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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 5, 1917.
LIVE STOCK-MARKET
Sixty Per Cent of Cattle on
the Market Are Grassfed;
Hog Prices Are
.' Higher.
Omahi, August 4, 191.
Receipt- ere: Cattle. Hog. Sheep.
Official Monday .1 8.479 11,880
Official Tuesday C.fiOi 11, SOU 10.401
Official Wednesday ... 2.781 .:3 6.SM
Official Thursday .... ! S70 1J.74S t.tlS
Official Friday 1,453 IMS" 7.189
Estimate Saturday ... 150 i.300 230
Six days this week ..." J. 855 C3,ti 42.04
Same days last week .I3.H43 tiK.OOl 35.5:8
Same days t wks. ago. 20.077 63.960 35, 1M 1
Same days wks. ago. 13. 511 (M2ii 3S.834
Same days 4 wks. ago. 13. 371 43.3M 17.547
Same days last year . .18. 45 (8.143 48,879
Receipts and disposition of live stock at
the Union Stock Yards, Omaha, for twenty
four hours endln? yesterday at I p. m.:
RECEIPTS CARLOADS.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. H'r's.
C, M. St. P 1
.Vabaah 1
Missouri Pacific Z2 1
Union Pacific 3 10 1 1
C. N. W., east 7
r. N. W.. west 41
C St. P, M. 0 1 13
C, B. ft Q.. east 1
C, B. A Q., west :j . . 1
;.. R. I fc P., cast I
Illinois Central 1
Chicago Great West :
Totals 43 137 J
DISPOSITION HEAP.
Cattle.
Morris & Co
Swift and Company
Cudahy Parking Co
Armour It Co
Schwarts & Co
J. V. Murphy
Cudahy, Kansas City M0
Totals 00
loss
1,135
1.749
:."9
1.324
877
1.413
.4:7
Cattle Ai usual receipts for the week
have been fairly liberal fully aa large as
for the week previous and some 4.000 head
heavier than for the corresponding week
laat year.
Not a great many cornfed cattle, are com
trig at this time as the season is just about
over, while fully 60 per cent of the arrivals
have been grass cattle direct from western
rangei.
Strictly good cornfed csttle have been
In fairly active demand right along, and
prices are about on a par with a week ago,
In grass cattle the tiada has been very un
even, prices declining sharply the first part
ef the week, and the decline being prac
tically all recovered later after the good
general rains of Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the main beef cattle price are in very
nearly the same notches aa they were one
week ago.
Quotations on rattle: Good to choice
beeves, $1275 9 114.00; fair to good beeves,
til. tO 11360; common to fair beeves.
I9 60 6 111.00; good to choice yearlings,
tll.tO 0 113.50; fair to good yearlings,
111.00 112.00; common to fair yearlinga,
19.00 to 111.00; good to choice graas beeves,
19 75 0 til. 50; fair to good grass beeves,
$8.00 ff 19.50; common to fair grass beeves,
tt.OO 0 17.75; good to choice heifers, 18.00
j) 19.60; good to choice cows, 17.50 $1.50;
fair to good rows, tt.tO 0 17.25; common
to fair rows, $5.00 0 $8.60; good to choice
feeders, $7.50 $8.60; fair to good feeders,
$6.76 0 $7.60; common to fair feeders, $6.00
$6.60; good to choice stockers, $7.26
$8.00; atork heifers, $6.60 $7.50; stock
eowa, $5.60 Q $7.00; etock calves, $6.60
$9.00; veal calves. 11.00 $12.60; bulls,
atags. etc., 15.60 $8.60.
Hogs The hog trade was active this
morning at prlcra that ranged from to
to ai much as 26a higher. Both shippers
end packers were free buyers and the yards
were cleaned by an early hour. For 4 Sat
urday the run was fairly large. Bulk sold
et $16.00816.30, with a scattering on up to
$16.00. Nothing real choice was here. For
the week prices are around too higher,
though some of this may be due to the
quality of the offerings, which hae been
the best of the summer.
Representative sale:
No. A v. Bh. Pr. No. Av.
14. .31$ ... 14 It S3. .287
14. .21 40 It Oi 60. .248
18..267 230 If 10 75. .229
83. .233 190 It If 71. .243
18. .28 110 If 2t - 0. .224
47. .247 ... It 35 62. .203
91. .211 ISO If tO 74. .246
61. .21$ ... It It 73. .231
16. .253 ... II If 73,. 110
Sh. Pr.
70 It 00
40 15 05
140 It liiH
ISO It 20
70 It 30
... It 40
... It CO
160 It 75
... It 10
St.. Ill 40 It 00
FIGS.
113. Ill 70 II 75
Sheep The fat lamb market has shown
a lower tendency all week and la closing
bit 11.00 under the prices that were In
force week ago. Testerday $14.00 bought
the bulk of the offerings, at compared with
tlf.0091f.2S a week ago.
Old sheep were about steady all week, a
good kind et ewes aelllng at II.IO&I.OO,
with good to beat wethoea and yearlings
round $10.00010.60,
The best feeding lambs are not over 10
lie lower though some of the leas deelrable
ldnds ahow shout aa much of a decline as
fat Iambs. The feeder top hae been eon
elderably above the high price on killers
all week and on the close a few choice
light lambs are quotable aa high aa $14.76,
with medium weights around 11.2t14.60,
and fleshier kinds on down.
Breeding ewes were fully ateady all
w,eek, but feeding stork la a little lower
though part of the decline la a little lower
force up to Wednesday has been regained.
Quotations on sheep and lamba: l.smbi,
good to cholre, $14. 00014. 10; Ismbs, fair to
good, 111.76914.00; lamba, culls, $12.00
13.76; lamba, feeders. $13.60014.75; year
linga, fair to choice, It.t010.t0; yearlinga,
feeders, $10,0010.60; wethers, fair to
choice, $I.OO10.2I; ewes, fair to choice,
$8.00.00; ewes, culls and feeders, $3.00
I. 00; ewes, breeders, all ages, $7.10011.00,
8t. Louis Live Stock Market.
St. Louis, Aug. 4. Cattle Receipts. 200
head; market steady; native beef steers,
$7.t013.60; yearling steers and heifers,
$l.6013.50; cows, tti.OOtjflO.lO; Blockers and
feeder, tl.OOQMO; prime aouthern beef
ateera, $8.00 12.15; beet cowa and heifers,
$4.269.00; prime yearling ateera and heif
ers. $7.6016.00; native calves, $.0012.00.
Hoga Receipts, 3.600 head; market
higher; lights, $16.70016,10; pigs. $10.75
16.00; mixed and butchers, $16.76911.36;
Cood heavy, $16.30616.40; bulk ot sales,
lf.7(ll.2f.
"Sheep am1 Lamba Recolpta. 150 head;
market steady; Ismbs, $10.60 tf 13.50; clipped
ewes, $s.ool,60; canners, $4. 00 ti 4.60; chop
pers, I6.004f6.60.
Kansas City Live stork Market.
Kansas City, Aug. 4. Cattle Receipts,
. 100 head; market steady) prime fed stem,
tl$.0011.7t; dressed beef steers. $10.00$)
II. 60; western steers. $.6ti 12.26; rows,
SS.C10I.SO: heifers, $7.004712.60: stockers
and feeders, $4.00J.76; bulls, $I.OO7.60;
calvee, $6.60ll.OO.
Hogs Receipts, 600 head; market higher;
bulk of tales, $16.00016.15; heavy. $15. 80ft
16.26; packers and butchers, $16.801.1S;
light, tlt.:516.60; pigs. $9.00 13.25..
Sheep and Lamba Receipts none; market
steady; lamba, $12.25014.26; yearlings,
$9. 60 CM 100; wethers, $8.60010.00; ewes,
. l.00.26.
Chicago Live Stock Market.
Chicago, Aug. 4. Cattle Receipts, 1.000
head: market alow; native beef cattle, $7.60
14 00; western steers, $8.1t11.40; stock,
re and feeders, $5.76$. 00; cows and
holfere, .14.10011.(0; calves, $8,504? 13.00.
Hogs Receipts, 1,000 head; market firm,
(e above yesterdsy't average; bulk of isles,
lf.36l.IO; light, $14.7616.25; mixed.
$14. 76616. 40; heavy. $14.6516.46; rough.
14.t614.76; pigs, U.2Stjp 14.00.
Sheep and Lsmbs Receipts, 2,000 head;
market weak; wethers, $7,60 tj 10.66; lambs,
Sl.26014.60.
Slout City IJve Stock Market.
Sioux City, Aug. 4. Cattle Receipts, 300
head; market ateady; beef steers, $7.00
13.76; fat cowa and heifers, $(.60011.00;
raonera, $5.00 tf 6.60; stockers and feedera,
I.t0l.t0; calvea. I8.OO01J.6O; bulla, atags,
to., S6.W0J.OO; feeding cowt and belters,
$6.767.60.
Hogs Receipts, t.000 hesd; market 10
lSe higher; light. tl6.00i15.60: mixed,
$14. t0lt.0; heavy. $14.7610.00; piss,
I12.7S013.26; bulk of sales, $14.96 ( 15.25.
Cheep and Lamba Receipts, 200 head;
market auady.
Chicago Live Ktock Market.
Chicago, Aug. 4. Cattle Receipts, 1,600
head: market weak; native beet rattle,
f7.f614.00; western. $8.16811.40; stockers
and feeders. SS.H0S.OO: cows and heifers,
$4 I04J11.40; calves, $8.6013.00.
Hogs Receipts. l.fOO head; 'market,
trong and to higher than yesterday's aver,
age; bulk of sales, $1S.3016.30; light, $14.76
II. 26; mixed, $14 751I 40; heavy. $14.63
4sf.lS.46; rough, $14.66014.76; plga. $11.25
14.00.
tiheep and Lambs Receipts. 3,000 head;
market ateady; wethers, $1.60 6 10.66; lamba.
lt.2S014.6O.
f '- New York Money Market.
New York, Aug. 4. Mercantile paper, 4'i
per cenft sterling, 60-day bills, $4,72; com
mercial -dajr bills on 4anks, $4.71; com
rlaJ.$.dsy bJU..t Jl'i. .
; , gtn Butter.
Elgin,- in. Aug., 4. Butter 25 tubs
4U,
at
TORRID WEATHER
SLOWS MALL ST.
Trading is at Low Ebb and Of
ficials Close Stock Ex
change for Wesk-End.
New York, Aug. 4. Trading was
at the lowest ebb of the year on the
stock exchange this week, the torrid
weather causing the officials of that
institution to suspend the week-end
session
Price changes were almost wholly
towards higher levels, however, the
advances being attended by a fur
ther reduction of the short interest.
One of the chief factors sentimen
tally was the marvelous showing of
the United States Steel corporation
for the section quarter.
War Brides Up.
The other industrials, notably the
more conspicuous war issues, also
moved forward, their improvement
being predicated on the actual or
prospective placing of large orders by
the home government. Metals also
participated in the rise, coppers be
ing in general demand at higher quo
tations. Aside irom an enlarged inquiry
lor low-priced issues, rails were dull
and without substantial change, prob
ably in consequence of the publica
tion of the June reports, some of
which disclosed severe losses in net
earnings. Crop advices gave greater
promise and cotton carriers reflected
the strength of the market for that
staple. ,
Peace rumors had their usual place
in the week's developments, together
with a steady outflow of gold, most
of which was consigned to Japan.
Such alteration as occurred in the
foreign exchange market was adverse
to this center in the main, rates on
neutral countries again rising quite
generally.
Honors Awarded Americans
Of Third Year at Oxford Uni
Oxford, England, July IS. Honors
were awarded to several American
students of the third-year class at
Uxtord university with the announce
ment of the results of the final ex
aminations. The list includes: VV. C.
Bosworth, Vermont; B. H. Brans-
comb, Alabama; C. JR. Clason. Maine;
A, G. lute, Tennessee; P. F. Good,
Nebraska; B. C, Holtzclaw, Georgia;
B. M. Mow, Idaho; P. P. Werlein,
Louisiana; h. r. Woodruff, Texas; H.
E. Yntema, Michigan.
OMAHA GENEKAJ. MARKET.
Bultsr-iFresh,. up to 2,000 lbs., $2',4e.
Kggs No. 1 fresh, $8.86 caae; No. 2. S7.S0
case; cracked, $7.06 case. If shipping by
freight, mark your B-L "Ret'gr Irt."
Cheeae Fancy domestic, 46c; No. 1 do.
mettle, 40o; block, 12c: twine, 25o; daisies.
J5V,c; triplets, 2014c: Young A rlca, 28c;
Hlus Label brick, 25ot llmburger, 30c; New
Tork white, 2c; French Roquefort, 6o.
Beet Cuts Rlba: No. 1, 21o; No, 2, 20o:
No. , 1314c Loins: No. 1, 27c; No. 3.
25o: No. t, 16o. Chucks; No. 1. lc; No.
2, 16c: No. 3, 13 Vio. Hounds: No. 1, 20c;
No, 2, Uo; No. 3, 15Vo. Platet: No. 1,
14c; No, 2, Ue: No. 8, 12 Ho.
Poultry Broilers, 114 to J lb., each 20c;
hens, ltVic: old cockt and stairs, 12c; tur
keys, fat, 22c; old toms. tOc; duckt, F ,F.
fat. So.
Fish (per lb.) Catfish, SOet halibut,
fresh, 10c; fresh frozen, ltc; black cod
sable fish, for steaka, Ue; fresh aalmon
(red and pink), small, 14c; large, ltc;
fresh white perch, dressed, lOo; fresh- trout,
No. 1. any else, ltc; fresh whtteflsh (genu
ine Selkirk), large, 18c: medium, 16c; rock
bass, order tlae, 0c; freah black baaa, order
else, 26c; medium, 22c; fresh croppies, 12
lie: fresh ysllow pike, No. 1, Ho: fresh
pickerel, large dressed,' 12c; round, 11c;
fresh carp, dreased, 10c; freah buffalo,
dressed, 12c.
Fruits Orange. 28s, 224t. boi, $3.76; 100,
tit. 260a, 14.00: 120. 160. 170, 200, I4.2t.
Lemons, fancy 800, 310, $7.00: choice 300,
3(10, $0.60. Urapefrult, Its, $4.76; 40s. ft.00;
64s. ft.tt; 14s. ROs, 16a, $(.00. Apricots,
crate, $2.36. Peaches; boa. $1.65. Plums,
orste, $2.2602 40. Prunes, crate, $2.65.
Vegetablea New potatoea, lb., te; cab
bage, lb., 4c i asparagus, dux., tOc; lettuce,
head, crate. $3.20; dozen, (0c: cucumbers,
basket, $1.76; tomatoes, crate, $1.76; onions,
Tesat. crate. $1.76: wax, $2.26. red, lb.. 3a
Cantaloupes, atandarda. crate. 14.00;
pnnlea. crale. tJ.on flats, crate. $1.80.
Watemetons. lb., 3s.
Bananas, lb., tVc.
Local Htorka and Konda.
Quota linns furnished by Burns, Brlnlter ft
Co., 440-6$ Omaha National bank building:
STOCKS Bid. Asked.
Burgesa-Nssh Co. 7 pet pfd.,,.10 103
Ben trice Creamery Co. pfil, . . , . . 107 10
Cudahy Pkg. Co., corn ll'i 11114
Deere A Co. pM My, 100
Fairmont Cream, Co. 7 pet pfd.10.Hi 106
Gooch M. K. Co. pfd B 103 105
ContlncntM O & K. pfd 73 73'4
O. ft C B. By, & II. pfd 60 66
O. ft C. 14. 8. By. ! com
do pfd 70
Orchard Wllhelm Co. 7 pet pfd. 100
M. C. Peters Mill 8 pet pfil it
40
73
102V4
iooh
100
153
103
M. K. Smith fc Co 7 pet 1st rfd.,100
Swift ft Co.
.162
.102
Union Stock Yards t pet.
BONOS
Booth-Ht. Loula 6s, 1931 . . .
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107H
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4.43
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87
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aiiHillen tiovt 6s
Canadian 6s, 1010
Cudahy Packing Co. 6s...
hli-mtn Sanitary Wat. 4s..
Federal l.nnil bank 4 Vis...
Lincoln Traction Co. 6s ...
Montreal Trsmway 6s
N. Y. City 4V-S
O. ft C. It. St. By. 6s 03
Omaha Ath. Club Bldg, 6s A
Sioux City Stock Yds 6s 6t
Swift ft Cn. 6s 9t
Wilson ft Co.' 6s :.10O
New York General Market.
New York, Aug. 4. Butter Firm: re
ceipts, 8,846 tubs; creamery, higher than
extras, 40Vi41e: creamery extras ((83
score), 40c; firsts, 3833c; seconds, 37 O
Eggs Stesdy; receipts, 8.42$ cases: fresh
gathered extras. 8840c: extra firsts, T4J
Jc; ursis, Jiwaoc; seconds, 30j33i
Cheese Firm: receipts, 2,706 boxes) state,
whole milk flats, fresh specials. 2222ttc:
state, average fancy, 21Vi22c.
t'oullry Alive, firm: chlckena. broilers.
24i26c; fowls. 21c: turkeys, 16c. Dressed,
quiet and unchanged. ,
Oils and Kosln.
'..i.iiiii,. i.ui,. i. , ui pun i lite, iirui, 4nci
sales, 131 bhls. ; receipts, 648 bbls.; ship
ments. 208 bbls.; stock, 30.001 bhls.
C, ..H. . I. A..w , .1 Ml- KB-.
Rosin Firm: sales, 1.462 bbls.: recelnts.
2.004 bbls.; shipments, 1.66$ bhls.; stock,
86,811 bbls. quotations: B, r. $S.106.15;
K, $5.12Vi08.15; F. $5.15; O, It, $5.15
5.20; I, $5.165. 27U; K, I6 26C5.30: M.
$6.655.76; N, $6.2606.36; WO, J6.66tf6.76;
WW, $6.757.00.
Weekly receipts: Turpentine, 3.41 2 bbls.;
shipments, 1,656 bbls. Rosin: receipts, 10,.
134 bbls.; shipments, 6.257 bbls.
St. Joseph Live Htork Market.
St, Joseph, Mo., Aug. 4 Cattle Receipts,
40(1 head; market ateady; ateera, $7.75t
13.36: rows and heifers, $5.50j12.2C; calvea,
$5.00f 10.60.
Hoga Recelpta, t.600 head: market
steady; top, $16.15; bulk of aales. $14.80
13.50; good heavy parkera, $15,154? 10.30;
mixed packera. $14 0f 15.16.
Sheep and Lamba Recelpta, none; mar
ket nominally steady; lambs, $9.60314.00;
ewes, i9.00tpt.00.
Omaha Hay Market.
Hay Receipts, light; demand, good
market firm and higher. Choice, upland
prairie hay, $17.0018.00; No, 1 upland
prairie. 815.004Tlt.00: No. 1 upland prairie.
$8.0010.00; No. 3 upland prairie, 86.009
7 00: No. 1 midland prairie, $14.00016.00;
No. 1 midland prairie, $7.0008.00: No, 1
lowland prairie, $!.OU4$10.00; No. 1 lowland
prairie, 84.00 7 00; No. 1 lowland prairie,
$4: 00 5. 00,
Alfalfa Choice. $20. OOflJl. 00: No. al
falfa, $18.0018.00; standard alfalfa, 815.00
trl7.n0; No. 3 alfalfa, $13.00616.00; No. 1
alfalfa, $8.00ll.OO.
. Straw Oat $8.00$.t0; wheat, 17.000
7.60.
Quotations on prairie hay and alfalfa,
AosusC 2. 1817.
Omaha High School Boys Do Their Bit on the Farms
Pitching Hay, Working in the Oats Fields, Taking
Their Turn at Irrigation and Doing a Man's Labor
W & Jill s-prK I li tt
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rfi r3 3iL W DIWNG stacker VJf (W P :J$J jr
ROBERT WILEY fFWi J ' --1
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LEONARD 30(KE
School Lads Make Good on Farm and Ranch
While on Their Summer Vacations Hu
man Interest Stories Showing Wonder
ful Work Accomplished in Nation-Wide
Conservation
Move.
What the high school boys wrote
to the home folks from the trenches
of farm and ranch:
We get up at 4:30 and work until
sundown.
Our uniform consists of a Stetson
hat, khaki suit, heavy socks, rubber
boots and a long-handled shovel.
We blistered our hands and our feet
were sore at first and the work was
pretty hard.
You ought to see me wash my
clothes and darn by socks.
Helen, I am a changed man. You
would not know me as the Frank you
knew in Omaha. My language is bad.
I am constantly darning; socks and
damning stitches.
We helped brand calves yesterday.
It was better than a foot ball game.
We get up at 4:30 a m. Maybe I
wrote that to you before, but I want
to make sure that you know it.
Breakfast at 6 and through work at
7:30. '
This afternoon we put up about
thirty tons of hay.
it is now 9:30 and that is late for
a laboring men.
Believe me, mother, dear, that many.
many nights have found me fondly
musing of the difference between the
here and now and the there and then.
I plowed all afternoon. When it
comes to plowing with a walking hand
plow, the other work is as easy as
ringing our door bell.
You folks haven t trot the slightest
idea of what work is.
"It is now night. We have been
working all day, irrigating. Irrigators
are much in demand and thev receive
$10 per month more than the regular
rancn hands. 1 do not know why
this is, unless it is due to the longer
hours. We get up at 4:30 and work
until sundown. Our uniform consists
of a Stetson, hat, khaki suit, heavy
socks, rubber boots and a loncr-han-
dlcd shovel. The boss put 'Bob'
Wiley to irrigating: a grain field and
me an alfalfa field, and we are so far
apart that we can t even see each
other, let alone 'visit. . I don't know
why he did this, but I guess he knows
his business,". ,
The above is an - excerot from a
letter written'by Frank L. Campbell,
jr., to his lather and mother, who re
side at 201 South Thirty-fourth street.
'Bob,' mentioned in the letter, is Rob
ert Wiley, soii of Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Wiley of 51 M Webster street.
Ti - , f
These young men are members of
the Central high school volunteers
who went to .farms and ranches at
the close of the school year and
are now niaking good in "the trenches
of American soil.'
Captain at High School.
Frank Campbell was captain of
Company I of the high school cadet
battalion, which won first honors in
the competitive drill last spring. He
expects to enter Cornell next fall.
Bob Wiley is , a . member of the
class of -'18, -'Central . High school.
They went together to the. Carter
ranch, near Cody, Wyo., and entered
into their work with a determination
to win. They are representative of
many high school boys who heard the
call last spring. One hundred re
sponded from Central High school.
Most have made good. It is required
that they shall remain at their work
until August 15, if they would re
ceive the benefits of credits from
their school. Reports are received
from employers by the school reg
istrar, Miss Helen Weeks, who has
had this work at Central High,
l Made Big Sacrifices.
h many cases these boys have
mpae neroic sacrifices and nave
RALPH CAMPBELL
endured hardships to do their bit in
this time of national stress. They
have encountered the stern realities of
agricultural pursuits. Early rising,
long hours, sore feet, calloused hands
and in many instances deprivation of
wonted home comforts and conveni
ences, have broadened the point-of-view.
Gracing a high school prom in
cadet officer's uniform is one thing,
and working from sun to sun in a
hayfield or in an irrigation ditch is
quite another thing, these boys write
home.
The following are additional ex
tracts from letters written to the
home folks by Frank Campbell, from
the Carter ranch:
"Irrigating is pretty hard work,
but we have nice people to work for,
good things to eat, plenty of fresh
air, the best water in the world and
wonderful scenery. We have a nice
room in a new barn, but we sleep out
of doors, with nothing above us but
the sky and stars. It is a great ex
perience and wc love it, notwith
standing the fact that we blistered
our hands and our feet were sore at
first and the work was pretty hard,
hut whenever we felt a little dis
couraged, we were cheered by the
thought that what we were doing was
in the interest of our government, and
the government is sure going to need
everything we can produce this year.
("We" means myself , and Bob
Wiley.)
"We have had three weeks of irri
gating. Our hands arc calloused and
tough and we are in the pink of con
dition. Our boss is going to take us
off irrigating and put us in the hay
field. I am to work on the stack
with him. . I am nearly, through irri
gating seven acres of potatoes. '
Bathe in Mountain Stream.
"Each morning we take a plunge in
the mountain stream which runs by
the barn. I tell you it make a fellow
feel fine. Just before dinner or sup
per I take another bath in the same
stream. You ought to see me wash
my clothes and darn my socks. I was
afraid to tell you this at first for fear
you would make me do it when I
come home. I receive many nice
letters from my friends, but none are
appreciated quite so much as those
from home. I try to write every day,
but sometimes . I am too tired and
sometimes things come up that ake
it impossible. We helped brand
calves . yesterday. It was certainly
fine for us if not for them. It was
- line iui us li nub iui infill.
,better than a foot ball game
"We are working on a hay crew.
Bob drives a stacker and I help load
the stacker and clean around it. We
don't have to get up so early now
and work so late as we did while ir
rigating, when we arose at 4:30 and
worked until sundown, but I am going
to get up at 4:30 and work at night
because I did not finish irrigating my
potatoes before going into the hay
field and I am going to finish their
now. The boss did not tell me to do
this, but you know you ill never
get anywhere by just doing what you
are told to do. I learned to harness
and drive a team.
Washes Own Clothes.
"We had a large washing yester
day, consisting of our B.V.D.s, socks
and shirts. We borrowed a washboard
from Mrs. Kunckles, put on rubber
boots, waded into the middle of the
steam and went to it a la Mexicano.
Don't worry about us. re are both
well and getting along fine. About 4
o'clock these large loads of alfalfa
get pretty heavy, but we stick to it.
We are doing the same work the men
are doing and some of them have
been at it for twenty years. I like
C ZOOS A. METZ
haying very much. It certainly does
develop your muscles. I help with
the horses, move the stackers, drive
heavy iron stakes with a sledge ham
mer and irrigate.
"I received The Bee today. I see
that many of my friends have been
drafted. I hope they are glad to fight
for such a noble cause and such a
wonderful country. They should be
proud. I expect to work straight
through until the time I come home.
I don't think I will have time to fish
or go on a camping trip as you sug
gested, although I would like it very
much. This afternoon we put in about
thirty tons of hay. We are pretty tired
when night comes. I have not had a
hair cut since I came out here. I look
like the dickens for our picinic to
morrow, but what should I care so
long as I am healthy. It is 9:30 and
that is pretty late for laboring men."
What the Banker Thinks.
Samuel Parks, president of the Sho
shone National bank, wrote the fol
lowing letter to Frank L. Campbell,
felative to the Campbell and Wiley
boys:
"You may feel satisfied that the
boys are making good, as shown by
the fact that a few days since Mr.
Robertson and Mr. Coe (owners of
the outfit) came to the, Carter ranch
to look about and met the boys. Mr.
Coe was so favorably impressed by
what he saw and heard of them that
he directed thev should be paid the
highest wages for experienced irri
gators. The boys, being beginners,
did not Expect this and I know it
will delight them to feel they have
made good. 1 think Mr. Robertson
was quite pleased at the action of
Mr. Coe, as he likes the boys, and he
enjoyed giving me this information."
In letter to his parents, Bob
Wiley wrote the following observa
tions: "Frank and I are regular farmer
boys now, all decked out in blue over
allSi blue shirts, old shoes and have
not worn a hat since we have been
here. We sleep out doors nights, un
der the stars and are surrounded by
mountains, one that is 11,000 feet high,
and all are tipped with snow. We get
such beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
We get up at 4:30 and work until
7:30, but we have gotten used to it,
so we. don't mind it. Frank and I
are counting on this summer more
than any other we have ever spent.
We are going to get experience, good
muscle and everything we need to
make us men.
Helps Brand Calves.
"Yesterday, during our noon hour,
we helped the cowboys brand some
calves. It was lots of fun. I will tell
you how we did it. One of the cow
boys would rope a calf and it would
jump andttear around, then we would
grab the calf, throw it and sit on it,
while another cowboy would brand it.
We think it beat any foot ball game
we ever played. We irrigated big
fields of alfalfa, oats and potatoes, and
now we are in the hay fields helping
put up hay. We are so glad, as we
so .want to try everything there is to
try. Wc work With a crew of men,
and this afternoon we put up sixty
tons of hay. Aunt Faith invited us
to go on an auto trip to the Lake
hotel in the Yellowstone park, last
Sunday, but we being irrigators, have
to work Sundays and every other day,
so we could not go, but we hope be
fore we leave, to be able to make the
trip." ' -
Un the . Metz Kranch.
Ralph Campbell, another son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank, L. Campbell, and
Louis A. Metz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Metz, went to the Metz
ranch at Cody, Neb., where they are
foregoing the pleasures of a summer
vacation and are working hard. Dur
ing the first two weeks they took part
in a round-up. The ranch has 7.000
acres and considerable riding had to
be done to get the stock corraled.
They assisted in sorting the cattle
and in branding and helped cut alfalfa
and gained experience in driving a
rake and stacker team. They also are
helping cultivate sweet corn, rad
ishes, onions, carrots and potatoes.
mVN K MEDLAR
Leonard Bourke, son of Mr, and
Mrs. W. T. Bourke of 1S41 Park ave
nue, was assistant manager of Cen
tral High school foot ball team last
school year. He went to the Murphy
ranch at Spicer, Colo., with six other
Omaha boys.
"The work up to this time has been,
and I have an abjding faith will be,
of a sort to which I will require a
formal introduction every time the
foreman announces a new job," he
wrote to the home folks.
Stranger to Toil.
''There is no need to tell you,
mother, what utter strangers plain un
varnished toil and myself were be
fore this, my maiden flitting from the
cosy old home nest. Believe me,
mother dear, that many, many nights
in the bunk house have found me
fonly musing on the difference be
tween the here and now and the there
and then. Up to this time almost
every job has been a new job, dis
tinguished from the preceding job
only by reason that it started a new
set of muscles aching like sin.
"Yesterday was a busy day. The
cattle with calves were rounded up
about seven .miles from the home
ranch and the whole outfit went over
to do the branding. I was wrestling
calves and that is supposed to be the
hardest job. I guess they gave it to
me because they thought I had a
strong back, and possibly because
they thought it might overwork my
overstrained mind if they should as
sign- me a heavy thinking part.
"However, I later discovered that
there are no thinking parts at a
roundup. It is' strictly manual and
physical from start to finish. One of
the cowboys (a real one) roped the
calves and two of us guys with strong
backs were supposed to hold the slip
ping little cusses while the main
squeeze with the hot iron made a
life-lasting impression on the animal's
exposed flank. We branded 225
calves that afternoon, but it certainly
kept us stepping lively. Before we
started the boss told us freshies not
nder any circumstances to let a calf
get away; that if one got away, usual
ly he was gone for- keeps, but the
ropers sometimes could catch him
again."
Calf Gets Away.
"One did get loose from my pal
and me, but I made a flying tackle
for him and got the squirming crit
ter around the body.- He dragged me
about a rod and smashed me into a
fence and nearly knocked me cold, I
got a nice black eye. It is strenuous
and interesting work. We rode horse
back to and from the roundup gal
loped and trotted all of the way. It
was fun, but how it did hurt me from
head to foot. Just the same I am
getting to be some cowboy, so I
should worry.
"The bunkhouse ain't half bad since
we cleaned it out and hung up pen
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nants and pictures of you and dad.
Thank you very much for The Daily
and Sunday Bee. It is a real treat
and comes as regularly as our mail
service will permit.
"If Tom is drafted maybe we could
fix it up so I could go for him."
Farmers' Work Hard.
"I did my first day's work today.
Don't ever make fun of the farmers.
I hey work harder than any other
men in the world. You folks haven't
the slightest idea of what work is,"
wrote Irvin F. Medlar to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Medlar.
He went to the Gilmer farm in
Boone county and has not been off
of the job. His father bought a new
roadster automobile last spring and
the son was to have gone on a long
automobile trip this summer, but he
gave up all personal considerations
for he task he now has in hand.
Rudyard Norton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank J. Norton of 3328 Harney
street, went to the T. B. Bowman
stock farm at Boone, Neb. He start
led to work on May 15 and will re
main until the harvest has been com-
.Menu ii ia uu a laiiu ui i,uri;diiv9.
He described one of the barns as be
ing as large as the Billy Sunday
Omaha tabernacle. He wrote home
that he learned that farm life is mort
than gathering eggs and picking
strawberries. He helped shock 12;
acres of oats and made thirty-foui
stacks like the one shown in the pic
ture. On Memorial day he planted
ten acres of potatoes and wrote that
that was the most patriotic deed he
ever performed.
Doing Noble Work.
There are many other boys doing
just as noble work, making just as
many sacrifices in the work of in
creasing the nation's food supply.
What these boys lacked in experience
they made up in willingness and de
termination. Their employers in
most instances have been surprised
at their aptitude, because many of
them had a notion that city boys as a
class are not equal to the rigors of
ifarm and ranch life. These employ
ers have revised their opinions and
are planning to hire more city boys
next summer. Incidentally, some of
hese boys have been inspired to take
up agricultural pursuits.
West Point Board Mails
Notices to Drafted Men
West Point, Neb., Aug. 4. (Spe
cial.) The local draft board com
menced Wednesday to mail notices to
the young men who had been drafted
for army service, to present them
selves for examination next Monday
morning, August 6, at 8 o'clock, at the
court house in West Point. The
notices call for the first group of fifty
men to come on Monday morning, the
second fifty Tuesday morning, the
third fifty Wednesday, and so on
through the week. Dr. Summers in
tends to pass upon fifty per 'day, if
circumstances permit. Cuming coun
ty's's quota is 140 men.
Arrest North Platte Slacker
After Thousand-Mile Chase
Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 4.
(Special Telegram.) Harry Walters
of North Platte, Neb., was arrested
today at Milford by agents of Leon
Bone, special investigator for the De
partment of Justice, charged with
having violated the conscription law.
Walters is 24 years old and was em
ployed as a clerk in North Platte.
Agents of the Department of Justice
traced Walters all the way from
North Platte to southern California
and baik again.
Sioux Falls Boy Kicked
To Death by Horse
Sioux Falls, S. D.. Aug. 4. As the
result of being kicked by a horse, the
11-year-old son of Mrs. Emma
Schoenfelder, living on a Hutchinson
county farm, is dead. Men working
in the- harvest field sent the boy to
a pasture for a horse. He fastened
the halter rope around his wrist. The
horse became frightened and ran
away, and after dragging the boy a
considerable distance kicked him in
the forehead and inflicted injuries
which caused death a short time 'later.
Action on Executive's
Impeachment Postponed
Austin, Tex., Aug. 4. Actual start
of the investigation into the charges
preferred by Speaker O. F. Fuller in
an attempt to impeach Governor
Tames E. Ferguson today was post
poned until 10 o'clock Monday
morning.
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