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CAe RURAL NR W.YO R K E R 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.'—A 'bomb atldreased to 
Gov. Stephens’ mausiou at Sacramento 
\va.s intercepted at San Francisco Jan. lu. 
The package contained severiU sticks of 
dynamite. The Executive Mansion was 
damafj(‘d Dec. 17 last by an explosion t)E 
dynamite. A postal (‘inployee, opening 
the bundle to ascertain whether it had 
been classified wrongfully, discovered the 
dynamite and a clockwoi’k arrang('ment 
designed to explode the sticks. The ex¬ 
plosion at the (lovernor’s home in De- 
eend)er occurred late at night. Gov. 
Stephens and members of his lums«dudd 
being asleep upstairs at the time. None 
was injurial. A police investigation fol¬ 
lowing that explosion resulted in the i>r- 
rest of 55 alleged members of the Indus¬ 
trial IV'orkers of the IVorld, who ar(‘ b(>- 
Ing held in Sacramento on charges of 
violation of the est)ionage act. 
Carrying enough dynamite in two small 
handbags to wreck the Fnion I’assenger 
Station, a slim, dark-haired'girl was ar¬ 
rested .Tan, IS at Chicago as she stepped 
from a I’enn.sylv.uiia Railroad train from 
Youngstown, O. She had crossed three 
States with it. The girl gave her name as 
Linda .lose, IG years old. She said the 
.30 sticks of exi)losive had been given to 
her at Steubenville to deliver to an uncle 
in Chicago. She refused to give the name 
of the sender or her uncle. ’I'lie girl was 
held in .$25,000 on a charge of violatiug 
the Interstate Commerce law. 
Dr. .Tohn Ferrari, a chemist and Ger¬ 
man alien who escaped nmre than a year 
ago from a British internment camp in 
Egypt, was sent to Ellis Island Jan. 20 
b.v the Federal District Attorney's office 
in Manhattan to be intcu-ned for the i)eri- 
od of the war. Ferrari was arrested in 
tlie home of a friend in Flatbush where 
he had been hiding since breaking a i)arole 
granted to him by the 1 cderal authorities 
at Lake Placid, N. Y. 
AValter Spoermann, an enemy alien sus¬ 
pected of having been actively engaged in 
spy work near the army aviation camp at 
Newport News, Va., has been interned at 
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for the period of 
the war. This action was taken by the 
co-ordinated motion of the N.avy Depart¬ 
ment and the Department of .Justice. 
Accidental discovery <»f a box of high 
explosive cartridges placed between two 
ties at a point where the rails interlocked 
lu’ohably i)rev(‘nted the blowing up of an 
Erie pa.ssinger train near Girard. ()., .Tan. 
20. The box, which contained 5,000 cart¬ 
ridges, was found by two boys, Eugene 
and Clarence (’rites. The boys took some 
of'the cartridges home .‘uul put one of 
them on the stove. It ex|)lod<*d, sei'iously 
injuring young Mabel and Harvey (’rites. 
County and Federal authorities are mak¬ 
ing an investigation. 
Cadet Frank L. Seery was killed and 
Cadet V. C. Dunham sufl'ej-ed injuries 
from which he died at the base hosi)it:il. 
Foi't Ham lIoust<m. in a collision of air¬ 
planes at Kelly Field. San Antonio, 3’ex.. 
.Tan. 21. The cjidets were practising short 
flights and landing, and Cadet I)unham 
“banked” his plane .so that he lost sight 
of tht‘ other and crashed into it. 
'I'lie New .Jersey Senate .Tan. 21. by a 
vote of 16 to 5 pas.sed the local option 
bill giving municipalities the right to de¬ 
termine whether the sale of intoxicating 
liquors .shall be permitted within their 
boundaries. 
Jan. 22 Max Breitung was arrested in 
Chicago. He is undi'r indictimmt in N(*w 
York for alleged complicity in a plot to 
de.stroy munition ships by aid of fire 
bombs. Upon his release in ,$25,000 bail 
he fled the city tind .since then has led the 
ag(‘nts of the Dejmrtment of Justice ii 
long chase. Max Breitung was implicat- 
<'d in the plot, according to the indict¬ 
ment, in which Robert Fay, I’aul Daeche, 
\Yalter Scholz, Dr, Herbert Keinzle and 
Engelbert Bronkborst were involved. Fay, 
Daeche and Hcholz Avere convicted in the 
District Court. Fay escaped from the 
Atlanta Penitentiary and is .supi)osed to 
be in Mexico. His sentence was for eight 
years. Scholz and Daeche are still iu 
pri.son. Bi-onkhorst was released. 
Department of .Justice operators, un¬ 
der direction of the Attorney General. 
.Jan. 22 arrested Adolf P.-ivenst.-idt, Ger¬ 
man banlou', at the J>ake Placid Club and 
phaced him in the Platt.sburg. N. Y.. jail 
under ■S(>ction 12 of tin* President’s proc¬ 
lamation relative to aliem emmiies. He 
was at one time New York reure,sentative 
of the Deutches Bank of P.erlin and for¬ 
merly presid('nt of Amsinck & Co., whicdi 
has extensive banking and 'xporting in¬ 
terests in South America, I^^e was con¬ 
nected with a deal between Count von 
Bernstorlf and Bolo Pasha to furnish the 
French spy with several millions Avith 
Avhich to buy a newspaper iu France to 
publish German i)roi)aganda. 
A Siberian sable, slightly larger than a 
man’s hand, was sold at the international 
fur auction at St. Louis. Jan. 22, for 
.$2.50. Twelve thousand Kolinsky furs 
were sold for a total of $15.(X)(). and 352.- 
000 mole.skins brought ,$105,600. JVhite 
fox pelts are scarce. A thousand skins 
brought $35,000. A single cross fox skin 
brought $125. 
That at least Aa’c A'essels of the Allies 
A\'ere destroyed by bombs made aboard 
German steamships in thi.s port, Avas re- 
A'ealed .Jan. 23 at the trial of Captain 
Franz von Rintelen and 11 other Ger¬ 
man subjects on charges of conspiracy to 
destroy Allied shipping Avith fire bombs, 
in the TOiited States Court, New Y'ork, 
It was also brought out that the leaving 
of all .steamships from the Port of New 
Y'ork had been recorded by the Avireless 
operator aboard the old Frederick der 
Grosse, at Hoboken. The charge upon 
which Captain v’on Rintelen and his al¬ 
leged co-conspirators are being tried is 
that they were concerned in a conspirjicy 
to place bombs on board the steamship 
Kirk O.SAvakl. H.irland B. IIoAve, .Judge 
ol the \ ermont District Court, is presid¬ 
ing at the trial. The principal defeml- 
ants op trial are the folloAving: Captain 
von Rintelen, Captain Otto lYolpert, for¬ 
merly superintendent of the Atlas Line 
piers; Captain E. W. H. C. von Kleist. 
formerly superiutendent of the New .Jer¬ 
sey Agricultural Chemical Company of 
Hoboken; Captain Emmo Bode, formerly 
as.sistant superintendent of the Hamburg- 
American Line piers iu Hoboken; Ernest 
Becker, formerly electrician of the Fred¬ 
erick der Grosse; Eugene Reister, Boni¬ 
face and Herman Ebling. 
• FARM AND GARDEN.—The Califor¬ 
nia -State Council of Defence i.ssued a 
warning Jan. 17, to farmers regarding at¬ 
tempts by enemy agents to destroy the 
wheat crop. 
In reporting the agricultural appropria¬ 
tion bill to the House .Jan. 21, (jhairman 
lawer of the Agricultuial Committee, an¬ 
nounced that it aggregated $26.1)43,733, 
a cut of .$3.53,600 from the official esti¬ 
mates and almost ,$1,(X)0,000 under the 
amount aAuiilable during the present fisc:il 
year. 
Representative McCormick a.sked Di¬ 
rector General McAdoo Jan. 21 to ap- 
l)oint a practical railroad man to take 
chiu-ge of the work of moving corn from 
the farms of the Central States. The Illi¬ 
nois Representative laid before Mr. M(‘- 
Adoo _ telegrams from the Governors of 
Illinois, Indiana, lowui, Ohio and Kansas, 
stating the urgency of the situation in 
their respective States. All agreed that 
unless the crop is moved within the next 
few weeks a great part of it will be lost. 
GoA'ernor Whitman .sent to the New 
York State Senate Jan. 22 the nomina¬ 
tions of the members of the State Council 
of Farms and Ylarkets. Commission»>r at 
I.arge, .John Ylitchell of Mount Vernon. 
10 years; Commi.ssioners. First .Judicial 
District, Herbert L. Pratt of New Y'ork 
City, seA'cn years; Second District, James 
H. Killough of -Brooklyn, four years; 
Third District. Charles A. YVieting of 
Cobleskill, one year; Fourth District, 
layman M. Wright of Hartford, eight 
years; Fifth District, Frank YV. lIoAA’e 
of Syracuse, six years; Sixth District. 
Floyd M. Shoemaker of Elmira, two 
years; Seventh District, Frank M. Jones 
of YVebster, three years ; Eighth District, 
Ira T. (^lleason of Bufl’alo, nine years; 
Ninth District, .John Y. GeroAv of YY'ash- 
ingtonville, five years. 
(’otton ginned prior to .Tan. 16 amount¬ 
ed to 10,560.475 running bales, counting 
round as half bales and e.xcluding linters, 
the Census Bureau announced ,Jan. 2.3. 
YY'ASHINGTON.—Drastic regulations 
goA-erning the supplying of fuel <*oal and 
stores to vessels at American ports, de¬ 
signed, through control of neutral ship¬ 
ping, to shut off channels through which 
Gei'inany and its allies have been receiv¬ 
ing information from agents in this coun¬ 
try, MS Avell as -fo prevent them receiving 
goods from America, were made public 
.Tan, 18 by the YY'ar Trade Board. They 
become elTective ’on Feb. 1. As a con¬ 
dition to receiving fuel -and supplies for 
their vessels, OAvners or charterers of 
neutral vessels must sign an agreement 
with the YY^ar Trade Board giving that 
body broad authority over the officers 
and crews of shii).s, their destinations, 
tludr cargoes, use of their wireless and 
their sale or transfer. Failure to com¬ 
ply with any of the conditions in the 
agreement in the case of one vessel may 
iuA’olve refusal of fuel and stores to all 
of the 'craft of the person, firm or cor¬ 
poration managing, oAvning, chartering 
or controlling the ships in question. 
Charter to the United States Govern- 
*ment of all Dutch sttuimships now being 
held in American ports has been decided 
ui)on by the Dutch Government in a 
provisional agreement signed in T.on(i<m. 
It is part of the agreement the ships 
sh.-ill carry 150,0(X) tons of food for the 
ridief of the Belgians and may he used 
for other voyages later, in American 
coastwise trade or elseAvhere, possibly to 
.Java for .sugar. The agreement proA'ides 
charter for one round trip for the upAvard 
of 80 vessels noAv in American ports. 
3’hese are not to go into the Avar zones, 
but five Avill carry material for SAvitzer- 
land and tAvo Avill take cargo for the Neth¬ 
erlands Overseas Trust. 
An embargo on all freight excei)t food, 
fuel and war munitions, on the Pennsyl- 
A’ania lines east of Pittsburg, the Balti¬ 
more and Ohio east of the Ohio River, 
and the Philadeli)hia and Reading. Avas 
authorized ,Jan. 23 by YY'illiam (J. YIc- 
Adoo, Director General of Railroads, 
■’riie action Avas taken on the recommen¬ 
dation of A. H. Smith, Assistant Director 
General iu charge of transportation in 
the East. The embargo was temporary 
and AA'as expected to last only a fcAv days. 
A Topkka business man employs tAvo 
negroes to Avork on his gardens, Avhich 
he personally over.sees. One morning 
Sam did not appear. “YY'here is Sam, 
George?” he asked. “In de hospital, sah.” 
“In the hospital? YYniy. hoAV did that 
happen?” “Well, Sam he been atellin’ 
me ev’ry mornin’ fob ten days he gwine 
to lick his Avife ’caiise o’ her naggin’.” 
“YY''ell?” “Well, yestiddy she done ovah- 
heah him, da’s all.”—Topeka Capital. 
He Wrote To 
His Brother 
ractor 
PW 
‘‘You ask me what I think about your buying a tractor, 
“Judging by my own experience, Til say that you have 
done the right thing. But 1 want to give you some good 
advice that a neighbor gave me when 1 decided on tractor 
farming. ‘Remember,* he said, ‘that the tractor only 
pulls. It*s the plow that makes the seed-bed.* 
*‘You ought to get the best plow you can buy to use 
with your tractor. That*s just as important as buying 
the tractor itself. 
“I bought a John Deere plow when I bought my tractor 
and 1 am mighty well pleased with the work it does. It 
is unusually strong and light running. It saves fuel, and 
fuel costs a good deal these days. It doesn’t have any 
chains and sprockets to cause trouble. It is so easily 
operated and dependable that I can keep my attention 
on the tractor while plowing. And best of all, it leaves 
a perfect job of plowing behind it. The best advice I 
can give you in connection with your tractor is ‘Get a 
John Deere Plow.*” 
And that is the best advice anyone can give to a man 
who intends to buy, or already owns, a tractor—get a 
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