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January 81, loon.
THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
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SPORTING COSSIP OF WEEK
Clan A gna'.i 8:ill Ior at Emit of
Chicago '"netion.
BAN JOHNSON'S CONTROL IS COMPUTE
Ilia Rnni for Tnrnlng Dona Grill
Was that ttao letter Had Written
Criticisms ot th Bis
Man's Coirit.
Content t
Not much they're not content. The mag
nate of the Class A lea rues do not like the
experience they underwent at Chicago,
ben the mlcrobee of the National associa
tion ran all over them, any better now that
they have had time to think It over. While
the drafting; rule for which they made their
fight hai been enacted Into law by the Na
tional commission, and will govern proceed
ings until chanced, the Class A men feel
that the Interests of their league are Jeo
pardised by having them nnder control of a
body made up to suit Ban Johnson and
Garry Herrmann. It is a dangerous condi
tion, but nothing can be done until the
next session of the minora, when the little
fellows may have had a light shown them
on the question. Base ball politics moves
lowly, and Just now the eyes of some of
the men who have votes are blinded by the
glitter of the halo that surrounds the heads
of some of the big league magnates. After
these little fellows have become more ac
customed to gating on the effulgent forms
that now overtop them they may be able to
descry the sinister features that menace
them and be willing to take some further
steps fof telf-protectlon. Class A teams are
Diost In danger from the big leagues, for the
great bulk of the graduation is from their
ranks. The little fellows have to give up
their players to Class A. Isn't It more to
the advantage of the microbes to be on good
terms with the men with whom they have to
deal, and whose Interests are In a measure
their Interests, rather than to be tied up
with bunch whose Interests are opposed
to all minor leagues T All the minors can
do for the big leagues Is to graduate play
ers. A close organization among the minor
leagues might be made of value, but an or
ganlsatlon in which one end Is opposed to
ths other will always be weak and of little
service. Ana inst is just wnai Man jonn
son wants. It suits his purpose to have no
opposition, and Just at present he has nona
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Ban Johnson explains that he dli not
object to J. Ed Grillo on a personal basis,
but because Grillo bad criticised the great
Ban while writing base ball for a On
clnnatl newspaper. Here is what Mr. John
son says:
It is not a personal matter between
Grillo and myself. by any means.
The trouble started a year ago when the
minors were asking for a new draft lule
and Grillo was one of the most bitter
writers at the time In condemning the
American league for the attitude we felt
forced to take.
Tebr-au, Griffiths, and Btalllngs were so
bitter against the American league mat
thev were ready to do most anything and
the conduct of Griffiths was such during
the summer that the national oommUslon
felt that for the good of base ball Us bad
to be put out of the game.
We talked this matter over then and the
minora aa-reed that only men who we.e ac
ceDtable In every way would be put on the
national board again. When Grillo was
elected ha was nut aarreeable to me and
to several others. It was found out that
ha was one of the men who wanted the
Class A leagues' organisation continued
for a purpose Inimical to base ball and his
conduct altogether was such that he waa
not fitted for the place on that nt!.mal
Hnarri which should be made ud of men
who are willing to decide cases on their
merits and not for Dersonal purposes.
Chairman Herrmann made the minors
promise last summer that no man would be
named on that board but what would be
tierfactlv aarreeable to every member of
enmmtsaion. Grillo resigned.
The draft rules were all accepted boors
h raatirni1 N'nw Herrmann, the real
owner of the Toledo club, has orrtered
nmin the nrealdent of the dub. to with
draw the club from the Class A organlsa
tlon.
. If EM Grillo earns martyrdom for having
spoken what was In his mind In way of
criticism concerning Ban Johnson, what
sort of a' crown do you suppose awaits
Joe Vila for the fulsome flattery with
which be has beslavered the mighty Ban
during the last two or three years T
Clam A organisation
tained.
should be main-
Tim Vurnane shouts gleefully over ths
"harmony" that prevailed at Chicago.
Sure, the session was harmonious, for It
landed Tim and his dinky little New Eng
land league away up In the high place
where he will always have a chance to
vote Just as Johnson wants him to, and be
as big a man as though he were a real
magnate. Kavanagh of the Southern
league thinks ths Class A association has
done Its work and ought to be dissolved
Kavanagh thought so a year ago, when
ths Class A teams were making ths fight
against ths drafting law that amounted
to a raid. The American association Is dl
vtded, four and four, and the Watklna-
Qrltlo snd of ths struggle is In favor of
disbanding. This Is principally for the re
on that the Tebeau-Havsnor end of the
dispute is in fsvor of keeping up the or
ganlsatlon. Much work remains to be done
by the Class A teams, for one ot the great
est abuses of the draft system has not yet
been done away with, and that Is the
"waiving of claim" clause. Under existing
Conditions a player ones drsfted by a big
league team does not revert to the team
from which he was taken in event of the
drafting team releasing him until after all
the other teams in the big lesgue have
Waived claim on hlra. This means that the
team that dsveloped the player may never
get hlra back, even though the big leagus
team doesn't want him.
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Another abuse, and ona that ranks atari
with this waiving of claim Injustice, is the
fact that a player once drafted Is srolled
for service in a minor league by the very
fact that he was given a chance. He gets
a taste of big league pay, and thinks ha
ought to have it. no matter where he i lys.
Generally this Is more than the minor
manager can possibly afford to give, and
the result is he has a discontented player
on his staff every time he takes back a
major discard. Here Is lots of work for
the Class A organisation, for unless these
points are settled, they will always haw
more or lesa trouble. The fight must be
kept up until ths drafting rule will be on
such a basis that the big leagues will
draft only such players as they want, and
will keep them when they get them. At
present It amounts only to taking a joubg
ter for a try-out, and if he make good
he may be kept or farmed. If he doesn't
make good, he Is thrown back to soma of
the minora, a discontented, disappointed
man. his ambition checked, his pride hurt,
gad his disposition turned Into that of a
ball player for salary only. Consider Clark
Griffiths' present squad of forty-three, for
The keynote to the whole college ath
letic situation wss sounded by th writer
who suggested thst too small a percentage
of students are sMe to take part In college
sports ss they are now played In American
colleges. In a university of I.WO students
about fifty play foot ball, another small
squad rows, another train for the field
day events and anothar tries for ths base
ball team, many being members of two r
more squads. Only those mho have a
pecialty in aome Una are thus able to
get the exercise which the right kind
of sports would give. Come scheme should
be evolved by which a larger percentage
of the students could take part In the
out-of-door healthful exercise. A game
should be originated In which fifty could
play foot ball on a aide and thus accom
modate many more students In the free
and open air. President Bchurman of
Cornell university has said that athletic
keep up the discipline, of the schools and
make courts and trials' and policemen un
necessary- If this 1 ths case with only
the limited few taking part, how much
stronger would be the Influence for good
If all the student were exercising all the
time? Some go on ths principle that a
boy has so much animal spirits which he
must work off in some way and that it la
far better for h(m to do it by athletlo
exercise than by mischief or rowdyism.
Other universities are settling the coach
question snd Nebraska will soon be In
line. Phil King and Eddie Holt, the
Princeton combination which worked so
successfully last season for the University
of Wisconsin, will sgaln be found doing
team work for that institution. An effort
will be made to lower the colors of Tost,
Stag and Dr. Williams, surely a hard
combination for. a team to go against In
one short season. These coaches were
eager to stay and finish the work which
they began so well, but they wished to
flirt a little on the salary question and this
they did with good results. Although it is
not officially announced, it Is understood
that each will have a substantial raise
in salary. King to receive $5,000 and Holt's
figure not given. The team lost by four
points to Chicago last fall after having
outplayed the Maroons, and lost to Michi
gan by one straight touchdown and a
fluke. They realize thst they will have to
practically build an entirely new team.
but still they have great hopes from the
material on hand.
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The question of a coach for the University
of Nebraska is still in the air and the ap
plicants are still presenting their claims. for
recognition at the hands of the athletic
board. A coach at a university such as the
great University of Nebraska has a much
easier time than did the coaches ten years
sgo, when foot ball in the west was in its
Infancy. Then the coaches not only had to
develop foot ball players from entirely
green men, but they also had to look after
management of all kinds, as well as the
physical training of the team. Not only all
that, but they had to play and captain the
team as well. Such was the condition when
Frank Crawford, the Omaha attorney, was
coach of the Nebraska team. Crawford had
been coach of the University of Michigan
team and coach at Baker' university, Kan
sas, when he was elected coach of the Ne
braska team. Since that time all is changed.
A faculty advisory board looks after. the
financial end, a trainer tends to the injuries
of the players and looks after their physical
welfare, plenty of material is on the field
from which to choose a team and there Is
plenty of money with which to buy sweaters
and uniforms, something which was lacking
In the olden times. Herrnsteln seems to he
the favorite for the position among the
students, but the press reports say that
each fraternity has a candidate which the
members of that "frat" are working for.
Tim was whsn the eastern schools were
run in that fashion, but It Is stamped out in
nearly all the larger colleges and a man
can make a team on his merits.
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Omaha is to have the honor of holding the
Transmississlppi Golf tournament next sum
mer, as the executive committee of the club
haa decided to accept the Invitation of the
Omaha Field club, and the tournament will
be held during the latter part of June. The
crowded center. Harvard does not mention
any specific changes which might be good
except that officials should be more effi
cient and numerous.
Ice skstlng at Cut -Off lake and Manawa
ha had to take a back seat to the more
exciting pastime of Ice yachting, and ths
splendid weather of December and this
year, to date, has been a great boon to
this sport. During the past week the
warmer weather has been a sort of a set
back, but It haa given the boat owners
an opportunity to overhaul their boats In
anticipation of the colder weather which
1 coming, that Is. If the Ice man Is to
get In his work before summer. The whole
lawn In front of the Manawa boathouse Is
filled with boats which were being over
hauled and put in shape for the better
times. Match races will soon be the order
of the day. Many different types of boat
are to be seen and on the day of the
grand competition many surprises will be
sprung.
President II. C. Pulliam of the National
League of Professional Base Ball clubs
does not believe that thers will be any
material change In the playing rules from
those that prevailed during the last cham
pionship season. When asked whether ths
game could not be made mora interesting
by the elimination of the foul strike rule
o a to produce a better exhibition of
batting, he said: "I thmk it would be
suicidal to change the foul strike rule."
For an example, we will take the world's
championship series of last year. There
was no very great exhibition of batting
In any of these games, but there was an
extraordinary display of pitching and ex
cellent fielding. Not a single unfavorable
comment that I heard was made as to the
batting. The games pleased everybody.
While there was a slump In batting on
the American league, t ie same cannot be
said of our organization. We had twenty
one batsmen with averages ranging about
290 to too and over last year, against
about half that number the year before.
No, it Is not the foul strike rule that is
chiefly responsible for the absence of good
hitters, but it Is the efficiency of the
pitchers, and the National league had with
out question the champion in Mathewsdn.
Patrons of the national game are as en
thusiastic over skillful pitching as good
batting, and because a man who Is known
to be a reliable batsman has two strikes
called on him because of fouls, I cannot
see why the foul strike rule should be
condemned In consequence." President
Pulliam further said he would meet Presi
dent Johnson of the American league at the
joint meeting of the schedule committees
of the two leagues in New York, and would
then announce his staff of umpires. The
National league executive said it was un
true thst he had difficulty in selecting the
proper men to officiate as umpires.
The views of Phil King, as published in
the current Issue of the Illustrated and Out
door News, are unusually Interesting, the
more so as there are few men better
qualified to speak on the subject. Phil
King waa not only one of the greatest play
ers ever developed at Princeton, but slnco
he waa graduated he has acted as coaoh for
Wisconsin, one of the strongest foot ball
universities In the west. His Ideas and sug
gestions follow: y
was discovered last winter at the toot of
the trestle work leading Into the valley of
the steep hill is being blasted away so as
not to hinder the flight of the riders. The
slight curve at the lower end ot the course
is being straightened, and a retaining wall
is being built. With these Improvements
it Is expected that last year's records will
be broken by many feet, bringing the jumps
above the lUO-foot mark. There Is danger
In connection with ski jumping, but as yet
no accidents have ever marred the pleasure
of an Ishpemlng meet. Usually thousands
of people throng the hillside to watch the
skiers on the perilous flight.
Considerable agitation has arisen In ths
rank and file of New York bowlers In sup
port of the idea ot taking the next meeting
of the American Bowling congress to the
metropolis. Estimates as to the cost of pro
viding for the congress should it go to New
Tork range from 120.000 to $50,000. The lat
ter amount seems more probable when it is
considered that some extraordinarily large
building would have to be procured, a small
fortune In prize money distributed and an
army ot attendants employed. Charles H.
EbbeU. a bowling authority, especially
qualified to speak In this connection, seems
to think that New York is better fitted than
any other town In the country to hold the
affair. In speaking of the idea Mr. Ebbete
said: "I hav been trying for years to
bring ths grand national tournament to
New York, but for one reason or another
the project has always fallen through. Sev
eral of the smaller towns like Buffalo, In
dianapolis and Milwaukee have been
favored, but the metropolis has been over
looked. Many reasons are given for this,
the principal one being that eastern and
western bowling organizations have been at
odds. Just lately an affiliation has been ef
fected, and the time Is ripe for New York
to speak for the tourney of 1906 if it wants
It. There Is no other city so well qualified
to entertain the visitors that such a meet
attracts, sad the benefit to bowling In the
metropolitan district would be very great."
Resolutions condemning the use of the
so-called automatic shotgun In the hunting
of birds and other game, and requesting
the New York legislature to pass a law
prohibiting the use of the weapon for such;
a purpose, were passed at the annual meet
ing of the New York Zoological society.
Bills for such a law will be Introduced In
the legislature of thirteen states this win
ter. There are already about 18,000 of these
destructive weapons in the United States,
and should each of them on an estimate
which the society considers conservative
kill 100 birds a year there will be 1.800,000
birds killed in the next twelve months. A
game protective bureau has been estab
lished at 1269 Broadway for the purpose of
pushing the agitation.
LONDON, Jan. 20. Having tried unsuc
cessfully three times to "lift" the America's
cup, the Internationa blue ribbon of the
seas. In his next campaign against the New
York Yacht club it is stated Sir Thomas
LJpton will build a good, wholesome type
of a boat which will be absolutely without
freakish overhangs and other eccentric
features. Plans for the new challenger have
been seen by insiders, and those who "are
In the know" desert that the new trophy
hunter will be built for business.
tlal tariff, and the dsy will com when
she will give us a preferential duty on our
wheat and flour. When that occurs there
will be a howl from your grain farmers
which will reach Washington. Tour eon
grtsi will thn revise the tariff, and you
will cut your duties to the bene. That Is
on of the certainties of ths future."
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
Blended Proverbs
Mind your own business Is business.
First In war, first In peace to his ashes.
Money Makes the mare go west, young
man.
Grin and bear it never rains but It
pours.
Revenge Is sweet are the uses of ad
versity. Never go back on a friend In need is a
friend Indeed.
Fine feather make fine birds of a feather
flock together.
Flattery 1 the food of fools rush In
where angels fear to tread.
Procrastination is the thief ot time and
tide wait tor no man.
Facts are stubborn things are not aK
ways what they seem.
Ignorance of the law excuse ho on
good turn deserves another.
A drowning man will- catch at straw
tell which way the wind blow.
Two head are better than one good
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. I am heartllv In favor of changing the
distance to h gained to ten yards In three
downs, providing some other rule Is pasxed
to Drevent the wldenlnv of tha Una nt A.
fense. which wnuM he tha r,g ahnnlA (h.
above rule be adopted, t'nder the present up by the middle or latter part of
" r" oimcuu piay 10 ptij October. As the season goe on they
through. Make the distance greater and -k, . .. , " " . u" "'e
we would have a gradual lengthening of I char margin of a few cents a bushel
the defensive line, which would result In a l cover the risk of a possible nonshtpment
see-saw kicking game. I am primarily 1 down the lakes, and this margin is some
agalnst passing any rule that wou d re- 1 ,, .,. ,n "me
quire stated positions for the defensive tlme Increael 10 cent a bushel if the
team. This would add to the already 1 "heat has to be held over. It actually
uneroua uuuvi 01 mi iMunaia. r-ermnung costs between 7 and 1 rtnti tn
the first man who receives the ball from
the center to advance at any point In the
line would have a tendency to keep the op
posing team from spreading Its line of de
fense, thereby making open play, such as
end runs, long passes and double passes,
easier of execution. Ten yards to be
gained will certainly be a hard proposition
for any team unless some other rule, such
as above. Is passed, which will give a team
an opportunity of regaining the ball long
eriourh to make a score.
Another means of opening the game will
be to require the side having possession of
the ball to keep seven men on the line of
scrimmage at all times. This would pre
vent a massing of too many men at a given
point. Another Interesting: chanre would be
old course will not be In readiness for the to allnw forward passes behind the line of
tournament, but the great event of the west I ;rimmage or. v. This woum aid end run-
..iii k k.A .a l. . n'ns; materially. Ar-rvllsh the try at goal
will be held, on the old links. The eoata . - n.,nv.jn i-t,i. i.
nave orowaea on an tne roughness from t mi. is an individual enort ana orten decides ; " nyping ii proauct to Qreat
uhnnh I "e result or tne game, r or example, tne
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giving day ana numerous o triers
keeD a
Dusnei or wneat in the elevator from win
ter to the opening of navigation on the
great lakes.
Canada's Big- Floor Business.
Many of the country elevators are owned
by the milling companies. They are used
for receiving, cleaning and shipping the
grain, and also for storing it over winter.
Winnipeg to the chief milling center for
the northwest, although there are other
mill now building throughout the wheat
belt and large mill havs been conatxuetad
In the Rainy river country, 140 mile east
of Winnipeg. On of these mills has a
rapacity or 6,ooo barrels of flour per day.
the new coarse, but the greens,
graded, would not be in condition for the
tournament. Secretary Heyward O. Leavltt
will take pride In the Omaha meet and will
begin work right away to make It one of
the big successes of the year. Omaha has
many golfer who can hold their own with
most of the player of the country, being
completely outclassed by but few. This waa
demonstrated last season In the events In
the middle west in which Omaha was rep
resented. Bprague Abbott was looked upon
as a winner for a time, but he fell down at
the finish. E. H. Bprague, Stockton Heth,
EM Boyer, the winner of the tate cham
pionship last year; Ouy Thomas, Dick Kim
ball and the other local cracks may be re
lied upon to uphold Omaha's end In the
tournament in good shape. They will have
the slight advantage of being used to the
links, although many of the best players of
this city are member of the Country club
alone, atill the interchange of ga,mes which
waa inaugurated last season ha given the
players a chauce to play on both courses.
Under the ruling of President Eliot of
Harvard, unless spring games are played
this year to , demonstrate the wisdom of
changes which may be made in the rules,
Harvard will havs no foot ball team In the
field this fall. The board of overseers at
Harvard were not satisfied with having
Harvard's representative put on the rules
commltte by the reform board, but insist
that the old board of governor, which waa
self-constituted, but which had Itself ac
credited by the various colleges, have noth
ing to dp with the changing of the rules.
This Is practically insisting on the part ot
Harvard that Walter Camp and the other
dean of the game baok out and let aome
new bloods frame a game which will be
satisfactory to all concerned, if possible.
It Is believed that the combined wisdom
of the sixty-eight colleges which are rep
resented on the reform committee would
have wisdom enough to frame some rule
which would pas mustsr. but Harvard has
the Ides, and rightly, too, that the old com
mittee is so wedded to the old game that
it member would not consent to enough
changes to make the gam any different
from what It la now, Ths game as it to
now played is almost an American gam
and 1 played nowhere els l the world as
It la here. In no other country I there aa
much Interest taken In foot ball as in the
I'nlted 8tate. with the possible exception
ot England. The question to whether the
American public and the American col
lege want the gam changed until It to
similar to basket ball or croquet. The
sample, and bear In mind that not over
eighteen of them will be kept for tne High- j roughness of the gam 1 on of it Wrong
Minders during in coming summer, and you
may get an Idea of the danger ot the
situation. Orifllth will turn out lae-ity.
feature. It I a contest of man against
man. and may the best combination of men
win. Would S0.00O people turn out to see a
v disappointed players from his ona team j basket ball game? In base ball the in
this season. Other teams la the big ligu
will contribute each lta hare, and the
total amount qf harm don by the indis
criminate draft may be Imagined. If a
draft were a sal outright, the major
would exercise far mora car la the pro
cess. A it to they don't ear a picayun,
tor the minors have to stand the expeuae
aod the trouble. It to to bring about a
further correction f the abiw that the
dividual effort of a player are more evi
dent than in toot ball, but the rule can
be so changed that It will give the Eck
ersall and Benders and other sprinter
more of a chance to break Into the open
and make the game spectacular. Harvard
claims that with the men lined up as they
are it to almost Impossible for official to
see what to going on and that much of ths
rough work to don under the cover ot th
Teami
have been classed superior and champion- j
ships won in this manner. !
I would define more olosely unnecessary
roughness, and. In addition to disqualifica
tion, give a penalty distance sgalnst the
offending side, althnurh. after all, the rules
can be enforced properly by competent offi
cials. Do not add to the number of offi
cials, for there Is already , a scarcity of
good ones. Enlarge the duties of the lines
man by making him also Judge of all out
side plays In scrimmages. This will permit
the umpire to watch more closely for hold
Inc and unnecessary roughness.
Whatever changes the rules committee
makes let It by all means. slmnllfy the rules
and uniform the penalties. Kor at present
It requires a constant study to memorise
thm. and I venture to state that not more
than 3 per cent of the players are perfectly
familiar with the requirements of the penal-tie.
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Alfred Vanderbllt ha entered a t50-hors
power automobile, cy an oads tne most
powerful machine of It kind ever con
structed, in various events to be decided
at the Ormond-Daytona Beach carnival.
Mr. Vanderbllt' entry disclosed the faot
that he is pot only the owner but the
builder of the new creation, which will be
a thoroughly American car, designed to
compete with the high-power machine now
in this country or enroute from France,
Germany, Italy and England. Although
several members of the Vanderbllt family
have been prominently Identified with au
tomoblllng, thla I the first case on record
that a Vanderbllt ha built a car. W. K.
Vanderbllt, the young man' relative, waa
on ot the very first to take up the sport
of racing high-powered car In thla coun
try, and hi mil record of Si seconds,
made at Ormond In 1904, was sensational at
the time and for some time afterward.
That record wa made with a German Mer
cedes. All the Vanderbllt cars have been
foreign and their successes have been cred
ited to builder abroad. Alfred Owynne's
racing machine last year and the year be
fore waa a SO-horse power Flat,, built In
Italy. With Sartor! driving It finished sev
enth in the big .cup race on Long Island
last fall. Th monster to to make a bid
for American prestige In motor car build
ing. There to no guarantee that SO-horse
power can be controlled by the hand of
man, but Mr. Vanderbllt believe it pos
sible and I desirous of crediting the
achievement to horn Industry. He has
Implicit confidence in Sartort, whom ha ha
named as his driver. Sartor! has shown
his nerve and gameness on many occasions
and la well qualified to hsndle anything In
th line of motors that .may be entrusted
to him.
A great throng of ski Jumper, soma of
whom will com from Scandinavia espe
cially for the event, and many hundreds
of spectators are expected at 'the big ski
tournament to be held at Ishpemlng, Mich.,
qn Washington' birthday, February Z.,
Th Ishpemlng Ski dub, which win have
charge of th meet, ! already making prep
aration for th event Th expenses of
the foreigner are guaranteed, and they
will no doubt In addition carry off a num
ber of prise. Th slide on which th ski
Jumping will take place I being Improved
at great coat Th todg ot rocks wbJoh
We offer for sale, at prices varying.
according to location, some of the finest
lands In the great Canadian Northwest
and In the vicinity of Vermillion on the
C. & N. Ry. extension and O. T. V. Ry.
These lands are located in Alberta, and
without a doubt among the finest In
Western Canada, comprising wood, prai
rie and good water, thus making it the
Ideal country of the farmer. The build
ing of these railroads hns also brought ,
markets within easy reacn ot all. i
Until these roads were built this '
particular region was almost unknown,
no one had ever penetrated it except
Indians and the trapper. 1
For cattle, and in fact all kinds of
stock, this region Is unexcelled In all
Canada. The timber affording shelter
for the stock, which requires but little
feeding during the winter months; but
few stormy or cold days during the
entire season are known. In fact it
is a paradise for the stock man. As
a grain producing country enough has
been seen during the past season to
convince the most skeptical as to the
capabilities of the country in that re- j
spect Oats grown on breaking near j
this town during the year 1905 have i
produced, nearly 100 bushels per acre i
of the finest quality. The soil Is deep I
black loam, resting on a yellow clay
subsoil Good water can .be bad by
digging from 15 to 20 feet
We also have the gavernment plats
showing the Homesteads through this
entire region. There are still many
fine ones to be had.
Upon application further information
will be cheerfully furnished. Write
for all Information about this country
and we will cheerfully furnish the de
sired information.
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HARRY BOWTELL,
REAL ESTATE AGENT
VERMILLION, ALBERTA, CANADA
Britain, Australia, South Africa and Japan
s well as to aU parts of Canada. The
uguvie. Milling company haa an establish,
msnt at Winnipeg which grinds ind br.
rels of flour a day, and altogether thr
ar mills here which are turning out some
thlng Ilk 14,000 barrel of flour very
twenty-four hour. All of these mills are
making money. Canada ha a tariff which
keeps out American flour, and Its horn
consumption requires about SO.OOO.OOO bushel
of wheat per annum. The export amount
to 1,000,000 or 1.000.000 barrel yearly.
Within the last twelve months flour mill
hav been constructed in th west not far
from the foothills of the Rockies in --I-
winter wheat for the Asiatic trad. There
ar mill at Calgary which will soon be
producing :,000 barrel, per dsy, and other
will be constructed a tha area of winter
wheat increases. Winter wheat flour to
especially desired by th Japanese, and the
region wher It is being raised lies within
-uuui i, mjies or tne Pacific coast
Canada and American Flonr.
The Canadian don't want Am..
flour, and I And some of them object to
our taking th Canadian wheat and manu
facturing it in bond. I met at Montreal
Mr. Robert Meighen, president of the Lake
of the Wood. Milling company, which haa
om of th largest mills in Canada, and
talked with hlra aa to reciprocity. Said he-
am opposed to having our wheat go
Into th United States to be ground for
shipment abroad. I believe In high duties
on American flour and would make you
Americana come to Canada and build mills
If you want to manufacture our wheat."
"But, Mr. Meighen." said I, "would not
Canada profit by reciprocity with Uncle
Bam?"
"No." was the reply. "We would rather
hav commercial war with" the United
States than commercial peace. If t'nele
Bain would build a trade wall ninety-nine
feet high across hi northern boundary
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, it would
uit u down to th ground. We believe
It to best for th North American continent
and for the world that we should be op
posed to each other as far as trads to con
cerned. W want a protective tariff high
enough to fore your people to establish
branch factories here and make with Cana
dian labor such goods as we use. That to
what to going on now and what will be
don more and more In th future;"
England and Protection.
"Tour idea are different from those of
your mother country, Mr. Meighen." said L
"Bhe to for free trade."
"That was so In th past." replied th
Canadian miller, "but It 1 not so now.
The English are beginning to understand
th situation, and they will soon retaliate
against the United States agricultural Im
ports In such a way as to force Uncle Bam
to his knees. Our colonies are rapidly in
creasing In th production of breadstuffs.
They furnished Great Britain one-third of
her supply last year, and we have now
enough wheat land to furnish the mother
oountry and still flood th market of th
world. W are giving England a prefersn-
WHEAT'S OWN COUNTRY
Read the Western Canada Letters ol
th Famous Correspondent, Frank
O. Carpenter, PnbllshefKver y .
day in This Paper They May Point
th Way to Year Opportunity.
As, say th Rev. Newell Dwight Hillls,
the Bouth la the land of cotton and the
Middle State the land of corn, so Western
Canada to the land of wheat.
It s th land of more wheat averags JO
bushel to the acre for 10 year.
U s the land of best wheat largest per
centage of No. 1 bard, making the world
strongest and best flour.
It's also the land of cheap wheat land.
Land that mill give 40 bushels to th acre
for f7 to 110.
It is, too, the land of free land, 160 acre
free for all who want them.
A former Minnesota farmer has this year
taken 4C.0U0 bushels wheat from 1,100 acres.
The wheat sold for 6a cents a bushel. The
land originally cost 13; after this crop was
off 700 acres were sola tor tiz.ho an acre.
Tou can get big or little tracts. Plant
your money in the world s best wheat land
and aee It grow. It beats life Insurance,
savings banks and bonds. See Carpenter's
letters.
For free copies of a handsome magailne.
Interesting literature and all sorts of In
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