy roach of a shipping
point and much of this is available
for freo homesteadlng. Tho quality of
tho Canadian No. 1 hard whoat can-
not bo beaten and tho returns to the
aero aro soveral bushels bettor than
on this side of tho lino; tho soil and
climate of that country being peculiar-
ly adapted to wheat growing.
Tho fact is evidently appreciated
by tho largo number of American
farmers who havo in tho past two or
three years settled in tho Canadian
West. Tho agents of tho Canadian
Government whoso address will bo
found elsow"hero advlso us that for
tho fiscal year 1904-5 tho records
show that 43543 Americans settled in
.Canada and in 1905-6 tho number
reached 57796. From all of which it
appears that at present there is a
good thing In farming in Western
Canada and that the American farm-
er is not Blow to avail himself of it.
Almost any one can be a power for
evil but it takes a man among nieu
to bo a power for good.
New State Topics
A fire at Krobs on Monday morn-
ing caused $5000 worth of damage.
Tho Tulsa World has purchasod a
$12000 Duplex color press.
Tho National Good Roads con-
vention is now in full swing in Muskogee.
Frank James tho old tlmo bandit
is spending tho winter to Cement
Oklahoma.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND FINE ART.
A largo cotton warehouse Is being
built at Hastings by the Farmors'
union.
Tho Federation of Women's club3
of Oklahoma has inaugorated a cam-
paign for compulsory education in
tho new state.
Fireman Joo Douglass who was
Injured in tho wreck on tho Katy
near Checotah recently died later
of his injuries.
Tho six month's old child of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Millsaps who live
near Chicotah fell into a fire place
last week and was badly burned
about the head.
Ihe last of the old town of Jet
has disappeared and the site is now
but a great stretch if weeds. Tho
last remaining evidence that of John
Slciiics. was removed Friday.
Camera Pictures Much More Than Me-
chanical Reproduction.
Fow porsons could bo found who
would deny tho claims of photography
to rank among tho flno arts when
sklllully used and proporly controlled
sinco tho photography of of to-day Is
something more than a mechanical re-
production. The individuality of tho
photographer is being expressed in
his work almost as much as is that of
the paintor. Tho palntor still has tho
advantage for whilo ho may give us
an impression fuller than that mado by
nature upon tho oyo the photbgraphor
can deal only with that which Is ob-
served with such unerring fldollty and
skill by a mechanical eye. Composi-
tion is therefore ono of tho necessary
principles to tho photographor who
thus supplies tho mechanical oyo with
a mind yet ho must study lighting at
different hours of the day and varying
weather conditions that he may know
tho best effects to bo obtained. Many
otherwise successful photographers
' need to realize that scientific accuracy
Is not necessarily artistic truth so
that while one actualizes tho definlto
sharpness may bo softenod and tho ef-
fect enhanced. Home Magazine.
Judge Hoyt U. S. Commissioner
at Muskogee in the past nine
months has tried and disposed of
841 civil cases 271 felony cases 203
misdemeanor cases or a grand total
of 1305 cases.
A surveying party is at work in
the vicinity of Vinita. It is thought
the party is at work on the line
from Pittsburg Kan. to the Gulf
which road passes through Muskogee.
Rigid Rules for Chauffeurs.
According to now regulations in
France no ono will in futuro bo grant
ed an automobile license who Is not
able to provo In addition to tho pos-
session of tho necoBsary technical
knowledge exemption from any physi-
' cal infirmity which would tend to In-
volve unfitness for tho control of an
automobile. Porsons whoso eyesight
is impaired whoso hearing is not
acuto whoso hand is rendered un-
i steady by drinking habits or who suffer
from fits of nervousness will not be
allowed to add to the list of accidents.
GAINED 34 POUNDS
Persistent Anaemia Cured by Drw
Williams' Pink Pills After Other
Romedlos Had Failed.
" Whon I began taking Dr. Williams
Pink Pills" says Mrs. Nathaniel Field
of St. Albans Somerset county Maine
"I was tho palest most bloodless person
you could inmglno. My tongue and
gums woro colorless and my fingers and
ears wcro liko wax. I had two doctors
and thoy pronounced my troublo aueoinia.
I had spoils of vomiting could not eat
in fact did not daro to I had such dis-
tress nf tor eating. My stomach wa fillooV
with gas which causod mo awful agony.
Tho baokncho I suffered was at times
almost unbearable and tho least oxcrtion
mado my heart Heat so fast that I could
hardly brcatho. But tho worst of all waa
tho splitting nouralgia hoadaoho which
novcrleftiuoforsovcn weeks. About this
timo I had had soveral numb spoils. My
limbs would bo cold and without any
fooling and tho most deathly sensations
would como over mo.
"Nothing hud helped mo until I began
taking DrAVilliiuns' Pink Pills in fact
I hud grown wor.so ovory day. After I
had taken tho pills n short timo I conld
soo that thoy woro bonofitiug me and
ono morning I awoko outiroly freo from
pain. Tho distress after eating disap-
peared and in threo weeks I could eat
anything I wanted and suitor no iuoon-
vouionco. I also slept soundly. I have
tnkou sovoral boxes of tho pills and have
gained in weight from 120 to 154 pounds
and am porfcotly well now."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills euro anosmia
becauso thoy actually nialto now blood.
For rhoumatisin indigestion nervous
hendachos and many forms of weakness
thoy aro recommended ovon if ordinary
medicines havo failed. Thoy are Bold by
all druggists or will bosout postpaid on
recoipt of prico CO conts por box sis
boxes for $2.C0 by tho Dr. Williams
Mediciuo Company Schoncctady N. Y.
King Edward's Confidant.
Lord Knollys King Edward's pri-
vate secretary for tho past 36 years
I is the only man from whom his majea
Ike Coombs a carpenter who has ty nas no seCrets. Lord Knollys con-
beon living in the territory for 35 i trola tno klng's onormous correspond-
SS3!.w1K.Tl2KlT ir. Bt I em aldod by a corps of assistants.
captured after a desperato light with
a deputy marshal.
A special payment will bo made to
. the Osage Indians on Decombor 3 on
J which occasion tho sum of $310000
will bo disbursed by Agent lied Mil-
lard y0000 interests $70000
grass money and $175000 royalty
on oil.
A man without a wlfo is a balloon
without an anchor.
HIS TROUBLE WAS INTERNAL.
LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
The Story of Postum Cereal In Words
and Pictures.
Tulsa has launched a boom for the
first Democratic state convention ot
Greater Oklahoma and has the phim-
iso of Chairman Dunn of tho state ' by tho Company which tolls and 11
campaign committee that he will use iitHtrateH. tho storv of thlB remark
The growth of tho Postum Coreal
Co. is liko a fairy talo but it is truo
every word of it.
"Tho Door Unbolted" is tho title of
a charming llttlo booklot just Issued
his influence to secure 'the conven-
tion lor the new state oil metropolis.
Professor Alva Presnell of Grand
has planted twenty-five pounds of lo-
cust seed on his farm just north of
tho town and opects to have a fino
forest of locust trees within three
cars and ono that will later provo
of considerable commercial value.
Mike Cassldy and a large force of
1 Greeks aro ballasting tho main lino
of tho Rock Island from Okarcho to
El Itono. All of tho old mud road
bed to a depth of four Inches Is bo-
Ing removed and red ballast from
cho pits near Oklahoma City is be-
ing put In its place.
i
Max West a special agent of tho
bureau of Commerce and Labor Is
In tho territory gathering data In
regard to oil conditions. It is
thought tho information ho gleans
Will bo used against tho Standard
1 Oil company in tho action brought
against that company by tho federal
government.
ThleveB drlvo thirty head of
horses out of Hardy Brlggs' pasture
1 twolve miles south of Shawnee but
they were frelghtened into abandon-
ing tho drove about four miles
further south when neighbors who
had recoguled tho stock as it passed
k attacked tho band.
ablo growth. It takes tho reader from
the llttlo white barn in which tho
business was started Jan. 1 1805
through the palatial offices and great
factory buildings of tho "White City"
that comprise Postumvillo Battle
Creek Mich.
Tho llttlo whlto barn so carofully
preserved is a most interesting build-
ing for It represents tho humblo be-
ginning of ono of tho country's great-
est manufacturing enterprises of to-
day an entorprlso that has grown
from this llttlo barn to a wholo city
of factory buildings within but llttlo
xnoro than ten years.
No less Interesting is tho quaint of-
ficial homo of tho Postum Coreal Co.
Tho general ofilco building of Mr. Post
and his associates is a reproduction of
tho Shakespeare houso at Stratford-on-Avon
and upon tho houso and its
furnishings han boon expended vast
sums of monoy until tho rooms aro
moro liko tho drawing rooms of tho
mansions of our multi-millionaires
than liko offices.
That Mr. Post has believed thor-
oughly in tho Idea of giving to his
employes attractive and healthful
work rooms is proven not only by tho
goneral ofilco building of tho Company
and its furnishings but by his fac-
tories as well and of all of these
things this beautiful little booklet tells
the interesting story. It will be gent
to anyone on request
Indian Chief Had Peculiar Ideas About
Hydrophobia.
Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City waa
describing the cosmopolitan throngs
that visit his famous and gay resort
"Every nationality comes hore" ho
said. "Greeks Turks Hindoos Chi
nese Moors they all como.
"I was talking tho othor day to on
of the physicians of tho Pasteur In-
stitute tho hospital you know for
the prevention and euro of hydropho-
bia. The Pasteur Institute reminded!
me of Atlantic City Its visitors scorned-
to bo of such a diversified character.
"Tho physician told mo about an In-
dian chief who had come to him for
treatment last year.
" 'My name' said the chief 'is War-
Eagle. Pleaso tako mo in hand. I
fear I am getting hydrophobia.'
" Havo you been bitten' the physic-
ian asked 'by a mad dog?'
"'No't exactly bitten' War Eagle
answered 'but I havo the gravest sus-
picions about a black poodle that waa
served to me in a ragout last Friday
afternoon.' H
TEN YEARS OF PAIN.
Unable to Do Even Housework
cause of Kidney Troubles.
Be-
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich of Clinton
street Napoleon O. says: "For fif
teen years I was a
great sufforer from
kidney troubles. My
back pained me ter-
ribly. Every turn
or movo caused
sharp shooting
pains. My eyesight1
was poor dark
spots appeared be
fore mo and I had dizzy spells. For
ten years I could not do housework
and for two years did not got out of
tho houso. Tho kidney secretion!
wero Irregular and doctors were not
helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills
brought me quick rollof and finally
cured me. They savod my life."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo N. Y.
Tight collars causo short sight
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