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£ Sjj^ * *%*** **/ *v ^ "> * ^-m ^ ^Tv v - ^ "" / " 1 ^ #, ••£•11 nmrrr. m.-Vtfr *^*3 *1 *mift WW&^ ****&&* A * ^ * & pK'baflo 3a rry C(¥>rwyr-0r MtAOSOs? *»df&. (TO, v*1" #K 0£A&SO£f AttfB. 5 w l it ' ,' !(, ilih ».'•> ,l.'ltt<" ^^ijililijli'!;; ' WlEQ) MSILEL JjfOpCAv p̂jSOfy CENSUS RETURNS FAR THE STATE OFFICIAL FIOURE8 SHOWING THE POPULATION OF CITIE8 AND TOWN8 IN ILLINOIS. URGE CITIES MAKE GAINS Most of the Smaller Ones 8how Heavy Losses During the Last Ten Year* --Significance in Figures Just Made Public. NE evening in 'he early summer of 1901 I stood, awed but keenly ex pectant. on the balcony of the Eth­ nology Building at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. By my side was a short, chubby man in an old suit of clothes, a negligee shirt and a string tie that had come undone and was flopping over 'capacious chest. It was a warm t v ning. and he had removed his battered straw hat. which he held in hie hand. The size of the hat was No. 8. The man was Thomas A. Edison. Before us spread that dream in frozen music, the buildings fronting the esplanade, mall and plaza of tha. exposition. The twilight was done. v and the moment had arrived for the night birth of that dream into splendor. For the first time In history architecture was to be made alive at night, more living than by day. Half a million incandescent bulbs were hid along the transverse lines of the buildings. The current was turned on and they simultaneously bloomed. Ensued a spectacle for which a Caesar would have bar tered a province--a joy that brought a gasp of ecstacy from every one of the millions who Baw It. Edison, bare-headed, squinted his eyes. The poetry missed him. The gallop of scenic history over the verge of a new era missed him. The glory of the spectacle itself missed him. Instead, he glanced shrewdly and carefully all around dn the entrancing wonder, then cautiously Into his battered straw hat and said: "I could pat every filament into that hat!" Economics, mechanics--these obsessed him. That brain, which required a No. 8 hat for cover­ ing, could think only of the compressed fact that all the space occupied by the vibrating, en­ ergizing and glory-working source of that gigantic spectacle could be replaced by about tw# pints of water--or a quart of human brain. Edison is a rare man. In his speech, of which he is as careful as of his filaments, he pulls the core from a field of ideas and thrusts it at you as If tt were a poniard. You think about what he says for a week, a month; and in years you don't forget it. All of this is leading up to a consideration of what the wizard-sage said a few weeks ago when a select audience sat in his studio and watched the first performance of the kinetograph, that fabulous instrument which is destined to repro­ duce plays, operas, public spectacles with the action, the color and the voice intact. The great old inventor was gratified once again. Another thrill had come into his life. His latest adventure into the unknown had pros­ pered, and his friends and associates clustered about him with congratulations, with questions, • with assurances. For eome time Edison was silent. He is grate­ ful that he is deaf. Then he squinted from one to the other, and said: "Before long you'll be working that In an aero­ plane, for you'll be able to pack it into a soap- bubble!" A soap-bubble! Rather a fragile packing-case. Rather a small compass in which to place a grand o£era. A curious comparison. Did Edison mean what he said? Did he know what he was talking about? Ever since I heard that Edison said that, I have been thinking of moving pictures in connec­ tion with soap-bubbles. And not always in the way he meant bubbles in connection with the kinetograph. A soap-bubble is cheap. It is easy to make--if you know how. It is fragile. It is very alluring. It reflects all colors, all forms. It appeals uni­ versally to children. Sages ponder over if. Poets celebrate it. Ar.tists reproduce it. Conundrum.--Why is a moving picture like a Map-bubble? First, you And them everywhere. On the back streets of Reno I saw the pictures of the bull fight at Guadalajara, Mexico. The Ouadalajarans now look on the moving pictures of the prize fight at Reno. At Punta Arenas, the southernmost port in the wotld, f saw Chileans applaud moving pictures of the Bowery and the New York water front. On the Bowery I saw pictures of the battleship fleet entering the harbor of Punta Arenas. On an island 2,000 miles out in the Pacific Ocean the exiled lepers of Molokai gather dally before the flickering wonders of a world which before had been but vaguely In their dreams The Sunday evening young people's class of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, looks in pity on the trans­ planted and resurrected life of Molokai which passes before their eyes--on the screen. A group of travelers In the luxurious saloon of an ocean liner study the lifelike pictures of the country for which they are bound. The beg­ gars who line the pathways of the tourist implor­ ing backsheesh give up their pennies to see the living presentment of their prey bounding to them over the ocean wave| In Iceland excited Eskimos applaud the hero- istta of a cowboy who rescues a captured maiden from the redskins. Half-way round the world, in Northern Russia, tearful peasants sorrow over the pictured plight of a French lover. The Bengalee moves down Mowrlnghee Road and gives up two pennies to see the funeral of King Edward--to see it actually move. The Moro In the alleys of Zamboanga goes without an extra shirt, that he may view the reception of Universal as Froth. eYc Washington, April 22.--A healthy growth In the Incorporated cities and towns of Illinois is shown in the census returns for the state. In addition to Chicago's increase In population from 1,098,575 to 2,185,283 in the ten years from J900 to 1910 many of the smaller cities of the state show notable gains. The greater number of the losses in population are recorded in towns and villages which had less than 2,000 In 1900. One exoeption is Ottawa, which had 10,588 at the count before the last one and dropped to 9,535. Among the cities which show im­ portant increases are Aurora from 24,- 147 to 29,807- Belleville, from 17,484 to 21,122; Bloomington, from 23,286 to 25,768; Champaign, from 9,098 to 12,- 421; Danville, from 16,354 to 27,871; Decatur, from 20,754 to 31,140; Spring- Held. from 34,159 to 51,678; East St. Louis, from 29,655 to 58,547; Elgin, from 22,433 to 25,976; Madison, from 1,979 to 5.046, and Peoria, from 56,100 to 66,950. Anywhere, everywhere, you find them. In the United States you will have to hunt a town of less than 2,000 inhabitants if you wish to escape the moving pictures. Five millions of Americans daily visit these shows. The exhibitors pay $18,000,000 a year for their films. The public pays $57,500,000 a year to see them. Mr. Edison has an average weekly royalty therefrom of $8,000. j So it is a pretty big business, pretty thor­ oughly organized, quite universal in its reach, soap-bubbly in its universality. The child of the poor, with a clay pipe and the suds from the weekly wash, can have just as good a time as any rich young fellow with an im­ ported meerschaum and the best castile. So It is with the moving-picture shows. It re­ quires little capital to run them. A long room, easily darkened, a nine-feet square patch of white cloth, some benches for the spectators, an oper­ ator at ten dollars a week, and a rented film, now takes the place of a company of actors, stage scenery, properties, lights and a properly equipped building. And the poor boy gets as much value for his nickel as the rich boy can get for any number of dolfars. Yet, they run into dangers that no soap-bubbles can allure. Fire is of these the most patent. , Of the moral dangers we will speak later. It is through the moral soap-bubble that we can see more clearly the moving picture's gossamer tinsel. Fire, however, is the first and most vital dan­ ger. The Charity-Bazaar fire In Paris, in which so many women were trampled to death by cow­ ardly men, was caused by the fall of a spark upon some celluloid moving-picture films which had been dropped into a basket. In Canton 600 men, Chinamen, were burned to death in a fire in a moving-picture show house. In Quito, Ecua­ dor, fifty men and women lost their lives in a similar calamity. It speaks well for the widespread and con­ stant vigilance of the fire departments of the United States that no great catastrophe has yet come to the moving-picture houses of this country. Lives have not been lost In the moving picture shows. Lives have been lost through the moving- picture shows. Where once the dime and nickel novels sug­ gested ways of crime to unbalanced youth the moving picture has come to make a more ready and more potent appeal. The printed word is never so ardent with an impressionable mind as the acted word. Several ways have been thought of to lessen these obvious evils. Charles Sprague Smith, late chief of the People's Institute in New York, thought he had solved the problem when he in­ duced the manufacturers of the moving pictures to agr^e to a national board of censorship. The manufacturers, good trade diplomats, readily assented, and then saw to it that the board of censorship should be advisory and not antagonistic. The result is that many pictures that create havoc among youthful mlndB when shown on the public screens "get by" the na­ tional board of censorship. No. This bubble that Edison has loosed upon us will play Itself out just so far as the instincts of the whole people of this country will permit; no farther, no sooner. One night I went to a prize fight. Only men were present. The casual observer might have said they were all tough men. After the fight a canvas was erected in the ring and an an­ nouncer said, "An exclusive film will now be shown to the members of this club." The picture proved to be of French manufac­ ture and portrayed a vile situation in a dive. Instantly hisses and a storm of execration burst <- from the audience. The running of the film was stopped and the picture removed before it was all shown. Grim silence greeted the removal of the canvas. The crowd that gloried in the action cf the prize ring would not endure any pictured sexual depravity. To me that was a wonderful revela­ tion of Anglo-Saxon psychology. Thus it win always be in our theater, whether the admission price be five cents or two dollars. American audiences want action; they want thrills; they want desperate courage and wild heroism; but they want it all clean. They want the good to triumph, the guilty to be punished, and wrong to be avenged. A Parisian manufacturer ofTered $200,000 for the right to make moving pictures of the Ober- ammergau Passion Play. His offer was refused. He went back to his studio, engaged a company of very skillful actors, rehearsed them carefully and reproduced the Passion Play, almost as well as It was originally done, and the crfst was about a twentieth of what he offered for the original. This manufacturer had an eye on a new field for the moving picture. While his Imitation will, perhaps, find a comparatively small market, It cannot hope to reach the class that would have purchased a guaranteed reproduction of the Oberammergau play; viz., the churches. For the churches have not yet come utterly un­ der the sway of the moving picture, despite the fact that the Congregational and Presbyterian churches of Redlands, California, showed moving pictures all last summer in their outdoor pavi­ lion Yet the moving picture manufacturers are de­ voting a lot of time and money to religious sub­ jects. "Joseph Going Into Egypt," "The Repulse of Herod," "Jephthah's Daughter, "The Relief of Jericho," and "The Wisdom of Solomon" are ' a few of the subjects of moving-picture plays founded on Biblical accounts. While the moving pictures are battering at the doors of the churches they have already par­ tially scaled the walls of the school-houses. Out of every seven subjects passed by the National Board of Censorship, one is classed as "peda­ gogical." In the catalogues of the manufacturers one finds films that show lessons In "agriculture, aeronautics, animal life, bacteriology, biography, biology, botany, entomology, ethnology, fisheries, geography, history, industry, kindergarten stud­ ies, mining and metallurgy, microscopy, mili­ tary and naval life, natural history, ornithology, pathology, pisciculture, religion, travel and zoology." It looks like the catalogue of an educational publishing house. Yet It is only the list of films that may be and are ordered by "the trade." Subjects under these lists are shown daily in the 7,500 theaters that exhibit moving pictures in this country. They form entertainment, not instruo- tlpn. They have put the stereoptlcon out of business, not the schoolmaster. For the public schools have no more s surren­ dered to the new and plausible Invader than have the churches. Why? Why not teach children history by showing them scenes from the lives of great men, pageants from the great moments that are duly and laboriously recorded In the books. Why not sit and watch George Washington cross the Dela­ ware on the moving picture sheet, instead * of having to puzzle your head over the dry print that records it on unlivened page? Why not learn about the growth of flowers pleasantly, by watching a picture instead of having to patiently dissect the flower and then piece It together again under the instruction of a botany text­ book? Such pictures can bo and are constantly shown. Do they not mesa the revolution of pedagogy? . Not long ago the New York Board of Education appointed a committee to Investigate this sub­ ject, and find out If it were feasible to install moving-picture machines in the various schools of the city. Superintendent Maxwell was on the committee. I saw him a few days after the ex­ hibition. He was not very enthusiastic about the pic­ tures. "A method will never be devised that will save any human being the labor of learning," he said. "We learn only by taking thought, and that is work, hard work. You cannot Insert learning hypodermically. You cannot swallow It In tab­ loid form. There is but one way to take it, and that It the oldest way known. You will find after all of these wlll-o'-the-wlsps have vanished that it will be the newest way, too." Which throws the moving picture right back where it belongs--In the theater. It can have no permanent place in the church. It can have no real place In the school, though it may be Auxil­ iary to either, or both. 1910. 1900. 2,022 2,144 2,081 17,528 14,210 1.749 1,826 2,809 2.61S 682 . 522 522 Arrola 2,100 1.995 Arlington Heights .... 1,943 1,380 29,807 24,147 4,436 3,811 Beardstown fi,107 4,8* Belvidere 7.253 6,937 Berwyn 5.841 Bloomlngton 25,768 23,286 Blue Island 8,043 6.114 Braldwood 1.958 3,279 Dreese 2.128 1,571 Bridgeport 2,70ft 487 Brookfleld 2,186 1,111 Bushnell 2,610 2,490 Cairo 14,458 12,566 Cambridge 1,272 1,345 Camp Point 1,148 1,260 Canton 10,453 6,564 Carbondale 5,411 3.918 Carlinville 3,616 3.502 Carm! 2,833 2.939 Carrollton 2,323 " 2,355 Carterville : 2,971 1,749 Carthage 2,373 2,104 Casey .*. 2.157 1,500 6,721 9,908 5.488 Chatsworth 1,112 1,038 1,314 1,512 1,048 2.747 2.832 598.575 Chicago Heights 14.525 5.100 1.851 1,699 14,557 5,516 4,452 2,667 2,607 2.076 1,197 27,871 16.354 31,140 20,754 8,102 5.901 1,304 1,666 7,216 7,917 1.229 Downers Grove 2,601 2,103 4.353 2,015 1,253 1.146 East St. Louis 58,547 29,655 543 344 5,014 4.157 3.774 3.366 1.445 Elgin City 25,970 22,433 24,978 19,259 424 445 2,311 4,0S5 400 572 681 683 483 Freeport 17,567 13,258 Galena J OOK e wc Oalesburg 22.089 18,607 2.498 2.682 3.356 2,446 988 2,08fi 2,064 1.305 1,441 652 Glenooe 1,899 1.020 Granite 0,903 8,123 692 442 603 416 1 940 1.948 3,178 2,504 1.008 669 Harrisburg 5,309 2,302 Harvard 3.008 2,602 7.227 5.395 Havana 5.525 3.268 He rrir. O.ttfM I.bha 1,575 Hillsboro 3,424 1,937 2,578 4.698 3.823 15.07S 3.517 787 Jollet 34,670 29,353 13,986 13.595 881 33n 8.882 5.282 3,969 1,131 730 T^ike Bluff 726 490 I^ake Korest 3,349 2.215 342 304 215 2.449 2,312 2.504 1,724 864 8.952 5.918 2.659 INDUSTRIAL ERA FOR ALASKA Title of 160,000 Acres of Valuable Coal Lain4 'n Northwest Area yested in Government. Nine additional indictments were re­ turned by a federal grand jury sitting la Chicago recently in the suits which £be general land office is pushing to au- »ul alleged fraudulent titles to Alas- Jtan coal lands. So far, in all indict- V taents have been found affecting the Claims of 640 of the private entries to these coal lands, the entire number of such locations being about 1,000. The remaining claims are held up upon evi­ dence which seems to indicate that they are technically in violation of the law. The land office investlgfiatlon, which was temporarily sidetracked by the Balllnger-Pinchot controversy, seems to be making a steady progress in the direction of government control of the Alaskan coal lands, and so to a leasing system that will provide for the industrial exploitation of these far north coal fields and, contingently, for the inauguration of an industrial era in Alaska of far greater scope and im­ portance than has thus far been real­ ized. The Alaskan situation may be said to be In a state of waiting for the opening of the coal mines. When th« coal is ready to burn the railroads will be in a position to move things. No patent to a private owner has yet been issued in connection with a single acre of Alaska coal lands, and there does not seem to be a reasonable probability that any patent will be is­ sued as a result of the claims now on file. Present surveys indicate about 160,000 acres of commercially valuable coal lands in the northwest area and the title to these lands is vested in the government. If the government is to maintain this title in perpetuity, it will be necessary for congress to en­ act such legislation as will provide a plan for leasing for operating purposes. The sooner an operating system is pro­ vided, the sooner the new industrial era, which Alaska is awaiting in hope- ful expectation, will begin. Lyons 3,4N 861 McHenry 1,031 LW Macomb 6,774 6,376 Mad toon 5.0W 1,979 Marengo 1,9M 1,006 Marlon 7.093 2,510 Marseilles 3,291 2,569 Mattoon 11,45<) 9,622 Maywood 8,003 4,532 Mendota 3,806 8,73« Minonk 2,070 2,54f Moline ....RIM 17,248 Momence ..'2,201 2,026 Monmouth 9,123 7,460 Morgan Park 3.8M 2,329 Morrta ,t • 4,563 4,273 Morrison 2,410 2,SOS Morton Grove 836 664 Mound City 2,837 2,705 Mt. Carmel 6,934 4,311 Mt. Vernon 8,007 R216 Mt. Sterling 1,986 1,960 Murphysboro 7.47B 6,463 Naperville 3,449 2,629 Nashville 2.135 2,184 Newman 1,264 1,166 Newton 2,108 1.630 Niles 669 514 Nlles Center 668 529 Nokomis , 1.872 1,371 Norms.! 4,024 a.TiS North Chicago 3,306 1,150 Oak Park 19,444 O'Fallon 2.01R 1,287 Olney 5.011 4.260 Oregon 2,190 1.577 Ottawa 9,635. 10.588 Palatine 1,144 1,(160 Pana 6,055 5 530 Paris 7,664 ®jo5 Park Ridge 2.009 1,340 Pekin 9,497 8,420 Pforla 66,950 156,100 Peoria Heights 582 309 Peru 7,984 6,853 Plain field 1,019 920 Pontlac 6,090 4.266 Qulncy City 36.587 86,252 Rlverdale 917 558 River Forest 2,456 1,539 Rivrside 1,702 1.651 Rock Island 24,335 13,493 Rockefeller 358 Rockford 45.401 81.051 Roodhoupe 2,171 2,351 Rns>hville 2,212 2,292 Salem 2,669 1,642 Sandwich 2,557 2.S20 Savanna 3.691 3,325 Shelbyville 3,590 3,546 ShermorviHe 411 .... South Chicago Heights 552 .... South Holland 1,065 766 Spring Valley 7,035 6,214 Springfield 51,678 34,159 Sterling 7 ,467 6,309 Streator 14,253 14.079 Sycamore 3.926 3.663 Taylorville • 5,446 4,248 Tlnley Park 309 300 Tuscola 2,453 2,569 TTpper Alton 2,918 2,373 Urban a 8,245 6,728 Vandalia *,974 2.665 Vlrden ... 4,000 2,280 Warsaw 2,254 2,335 Waterloo ". 2,091 2,114 Wauconda 388 397 Waukegan 16,069 9,426 West Chicago 2,378 1,877 West Hammond 4,948 , 2,935 Western Springs 905 662 Wheaton 3,423 2.345 Wheeling 260 331 Wilmette 4,943 2,300 Wlnnetka 3,168 1,833 Woodsstock 4,331 2.252 Woodstock 4,331 2,252 Yorkvllle 431 413 Zion 4,789 .... A Jiir of Reslnol Ointment Is a fraMjr* Remedy to Have In the House £ - ^ - j '. All the Time. lb twenty years' experience as a curse I have never found as good a remedy for Skin Troubles, Eczema, etc., as Resinol Ointment. Its cooling, healing effect on. sore nipples is truly wonderful. Mrs. T. B. Henderson, Albany, N. Y. You can get Resinoi Ointment at the drug store. He who gives pleasure meets with It; kindness is the bond of friendship and the book of love.--Basile. Constipation causes and aggravates many serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dc. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The favor­ ite family laxative. To be conscious that you are ignor­ ant is a great step to knowledge.-- Bvujauim Disraeli. To keep the blood pure and the Ain clear, drink Garfield Tea before retiring. It is not necessarily true that the worst is yet to come. MiHiums Say So When. millions of people tsae for years a medicine it proves its merit. People who know CASCARETS' value buy over a million boxes a month. It's the biggest seller be­ cause it is the best bowel and liver medicine ever made. No matter what you're using, just try CAS­ CARETS once--you'll See. to CASCARBTS 10c. a bo* for a week's 1 treatment, an druggists. Biggest seller U> tho world. Million boxes a myntti. Splendid Crops hewatt (Western Canada) Illinois Board Reports. With the resources of the 17 state charitable institutions of Illinois greater than they were a year ago and the liabilities less, members of the state board of administration, in issuing their first annual report, made public, show figures which they be­ lieve will vindicate the present plan of operating the institutions. It started January 1, 1910, with the creation of the board. A synopsis of the board's report of finances is contained in the February Institution Quarterly, edited by the board's statistician, Frederick Howard Wines, and published as the official organ. The Quarterly shows the board, when it assumed charge of affairs January 1, 1910, had to its cr,edit $1,- 733,019.49 available. A further ap- | propriation of $2,721,150 became avail- • able July 1. This made the total cash { on hand $4,454,169.49. | A total petty in- ome of $271,550.63 1 from sales, collections and other mis­ cellaneous sources made the total available amount in cash $4,725,720.12. The total expenses of the charitable Institutions in the year amounted to $3,233,859.80, of which the lt^ms were divided into two classes--ordinary ex­ penses or maintenance, $2,754,043.47, and special expenses, mainly building operations, $479,816.33. An indebted­ ness of $55,968.07 had been incurred by the former management, which in­ creased tj|ie liabilities of the new board to a total of $3,289,827.87. The method of discharging these lia­ bilities is chiefly by transmission of the bills, when atidited and approved by the board of administration, to the state auditor, who draws his warrants on the state treasurer for the amounts, and the money Is paid direct to the parties to whom the same is due. '0 Bushels from 20 acres oi wheat was the thresher' s return from a Lloyd- minster farm in the season of 1910. Many fields in that as well as other districts yield­ ed from 25 to 35 bu­ shels of wheat to the ncrc. Other grains in Q"-iortion, 116i PROFITS r thus derived r a n i i h e F R E E H O M E S T E A D L A N D S of Western Canada. This excellent showing causes | prices to advance. Ijim unities should double)« two Years' time. Grain growing,mixed f ami - ItiR. cattle raising: itnd dairy­ ing are all profitable. I'r*o 01 i tiu acres Are to be Intd Sn the very best districts; 16© acre pr«-«mp- t Ions at (S3.€»0 per «<•!<• with­ in rertalEa areas- and churches in ©very settle­ ment, climate unexcelled, soli the richest; wood, water a n d b u i l d i n g m a t e r i a l plentlfnl. For particulars as to location, low settlers' railway rates and descriptive Illustrated pamphlet. "Last Best West," and other In­ formation. write to Suptof Imint- pration. Ottnwn, Canada, or to Canadian Government Agent. C.J. BrMgbton, 412 HfrfhwU I.. 4 T. Bl'tc., Chicago; W li. S««m, Sd Iw Trsettoo Terminal , UdltmpollBl Ge».A.lIsil,128 Bd St..Milwaukee,WU. (Use address nearpst you.) IB AFORTCNE for the man who knows his oppor­tunity. Knormous returns from a small invest­ ment, The actua 1 proven productiveness of the lands of this Company in the Valdei Creek district open an aronno of Investment possibilities which will never be duplicated. Tho yield is excessively rich and abundant. Write for Prospectus and Particulara to Valiiez Creek Consolidated Mining Company, 60 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. "PORCUPINE Tisdalo Mining Company's stock A now selling at 10c a share. |1U a hundred shares, $100 ti thousand. This is the best bay of the cheap speculative slocks. 290acrcsall paid for money in treasury to work for one year and a ve'.n running the entire length of the Delors properties, over half a mile long andfi feet wide. Owen Yearsley Member Dominion ^tock Kxchange, 1U Confederation Life, Torontv. Canada. PATENTS^ W stisa E. Colemaa, Wash. lngton, D.C. Books free. Hlgh-reiereooea. Best raauita. State Park and Forest Reserve. The Illinois park commission crea- R H R U M A T I S M STOMACH 1 Where Kbeiimatismmeetaits Waterloo K I I > N K Y I Ad. S*rtln>Ttllr SultartuB, K»rt[o».ll!e, ln<L HE: A JL EST A TIC. SmTSGH0 0L TAN D SALES IN MINNESOTA $5 and up per acre, 15 per cent cash, 40 years time on balance at 4 per cent interest. Buy a farm home in this prosperous state. For particulars address Samuel G. Iverson, State Auditor, St. Paul, Minn. FREE FARMS IN UTAH The Agricultural Wonder of the World Tho Hau htowii project built by the State, irrigates 1 (WO acres of choicest alfalfa land in Southern Utah, two miles fro Hi County Seat, good schools, churches of every denomination. To induce immigration, land and wa'tor sold at actual cost, no profit by the State, ten years/time, payments can be made on easy in- staHmcute from the crops. You can also take up 100 acres non-i rrigated land free. Write quick for booklet. HATCHTOWH FKOJECT SUU Bmt4 of Land Cwulnliiun, SALT LUX CITT 4 a/1 V. •» n /«• tcu *jj ctw Lj-SiAib gen* Fair Poster Designs Complete. Plans were completed for securing 12,000 huge state fair posters for the 1911 exhibition, September 29 to Octo­ ber 7, the hangers to be distributed throughout the state, and to be In elaborate designs. The painting of the main entrance, a blrdseye view of the fair grounds, and pictures of the seven largest buildings, will be shown on the posters. For the purpose of arranging premium lists, with awards to total $70,000, the state board will meet Thursday, April 20. U Meeting Is Postponed. The quarterly meeting of the Cen­ tral Illinois Federation of German Catholic societies, which was to have been held at Arion hall, has been post­ poned until Sunday, April 30. For the first time In the history of the fed­ eration, women will be invited to at­ tend the session, and it may be pos­ sible that the women at a later date may he allowed to become members of the federation. The greater part of the convention will be given over to a discussion cf the sociological ques­ tions. assembly to investigate the feasibility of certain historic and picturesque sites in Illinois for park purposes has presented its report and recommends the purchase of Starved Rock and ad­ joining properties located near Ot­ tawa on the Illinois river for the pur­ pose of a state park and forest re­ serve. A bill embodying, the recommenda­ tion of the commission has been of­ fered in the Illinois general assembly, and it now rests with the advocates of state parks whether Illinois will fol­ low the example set by the general government and other states in _the conservation of her historic and natur­ al beauty spots. New Illinois Corporations. Certificates of incorporation were issued by Secretary of State Rose as follows: The Western News company, Chi­ cago; capital stock, $300,000. Incor­ porators, L. A. Nels, S. M. Evans and Alfred E. Manning. Fort Dearborn company, Chicago; capital stock, $5,000; general contract­ ing, manufacturing and mercantile business. Incorporators, Will J. Bell, A. M. Widell and Slgne M. Ander­ son. North Shore Improvement company, Chicago; capital stock. $7,500. Incor­ porators, Wlllard Brooks, Raymond J. Kelly and Preston Kumler. Logan Square Hospital, Chicago; cap­ ital stock, $2,600. Incorporators, Frank F. Hoffman, Jacob C. Kraft and Robert E. Gentzel. Rockford Cocoa-Cola Bottling com pany, Rockford; capital stock. $15,000. Incorporators, M. N. Nelin, M. Jepsen, and W. J. Graham. Tabor Sick an£ Funeral Benefit so­ ciety, Chicago. Incorporators. A. R. ISoderbeck, Lara Larsen and KL L» KautsQii. „ you want a home where ypu can be independ­ ent ? Where you can grow something for the market erery month in the year? Then come to Bast Texas, own a fruit and truck farm, stock or combination farm. We have them in any si*u you want; 28 forage crops hare proyen a success on our soil, mild climate, plenty of water, school facilities unsurpassed. Our farmers in prosperous condition. We, also, have limbered, bluek pi a! He and ranch lands on easy terms, nasi l exas oners great oppor­ tunities to h. meseekers and investors. If interested write. 'J'he Steger Land Company. Tyler. Texas. "17'OR RALE--dO acres in Washington Co., Kan. X1 Center of corn and rain belt, well watered the year around by springs, one half will make good farm land, brvl. best ot pasture, at present all Ma­ ture. No Improvements except fence which Is ho* tight gnirnd outside. 4 1-2 ml, from town on tele­ phone and mail route, will flui.e an Ideal stock farm. 800.000 bu»of com has been led on this place in last ten years during Sumriier Reasons, greatly enriching tlieland. I have retired, l'rlce SH4. acre, longtime as desired, address owner, Henry William- ion, 823 High Street, Beatrice, Neb. AKl- VHOMA --"Where they are making the money." Send for booklet of Foraker, the Government Townsite in the rich Osago Nation. SHjwn lots in well located Oklahoma towns a re making thousands small investors rich. Koraker Is a new town in a new country. It must grow. 1/jts at from 140 to <75 each, easy terms. Scott Braden tt Oo., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. •SOUTHEAST TEXAS 18 CALLING-Coo* fr-5 where climate, water, rainfall and sol! give every advantage you could desire. Railroads, schools, telephones and markets. No region yields more abundant, varied or valuable than those raised on our $10 land. Write for details today, tilbbs Jt frje, Zie^lar Building, Oklahoma City, Okl*. Farms For Sale Near Bismarck Deepblacksoil. Clay subsoil. Good fo r small grain, corn and alfalfa. Owner wants to retire ter. half. or s ><•; ion. Write or come. 8A\TB AG ENTa COMMISSION. O. 1.. BOlM'O.N, BI8MABCK, KOKTH DAKOTA. TT'LO RII) A--Home seekers receive free of cbarge, truthful information atx,ut this state. Its *|rT»- cultuntl possibilities snd development. Uerman- Ameri.an Land Information Bureau. IBB Mala St, Jacksonville, Florida. ISO ACKE HOMESTEAD relinquishment for Mau. This is giH>d wheat land. 8MU acres parti* im­ proved stock ranch. 100 seres alfalfa land Iifl per acre; terms. .LakJii & Skaggs, Towner, Colorado. / "\f INNESOTA--The bestsavings Bank on earth. -LM- Good improved and unimproved land la this state from 110 to 1116 an acre. Good markets and good water. Minnesota-Dakota lav. Oo„ 1AM kit Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. LOUISIANA FARM 5^tlmMn*dosif2i3 winter healthful climate. 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