The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1919, Page 6

KLONDIKE DAYS RETURNING WITH DISCOVERY OF i Tribune. Jake Cook with a dash of white blood in him, blood of adventure A, Special to The Fea neer of the Hudson the two living in a shore of Copper Lake, straight north of the ice—the end of the Railway's steel. k stubbed hi cabin on the about 100 mi lust jumping-ott 1 tread of his m terrupted, Ue glaneed down, and the expression in his blackfeyes was the same as when he over the sights of his ritl PICK SPLI J AND THI secs anid brought at pick into the rusty spur of q the dark shade of roc Inoken It was rin metal, four inches ul feet deep and nobody knows how long! Gordon, his employer, a ailed that fllnty le igth. The samples they took we and 1 "The dug 3 three feet wide and three feet deep. I ides were inlaid with glow- ing patches; the bottom of it was the fordon, former | BISMARCK ‘DAILY TRIBUNE ~ RICH PAY STR | | | | | a bull moose | ud presently | nd earth was | hue of the northern sunlight in Sep- tember. he could aim and thers in the and loaded a traverse to, The Pas. His ul here on | the} utside” started rush that may | revive the glories of Klondike days. | It was hard to get over White Horse | ass, but it will be harder for tender- | prospectors to make their way | into the new gold country. pese Wing the dist from Th mes of his noe for the to cheat the unv niles by canoe. verland, through the swamp. iauskeg country, there is no trail, t» tate an outiit for even the kind of mining would be imp | Yet under an area about 500 miles ending northward from Copper lake into the wilds, is believed to lie incalculable riches, not only of sold. but of ickle platinum, Q Other a y f gather itself, and the odrama, the amaz melo good will unfold. | An Indian started the Yukon rush} and came to ne J the thir of his w piloted Fra a bed of quartz which is said to be on the continent, Near The P Vein strike w ploited. yield million Yes, Jake Cook knows gold. HUMPHREYS’ WITCH. HAZEL OINTMENT. (COMPOUND) } For Piles or Hemorrhoids, | External or Internal, Blind or Bleeding, Itching or Burning. One application brings relief, at all druggists Send Free Sample of Ointment te Humphreys* Home: Medicine C 16 William Street, N ee vy York., SICK STOCK BOOK on treatment of Horses, Cows, Sheep, Dogs and other animals, sent free. | Humphreys’ Homeopathic Vet- | erinary Medicines, 156 William St., N. Y. | | SERVICE| TIRE | SHOP | Bert Drennen, Mgr. 214 Main St. NOW OPEN With a. Complete Up-to-the-Minute Vulcanizing Retreadin ¢ EQUIPMENT With: Expert. Workmen to Do Your, Work. DONT THROW AWAY ‘hee YOUR OLD, TIRES We will save you at least half the | ‘cost of: new ones, _ OUR SPECIALTY WILL BE : ‘QUICK SERVICE’ - (bureau of crop e ’ | office "| Thou Jake Cook, who has again found gol CORN AND HAY TWO FAVORABLE CROPS | _IN NORTH DAKOTA THIS YEAR REPORTS | |UNITED STATES ‘CROP INVESTIGATOR) port for North issued by the United States/ imftes through the! mt A. J. S of corn Dakota the fi and h | esp in the prom) 4 state live stock nds of sheep fre shipped into the easter te where stubble feed is excel f is nearing com- on Shows that the 1919 grain crop about in the same c! with the ears in North I nd barley yields The lowered | largely to rust damage p with somé) ng down the} continued — though} ned hopper dam Except in| outhwest where all crops are poor, | the dividing line between good and| poor crops which stood cut quite distinctly disap and conditions spotted in the remainder of the The territory north of the G. > from Dey ake to Grand Forks to the Canadian line shows the best! yield of wheat for any area ing its size in the state with) . The best average | quality of wheat this son is found is area and in the western third cf the state where the stands of straw} were either short or thin and much} ef the wheat is grading No. 1 or t in the remainder of the state} from feed to No. 1, but mostly | arieties of the} conditic to the a is d late part of the 1 » from rains bre and from q ANTHONY DAIRY LUNCH BAK IN MANITOBA BY JAKE COOK Scene ‘of the latest gold rush.. The “pay, streak” is at Copper Luke (in- dicated by the cross), 60 miles north of The Pas, which is the end of the railroad. But ‘to reach the’ scene prospectors must go by river and port- age over one of the two routes in- dicated ‘by the arrows, covering .150 miles or more. “The map at the left shows how to reach The Pas. From Winnipeg .one goes over the govern- ment-controlled Prince Albert division of the. old Canadian Northern Rail- voad to Hudson Bay . Junction, in Saskatchewan’ . province, where a ranch ling. projected to Hudson Bay uilt as far.as The Pas. ried over this season will exceed that. ‘ofa! Near, ago. : Wool production continues to show ta steady annual gain and is estimated to be 6 per cent over last year. JAP WOMEN RAISE SILK WORM AS WE RAISE LOWLY HEN Greedy Little Animals Are Im- portant Factor in Meet- ing Living Costs d, and his cabin at Copper Lake. Fall silks blossoming through the land now ring to mind that half a ree million Japanese women slave contin- e showing up! ueusly for three weeks twice a year S. waiting upon and feeding the greedy silkworm. Where American women | keep hens to meet the high cost of of| living, Japanese women eke out their s due t outcome of | femily incomes by cultivating silk ar Thousands} worms. Japan supplies about 60 per tern half,of|cent of the silk used in America, the cut green for feed due, annual exports to this country in the The quality of both| year before the great war amounting s below ay The} to $63,000,000, Ninety per cent of the crops shows very] labor involved was ‘performed by wo- r quality of grain| men, according to statistics compiled ally late barley which did not|for the nation-wide campaign of the rell and is unusually pe and| Episcopal church. uly disappointing, The work is exceedingly hard while Corn stands out by far as the best it lasts. The women and girls chop up crop in the state. T crop is ex-, mulberry leaves which they feed to emely heavy in eastern half of state.'the silk worms at regular intervals In addition to providing an nmusual day and night. During the last three amount of grain and forage feed, a or four days of the three weeks feed- arge part of the crop has matured and ing period the silk warms eat raven- is assured of an abundant ously and continuously. The women lent seed next year.| have to devote themselves exclusively ) production is estimated to to feeding the worms, becoming veri- he 000 bushels compared with’ table slaves to the magic creatures an average of 10,6 Uni-; which later spin the silk into cocoons ted States production 8,000,000 about themselves. compared with the av Experiment has shown that the 000,000 bushel. rearing of silk worms.can be best and State wheat production ig estimated most profitably done on a small scale to be 53,246,000 bushel compared to, where each worm can be given care- 101,000,000 bushels last year and a five! ful, almost individual attention. This ar average of 81,548,000 bushels,' makes it necessary to rear them in United States spring wheat production | farmers’ homes rather than in large placed at 208,000,000 bushels com- | establishments. ared With the average of 285,000,000 The farmers’ wives in Japan have nels, The estimated production. of anything but an easy time of it. Many spring and, winter wheat for the Uni-| Women living on farms in‘ the United ted States ‘is 923,000,000 bushels com-|States have a hard enough time of pared with the average 790,000,000, it, but they live like queens in com- bushels. parison to hundreds of..thousands of rural Japanese women, The Christian OATS LOW missions in Japan have not een abte Oats production for the state’is to minister on dny-large scale to the placed at 4 6,000 ‘bushels compared, women of the farming class in Japan, to the average of 1) bushels.|Dut even there a foothold has been United States production is 1,225,000,’ Sained and the work among them will 000 bushel compared with an average’ be expanded through the nation-wide of 1,331,287,000 bushels. Barley pro-; campaign ofthe Episcopal church, duction for the state is estimated to now in progress in the United States, 79,000 bushel compared to the for that is a campaign in spiritual United @ducation to-raise mien and funds to 000,000 increase that church’s activities at verage of, home and abroad. After the cocoons have been formed, 1” part of the state flax ;the silk must be reeled off as quickly ge has been hard hit this season! 28 possible before the sleeping worm by drought and hoppers in the central 2Wakens: and starts to gnaw its way and western part of the state, Eastern’ out, destroying the silk it has spun. counties showing more favorable crop. | 4gain the women must work under Quality yorable as a rule, Flax’ Pressure for time, letting other things crop tapers from average in eastern] Walt. 4 counties to 4 half crop in the north- west and practical failure in-the southwest, State pi uction estimated to be 4,944,600 bushels compared. with the a ge of 1,000 bushel. United ms and D, Five better than other whi SHORT OF FEED p will again be short bushel. s barley production is 1 with an ss = FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF i MINNEAPOLIS & |States production placed at 10,189,000 \bushel compared to the average of 18,- $00,000 bushels. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS BAD This season’s climatic conditions, have not been favorable for potatoes over most of the state and bug damage A Modern Up-to-the-Minute Sanitary Lunch Room NEW ELKS BLOCK Opposite Western Sales Co. | | i) i Ninth Distelet f i Monthiy Report of Crop and Busi- | ness Conditions { Ae o AUGUST Midsummer ° indications that. the Missouri. river would *be the ,diviting 4 BUY IT NOW! You know how it has. been in the past years.- It wil be worse this year. We have plenty on hand: now, and can get more if we'can deliver when it comes, ORDER: Now! been unusually severe. ot-in line between good’ crops and poor upper half of the Red River Valley crops in the ninth district were con- hich has an everage crop or better. siderably modified by conditions dur- 1 te erop light being extremely ing the first half of August, and the peor ti southwestern vount State area in which crops are poor or only bproduciion is placed at 1,000 of fair quality wasextended farther els compared to the average of eastward. There is no part of the 000 bushels, United States pro- district which can be saidjto have a i ),000,000 bushels compared good “wheat. crop although/ there are average of 366,000,000 bushels. some, localities in which the returns Except in the southwestern counties. from threshing are satisfactory: South e hay yields are extremely poor Dakota, southern Minnesota; and Wis- jthe state hay production rang from consin all réport:a light average yield, nimple to a, heay: urplus, The state and much of the wheat. is light in tons compared «weight. Southern Minnesota and Wise tons and wild consin. wheat, and much of the wheat tons compared with'the from South’ Dakota is of good milling age of 99 tons. quality in spite of the deficiency in Stock hogs show about a 10 per cent’ weight. Other small grain crops are decrease from last year due to unts- also below normal. In-Mitinesota, oats ually small litters last spring and from are light in weight ‘andthe yields) d'sease losses at farrowing time. The are poor. -Barléy is of poor weight number of breeding sows last spring and rye“is a fair to’poor crop. In was estimated: to be the same as a, Wisconsin’ reports indi¢ate a yield of year “ago aud the present outlook’ is about. 35. bushels of -oats . per. acre, Nortz Lumber Co. % stnat the number, of breeding ‘stock’car-. a normal rye crop, with a: potato crop" ing symptom. only about 50. per ‘cent of normal. Rye in North Dakota is very short and was severely damaged by grass- hoppers, Flax is poor and wheat in the western parts of the state ranges from small yields to a complete fall- ure, although somewhat better in the eastern. part of the state. Wheat yields in South Dakota are, light with Durum wheat showing a better av- erage than: other varieties. Barley and oats are fair crops. Farmers re- port that they are not overly an- xious to sell-their crops or stock in anticipation of higher prices. Corn Looks Good. Throughout the ehtire corn grow- ing portion of the Uistrict the out- hay ‘crop: is excellent,. and in Minne- sota and Wisconsin is heavier than for a number of years. : Some hog cholera is reported in North Dakota, and in the eastern part of the State the indications are that be fed for market. There is a suffi- cient amount of rough feed to carry stock through the winter. Grain is beginning to-move in good volume to terminals and receipts have been very satisfactory. Local Rains Help. Local , rains early in the month throughout all but the northern. part of Montana were ‘of some betefit but were insufficient to materially, change the outlook. Live stock’ shipments have been.very heavy,’and the farm- ers and ranchers’ have. been anxious to dispose of cattle and sheep, fear- ing @ severe winter, which, with the shortage of feed, would place thém in a serious situation. Harvest returns from sections that’ This isa common e on day after day hee Backache, is often a war iar ens “1 women The Splen rs. only a Symptom “It Seems as Though my Back Would Break.” xpression among women, yet they toil tee of the significance of this distress’ es ning of some inward trouble that requires attention, and which unless relieved will sooner or later declare itself in more scrious ailments. If it is caused by female derangement Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is what you need. 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Cattle receipts were 97,967, an in- crease, of. 3,358 during the month; calves,..24,688, an increase /of, 4,619; hogs, 88,213, an increase of 31,726; sheep, 86,239, an increase of 62,611; with: moderate increases in the re- ceipts of horses, and a substantial increase in the number of cars. When a young woman. of the Philip- pines marries, her husband’s name is added to her maiden-name. If she be- comes a widow the husband‘s name is discharged. A chimney 115 feet high will sway, without danger,. as much as: ten or twelve inches in a strong wind. feok for this crop is very good. The). only, a. limited amount of stock will} = HAY FOR SALE ig *, IN CARLOAD LOTS é : Geo... Coleman. 8-22-tf Opposite McKenzie Hotel - " : ; : i ST SAE LT EI EIS z ma The North Dakota Agricultural College | STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE & MECHANIC ARTS et offers curricula in i ‘ AGRICULTURE, ARCHITECTURE, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, ‘APPLIED | SCIENCE: AND. LITERATURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING, HOME , ECONOMICS, MECHANICAL’ ENGINEERING, PHARM: ~ - ACY AND-:VETERINARY SCIENCE. RETURNED SOLDIERS will: find exceptional. opportunities: in collegiate and high school departments to-continue'work interrupted by the war. COMMERCIAL: DEPARTMENT RE-ESTABLISHED \Fall-Term Opens, September 29—For further information or for’ wepae circulars, address: had a ‘sufficient. crop.to make it worth while to harvest the grain. are uni-| E, F. LADD, President, Agricultural College, N. D.