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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 8, 1922 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Seventeen men were 
dead or missing March 25 as a result of 
an explosion in the Sopris mine of the 
Colorado Fuel ami Iron Company, near 
Trinidad, Col. According to officials, the 
17 men dead and missing were the only 
men inside the mine at the time of the 
disaster, the more than 2(H> members of 
the day shift having left the mine only 
a few minutes before the blast. 
Trying out a new steel boat with a 
detachable motor on Michigan Lake, near 
Dowaginc, Mich., March 25. two Boy 
Scout leaders, live scouts and a seven- 
year-old child were drowued when the 
boat filled with wafer and sank. 
A bottle containing a note purporting 
to be signed by an engineer aboard the 
navy collier Cyclops, which disappeared 
at sea in 1017, was picked up March 25 
northeast of Capo Lookout lighthouse, 
North Carolina. The note stated that 
a German submarine was close by. that 
all hands had been ordered on board the 
U-boaf and that the ship was then to be 
torpedoed. The note was smirched with 
grease and the bottle was stopped with 
a rubber stopper and was covered with 
sea bran. The Cyclops was bound from 
a Chilian port for the United States with 
a cargo of nitrates when she disappeared. 
An extensive search was conducted for 
her. but no trace ever was found. 
Four hundred men from Hamtnonton, 
Mtiiliea township and Fgg Harbor City. 
N. .T„ fought a forest fire under control 
about cighl miles south of ITnmmonton 
March 27. hut not before it had swept 
more than 2.000 acres, John Mick, Fire 
Warden of Mulliea township, was badly 
burned and was taken to the Egg II a r- 
Brooklyn, in which Cochenour lives. 
Cochcnour said the death of his sou was 
due to the lack of heal in the house last 
January. Lie testified that nu investiga¬ 
tion disclosed that there was no coal in 
the cellar and (hat the janitor told him 
the furnace was out of commission and 
could not he used until after repairs had 
been made. This is believed to be the 
first verdict of its kind in American juris¬ 
prudence. It was based on the new rent 
laws which make it mandatory for a land¬ 
lord to furnish heat to his tenants. 
The first, arrest in the looting of some 
of the 152 Shipping Board vessels an¬ 
chored in the Hudson Hirer off Jones 
Point, near l'eekskill. was made March 
27 by Shipping Board investigators work¬ 
ing under the direction of Peter ,1. Mc¬ 
Coy, assistant United States. District At¬ 
torney here. Fred Waddill. formerly an 
oiler on the steamship West Atnargosa, 
was arraigned before United States Com- 
msisioner Hitchcock on a charge of lar¬ 
ceny of government property. Mr. Mc¬ 
Coy said he was involved in the theft of 
$150 to $200 worth of material from the 
ships. Waddill waived examination and 
Commissioner Hitchcock placed bis bail 
at $1,000. 
William M. Calder. United States Sen¬ 
ator. and a group of Brooklyn represen¬ 
tatives held a meeting in that borough re¬ 
cently at which a plan for Federal con¬ 
trol of firearms as a means of lessening 
crime is said to have been agreed upon. 
This plan is to be incorporated in a bill 
which will be introduced in Congress. It 
would invest in the Federal government 
a monopoly on the manufacture of pistols 
and other weapons that can be concealed 
on the person. The right to issue permits 
to carry weapons concealed on the person 
also would be reposed in the national gov¬ 
ernment. 
While three of his photographs graced 
the rogues' gallery in the central station 
at Seattle. Wash., and detectives sought 
liim throughout the Pacific Northwest, 
Fred L. Trombly, wanted as a suspect 
connected with robberies, served six 
months on the Seattle police force, lie 
is now awaiting trial. Ilis "gallery card” 
credited him with a term for grand lar¬ 
ceny and escape from the State reforma¬ 
tory, a six months’ sentence for petit lar¬ 
ceny and a sentence of six to 15 years in 
the State penitentiary for theft of dia¬ 
monds. 
A young woman and three men were 
arrested March 2S in New York in con¬ 
nection with the theft of $250,000 worth 
<>f platinum from a powder plant in 
Nashville, Tcnn., in 1020. The prisoners, 
all of whom are under indictment in 
Nashville, described themselves as Emma 
Weiler, 20, bookbinder, of 222 East 13th 
street; Ike Levine. 40 tailor. 5s0 East 
128th street. The Bronx: Samuel Mid- 
dice, 51, of 00 High street, Brooklyn, 
and Herman Weinberg, 40, restaurant 
owner, of 520 East 128th street. The 
Bronx. 
Riotiug took place in the yards of the 
Western Maryland Railroad at Ilagcrs- 
towu, Aid., March 28. when an attempt 
was made by non-union employes to turn 
an engine. Members of federated shops 
crafts and maintenance of way employes 
unions who went out on strike because 
of wage reductions were said to lmve 
interfered and railway guards fired re¬ 
volvers. One man was reported to have 
been wounded. 
WASHINGTON. — Disregarding rec¬ 
ommendations of the Budget Bureau and 
of the Appropriation Committee, the 
House March 27. by a three to one vote, 
added $15,000,000 to the amount car¬ 
ried in the measure for river and harbor 
improvements. An amendment to in¬ 
crease the lump sum allotment from $27,- 
025.200 to $42,815,601 was offered by 
Chairman Dempsey of the Rivers and 
Harbors Committee and was adopted by 
a vote of 158 to 54 after three hours of 
acrimonious debate. The vote on the 
amendment was along sectional rather 
than party lines. Republicans splitting 
on the proposal, while most of the Demo¬ 
crats favored it. 
Night sessions for speeding up the per¬ 
manent tarifi' bill were decided upon 
March 28 by Senate Finance Committee 
Iteipublicaus following a visit to the 
White House by Senator Curtis of Kan¬ 
sas, and Watson of Indiana, where they 
were informed by President llarding of 
liis desire for an early reporting of the 
measure. 
The cost of strikes in coal mines is 
$500,000,000 a year, it has been esti¬ 
mated by experts of the Geographical 
Survey. This burdeu is equivalent to the 
cost of maintaining an array of IttO.OOO 
men. In the 20 years from 1000 to 1020 
these experts compute, coal miners in the 
Uuited States were idle 1.160,666.660 
working days. Consumers had approxi¬ 
mately 52.500.000 tons of bituminous coal 
in storage Match 1, according to the 
Census Bureau and Geological Survey. 
This was in addition to 5.160.000 tons on 
upper lake piers and 679,000 tons held 
by producers at mines or intermediate 
points. Estimates based on the rate at 
which coal lias been leaving the mines 
recently indicated a reserve of at least 
62.000,000 tons by April t, equal to the 
maximum reached at the end of the war. 
At the rate of consumption prevailing in 
January and February, it was said, the 
reserve March 1 was sufficient to last 43 
days if evenly divided. 
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FARM TOPICS 
Chemicals and Cover Crops.. 
Filling Gullies in Fields.....• • • 
Lessons Jersey Potato Growers Are Learning. 
Sunflower Sllago Experience. 
Small Potatoes ... 
Smothering Quack Grass ... 
More About the Hired Man. 
Hope Farm Notes.... 
Tramps for Farm Work... 
New York State Notes..-. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Possibilities of Muskrat Farming. 512 
Rickets 532 
Removing Stains from White Skin. 532 
Lung Worms of Sheep. 532 
THE HENYARD 
How to Find the Business Hen.511, 512 
A Large Egg. 522 
Building Henhouse .. “do 
Canada Geese . “““ 
Balsa Wood . “36 
Turkey with Cold. “““ 
Roup in Eyes. “““ 
Trick with Poultry Manure. 538 
Mash for Chicks and Hens. 
Raw Potatoes for Chicks. 538 
Egg-laying Contests . 538 
Diarrhoea in Chicks. ““9 
Death of Chicks. “39 
Mash lor Baby Chicks. "39 
Worms in Hens. 538 
HORTICULTURE 
The Growth of a Tree.... •••• 512 
Notes from New England.513, 514 
Asnaragus and Strawberry Culture... 515 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 516 
Planting Farm Garden. “17 
Su^scald on Apple. 51/ 
Seedling Tomatoes Damp Off.525 
New Varieties of Apples. “25 
Culture of Cannas.525 
Notes for Flower Lovers. 525 
The Apple Crop; Atlantic and Pacific Slopes 
Compared . 527 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day........ 528 
A Little Girl’s Fudge Cake. 528 
The Rural Patterns. 528 
Money-earning for Church and School. 528 
Bird Study .... 528, 529 
System Eliminates the Rush from Spring 
Sewing . 529 
My Kitchen . 529 
Appreciation of the Kitchen Philosopher.... 529 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Split Peas; Alfalfa Poisoning. 515 
Destroying Rats . 51/ 
Right of Way Over Another’s Land. 519 
Inheritance Tax . 521 
Contract for Real Estate. 521 
Insurance on Mortgaged Property. 521 
Will Excludes Grandchildren. 521 
Incorrect Si-ning of Deed. “21 
Defect* in Country Children. 522 
Improving the Roads.... 522 
Soecies, varieties and Variations. 523 
Editorials .. ; . 526 
A Discussion of the Bonus Question. 527 
Tanning Rabbit Skins. “31 
Rabbits with Cauker. 531 
No Use for a Cat. 534 
Owls and Vermin...,,. “34 
Experience with Ferrets. 534 
Old United States Cent... 534 
Pumping with Compressed Air. 54] 
Building Fishpond . “41 
Insufficient Water Supply. “4J 
Dogwood Timber Cracking. 541 | 
Publisher’s Desk . 543 
bor Hospital. 
Oil. said to be of an unusual high 
grade, has been brought in with a natural 
flow of more than 100 barrels a day from 
a well in the heart of the Twenty-eighth 
ward of Pittsburgh. Pa. The well is said 
to be the strongest ever tapped in that 
district and is also the first in the city 
limits. 
A jury before Justice Cropsey in the 
Supreme Court. Brooklyn. March 27 
awarded $2,500 damages to James F. D. 
Cochenour for the death of his son. Wil¬ 
liam. four months old. The verdict was 
against George II. Jackson, owner of an 
apartment house at 230 President street, 
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