The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1909, Page 3

AQUILLON. DOUBLING-EVEN TRIPLING-GRAINS OF WHEAT ON A STALK AND TURNING THEM INTO SHIN NG GOLD COIN ul aS. CONTRACTORS He Says ae Are| Now Wise to the Skimp- ing of City Paving Con- tracts aha | Oa not one Ps elty the contra to the Hons, 4s by the his work erin ody Publt \ this & Mp have been unable to find a ntractor in the ng up to hie city, They here and add all to increase he said. WONDER WORK CROSSLEY OF IOWA, Wh PLANTED ONE PERFEC GRAIN OF WHEAT AND YEA AFTER YEAR NURTURED IT PROLIFIC PROGENY TH FARMER'S ONE POUND O GOLD FOR 18,000 POUNDS O WHEAT, By J. V. Knight AMES, la, Aug. 12 shown farmers world how to make two whore grew before was scheme, and lowa college the moans of ma jfarmer richer and more This week, when all the lowa hum with threshers, the people fee Mgations to the crop Amew This plac i over th t gro Stat u intelliger ties A t the ‘i the harvester tun ex} an all akimping ero there, and profits, f Bouillon has w of pu Miller, ca fact that by unseru as yot ne ria a tte Although Iowa leads in corn the great fort! of the when proper crops are Prof. BL W. Crossley of the State col letters to and works to | to at on ci being ue contract ng has been } ty was ow ralsing from 36 to 60 bushels ¢ wheat to the acre. Prof. Croasle fe preparing a $2,000 exhibit for th lowa Stato fair, which shows ho he expects to give tae farmers suc arkable wheat yields Shocks Tell Stories In & 10-aere fleld near the big lege butlding there are of shocks, each protected from bir¢ and vermin by a paper cover. Bac shock tolls a new story in the di g Companies Object. Mile no wonder that the bonding are getting wary about im & contractor's bonds for per guaranteeing yy Will keep the pavement in mM condition for that length of ms prescribed by the * said Mr. Boulllou was this excuse which was the contractors of the city Res asked the board of pub for a reduction of the time were bound to keep as wing in repair, from ten five years. | Pdonding concerns are cog: | of the fact that a poorer of paving material Is being ‘every year by paving con and because of this they ing to think that the rink than they care to handle. Skimp the Jobs. the paving contractors lived | to 65 bushels an acre. their agreements with the) “We hardly dare tell the continued Mr. Bouillon, / about this marvelous yield, at the time of the awarding | | contract, no trouble would be | RAR AAA ARR ARE in keeping an asphalt * in repair for ten years. | * they do not live up to) * s and because the | «# know this, makes this) ® the time Mmit be re-j# ry. it is that the people of are paying out their y for first-class pav- rd are getting a second country Prof. Crossley started with grain of wheat which was consid d perfect by experts, This gral carefully saved for the next yea One hundred grains were planted 10 to & row, 10 rows to the plat c lexperiment ground, the year afte |from this first yield. The beat ¢ | this grain was replanted each eu comsive season, until now the | pudl ral * * WHEAT WAS ONCE A “DEGRADED LILY.” Wheat, to the botanist, Is & grane—“a degraded Iily.” It was originally a flower that was tamed by man and trained from beauty to use fulness. We do not know when or where the prebls toric Burbank lived who un- dertook this education of the wheat Illy. But we do know that wheat has been a food for at least 6,000 years. We find it in the oldest tombs of Exypt and pictured on the stones of the pyramids. We know that Solomon sent wheat as a present to his friend the king of Tyre; and we have reason to belleve that Ite first appearance w in the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates, near where the ancient eclity of Babylon rose to greatness.— Harper's Weekly. * Victoria. Princess Char-| ways, giving time for a the cities of Vancouver and Takee you en route Active pass and the San land: 8 ADIAN PACIFIC, First Ay. want to buy a We've only a few of these quaint old hickory pieces left now, The are made of genuine hickory with the bark ; the seats and backs are woven strips of liable inner bark. We shall close out these i pieces tomorrow at the following prices: D Hickory Chairs; tomorrow.......... $2.25 Hickory Rockers; tomorrow.... $2.45 Hickory Rockers; tomorrow.... 55 kc Arm Chairs; tomorrow. 45 Hickory Hickory Arm Chairs; tomorrow. Arm Chairs; ¢ tomorrow. stuced in Price Tomorrow @ few odd Chairs, Roc ttees ; some designed like With hand-woven cane seats and maple ‘ration finished natural dark forest green. We offer them tomorrow at the following reduced prices; 75 Maple Arm Chair.... 4.50 Maple Arm Rocker... $6.50 Maple Settee Rocker. $9.50 Green Fibre Chair... 532.50 Green Fibre Chair. $2.50 ‘$2.95 $4.35 $4.75 $16.25 ke ALL THE vi You awl v eomRte gconPs PANY ) tA UT 8€CONO AND UNION a numbe velopment of the wheat crop of the | eas planted, and the resulting grains facre field shows yields of from 40 THE STAR—THURS oF pack 0} T) R} 8 € el Fr © o| w n t n d b at | it il i,| a » hore belloves that the school soon will be having farmers of nf | h r is h SPY RIONT L908 OF tnenewet a a i a} THE WESTERN BONANZA FARM COUNTRY, AND 33 HORSES ARE PULLING IT THIS LEVIATHAN CUT6 A THE WHEAT, THRESHES IT AND BAGS IT AT THE RATE OF ON BECAUSE OF THIS CLASS OF FARM MACHINERY, THE WHEAT DOUBLED SINCE 1879, ir d wa bags r,| Prof. Crossley, “because of | farmers won't belteve it > |n Mahaska county 0. | have a sack of our new grain to use, and his y Was enormous, too. The average grain of wheat will produce 300 to 600 grains on the stalk, So each time a grain ie dropped in the soll at the college here it means 600 times as much good to other farmers ax it meant the first time Prof. Crossley began jt experiment. All the yield will be @istributed among farm: even the But down I fet a farmer of western lowa, where the farmers have always been noted for diversi fied farming, Altaifa has been add ed to the ottput and lees wheat and corn are being raised there. Every farmer is keeping account of his crope of alfalfa for the college The heavy ie d reason why Iowa Ins producer in all kinds of sald Prof. Crossley, “in be the poll has inexhaustible fer tility if proper rotati taken of it lowa le in Oate and has been fighting nip and tock with Hlinols for the top production of cory. nd care the te world | Government Experime: | So pleased was Secretary Wilson with results that the government} lis now paying half t pense of @ | Continuing the experiment As each individual plot of wheat * | ground matures, its « rop is threehed separately, and for this purpose | sLudents of the college have devised #|*% Small threshing outfit run by a @ | RAsoline engine. Every step te ta w | Oh to keep accurate account of each a (plot, and no outside grain tx al @| lowed to become mixed with the jexperimental bonansa seed A change has come over the cropa! ‘BOOTH FORGED 10 BE THE JUDGE _ (Concludes ) “Kars of corn and grains of wheat are a «reat deal tke animals are better than others and some will prod better stock than oth ers, We have chowen the best, and by careful work have proved that 65 bushels an acre can be raised " thie state. The country’s euch magnitude that people t realize tt,” and Prof. Cre to Ngure on & sheet of paper. “Do you know he sal that thle year's corn crop--about $,500,000 * * * . * * * Home k corn crop is ot| ity aley beans the rules promulgated by the sen ate, it whould sit upon the qualift cations of certain senators to sit in jJudament upon the ¢ at bar He waid Schively's answer opened with a challenge aa to the eligibility of Senators Paulhamus, Allen, Mish back, Arraamith Mair, Brown, Bryan, Cox, Davis, Falconer, Pat j land, MeGr Myers, Polson and friends of the measure feared it] Stevenson to «lt as fudge of the | Would be killed, so permitted the| guilt oF Innocence of his client | DIN being made @ special order for| When he had finally finished bie this afternoon, and then took @ re- | opening argument coms until 2:30 pm against the qualifications of these The senate listened to the argu- ment of Attorney General Bell against Schively's demurrer and motions to dismiss and to strike the perjury charges Just before taking the noon adjournment. bul to an 1 Immediate vote that ‘the or made by Representatives Sparks and Metgs, both of the latler effect tve fn their logic, the senate ad fourned unttl 10 o'clock this morn ing THAW 1 SENT BACK 10 wurTaM (Concluded.) Yesterday's Session. OLYMPIA, A 12.—Before | packed gallertes a: with all eyes) | conteyed upon John H. Sehively, the laceused state insurance commis |atoner, and hie attorney, George C Ierael, the senate yesterday aftor }noon began the impeachment trial | of Schively Simultaneous with the convening | Of the senate, the lower house met. | The house was busy until 5 o'clock, but transacted little business, voting the entire afternoon to dis |at Matteawan leussion of the Duwamish bill |there in October,” said Mills; | Attorney George ©. laraei fired | one id help being moved by th }h opening gun in the defense of| distress of his mother when sh | bis client, John H. Sehively, when,| related that treatment io an argument lasting one hour “It must be remembered that | and 50 minutos, he spoke in protest; Thaw ts not in the hospital as a of the eligibility of 16 senators,|criminal undergoing punlahment | naming them, to ait as Judges upon|The jury, the supreme authority, | the case of the accused state Insur.| declared him innocent of crime.” ance commissioner. At 4:20 he [oeased speaking and was answered ae Te: Sulton iby Representatives Sparks and| Thaw received the news of the | Molgs, two of the three house mem.| decision tn hie cell at the jail sul j bers constituting the board of man-|!enly, and refused to make any |agera, who are acting for the house | statement 48 prosecutors of the case. His mother, stater and brother, Mr. Israel in opening said under who are at the hotel here, we greatly surprised when they ears “ithe news. | Mra, Mary }testimony of experts that paranola fs incurable. “The court does not mean that it) since his return Thaw, the mother of the prisoner, retired to her apart ments, and all callers were denied jadmittance. The decision in a ne vere blow to her, She has been FREE DEMONSTRATION OF THE GREAT TELEGRAPHONE The ONLY machine fn the world that duce a telephone message. The ONLY perfect dictating machine In the world Verbal contracts made over the phone now absolutely ing--think how important that is, Did You Ever Hear a Wire Talk? EVERYBODY COME And see Mis wonderful wonder of wonders, Demonstrations overy day, H. P. O’Reilley & Co. Ind. 4242 327 Walker Building will record and repro bind DAY, AUGUST THE GREAT MACHINE THAT 18 SINGING ITS MERRY SONG OF GOLD ToDAY THROUGH IT 18 A COMBINED HARVESTER AND REAPER, protesting 16 senators, and when replies were “no | 1909. MAN oH ACK 10 NA MOM Te Dying of Laudanum, He Is|! Relieved With a Hop,'' Skip and Jump at the City Hospital. dleturbed the yital Me-| Great exeltement ot the hony wn seaman 61 years old through the had the usual serenit yesterday afternoon, when Gregor, a executed a hornplpe his life saved by prompt work or of Dr, 1 B. Greene and a corp tendants McGregor wan picked up at foot of Washington | afternc wuffering from laudar |polsoning. He was hurried to city hospital, When was to the receiving ward he was ut scious, Copious quantities of cotter foreed down the conscious man’s throat, and he beaten with cold, wet towel more than an hour Given a Big Shock, The spark of life was all but ex-| tinguished when Dr. L B, Greene bit upon the happy scheme, The por-| table Xray machine, a recent In stallation at the howpital, was at tached to MeGregor, and for more than ten minutes a strong current of electricity flowed into the conselous man's body Dr. Greene wae about to abandon | hope, when suddenly the aged sen Jinan leaped to his feet with a wild whoop, Down the corridor dashed McGregor, doing a hornpipe with such agility that the rescuing |party, headed by Dr. Greene, could not catch him. Whoop after whoop came from the rejuvenated seaman. srousing sleeping patients and bringing every attendant up on the run. | They Sat on Him. Finally th after beer part corridors ot were wma hoor. un: | 50-FOOT ROADWAY THROUGH & BAG EVERY HALF MINUTE. CROP OF THE WORLD HAS 000 bushels—would fill a rth 8 feet high and reaching from New York to Ban Francisco, Or it would make & pile and 175 feet high 4 mile square Fairyland. | Agi #0, ax you wander thie *falryland of and corn ‘ondary thoughts are on the anche of gold that is pouring into the western country ev y day and will continue to pour for a good tp months yet y~ Fee the busiest time of the year i the man in the elty who haw Toney and makes a business of get Mingemnore out of the nation's « 1 Just heard that ts shipping a half a miition dol lars a day out to the harvest coun: iy, Another big Chicago Inatitu tution has arranged for more than 1 $5,000,000 of currency in the Wit expects to wend over $40. ~ Big througt dancer was cornered jand hospita’ endants #at on han | until hie nerves became somewhat settiod. McGregor was then forced | to pace the corridor for more than} six hours before Dr would | allow him to go to sleep. bed MoGiregor said he remem: | ered nothing of the hornpip He was drinking yesterday and idea where he swallowed the laudanum. It's a mortal cinch that ft was put in my beer,” sald McGregor, “I |hope my wife and #ix kide in New| Zealand won't hear about this When darkness feli last night, it was _disco that the portable 0.000 to the country before the|X-ray mach ad been worked #0 idle of October hard. upon McGregor that four fuses A man who works out big strings /on the fourth floor of the hospital of figures says that for every 18-|hiew out 000 pounds of wheat that goes into the city there will go back to the ‘farmer one pound of gold. wheat Greene | REOMEN LODGE INSTITUTED.| Great Bachem A, M. Watt, order of Red Men, jurisdiction of Wash ington, instituted a new tribe va a large charter itt, In Odd Fellows’ | temple, tast night. The name of | the new tribe will be Mohawk, No, | oo junder constant strain ever since the killing of White, and the many ordeals she hae endured during the triala and hearings have left thetr mark heavily upon her TERRORS OF THE WILD. “ jston Co.) of this city for thirteen | | markets | ~~ Piret Camper in the woods? nd Camper Were you ever clawed by any wild animal while No; but Tonee dreamed my motherindaw | | |. de |i satinfied with Thaw's troatme atl y FRIDAY’S A.-Y.-P. E. PROGRAM AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION ANNUAL TRACK AND FIELD MEET CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES, JUNIOR EVENTS. MANILA DAY—HEADQUARTERS AT PHILIPPINE BUILDING. WORCESTER GLEE CLUB, “A NIGHT IN VENICE, £:00-—Exposition gates open 10:00—School children’s educational tours 10:00 to 12:00—Concert, Wagner's A-Y.-P cados. Popular talke, free, stereoptican graph room, Hawaiian building. Free iilustrated lecture tn the Oregon State building. to 12:00, 1:00 to 6:00—Free illustrated lecture on irrigation and reclammation projects tn Idaho, Idaho State butlding Amateur Athletic Union angual track and field meet cham plonship games, Junior events, in the Stadium, Music by A-Y-P, band , 9:30, 4:30—INustrated lecture on the Klondike, dike annex to Canadian pavilion to 4:00—Freo demonstrations of concentrating mineral ore, Utah State butlding Concert, Liberatt's band United States life saving Btreak Manila day program, Philippine bullding dresses Free teats full band, head of the Cas blo 10; 15 views, government 10:20 10:00 2 30. free, Klon- Music crew's pavilion exhibition, foot of Pay Reunion and ad lzed bridge etringers In U. timber teating exhibit, Machinery hall Fre lecture, Women's building, by A, Montgomery, farmer painter Bubject Edveation in Art Concert, Worcester Board of Trad lee club, Auditorium, Concert, Wore r Board of Tra Glee club, Auditorium, A Night in Veniec Special iNumination of the Geyser Raasin, the Cascades and the Court of Honor, Music, gon dolas, fireworks, ete 8. forest service the tee appointed by the last California} legislature to visit the fair will} come at the same time, with Goy Gillett. The giving away of fruit bey be a feature of California day the Chicago falr 16 car loads of | frat were given away in half an hour on that occasion, LOS ANGELES FOLKS | COMING BACK AGAIN So well pleased were the visitors | Angeles to the A,&-P, Goorge Los Angeles da&y,| man ever iy that the Chamber cea Mag {from Los j exposition | Monday last, Cémmerce of that city wlll run an other excursion to Seattle on Call - fornia day, September 9, Oakland Ho—1 ‘epone and Sacramento will also send ex-| but she won't clos enough to ive me a curstons for the day, The commit | faio Engutrer, on | | jerowned Queen of Beaut NIMBLE WITH THE | House 3 o MORROW D INTEND TOBLAGKMA Son C asa That Father Meant to Extort Money From Dr. J. E. Jordan of This City. ‘THE VIKINGS WILL DISCOVER SEATTLE etlon of the land f hip the whore being firwt di ‘ will ti Lake Viking of Greentand n the the at of at the produced on Washington oP AWK mitt the cow mn ting toda i pleted plan The Viking hi and the Greenland built, att of atructed on the The Wekimors the fair, will for the pleture ting ponall “ALL ARRANGEMENTS | MADE FOR PICKING |e» “stn THE FINEST WOMAN Made if 1 hores of the from t furniah and th ude i { ‘ the effort 1 by nding to will be as OLYMPIA, Aug P od J le rah Ty court een gE Jordan and th ‘ le jon, Don, ised ackmall, in from ars of Morrow tory is cument re the legim ng committee, ant land t fathe last rtp of the jan, and the that the to offne face inf’ elder 1 mit ot houltate to | ponition «re unt 23, fo with al the blackma the d 1 the iy i wate chance ent to win neraved KC tigat Son Accuses Father. Mor hearing, {ne had propoesd a conspiracy to @x- Dr. J with @ , give one The wardrobe orate, for the in secret, will » clothes than to And geatlene only ow, at the not be working enter hi oung dan natural ald of a unt poaltion, irth for Morrow and Mra, made charges of immorality again the elder Morrow, giving the name of a Beattie woman, The history the Mor- agged into the case, evle further discredit Morrow's testi neofar the eha racter | Brows judges can estimate from the appearance The ten prominent who will as judges national Beauty day been 86 | row lected, but their names are very, | dent] very secret. They will work quiet-| upor ly on the fair grounds on August and their choice will not be known until the lucky beauty Is quietly approached and informed that she has been selected as the most beautiful woman on the fair grounds. Seattle men Inter act for whole family of Saw Alleged Decision. Mrs, Mollie Wilson, the claiman€ for the Ballard property which figured in the alleged attempt to |bribe the supreme testified that on one occasion Dr. Jordan had jexhibited a typewritten documerit |to her, with the statement that he had been asked to prey it for the supreme court ane Brown acknowl had been to the of of E. B, | Pein er, of Seattle, through whom Morrow says she had hoped to ute duly influence Judge Root, but claimed she had simply gone to him to get additional legal advice Adjournment was taken until this evening. FIRE ON STRIKERS. (By Uetied Press) WILLIAM, Ont after noon court NEEDLE IN JUNEAU) The cash - prise of , of $160 given by the United States governme the best exhibit of sewing doi Alaska women was won by Ju Alaska. In those that gained hon orable mention, Ketchikan was first, Petersburg second and Doug jas Island third, F women | exhibits at the fair this morn: | | iged that urteen ing The judges of the contest were Mrs. J. EB. Chilberg, Mra. 1 A Nadeau | and Mra. Josiah Collins. Collins FORT Sh Aug. 12. “lay a battle rred between the Canadian Pa- special and the Bhots flew thick and fest eight men were wounded. ible arose when the spectal to return to their the strikers re- back to thelr cific | strikers SATE FIRM “GESCONTRACT = vate GOVERNMENT PLACES ORDER FOR THIRTEEN ORGANS WITH EILERS MUSIC HOUSE. constables * trie View Lots Near Exposition Only #200; Terms ore, ¢ Cash and 6 rer Mebth, The Interior Department has just placed an order with Eliers Music to D. 8. John Bankrupt Sale $22,000 stock of Clothing, Hates, Shoes and Furnishings at your own price. 44—PIKE 8ST 424, (successor organs, to be used in the Indian schools in Alaska. Mr. Sinclair, the Government Pur chasing Agent, found upon Investi- gation that he could buy here as advantageously as in the Eastern DOWNING, HOPKINS @ RY (Established 1893) BROKERS Stocks, Grate and Provistons, Beth Phones 270. Private Wires, 904-205-806 Alaske Bidg. Big Free sain Excursion tex, Fast steamer Venus leaves Pier 6 at 9:45 a. m., returning 8 p.m, tomorrow (Friday) at the BIG OPENING OF 8,000 ACRES close to Everett, on the Sound. Friday and Saturday we go, free, to Boston Harbor, Water Front Acres $50 to $150 In 10 days all NONE HIGHER. TERMS, 10 CENTS a day. BRING ALONG SOME MONEY. You may see some land you want, as this is the last CHANCE to buy WATER FRONT CHBAP, Tons of wild berries now ripe and free. Come up and can up 300 or 400 cans; also put up jelly, Bring your tents, etc, on boat cit, Imey The instruments are now being packed at the Ellers House, and will go forward this month, before the Harbor will be sold out. Fr FINE CLAM AND OYSTER BEACHES want land on a street car Hine lif Seattle suburbs, ton Hine, Occidental and Yesler way, out to tion, where we have rich, black muck land, raising $600 worth of celery to the acre and 800 bushels of potatoes to the acre. Large tracts, $125 up. Terms, 10 cents a day Go out at once. Several cottages (pr sale at $250 to $400 cach, on terms of $5 per month. Cheaper (han rent. One Ingy makes $250 per month raising chick ens and Belgian hares, See C.D. Hillman's land managers, in The Times Block, and get free maps, etc, We need several men to work at good wages SUNDAY WE GO TO BREMERTON—TWO TRIPS FREE. Or if you go on new Ren our Harlington Addi on land