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Springfield.--The state of Ifltnote has declared war against the bureau of animal industry of the United States d^artment of agriculture. Return of the foot-and-mouth epi­ demic--the third within leas than two years--furnishes the foundation for a sharp exchange of hostilities between A. D. Melvjn, chief of the federal bu­ reau at Washington, and the Illinois state board of live stock commission­ ers, represented by B. J. Shanley, its chairman, and the Illinois state vet­ erinarian, Dr. O. E. Dyson. The Illinois state board" issued a per­ emptory order that all cattle, Sheep and swine "feeders" removed from the 'Union stock yards to points within Illi­ nois shall be held in quarantine for a full period of twenty-one days. This was the answer of the state au­ thorities to the order of the federal bu­ reau, No. 242, sent out from Washing­ ton February 11, preventing interstate movement of animals for purposes other th^n slaughter in the state of Illinois north of a line drawn with the southern border of Christian county as iits base. This line is about thirty imiles south of Springfield.- "The state order will not be with­ drawn until federal order No. 242 is [nullified," Mr. Dyson said. "We are Igoing to a showdown, _a$d the state (authorities will not permit themselves to be goats in the crisis, which is very (grave." Illinois has a direct interest in what is happening by reason of $2,000,000 already spent by the legislature to pay for relief of stock raisers hurt in the two prior outbreaks of the stock epi­ demics. Indications are that the in­ cident will not be closed with the ex­ change of sharp notes between federal and state authorities. Women Can Run for^fcommlttees. Another knot was put into the snarl of Jaws by which Illinois attempts to .govern its elections when Secretary of State Stevenson ruled that women may be candidates for state central com­ mitteeman and delegate to national conventions. But women may not vote lor the women who run. That was de­ cided by the supreme court. A woman candidate can't even vote for herself. Still, according to the secretary of atate, women may not be candidates lor ward and precinct committeeman. And It Is up to the credentials com­ mittees of the parties to decide whether they shall admit woman dele­ gates and state committeemen, even after they are elected. Discovery qf. these latest quirks in the primary law was made by Mr. Stevenson when an examination of the act was made necessary by objections filed to the petitions of three woman candidates. Fish Planted In State Waters. V- The new state commission for game and fish conservation has built hatcheries from which 18,750,000 fish fry have been distributed in state waters within the last eighteen nfonths, according 'to a report just is­ sued to Governor Dunne. In this man­ ner bass and pike perch stock are placed in the lakes and streams and will provide ample sport for the an­ glers. At present the commission must rely chiefly foV Its supply of young fish on the Spring Grove hatchery, which has grown to its present capacity for pro­ ducing fish within two seasons. This plant includes a modern building, where pike perch, brook trout and rain­ bow trout are hatched; a twenty-four- acre breeding pond for black bass, two rearing ponds of two acres eaca and four cement brook and rainbow trout ponds. From this plant In the last season the game and fish commission reports there have been produced and distrib­ uted 18,000,000 pike perch fry, 755,000 black bass (advanced) fry, 22,600 year­ ling black bass and a small consign­ ment of rainbow trout fingerlings. With increased facilities the bureau expects to hatch and distribute next year: Thirty-five million pike perch fry* 1,000,000 black bass (advanced) fry, 100,000 black bass fingerlings and about 15,000 rainbow brook tfout fin­ gerlings. The Spring Grove hatching plant differs in many essential particulars from fisheries plants in general. Prof­ iting by the errors of other builders who were without suitable precedent to guide them, the commission has de­ parted somewhat from the convention­ al, to the end that they are able to breed and handle young fish at a com­ paratively low cost. The output from the Spring Grove hatchery goes largely to the waters of the northern part of the state. Some fish from this plant have been put in th% Kankakee river and other waters south of Chicago. However, transport­ ing fish such a distance and taking into account transfer charges at Chicago make it impracticable to take care of these waters from the Spring Grove plant. Besides there are lakes and streams in the northern p&rt of the state that need all the fish that can be bred at one plant. There is, therefore, need of a hatchery at or near Chicago from which the waters of the middle and southern sections of the state may be stocked. In addition to the fish distributed from the hatcheries and breeding pond, great numbers are taken from the land-locked waters of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. These backwater ponds overflow in the spring and make good spawning grounds for the adult fish and splendid feeding grounds for the young fish. Unless these your g fish are caught they will perish til these shallow waters during the win­ ter. The game and fish conservation com mission was created at the beginning of Governor Dunne's administration to take the place of the old game depart­ ment and fish commission which were abolished. FNOUGH TO SHOCK 'MOST ANYBODY C\Vu\l«# . CHICAGO T*I«U»« ILLINOIS STATE NEWS SHE THOUGHT'TWAS VOICE OF ANGELS Realty Agency Act Invalid. The supreme court, in an opinion handed down in the case of the People «x rel. Frederick S. Oliver et al., doing business as Oliver & Co. of Chicago, against Secretary of State Stevenson, holds invalid the act permitting real estate agencles^to incorporate. The act was passed ftr the Forty-ninth gen­ eral assembly. Attorney General Lucey held that it violated the constitution In attempting to amend the general cor porations act by title only. On this opinion. Secretary of State Stevenson refused to grant incorporation papers to Oliver and the mandamus was brought. The court upholds the view that the act is in fact an amendment to the general corporations act and not a separate act, as it purports to be, and that It Is therefore unconstitutional. €.152,257 in Illinois. The population of Illinois will be 6,152,257 by July 1, 191G, according to estimates prepared by the federal census bureau. These estimates are mere computations based on the as­ sumption that the annual numerical Increase in population from year to year since 1910 has been the same as the average annual numerical in crease"* which prevailed between 1900 and 1910. According to the announcement the census bureau gives the following es­ timates of the population o? Illinois: July 1. 1915. 6,059,519; January 1, 191G, 6.110,888; July 1. 1916. G.152, 257 or an increase of 82,738 for the year. RUSS TAKE ERZERUM GRAND DUKE REPORTS GREAT VICTORY OVER TURKS Women Lose Fight. Women cannot vote for delegates to the national convention or for precinct or state central committeemen, ac­ cording to the decision of the supreme court. The court dismissed a petition of J. T. Garretson for a mandamus against County Clerk Byers of Sangamon county to compel him to print the names of delegates and committee­ men on the woman's ballots at the April primary. The decision of the court was an­ nounced by Chief Justice Farmer. He said: "The petition and demurrer present the question whether women can vote at the primaries in April for delegates to the national convention to nomi­ nate candidates for president and. vice- president, also vote for the election of committeemen of political parties "What Is commonly known as the woman's suffrage statute authorizes women to vote at elections for can­ didates for certain offices named in the statute. The primary election law gives women the right to vote at pri­ mary elections for the nomination of candidates for such offices as they may vote for at the election for which the primary is held. Candidates for delegates to the national conventions and party committeemen are not nom­ inated, but are elected at the April primaries. "Under the authority of Scowp vs. Czarnecki 2C4 Illinois 305, the legisla­ ture could have authorized women to vote for the election of delegates to national conventions and for party committeemen. It did not do so, and whether this was Intentional or not it is not within the province of the courts to read into the statute some­ thing not expressed or necessarily im­ plied The remedy is with the legis­ lature. "The demurrer to the petition Is sus­ tained and the petition dismissed.'* More Than 40,000 Made Prisoners-- Two German Commanders May Be Lost. London, Feb. 18--Led by Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian army of the Caucasus has captured the great Turkish fortress of Erzerum, in east­ ern Asia Minor. The following official statement was given out on Wednesday in Petro- grad: "Grand Duke Nicholas has 'tele­ graphed to the emperor as follows: " 'God has granted to the brave troops of the army of the Caucasus such great help that Erzerum has been taken after five days of unprece­ dented assaults. " 'I am Inexpressibly happy to an­ nounce this victory to your imperial majesty.'" More than 40,000 Turkish troops were captured in Erzerum with the Investment of the ortress, according to Tiflls dispatches. Two noted Ger­ man leaders. Field Marshals von der Goltz and Llmon von Sanders have recently been reported at Erzerum. It is not yet known whether they es­ caped. Erzerum is the chief town in Ar­ menian Turkey, and as the center of important roads and strategic lines Is of vast importance. Its capture opens a new road to Constantinople. It has a population of about 45,000, and lies at an altitude of 6,250 feet in the Caucasus mountains. GIVES DATA ON MEXICO SENATE LEARNS OF CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTHERN REPUBLIC. LUSITANIA CASE HELD UP Lansing Satisfied With Revised Agree­ ment, But Wants Assurances on Liners' Safety. Washington, Feb. 18.--The Luslta- nla case is held up and the entire question of suhmarire warfare re­ opened as a result of the German and Austrian declarations that armed merchantmen shall be sunk without warning, it was declared on Wednes­ day by a high official of the state de­ partment. After a conference with Count von Bernstorff, the German am­ bassador, Secretary of State Lansing announced that the Lusitania case de­ pends "upon how submarine warfare is to be conducted in the future." The revise of the Lusitania answer, sub­ mitted by the German ambassador, is satisfactory to the administration, and it was admitted that it would be for­ mally accepted, provided the adminis­ tration is told that passenger ships are not to be sunk without warning. Secretary Lansing Says That Govern­ ment is Military Rather Than of a De Facto Character. Wahsington. Feb. 19.--Part of the state department's data on the Mexi­ can situation, asked for by Senator Fall, were transmitted to the senate on Thursday by President Wilson. Under motion of Chairman Stone of the foreign relations committee the records were ordered printed as a pub­ lic document. Americans killed in Mexico from causes that can be attributed to the revolutionary disturbances durihg 1913, 1914 and 1915 were placed at 18; those who had disappeared in Mex­ ico and who were probably killed from causes that can be attributed directly to the revolutionary disturbances, 6; those killed, apparently through mo­ tives of robbery by bandits or othors (not including those killed by Indians), 10; those killed by Indians, apparently through motives of robbery or revenge. 12; those killed from miscellaneous causes and causes not definitely stated, 30. The total number of Mexicans killed in American territory as a result of border trouble other than those result­ ing from firing across the border, the report says, in 1913 to 1915 Inclusive, was 89. Mexicans killed In American territory as a result of firing across the international line during engage­ ments in border towns In the same period was three, a total of 92. In a letter from Secretary Lansing accompanying the report it is said that 76 American citizens were killed in Mexico In the years 1913,1914,1915, as against 47 in the three years pre­ ceding it, and that 26 civilian Ameri­ cans and 16 soldiers were killed on American soil in the same three years as a result of Mexican troubles. Accompanying this letter are numer­ ous departmental reports favorably de­ scribing conditions in Mexico 3 DIE IN RAID ON ENGLAND New Incorporationa. Atlas Wood Co., Chicago; capital, $1,000; incorporators, Robert E. Ger- aghty, William C. Knowles, Ferdinand Goss. Auditorium Pharmacy Co., Chicago'; capital, $10,000; incorporators, Joseph Trienens, Albert A. Wert, W. Henry Matthes. C. S. Burton Co., Chicago; capital, $6,000; incorporators, Keeran L. Kane, William V. Henderson, Alberta MotL The Mount Mitchell Co., Chicago; capital, $5,000; incorporators, D. H, Mann. L. C. Ruth, W. S. Jamesou. Waterloo Boy Keroswie Tractor Co., Chicago; capital, $10,000; incorpora- tors, Van N. Marker, A, D. Landphere, B. Rudolph. William Now Furniture Co., Chica­ go^; capital $5,000; incorporators, G, H. Cavanaugh, W. M. Hoove, Myer Link­ er. Burnett-Kuhn Advertising company, Chicago; capital, $14,000; inborporar tors, Paul Kuhn. John Burnham, J. ,£Mdney Burnet, George Snyder. Calumet Furniture and Carpet com­ pany, Chicago; capital, $1,600; incor­ porators, Charles Kaufer, Louis Kahn, Prances KimmeL NEWS OF THE STATE Quincy --Mrs. Colklns of cottage No. 22 at the Soldiers' and Sailors' home here, claims a unique record. She says that she has peeled 800 bushels of apples for sauce, with a machine, and 100 bushels for baking, during the fall and winter. Salem.--Lester btorment has re­ signed as assistant postmaster. El­ mer Squibb has been installed as the new clerk to complete the force. Rockford.--Frank Van Cauwenberg of this city will appeal to King Albert of Belgium to relieve his son, Victor Cauwenberg. from service in the fBel- glan army. The boy ran away from home last spring, went to New York and then to Belgium, where he enlist­ ed In the army. Quincy.--John F. Schroll of Deca­ tur has issued invitations to all coun­ ty treasurers of the state to attenu the state c^s^iventlon in Peoria, August 1 and 2. Tax laws and amendment! will be discussed. FLASHES OFF THE WIRE. Mombasa, British East Africa, Feb. 21.--The Union Castle mail liner Com- rie Castle has gone ashore cn a reef at the entrance of the harbor. All the passengers were taken off. Rome, Feb. 21.--Durazzo, the capi­ tal of Albania, has been surrounded on three sides by Austro-Hungarian troops, and It is feared that the city will soon fall beneath the pounding of heavy artillery which the invaders are moving to their front. Conquest of Kamerun Complete. London, Feb. 22.--The British con­ quest of Kamerun Is now complete. It was officially announced at the colon­ ial office on Saturday. The German stronghold at Mora has just been cap­ tured. Kills Mother at Dinner Table. Prankfort, Ind., Feb. 22. -- Harry Oliver shot and killed his mother, Alice Oliver, and then attempted sui­ cide with a razor at the family home. The tragedy waB enacted as tfie fam­ ily sat down to dinner. Missouri Stockman Killed. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 21.--John Ber- ryman, leading stockman apd promi­ nent here for some years, was shot and killed by William B. Richardson, an employee. The two men quarreled over a business deal. , Woman's Estate $1,674,054. New York, Feb 21.--Miss Catherine A. Bliss, a daughter of Cornelius N Bliss, left an eBtate estimated in a state tax appraiser's report filed at $1/574.054. She possessed a collection of'Jewels worth almost $80,000 German Seaplanes Drop Bombs on Walmer and Lowestoft--Church Service is Halted. London, Feb. 22.--"Te Deum lau- damus! We praise, Thee, Oh God," sang the congregation of a church at Walmer, a little town on the Kentish coast ten miles'north of Dover, toward the close of the service Sunday morn­ ing. Suddenly a loud explosion Just outside the edifice interrupted the sing­ ing of the hymn of thanksgiving and threw the congregation into a panic Every window In the church was blown In. "The Zeppelins!" was the cry among the church people as they rushed into the street. Soaring overhead were two German seaplanes, less than two-thirds of a mile high, dropping bombs on the town at intervals of a few minutes. Be­ fore the raiders turned back over the channel they had killed two men and a boy and wounded a British marine- Beside the raid on Walmer and an attack on Lowestoft, on the Suffolk coast, by two other German seaplanes half an hour earlier, in which 17 bombs were dropped without casualties, one German flier dropped bombs on Dun­ kirk. Willis Heads Insular Bank. Manila. Feb. 22.--The Philippine commission has named H. P. Willis %s president of the new insular bank, the founding of which with a capital of $10,000,000 was authorized by the last legislature. Put $2,9C0,0C0 in War Zone. New York, Feb. 22.--Nearly $2,900,- 000 has been sent from the United States fcr the relief of Jewish war sufferers in the war zones. It was an­ nounced by the joint distribution com­ mittee,of the Jewish Relief fund. Alleged Train Bandit Taken. Kemmerrer, Wyo., Feb. 21.--James Cutler, aged twenty-three, a sheep herder, was arrested charged with holding up and robbing a Union Pacific passenger train at Rock Springs ten days ago. Solons Throw Inkwells. Oklahoma City. Okla.. Feb. 21.--The greatest disorder prevailed In the house of representatives when the lie was passed between Nesbitt and Sams during a debate. Several inkwells were thrown. Sidney.--Owing to an error In the preparation of the ballots the recent township high school election is in* valid and will have to be held over again. Oregon.--Woman's clubs of Ogle county have petitioned the county board of supervisors to make an ap­ propriation for the erection of a tu­ berculosis hospital. Joliet.--Over 500 Illinois school teachers, half of them from Chicago, attended the opening day's session of the two-day convention of the Illinois Manual Arts association here. Danville.--William Klutzke. convict­ ed of .working a confidence game to defraud two fire insurance companies, was sentenced to serve from one to fourteen years in Chester prison. Anna.--The high water which re­ cently covered the wheat fields of the Mississippi bottoms In this section has receded and it has been found that lit­ tle damage has resulted to the Wheat prospects. Peoria.--An increase In wages of four and one-half per cent for en gineers and eight per cent for fire­ men employed by the Peoria & Pekin Union Railway company was an nounced here. Elgin.--The six-weeks' revival con­ ducted here by Herbert C. Hart and Artlrur S. Magann closed with 1,400 converts. A purse of $3,500, represent­ ing the collections Sunday, was given to the evangelists. Chicago.--New works and repairs on the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific railroad cost $440,664 in November and December. 1915, according t) a report filed in tie United States district court by J^cob M. Dickinson. Hoopeston.--Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, ninety years old, died here as a result of burns suffered while trying to build a fire with coal oil. She was dead when found by neighbors, who rushed in upon hearing her scream for help. Galesburg --Following a boost in a Mollne paper Sunday for Justice C. G. C^aig for successor to Secretary of War Garrison, local friends have taken up the movement and a petition in his behalf may be sent President Wilson. Elgin.--Elgin's township election this year will be enlivened by another fight over the saloon question, the wets having filed their petition. Throughout the county a vote#^ill be taken on the proposition to bond the county In the sum of $1,500,000 for good roads. Quincy.--Despite the fervid pleas of Ed Kemner, colored, that he be sen­ tenced to the penitentiary that he might get tobacco while he is in prison, Judge Alburt Akers Thursday sentenced him to an indeterminate term of from one to twenty years in the reform Bchool. Galesburg.--The Galest|urg Woman's club passed a resolution indorsing President Wilson's preparedness pol­ icy and declaring It to be the only means of nafeguarOlng the country and the surest way of maintaining peace. Thfiv favor a larger army and navy and supplemental reserve force. Areola--Going aown into the cellar of her house to gather up potatoes and apples floating around• as a result of a flooding of the basement. Mrs Al­ fred Belsley discovered a small croc­ odile swimming about Mrs. Bels- ley's husband was summoned and the reptile wa« captured How It came into the cellar is a mystery. Springfield. -- President Wilson's primary petition as a candidate for Democratic nomination at the presi­ dential primaries on April 11 was filed with Secretary of State Stevenson, Charles Boeschenstein of Edwards- ville. Democratic national committee­ man of Illinois, came here with the petition which was signed by 4,000 men. West Frankfort.--Quincy Hall, for­ ty-one years old, a blacksmith, killed himself in the city hall. His wife had gone to have him placed under a peace bond. Hall entered and said: "For nine years we have lived together, having had little trouble; take good care of the children." He lifted a bottle to his mouth and drank car­ bolic acid. Urbana.--Gus Penman, whose sen­ tence to life imprisonment in 1913 for the murder of Harold A. Shaw. Uni­ versity of Illinois student, was re­ versed on account of error by the su­ preme court, will be retried in Kanka­ kee county. Judge F. H. Hoggs of the Champaign county circuit granting a change of venue on the grounds of local prejudice. Bloomington.--The McLean county grand jury adjourned after returning a number of indictments. Among the charges preferred by the jury was one of murder against Mrs. Edna Buckles of Bloomington, whose husband was found dead in the yard of his home with a bullet wound in his head. Neighbors said they heard Mr. and Mrs. Buckles quarreling before the man's body was found. She protests her innocence Nokomis--In a quarrel over the loan of a dollar R E. Maddox shot John McLeach. Both men are coal miners. McLeach died a few hours later in a hospital at Pana, and Mad­ dox surrendered «to the authorities, claiming that McLeach was running at hirn with an open knife. Maddox claims to be only sixteen. Walton. -- Railroad detectives are baffled by the operations of car thieves, who break the seals of tnerchandise cars on the Chicago & Northwestern while the cars are In motion and throw valuable merchandise out, where con­ federates gather It up. , Bushnell.--Seven editors, all broth­ ers, gathered here for a social time together for the first time in seven yetirs. They are:: Editors Thomas Maxwell, Laporte, Ind.; W. A. Max­ well, Denver, Colo.; Fred H. Maxwell, Macomb; W. Kee Maxwell. Peoria: H. V. Maxwell, Bardolph; G. C. Maxwell, Cincinnati: Robert Maxwell, Globe, Ariz. Alton.--John A. Cousley. seventy- one. for seven years a member of the Illinois civil service commission, ed­ itor of the Alton Telegraph from 1890 until cfttoe year ago. died Thursday of arterial hardening.. Mrs. Runkel Hears Music After Being Deaf for Twenty- seven Years. Newport, Ky.--Here Is the great adventure: It la to hear music when one hasn't heard a sound in a lifetime of twenty- seven years. To Mrs. Hilda Runkel of this place, it was as though angels had spoken. Until a week ago .Mrs. Runkel nei­ ther heard a sound nor spoke a word. And she is twenty-seven. One day last week she was visiting her downstairs neighbor--the Catillas. John Catllla had fashioned a home­ made violin out of a cigar box. It She Pointed to the Violin. was a fairly good violin at that. It Is good enough to produce "My Old Kentucky Home." And that was what Catllla was playing at the moment of the miracle. Mrs. Runkel was seated. But sud­ denly she arose. In her eyes was a look of one to whom had been given a great revelation. She lifted her hand to her right ear and then she pointed to the violin, and then again to her ear. And thus she made it known that she had heard. Each day since her hearing has im­ proved. She Is now learning to make the sounds she hears. In Beven days she mastered fifty-two words. Mrs. Catllla Is her teacher. "Mother" was her first word and "father" was the second. The words came painfully like those of a baby learning to talk. HID HUSBAND'S FALSE TEETH Jefferson 8wears That la the Way Hie Wife Got Money from Him. Pittsburgh.--It behooves all married tightwads who wear false teeth to beware. Often the subject of ridicule, artificial teeth have at lasr been found to serve a practical purpose in domes­ tic life. Frank Jefferson in divorce court told a harrowing story of the manner In jrhich his wife had frequently forced /him to "come across" with money by the simple expedient of taking his false teeth and hiding them. The odd thing, to Jefferson's way of thinking, was that even when he waxed angry his wife would refuse to return his teeth. Only Uncle Sam's coin of the realm would persuade her that her husband's molars were essen­ tial and neces8ary to his daily exis­ tence. * Mrs. Jefferson's side of the case was terse and to the point--her husband had refused her the money she be­ lieved she was entitled to as lady of the house. Consequently she took these measures to get it. ONE SPREE IN 101 YEARS Mississippi Man had Another Excit­ ing Day When He 8moked a Cigar. Columbus, Miss.--Harrison John­ ston of this city has Just passed his one hundred and first birthday and Is an almost daily figure in the busi­ ness section of this city. He is said to be the oldest member of the B. P O. E. In the world. "I was never Intoxicated but once,' Johnson says; "never took but one chew of tobacco, and have Bmoked but one cigar in my life." He is the sole pensioner on the rolls of the United States government for services in the Seminole war in 1834. Johnston made a fortune out of a cotton tnill, an(1 says he gave the mill away bechuo*-- - icfr 8 the state persisted in an effort to col­ lect back taxes on It. THE EH HI THtMSEj i. Results Following Sefftemwt 1 % | ffl Show That Conditions in West- [|1§J:•'J1 em Canada Are Highly Satisfactory. . Untfl a few years ago Mr. Henry Lohmann lived at Effingham, 111. Ha- thought he would better his condition In a new country, where he would- have wider scope for his farming op» erations. It would not seem essential to refer to Mr. Lohmann, at this par­ ticular time, as of German blood, but for the fact that so many false state­ ments have gone out as to 111 treat* , ment of Germans In Canada. * Writing from Willmont. Sask^ V&r - der date of January 30, 1916, Mr. Loh­ mann says: "We are perfectly satisfied In thla country, and doing well up here. "I bought a half section of land and took up a homestead, my three sons J- also took homesteads, two of them . buying each 160 acres of land as well. I sold my homestead, and 1 and one of my sons own a threshing outfit. The crop this year was good; tha oats went 80 to 90 bushels per acre, and wheat went 40 to 50 bushels and the price is fair." Sam Morrow, of Millet, Alta^ in writing to Mr. J. M. MacLachlan, Car nadian government agent at Water- town, S. D., says: am well pleased with the country. The climate is bet­ ter than I ever thought it could ba so far north; ideal climate for stock. I have some colts and cattle that have not been inside of a stable In four years. I consider this a fine country for mixed farming. I know of farm­ ers around here who had 42 bushels of barley to the acre and 55 bushels of oats to the sere." Jacob.Goetz of Piapot, Sask., had 4S acres of wheat from which he got 1,200 bushels, and got an average of 93 bushels of oats to the acre. Golden Prairie, Sask., Is a district largely settled by South Dakotans. Horace Blake is one of those: Ha, says: "The crops of 1915 wera t* mense." # -l. Wheat in his locality went from 4® to 55 bushels per acre; oats about 80 bushels on an average. One hundred bushels of potatoea were grown on a quarter of an acre of land; twelve po­ tatoes weighed 30 pounds. His horses run out all winter, and come in fat. He raised excellent corn, and fat" tened hogs on It. He concludes an Interesting letter by saying: "There are schools in every district. The people here are most all hustlers and are fast pushing to the front. When I first came up here on almost every half section stood a little 12x14 shack. now almost everyone has real modern houses and barns." a Some Southern Alberta ytelda «a*i 1915: „• I. H. Hooker, 82 acres. 3,820 bushels Marquis wheat Na. 1, <4 pounds par bushel. I. I. Lee, 40 acrea, stubble, 1.5M> bushels; 40 acres summer tallow. I,- 530 bushels. Peter Brandon, 164 acrea, 7,381 traafc- els Marquis wheat. R. Marandl, 135 acrea, 6,920 bushela, 64 pounds per bushel. I. McReynolds, 45 acres, 1,675, stub­ ble. Ole Christoferson, 50 acrea. 3,64? bushels. Arufhus Gavett, 155 acres wheat, •,« 642 bushels; 30 acrea oats, 3,000 baaH els. Robert Mathews, 46 acrea wheat. 2,016 bushels, machine meaaure. D. Dunbar, 130 acrea wheat. SJSS bushels. tngauld Hoppy, 80 acrea wheat. %- 800 bushels, all stubble. Louis Kragt, 80 acres wheat, 4,000 bushels. W. J. Pate, 26 acres wheat, 9W bushels. * W. Roenlche, 150 acres wheat. 5£3T bushels, 80 of this stubble. J. C. McKinnon, 50 acres wheat, tr 536 bushels. Gordon Swinehart, 30 acres wheat. 1,140 bushels. Albert Hanson. 85 acres wheat, 3,760 bushels. Elmer Hamm. 110 acres wheat. 6,156 bushels; 90 acres oats, 6.550 bushels. John Larson. 80 acres wheat, 3,000 bushels; 30 acres oats. 2,000 bushels. John Hecklin, 37 acres, 1,484 buah- els. Wm. Hecklin, 100 acres. 3,376, stub­ ble and breaking. O. Salisbury, 50 acrea MarQula wheat, 1.600 bushels on breaking.---iA* "si • 'i • ^ IS NOT BAR TO TEACHING Marriage Not Sufficient Cause for Dis­ missal of School Teacher, Says Court. Salem, O r e -- Marriage alone is not a sufficient cause to warrant the dis­ missal of a school teacher, according to a decision rendered by the Oregon supreme court. The decision affirmed the action of the circuit court of Multnomah coun­ ty in issuing a writ of mandamus com­ manding the Portland school board to reinstate Mrs. Maud L. Richards, whom it had dismissed sb a teacher because she married. ATTACKS BULL WITH AUTO South Dakota Man Saved by Neighbor, Finally Able to Leave the Hoepital. Hudson, 8. D.--John Delver has been discharged from the hospital here, partially recovered from his in­ juries received when he was attacked by a bull on a Lincoln county farm. Delver had been nearly killed by the animal when a neighbor charged the beast wjth an automobile -and, after repeated assaults, drove It away. ' Growing Suspicious. There fs a place down Third atTwefc where certain printers hang out wheu twilight has come and the day'a work Is over. And there's a reason! In lifting type from galley to form a printer uses what is called a "niake- up rule." It l* a thin strip of steel. and you can buy 'em for about tan cents each. But the man that runs th» jlac* where the Ben Franklin boys go baa been led to believe that this little bit of steel is the printer's badge. Without it the printer can't work, ac- cordiug to his conception. He haa been led to believe that. So, when a printer asks him for tb* loan of a couple of dollars and t» willing to leave the "make-up rule" : f as security, the genial host readily passes over the coin. He has a cigar • ^ box full of the thin strips of steel at ( present, and is beginning to think.--- ^ ,4^ San Francisco Chr.miclc. Some Weight. Redd--Hew much doea hia bile weigh? Greene--Tou mean with the gage? Cndleaa. "Paw. what's the longeat timer "From one pay day ta Um* Buffalo Expreea. * •*» $ • . »jf- » tfis#* ii. f1'