Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1916 — Page 2

A New Homestead Opportunity

The government will open Colville Inaian reservation in Washington to settlers in July -—This article tells you what to do to secure land, y t r

7 x&MmM the first time Vsl In history Uncle —f Sam is to open \^l||p ■ for settlement an Y||| Indian reservation within 50 miles of the gate- > way of a big city. Such have been the strides of civilization. July 5 to 22 are the dates set by the government for registration for homestead land upon the Colville Indian reservation, the eastern boundary of which is just 50 miles from Spokane, Wash. There are 350.000 acres to be thrown open to settlement, which will provide homes for about 2,000 settlers. This country about to be opened to the white man is regarded as one of best Btock raising and diversified farming regions in the entire Northwest. There is said to be everything there a settler could desire—an ample supply of good water, plenty

of grass, an abundance of timber and a mild climate. The surrounding country already is well developed. These conditions, coupled with the fact that Spokane, a city of 125,000 population, is almost upon the spot, furnishing a ready market for all produce, make the Colville Indian reservation drawing the greatest chance has appeared -tfpon Uncle Sam’s “wheel of fortune” since the

days of fie Oklahoma rush. The places of registration designated by the government are Otnak, Spokane, Wenatchee, Republic or Colville, Wash. These are all good, live towns —within easy reach of any part of the land to be opened for homesteads. How to Secure Land. Practically any American citizen or any Individual who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States may secure land on this reservation under the homestead law, provided he does not already own more than 160 acres of land or has not already exhausted his homestead right. The registration dates have been designated by the government as July 6 to 22, inclusive. The first thing to do in order to secure land on the Colville Indian reservation is to make a trip to Spokane, Wenatchee, Omak, Colville or Republic, the points of registration. Before or after registering applicants for homesteads may make a tour of inspection of the reservation and familiarize themselves with the nature of the land open to settlement

Registration. Arriving at Spokane, Wenatchee, Omak, Republic or Colville, any day from July 6 to 22 inclusive, you may make application at one of the notary booths which will be established for that purpose, and nowhere else. All necessary blanks, legal forms and information will be furnished by the authorized notary before whom applicant . appears. Twenty-five cents will be charged by the notary for the taking of each Affidavit. No other charge is made for registering. Any qualified person, in addition to his own application, paay make one other application as agent-fora former soldieri or sailor (or his widow or minor orphan children), on Colville Indian reservation. How Allotments Will Be Made.

After applications are filed they will be deposited in sealed cans and beginning at 10 a. m. July 16, in the city of Spokane, Wash., the cans will be opened and applications impartially taken, selected Indiscriminately from the whole number of applications presented, a sufficient number being collected to reasonably cover the amount Qf land opened to settlement. The applications so selected will be numbered serially in the order in which they are drawn, beginning with num--ber one, and the numbers thus assigned shall fix and control the order in which the person’s name on application may make entry on the land. A list of the successful applicants showing the number assigned to each will be published and an individual

ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE

Electrically illuminated signs to be •carried on the roofs to show whether daxicabs are vacant or occupied have .been patented in England. A new clothespin is made of a single ce of wire, having a ring-at the ceno encircle a line and clips at the 9 hold garments. government has appointnission to study the general pictures in the different t iOt public education. _ P ,

notice promptly mailed to the tortunate applicants. Beginning at 9 a. m. on September 6, 1916, and continuing on such dates as will be designated by the secretary of the interior, persons holding numbers assigned to them will be permitted to select and enter the tracts they desire. Proper notice of place at which this selection may be made will be given applicant. Immediately upon receiving notification, successful applicant should visit the land personally if he had not already done so and at time and place specified make a selection, within ten days after which he must make a final filing. After selecting the tract he desires to enter, applicant will be allowed ten days following the date of selections within which to complete entry at the proper land office. During this ten-day period he must file a homestead application at the land office, accompanying the same with the usual filing fee and commission and in addition paying one-fifth of the appraised value of the tract selected. If the lands are in the Spokane (Wash.) land district, entry must be made at the Spokane land office; if in the Waterville (Wash.) land district, entry must be made at the Waterville land office. The balance of the appraised value of the land may be paid in five annual equal installments, commencing one year from the date of entry, if three-year proof is submitted. The unpaid installments, in case entry is commuted before the expiration of the three-year period, must all be paid at the time of proof. Applicants making entries on or before November 1, 1916, will be allowed until May 1, 1917, within which to establish residence upon the land. After establishing residence upon the land applicants must make it their permanent home and residence until they have commuted (which may be done within 14 months after continuous residence and payment of full value of land plus $1.25 additional per acre), or else the applicant must lifa on the land and cultivate it continuously for three years. After three years’ continuous residence and cultivation, upon filing his final papers, and making his final payment with the usual small land office final filing fee, the settler gets a clear title to the land from the government.

Improvements and Cultivation. Any time within six months from the date of filing the homestead entryman is required to establish his permanent residence upon the land that he filed on. A habitable house must be constructed and one-eighth, or 20 acres on a 160-acre entry, must be under cultivation by the second year. At the end of three years or, when final proof

An experiment station for the production of tea has been established in Argentina. The back of the seat of a new wicker porch chair can be folded down to form a table. A chemical process renders noninflammable all the woodwork employed in the construction of the rolling stock for London’s underground railways. The handle of a new traveling bag is so attached that it can be placed inside the bag when it is locked, lessening the danger of the bag being stolen.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, IND.

soldier, sailor or government - employee dishonorably discharged from the government service. Those who have already commuted on other federal lands or given up previous filings. Excepting that some who lost or abandoned homesteads before February 8, 1908 (if claim was honest), yet have homestead privileges. If you are in doubt you had better write to the proper office. Widows’, orphans’ and minors' rights are—fully—protected—by law; single women who afe citizens of the United States and deserted and divorced women, also may file. Soldiers and sailors who have served over 90 days in war time may make application arid the term of their service will be deducted from the total fime in which they can get a clear title, but they must reside at least 12 months on the land, cultivate and improve it like any other citizen. Soldiers’ and sailors’ widows and minor orphans have special privileges in being allowed to file by agent, but must dive on and cultivate land like anyone else. There is a greater variety of climate, soil and resources in this new homestead country than in any other Uncle Sam has opened. The soil is very rich and suitable for raising all temperate zone fruits and vegetables and live stock. There is an abundance of water everywhere.

ELASTIC VEST IS SUGGESTED

Would Automatically Take Up Slack and Shield Fat Man From Remarks of Ribald Crowd. The skirts which the girls are wearing this spring are equipped with elastic "pucker” strings at the waist, and the ingenuous tailors who build clothing for men should take a hint therefrom and include an elastic section in the vests of the suits they build for customers who are no longer sylphlike in their proportions. Men who hover habitually on the bulgy side —of a 44-inch waistband soinetimes have a mean variation of as much as four inches in before and after breakfast readings. An elastic vest would automatically take up the slack and shield from the remarks of the ribald crowd the man who by persistent starving, sometimes called dieting, is just beginning to see his,own feet for the first time in years, where now a slack and wi-inkled vest is a dead giveaway of the dieting, writes W-jlliam Allen White, in Emporia Gazette. Also, when the flesh is weak, although the spirit remains willing, and the portly brother falls, and wraps himself around baked potato, salad rich in olive oil, and other waistline producers, the elastic section would yield and there would be the same unruffled vest front as that of his more slender days, where now ’ ulging and strained buttons betray the fact that the old man is putting on weight again.

The Difference.

."Love wants all or nothing.” “Then its attachments are nothing like a sheriff’s, for he will take what he can get.”

The Resemblance.

"Funny, isn’t it, that a man who eats like a pig and one who eats like a bird both act alike?’ “How do you make that out?” “Each takes a peck at every mouthful."

Cheerful Prospects.

“Sir, J[ am sure I can support your daughter.” ' ( “Then I hope you will be able: to do it as 1 have had to support her mother —with patience and resignation.”

is applied for, one-eighth of the total entry must be under cultivation. Those Not Entitled to Homesteads. Minors, unless at the head of a family. Those who own more than 160 acres of land. Those who have already filed on, 160 or 320 acres of federal land. Foreigners who have not filed first citizenship papers. Criminals or any

RAILROADS GREAT WAR AID

One of Difficulties U. 8. Government Faces Is a Shortage of Cars for Transporting Troops and Supplies. In the cloakrooms of the capitol at Washington some find fault with the federal administration and the rail roads because Columbus, N. M., is on jfc single-track railroad, which cannot handle military troop and supply trains rapidly, the New York Commercial re marks. Congress is finding out how much depends on the condition of rail roads in time of war, yet it does not show much inclination to help them We are lucky to have so much railroad accommodation along the Mexican frontier. We cannot expect Villa to pick out points where railroad service is of the best when raiding our frontier, and we cannot very well ask the Southern Pacific to build a four-track railroad parallel to the border when the government forces it to carry parcel post matter at rates far below cost of transportation. Strategic railroads have been the salvation of Germany and Austria-Hun-gary so far in the European war. The largest army does not always win a battle. Alexander the Great and all successful generals since his time won battles by striking the enemy hard at one important point. In our day overwhelming forces can he concentrated quickly by using railroads, and in no other way. If wd are to keep down the size of our army we must make it as mobile as possible, and the only way to do this is to organize the railroads. It would be easy to hurry troops to New York, hut there are many other points of strategic importance at which troops could not be easily concentrated because the railroad service is inadequate. One of the difficulties our war department faces is shortage of cars for transporting troops and supplies. The government can commandeer all the cars it needs, but if it has to do so, the general trade of the country will be paralyzed. War in Mexico will not hurt business if it does not interfere with the transportation of merchandise. If the railroads had plenty of rolling stock this could not happen, but they would belied up by government requisitions, as it is, if we had to put 200,000 men in the fiel’d, and that is the smallest number that any military expert mentions when talking about a regular campaign in Mexico.

HOOKS PLACED UNDER PILOT

Device Which It Is Claimed Will Prevent Any Possibility of the Derail merit of Trains. With the idea of preventing the derailment of a locomotive when it encounters some minor track obstruction, a Louisville railway man has constructed a hook fender which is intended to be attached at the back

Hooks Arranged Beneath the Pilot of Locomotive to Prevent Derailments.

on the underside of a pilot. It consists of a row of large hooks the points of which face forward in such a position as to grapple things which the pilot might riot strike. —Popular Mechanics Magazine. «• *

DUE TO EQUIPMENT DEFECTS

Interstate Commerce Commission Makes Report on the Causes of Various Railroad Accidents. The failure of wheels on two trains of the St. Paul system within ten days of each otfler, and at the same town, by a coincidence, led to an investigation of the cause of wheel failures, which has become one of the most serious problems in American railroading. In the thirteen years ending June 30, 1915, there were 37,456 derailments ,due to equipment defects, of which 12,882 were caused by defective wheels, with a property loss of $12,506,000. Many of these wheels were of the built-up type, consisting of a cast-iron hub, two rolled St§el check plates and a rolled steel tire. The various parts are forced on under pressure and then secured by bolts. Out of twenty wheels of this type examined - after the accident ten were found to have incipient cracks in the interior webs of the tires. The Interstate commerce commission concluded that cold-rolled wheel tires, as well as cold-rolled rails, are not the strongest kinds. The commission stated, in connection with the accident, that on many railroads the track is not properly constructed or sufficiently maintained to permit of the safe operation of trains at the rates of speed allowed.

Fixing the Blame.

“You are charged with stealing an umbrella,” said the police magistrate. "What have you to say in your behalf?” “My mother is to blame for it,” replied the prisoner. : T • "How is that?” asked the P. M. “When I was a boy,” answered the prisoner, “she taught me that it was always well to lay up something for a rainy day.”

UNITES THE COASTS

REMARKABLE HISTORY OF LINE OF CANADIAN RAILROAD. Bystem Built Under Obstacles Which Appear Almost Insurmountable Is a Monument to the Skill of Its Engineer*. A strip a hundred miles wide, extending from coast to coast, was added to the attainable vistas of Canadian territory when the first train over the new Canadian Northern Transcontinental railroad rolled into Vancouver carrying 80 members of the Canadian parliament and some hundred other public officials, railroad engineers and newspaper men, assembled from all parts of Canada and the United States, to take part in the opening of a new era in the development of the Dominion. Since 1896 this new railroad system has been quietly and unostentatiously covering the middle section of Canada with a gridiron of steel rails. To the observant its trend and ultimate objective were plain. Yet outside of Canada and even in many sections of the Dominion it attracted so little attention that the progress of this first transcontinental train, triumphantly heralded throughout the continent, has been a revelation and a surprise. In part this is due to the manner of the system’s upbuilding.' It started 19 years ago with a modest 85-mile railroad from Gladstone to Dauphin, Manitoba. Its name was the Manitoba & Northwestern Railway and Canal. The canal part of it, by the way, never was built, and probably never will he. The railroad had a single track and a single passenger train which ran out of Gladstone in the morning as Train No. 1 and bravely returned in the afternoon as Train No. 2, and it was characteristic of the Scottish sense of Jid:. mor in the builders and proprietors that the time table contained a solemn notice that “Train No. 2 will not leave the terminal until after the arrival of Train No. 1.” It was also characteristic of their shrewdness that this particular 85miles of territory through which the railroad ran was already noted as the best land in the province and has since fully justified )♦« reputation.

This first little railroad made money, although the franchise for its construction had gone a-begging for years before it was started. There followed branch lines which doubled, then trebled, its traffic; then an extension to Portage La Prairie; then, more little railroads on the prairies, most of them on the same modest scale. . .

In course of time the proprietors of these lines went east and acquired the Great Northern railroad on the north shore of the St. Lawrence river, between Montreal and Quebec, tapping an immense pulpwood area. Then came more railroads and still more, until the Canadian Northern Railroad system, as these scattered lines had become, controlled more mileage in the three prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta than any other Canadian railroad. - It has since increased until it has 10,000 miles in all. —New York Times Sunday Magazine.

WOODEN CARS ARE PASSING

Will Have Been Replaced by Steel Coaches on All Principal Railroads In Ten Years, It Is Believed. -

Disappearance of wooden cars from the principal railroads of the country within a period of ten years is considered probable. This prediction Is based upon the figures embodied in a report prepared for the information of congress, in which It is stated that nearly one-fourth of the 61,728 passenger cars at present in use are of all-steel construction. ’

At the beginning of the year there were 14,286 all-steel coaches in service, and of the 1,094 new cars under construction only three were of wood, while in 1909 in the United States there were only 629 cars of steel. The gain in steel has thus been very rapid, and the encouraging feature of the situation is the voluntary acceptance of fireproof material by the transportation managers.

The cost of replacing the wooden equipment in use with steel is heavy —not less than $529,000,000, according to estimates presented to the inter--state commerce commission—and as so large an amount cannot be expended in one year, the -assumption that the expenditure will be distributed over a period of ten years seems to be within the bounds of probability. Perhaps the time may be shortened by intelligent co-operation between the federal and state authorities and the railroads. —Providence Journal.

First to Burn Pulverized Coal.

The first locomotive of any considerable size to be fitted up in the United States or Canada (and, so far as known, In the world) with successful apparatus for burning pulverized coal in suspension was a ten-wheel type engine. This engine has cylinders 22 Inches in diameter by 26 inches stroke. Driving wheels, 69 inches diameter. Boiler pressure, 200 pounds. Heating surface, 2,649 square feet. Grate area, 65 feet. It is equipped with a Schmidt superheater and has a tractive effort of 31,000 pounds. It was converted into a pulverized fuel burner in the early part of 1914. Set entitle American.

g|_jjUHCIESAM| ■ f) V-i J l “Go Great Northern ,, and Register at Spokane, Wenatchee, Colville, Republic or Omsk—luly sth to 22nd inclusive. 350,000 acres of desirable agricultural lands open to homestead entry. Five registration points including Omah, only registration point actually on the reservation and reached only by the Great Nortlurn Railway. Low Round Trip Faros Round Trip Homeseekers’ Fares to alt registration points named in effect Jane 20th,» July 4th and July 18th. Summer Tourist Fare* to North Pacific Coast points, on sale every day. permit stopover for registration at Spokane and Wenatchee. Stopovers allowed enroute at G lacier National Park either on going or return trip. Send Now for Colville Circular 39 Fill out coupon below and mail today , for detailed information, map folders and booklets. E. C. LEEDY, General Immigration Agent, fl. N. Rl.. St. Paul. Minn. C. E. STONE. PateengerTraffic Mgr., fit. Paul, Minn. ETC. LEEDY. Gecu I mm. Agt. ________ G. N. Ry., Bt. Paul. Minn. yf. Send Colville Opening Circu--1 fiaEAf „ S tar 39 \wliw ■ liuu JIB A < M ress -“ DAISY FLY KILLER gjjS? tjj HAROLD SOlfEßi, 160 D. ZUb Art., Brooklyn, H. T.

Wield Pen and Sword.

The report of the Authors’ club of London gives some eloquent figures. Out of 644 members resident in Great Britain, many of whom are far past military age, no less than 171 are in active service in corinection with the war. Six have died in action or of wounds and 13 votes of sympathy with members in the death of sons or brothers upon the field oh heroism have been adopted. The same hand, it is clear, may wield both pen and sword.

HOWTO TREAT DANDRUFF Itching Scalp and Falling Hair With Cuticura. .Trial Free. On retiring touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment. Next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. A clean, healthy scalp means good hair and freedom, in most cases, from dandruff, itching, burning, crustings and scalings. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, DepL L*. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.

Economy.

"You spend entirely too much money on dress,” said the man of the house. "That simple little frock Mrs. Smythe wore last night looked a great deal better than that elaborate gown jf yours.” "Of course it did, my dear,” replied his wife sweetly. “That simple llttU frock, as you call it, cost three hundred dollars, while mine cost only a hundred and fifty.” “Well, for the love of Mike, go out and buy one about twice as elaborate as the one yori’ve got. Maybe you can get it for nothing.”

Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle ot CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria

Hippopotami Can Run.

In spite of its clumsy build, the hippopotamus can trot fast. That is why he was given the name of river-horse. The hippo’s feet are kept far apart by the wide body and make paths with a ridge down the middle, so as to be recognizable at once. They swim well, but go at their greatest speed wheif they can gallop along the bottom in shallow water. They can stay under water a long time, and when they come tc the surface they send littld. jets of spray from their nostrils. The cow is devoted to the calf. The young one stands on her back as the mother swims.

_ IF YOU OR ANY FRIEND Suffer with Rheumatism or Neuritis, acute Ol chronic, write for my FREE BOOK on Rheumatism—lts Cause and Cure. Most wonderful book ever writteni it’® absolutely FREE. Jesse Case. Dept. O. W., Brockton. Mass.—Adv.

Judging by Conditions.

“Bin, my dear pupils," said Deacon Barnes to his Sunday school class, “Is the legacy of Adam.” And the bright boy In the clhbs remarked that that was probably the first caße on record where a will was not broken. "Yes.” Bald the deacon, “but ft should be remembered that there was enough to go around. I don’t remember hearing of anybody who didn't receive his share of the inheritance.”

Natural Progression.

“How did they get that disabled vessel to port?” _ “First, they bnoyed her' and the* » they manned her.”