SOME SIDELIGHTS ON
IRRIGATED FARMING
Arkansas Boys in Wyoming
Write About the Greatness
Of the “Wonderful West”
Editor Journal.—If you will
allow us 'pace, we will write
your readers something about
the joys of irrigated farming.
You get up on a cold June
morning at 5 o’clock. The wind
is blowing a gale, not quite
cold enough to freeze but al
most. The birds are too cold to
sing—if there are any. You put
on the worst old clothes you
have, an old leaky pair of shoes
for the salt and alkali in the
water will eat up all leathers
and a pair of shoes are good
for just one irrigation. Without
any breakfast you go out to
the canal. You had the posi
tive promise from the ditch
man that you should have
water in the morning. But
when you arrive there is no
water. As you have opened
your gate—why, well, you
just close it down again, and
wait. The wind blows cold
and you shiver. After an hour
or two of waiting in the cold
and wet, you have lost all
the religionyou ever had (a man
told us the other day that he
had not met the first man who
had livedhereayearwhohadn’t
learned to curse.) Your tern
per is up to boiling point, at
least you have become warm
under the collar. Then you go
up to the next neighbor on the
ditch, who happens to be a
Mexican, and you find him ir
rigating. You ask him when he
will be through and he tells
you “quein sabe” (whocantell)
probably tomorrow. Your tem
per has lost nothing, and you
could cuss some more, but
what’s the use, he is only a
Mexican and could m>t un
derstand you. You go
back to your house to find
wife, or whoever it may be,
waiting breakfast—and such a
breakfast! Salt pork from Ark
ansas, fried potatoes from
Missouri, biscuits made of flour
from Kansas, canned milk
from Massachusets, and coffee
from Mexico—not a blessed
thing from this great and
beautiful land of sunshine and
flowers. Yes, there is lots of
sunshine, but the flowers—
they are a dream. Oh, yes, 1
forgot, we have frijoles; yes
frijoles and garlic—yum, yum.
After breakfast, as you can
not get water, you go out in
the sand hills and dig wood.
Did you ever dig wood? VVe
do out here. The tree tops are
only brush, but the roots are
large and by working hard all
day you may dig a quarter of
a cord of wood. This wood
burns, not as well as oak. but
better than Elm. If the tree
green you work all day at dig
ging wood, and just about sup
per time the ditch-man comes
along and tells you that you
must take thewater at once or
he will give it to the man be
low and you will have to wait ;
til your time comes again.That
will come in three of four
weeks. So you rush out. put i
down your gate and tho water
rushes in. You run, not walk. I
down a dry ditch road, for
you are ahead of the water.
You dig open tin3 ditch where
you wish the water to run in.
You have no gates—lumber!
costs too much—down comes
the water until your ditch is!
full, too full. You run back I
along the ditch to put on more 1
dirt where the bank is weak.
Jt is getting a little dark by
this time and you do not see
where a friendly gopher or
prairie pup has dug a hole
under the ditch bank, and the
water has softened it just
there, so you go down above
your knees and almost say a
cuss word. But you have not
time for profanity. The water
is rushing through the break
you have made. And you dig
dirt about like two negroes for
thirty miutes. You are soak
ed with water, mud and pers
piration. Then you hear the
call to supper and although
hungry as a bear, you dare
not. go. You walk
up and down the ditch bank
until you are shivering with
cold and vet, and your foot
in the mud filled boot has
much feeling as a chunk of ice
Well it looks as if the bank
would hold and one of the
boys come to watch while the
hired hand goes to supper.
You get stalled to eating right
good and that boy sets up a
yell calling you to split his
throat. The ditch is broke
again. Away you go; no time
to finish supper This time it
has broken for several feet
and you run as fast as your
weary legs will allow to get a
bale of hay to put into the
opening. Get one of the boys
to stand on it and hold it
down while you shovel dirt
Say, how do you work! By
this time your other foot is
wet and you are wet all over
with water that is aimost mud.
1 about an hour you get the
the break closed. About mid
night when the ditches are all
nicely soaked up and the goph
er holes are all mended and
you are inclined to believe you
ican go to the house and let the
water run while youget on
some dry clothes, all at once
the water stops. You think
the bank must have broken
somewhere, so you rush along
'to find the leak. But no, when
you reach the canal it is nearly
empty. What is the matter?
Nothing, only some son of %n
|tinker above you is stealing
your water. Again you feel
like cussing; but what is the
use, it is only a Mexican, and
he could not understand you
if you did. You pull up your
gate, go to the house and sleep
until morning, when you get I
up with a cold that will not!
permit you to speak, too sore
and too stiff to work.
But you have to say this is a
wonderful counry. In fact,
all the west is wonderful. Why
will people from Arkansas, or
the south, or east, come out
here and pay three times as
much for lan das they would
have to pay tor the rich river
bottom soil of Arkansas and
run up against just such a
thing as we have described?
And often it is worse.
A HUE JACKSON,
J. A. NICHOLS
Powell, Wyoming.
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PRISON POPULATION
CONTINUES TO GROW
Total Number of Prisoners Now
In Penitentiary and On State
Farm is 1298
Little Rock, July 3.—An in
crease of 13 in the prison pop
ulation duringJuneis shown by
a report of the Penitentiary
Commission issued yesterday.
June 1 there were 1,284
prisoners at the penitentiary
and on the state convict farm
at Cummins. Yesterday there
were 1298. Seventy-seven
were received during June and
64 were discharged, 10escaped
or died.
On June 1 the convicts were
divided as follows: White
men, 108; negro men. 850; ne
gro women. 26. Yesterday
there were 396 white men, 876
negro men and 26 negro wo
men. During June there were
received 17 white men, 59 ne
gro men and one nejfro wo
man. The sentences of nine
white men, 15 negro men and
one engro woman expired.
Fourteen white men and
four negroes were pardoned
and one white man and nine
negroes were paroled during
the month. Three white men
and three negroes escaped.One
white man and three negres
died.
During the month the sen
dices of 25 expired, 18 were
pardoned, 10 were paroled, six
escaped, four died ad one was
transferred.
MISTAKES IN THE PAPER
In reading the pages of the
The Journal, or almost anyoth
er paper, it is not an unusual
thing to find typographical er
rors that have escaped the eye
of the printer and the proof
reader.
In an ordinary column of
reading matter in The Jour
nal there are about 5,000 let
jters. A printer recently esti
| mated that it is possible to
'make 2,879,511 tvpograpi
cal errors in a single column.
At that rate it is possible to
make 01.987,775 mistakes in
I printing One issue of The Jour
nal.
W ith sixty-one million mis
takes glaring him in the face
every week, is it any wonder
that tiie printer lets some go
by?
In addition to the above mis
takes it is possible to make
several hundred other errors,
m a printing office wher the
type is set on a Linotype ma
chine, as is done in The Jour
nal office. 1 his is done by
the transposition of the “slugs"
or lines of type, as is shown in
the following paragraph.
A subscriber writes that
itors are not infallible. Of
presidents, preachers and ed
are, but they are about the
course not. Great men never
only ones who ever admit it.
In the above paragraph
there are no typograpical er
rors. But each line is a com
plete or solid “slug" of one
piece oi metal, the product
ot the Linotype (pronounced
iine-o-type-) which machine as
sembles the letters one at a
time as the operator touches
the keys, until the line is full,
when the machine automati
cally casts a “slug“ or line of
type, and the type or mats au
tomatiely return each one to
its own position in the ma
chine. Bui in making up the
forms or handling the type,
the printer has in some man
ner allowed the lines in the
above awkward paragraph to
become transposed or “mixed”
But if you will read the first,
third, second, fifth and fourth
lines in the order mentioned
you will readily understand
how the mistake occurred.
Mistakes occur not only in
the newspapers, but in all
lines of human endeavor, so
" hen you find a mistake in !
your paper don’t jump at the
conclusion that you are es-i
pecially smart or that the
printer is a numbskull.
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The Journal for Job Printing
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENTS
In the Independence Coun
ty Probate Court, at its May
Term thereof, May 1915, the
following named guardians,
administrators and executors,
partial and final settlements
were examind and or
dered to lie over, for excep
tions, if any, until the next
regular term of said court,
which convenes the first Mon
day in August 1915, viz:
Partial Settlements
Mrs. F. M. Walker, guar
dian of Alfred and Harold
Sanders, minors.
Geo. F. Crosser, guardian of
Geo. W. R. Zarnes, a minor.
H. A. Gire, guardian of
Thomas and Agness Gire, min
ors.
S. A. Ruddell, guardian of
Willie Porter, a minor.
Mrs. Mary Prince, guardian
of Bertha, Ollie, Myrtle, and
Clay Prince, minors.
W. L. Porter, guardian of
Willie Porter, a minor.
A. Hindman, guardian of
Sadie Hindman, et al, minors.
J. W. Case, executor of es
tate of Mrs. Sarah Case, de
ceased.
H. W. Johnson, administra
tor of estate of J. C. Speed,
deceased.
A. T. Best, administrator of
estate of W. C. Best, dcasd.
A. T. Best, administrator of
estate of K. C. Best deceased.
Mrs. Ben Mayhue. adminis
trator of estate of Ben Mayhue
deceased.
Albert Sims, as guardian of
Lena, and Alma Wiliams, min
ors.
Union Bank & Truse Co.,
Curator, Morie, Daisy, and
Thelma Treadway, minors.
W. A. Fike, administrator
of estate of Joel Jackson, de
ceased.
D. C. Lane, guardian of
Fay, Edith and Pearl Lane,
minors.
Final Settlements
S. A. Moore, guardian of
Uriah and Rebecca Murff, mi
nors.
R. R. Ration, guardian of
John Wells, a minor.
Thomas Massey, guardian
of Sy bill, Floyd, Jewel and
Paul Massey, minors.
T. B. Padgett, guardian of
Case heirs.
Katie and Walter L. Allen,
joint executors last will of
Geo. W. Allen, deceased.
W. ('. Sanders, executor of
estate of Lizzie A. Sanders,
deceased.
Grace M. Hawley, adminis
tratrix of estate of J. M. Haw
ley, deceased.
J. B. Johnson, administra
tor of estate of W. B. Fry, de
ceased.
W. R. Boston, administrator
of estate of Perry Lusk, de
ceased.
( has. Wright, administrator
of esttae of W. S. Wright, de
ceased.
I. Ld R. Hooper. County and
Ex-Otlicio Probate Clerk in
and for the County of Inde
pendence and State of Arkan
sas, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is cor
rect.
ED. R. HOOPER.
County Clerk
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METHODIST CONFERENCE
I’he Methodist District Con
ference will convene at Cali
co Rock on Tuesday, July 13.
It is expected that the attend
ance will be unusually large
and arrangements are being
made by the people of Calico i
Rock to furnish entertaiiwient
for 200 delegates and visitors. ;
Rev. R. H. Pigue of Mem-,
phis will atend the conference
and deliver a series of serm
ons on the doctrines of the
eh urc h.
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Blank notes for sale at The
Journal oil ice.
There is more Catarrh in this section ot
tlie country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last fetv years
was supposed to be Incurable For a
great many years doctors pronounced It a
local disease and prescribed local reme
dy's. and by constantly failing to cure
w ith local treatment, pronounced It incur
able Science has proyen Catarrh to be a
• 'institutional disease, and therefore re
•luln s constitutional treatment Hall's
•'at.arrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
• h* ney <Kr 1 o . Toledo, Ohio, is the only
Constitutional cure on the market It Is
taken internally. It acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system
They otter one hundred dollars f..r any
case it falls to cure. .Send for circulars
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Tax Assessor's Notice
Notice is hereby given that
I will attend in person, or by
Deputy, at the herein-after
mentioned places in the vari
ous Townships of Independ
ence County, Arkansas, for
the purpose of taking lists of
the Real and Personal _Pro-j
perty of each resident of the j
County, and the per capita
tax of all such persons as are j
liable by law to pay same for
the year 1915, on days and
dates as follows, to-wit.
Salado township, at Salado, j
Monday and Tuesday, June
28 and 29.
Rosie township at Rosie,
Wednesday, June 30.
Rosie township, at Hutson,
Thursday, July 1.
Magness township, at Mag
ness, Friday and Saturday,
July 2 anti 3.
Craig township, at Ruther-1
ford’s Store, Monday July 5.
Gainsboro township, at Ham
School house, Tuesday and
Wednesday, July 0 and 7.
Ashley township, at Brew
er’s School House, Thursday,
July 8.
Barren township, at Gray \
School House, Friday and Sat-1
urday, July 9 and 1<>.
Jefferson township at Mont- j
gomerv’s store, Monday, July
12.
Cushman township, at Cush-!
man, Tuesday and Wednesday
July 13 and 14.
Union township, at Salt Pe
ter School house, Thursday,
July 15.
Washington township, at
Bethesda, Friday and Satur
day, July 16 and 17.
White River township, at
Sulphur Rock, Tuesday and
Wednsday, July 2<) and 21.
Big Bottom township, at
Newark, Thursday, Friday and |
Saturday, July 22. 23 and 24.
Ruddell township.at Bates
ville, at the court house, Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday,
July 25, 26 and 27.
And at my oltice in the
Court House, to and including
Saturday August, 7, 1915. Af
ter which time a penalty of.
one dollar will attach those
failing to list.
Important to School Direct
ors.—The law requires you to
file a list of all the personal
and poll tax payers of your re
spective districts, and the pen
alty for failing to do so is $lo.
Please furnish me such list on
the first day of assessing at
your precinct.
Assess in person, if possible,
as no person can list your pro
perty unless they can swear to
the correctness of same. Each
person will be expected to give
correct number of the school
district in which they reside.
Real estate owners are re
quested to bring deed and al
so last tax receipt to theirland.
Where I have more than
one day in a township. I re
serve the right to leave soon af
ter noon of last day there, in
order to reach the next town
ship S. 1). LINDSEY.
Assessor of hid. Co., Ark.
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