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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—October 10 three men 
were arre.sted in New York who are 
charged with having been among the 
chief workers in the German plot for the 
destruction hy bombs of shipping in New 
York harbor and upon the high seas, 
which resulted in the sinking of ,$5,000,000 
worth of tonnage and cargoes. The three 
prisoners are: Eugene Itiester, owner 
and general manager of the German Ma¬ 
sonic Temple restaurant; .Joseph Zeffert, 
pi'inter, known as “I’eter the Jew,” and 
Walter T'dhe, of Brooklyn, a litho¬ 
grapher, born in Germany and an alien 
enemy. The technical charge apiinst 
them* is “conspiracy to destroy ships in 
New York harbor and en route to alien 
countries.” 
Special agents of the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment and customs inspectors announced 
October 11 that they had discovered, after 
three days’ investigation, a plot to export 
tungsten—a white metal used harden¬ 
ing steel—in violation of the President’s 
proclamation. Some 200 pounds of the 
metal was seized on the .steamer United 
States lying at the foot of 17th street, 
Hoboken, and three men, Fritz Oerundal, 
a steward on the vessel, and Waldemar 
•T. Adams, and Robert Collin, partners in 
a Swedish bookstore in New York, were 
arrested. The illicit exportation of tung¬ 
sten, according to Harold A. Content, As¬ 
sistant United States District Attorney, 
had been going on for some time, and he 
considered the breaking up of the plot to 
be a matter of great importance to the 
Government. 
Surrounded by the deadly fumes liber¬ 
ated by the explosion of cans of chloride 
gas manufactured for use by the British 
Government, firemen fought October 1.3 
to save the laboratories of the Briti,sh- 
American Chemical Company, College 
I’oint. L. I., from destruction and to pre¬ 
vent the flames from spreading to the 
plants of the L. W. F. Company, manu¬ 
facturer’s of airplanes, and the .$10,000,000 
plant of the American Rubber Company. 
The blaze was conquered after it had 
completely destroyed the rear of the chem¬ 
ical plant, causing a loss estimated at 
$50,000. 
Hundreds of thousands of bushels of 
grain destined for cons-umption in the 
TJnited States and in Allied counti-ies 
were de.stroyed October 1.3 in a spectacu¬ 
lar fire in Dow’s Stores, part of the prop¬ 
erty owned by the New York Dock Com¬ 
pany, at Pacific street and the blast 
River, Brooklyn. It is denied that the 
fire re.sulted from a dust explosion. There 
have been three times as many waterfront 
fires as normally since the United States 
entered the war. William Tomlins, su¬ 
perintendent of Dow’s Stores, the grain 
storehou.ses and elevators in which the 
fire occurred, said that he believed two 
bomb explo.sions ignited the granaries, in 
which 800,000 bushels of grain were 
stored. He estimated that the total dam¬ 
age would reach $.3,000,000. 
Herbert Wood and Leo Keane were 
found guilty at Belleville, Ill., October 
11 of the murder of Scott Clark, a negro, 
who died as Ukresult of injuries received 
in the recent race riots in East St, Louis. 
The penalty was fixed at 14 years im¬ 
prisonment. Wood and Keane were the 
first white men to be tried on charges 
growing out of the race riot. 
Daniel H. Wallace, recently convicted 
of violation of the Espionage act, was sen¬ 
tenced in Federal Court at Davenport, 
la., October 11 to 20 years in the peni¬ 
tentiary. Wallace, who claimed to have 
been a deserter from the British army, 
was aiTested during a lecture tour in 
which he had attacked the Selective Draft 
law and other war measures of the United 
States. 
William .T. Dunbar, !n command of a 
U. S. N. submarine chaser, stationed at 
Greenport, L, I., was interned on Ellis 
Island October 15 as an enemy alien, 
Dunbar, w’ho is said to hold the rank of 
an ensign, was arrested by Detective Mc¬ 
Gee, of the Second Branch Detective Bu¬ 
reau, and turned over to local agents of 
the Department of Justice. The author¬ 
ities say that Dunbar wms accused of spy¬ 
ing out this country’s naval secrets for 
Germany, It is also charged that he 
served in the army and marine corps. 
More than one-half of the Kansas City 
stockyards, the second largest in the 
country, was destroyed by fire October 16. 
It was estimated, after the fire had been 
brought under control, that several thou¬ 
sand head of cattle had been destroyed. 
Some estimates ran as high as 10,000. 
It was the third disastrous fire in the his¬ 
tory of the Kansas City stockyards. The 
origin of the fire w’as undetermined. The 
other two were caused by carelessly 
throwm - cigarette stubs. Throughout the 
morning riflemen and sledge-hammer bear¬ 
ers, under direction of Humane Society 
oflicers, went about the stockyards kill¬ 
ing disabled animals. Very few swine 
were burned. The hog pens were reached 
by the flames, but most of the animals 
were liberated. The loss is $750,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Urgent need 
for the conservation of the country’s wool 
supply an order that adequate provision 
be assured for uniforming the army and 
navy forces was emphasized by A. W. 
Shaw, chairman of the commercial econ¬ 
omy board of the Council of National De¬ 
fence at a meeting of woollen men in New 
York recently. The 200 manufacturers 
V/te RURAL NEW-YORKER 
pre.sent. representatives of every branch 
of the industry, pledged their support to 
the Government and resolved to promote 
the use of wool substitutes and to dis¬ 
courage the use of wool for purposes other 
than those essential for the comfort and 
health of the civilian population. I’he 
resf.lution also requested the Government 
to co-eperate with the manufacturers in 
enlightening civili.ans as to the need of 
con.serving the wool supply for their own 
welfare and for the men in the army and 
navy. 
Eighty per cent more frozen beef was 
in stock on October 1 than a year ago. 
Reports from 29.3 storag*-?! to the Bureau 
of Markets, made public October 14, 
showed holdings of 1.37,806.561 pounds. 
October 14 stocks of cured beef amounted 
to .32,644,559 pounds on the same date, 
an increase of 46.4 per cent, while a de¬ 
crease of .3.6 per cent in the amount of 
lamb and mutton in storage was shown, 
the stoc-k totalling .3,221,234 pound.s, 
Stockyards statistics show thsit from 
January 1 to September 1 the increase 
in receipts of calves in St. Paul, Milwau¬ 
kee, Brighton, Buffalo, Kansas City, Fort 
Worth, Louisville, Sioux City and Phila¬ 
delphia, as compared with the same 
months in 1916, totalled 169,684 head, or 
20.9 per cent. The slaughter increa.se in 
this time, however, was only 18.2 per 
cent, indicating that a large proportion 
of calves were .sent back to the farms to 
be raised to maturity. The largest in¬ 
crease in slaughtering was in Kansas 
(’ity and Fort Worth, reported to be due 
to the shortage of forage. 
I’otato blight, combined with unfiivor- 
able weather conditions and the shortage 
of fertilizer, due to the war, has cut the 
estimated harvest of tubers by 50,000.000 
bushels and threatens a serious scarcity 
this Winter. The Department of Agri¬ 
culture October 1.3 gave out figures show¬ 
ing that practically every potato produc¬ 
ing State has been affected by the blight, 
and that Maine, New York and Pennsyl¬ 
vania. the three leading States in pro¬ 
ducing this food, are 25 per cent behind 
the normal number of bushels stored this 
Fall. The situation is aggravated, ofiicials 
of the department say, by the fact that 
quantities of potatoes aft’ected with dry 
rot have been stored in warehouses, to¬ 
gether with healthy tubers. 
The annual meeting of the Georgia 
State Horticultural Society will he held 
at Macon November 7. This is during 
the Georgia State Fair; the sessions of 
the society, held morning, noon and even¬ 
ing, will be completed during the one day, 
so that the second day, usually given to 
meetings, may be spent at the fair 
grounds. 
The forty-.seventh annual meeting of 
the Michigan State Horticultural Society 
will be held in the Coliseum. Grand 
Rapids, December 4, 5 and 6. The Coli¬ 
seum has been engaged in order to give 
the manufacturers of spray machinery, 
spray material, nursery stock and other 
horticultural accessories ample room to 
display their wares. 
Cattle rustling was once a profitable 
pastime in the days of the unfenced 
range and open pasture in the Southwest. 
But the Panhandle and Southwestern 
Stock Raiser.s’ A.ssociation has signed the 
death warrant of the ru.stler and he will 
be sent to the penitentiary whenever 
caught. Inspectors, cattle rangers and 
spotters to detect stolen cattle will be 
employed to .stop the growing practice of 
stealing cattle fi-om the open range. 
WASHINGTON.—A regiment of Okla¬ 
homa Indians may be one of the American 
fighting units in France. Some 350 or 
more drafted non-English speaking In¬ 
dians are to be transferred to the First 
Oklahoma National Guard, which already 
has a considerable number of Indians in 
its ranks, and it is now proposed that 
enough additional Indians from Okla¬ 
homa’s quota of 800 be assigned to the 
same regiment to fill it to war strength. 
October 27, 1917 
^ Government expenditures since the be¬ 
ginning of the fiscal year, .July 1, are near¬ 
ing the $3,000,000,000 mark. The total 
reported in the daily Treasury statement 
of October 16 was .$2,921,075,.341. This 
is nearly $s00,0<>0,000 more than receipts 
during this period, including that portion 
of the first Liberty Ivoan paid since the 
fiscal year began. The greate.st single 
item of expenditure was .$!,.571,200,000, 
advanced to the Entente Allie.s. Ordinary 
disbursements—including military and 
naval expenditures and the cost thus far 
of the shipbuilding and aircraft produc¬ 
tion program—were $1,029,976,541. A 
total of .$286,711,722 had been expended 
in the retirement of short time certifi¬ 
cates of indebtedness. Receipts from or¬ 
dinary source.s, including the income tax 
(paid for the most part just before the 
end of the fiscal year), customs receipts 
and taxes on liquors, beer, tobacco and 
other direct taxes, w’ere $269,642,595. A 
total of $.512,674,906 on the first Liberty 
Loan was paid in this fiscal year, while 
$1,.3.50,000.000 was realized through the 
issue of short time certificates of indebt¬ 
edness, which will h.ave to be retired 
out of second Liberty Bond receipts. Re¬ 
ceipts and expenditures for the correspond¬ 
ing period last year were $220,259,360 and 
$.302,.50.3,28.5 respectively, or about one- 
tenth of this year’s figures. 
A serious sugar shortage in the East 
was announced October 16 by the Food 
Administration. The shortage will con¬ 
tinue, it is said, until the new crop ar¬ 
rives on the market. Even then the situ¬ 
ation may remain serious unless American 
people respond to the appeal already made 
by the Food Admin’stration and reduce 
sugar consumption at least one-third. 
Urbanite. —“Does this tree produce a 
lot of peaches?” Farmer.—“Nary a one.” 
Urbanite.—“Well, whafs the idea of 
keeping it?” Farmer.—"Because I get 
a great many bushels of pears from it.”— 
^Melbourne Australasian. 
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Power For Your Farm 
Get the facts about the Schluter Auto Belt Attachment. With it you 
7^ can got all the belt power from your Ford that you need on your 
farm. You can buy it for only $22.50 while a gas engine of 8 H. 
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Gives you use of all the power your Ford en¬ 
gine develops. Diameter of pulley 7 inches. 
ANOTHER BIG FEATURE- 
AUTO FEED GRINDER 
Simple to use as belt ix>wer attachment. . 
Fits on shaft in place of belt pulley. Put i 
on or removed by use of two set 
screws. Grinds 30 bushels of oats 
indestiuctible steel burrs. Gives 
0/3 or Q/Tin /S<Seco/ 2 cf<s 
$22.50) 
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you direct power from your ! 
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Shell your Corn. 
Grind your Feed. 
Saw your Wood. 
Elevate your Grain. 
Run your Churn. 
Pump your Water. 
Cut your Ensilage, etc. 
Anything that any 8 H. P. cn 
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Here’s What My Auto 
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Here’s What One Customer Says 
After Using Schluter Six Months 
Last January, A. H. Bruns, of George, Iowa, bought a Schluter. In two weeks h© wrote: 
"Attachment working fine. Am shelling two loads of corn per hour. Also sawing wood." 
In .Inly, six months later, he wrote: “Shelled 2,500 bushels of corn and sawed all the 
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Furnishes capacity enough for all your 
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oats, coarse or fine. Enables you to use 
your Ford engine for power, while a small 
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up to your granary door, clamp on the Schluter 
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"With 
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