'NTFRINTATTONAL FAT LS PRESS fOM Farm School Letter PROF. GREEN DIES OF APOPLEXY. The Wretchedness Head of University Department of For of Constipation MEETS HIS II estry Stricken. Minneapolis.—Working to the last Can quickly be overcome by COMMUNITIES EXPECTED TO DO moment with his students, Prof. Samuel CARTER'S LITTLE Interesting Information on Minnesota Agriculture B. Green, head of the State College THEIR SHARE SAYS CONGRESSMAN LIVER PILLS. of Forestry, in conection with TAWNEY. by Our Special Correspondent. •Purely vegetable the state university, died of apoplexy HOW "TUCK" MATTHEWS LOST ^•act surely and at Itasca Park. CAOTEtt fently on too HIS LIFE IN A GUN FIGHT. Death was entirely unexpected and ver. Cure ALTON NEXT MEETING PLACE came when the professor was engaged A PRACTICAL FRESH AIR POULTRY week and renew the earth floor once fiiliousness,^ in the work to which his entire life Head*«che, HOUSE. a month. PILLS. EFFORT TO EVICT RANCHER had been given. He was directing the Following is list of materials used Dizzi* summer school of forestry at Itasca Olson, Clarks Grove, Minnesota.—In in construction of a fresh air poultry Main Officers Re-elected by Upper Park. tuts*, aad Indigestion. They do their duty. house: Farmers' Institute Mississippi Association.—South's In the morning, accompanied by his Frank Harding, a Thorough Westerner, SmaQ Pill, Small Dots, Small Prico. Annua!. Material For Poultry House. Need of Flour Said to Insure students, Prof. Green went into the Genuine nsunbeax Signature Stone for foundation $5.70 "Fires From the Hip" and Kills woods to give the students practical Our poultry house Is 12x40 foot in Aid in Waterways Work. Dimension. Assailant Who Boldly Tries to Get work in forestry and in experiments. fize, 4 feet high at hack and 7 feet 10-2/4-16 feet 107 feet. His Land. His students, shocked and grieved inexpressibly, high in front and faces south. It is •29-2/4-12 feet 232 feet. bore the body back to single boarded and roofed with No. 3 St. Paul, Minn.—Congress expects 12-2/4-14 feet 112 feet. Helena.—In the '90s I was drifting town. flooring, and covered with 2-ply roofIn^ every state and every municipality 12-2/4- 8 feet 64 feet. Gillette Blades Are Fine about Montana, working at whatever Prof. Green's health apparently had on roof and 1-ply roofing on sides along the Mississippi river to show happened to come along, Just staying NO STROPFJNG NO HONING been good and there was no premonition and ends. I put two strips of red rosin Its appreciation of the recent appropriations 515 feet 32.70 in one place and at one occupation so of the sudden death that was to paper back and over the roosting made for river improvement Boards. long as my erring fancy dictated. come to him. parts before the roof and sides were by providing proper terminals' and No. 3 fence-flooring 696 feet. In this way I wandered from Idaho, maintaining proper freight handling covered. This helps to keep the frost No. 1. hemlock shiplap 672 feet though the Yellowstone National park, Long Known as Expert. facilities so that the river can be utilized out. The roofing is started on the KNOWN THE WORLD OVER The professor has long been a worker into Wyoming, and from there across for transportation. This is the side and bent over the eaves to prevent 1368 feet, 17.47 in the university, known as a crop the line to Montana with a trail herd statement of Congressman Tawneyof the wind from getting in and Paper and roofing. of cattle to the Milk river country. and forestry expert, and prominent in ONE THING CERTAIN. causing drafts. Winona, chairman of the committee 1 roll of red rosin building paper. After that I went into the Little Rockj all work connected with the agricultural The house is double boarded back on appropriations. Mr. Tawney gave 6 squares of 2-ply roofing. and forestry work of the university. mountains, where I took up a small a short address before the convention Of roosts and overhead, from just 2 squares of 1-ply roofing 24.65 He won national fame as an authority ranch for cattle raising on Duck creek, of the Upper Mississippi Improvement below the drop board, and extending Netting for partitions 85 on horticulture. Here it so happened I became the association at its closing session. tip on the rafters about 4 feet. This Hardware 1.25 nearest neighbor and chum of the He had just been placed at the head "Congress was glad of the opportunity principal actor in the following inci of the college of forestry, recently to appropriate money for this dent. established by the regents. Governor purpose of improving the rivers, but Eberhart also had interested him in his The "Little Rockies" is a small it expects that the states and cities reorganize the forestry serv* efforts to clump of hills situated in the eastern will now do their part," said Mr. Tawney. ice of the state. Had he lived the state end of Choteau county, Montana, lying would have made extensive use of his like a green island in the centei Thomas Wilkinson of Burlington, services. of a \ast plain. At the southern end Iowa, was re-elected president of the of the range begin the Bad Lands o) association Lewis B. Boswell of Quincy, Esteem Expressed for Prof. Green. the Missouri, a region of broken-un An appreciation of the late Samuel Illinois, secretary, and J. P. Eckhart, ridges entirely unfit for cultivation, B. Green as a man and an educator treasurer, were both re-elected. The Little Rockies contained a small has been prepared and signed by 70 The following were named as vicepresidents scattering population of miners and a members of the faculty of the University of the association: J. G. few small ranchers. Mixed with of Minnesota. Attention is called Arneson, Stillwater, Minn. Wendell A. General View of Mr. Olson's poultry house. these were a few tough cases whose to Professor Green's connection of 22 Anderson, La Crosse, Wis. W. A. private addresses were badly wanted years with the department of horticulture Meese, Moline, 111. L. A. Hamell, Keokuk, makes the roosting part warmer than 5 yards of muslin for windows.. .36 by sundry county sheriffs. Into this and forestry and the progress he Iowa, and J. J. Martin, St. Louis the rest of the house. Lumber for grit and feed hoppers particular part had drifted Frank made in it. Mo. 1.85 The Interior Fixtures. Harding, a thorough westerner, Alton, 111., was selected as the place The house is divided into four parts "raised" on the prairies. He had man of meeting for next year. There was by wire netting. Twenty-five fowls Total cost $84.87 WATCHMAN PREVENTS WRECK. aged to save a little from cowpunching, no opposition to the selection. 0/ur,—-s can be kept in each part which gives My house was built in the fall of herding and teaming, and he took "Dou you know," shouted the earn Resolutions thanking Congressman it a capacity of 10 fowls. The roosts 1907. It is not a warm house, but it Catches Men Tampering with Switch up a ranch a few miles from me, est orator, "'what to do to the trust?" Tawney for his work in getting increased are made of 2x4, 8 feet long, lying is warm enough in the day time and Near Red Wing. which had been deserted by its former "No, but I know blame well what appropriations were passed. flat, with corners rounded and held in at night I drop the curtains which owner. He settled down to real they're doing to us!" said a man in The reservoir system of the upper place by two %-inch rods in hinge Red Wing.—An attempt was made hard work, getting his property fenced make the roosting quarters warm the front row. Mississippi was indorsed and the convention to wreck the east-bound Pioneer Lmi« shape and fastened to the back wall enough. and improved. asked not only that it be maintained ted train on the Milwaukee road about 14 inches below the roof. The roosts Then hens scratch hard for their A few miles distant, on Moose The Stomach Hold. but that it be enlarged. one mile east of town. Col. H. N. Renouf, at the "Old are out from the wall 10 inches and feed, which is scattered in straw 8 creek, lived a family of four brothers Now that congress has appropriated The train leaves Red Wing at 10 Guard" banquet at Delmonico's, emphasized are the same distance apart, and they to 10 inches deep and raked down so named Matthews. the money for a six-foot channel and o'clock, and a few minutes before that the importance to an army can be raised to clean off the dropboards. chat they must work for it. I have One of the brothers who was called other extensive improvements in the time Wayne Hewitt, night watchman of a good commissariat. The dropboards are 6 inches had no disease in my flock, but they "Tuck" had lost an arm in a pistol river, the convention went on record at a sawmill, discovered two men tampering "You have perhaps heard," he said, below the roosts with nest boxes beneath, are active and healthy and that is fight and not being able to work was as believing that it was incumbent on with the switch near the mill. "of the company of privates that a 14 inches above the ground, the what we want that we may get eggs trying to sustain his reputation of being municipalities and business organizations When he interferred the men showed patriotic lady entertained one Memorial hens entering the nests from the back. in the cold winter months. a "bad man." to see that proper terminals and fight, one of them using a knife. day to dinDer. landings were constructed and that One day soon after Harding arrived Hewitt's clothing was slashed in several "It was a good dinner, and at its freight handling facilities were provided. Tuck rode over to Deer creek, places, but he was uninjured. end a pretty maid servant entered It also recommended that the where Harding's ranch was, for the The would-be wreckers made their with a superb dessert. building of modern steel craft be encouraged. escape. An investigation of the switch 'Dessert, sergeant?' she said to showed that the lock had ben filed off the stalwart young soldier at the The Upper Mississippi River Improvement head of the table. and the switch turned. The signal association will continue 'Desert?' the sergeant answered. light fiad also been bent so as to show its membership in the National Rivers a clear track. 'When I can get eats like this for and Harbors congress and will also nothin'? Nixie! Not me!'" "Outfits) Had Hewitt not made this discovery co-operate with all other kindred or-' the train would have been derailed ganizations in securing improvements and wrecked. His Claim to Prominence. for the river. This intention was included At a social gathering a certain man, in the text of the resolution. intent on knowing every one, was introduced ARE AFTER INTEREST MONEY. Minneapolis flour is the product to Senator Julius C. Burrows most demanded by the states of the of Michigan. Indians Gather at Bena and Discuss "The name Burrows is very familiar lower Mississippi valley, and for that Plans. to me," he said. "I am certain reason these states are willing to cooperate VARO] that you are a man of some prominence." in securing improvements in Bemidji.—That the Indians of the waterways in the upper Mississippi. Fruit frees White Oak, Leech Lake and Cass Lake "Yes," replied Senator Burrows, "I This is the opinion of Thomas H. bands intend to make a determined effort am the man that 'died at first' just Lovelace, secretary of the Lake to the to secure from the government before Casey came to bat in that celebrated Gulf Deep Waterways association, who the sum of money due them as interest ball game in Mudville."—Success addressed the convention in the morning. on various funds is indicated by recent Magazine. acts of the Indians who have been holding Floor plan of poultry house showing yard in front. South Demands Flour. counsels and talking over plans Refinement Assurance. of "Iron ore lies in abundance at the for inducing the government to pay out The eggs are gathered by lifting a Next week Mr. Olson's method oi Busy Business Man (irately)—Sir, I headwaters of the Mississippi and of the United States treasury the money board in front. This arrangement didn't ask you to sit dpwn! feeding and a record of results will should be brought down* for smelting. which is being held back, as the Indians leaves all the floor space for scratching. be given. Persistent Salesman (settling back Paper pulp and all manner of forest claim, for no good reason. comfortably)—That's all right—no products come also," said Mr. Lovelace, A council of the White Oak and other apology is necessary. I knew it was Drouth this season has caused shortage Light and Ventilation. "but most of all the lower Mississippi Indians was held at Bena last week, only an oversight.—Harper's Weekly. For windows I made frames of of feed in pastures and has given demands the flour from the and 200 members of the tribes were in inch strips, 2 feet wide and 4 feet the Minnesota Experiment Station Minneapolis mills for domestic and export attendance. Mortgage the ship for all it's worth long and covered with muslin. For much uneasiness over the hay crop trade, in return for which it will A well authenticated statement is to before giving it up. ^ventilation I made three flues for the prospect. The Station sees that unless send up in great quantities cotton for the effect that this so-called "interest Fired From the Hip- back and front. These are 6 inches something is done to patch out the Oriental trade, sugar, coffee, rice, money" amounts to nearly $1,000,000, square inside. Those at the back are the pastures and give the cattle, especially HARD TO PLEASE hardwood and all the imports from the and that no use is being made of this amiable purpose of scaring Frank off, Cup. 3 feet long, and the fresh air enters dairy herds, more green food, Regarding the Morning world at large that enter the gates of fund, that it is dimply lying idle in He found Harding away at the end near the ground, passes up between the there will be a shortage of milk and New Orleans." the United States treasury at Washington. farthest from the ca:?in, busy getting "Oh how hard it was to part with walls and enters the house just below other stock dependent upon pasturage posts for the fence. Matthews was entirely Appropriations for Work. coffee, but the continued trouble with the plate in the 2-foot space between will not be well sustained. The Station unknown personally to Harding, "The generous appropriations of constipation and belching was such the roosts in the different pens. The therefore suggests the feeding of but after saying "How do?" he calmly this year, grudgingly permitted to pass FEARED LIQUOR RAIDS. that I finally brought myself to leave told the astonished Frank that he by the opponents in the legislative and It off. would have to skip, as he (Matthews) executive departments of the government, Sixteenth-blood Mill City Indian Saloon "Then the question was, what should wanted the place himself, and had bear strong testimony to the Man Moves On. •we use for the morning drink? Tea meant to take it up before Frank had power of public opinion which has was worse for us than coffee chocolate Minneapolis.—Living in fear for ever struck the country at all. Of been aroused by the river improvement and cocoa were soon tired of many months that "Pussyfoot" Johnson, course, that was no argument, but it association." milk was not liked very well, and hot government Indian agent, would sufficed for Matthews. Harding, when Governor Eberhart delivered an address water we could not endure. enter his saloon, confiscate liquor and he had recovered sufficiently from his before the association, in which "About two years ago we struck demolish things in general because he surprise at this cool intimation, informed he dwelt particularly on the relations upon Postum and have never been was one-sixteenth Iidian, Robert Morrison, his visitor that he had taken between water transportation and without it since. 110 Fourth street south has sold the place up quite legitimately and transportation by rail. "We have seven children. Our baby his place of business, "rolled up his meant to hold it. Tuck heard him "Many of the best railroad men today now eighteen months old would not blankets" and wandered on into the out in silence. Then he told Harding, realize that water transportation take milk, so we tried Postum and farther West. with many picturesque oaths, that he and railroad transportation must work found she liked it and it agreed with would give him nlx*e days to clear out, flur/ap Curtain Those associated with him believe together," said the governor. "It is her perfectly. She is today, and has and if he was not out by that tima he got an intimation from government as much advantage to the railroad to been, one of the healthiest babies in fiootfe he would put him past taking an interest reports that the officers were about have the waterways deepened as it is the State. in anything earthly. Then he to make a general raid into Indian to anyone else. The railroad cannot "I use about two-thirds Postum and territory. rode off. handle all of the business. However, Drop board one-third milk and a teaspoon of sugar, He formerly served as United States with a six-foot canal, bulky material On the ninth day the young rancher and put it into her bottle. If you could deputy marshal among the Chippewas can be shipped by water. This will was sitting eating his dinner, when have seen her eyes sparkle and hear 17 /Vests of Minnesota, his own tr**ve, and did be heard hoof-beats outside the door, be a great blessing to the railroads her say "good" today when I gave it much valuable work. For a long time which was standing open on account themselves and I am sure that they to her, you would believe me that he has managed to keep the strain of will co-operate. Minnesota is perhaps of the heat.' Next moment a revolver she likes it. the aborigine in his blood from the more intensely interested in the development shot rang out, and Matthews' voice "If I was matron of an infants' officers, but still he feared and finally of interior waterways than shouted: "Well, you son of a coyote, home, every child would be raised on "cleared out." any other state in the Union." so you won't get, won't you, eh?" Postum. Many of my friends say, "ounJaf/on of poultry house showing nests, roosts, drop board, and Harding canted his shotgun up and 'You are looking so well!' I reply, 'I End view curtain system of ventilation. COW, HIT BY TRAIN, HURTS BOY. fired from the hip, without raising am well: I drink Postum. I have no BLINDPIGGERS CAUGHT. to his shoulder. Immediately he had more trouble with constipation, iud Fergus Falls Youth Knocked Into pulled the trigger he stepped back behind know that I owe my good health to front flues start 12 inches from the bundle corn toward fall. The time White Earth.—The agency under the River, His Leg Broken. the door. The shot was followed God and Postum.' consumed in so doing will be shcrt floor and extend 2 feetv above the roof. direction of J. R. Howard, United by a thud and a sound of galloping "I am writing this letter because I each day, but the growth of stock not find that this arrangement gives Fergus Falls. The fast Great States Indian agent, succeeded in hoofs. want to tell you how much good stunted will fully repay the effort. perfect veutilation and no drafts. The Northern limited struck a cow on the rounding up two blind piggers who Postum has done us, but if you knew Looking through the space between Cut a small load of green corn as soon air is always fresh, the house is never track just before reaching the river have been doing a lucrative business how I shrink from publicity, you the wall and the door, Harding saw as the ears begin to form and take it east of this city. The cow was hurled damp, but is dry and dusty all the among the Indians at Ebro and along his enemy lying stretched on the would not publish this letter, at least to the pasture daily. This method from the track and instantly killed time, even in the coldest weather. the northern boundary of the reservation ground—stone dead. not over my name." may be kept up until the corn is near and as her body went through the air during the past summer. On cold nights burlap curtains are Harding was aacquitted and had no Read the little book, "The Road to ly ripe, and it will be found a splendid it struck the hired boy named Krietzer The prisoners are In the agency j&il Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." dropped down about the roosts and further trouble. He is now living way of marketing the corn with •. and he went down the bank with the and will be. turned over to the charge peacefully on the ranch with hia wife 1 banre never had a frosted comb. I profit greater than by husking and read the above letter* A mew Ever cow into the river. He was gotten of deputy United States marshal, who one appear* from time to tlnm, They Ujh \nd children. «1*»b the drop boards tfcrw & ins it In town later i» the falL ir expected here soon. out alive, but bis leg is broken. are genUtt true, ul (all %UHHI tatcitlt