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IUKSDAY , DECEMBER 7 , 1005.
NCED LANOS ;
'ASNECIliNF '
C. , Dec. 5.
JVelfc has removed
Jjjaes C. Pettijohn ,
'Jandoffice \ralen- -
participation in al-
frauds in that state and
fmanded the immediate rcs-
Eion of the receiver , Albert L.
Towle.
Ten days ago Chief Pollock of
tie special service division of the
landoffice reported on an investi
gation he had been making in Val
entine , Neb. He found Pcttijohn
had fenced government lands and
then hired men to file on the fenced
lands and turn over to him their
relinquish ments. He was called
on to explain and when his ex
planation admitted these charges
he was remoxed.
Receiver Towle of the Valentine
office was called on to resign at
once for failure to attend duties.
The landoffice was unwilling to
leave the office , even temporarily ,
in his charge in view of the fact
that he had permitted without pro
test the irregularities of Jfettijohn.
W. 13. Pugh , speci il agent , has
been placed in charge of the office.
It is believed here that there will
be prosecutions growing out of
conditions at Valentine.WorlJ -
Herald.
Bi jj Stick in
Washinton , Dec. 5. By direc
tion of President lloosevelt , whc
is waging a campaign of extermi
nation among questionable federal
officials , J. C. Pettijohn , register
of the general landoffice at Valen
tine , Neb. , has been summarily
removed from his position.
The charge against Pettijohn i ?
that he has been taking part in
land deals that are shrouded in
mystery and not to the liking ol
the president.
Mr. Roosevelt has asked for the
resignation of Albert L. Towle ,
who is receiver of the landoffice at
Valentine. OmahaDaily News.
Cherry County School Rotes.
The annual association of Cher
ry county teachers met at Valen
tine with a large attendance ,
Many teachers traveled 25 to 3C
miles to attend and not a few 75 tc
100 miles. Such loyalty is deeply
appreciated by your superinten
dent. The papers were excellenl
and the interest well sustained ,
Much is due to the citizens of Val
entine and Cherry county because
of their willingness to lend a help
ing hand wherever it would furth
er the interests of education. We
were very fortunate in having wit !
us the president of the State Teach
ers' Association , J. T. Searson ,
who occupies the chair of Englisl
at the Peru state normal. He gave
a valuable address on "Secivts o !
Success of TVach < > r I Have Met. '
For want of space we print ar
outline of his lecture next wp.ek.
On Dec. 14 : and 15 , at Lincoln ,
there will be held a corn contesi
consisting of a boys' corn growing
contest and a girls' corn cooking
contest which is open to all schoo
children of Nebraska. On Dec.lc
at the Lincoln hotel will occur the
corn banquet , followed by "core
oasts" under the leadership of
Toastmaster Dr. L. P. Ludden.
Tickol * 50c. A rate of one fare
for the ruund trip has been ob
tained , good going Dec. 13-14 : and
returning until Dec. 1G , included.
Keduccd hotel rates are granted.
Any girl who wants to cook
borne corn product and either take
it or send it , may find outabout
the prizes and conditions of entry
from the office of Co. Supt. I
should like to send one delegate at
least from each school district.
LULU KORTZ , Co. Supt.
Church
< tts ! t.
On Sunday , 17th inst. , mass will
be said at Arabia at 10 a. m. On
Sunday , 24th , mass will be said in
the Prairie Belle school house near
1 Crook.ston at 10 a. m.
SCHOOL NOTES ,
Atarsarete'QiiigSey.
Pv
oy ) Clara Dunham.
All pupils received their second
report cards Monday.
Nellie Franckc and "Willie Stead-
man are absent on account of sick
ness.
William Simmons has gone from
our 3rd grade into the Crookston
. chool.
Paul Cole , of Norfolk , has en
tered the 8th grade , making the
enrollment 30.
Eoscoe Munson has re-entered
school , after being in the country
three months.
Swiss Savage lias returned to
her work in the 8th grade , after a
m on tli's absence.
Laura Overman had to go home
for a short vacation on account of
her face being poisoned.
Bernice O'Kief writes thai t > i t ;
is enjoying her school very "much
and has a mile to walk each day.
Merritt Bishop and Harry Rec
tor of the 3rd grade are in school
again. Both have been ill for
some time.
Marie Christensen and George
Stettev have re-entered the second
intermediate and the attendance's
much better.
The children have come back tn
school and are ready to do their
work with renewed vigor , after
their short vacation.
Thanksgiving pictures on the
boards are now being erased and
in their stead will soon be many
Christmas drawings.
Mr. McCrea is absent from duty
on account of his sister's illness.
We have just learned that his sis-
iter died Tuesday-rAorn4Tig.ancHbat ;
ho will not reach home until Sat.
!
I Franklin Pierco .Tolly came up
' to school .Tuesday afternoon and
gave a hort talk to the pupils of
tho upper rooms to jolly us up.
Me emphasized the fact that we
should always do our best.
The teachers' association held in
the high school building Dec. 1-2 ,
. , was well attended by the teachers
, I from all parts of the county.
. 'Splendid ' programs were rendered
' each day , and Prof. Searson of
1 Peru gave a good lecture to an at-
' tentive audience Friday evening.
' Prof. E. H. Watson attended the
Northwestern Teachers' Associa
tion which was held at Crawford
on Dec. 1st and 2nd. ' : The attf-bd-
ance was about twice 'the number
it has ever been before. Prof.
Watson was elected president of
the association for the coming year.
A n K v E n i E ,
There stands a little red rzihice
Way o'er in the cast p rt of towu.
With a. garden and grumes surrounding.
Anu ; i oroad brick walk running round.
There : i king ruleover hisubjects &t
With a voice that is sweet in copmniul ;
A voice that 1'il ever remember
Tho' I go the end of tl lane ,
I'll f member the 1 * s3ons h-'s taught me ;
lias strove to ) Ittnt deep hi my heait.
My ' - > re ir f r mj dear o < d profejsor
WHi ne'er from my memory i-l inrt.
And when I've yone out to my lite work ,
And my noij-er jears have been spent ;
I'll be better abkto SP then
\ \ by myili for hiway . * > iiould be bent.
In a lew more ino'His I'll be patted
Frow instructor ami t'iai * ' .
* ! > in iU'oetir.
Never more among the ivst of the pupils
Will my name eur appear.
Among those whovill take my p'aee '
Will be manyis worthy an I , /
And I fear that I'll UP forgotten
When years f time have passed by.
My dear place wih be filled in the hiyh school ,
N > ver more may I call it mine.
I'll seek a placfin the M-h-oI of life
Such is the j.lan of the Divine.
JJKS-IK
( II. G. Lyon in ( Jonlju Journal. )
Continn-d from Ust week.
At digging time a Dowden or
Brown digger is used. Usually
| four pickers follow the digger. In
| every field we snw a Thompson
sorter on runners , drawn along
1 the row , and on man sorts and
sacks in the field as fast as the
pickers can dump them into the
sorter. Thesacks are then gath
ered up and hauled to market , if
! the price warrants , or tln\y jire
i hauled to monster cavesaroot
j houses for storage until the price
warrants tl-ieir moving. Those
caves arc found on every farm
; and are a necessity to every man
J who raises potatoes , onions or
'
'cabbage. They are 32x100 feet
' and dug 3 to 4 : feet deep in the
ground and have a roof 8 to 10
j feet high. They are covered with
' pine poles , hay and dirt and have
large double doors at each end and
! a drive way 10 feet in width thro
i the center. On each side are bins
, for potatoes and onions , with
' spouts leading from the lower edge
of roof. Wagons are driven thro
these caves the entire length for
t loading or unloading potatoes. The
! incline is very slight. The capac-
[ ity is 8,000 to 12,000 sacks or 16-
: 000 to 2i,000 bushels. They are
made of Jarge posts for uprights ,
ties and braces , and pine poles for
top and roof. The cost varies from
§ 200 to § 100 , depending upon the
work lured done. This is one
feature of the potato business to
which we wish to call the especial
, attention of the sand hills grower
the absolute necessity of build
ing these large caves or storage
houses for the convenient and
proper hand ling of the year's crop.
Every sand hills potato grower
ought to have a cave of this char
acter.lie cannot afford to be
without it.
I Then a potato sorter is also a
necessity if we want our potatoes
to go onto the market and com
mand the price their high quality
, merits. Quality rather than quan-
, tity should be the mark to which
the sand hills grower constantly
strives to attain. It is in quality
where we must excel and quality
, will in time bring its reward of
' high price and constant demand.
No potatoes are shipped from
Greeley in bulk , all are sacked. It
is not uncommon to find G,000 tn
12,000 sacks stored in one cavo , all
of one man's raising , 12,000 to
21,000 bushels. Most of the
Greeley potatoes are shipped south
into Texas.
They import new seed evory
year. Most of this ? oed. comes
from Wisconsin and Minnesota ,
though thoy obtain considerable
from the "Divide" in ( Colorado.
They rotate their crops as follows :
Two or three years in "potatoes ,
followed by s..gar beets one .year ,
then sow to alfalfa with wheat and
they get a good crop of wheat and
a light crop of alfalfa the first
year. Continued in alfalfa two
ayears more and then plow up and
plant to potatoes again. Alfalfa
hp best fertilizer knmvn.
1 lip.f finingo' ' " G.V ' ! M < 1- -srtf
nure their laud lieavil.aud . pay a
dollar a Ioadfor all the manure
they can .obtain f-
Sugar beets yield IS to 28 tons
per acre and sell at the factory in
Greeley at 85 per ton. They are
raised by foreign labor , ( Russians
and Japs , ) the price paid being !
$22 per acre for thinning , weed
ing , cultivating , digging , topping
and delivering on wagon. The
factory in Greeley consumes 3000
tons daily and turns out the finish
ed product.
Greeley ; has also two starch fac
tories that consume the "culls"
from the potato fields. They bay
at present 12c per bushel for culls.
On bushel of culls makes 9 pounds
of starch. The cost of building
and plant is $25,000. They con
sume 3000 bushels per day to each
factory. Onions and cabbage are
also raised in large quantities and
bring good prices. Another im
portant industry among the
Greeley farmers is feeding sheep.
Beet tops , beet pulp and alfalfa
hay make a well balanced ration
and sheep thrive and fatten rapidly
on this feed. Thousands of sheep
are fed every fall and winter at
Greeley. Thus it will be seen
that there are many avenues to
financial success open to the
Greeley farmer and so far as we
could see the farmers of that fav
ored spot were on the highway to
prosperity.
There are few openings for the
poor man or the man of moderate
means at Greeley. Land is too
high in price fo'the poor man to
even gain ; a fool-hold. All land
eligible to irrigation is held at from
& 100 to 8250 * per acre. ' All con
sidered , we believe there are great
er opportunities for the poor man ,
the man of moderate means , or the
man seeking an investment for his
surplus cash in the farm lands of
Northwest Nebraska , than in any
other region of the West. Com
bined farming and stock raising is
the surest and safest way to inde
pendence. Every acre of irrigated
.land would have to produce ten to
twenty fold greater yield in crops
than an acre of North-west Ne
braska land , ia order to yield as
great a dividend on the invest
ment. The facts are. that every
t
acre of farm land tributary to
Gordon , ( or Valentine , ) if culti
vated as carefully and skillfully as
are the irrigated lands of Colo
rado , will yield from three to five
times greater dividends on the in
vestment. Thousands of acres of
land in the Gordon district have
produced crops this year worth
double , treble and even quadruple
the price asked for the land. They
did the same thing last year and
the year before and they can be
made to do the same thing every
year with right methods of culti
vation. Besides , nearly every
farmer in the Gordon district has
from one to three sections of land
on which he can graze from 100 to
300 head of cattle and horses and
have sufficient hay to keep them
fat all through the winter , and his
total investment will not equal the
cost of 40 acres of irrigated land.
We were not disappointed in what
we saw at Greeley. The town and
country are prosperous to a high
degree and we confess we are in
fatuated with the place , but for
some reason we returned to our
farm at Gordon , better satisfied
with the conditions here than ever
before. This is true of every man
who leaves this country for even a
brief sojourn in other lands.
We have got more faith in the
sand hills spud as a money maker
than ever before , because it is the
best there is and the American
people always want the best of
everything and are bound to have
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ID.
Strayed from Valentine , Nebr. ,
about 10 days ago , two bay horses ,
one branded Z on left jaw , other
has sc me brand on left shoulder.
§ 10 reward will be paid for their
return to J. A. HOLLOMAX ,
Ft. Niobrara , Neb.
For Sale Good 6 room house
and lot on Hall street , good stable.
Inquire at this office.
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Guests for Trains a Specialty.
Chicago House ,
Hornbad ? & McBride , Pro s.
Rates Sl.OO and Board and Room
$1.25 Per Day. S6.00 Per Week ,
ARGAINS
Underwear , Hosiery and Mittens.
Silk Fascinators and'Shawls. .
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N. J. AUSTIN. J. W. THOMPSON.
( SUCCESSORS TO E. BllEUKLANDER. )
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GENERAL BLACK8HIITIIIXG AND WOODWORK
Horse Shoeing ft Specialty.
FRESH FRUIT AND GAME m
IN THEIR SEASON.
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First class line of Steaks , Roasts ,
Dry Salt Meats Smoked
Breakfast Bacon.
Highest Market Price Paid for Hogs.
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for Foundations , Houses , Barns or Chimneys ?
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Valentine ,
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