The Syracuse Journal from Syracuse, Kansas • 1

ffx KANB tiw' State tiisiurium i VOLUME TWENTY-NINE SYRACUSE, HAMILTON COUNTY, KANSAS, MAY 15, 1914 Number 50 Arkansas River Islands Decision. ws Will Remain Senator. State Senator Jouett Shouse has issued a statement of his position in regard to his candidacy for congress while he is the state senator: Political Announcements. sFor CtmsxeMtnan. I hereby announce myself a candidate for'ftha nomination to eonjrresa from the seventh eonR-rea-aional district, subject to the deci ion of the democratic voters of lite district at the August primary election.

If nominated and elect.xi, I wiil aunport the policies of Vilaon to tlie-beet-of-mya-y. 1 etfew national prohil--tion, and eoua) suffrage, the latter by state enactments if possible -3 F. P. HETTINGER. Li a "The Cash Store" How Alfalfa Seed Is Made.

Washington, D. May 12. In certain locations, as in northern Montana, bees are very scarce but alfalfa will often produce good crops of seed without, theur A rt'jj of alfalfa seed is never obtained except when the flowers have been "tripped," which term describes the snapping back of a part of the flower in such a way as to deposit pollen on the stigma. Production of seed usually results from this action. Bees in search of honey or pollen "trip" some of the flowers, but there are two other ways in which the action may 'be In some cases the flower will "trip" itself automatically (as it does in Montana), if the climatic conditions are satisfactory, or the flowers may TAKE ADVANTAGE Of the extremely low prices on Men's Furnishings.

This is the last week. In a case involving the right of a settler to prove up an island in the Arkansas river as state school land, appealed to the supreme court from Echo supreme tcrart in bT decision rendered last Saturday, says in the syllabus: "1. The title to islands formed in navigable streams since the ad mission of Kansas into the union is held by the state for the benefit of all the people. 2. The legislature is without power to relinquish the title to such islands to the owner? or shore lands without compensation where no public benefit will result from the gift.

3. Section 9 of chanter 295 of the laws of 1913, concerning islands in navigable streams. which provides for such relinquishment or gift when certain conditions exist, vio lates section 2 of the bill of rights. which declares that free govern ments are instituted for the equal protection and benefit of the peo ple." The effect of the decision fs to es tablish the status of the title to the "islands formed in navigable streams since the admission of Kan sas into the union." The other matters remain questions of fact which the trial courts must determine. County S.

S. Convention. The Hamilton County Sunday School Association will be in the White school house, district No. 26, on May 26 and 27., Prof W. E.

Rafferty, our state teachers' training superintendent, and Mr. S. A. Chappell, our state elementary superintendent, will be the chief speakers. There are only six schools reported in the county.

Let each of these send a large delegation. Dinner supper will be served at 'he school house and all delegates from a distance will be provided lodging and breakfast in nearby homes. Kindly let the secretary know how many to expect. Blanks will be sent to the several schools. Watch this paper for further information regarding the program and pray that thi3 may be the best convention ever held in this county.

Mrs. Jennie Hutchison, Sec. Mrs. W. T.

Rummel Entertains. Mrs. W. T. Rummel entertained Monday afternoon very charmingly at her pretty north Main street home.

The guest list was: Mrs. Ben A. Wood. Mrs. Chas.

Schroll, Mrs. C. F. Harrison, Mrs. Guy D.

Clayton, Mrs. W. H. Rosenberry, Mrs. Elmo Reyman, Mrs.

N. W. Boling, Mrs. R. E.

Bray, Mrs. Otis Bray, Mrs. Paul Rich, Mrs. C. P.

Rich, Mrs. W. B. Linell, Mrs. Henry Block, Mrs.

Max Van Hall, Mrs. J. B. Hammond, Mrs. E.

M. Scott, Mrs. Robert Sawyer, Mrs. Ben Cory, Mrs. G.

M. Covington, Mrs. Geo. J. Downer, Mrs.

T. M.Grissom, Mrs. H. Helmick, Mrs. J.

T. Bick-nell, Miss Elizabeth Humphreys, Miss Elizabeth Wade. Calls For Extra Work. Senator Bristow, as chairman of the joint committee on the General Parcel Post, recently sent out to over fifty thousand postmasters letters with blanks asking for weekly reports giving detailed information as to the operation of the parcel post system. The data called for will cost in extra clerk hire alone, the postmaster general estimates, $500,000.

Much of the information desired has already been secured by the department and is available the use of the committee. Bristow however, did not see fit to consult the postmaster general but took upon himself the right to communicate directly with the postmasters, notwithstanding the rules prohibit postmasters from giving such information to the committee except through the head of the department. It is thought to be one of Bristow's shrewd political moves to keep in touch with his constituents at gov ernment expense. Many postmast ers are complaining that they are unable to take care of the extra work without additional help, and they have been advised that it is unnecessary to comply with Bris tow's request. this-districts It was his intention to resign as state senator so that nia successir could be elected this fall, but owing to the fact that the democrats have but one majority in the state senate, and Mr.

Shouse's resignation might destroy that majority and be the means of turning it into a minority, and owing to the further fact that in the event of his election to congress he will not take his seat until March 4, 1915, by which time his legislative duties as a member of the Kansas legislature will be at an end as the legislative session will have closed or nearly so, he has decided to yield to the wishes of his party associates and remain a state senator as long as the office requires his attention. Mr. Shouse is at the present time in Kentucky where his father. Rev. John S.

Shouse, died quite suddenly yesterday. Mr. Hammond Highly Qualified. J. B.

Hammond is a candidate for member of the Kansas state irriga tion board, a position he now holds by appointment. He has held the position for one year and has demonstrated his fitness for the duties of the office. Mr. Hammond is well equipped with a first class education and a mind drilled in mathe matics which is very essential in many phases of the work of the irrigation board. Mr.

Hammond was a school teacher for many years and always held a first grade certificate. He is posted and is abundantly able to present the merits of western Kansas for continued irrigation appropriations and taprepare creditable reports on the irrigation plants the board has installed and is installing. The success or failure of the state irrigation work in western Kansas depends very largely upon the caliber of the individual members of the state's irrigation board and whatever has been accomplished in the short year of its existence, and a very good beginning has been made along practical lines, is due to the good judgment of the men who constitute the board. Mr. Hammond and Mr.

Hines are both candidates for election to their present positions and have the necessary qualifications for the work in hand and to make irrigation in western Kansas, alsuccess. Mr. Hammond has had years of experience as an irrigator both from ditches taking water from the river and from an irrigation pumping plant throwing 1,000 gallons of water per minute, and knows the subject of irrigation as it applies to western Kansas conditions as well as any man in the state of Kansas. Married. Mr.

Chester L. Zerbe and Miss Nellie Irene Nuckles were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E.

Nuckles, on Friday evening, May 9th. Rev. E. E. Carter officiating.

Mrs. J. M. Zerbe, Misses Fern and Hazel and Master Stanley Zerbe, of Lamar, Mr. and Mrs.

Fillmore Mitchell and Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Wells of Kendall, and a few Syracuse friends, and relatives of the bride.

The young couple have both been teaching school in this county. Mr. Zerbe graduated from the Syracuse high school one year ago and he is an exemplary young man. The wedding took place on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of the bride's parents at Kendall, Kansas, an occasion the writer of this remembers very well, and we were treated to cake from both the weddings. We join the many friends of the young couple in very best wishes.

Old Friends. The assignment of General Fun-ston to the command at Vera Cruz is very pleasing to the Kansas people, and especially Senator Thompson, who recommended it. Those who remember his brilliant record as a tighter and commander in the Philippines predict that he will fur For Congressman. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for th democratic nomination for congress for the seventh congressional district, subject to the action of thelAugust primaries. JOUETT SHOUSE.

KfnBley, Kansas. For Congressman. We are authorised to announe the name of WILLIAM BARRETT of Pratt county, as a candidate for congress, subject to the democratic primary August 4th. For Clerk of the District Court. 1 hereby announce myself as a candidate forth office of Clerk of the District Court of Hamilton eounty, subject to the decision of the democratic voters at the primary election to be held August 1M4.

Mas. Edna S. Wood. For County Superintendent of Public Instruction. We are authorised to announce Mr.

C. W. NOELL as a candidate for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to the Iemo cratic voters at the Primary on August 4th. ther distinguish himself in the service of his country so as to at least secure his long deserved promotion as a Major General. For thirteen years Funston has been a Brigadier General, seven years of which he has been Senior Brigadier, and was entitled to promotion to Major General years ago.

Yet during the Roosevelt and Taft administrations' he was repeatedly-passed over for promotion in favor of junior officers with political pulls. The old war department ring which controlled the velvet carpet assignments and promotions had no use for Funston, for their policy was not to recognize merit but to favor their members. Senator Thompson interested him self in the Kansas warrior and re- r-ontlv rtr-ofiArtrari riifl (-aw in the president and urged that he be sent to Mexico. The two formerly resided at Iola, were members of the same lodge, and are close friends. Church Announcement.

Next Sunday morning the Baccalaureate service will be held at the Methodist church. A program of special music has been prepared which will be enjoyed by all. A. treat which our people will all appreciate will be a vocal solo by Mrs. Charles W.

Beeler of Kinsley, who has been soloist in some of the largest churches of Chicago, Kansas City and Wichita. The sermon subject will be "The Three Dominant Moods of the Mind." In the evening we will have a young people's service in observance of the 25th anniversary of the Ep--worth League. A program of special music will be rendered. Miss Georgina B.ay will sing. Short addresses will be made by Judge-Downer, Henry Block and C.

Burton. Miss Daniels will give a-brief history of the organization. The front of the church will be reserved for the young people. Other than this the best seats in the house will be yours if you get there first. Join the Men's Bible Class.

The Men's Bible Class of the Methodist Sunday School had an election of officers last Sunday afternoon with the following result: President, John McCarter; vice president, G. P. Shaffer; secretary, T. M. Griasom; treasurer, Frank Altenburg; teacher, Henry Block.

The president was authorized to appoint such committees as will be useful to the class. The south wing of the auditorium containing about fifty chairs, has been set aside for the use of this class, and it is the aim and purpose of the men to have every seat filled. The class at present numbers about fifteen, and thirty-five additional men are wanted in this bible class next Sunday morning at 10:45. At Scott City the men have a very large and vigorous bible class and it is making-itself very useful in that county. Interest in bible study is taking hold of men all over the An hour of each Sunday forenoon spent in bible study will be profitable to the men of Syracuse, so corne and help us make this class a be "tripped" artinciall by human agency.

Of the three agencies that may, "trip" the alfalfa flower only the insect naturally carries the pollen from flower to flower. As pods form in artificially tripped flowers it is evident that flowers do not necessarily need pollen from others in order to become fertilized. Moder ately warm weather interspersed with cool nights is a condition that seems peculiarly favorable in aiding flowers to "trip" themselves. When the weather cools off the flowers do not "trip" so readily. Investigations have shown, how ever, that pol'en brought from oth er flowers will produce more pods than does the flower that is self-fer- tilized.

Thirty per cent of the flow ers fertilized with their own pollen produce pods, while 46 per cent fertilized with pollen from other plants produce pods. In the former case the pods each contain on an average of 1.4 seeds while in the latter they contain 2.4 seeds. Investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture have shown that a mistaken notion has been held regarding the kind of bees that aid- alfalfa seed. While "leaf-cutter" bees will "trip" about 90 per cent of the flowers they visit, and bumble bees about 50 per cent, honey bees trip less than 5 per cent. Even though a honey bee "trip" only 5 per cent of the flowers it visits, the great number of such bees that can be kept on an alfalfa field, taken in connection with their activity, compensate for the low efficiency of each bee.

The wild bees that are most effici ent in tripping do not store up hon ey of commercial value, nor is there any way known of holding them permanently in any locality. Certain investigators have thought that some species of bee from the native land of alfalfa might prove more valuable than others. If such could be found and introduced, the yield of alfalfa seed might be mater ially increased, are so many different kinds of bees in different parts of the world that there is con siderable room for experiment. The principal growers of American alfalfa seed are located in eastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and Montana. In the east the mar ket for alfalfa hay is so attractive that there is little interest in grow ing alfalfa seed.

However, there is a good field in certain states for in creased production of seed, as there are still heavy importations of in ferior seed from foreign countries. Over $676,000 worth of seed was im ported in 1913. Beside alfalfa grow ers in the states already mentioned, those in the Dakotas and Minnesota might consider the question of increasing our native output of alfal fa seed. The U. S.

Department of Agricul ture has just issued a bulletin (No. 75) entitled "Altalfa Seed froduc- tion; Pollination Studies." This pamphlet is a professional paper and describes in great detail certain ex periments that were carried on in Montana, Washington, California and other states. It is of interest more particularly to scientific read ers. The preliminary Decoration Day program, containing list of committees, reached this office at 11 o'clock a. today.

This is too late for this week's paper. Copy should reach the office not later than Thursday noon to insure its appear ing in the current issue. times a bamboo house; 'nailed' with with rattan, stands better than some other kind. The morning passed, and at noon we were Btill in the house, though the fields everywhere were flooded. About one o'clock the typhoon ended and we started for Molowey.

On this trail wje soon reached a high hill overlooking the Cagayan river and two of its tributaries. Here we rested ahd looked over the valley. Words cannot describe the scene. Small houses and trees were hurrying by in the flood. -It was a grand sight, especially now that we had passed over and would not care to return for several days.

On we went, over the foot hills, listening to the waterfalls and cataracts now to be found anywhere. Later we reached a stream which we desired to cross. There was no (boat) on our siue, duc on ine otner side was a bamboo raft and a Filipino resting leisurly beside it. We begged, urged and even commanded thi3 man to come to our rescue, but in vain. He persistently shook his head, saying 'caimen' (alligator).

When we assured him there was no alligator he informed us that he knew better, for one had just swallowed his best dog. We could do nothing but wait for the stream to clear up, so we traveled two miles in the muddy fields until we found a place where we could stay over night. It is true the people did their best for us, but the one room was full of tobacco. I made a pillow of tobacco with my coat spread over it, and fought mos- quitos until morning. We are quite sure that the Romanist folks who lodged us were not so afraid of Protestants after that night.

Be fore we left they knelt with us in prayer as we asked God to bless them and care for us. "It would take to long to tell all that happened during this nine days' trip. At one place we had to cross the stream on the backs of swimming caraboas, or water-buffaloes. The one on which I put my 215 pounds groaned very much and al lowed all his body to be under water except his nose, eyes and horns. I held on to his horns, however, with my hands, and twined my legs around his body under water, finally landing on the other side, much to the amusement of the half -dressed or naked children, who will never forget my coming.

Rey. Oscar Huddleston in Central Christian Ad vocate. A daily paper says that the cost of army beef will be higher next year than ever before, according to the bids that were opened at Fort Riley, Kansas. The lowest bid for dressea carcasses was submitted by the Cud' any racking company at $10.91 a hundred weight. Fourteen years ago the contract price was $4.56.

rne Syracuse schools close one week from today, after a very satisfactory term. In Spite of the Typhoon." "When we started out in the Cag-ayan Valley, Luzon Benito Tuvera, the native pastor, and I we knew that a typhoon was due. We spent that night (Monday) in the town of Alcola. The next morning we left for Baggao where we have a newly organized class. This meant traveling nearly half a day, crossing the swift Baggao river three different times, forcing the little horses through deep ponds and mud holes, and often losing ourselves in pam- gas grass high above heads.

This grass scratches the face and hands and the heat almost overcomes both man and horse. We arrived at Baggao in time to 'get our names in the pot' for dinner, even though it was late. However, you are always in time for a meal in the Philippines. No people are more hospitable than the Filipinos with such as they have. When they see you coming, they immediately put on the rice pot.

"We had a good meeting and conference at Baggao, baptized four people, secured two girls for our training school, and at 4 p. m. started to go back to Alcola for the night. The wind was blowing hard from the north and we wre told that a 'bagino' (typhoon) was on. Soon it commenced to rain.

In spite of the utmost speed on our part, darkness overtook us. By that time the rain was falling in torrents, and the lightning served to show ua the trail. We were being guided almost entirely by Benito's horse. After we had crossed the last ford of the river and climbed the high slippery bank beyond, we felt relieved and safe. But a little later the flashes of lightning revealed th fact that we had missed our trail and were lost in a field.

Of course we could see nothing. We tried unsuccessfully one direction after another, and at last struck the trail. This saved us from camping but in the storm. At 10 p. m.

we arrived at Benito's wet, hungry and tired, but grateful to our Lord for a roof and His protection. The morning we learned that the hardest of the typhoon was yet to come, so we hurried out in the rain and crossed the Cagayan river which was so flooded that our horses could not swim across. There is no bridge over these large streams In the Cagayan valley, and a horse must there fore swim while the rider takes a small boat, or a bamboo raft, and directs the horse. "Next we made all speed for Afusing, a mall barrio (Village) where our energetic members have just finished a small church. In this barrio we remained holding meetings and conference, even though the typhoon was on.

All that night we lay on the floor, of a bamboo house trying to keep dry and sleep, but could do neither as we expected any minute the house would be carried away. But some.