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Daily Bee. Advertisers can cover Omaha with one paperTHB BEE WEATHER FORECAST. For f.braka Generally fair. For Iowa Fair; warmer. VOL. XLI-NO. 20. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1911 TEN PAGES, SINGLE COPY ' TWO CENTS. CONTROLLER BAY ORDERCHANGED 'Commissioner Dennett Testifies that Document Wu Amended After it left His Hands. G0VERN0R OF NEBRASKA, WHO WAS INITIATED AT DEN. INDIAN LANDS TO In Constant Eruption COM LITTLE OFF CROP BOARD SAYS Official Report at Washington Showi it 4.6 Per Cent Below Ten Tear Average. TWENTY-FIVE BUSHELS TO ACRE 1 -vvev 1 XJXJ X XXlJ IT 11 J aS?-'V Six Hundred Thousand Acres od land Ready for Settlers Soon, j SIXTY-DAT CLAUSE STRICKEN OUT CHOICE TO BE DECIDED BTIX)T Oar Great Advantage to Claimants Already on Ground. PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT Registration at Places Dakota. in South Area Planted Two Million Acres Oyer Year Ago. a eammanaaaames FIGURES UP TO FIRST OF JULY SOME IS GOOD ' FARM LAND 1 HE Omaha - J7 ' He Does Not Enow Who Dropped Pro vision from Order. CHARGE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT Maanslne Wrltrr Allra-rs that Order Issued In Reasons to It. qneat Made by Charles i P. Toft. y WAKHINCJTO.W July 10. - Secretary Fisher todb told President Taft that a careful search of the Inter'or department records tnlled to show the "Dick tn Dick" letter. In w hich tt wss surged that O. P. Taft ti" d li'a Influence In bhalf of naviga tion interest In Alaska to secure control , . liny. Recrctary Fisher also told the president that he aw th article written by Mas Abbott before It wna printed and remem bered no such letter In the article. It waa Mated at the White House that a careful aeaVcli of the files In the executive offices fntlrd to reveal any record of a letter; to the rresldfiit from Charles P. Taft concerning Ryan or bearing In any way upon the Controller bay affair. The most Important development of the Ipvestlsatlon of the case by the house committee ri the Interior department to day was the' tentlmony of Commissioner Dennett of the uenryal land office that the claimants represented by Richard 8. Ryan of New York, said to represent the Gug genheim Interests, had benefited by the onVrsIon of one provision In the final offi cial papers. Mr. Dennett Dm Hat Know. Ml', rAnnett said that when the exccutlvt order opening the Controller bay land t entry reached his office It contained a provision under which entrymen could not file on the land for sixty days after the order was Issued. In soma way or other he did not know how, ha said, this provi sion was lost or eliminated before final promulgation of the order. This omission, he admitted, gave great advantage to the Ryan claimants, who were on the ground when the order reached Juneau. . - Mr. Dennett said that the first draft, which. In accordance with' the usual cus tom, was prepared at the Department of Agriculture, contained tha sixty days' pro vision, but that It waa not In tha order aa finally signed by the president. ' "Who etruck It utT" ,. do not know."- , . ' i 1 , . -' Cfcvararea Against President. Publish d Brgaa have Nto nuHi-ltat Richard 8. Ryan of New York, claimed to be secret agent of tha Guggenheim syndi cate, wrote a letter to former Secretary of tha Interior Bellinger declaring that he, Ryan, had aaked Charles P. Taft to apeak to his brother," President Taft, about the Controller' bar claims, and that following: this tha president "made no further objec tion to my claim." Tha land U said to have been wanted aa a terminus for rail roads i from tha Guggenheim mine prop erties. Commissioner Dennett waa sum moned to tall what ha knew of an order by tha president throwing tha land open to entry.: Mlsa Abbott claimed to have made a copy of tha alleged letter from Ryan to Bellinger. . ' 1 Immediately following ' his return to Washington today President Taft sat his office fore to work investigating tha Con troller bay affair. . . Hant fee Altered Letters. All four ' of tha departments Interested were requested to make investigations and report any Information that might be found. The Controller bay and Charles P. Taft latter files were searched for a letter to the president from his brother tn re gard to this matter, the report that such a letter' had been written bavins bean brought to the president's attention for the first time this morning. A telegram has been sent Charles P. Teft'e secretary at Cincinnati asking that an Inquiry for auch a letter be Instituted there. Mr. -Taft said that ha bad never discussed R. 8. Ryan, or Controller bay with hie brother and had received no letters so far aa ho oould re member. ' It la explained that R. 6. Ryan, repre senting tha Controller Bay Navigation (Continued on Second Page.) The Weather For Nebraska Generally fair. For Iowa Fair; mariner. t'nmnarltlvo bewal tteraU isi l vm. uo. ison. .. t7 S4 ST M . 74 M 70 71 . M 71 71 t) .. .00 .00 00 .AO HUheet yesterday Lowest yesterday Mean temperature Precipitation ' muerature and DreclDlLatlan lnrtii.u from the normal: Normal tm"-rMiire Excess for the day Tuul siate klart'h I Normal precipitation , Deficiency fiir thed ay Precipitation since March 1... 7 10 H .14 Inch .14 inch T OT Inches Deftrlency since Uirrh t t u i...ku !clnoy for cor. period. IMO. .11 .67 Inches Kx('s for cor. period, 48 Inch titattoa and Temp. Hlnh: Rata- blate cf Weather. fan. T,. .u . nryrrne, clear... lnn niKirt. clear , lnvrr. part cloudy len Mnlnea, part cloudy.. Ixl-e City,, part cloudy.. Lander, clear North Platte, clear t Omaha, clear Pueblo, part cloudy I Hpld City, clear . a'l l.aks City, clear , i -ma re, ekiudy , fherldan. clear ., FliMJX City, clear Valentine, clear Tempera tare at Osaka Toeteeday. i - Hour. Peg. Tin Too Ukrry A S a. tn T4 1 TO TU TBa a. m 74 Wo . s I 7 a.m..; T6 grouty. , tt yfPb A H?- JJ ' 11 a. s as I P- m te M 84 .00 M .03 M M .00 M M .00 M M .00 4 M .00 s as S ST .00 S , . M . .00 44 M. .00 M , .00 M 74 .44 M M .00 M I St . .CO U 88 .00 U A. WELSH. Local Forecaster. r A CHESTER H. ALDRICH. Davilla Lands with Small Force on Island Near Venezuela Close Friend of Capriano Castro Pre paring to Invade Country from the East WILLEM8TEAD, Vulv 10. Wireless dis patches from Buen Ayre Island announce that General Jose Antonio Davilla landed on the Island aecretly Saturday nlglit, hav ing come from Venesuela. . . Davilla la one of the sixty-three men, who, led by General Clpranfo Castro years ago, Invaded the state of Tachlra, Venez uela, 'from Colombian territory. Ha Is Castro's close friend. Later advices prove untrue Saturday's report that the president of the state of Zulla, Venesuela. had been killed by a bomb explosion. Wireless messages from Aruba today re port that the armored cruiser North Caro lina,- which carried the American repre sentatives to the centennial anniversary of the Independence of Venexueia, . left Ia Guatra yesterday and la now anchored off Aruba Island. .. r- Aruba Is an Island In the Dutch Antilles, near the coast of Venexueia.: According to the best Information . ob tainable Castro, the deposed president of Venexueia, Is now on tha western frontier of Venexueia at the head of a thousand or more men engaged In enlisting an army.' Buen Ayre or Bonaire, Is a Dutch West Indian laland.about e&ntjNQvs -miles north of Ois nortSr 'coast of Venesuela and thirty miles east of Curacao. Progressives and the Presidential Honor . nssnnan Harry Bushnell Says He Will Oppose Any Endorsement at the State Convention. , ' u : (From a Staff Correspondent) LINCOLN, July 10.-(Spedal.) "As far as I am ronnnrnnil t k.r ..111 k 1 dentlal endorsements this year at the re publican state convention, neither for Taft or LafoUette," said H. M. Bush nell of the Nebraska Progressive Renub- llcan today In dlacuaalng the aftermath of; the Bhotweil Interview which was given nut upon the arrival of the bmuu man' from his trip to Washington. "Fur- taer, Mjfr, tha provisions of the session of the'state legislature, tha power of en dorsement Is given to the people through wnat is known a the presidential prefer ence vote, and they alone ahould ba al lowed that . privilege." Neither Mr. BushneJU C. O, . Whedon nor . Frank Harrison ' would h ava ftnvthlnv to say about Shotwell, all relating that tney aid not care to give It even sertoua consideration. They, with other Repub licans asserted that the fact that Khot. wells naming Taft. Brown. Non-U .nrf Aldiich aa progressives, lumping them. off as It were In one bunch, was ludicrous In the extreme. Nona of them, disputed the fact but- that the latter two had earned their title to that, but were con vinced that other proof would have to be forthcoming before they would ac knowledge as much tor 'the president and Senator Brown. Record' Breaking Crop of Cotton is Certiain Breaking: of Drouth in Texas and Oklahoma Causes Sharp Slump in -Prices in New Tork. NEW YORK. July 10,-Reports that fur ther rain In the western cotton belt stnea Sunday morning had effectually relieved drouthy conditions In Texas and rui. homa and rendered a record-breaking crop w ootion practically certain, with normal weathar hereafter, caused heavy general selling In the cotton market today. Old crop montha were sensationally weak. Before the . close July contracts sold at 11.71 and August at $13.43, a decline of S2.23 te S3. GO per bale for the day and lower thaa the price reached by the old cropj alnco early last, autumn.. Last- prices showed practically no recovery. , SANTA ROSA'S PASSENGERS ARE ALL ACCOUNTED FOR Acent ef Steamship Company Reperte tent All Mtselngr Han Been Foaad. ' . 8AN lRANCISCO, July Every pas senger on tha , steamer , Eaata , Rosa, wrecked near Point Arguello, has .been accounted for,' aouordlng to a statement given out today by C. D. Dunann, gen eral passenger ag'ant of the Paclflo Coast Bteamahlp company. C. P, Stark, Mrs. C. L. Paio and Mrs. S. Payne, the missing reported ' yeaterday, have been found. This report of the passenger de partments conflnee the fatalities to one officer and threa seeunen. Mineral and Coal Lands Retained by the Government. BIG INFLUX IS EXPECTED Latest Aanonnceaaent of the Govern saevat Will Brian: Oat Many Who Desire to Establish Homes n Farms. Information of more than usual Interest to residents of . Nebraska and the middle West Is that contained In a recent bulletin af the United States Department of the Interior to the - effect theft almost 000. 000 acres of reservation land In North and South Dakota are to be opened for settle ment within the next few months. The comparative nearness of the land and Its great desirability has aroused an amount of Interest more than commensurate with the slxe of the tract which la to bo thrown open. The lands affect td by the order are a por tion of the Fort Berthold reservation sit uated In Montrallle and McLain counties In western North Dakota and a part of the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations In Mellette and Bennett countlea In the south central part of South Dakota. The amount of land to be thrown open In these various reservttlons Is, respectively, 150.000. 1U9.271 and 297,290 acres. Three Classes af Land. In eaeh of he reservations the lands have been divided Into three elasses known as agricultural lands of the first class, agri cultural lands of the second class and graxtng lands and tha ' prices which the government lias put upon the various classes In the several tracts range from 1 Z5 cents to St per acre. Mineral, coal and timber lands are, however, to be reserved from the portions open for entry, Aecordlng to , the regulations drawn up by the department, alt who deaire to reg ister for Fort Berthold lands must either go to Blsmark, Mlnot, Ryder, Garrison or Plaxa, N. D.,.on or before August 14 and not later than . October I and those who wish to register for lands in tha other two reservations must do so between Oc tober 2 and October 22. 1U, at Chamberlain. Dallas, Gregory or. Rapid' City,: a.D. In general any person who, Is qualified to make .entry under itho general homestead laws, may register for a share-of this re serve, but a married .woman 'who has bean deserted by her husband, one not a oltlsen and. not having declared htelntentien te become Such, a minor, as owner of mora than 10 acres of land In tha United States, no matter how acquired, or one erho has previously made entries will not be al lowed to register.'. Honorably- discharged soldiers or sailors who. have served, more than ninety day a In actual servlse,, are .air lowad'to register by. agent duly appointed, but all other parties must 'register In per. son, and one person can file no more than one registration for himself and one for another as h is agent. , , ..Determined by Lot. After the applications are sworn to be fore a notary . they are to be mailed to James W. Wltten at tha general land office In i Washington. D. . C, , and ' the order of choice of lands Is to be determined by that office y lot. -The order for the Fort Ber thold opening Is, to be decided' at Mlnot, N. D., on September , and for tha othe reservations on October 34, at Gregory, S. D. ' Postal card notices - of the - result of these drawings are to be mailed to all ap plicants. . All choices must be made before October 1. 1912, and any land not chosen at that time will be thrown open to entry to all capable of taking, regardless of the order of choice which has been assigned. Patent may be obtained to this land by proving fourteen montha' actual and con tinlous , residence, and . the payment of proof fees and all unpaid installments of the appraised '. value' -of the alnd or by proving five years' actual residence and cultivation and-the payment annually of all tha Installments of the appraised valua tion and the proof fees and not more than S4 aa commissions.' -, , . at. Pant Bars Land. ST.' PAUL, July M.-The St -Paul base ball club has purchased Catcher O rover Land from tha Cleveland olub of the Amer ican league. . j Famous Nebraska Insurgent is Fifty Years Old Today , Georoe - W. Nonis, famous In surgent republican. , waa born . In 6anduaky county.' O.,-July 11. 1881.' The future baiter of csar-ltke' pro- ' siding officers worked on the far ms of the neighborhood for bis summer amusement and went te school In ths. winter. In this way he worked . through the grades and through several years In Baldwin university, and the Normal school of northern Indiana.' '' ' He . wanted ' to etudy ' law and taught school .while '. ha carried on ' his etudles.. In 181. he' waa . ad mitted to the bar, but continued hla pedagogy t to get! together enough money for a law library. A few years later. he came to Ne braska and settled in' the western part of the etaia He was prosecat in attornej for Raw Willow county for three terms, and became Judge of the Fourteenth district in ISai. That office he held with dignity for seven yeers.- A year later a pronounced political tendency, took .'him' Into the cam paign i for - congress, and be wss elected to represent' the Ktfth Ne braska district In the Fifty-eighth ' congresa. ' Bince thn " for eight ' years he haa bees a congressman, and Is now being mentioned prora Intntly for the senate No TEACHERS BEGIN BUSINESS First Session of National Association , -. is Held This Morning. ' ' MRS. TOUNG MAXES HER ADDRESS She Refuses to aigta Report of Trnfr, toes of Permanent Fend BecansO : ' ' of Objection to Method " '. ' "jT MaBaiemeat,'i(' ;. , SAN FRANCISCO. July 10. In surround ings typifying ths best of tha civilization and education of ancient Greece, the forty ninth convention of the National Iduca- tlon association opened this afternoon In the Greek theater - of the University of California at Berkeley. - The educators were welcomed to California by Governor Hiram W. Johnson, Maybr P. H. McCar thy of San Francisco, C. C. Moore, presi dent of ths Panama-Pacific exposition, and Prealdent Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California. Response was made on behalf of the delegatea by Robert J. Aley, president of the University of Maine. , Address by Prealdent Flaart;. After an address by President Ella Flags; Toung of the association outtllnlng the work of the convention, the atate delegates met to select members of the nominating committee and a committee on resolutions was appointed. The treasurer's report and the report of the board of trustees, received during the day, ahowa that the association la faring well financially. Tha trustees' report shows 1180,000 In the association's perma nent fund, and the treasurer's report shows 890,000 added to this fund In the course of the year. The association's receipts are given at S48.S0S and Its expenditures as $34,878. The trustees' report of ' the permanent fund does not carry the signature of Mrs. Ella' Flagg Toung, ex-offlcto member of the board. Mrs. Young has criticised -tha method ' of managing the fund - aeveral times alnce ahe took office. tool Copom tlon Report. NEW TORK. July 10. The United States Steel corporation announced today unfilled tonnase on Its books on June 30 totalled S.S61.068 tens against 81.112,187 tons on the books May XL ? 'A ' . v t UKORGi: W. NORRia, j . : Rtresentatlve Fifth Nebraska ' District. From the Baltimore Amtrioaa. Particular Day for This Pyrotechnic Display. Penrose Predicts Early Passage of Reciprocity Bill Senate Leader Says Measure Will Be Passed as Soon as Few More' ; Speeches' Are Made.' ; -f --WASHINGTON. July 10.-"Nothlng ' but speeches stands in the war of the complete success of the Canadian reciprocity bill and we are working the speeches off aa faat aa possible," said Chairman Penrose of the senate finance committee today., "I am sticking to a prediction made long since that we shall adjourn either on July 2 or August's." Mr. Penrose said there had been no espe cial effort to make plans to expedite the consideration of the reciprocity bill on the President's Mayflower trip, which ended today. He said the affair waa of a purely social nature. Mr. Penrose will renew his . request for unanimous consent to fix a date to vote on the reciprocity bill and also for days to vote on the two tariff bills now on the senate calendar. Ha probably will name the same daya mentioned In hla first request, July 24, 25 and 28. Stepfather of Mutilated Boy is Charged with Crime Arrest in Connection with Murder at Eier Which Was to Be Used as Basis of Anti-Semite Riot. - ' ' X KIEV. Russia, July lO.-Prikhodko, step, father of Yuschlnsky, the boy whose body, horribly . mutilated, was found In a cave near hero on February 28, was arrested to day. ' The authorities have confiscated fa various towns pamphleta , in which the writers sought to inflame racial feeling' by ascribing the murder to fanaticism. The case of Yuschlnsky was used by the "black hundred" to arouse hostility to the Jews and a Jewish massacre at Kiev waa feared In consequence. It was Inti mated at tha time that the boy'e step, father, who was an anU-Semlte, was re, sponsible for the crime.' Crank Visits Office , . j)f Steel Combine Georgia Man Walks Into Judge Gary's Office and Calls Meeting of the Board of Directors. NEW TORK, July lO.-Buslness in tha j executive offices of the United States Steel corporation was moving along In Its accus tomed complacency today when a man giv ing his name as V. E. Piper of Atlanta, Ga., walked briskly Into Chairman Gary's room and announced that he was now In charge of the corporation's affairs. He followed his declaration by calling a meet ing of the board of directors. When the executive force overcame Its surprise Piper was escorted from the building and taken to Bellevue hospital for examination. It la supposed he was overcome by the heat Wire' Makers Enter Pleas of Not Guilty Eighty-Three Indicted Men Are Given Until September 1 to File Demurrers. NEW YORK. July lO.-The eighty-three wire manufacturers indicted June 18 under the anti-trust law on charges of restrain ing trade In wire products, began their fight against the government today by en tering pleas of not guilty and securing a delay until September 1 to enable them to file demurrers. Each man's ball was fixed at 11.000. HUNT FOR STOKES' LETTERS Missing Notes of Millionaire Are Big Factors in the Case. . POLICE LOOK FOR THE THIEF Detective Who Says. He Foand Lot' ter Behind -Trunk' to Be Proee- ' - ented Some Other , At ".'.':'.:. rests Mar Made. NEW YORK, July 10. The police, aided by the defendants, redoubled their efforts today to aolve the mystery of the lost let ters In the Stokes shooting ease. . Tomorrow the court will receive the last evidence to showy whether or. not Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad ahould be held for the grand Jury on tha charge of trying to murder W. E. D. Stokea, the millionaire hotel man and without those letter the young women say their cause la badly handicapped. They admit they shot Stokea, but declared the circumstances these letters would help reveal were such aa to make the shooting Justifiable. Tha superintendent of the apartment house where the shooting occurred was summoned before Police Commissioner Waldo today. The commissioner Is Inter ested tn tha case on account of the theft of letters while the city detectives were there. The plaintiff! ssy the letters already made public In connection with the case were returned after nine or more which Stokea wished to suppress had been taken from the collection. Mar Arrest "Detee-ttve. . The defendants' lawyers said that when the examination was resumed tomorrow they would bring charges against the Stakes' detective, who admitted on the stand that ho had carried away the letters. Whether the charge would be larceny or the suppression of evidence they had not yet decided. . Magistrate Freschl, who haa been con ducting tha preliminary hearing, and Dis trict. Attorney Whitman will confer today with a view to deciding what action ought to be taken about the disappearance of the letters. m At the eloea of the examination tomorrow the magistrate probably will Issue a sum mons for Jamea Cummlngs, Stokes' private house detective. Formal proceedings will then begin te determine whether or not a crime haa been committed. Cummlngs swore he found - the letters while the city 'detectives who 'accompanied him in his search of tha girls' apartment were not looking. The superintendent of the apartment house haa told the police commissioner that all letters In the apart ment were removed by city officials on the night that Stokes wss shot. June 8. Therefore If Cummlngs in a second search three days later found the letters produced In evidence, aa he swore in court, the commissioner believes some one must have Planted hem there In the meantime, having removed the eight or more letters missing. KANSAS CITY, KAN., MILK DEALERS TO BE ARRESTED Thlrtr-Fire Men Are aare-ed with Paula Water In the Mllli. KANSAS CITY, July 10-Warrants for the arrest of thirty-five rm'lk dealers of Kansas City, Kan. were Issued today by the county prosecutor of Wyandotte county Ka.. following charges that (hey had watered their milk made by Harry Bell, aasistant state food Inspector of Kansas. R is expected the dealers would be ar. rested late today or tomorrow. CUMMINS AMENDMENT LOSES eaato Proceeds with Consideration of Othe t'hnnares la Reel. ' proelty BI1L WASHINGTON, July 10. -The Cummins amendment to admit Canadian flour and cereal products to the United States free of duty under the reciprocity agreement was defeated by the senate. 14 to IX Con sideration of the other Canadian amend meats waa then begun. Winter Wheat Indicates Yield of 14.6 Bushels Per Acre. SPRING WHEAT IN GOOD SHAPE Yield Only Tenth of Per- Cent Off from lin -Oats .T Baskets Less Yield Thaa Teat A sjo. ) WASHINGTON. July 10.-Tbe July erop of the I'nlted States Department of Agri culture Crop Reporting board, Issued at 1:13 p. m. today, shows the condition on July 1 and the yield per acre, aa Indicated by the condition on that date of tha prin cipal farm crops and the acreage of those not already announced as follows: ; . Corn Condition, 80.1 per cent of a nor mal, compared with 8S.4 ptr oent In 1!8 and 84.T per cent, the average for the last ten years on that date; Indicated yield per acre, 15. 5 bushels, compared with 17. 4 bush els, the 1910 final yield, and 17.1 bushels, the average for the last five years; area planted to corn this year. 118,839,000 acrea, compared with 114,002,000 acrea In 1910. - Winter Wheat Condition, 78.8 per cent of a normal, compared wltn 80.4 per cent on June 1. 1911; 81.5 per cent in 1910 and 81.4 per cent, tha ten-year average: Indicated yield per acre, 14.8 bushels, compared with lfi.8 bushels In -1910 and 16.S bushela the five-year average. Spring Wtieat Condition, 73. S per cent of a normal, compared -with 94. ( per cent on June 1, 1911 !. per cent In 1910 and 87. S per cent, the ten-year average; indicated yield per acre, 11. S bushels, compared with 11.7 bushels In 1910 and 13.6 bushels, the five-year average. All Wheat Condition, 76.8 per cent of a normal, compared with 80.1 on June 1, 1911, 73.6 per cent In 1910 and 84.4 per cent the ten-year average. Indicated yield per acre, 13.5 bushela, compared with 14.1 buahela In 1910 and 14.7 buahels, the five year average. The amount remaining on rarma on July 1 it estimated at about 38,388,000 bushels, compared with 38,739,000 bushela en July L 1914, and 37,701,000 bushela, the, average amount on farms July. 1 for the last five years. Oats Condition. 88.8 per oent of a normal, compared with 85.7 per cent on June L 191L 83.3 per cent In 1910 and 88.S per cent, tha ten-year average. Indicated yield per acre,' 23.3 bushels, compared wltn Sl.t bushels In iav ana M.e ouniieis, me iit-jmi e,Tie Barley Condition, '71.1 per cent of a nor mal, compared with 80.1 per cent' on June X, all, II I per cent in uiy ana. oi. per cent, tha ten-year average. Indicated yield per acre, 809 bushels, compared with 82.4 bushela In 1910 and 24.S buahela, tha five year , average. , Rye Condition B6.0 per cent of a normal, compared with 88.1 per cent on June 1, 1911, 87.8 per cent In 1910, and 80.8 per cent, the ten-year average. Indicated yield per acre, 15.6 bushela, compared with 16.S bush' els In 1910. and 18.4 bushels, the five-year average. White Potatoes. White Potatoes Condition, 78.0 per cent of a normal, compared with 88.8 per cent In 1910, and 90.4 per cent, the ten-year av erage. Indicated yield per acre, 81.7 bush els., oom pared, with 94.4 bushels In 1910, and 98. S bushels, the five-year average. Area planted, 8,496,000 acrea, compared with 8.691,000 acrea In 1910. ( Tobacco Condition, 78.6 per cent of a normal, compared with 86. S per cent in 1910 and 88 per cent, the ten-year average; In dicated yield per acre, 698.1 pounds, com pared with 797. S pounds In 1910 and 836 pounds, the five-year average; area planted, 3.450,000 acres, compared with 1,333,800 acrea In 1914. Flax Condition, 80.9 per cent of a nor mal, compared with 86 per cent In 1914 and 87.8 per cent, the eight-year average; Indi cated yield per acre, 8.6 bushels, compared with 4.S bushels tn 1916 and 8.6 bushela, the five-year average; area planted, 3,013.000 acrea, compared with 3,916.000 acres In 1910. Hay Condition, 64.9 per cent of a nor mal, compared with 76.8 per cent on June 1. 1911; 80.3 per cent tn 1910 and 86. T per cent, the ten-year average; Indicated yield per acre. 18 tons, compared with 1.33 tone tn 1910 and 1.41 tons, the five-year average. y Approximate Total Yield. The approximate total yield In bushels of the Important farm" crops of the United HtatM aa Indicated by the condition of the crops on July 1 and estimated upon the ratio of the average condition on that date to the final yield In the last five years follows; , ' , 1MI 110 Indicated Yield. ' Yield. Crop. Rll Ru. Corn ,.3,9.444.500 S.125.713 00) ,. 467.9f8,O0 44,044. X ,. 844.9..600 231.ZD9.00O ,. 72.f.lft 8W6,433.0nO ,. 817.SO0 0O0 l.ltt.76.0X Winter wheat Spring wheat .... All wheat Oats w.. Barley Whlte potatoes .... Tobacco, lbs. 147.0M.2O0. 143.Z27.00O 81.OWi.7S2 B.1.0U9.OJO '.. 2 641.400 ,.. 624.642 9M SKOll.MuO 338 .811.000 9K4.849.O0ii 14.lls.0ii0 24.610,000 Klax Rice ..'. 22.72a.MO WINTER WHEAT. IIV.Tr State. . Kemta . . Nebraska MlKSOUli . Oklahoma July 1. Average. 80 T6 T 68 86 41 SPRING WHEAT. 82 76 ST North Dakota 68 Boxes of O'Brieas Candy. Round trip tickets to Lata ilacawa. ' Quart bricks of DalzelPa ice cream. Ui gian away free to thoao who flad Uelr names In the want ada, Read tha want ads aary day, four nam will appear sometime, way be mora thaa ones. No puxilea to solve nor sul scrip. tlona to tat juat road tha waal edn. ' Tora to tha want ad pMas 6I.