Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 279, 15 August 1909 — Page 8
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Total Number 284,886, Average Size of Them. Be- .
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WORTH $34.75 AN ACRE
MISSOURI STANDS THfRO'lN THE MIDDLE WEST IN HAVING THE LARGE8T NUMBER OF RENTERS ON FARMS.
Noted Character of Massacre Finally Dies as a Prisoner
Columbia, Mo., Au,g. 14. Missouri has more farms than any other state
In the union. Within her borders are 284,886 farms, which average 120 acres
to the farm. The improved land to each farm averages 75 acres, or 624 per cent. These figures are based on the last census report. According to the report of the department of commerce and labor the farms of Missouri are worth $34.75 per acre. Among the states of the middle west Missouri has smaller farms than many of them. Ohio Is an exception, where 876,000 farms average only 88 acres each. Illinois has 264,000 farms of 121 acres each. Iowa has 2284900 farms of 131 acres; Kansas 173j00O of 288 acres. In the United States farms average 146 acres, but only 50 per cent Is improved land. F. B. Mumford, professor of animal husbandry in the university of Missouri, has prepared some interesting facts about the amount of' live stock there is on an average Missouri farm. This is considered a great mule state, and yet there are four times, as many horses as there are mules In Missouri. The equipment as Prof. Mumford gives ft, is 15 cattle, 4 horses, 1 ' mule, 26 hogs, 5 sheep and a fraction of a goat. "Fully one-third of the state's population depend directly or indirectly upon animal products for their. existence," said Professor Mumford, in discussing MlsBouri as a live stock state. "The Income from animals and animal products is $130,00,000 annually. Fifty-five per cent of the farmers have as their principal income, the proceeds from sale yof live stock." , Missouri stands third in the middle west as the state having the largest number of vrenters on the farmsjQlllinois farmssare tilled by sixty-one per cent owners) and thirty-nine per cent etnants. The per cent of tenancy in Iowa Is 34.9, while Missouri has only three tenants in ten farmers; which means that seven . farmers out of ten
In Missouri 'do not pay rent, but have the title of their farms resting in .themselves. The per cent of tenantcy
In Ohio Is '27.5. but In Michigan It
drops to 15.9. -
Missouri does not get so much return from her lands per acre as do many of the other states in this section. According to the last census report the money made on each acre of Improved land In Missouri was $9.58. This Is not much less than In any of the best states surrounding Missouri. The return n acre In Ohio was $13.36; In Michigan ,$12.42; Illinois $12.48; in Iowa, $12.22.
-Morton, Minn., Aug. 14. Gusa God-; frey, the man whose name makes old pioneers shudder, died at the San tee reservation last week, aged about seventy years. ' " ' Godfrey was" a full blooded negro and at the time of the Sioux massacre lived ' near the Sioux agency . with a Sioux woman. He. .Joined the Indians at once and by his cunnlngness and bravery became . the most atrocious murderer among them. He could speak English and French fluently and the German language he had well mastered, which at that time were all that were spoken In this region.;No plans of escape passed his ear. He knew personally every settler along the valley, every child in every family, all the officers and nearly all the privates in Fort Ridgely. By these
means his Influence was strongly felt among the Indians whether present or
not.' '
Godfrey was present at the killing
of the Zimmerman family, looked with
glee on the readless body of Dr.
Humphrey and personally directed the
ambuscade of the party west of Beav
er creek.
This man seemed intoxicated with
murder and lost all sense of decency,
He drove a wagon containing three prisoners, Mary Anderson, Mary
Swandt and Mary Schwartz, in tne
meantime oermitting the Indians to
torture them into insensibility, and
lastlv leavine Mary Anderson to die
the roadside from a bullet discharged
from his own rifle while he pretended
to go for assistance.
These are only a partial list of the
atrocities; the rest would nu volumes to horrible to relate.
He was the prime mover in the mas
sacre of Captain Marsh and, his men
at the ferry and remarked to the Indians about Interpreter Quinn. "That Big Tom could hold more bullets than any other one man."
Godfrey knew' the location or every building in Fort Ridgely and New Ulm. just where to shoot through
them or the most expedient way to
destroy them.
He was with Medicine Bottle on tne
east side of the tort wnere several
heloless citizens were massacred try-
ine to italn admission to the enclosure.
At New Ulm he discarded all rules
of modern warfare and boasted after
ward that he killed more German
babies than it was possible for him to count He was recognized there, as well as all otherplaces (where it was the good fortune for any to escape) by his distinctive color and Indian dress so unbecoming to him, and finally
when the great drama was over- he turned state'B evidence and by his
wonderful memory in describing the horrible details sent thirty-nine of his comrades to die on the gallows at Man-
kato.
For .this act he was given a lease on
life, a lease, no doubt, which would have certainly been broken if he ever
visited Minnesota or left the reserva
tion at Santee, Neb. He was despised by the whites and Indians alike, and for forty-seven years lived a horrible AYiRtenRe a Drisoner from his - own
conscience.
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BAD ELEPHANT IS CHASEDJY KEEPER Gurida, New York Park Terror, Discovers Two Can Play The Same Game. MAN CARRIES A BAYONET
WHEN THE GREAT PACHYDERM BECOMR REBELLIOUS HE JABS IN WEAPON UNTIL THE BEAST CALLS FOR QUITS.
THREE FOR HIS OWN USE
ONE OF THE ENSIGNS IS THE SO-
CALLED "PEACE" FLAG WHICH WAS ADOPTED ONLY SEVEN YEARS AGO.
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New York, Aug. 14. When Gunda went to the New York Zological park two years ago he Boon let it be known
that he was an elephant from the head of Bad Men's creek, where the worst live. He was looking for trouble all
the time. Three keepers in the elephant' house quit their jobs, having been terrorized by him. He ran Dick
Richards, medical attendant at the house, Into a corner and would have Wiled him except for timely rescue. But he met his master and met his fin
ish as the bully of the zoo. , ., About 3 p. m. Walter Thursman was In Gunda'B coral cleaning it up as has been his daily custom for about eight months, when the last of the old keepers had been scared away. Gunda had realized that he must put up with Thurman or go hungry and tolerated him as a necessary evil. Finally he decided that Thurman had lived long enough. Waiting until no one was in sight or with in summoning-distance he trumpeted Thurman's death call and bore down on him. Kept Gunda Sprinting. It takes a good many laps to make Marathon in the 100 feet square of corral, but Thurman started to do it, Gunda sprinting after him. When the pace got slithering hot Thurman side
stepped into a corner and had about
two seconds to breathe while liunaa
was checking his- momentum. Then they were away again at top speed.
Thurman in his swift rounds had
noticed that at one spot the ground
was slightly hollowed under the iron
fence. He decided to try to go under it, and as he neared it in the twentyseventh lap he put on extra steam and slid for home. Part of him got through and the rest stuck. He clawed at the nthor Rid a and dragged himself to
safety just as Gunda's mighty feet be
ran tramping the earth to powde.
around the hole. Then he rammed tfco fence and broke off six inches of bia
tusks. Thurman Chases Gunda.
By this time Thurman- was as mad as Gunda. He went into the house and
eot the worst prodding pole in the col
lection there. It was tough hickory
with a bayonet fastened into the end n tic-ht as if it arew there. Thus
armed he let himself again into the corral. Gunda rushed at him and got a jab in the neck that made him howl. Before that yell ceased the bayonet got after his legs. He turned aside to avoid the front atacto only to be punctured in the near shoulder and side. Turning the other way he got it there. Then he wheeled around and the Marathon was resumed with Thurman as the pursuer. After several laps bad been covered Gunda backed into a corner willing to called it quits. Thurman was out however to make the job complete. He prodded until there wasn't much of Gunda's surface that had not been hypodermically treated. Gunda stood in mute protest. Thurman finally dropped the prod, and walking up to the elephant unarmed, he punched with his fist and swore until he had no temper left. Then he seized one of the flapping ears and started toward the house, Gunda
going along like a lamb.
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There is no malaria in the Barbados,
because of the absence of mosquitoes
which are eaten while still alive by the beneficent profusion of little fish
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St. Louis Burglar Cautious: Swims Away From Female Mob
St. Louis, Aug. 14- A bold burglar;
went into Mrs. Henry Doerste's home
at 4728 Hanover avenue, stole jewelry, silverware and money and then escaped Mrs. Doerste and a posse of neighbors by swimming the River des
Peres.
Mrs. Doerste left her home about 4
p. m. to go to a grocery in the neighborhood. She locked the doors as she
went out While she was gone "the
most impudent burglar," unfastening
a shutter, entered through a window.
The burglar ransacked the house,
stealing a gold watch and chain, a
ring, a set of spoons, an inlaid berry spoon and $6. As Mrs. Doerste unlocked the house she saw him coming. "Have you been In my house?" she demanded. "No," he said. "I'm taking orders for a photographer. I just came into the yard through the back way. Women Pursue Thief. Mrs. Doerste told him to wait a minute. She dashed in and saw at a
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About twenty-fire men and women
joined in the pursuit, Mrs, Doerste leading. Near Gravois . avenue the fugitive
left the street and sprinted through yacant lots toward the Rives Des Peres. Mrs. Doerste caught him by the coat tail once, but he broke away. At the river bank he swung upon
the limb of a tree and drew a razor out of his pocket. Mrs Doerste says
the razor was her husband's. Awed by this display of hostility, the crowd
stood back and none made an effort
to interfere when , the thief leaped
from the limb into the water and
swam across.
"X can't swim or I would have gone
into the water after him." Mrs.
Doerste said.
The crowd ran to a bridge. 100 feeti
away, but, although they could see
the thief's tracks for 100 yards, he had disappeared. A mounted police
man and two policemen in an automobile tried to find him. but failed. The thief was described as 25 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 120
pounds, wrinkled face, dark hair and
eyes and dressed in a' blue suit and straw hat.
Several women in the neighborhood said be called at their homes, repre
senting himself to be a solicitor for a
downtown photograph studio.
Washington, Aug. 14. As the Unit
ed States grew and the government expanded, many new departments were added and with them many spec
ial flags have come into existence. Least often seen, and yet most interesting of these twenty-five or thirty special flags, is that of the president of the United ' States. He has a wealth of them, in fact no less than three, btu they are. seldom seen in public. There are two of each of these flags, one of bunting and one of silk. They are exactly alike with this exception, but the one of silk is called the "President's colors." The president of the United States had no personal flag until 1882. If he went aboard a ship his presence was denoted by the national flag hoisted at the main truck, and his presence in a garrison or post was denoted by the raising, of the big garrison flag. These were not entirely distinctive as denoting the presence of the presi
dent, for these flags were hoisted on gala occasions when the president was not around. The lack of a distinguishing flag for the president was felt by the navy also, and the secretary of the navy by general orders, August 19, 1882, established a flag for the president of the president of the United States. The general orders described the flag as of blue bunting with the coat of arms of the United States in the center. The flag was to be hoisted at the main of the vessel when the president
was on board and he carried at the
bow of the launch on which he came
aboard.
In the army there was no distin
guishing flag for the president of the United States until just before the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Colonel Theodore Bingham, who was
then superintendent of public build
ings and grounds, called the attention
of President McKinley to the lack of
a distinguishing flag for him, and stated that he thought the comman
der in chief of the United States army
and navy ought to have a distinguishing flag. President McKinley did not
like the suggestion, but the secretary of war did, and a flag was made. It
was designed by Frederick D. Owen,
and is beautiful to look at. The offi cial description of the flag is as fol lows: One of the Flags.
'The president's flag is of scarlet bunting, thirteen feet fly and eight
feet hoist. In each corner is a five pointed star of five inch radius to the
tips. In the center of the scarlet field is a large fifth star, also of five
points, two feet nine inches in radius to the tips. Inside of this star is a
parallel star, separated from it by a
band of white three inches wide. The
inner star forms the blue field upon
which is the coat of arms of the United States.
"On the scarlet field around the
large star are forty-six small white stars, one for each "state, equally scattered in the re-entering angles and all Included within the circumference of
an imaginary circle three feet and
quarter in radius. In the upper point over the angle is a constellation of
thirteen stars, representing the orig
inal thirteen states of the American
confederation.'
Mr. Owen explains that in the olive
leaves, Its berries and the arrows, are
symbolized the original thirteen. It is
also not a little singular that the offi
cial seal should bear in its motto ex actly thirteen letters and that the gen
eral order which created the flag was
also numbered thirteen.
The magnificent silken colors of the
president's fla?r are of scarlet, and the
design is embroidered upon this so ex
quisitely that it is impossible to tell
right from wrong side when looking at the flag. The colors for President
Taft have Just been completed. The embroidering of the coat of arms took
two young women six weeks of steady,
eight hours a day work. The colors
or tne nag are what is. called prop
er," that is, natural, the eagle being
brown and the olive branches green
with red berries. This flag is to be
displayed only in lime of war.
The colors prescribed by the navy department are of blue bunting, with the great seal of the United States
displayed in proper colors. Peace Flag.
Yet another flag has the president
In 1902 the peace flag was adopted
This third flag differs In a good many respects from the other two. In the
first place, the great seal of the Unit
ed States is correctly depicted.
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ly circular in form with the rays radi
ating from the group of bars. Tne colors are of silk with exactly the
same design.
The secretary of war has a blue flag
with a foul anchor and four five pointed stars in white. The assistant sec
retary of the navy has a white flag with the stars and the anchor in blue.
The secretary of war has a red flag
with the great seal of the unitea States displayed in proper colors. The
assistant secretary of war has a white
flag with the seal displayed. All four have silken 'colors."
When any of these officers are offi
cially present on a ship, at a military camp or post, or on a visit of ceremony, they have the right to have their flag displayed. But over and above all, at all times, floats the nat
ional flag. To float any kind of a pennant or streamer, except one, above the Stars and Stripes, is considered an insult to the flag and the nation it represents. The one exception is the church pennant. When divine services are being held aboard ship or in camp or post the church pennant, a long spiked white flag.
bearing a blue cross, flies above the
flag.
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