The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
I EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—December 1 four men 
lust l heir lives in a lire which destroyed 
the Men 11 ur Hotel, Portland, Ore. None 
of the dead were identified. 
The first blizzard of the year struck 
North Dakota December 1 and extended 
widely oyer the Northwest. At. St, Taut, 
.Minn., five persons went injured. 100 
telephone poles blown, down, plate glass 
windows smashed and an airplane torn 
from its moorings and wrecked in a 
severe windstorm. 
A resolution denouncing Governor 
Small's action in pardoning William 
Dross Lloyd, Chicago millionaire Com¬ 
munist, and lb compatriots after they 
had served only a fraction of the sen¬ 
tences imposed upon them, as a “gross 
aud disgraceful abuse of the pardon,” 
was adopted at a meeting of the Chicago 
Medical Post of the American Legion 
Decernoer l. 
Albert Kroger, It! years old, the youug- 
est person ever sent to Sing .Sing from 
Queens County, N. Y\, isas sentenced to 
not more than 39 and not less than 80 
years by .lodge Humphrey December 1 
in the County Court of Long Islam! City, 
lie had pleaded guilty to two indictments 
charging robbery, assault, and larceny. 
Kruger entered the home of Patrolman 
Cimuncey Schultz in 2 Hutton Avenue, 
Jamaica, tied Mrs. Schultz and burned 
her with matches to make her tell where 
her savings were hidden. He got a 
■small amount of money, hut was fright¬ 
ened away. He also held up Mrs. Bea¬ 
trice Turner of Hollis with a revolver 
aud robbed her of JjkStj. The investiga¬ 
tions of the police convinced the court 
that the boy had committed four other 
burglaries in (Queens and almost .'JO in 
Nassau County. 
Eleven men, members of the crew of 
the Canadian steamer Maplohurst, lost 
their lives December 1 when the vessel 
foundered near the upper, or canal, en¬ 
trance io ihe Keweenaw Waterway in 
Lake Superior. Nine others were saved 
by Captain Charles A. Tucker and the 
members uf the crew of the Coast Guard 
station at the canal. 
Approximately 1,-00 persons, most of 
them negroes, were made homeless, about 
-UO residences, two churches, two ware¬ 
houses and several small stores were de¬ 
stroyed wtih au estimated loss of $1,000,- 
000 in a tire which December 1 swept 20 
blocks at Newborn, N. C. The Haines 
gamed great headway before a high s\iiul 
at the start, because the local fire de¬ 
partment was engaged on the opposite 
side of the town, lighting a lire at the 
Itoper Lumber Company's sawmill, where 
$300,000 damage was estimated to have 
been done. 
Charles I’onzi, former get-rich-quick 
financier, was found not guilty of larceny 
and conspiracy to commit larceny bj u 
jury in the Superior Court at Boston 
December 1. Ponzi, uL present u Federal 
prisoner in the Plymouth jail, was tried 
on charges 'brought by the State in con¬ 
nection with the “50 per cent in 00 days” 
scheme, through which Ponzi gained 
fame. 
Los ANgelks, December 3.—Two hun¬ 
dred and eighty-one persons found guilty 
of traffic violations here in the last two 
weeks have served or arc serving jail 
terms of from one to 100 days as a re¬ 
sult of it campaign to curtail accidents, 
inaugurated by Police Judge Joseph E. 
Chambers aud hacked by other magis¬ 
trates. 
According to the report of the National 
Highways Protective .Society. 100 persons 
met death in automobile accidents in the 
State of New York iu November. In 
New York City automobiles last month 
caused the deaths of SO persons. 21 more 
than iu 1021. Trolleys killed four and 
wagons one. 
Stephen Dealt, his wife, Mary, and 
their daughter, Eli.se, 22, were found dead 
of gas suffocation in their home at Roose¬ 
velt, N. J,, December 4. Gas that had 
escaped from a rubber stove connection 
had asphyxiated them. 
Four students of Colby College lost 
their lives in a fire which partly destroyed 
North College, oldest building of the col¬ 
lege group, at Waterville, Me., Decem¬ 
ber 4. 
The Planters Hotel, St. Louis, Mo„ for 
the first time in 103 years, December 5 
stopped receiving guests. The “Old 
Planters House" wlil be converted into an 
office building after January 1. Among 
those who signed the hotel register were 
Presidents Lincoln. Grant. Cleveland. 
Roosevelt, and Taft, Martin Van It oven. 
King Edward VII,, the Prince of Wales. 
Charles Dickens and General Lafavnte. 
FARM AND GARDEN. Representa¬ 
tives from 10 boards included in the In¬ 
ternational Associations of Agricultural 
Missions began their annual meeting 
November 30 with a dinner at the ASdino 
Club, New York, at which Dr. Kenyon 
Butterfield, president of Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, and David Fair- 
child. of the Department of Agriculture, 
wore among the speakers. Business ses¬ 
sion-- were held at the offices of the Board 
of Foreign Missions, 150 Fifth Avenue. 
The object of the association is to co¬ 
operate with the Department of Agri¬ 
culture in the spreading of American 
farm methods here and abroad. 
Harry Dewolf Aaron, superintendent 
of the Colt farm at Bristol, R. I., was 
hurled over a six-foot partition December 5 
1 by an enraged prize Jersey hull after J 
!■ "ving been severely gored, Allen weighs ' 
?-'0 pounds. 
WASHINGTON.—Women in the Gov¬ 
ernment Printing Office performing the 
same operations as men will receive equal 
pay with men. it was announced Decem¬ 
ber 2 by George II. Carter, Public 
Printer. The order, effective Immedi¬ 
ately, followed an investigation, which 
showed “unjust discrimination." Mr. Car¬ 
ter said. Increases from 10 to 20 cents 
tin hour will he given the 2liv women af¬ 
fected by the Order, and decreases in 
salaries of about 200 men employees wi 11 
offset this in part. 
Broad plans for the promotion of pro¬ 
gressive legislation were presented by 
speakers December 2 at the 'open forum" 
of the two-day conference of radicals, 
liberals and progressives, called by Sena¬ 
tor La Follette. Some of the progressive 
ideas that found vent in the utterances 
of Governors, Senators. Representatives 
and others were embodied in resolutions 
adopted by the forum session. The reso¬ 
lutions, which declared the movement to 
be “non-partisan” and aiming primarily 
to promote progressive legislation, urged 
among other things: Extension of the 
direct primary to the nomination of Pres¬ 
ident and Vice-President. Direct popu¬ 
lar election of President and Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, abolishing the Electoral College. 
Enactment of an effective Federal Cor¬ 
rupt Practices act. Immediate release 
by President Harding of all “free speech 
prisoners." 
The Government December 4 filed civil 
suits in Federal District courts against 
the builders of Camp Dix and five other 
army cantonments to recover an aggre¬ 
gate of $29,000,000. This makes a total 
of 10 civil suits of similar kind aggre¬ 
gating $50,000,000 filed within the pre¬ 
vious 10 days. Cantonments involved in 
the six suits filed December 4 were: 
Camp Dix, Wrightstown. N. J.. built by 
Irwin & Leighton. $0,500,000. Suit was 
filed at Trenton, N. ,T.; original cost 
$13,545,656. Camp Travis, San An¬ 
tonio. Stone & Webster; $3,000,000; 
original cost $9 .xn 1.993. Camp Lee, 
Petersburg. Va„ Rinehart k \c I)euni> Com¬ 
pany, $7,000,000; original cost $ IS,671,- 
57s, Soil was tiled at Richmond, Va. 
Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.. Por¬ 
ter Brothers, $5,000,000; original cost 
*13,840.172. Camp Pike, Little Rock, 
Ark.. James Stew art & Co., $3,000.000; 
original cost $12,748,560 Camp Dodge. 
Dos Moines, Iowa. Charles Weitz Sous. 
$1,500,000; original cost $11,296,901. All 
the suits are almost identical anil each 
charged “fraud, connivance, waste and 
improper usp of funds and material." 
The House December 5 passed the 
bill introduced by Representative Hamil¬ 
ton Fish (N. Y.) to increase from $20 to 
$50 a mouth the allowance to blind, arm¬ 
less or legless veterans of the World War 
for the employment of nurses or attend¬ 
ants. The bill has been passed by the 
Senate and now goes to the White House. 
There are 160 such veterans in the coun¬ 
try, most of them at Government hospi¬ 
tals. 
Apple Rust 
We have often spoken of the apple- 
cedar rust which does great damage to 
apples in some localities. This disease 
spends the Winter on red cedar iu the 
form of galls, commonly known as “cedar 
apples." In Spring these galls burst and 
great quantities of rust spores are car¬ 
ried about by the wind, sometimes two 
miles, and when they alight on apple 
trees cause apple rust infection. Some 
apple varieties appear more susceptible 
than others. The obvious remedy is to 
get rid of the red cedars. The next best 
plan is to remove and burn the galls or 
"cedar apples" before they burst and 
spread the spores broadcast. 
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The Chamber of Commerce of New 
York has inaugurated a campaign against 
fraudulent stock promoters. Support is 
asked from PVery organization throughout 
the State. The first movement, it is said, 
will he to instruct small investors to se.-k 
advice of legally organized banks and 
trust companies before purchasing anv 
Securities. This would tend to lessen 
swindling promotion schemes. We are 
glad the Gliamber of Commerce is adding 
this campaign to their alreadv admirable 
program, and it is right in line with our 
oft repeated advice to investigate before 
spending money. 
The Department of Justice announces 
that United States attorneys had approx¬ 
imately 500 cases, involving fraudulent 
use of the mails, in their hands to deter¬ 
mine whether criminal proceedings should 
be taken. The cases in hand represented 
a loss of more than $140,000,000 through 
postal swindles. The northern district of 
Illinois leads it, detected instances of 
fraudulent use of the mails; the western 
district of Missourii leads in stock swin¬ 
dles, Nebraska being a close second, and 
Northern New York third. A 2-cent 
stamp used for investigation may save 
your money. 
Down along the Miami River in Flor¬ 
ida the natives are not usually easily 
scared, hut oue uighr the conversation 
turned to spirit^* oi festal ions, and on** 
man spoke up: ^Don’t believe in them,” 
be stated, “but I did once. One night I 
wakes up iu my cabin and hears some- 
thin' slosbin’ across the floor Spooks. 
I thinks. It was so creepylike. Seared V 
Well, I reckon. But I gprs the nerve to 
crawl out of bed an‘ to light a match 
and then I'm eert’nly plum ashamed of 
myself an 1 1 ain’t never believed in spirits 
since. Why, it weren’t nothin' In tin* 
world except jest a big. common, mean, 
sneaky rattlesnake.”—Credit Lost. 
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