Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 123, 12 March 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PAULADIU3I AXD SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1911.

GIVE MORE STUDY TO AGRICULTURE IS WILSON'S PUN Secretary of the Department of Agriculture Has Begun Campaign of Publicity Throughout U. S.

(Continued From rage One) Office of public roadi Is training road engineers. Experiment Stations. The oQlce of experiment stations, however, Is the general agency of tbe department of agriculture In tho promotion of agricultural education. The work Is organized Into two branches; one dealing with agricultural colleges and schools and the other with farmers' Institutes and other forms of extension work In agriculture. In relation to the work of tho farmers' Institutes, tbe office collects data respecting the condition and progress of farmers' Institutes in the United States and Europe, prepares lecture courses of study for movable schools of agriculture, conducts correspondence with persons Interested In agricultural education, visits educational institutions, lectures before representative farmers' assemblies, assists In forming movable schools and acts as a clearing houso In securing speakers from the department of agriculture. Graduate work In agriculture has been offered by some of the agricultural colleges for many years, but in the last few years, as a result of the rapid development In the science, the character of graduate work has Improved, and the number of institutions offering graduate courses in agriculture bas greatly Increased. A large number of land grant institutions now maintain graduate schools and there are 41 colleges which provide agricultural work leading to the master's degree, and ten offering courses leading to the doctor's degree. From a recent enumeration by the department of agriculture, 67 colleges were found to be organized under the acts of congress of July 2, 1862. August 30. 1890, and March 4, 1907, by which government aid is extended to colleges. In 16 states separate institutions are maintained for white and colored students, and In 15 of these courses In agriculture are maintained. Tbe only purely agricultural colleges In tbe United States, however, Is that In Masachusetts. The aggregate value of the permanent funds and equipment of the land grant colleges and universities In 1910 was 142.664,039; farms and grounds owned by Institutions, $15.136,198: buildings, $38,389,128; apparatus, 13,553,989; machinery. $2,803,630; libraries. $4,136,739; live stock. 9452.245; miscellaneous equipment. $4,656(718: making a grand total of 9111.882687. Tbe Income of three Institutions exclusive of the funds received from the United States totaled $18,082,854. The faculties of the land grant institutions aggregated 5.755 persons, and the student membership last year was 67,227 of which 6,586 were colored. To this total must be added short term students, such as farmers, farm tenants, and others Interested In the work and a large percentage of school children who are engaged for a portion of each year In the elementary agricultural studies In the common schools.

.WOMAN FIGHTS TO KEEP MEMBERSHIP Fittsburg, March 11. -Common pleas court, room No. 4, looked like a showroom at a Paris modiste's, crowded with members of the fashionable VImodausls club. Mrs. Elbirda Lorena Orr, of the north side, bad demanded that a jury pass on the right of the directors of tbe club, the membership of which Is composed of the wives, mothers, daughters and sisters of Master Masons, to expel her and that the directors be forced to restore her to membership. She asserts that officers of the club made the charges, against her and then sat on the trial board. The allegation was that Mrs. Orr had made public to members of the club the name of a blackballed candidate for admission. The defendants assert she admitted this. When she refused to resign she was expelled by the directors. Mrs. Orr, in a fashionably tailored light brown gown and brown hat trim

med with willow plumes, helped her

attorney In the selection of the jury

STUDENTS STRIKE; REFUSED HAIR CUTS

.(American New Service) Baton Rouge. La.. Mar. 11. Rather than have their hair clipped as punishment for shaving tbe heads of a number of freshmen. 300 students of the Louisiana state university today are on a strike and the Institution closed. ' Following the clipping of the freshmen heads. President Boyd expelled three students from the school and announced that he would not take them back unless all other participants In the tonsorlal hazing of freshmen submitted to having their heads clipped by freshmen and accepted fifty demerits.

Many of the striking students have

left for home. It Is charged that has

lag at the University causes at least

one year of university lire to be wasted.

EapMtng Him. "Does your husband smoke Inces

santly?' "Worse. He smokes In the

parlor." Baltlsaere Americas.

THOSE CUSTOM MEN MEAIIJLD THINGS

Hold Up Indiana Girl and

Make Her Tell All She Bought Abroad. (American News Service) New York, larch 11. Custom of

ficers today seized goods worth sev

eral hundred dollars which had been

brought over by Miss Marion Whitely,

aged 17. a ward of former supreme court Justice Priestly of Illinois. The

girl arrived on the French liner La

Province from Havre. Miss White-

ley's home Is In Bary, Ind., but she

spends most of her time in Chicago when in this country. She declared but $99 worth of goods and when the

Inspectors were making an investiga

tion of her baggage, they became suspicious.

A pair of diamond studded cuff but

tons which she said, were bought as a

present to Judge Priestly, were taken from her.

When acting survey or J. P. O'Con-

ner noticed the girls declaration as

compared with her effects he asked

if she had declared everything.

"Well." she said with a blush, "per

haps I haven't itemized everything. I

think I have forgotten a hat.'

The hat was produced. "Any jewelry," asked O'Connor. "Didn't you visit the shops of Par

is and didn't you buy something?"

It was then that Miss Whlteley pro

duced the cuff buttons. Each had a diamond In the center and was surrounded by two circlets of smaller stones of the samo kind.

After a while a gown was brought

forth but It had been worn, said Miss

Whlteley. Mr. O'Connor said she

would have to explain to the surveyor of the port. At tho customs house

she said she had purchased the but

tons for Judge Priestley and declared that she had no Intention of trying to

evade the law or anything of the

kind. She was allowed to go, tho hat and buttons, however, being held by the officials.

SETS ON HOT STOVE

TO WIN $10 WAGER

Princeton, Ind., March 11. Duane

Stewart, a young man of Albion, 111., won $10 from his father, J. F. Stewart, merchant, in an unusual manner. It was pretty cool when Duane entered the store and remarked:

"Say, but it's cold in here. Why

don't you throw out that baseburner imitation and get a real stove, fath

er:"

"There's nothing the matter with

that stove," replied "father" with some show of feeling.

"Well. I could sit on it fifteen min

utes," tbe son shot back, " and not

geat burned."

"You've won $10 if you do It," 'said

the elder Stewart, decisively.

Duane was on the job In about thir

ty seconds, after getting a bystander

to hold the watch on him. He plump

ed himself down on tbe top of the

stove, while his father opened the

drafts and put the heater to its best

licks in an effort to save his ten.

When ten minutes had passed the

"sitter" was beginning to geat pretty fidgety, at twelve minutes he was both fidgety and decidedly warm, though still holding bis seat, and at

thirteen minutes he was turning over In his mind whether or not he had started a bad deal. "Two minutes

more," the timekeeper announced. That settled it with Duane; he would stick 'em out, and stick he did, though

It is said his trousers were pretty well scorched through when time was call

ed at the end of the fifteen minutes and he hopped down in decided relief. The father promptly wrote out a check for the ten, with the remark:

"That's the last check I draw for

this kind of foolishness."

WILL PROTEST Oil THE IMPROVEMENTS Dispute Arises Over. Public Utility of Boundary Line Improvement. The entire north boundary line of Wayne county a highway will be improved under the three mile gravel road law, but against the wishes of the tax payers of the townships of Franklin, New Garden, Green and Perry, who will have to stand at least half of the expense of the Improvement. Residents in the southern townships of Randolph county have field petitions for the improvement with the board of Randolph county commissioners at Winchester, and it is now up to the Wayne county officials to fight the best they can against the im

provement, which likely will be a losing proposition. The reason is that as the petitions for the improvement were filed in the Randolph county commissioners court, the balance of power lies with the officials of that county. Residents of Perry, Green, New Garden and Frankiin townships do not seem to want the improvement to be made and undoubtedly will remonstrate. But even if they do and the Wayne county commissioners stand back of them, and the Randolph county commissioners stand with the petitioners, a tie would result, which would be decided by the vote of the Randolph county auditor. He would undoubtedly stand by his constituency, who favor the improvement by a large majority, for political reasons if for no other. On March 27. the Wayne county commissioners will go to Winchester to hold a consultation with the commissioners of Randolph county in regard the proposed Improvement. Petitions already have been filed by Randolph county citizens and about the only thing which can be done by the two boards of commissioners is to appoint two viewers from each county to determine on the utility of the improvement and secure an estimate of the cost. After a report by the viewers, those who object to it may remonstrate, and he residents of the townships which border on the dividing line, will come forward In mass as opposed. The only ground on which a remonstrance can be approved is that proof of the road will not be a public utility. The cost of the Improvement will be met by the issuance of bonds bonds which will be paid for by reveue, raised from special tax in the townships in which the improvement will be made. Ithough no estimate has been made, it is believed that the highway, which is over twenty miles long, could not be improved for less than $50,000. Such an expenditure would be small for so long a road and wolud not permit anyvery extensive repairs to the road.

SMALL HOUSE FLY

STOPS AUTO ENGINE

Baltomore, Md.. March 11. One small house fly Thursday threatened the property, perhaps even the lives

of the residents of Govanstown and

disrupted a well organized fire department, who, stalled in the road, were

obliged to watch a growing conflagra

tion from a distance. The fly had crawled into the feed pipe leading from the gasoline tank to the carburator of the big 60-horse-power auto engine of the Roland Park fire depart

ment and stalled the machine on the

road. The fire was on the estate of A. S. Abel!. It took twenty minutes to find the fly and to adjust the difficulty.

TWO BANKERS WILL BE GIVEN PAROLES Leavenworth, Kan., March 11. Two Ohio bankers, S. H. Brainard of Medina, and W. H. Schmick of Cleveland are to be paroled from the federal penitentiary here in the next few days. The prison officials will release tbe men upon receipt of papers from Attorney General Wickersham in Washington. Both are serving Ave year sentences. Brainard was the cashier of the Medina National bank. He embezzled $5,141. Little is known here about Schmick except that be was the cashier of a Cleveland bank and also was sentenced for embezzling.

TWO HEROES AVERT A SEWERJRAGEOY Swife Current in Big Main Carries Four-year-old Boy 200 Feet. New York, March 11. That Edward James Burrell, four years old, is alive following his fall into a sewer at Eighty-shfxth street and East End avenue and his being carried along through the snow and slush more than two hundred feet, is due solely to the heroism of Police Lieutenant Michael Mulhall and Lea Keiser. The boy was practically uninjured. Hundreds of persons, including the mother of the boy, watched Mulhall and Keiser climb down into the sewer with a lantern, where they fought their way through the swift moving slush until they finally came upon the boy. Then they carried him back, and when they emerged with tbe child in their arms they were greeted with cheers. Accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Matilda Burrell. and a friend, the boy was walking along East End avenue They started to cross the street. Stephen Gray was pushing piles of snow into a manhole which he had opened. The youngster was walking behind his mother, and when she happened to look around he had disappeared. Mrs. Burrell shouted for help and soon several policemen arrived. One of the boats of the harbor squad, commanded by Mulhall, was at the foot of East Eighty-seventh street, and It

was hurried to the foot of East Eighty-sixth street. Several of the policemen went to the outlet of the sewer. While Mulhall with a lantern went to

the open manhole. Accompanied by Keiser, who volun

teered to go down , Mulhall climbed

down. The manhole which is twelve

feet deep and five feet in diameter, was found clogged at the bottom with snow and slush. The two men pushed

this aside and then stepped into the

water.

Walking along the bottom of the

sewer with slush at times above their

waists, the two men experienced great

difficulty. At times they nearly lost their footing, and were compelled to cling to each other as they walked along, owing to the odors and the

darkness.

Whenever the two came to a man

hole they would throw up the cover

ing, thus giving those in the street

signs as to their progress. Mrs. Burrell, distracted, followed their move

ments, and all the time kept crying and pleading with them to recover her

boy.

After working their way toward the river for a distance fo more than two

hundred feet Mulhall heard a cry

He and Keiser hurried forward and

struggling on the top of a pile of

snow they found the boy. He was

nearly unconscious from his exper

ience and almost covered with mud

and snow.

Grabbing the boy up, Mulhall lifted

him out of the sewer and then wrap

ped his coat about him. Then he and

Keiser, who was carrying the lantern.

made their way back, which was far

more difficult than the going for they

had to go against the running water

FIRST TROUBLE IN

NEW YORK STRIKE

New York, March 11. The first disorder in connection with the strike of 800 drivers and helpers of the Adams Express company occurred

this afternoon, when three strike

breakers were injured in a riot near

the stables, near Second avenue,

Bricks were hurled and a driver was

struck on the head and arm. Two

helpers were pulled from wagons and

badly beaten.

TEXAS-OKLAHOMA

AIIIIEXATIOII FUSS

Texans Suggest New State in

Retaliation of Oklahoma's Proposal.

(American News Service) Kansas City, March 11. The Texas

panhandle, bristling with indignation.

has hurled defiance back at Oklahoma's proposal of annexation. Also

hurled a proposition according to lat

est dispatches, which puts it one lap in front of Oklahoma in the annexation business. The Texans propose to make a new state out of the Panhandle plus Oklahoma. "Panbandlehoma" with capital at Shamrock; that is the Texas challenge, the Texas legislature will make that its counter

proposal.

Annex the Panhandle? .Wow! Also

Br-r-r.

Indignation meetings were . held

throughout Northern Texas to act on the proposal embodied in a resolution

in the Oklahoma legislature, introduced by Representative Patchall of Gravin county. His resolution proposed

that by concurrent action of the legis

latures of Oklahoma and Texas and the congress of the United States, Oklahoma should be permitted to acquire

certain counties to the number of 38

comprising the famous Texas "panhanle" lying between Oklahoma and New Mexico. Certain events of early history caused the Oklahoma proposal to be viewed in the panhandle itself with the same equanimity that a Hereford bull contemplates a flaring red undershirt on a blazing hot day when flies annoy. Things begun to happen, according to dispatches from various towns and cities, with great rapidity adn frequency. Shamrock beat them all to it however by a town meeting at which a committee was appointed to instruct the members of the Texas legislature representing a number of counties

each about as large as a New England state, on a retaliatory measure. Name "Panhandlehoma." They proposed a new state made out of Oklahoma and the Panhandle to be Panhandlehoma." The counties in question included all of those which the Oklahoma legislature was asked to go after and in recent years have changed from cattle ranges to populous farming regions. They were Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Hansford, Sherman, Hartley, Moore, Hutchinson, Roberts, Hemphill. Wheeler, Gray, Potter, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Randall, Armstrong, Donley, Collingsworth. Childress. Hall. Briscoe, Swisher, Castro, Farmer, Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cottle, Hardeman, Foard, Wilbarger and Wichita. The telegram from the quick-trigger Shamrock .to the Texas legislature said: "Noting a resolution offered in the lower house of the Oklahoma legislature, the sense of which is that the panhandle of Texas be annexed to the state of Oklahoma, and believing that same is in the nature of a' reflection on the grandeur of the great state of Texas, we respectfully request you as our representatives, that you

offer resolution in the Texas house of representatives that the entire state of Oklahoma be annexed to the panhandle of Texas, and that Shamrock being centrally located In the new state so formed, be made the capital of said state by legislative enactment" The details of tbe proposal which brought on the uproar In Texas declares that the Oklahoma legislature has given consent to the annexation and that copies of the resolution shall be forwarded to Washington and to the Texas legislature at Austin. It was part of the phraseology to which Texas took exception that the resolution specifies, regarding annexation that "terms shall be fair and just to the state of Texas and to. the people residing in the counties." Mr. Patchall declared in the Oklahoma proposition that the constitutional questions involved have been satisfied by the various ratifications. He referred to the congressional resolution by which Texas was annexed to the federal union in 1837 wherein

It was declared that four states other

than the state of Texas might be

erected within the area acquired from the Texas republic

SHIP QUANTITIES OF BEEF TO ARMT2 (American Nwi Srvtc) . .-.j Chicago, March 11. It developed totday that Armour and company shin ped large quantities of food supplies to the army now in Texas. Lieut , CoL Thomas Cruse, chief quartermaster of the department of the lakes, said 55,000 pounds of bacon was ship.; ped Friday and that since Monday five carloads of meat were shipped. While Adjt. Gen. Dickson and Brig adier-General Jack Foster were receiving reports from the colonels ol. the Chicago regiments of the National Guard at the Great Northern hotel the army officials met J. Ogden Ar.v niour who was attending a dinner. Col. Cruse said that the shipments of meat were the largest since the Spanish-American war.

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(Amerlcau News Service) Washington, March 11. Assistant Secretary of the Navy WInthrop to day reprimanded the city officials ol, Portsmouth, N. H., because sailors In' uniform were refused admittance to '. motion picture shows in that town. , 4 Mr. Winthrop wrote to the mayor, informing him that if discrimlnaUoi , against the uniform occurred again, , the navy department would not send any more ships to Portsmouth.

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An Announcement A Business Change

BEGINNING today the Men's Furnishing department of the Quality Shop will be conducted by Mr. Louis Weinberg of Chicago who has purchased this department and who has had long experience as a haberdasher in Chicago. Mr. O. C. Krone will devote his entire time to the tailoring department. The name of the store will remain as heretofore "The Quality Shop" and the change thus effected is intended solely to increase the efficiency of both departments. Mr. Krone will now be in position to better care for the greatly increased tailoring business and his entire time will be devoted to this end of the business.

We also take this opportunity to thank the public for their past patronage and for having made this change possible. It means a better Haberdashery. Both departments will! thus receive expert attention and the public Will benefit by obtaining the undivided service of both an experienced practical tailor and an expert, thoroughly trained furnishing goods man. New stocks are already on 'the shelves and more arriving daily and the most approved styles will always be shown here first. If you are not now a patron of The Quality Shop the new management and myself invite you to a visit, knowing full well that the merchandise will merit your continued patronage.

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