Sand Springs Leader (Sand Springs, Okla.), Vol. [1], No. [1], Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1914 Page: 2 of 3
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THE SAND SPRINGS LEADER
As Told in a
Few Words
Good and Nowtf Items
of General Interest Con-
densed to Small Space
FOREIGN.
Cable advices from Manaos. Brazil,
•late that T. Roosevelt had sailed for
New York, It Is eapected he will ar-
rive there about May 20.
The task of swarding the city of
Vera Crut and Its environs was taken
over from the navy by llrls- <Jen.
Frederick Funston und the Fifth In*
funtry brigade of the United Slates
army.
Persistent reports continue to cir-
culate that tleneral Huerta intends
to retire from the provisional presi-
dency of Mexico on condition that he
be assured a safe conduct to a port
and be placed on board a foreign wur-
ship.
Madame Lillian Nordics, who ar-
rived at Ratavla, Java, quite ill. near-
ly a month ago, after being stricken
with pneumonia on Thursday Island
after a shipwreck, had a relapse and
is sinking. Doctors give up all hope
«f her recovery.
Rebel forces have occupied Piedras
Negras. General Guarjardo, the fed
eral commander, whose forces were
defeated at Allende and who was
wounded in the battle died near the
Rio Grande as he was being brought
to the American side.
The plight of poor Japanese In the
nortli who have been suffering from
famine has been increased by the dis-
astrous earthquake of March which
caused great devastation in a zone of
about 20 miles square around Akita on
the island of Hondo.
Huerta ordered the release of Dr.
Edward Ryan, an American Red Cross
•official, who was threatened with ex-
ecution as a spy in Zacatecas. The
release was ordered after urgent per-
sonal representations to President
Huerta by William W. Canada, the
American consul.
Saltillo, principal city of the state
of Coahuila, where the remnants of
various federal forces rallied after
their defeats at Torreon, Monterey
and other lesser strongholds, is re-
ported to have been evacuated April
27, the troops retiring to San Luis
Potosi in the state of that name, about
.300 miles south.
In the Tampico and Panuco region
many thousands of barrels of oil are
being lost daily because of no effective
way of stopping the flow. Oil experts
predict that within a week the retain-
ing reserv'oirs will overflow. A deluge
of oil will be precipitated into the
rivers and should this catch fire Tam-
pico would be threatened with de-
struction.
Another dscrwaaa of five r»oti in
erode oil In tho Kanas*-Oklahoma
Helds waa announced, making tlu»
quotation seventy-live cents.
Under s heavy military guard, ftooo
Mexican federal soldiers with their
wives and children, entrained at El
] Paso fur Fort Wiugste. N M
Thirty-three gambling devices
valued at 97000 confiscated by 8tale‘s
Attorney Webb and aids. In a recent
raid on road houses, were burned st
East 8t. Louis.
A man who said he was W. A. War
ren. Wyoming sheep man, reported
to the police he was held up by three
men al Kansas City and robbed of
Idl.OOo in notes and drafts.
Another reduction of five cents a
barrel was made on the Lima and
Princeton oils. Also a reduction of
ten cents was made on the Wooeter
oil and a 9 cent reduction on Cush-
Inf.
The Grand Union Hotel, New York,
as much of a landmark In the pant
twenty years as the old Astor house,
has closed its doors. The city Is go-
ing to utilise the site for subway pur-
poses.
Contracts for construction of forty
big freight locomotives for the Nor-
folk and Western railroad were
awarded to the Baldwin Locomotive
Co, Cost of the locomotives will ap-
proximate $1,01)0.090.
William Vlnvent Astor and Mins
Helen Dlnstnore of Huntington. W.
\ a., were married lust Thursday at
Etaatsburg, N. Y., in the big oak
paneled library of Hopeland House,
the home of the bride's parents.
Three white persons and a half
dozen negroes were Injured and
twelve residences demolished by a
cyclone near Murfeesboro. Ark. All
the persons injured were crushed be-
neath the ruins of theis homes. Four
of the negroes probably will die.
Special squads of police were de-
tailed at Chicago to patrol the side-
walks and prevent disorder in front
of 20 loop restaurants from which 2t»«J
union waitresses walked out when
their leaders failed in negotiating an
$8 wage for a six-day week.
Burk Burnett of Fort Worth, has
begun stocking his big 6,666 ranch
in King county, Texas, with blooded
tsallions and mares of tht type for
United States cavalry animals. He
believes that cavalry horses will be
in demand by Uncle Sam shortly, ow-
ing to the disagreement with Mexico.
Upton Sinclair and four women, ar-
rested in front of the Standard Oil
building at New York, while protest
ing against the policy of John D
Rockefeller, Jr., in the Colorado mine
war, were found guilty of disorderly
conduct and each fined three dollars
with the alternative of three days in
jail.
WIDE USE OF ALFALFA
INOW9 REMARKABLE ADAPTA
• ILITY TO VARIOUS CLIMATES.
Now On# of Staple Forage Crops of
Old World and Ranks Among Moot
Important LtgumM of Wool
om Homlophoro.
to
Asia, but front thoro It has been ear
rlod to practically every part of the
world where agricultural pursuits are
Important It la now one of the ota-
|
$o far aa climate la concerned at
falls can bo grown In every stale la
the t titoo It la. however, very ea-
sting In the bnmld sections aa to soil
I and i rest went The hardy strains a/e
1 able to withstand the severe winter*
i of the jvorth Central stales It la
raised without Irrigation la seml arld |
sections where the rainfall la only M
tneboo a year, and also la the Gulf
statoe where the annual rainfall may
amount to 9 t Inches A rainfall of 39
Inches a year la ample for this crop,
and an amount In excess of this la
The original borne of alfalfa appears * usually a detriment In moist dl-
have been southwest of central mates the soil la frequently sour, and
the clay soils especially are apt to be
Uk> poorly drained. In eucb a climate
weeds and fungus diseases prove
much more Injurious than under lees
pie forage crop* of every continent I humid conditions. Although tho
of tbs old world and easily takes adaptability of alfalfa la great, yet In
front rank aa the moat Important Is- the areas not perfectly suited to Its
numinous forage crop of the western | successful production care la noceo
hemisphere. The uatne "alfalfa" Is sary to provide the vory favorable con-
of Arabic origin and means "the beat | lltlona required by the young plants
fodder." The southern European I in order to overcome the natural
name of "lucerne" waa formerly ap ! drawbacks,
piled to tho plant In the eastern part ! ■■ ........
of the United Htate. and In Utah, but TAKING THE HORSE’S PULSE
this name has practically given way to
the name "alfalfa," under which It
waa introduced by the Spaniards.
The Fenians were apparently tho
first nation which grew this plant.
They took It with thorn when they in-
vaded Greece about 490 B. C. The In-
troduction of alfalfa Into Spain was
probably during the Moorish invasion
in the eighth century A. D. The
Spaniards introduced It Into Mexico
and South America during the six-
teenth century. It is reported to have
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Members of the medical corps of
the Illinois National Guard have be-
gun to innoculate the I. N. G. mem-
bers with typhoid malaria serum.
Thos. H. West and Albert T. Per-
kins signed as members of the board
•of directors of the Frisco railroad and
were replaced by Murray Carleton
and George W. Simmons.
Miss Ethel Griffy, 18, was* shot and
killed and her mother, Mrs. W. B.
Griffy, fatally wounded, at Marion-
ville, Mo. Marion Branstetter, arrest-
ed by Aurora authorities, confessed
to killing Miss Griffy, whose sweet-
heart he had been.
George H. Burdick, former city edi-
tor of the New York Tribune and Wil-
liam L. Curtin, a reporter on that
paper, were ordered committed to jail
and fined $500 each by Judge Hand
in the federal court at New York for
refusing to divulge the source of news
stories concerning smuggling by ex-
Ongressman Littauer.
Federal troops from Fort Russell
arrived in the Colorado strike region
and quiet now prevails generally
throughout the district. One little
skirmish occurred at Forbes, where
the boarding house had been burned
during a brief engagement. The strik-
ers then retired upon the approach
of the militia.
More than 200 structural steel work-
.ers in a district comprising western
Missouri, eastern Kansas, western
Arkansas, and Oklahoma walked out
last week in response to a strike or-
der issued by the Kansas City union
of the International Association of
Charles C. Roystone, an aviator, fell
800 feet at Dominguez Junction south
of Los Angeles and was so badly in-
jured that he died shortly afterward.
Roystone, flying a monoplane, was on
his way to San Diego to demonstrate
an aerial bomb hurling device to the
navy officers at the government avia-
tion camp.
WASHINGTON.
Marquis Confalioneri, Italian am-
bassador to the United States, has
received instructions from the Italian
government to take measures for the
protection of Italian subjects and
their interests in connection with the
Colorado mine troubles.
With the approval of Postmaster
General Burleson, Senator Smith of
Georgia introduced a resolution call-
ing on the joint postal committee for
a report on the joint investigation of
the cost of transporting mail. Sen-
ator Smith said this information might
enable the government to reduce the
parcels post rates.
President Wilson has extended the
protecting arm of the federal guard to
the state of Colorado where, because
of riots and pitched battles between
strikebreakers and striking miners,
Governor Ammons had found the state
militia unable to cope w’ith the situa-
tion and asked for help. The Colo-
rado delegation in congress, mine
owners and miners themselves joined
in the request.
Vigorous objections were urged by
shippers before the interstate com-
merce commission to the proposed 5
per cent Increase in freight rates by
eastern railroads. Generally it was
maintained by counsel that the roads,
through modern methods of handling
and transporting freight, could per-
form service more cheaply than form-
erly and that instead of increasing
rates they ought to make reduction.
The contested election case of John
J. Carney, Democrat, against Dick T.
Morgan. Republican, attacking the
Stacking Alfalfa—The Upright Piece
Is Made to Turn Freely, and the
Pulley at the Base Is so Placed That
aa the Load Is Drawn Up the Rope
Pulls the Arm Around so That the
Hay Is Deposited In the Center of
the Stack.
been carried northward from Old Mex-
ico Into what is now the southern por-
tion of the United States, but it was
not until 1854, when it was taken to
San Francisco from Chile, that its
rapid extension over the irrigated sec-
tions of the western states com-
menced. Its culture has since been
extended to many of the nonirrigated
sections of the West.
The history of alfalfa in the east-
ern states runs back for at least two
centuries, as the colonists made re-
peated attempts to establish it. The
attempts on the part of the Ameri-
can colonists to establish it were un-
successful. The limestone region of
central New York probably consti-
tutes the area of its longest continued
culture in any section of the East. In
South Carolina there is a field reported
to be 75 years old. Alfalfa has also *
been grown locally in most of the
eastern states for many years. The
black prairie soils of Alabama and
Mississippi are proving especially
adapted to alfalfa. The successful
districts have usually been the some-
what limited area of limestone soils
where the conditions are especially
suited to the plant.
The recent efforts looking to Its fur-
ther extension throughout the East
and South indicate that the chances
of success Increase greatly as the spe-
cial requirements for its production
are understood and provided for.
Valuable Meana of Assistance In As-
certaining the Nature and Prog-
ress of Disease.
The pulse Is duo to an automatic ex-
pansion and relaxation In the wall of
un elastic tube—tho artery—caused
by the Jets of blood pumped Into these
vestals by means of a force pump—
the heart
Each Btroke of the heart is equal to
one pulsation, viz: a rising and falling
of the arterial wall.
In health the average number of
pulse beats per minute is about 36 to
40. Tho larger the horse, the slower
or fewer the number of beats per min-
ute.
A very good situation to take the
pulse is at the underside of the Jaw.
By rolling the tips of the fingers about
a little they can be brought on to the
blood vessel.
Don’t press too irmly, nor yet too
lightly. The animal must be kept still
and quiet. In point of importance, the
“character” of the pulse muBt be the
best guide. That is to say, the blood
vessel may impress us as feeling hard,
soft, full, quick, small, wiry, regular
or irregular.
In pulmonary apoplexy It may be
beating 120 times per minute.
When properly taken it forms a
valuable means of assistance in ascer-
taining the nature and progress of
disease.
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FEELS LIKE
A NEW WOMAN
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table Compound Dispelled
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and Dizziness.
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for I have taken It
a t different times
and It always re-
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other medlclnsa
failed, and when X
hear a woman com-
plain I always rec-
ommend IL Last win-
ter 1 waa attacked
with a severe case of organic weakness.
I had backacho, pains in my hipa and
over my kidneys, headache, dizziness,
lassitude, hod no energy, limbs ached
and I wua always tired. 1 was hardly
able to do my housework. I had taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound on one other occasion, and it had
helped mo so I took It again and it has
built mo up, until now I feel like a new
woman. You have my hearty consent
to use my name and testimonial in any
way and I hope it will benefit suffering
women."—Mrs. ORPHA TURNER, 431 S.
Wayne SL, Piqua, Ohio.
Women who are suffering from those
distressing ills peculiar to their sex
should not doubt the ability of Lydia EX
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to re-
store their health. ,
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If you want apodal advice
writ© to Lydia K. Plnkliam Med-
icine CoM (confidential) Lynn,
Mans. Your letter will beopened,
read and answered by a woman
and held in strict confidence.
Constructed So That Teams May Be
Driven Through and Vehicles
Left in Proper Places.
All farm buildings should be con-
structed with a view to economy in
expense and convenience in use. A
most excellent wagon shed is so con-
structed that the teams may be driven
A Convenient Wagon Shed.
through the shed and the wagons left
standing in their proper places. No
time and labor are consumed In pull-
ing or pushing the wagons into place.
Extra Early Vegetables.
Beans, beets, cucumbers, lettuce,
radishes: Start in window garden and
transplant outdoors.
Peas and corn: “Sprouts" in moist
sand in the cellar and sprinkle in the
rows, being careful not to break the
shoots.
Tomatoes: Start In the house in
February and keep potted till the end
of May.
Why Suffer From Headaches,
Neuralgia, Rheumatism
Hunt's Lightning Oil quickly relieves
the pain. The Hurting and Aching stop
almost instantly. A truly wonderful remedy
for those who suffer. It is astonishing how
the pain fades away the moment Hunt's
Lightning Oil comes in contact with iL
So many people are praising it, that you
can no longer doubt. For Cuts, Burns,
Bruises and Sprains it is simply fine. All
dealers sell Hunt's Llfjhtnlnti Oil in
25 and 50 cent bottles or by mail from
A. B. Richards Medicine Co.
Sherman Texas
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS.
Purely vegetable
—act surely and
gently on the
liver. Cure
Biliousness,
Head-
ache,
Dizzi-
ness, and Indigestion. They do their duty.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
GARDEN FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Quick Growing Is Secret of Tender
Crispness of Salad Plants—Keep
the Soil Moist.
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers j validity of the latter's election to Lie
to enforce a demand for an increase
in wages from $5 to $6 a day. Im-
portant construction work now in
r progress in Kansas City, St. Joseph,
“ Mo.. Van Buren, Ark- Muskogee and
Tulsa. Oka., will be affected, union
leaders said.
house from the Second Oklahoma
congressional district, was heard last
week by the house elections commit
tee. Counsel for Carney contended
that 900 negroes illegally voted for
Morgan and that fraud and intimi-
dation were used against their client.
(By L. E. CHAPIN.)
Among less common sorts aspara-
gus-beets are very desirable, as the
entire plant may be cooked for greens
when young, or the large ribs and
veins from the older leaves may be
cooked and served as asparagus.
Brussels sprouts belong to the cab-
bage family and the tiny heads that
form on the stalks are more delicate
in flavor than most cabbage.
Kohlrabi seems like a cross between
a cabbage and a turnip, but if cooked
when young and tender has a flavor
like cauliflower.
Fettlcus (corn salad) may be sown
and treated the same as spinach and
furnishes one of the very early spring
salads.
Leeks are as easily grown as onions
and being less in flavor are more de-
sirable for some purposes.
Endive is another very fine salad
plant, and the seeds may be sown as
late as August for plants to use dur
ing the fall.
Dandelions, of the improved, large-
leaved sorts are among the finest sal-
ad plants, and if cut freely for use
there is no danger of their becoming
a nuisance.
Celeriac (turnip rooted celery) is
finer for flavoring soups than the
stalk-celery, and may be served in va-
rious ways.
Winter onions are very desirable
because of the fact that when once
planted they come up year after year
as soon as the frost is out of the
ground, and are ready for use in two
or three weeks.
Okra is less well known than it
should be. It is fine for use in soups,
stews and salads.
With all these (and other salad
plants), quick growing is the secret of
tender crispness and to secure It, the
soil must be rich, and have plenty of
moisture.
Catalogues and seed packets fur-
nish cultural directions and are ex-
plicit and easily followed.
135 BUSHELS PER ACRE!
wai the yield of WHEAT
........ »> n 1.1, |i 1
on many farms in
Western Canada in
1913, some yields
being reported a*
high a. 50 btuhela
per acre. As high
as 100 bushels were
recorded in some
districts for oats.
50 buthele for barley and
from 10 to 20 bus. for flex.
J. Keys arrived in the
country 5 years ago from
Denmark with very little
means. He homesteaded,
worked hard, is now the
owner of 320 acres of land,
in 19X3 had a crop of 200
acres, which will realize him
about 94.000. His wheat
weighed 68 lb*, to the buebei
and averaged over >5 buaheb
to the ecre.
Thousands of similar in-
stances might be related of the ;
homesteaders in Manitoba. Sas-
katchewan and Alberta.
The crop of 1913 was an abun-
dant one everywhere w Western .
' Canada.
Ask for descriptive literature aad
(educed railway rates. Apply to -4
Superintendent of Immigration. ,1
Ottawa, Canada, or \V
G. A. COOK.
12S ttk STREET, U«ui CfTT,
Canadian Government Agent
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