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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



steps to do so and are otherwise preparing 

 to complete their canals as early as pos- 

 sible. W. M. WOOLDRIDGE. 

 Chinook, Chateau Co., Montana. 



MINNESOTA. 



Minnesota millers are justly pleased over 

 the recent decision of the United States 

 Court of Appeals, by which millers outside 

 of that state are prohibited from using the 

 Minnesota or Minneapolis trade mark on 

 their goods. The decision to the contrary 

 of this, given by Judge Showalter, of the 

 lower court, was felt by state millers to be 

 unjust, as they claimed that for millers of 

 other states to put the Minnesota label on 

 thf ir flour was dishonest to the public, as 

 well as the Minnesota millers. The case 

 was carried to the higher court with grati- 

 fying result. 



CALIFORNIA. 



California has been suffering from the 

 severest drouth experienced there in 21 

 years. The recent rains they have had 

 will enable farmers to get a fair crop of 

 grain, hay and fruit, where otherwise they 

 would have had comparatively none, but 

 no amount of rain from now on can make 

 the crop anything but "fair" not up to 

 the average. 



The owners of the oil wells in the Coal- 

 inga district have decided ( to put the entire 

 oil put in the hands of one man to dispose 

 of. The large consumers of San Francisco 

 and Oakland have been bearing the market 

 and thus forced the rival companies^to cut 

 prices on oil. To prevent this the owners 

 have decided to sell to one man as above 

 stated. 



Californ a claims the honor of owning 

 the first woman to volunteer as a nurse on 

 the battlefields of Cuba. 



Owing to drouth and frost, which has so 

 seriously injured the sugar beet industry, 

 only two or three out of the eight factories 

 in the state are likely to start up. 



Although the Escondido Irrigation Dis- 

 trict reservoir is not more than one-half 



full of water, there is enough to save the 

 citrus orchards in the district. This is 

 worth more than $100,000 to the people of 

 the valley, even if they receive no more 

 benefits from the water. Ontario Record. 



INDIANA. 



It is definitely decided that the Munson 

 Electric Motor Carriage factory will locate 

 at La Porte, Ind. This has been talked 

 of for some time, but it is now a certainty, 

 as the machinery is being set up ready for 

 work. On the 25th of April the first horse- 

 less carriage that ever appeared upon their 

 streets delighted and astonished the La 

 Porte people. The town is to be congrat- 

 ulated upon its new industry. 



IOWA. 



Report has it that a volunteer lieutenant 

 named Watt, of Webster City, Iowa, was 

 rotten-egged out of the town the other day 

 by 35 members of Company C. In a speech 

 Lieut. Wati is said to have remarked, 

 "The man who goes to fight innocent 

 Spaniards is no better than a cowardly 

 murderer." Upon refusing to retract his 

 words, he was treated to the eggs and rap- 

 idly made his escape in the darkness. 



NEBRASKA. 



The Western Nebraska Educational 

 Association convened at Sydney April 22 

 and had a very large attendance. This 

 was the sixth annual meeting. A num- 

 ber of papers were read by the teachers in 

 attendance and officers for the coming year 

 were elected. 



ARIZONA. 



Great excitement was occasioned re- 

 cently in Phoenix by seeing one of its few 

 Spanish sympathizers tear down an Ameri- 

 can flag and throw it on the ground. The 

 man was immediately made to, kiss the 

 flag he had so insulted and was rather 

 severely handled. This incident so 

 aroused the citizens that a meeting was 

 immediately called for the purpose of 

 forming a "committee of safety," whose 



