Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1917 Page: 4 of 6
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THE COYLE OLIPPEJ5
DIES SUDDENLY
FAMOUS KANSAS SOLDIER
VICTIM OF HEART TROU-
BLE AT SAN ANTONIO
"HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS”
Were the Last Words of the Man Who
Captured Aguinaldo, bought With
the Cubans and Held the Border
In Check for Two Years.
San Antonio. — General Frederick
Funs ton, commander of the southern
flepartment since February. 1915, died
suddenly of heart disease at the St.
Anthony hotel here a few minutes aft-
•r he had finished dinner, lie col
lapsed while seated in the lobby of
the hotel talking with friends, and
was playing with little Inez Silver-
berg of Des Moines, Iowa, a guest
with her parents at the hotel, when
be fell unconscious.
Death was almost Instantaneous.
General Funston was 51 years old.
Ever since March, 1916, when lie was
placed in command of all United
States forces on the Mexican border
General Funston bad worked at an un-
usual pace. At critical times, In bor-
der developments, ho frequently re-
mained on duty twenty hours of the
twenty-four. Only recently General
Funston returned from an inspection
trip which took him as far as No-
gales, Ariz. That, with one trip to
Brownsville. Texas, and a brief visit
to Austin, Texas, were the only occa
aions when he has been absent from
his desk since the border trouble
developed.
Two weeks ago General Funston
Buffered an attack of indigestion. To
use his own expression: ‘‘I fought it
out at once.” Later he placed him
uelf under care of Lieut. Col. M. W.
Ireland of the medical corps, southern
division, and regained normal health.
“How Beautiful It Is!”
General Funston's last words be-
fore he became unconscious were:
"How beautiful it is!” He referred
to the “Beautiful Blue Danube” waltz,
which the hotel orchestra was playing.
Besides his wife, General Funston
Is survived by three children—Fred-
was the achievement which brought
Funston prominently to tbV attention
of the American people, but he per-
formed many services for his country
besides that w hich were probably more
diflicult. llis administration of af-
fairs in Vera Cruz, where ho carried
out the president’s orders with a firm
hand, simply holding the city when
every influence about hinj was center-
ed upon forcing the American army
into actual lighting with the Mexicans,
probably was the most notable service
of Ills career.
First Work as Scientist.
Funston, a nativo of Ohio, and
reared on a Kansas farm, had a re-
markable’career before be became a
soldier. Few people know that his
first work was as a scientist with a
bent toward botany. A* an agent of
the department of agriculture, in 1891
he took part in the Death Valley ex-
pedition; then he explored Alaska and
the British Northwest and crossed
Alaska to the Arctic ocean and trav-
eled from the Makenzie river to Ber-
ing sea—a journey of about 3,500
milos. He camped in the Klondike
during the winter of 1893 and then
alone floated down mo Yukon in a
Waste Land and Wasted
and on farms
tfcJiries Sliall
r
A
livery non-producing acre
of tillable land that profit-
ably can be made produc-
tive is a loafer acre and
should either be put to
work or sold
wm
Gen. John J. Pershing
canoe, a journey of hundreds of milei
through a wilderness without seeing
another living soul. Soon after he re
signed from the department of agri
culture and traveled in Mexico.
erz
Joined Cuban Army.
When the last Cuban Insurrection
broke out Funston applied to the
revolutionary junta for service, foi
J which the rebel army suspected him
^"m i of being a spy or an agent of the
' V ■ v j United States running down violations
W I of neutra'ity laws. Finally he con-
vinced them of his intentions, and for
many weeks in rooms in an out-of-the-
way street on the lower east side of
New' York Funston instructed recruits
In the Handling of machine guns of
| which the Cubans were ignorant.
Soon afterward, he was taken into
the Cuban army with a commission.
When he won his rank of brigadier
as a reward for his capture of Agui-
naldo. his active service in the regu-
lar United States army began. He
speedily reached the top of the list
of brigadiers, but when there were
vacancies in the list of major generals
he was passed over six times by Presi-
dents Roosevelt and Taft. At times
I Funston almost despaired of further
promotion, but with characteristic
tenaMty ho stuck to the army.
To Watch and Wait.
When Vera Cruz was occupied. Ma-
jor General Wood, chief of staff, !m
mediately selected Funston as the log
Iical man for the held command. Ev-
ery army officer expected there would
Cuba, Philippines, Mexico. |be fighting of the hard, guerrilla kind
Washington.—Major Gekieral Fun- !learned in the Philippines and every
•ton’s sudden death came as a great one agreed that when Funston landed
•hock to high officials of the army in Vera Cruz he "would start some-
and to President Wilson He was thing.”
one of the distinguished commanders But when Funston unloaded his
of the service and one of whom great troops and relieved the navy of pos-
things were expected in the future, session of the city, he learned that
The youngest major general in the President Wilson’s orders were that
line, vigorous and apparently health there were to he no aggressive move
ful, be had been counted for many ments; that the array was to watch
more years of active service. and wait.
Succeeded by Pershing. Every provocation to spur a fight-
Major General Pershing, who has!,nK man ,r> ao"on was *,ven' bl" F»n-
/V \ THE average American farm
V/ there are certain waste arcus of
land. Some of these can be brought
under the plow by using proper meth-
ods and a sufficient outlay of capital,
but others cannot be made tillable by ,
any reasonable expenditure of effort
or money. Of the latter, certain areas
may be made productive by pasturing
or giving them over to the production
of timber. Many waste areas, how-
ever, owing to natural conditions, can
never be profitably reclaimed, no mat-
ter how efficiently the land may hi- 1
managed.
Certain other areas, found on al- |
most ali farms, may be termed wasted
areas. That Is, they are misused In j
such fashion that they produce noth-
ing that adds to the farm income.
These two classes of waste and wasted
land, not being productive of Income,
may be classed as nonproductive farm
land.
An Important question to one who
Is considering leasing or buying a
farm Is, what proportion of the land
Is nonproductive? And tills question
Is almost equally important to the man
who owns or operates a farm. In the j
latter case the question might better I
take this form: What per cent of ray]
land is adding nothing to my income?
On farms where land is cheap this is
not a vital consideration, as the inter-
est on the capital invested in the non-
productive portion of the farm land Is
not great; but as lands become higher
In price it becomes more neoessnry to
study efficiency in the use of farm
land In order to avoid the loss entailed
by having much capital Invested in
nonproductive land.
Every acre of nonproducing tillable
land should he put to work or sold.
Many farmers would make more
money If their business were larger,
but the size of a farm, from a financial
standpoint, is measured not by the
number of acres embraced in it but
by the number that are producing
crops, pasturing animals economi-
cally, or supporting a growth of mar-
ketable forest products. Nonproduc-
tive acres are loafer acres, and the
money tied up In them is dead capital.
On every farm, however, there are
certain areas necessarily devoted to
nonproductive purposes. Fences, j
ditches, lanes, and building lots pro- !
duee nothing themselves, hut they are !
frequently essential to production on ;
the rest of the farm. Nevertheless, they
may occupy in the aggregate a consid-
erable percentage of the available
PLAN OF A FARM IN
MONROE. COUNTY, Tvi t W YORK.
SHOWING FARM LANE
CmXr
f ORCMAMO
PLAN OF SAME. FARM
AFTER
ELIMINATION OF LANE
sail iii the saving of much land now
devoted to these unproductive uses, a
more diflicult problem is presented by
waste land—land that Is rendered un-
tiliable by swamps, ravines, rocl s,
slopes, etc., woodland that produces
nothing salable, and pastures that are
too poor to he profitable. Some areas
are, of course, hopeless, and in that
case they should be left out of the
reckoning altogether. Before this is
done, however, it will pay to look into
the possibilities of profitable reclama-
tion. Many untillable fields, for ex-
ample, may be turned into productive
pastures, or if they will not grow
enough grass to make this economical
they can be used for the production
of timber. On the other hand, it fre-
quently happens that woodlots which
yield nothing but a little firewood for
home consumption are permitted tq
occupy valuable land. In deciding
whether such lots should be cleared
and tilled, the cost of clearing, the in-
creased value of the cleared land, the
interest on the investment, the salable
value of the timber products, and the
added expense for firewood which will
follow the disappearance of the tim-
ber must all bo taken into account.
With unwooded areas, the advisability
of bringing them under the plow may
he determined by comparing the prob-
able cost with the market price of
good arable land in the neighborhood.
Obviously, the higher the price of
land rises the more incentive there is
for the farmer to avoid waste in the
utilization of it. It is significant, how-
ever, that investigations of the de-
partment of agriculture have shown
that, Irrespective of the price, tenants
put a greater part of their laud to
productive use than owners. The ten-
ant pays rent for each acre and he
cannot afford to have any of them
idle. On the other hand, the man who
has no rent to pay may be able to get
along on the produce of a part only of
Gen. Frederick Funston
•rick, Jr., 10 years old; Barbara,
years old, and Elizabeth, 8 months old.
General Funston’s death was caused
by angina sclerosis of the arteries of j
the heart. Death was almost inline-;
dlate and without pain.
Scot* I* • 400'
FARM&TtAO ON A GENESEE COUNTY N.Y FARM
TOTAL FARM ARIA
FARMSTEAD
2SE..OOA.
yzo 0*
Scat* i* • 400*
FARMSTEAD ON AN ONONOAOA CfUMTV N.l FAR A
TOTAL-FARM AREA I9S.OOA.
FARMSTEAD .8* *
been in command of the El Paso dis-
trict since the withdrawal of the
American expedition from Mexico,
automatically will succeed to the du-
ties of gommander of the southern de
partment until an appointment has
been made. Ite ently made a major
ston never forgot his orders, whatever
his own emotions might have been.
Tie held down the situation and Presi-
dent Wilson made him a major gen-
eral.
In his early days Funston had been
a newspaper reporter and a railroad
general, ho is the only officer of that conductor The ambition of his youth
rank a signed to the department. wa " ' "■ ' !
As immediate successor to the com-
nand, General Pershing will have
charge of the many details of the
movement of the remaining units of
Uie national guard ordered home, from
die border last week.
Captor of Aguinaldo.
The picturesque, dashing capture
»f Aguinaldo, the Filipino rebel chief,
In an entrance examination. In later
years ho repeatedly outranked West
Pointers who were in school when ho
failed of admission.
Physically Funston was one of the
smallest men in the United States
army. He was barely five feet five
inches tall and usually weighed less
than 120 pounds. In civil life he was
modest and retiring.
‘ GERMAN SPIES ARRESTED IN NEW YORK
•Now York. Agents for the depart ot the I ted S it< .1 trlct court. It
oient of justice art rated here two men | charged t mi with cunsplring to em-
ploy agents to obtain nmpa. photo-
graphs and other military information
I a England and Ireland fbr the bene-
fit yf i In many .
According to William B. Offley, di-
visional superintendent of the depart-
ment of justice, tho men are accuse^
of sending to Great Britain agents
oharged with the federal law again-1
carrying on military enterprh -
a foreign country. They are accused
of conspiring to obtain military in-
formation In England to be sent to
this country and then forwarded to
Germany.
The men gate their name as Al
bert A. Sander and Charles W. Wun- who obtained Information of military
Mrberg The oomplalnt again i them importance whl h was transmitted to
fk-as signed by Judge Beamed Hand 'hie cowan ■ In Icttei and uarkaga-c
hind. It is n part of efficient farm
management to see to It that tills per-
centage ts no higher than necessary.
In this connection, some Interesting
figures are given. It tnkes, for In-
stance, only 200 rods of untrtmmed
hedge and only 214 rods of zigzag rail
or worm fence to waste an acre of
what might be productive land. For
the snine expenditure of land one can
run 459 rods of woven wire and 4714
rods of harlied wire. Other conslder-
Etlons, of course, may make it desir-
able to use the hedge or the worm
fence, hut the waste Involved Is a fac-
tor that should not he overlooked.
Similarly, farm lanes often may he
eliminated by n simple rearrangement
of fields; headlands, or turning spares
at tin' edges of fields, avoided; and the
faRnstead Itself, the gr iu
buildings with their lots and yards,
the garden and the orchard, made
compact. In the case of tlie farm-
stead, however, considerations of
health and attractiveness may well
Justify n slight sacrifice of economy.
While a little planning often will re-
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES
Colomhln Is rnpldly'beoomlng an Im-
portant plgtlnwn-produdiig country.
H0m0 idea of the great gurala r of
different races tn Hu rope may he ob-
tained from the fact that tn thM geo-
graphical division there are nearly (MX)
different languages spoken.
The frigate bird Is capable of getting
ill) a speed of IK) miles all hour with
hardly a nmveiuent of Its wings. The
greater part of Its life It spent tn the
the farm, and he is, therefore, more
likely to overlook the potential value
of the part he wastes. By so doing he
Is, of course, throwing awny opportu-
nities to make money, hut this is not
always appreciated by those who have
not grasped the Important fact that
tie* average farm Is too small for maxi-
mum efficiency and that In the major-
ity of cases to increase the size of the
farm business is to Increase the prof-
its from it. Those owners, how-
ever. who realizing this, are operating
leased land in addition to their own,
are, like tenants, careful to see that
they pay for no loafer acres.
To nnyon# who is buying or leasing
land, then, the Important question is
not “How much urn l paying an acre
for this tract?” but* “IIow much ntn I
paying for the acres that nre going to
work for me?” It is calculated that n
farm of 100 acres selling at $100 tin
acre "ill cost the purchaser actually
$111.00 an acre if 00 per cent of it is
productive and $200 an acre If only 50
per ''' iit of it Is. As a mn4ter of fn<^
the percentage of Improved land In
farms east of the Mississippi Is only
i 50.5 and west of that river Only 5.8.
! Improved land, however, it should he
! noted, is not always the same us pro-
ductive land. A good timber lot, for
j example, is not improved, but It may !
I*e highly productive,#and farm build-
| lugs and fences stand on land that is
improved hut produces nothing. In
the final analysis, It Is the amount of
productive land that determines the
earning capacity of o farm anzLJ&at
should, therefore, determine its price.
In many cases laud is given over to
s pasture wfiich will not sup-
port sufficient stock to make any rea-
sonable return on the investment.
Such land properly belongs in the
category of nonproductive land, in
that it makes no return commensurate
with the interest on the money in-
vested.
It should be borne In mind that the
quality of the pasturage In relation to
the lund value is an Important consid-
eration in choosing a farm. For in-
stance, what is economical pasture on
land that Is worth $10 an acre might,
on land valued at $100 an acre he de-
cidedly uneconomical. This relation
should be carefully studied in buying
a farm with much pasture land. To
determine whether pasture land is
economical or not, practical data
should be secured ns to the number of
acres necessary to support one head
of stock and the Interest on the value
of the land in question compared with
the current charge per head of the
i same kind of stock for a season’s pas-
i turnge. Or the estimated value of the
i return in increased value of the stock
I or Its products may he used for com-
parison. By this means the relative
| economy of pastures may be deter*
| mined.
—
A Gold Mine >n a Cushion.
Though smuggling has long been a
| fine art, it has never been more of a
science than it Is at the present time.
Rubber is Ingeniously inserted in card-
board boxes, coflins are full of copper,
cotton conceals bombs or rifles indis-
criminately. You are in short apt to
find that the most unlikely bales of
goods are filled with munitions. But
jail is not gun running in spite of the
war.
A remarkable story was told by nn
inspector of the Bombay police who
gave evidence recently regarding al-
leged gold-running between South Af-
rica and India. The Inspector related
how some Indians in South Africa con-
signed gold to India in boxes purport-
ing to contain cushions, the bars of
gold being glued Into false bottoms fit-
ted to the cases. The trick was only
discovered owing to n quarrel which
arose between two partners 111 one of
these deals. The police are doing their
utmost to put a stop to this traffic,
which, of course, Involves a big loss
‘ annually to the Hand.
TREES ARE KILLED BY GAS
Many Varieties, However, Are Well
Able to Withstand Conditions
Found in Many Cities.
Tim (loath of ninny trees In the
streets and parks of New York, usual-
i jy ascribed to poor soil or parasites, is
largely due to atmospheric conditions, •
I according to the eminent Massachu-
i setts botanist, George E. Stone. In an
article in the journal of the New York
i Botanical garden he says that here are
I to bo found obstacles greater than in
j other cities to the successful estah-
| Bailments surrounding Manhattan
i (New Jersey is not particularly men-
j tinned) sulphur dioxide and other
i poisons rise, only to fall again upon
I our poor trees. The victim’s malady
is chronic rather than acute. Its vital-
ity is weakened and then the parasite
ends it.
Mr. Stone declares that with the ex-
-cpttorj of the Austrian pine “practic-
ally all Ihe conifers In Central park:
are dying from the effects of atmos-
pheric gases, and it is rarely that one
observes a Norway spruce anywhere
within the vicinity of New York that
ts not either dead or in a state of
deterioration.” Tho botanist believes
that it is impractical to continue
planting conifers here.
Elms, too, are a comparatively easy
victim to gases. The effects of the
poison are visible in Riverside drive
and in Central park. But, as Profes-
sor titone remarks, many of the elms
were deplorable specimens to begin
with; not such finu types as are grow-
ing In the Bronx.
The trees that best withstand gas
poison are ttie Norway maple, black
locust, nilnnthus and linden.—New
York Sun.
FLOWER HOLDERS IN WALL
Unusual Ornamentation That Improves
the Look* of Surroundings of
House In California.
FJnwer containers, which are unusu-
al in appearance and striking because
of the contrast which they present to
their surroundings, have been built in-
to the center of each of throe sections
of a smooth brick wall in front of a
Los Angeles residence. The wall is sur-
mounted by an ornamental Iron fence
except at the points where the flower
holders stand. Each container consists
of rough, irregular masses resembling
slag, which are cemented together into
a symmetrical shape; each holder
stands about three and one-half feet
high, is a foot or a little more in
diameter at the base, and three feet
wide at the top.—Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
Two bridges in n city In India are
supported upon lnrge metal tanks,
which float dpon the water and accom-
modate themselves to its rise and fall.
Not far from Volterra In Tuscany are
hot springs which comprise a supply
of boric add and the necessary heat
and power to prepare the material for
market.
A group of French scientists who
have been Investigating have Redded
that smaller Insects, in proportion to
thejr size, are stronger than larger
Costly Warfare In Air.
Surprising conclusions are arrived
at by an aviation expert, who has
been examining the airplane losses on
the western front in the last six
months. “If we allow 20 machines
wrecked to each one enemy de-
stroyed,” he says, “we see at what
a huge eost this war in the air is be-
ing conducted. The average cost of
an airplane Is roughly about £1,000,
so that at this rate the British
loss la material has been approxi-
mately over 4,000 machines in six
months, costing £4,000,000; the
Fr< n h very nearly the same, while (!>•
Germans must have lost 13,320 ma-
chines, with a total value of about
£13,320,000. It may he that the Ger-
man loss is not quite So great ns we
have made out, because there appears
to be less actual flying done by Ger-
man pilots in proportion to their
strength.” •
A new piece of gymnasium apparatus
is a weighted ring to he worn on the
head while exercising, for the purpose
of developing the neck. «
Assessed valuation of real and per-
sonal property in New Jersey for It HO
• 690,811 000, :in increase of $112,
860,405 over 1015. New munition plants
figured In the Increase.
A Montana forestry official has de-
vised a light and compact* telephone
Instrument which Is portable jmd will
be part of the equipment of all gov-
ernment rangers iu the future.
Man's Duty to His Community.
The man who makes money in a
community has a duty to perform to
that community. It may be that he
has made his money by his superior
business ability, and that he would
have done us well anywhere. That
does not alter the case. If his gifts are
great his responsibility is equally as
great. No man was placed on earth
for the sole purpose of making money,
and the man who has this as his ideal
had better never have been born. It
Is not an act of charity, but the per-
formance of a simple duty, for the
man who has made money to pass a
little of it on for the benefit of the
community, even though he never ex-
pects to see n dollar of his contribution
back.—New Canaan (Conn.) Adver-
tiser.
City Managers Proved.
There are now 40 municipal officials
In the United States who are styled
“city managers,” under the new corn-
mission-manager form of government.
They are the professional chief execu-
tives of their respective municipalities,
each with appointive power over tho
city’s entire administrative establish-
ment. They are not popularly elected,
, hut hired for reason of fitness and for
| an indefinite tenure by a small elected
! commission of five local men. Gen-
erally speaking, three years of trial in.
; a variety of towns have proved that
tho new plan furnishes a battleground
! for democracy that makes the un-
inobllized*citizenry unusually effective
1 while the opportunity for expert ad-
ministration which it offers is usually
1 grasped.
They Have City Managers.
Twenty-two American cities are now
under the commU sion mstnqp r plan
They are Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Sum-
ter, S .C.; Hickory, N. C.; Morgan-
town,*N. <\; Ashtabula, O.; Sandusky,
0.; Dayton, O.; Springfield, ().; Phoe-
nix, Arlz.; Big ltapids, Mich.; Ln-
GVnnde, Ore.; Taylor, Tex.; Dn^on
Tex.; Amarillo, Tex.; Manistee, Mich*.;
Jackson, Mich.; Abilene, Kan.; Col-
linsville, Okln.; Montrose, Colo.; Mor-
ris. M * : Lai., ud i
hambra, Cal.
Perfect Garden.
The perfect garden, fiouMhe plu
and flower point of view is one whe
flowers may be picked each and eve
day of thq year, yet where no sp
of bare soil is ever *- «>n. Ki t p n-ser
stock of annuals and perennials <
hand so that when an annual has spo
Its strength or a plflnt dies its spg
may l><* filled with a young annual
a perennial.
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