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B/ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
^ DOMESTIC. — Mrs. lioso I’astor 
Stokes, ch.'ii-ged with violation of the 
espionage act, was convicted by a jury 
in the ' Federal courts at Kansas City, 
Mo.. M.'ly 2‘i. She was found guilt.v upon 
all three counts in the indictment against 
her. The lirst count of the indictment 
charged her with wilfully and knowingly 
attempting to cause insubordination, dis¬ 
loyalty, mutiny and refusal of duty in 
the military and naval forces of the 
United States. The second charged her 
■with fihstrm-ting the recruiting and en¬ 
listing service' of the United State.s, and 
the third accused her of making and con¬ 
veying “certain false rejmrts and false 
.statements with the intent on her part to 
interfere with the operations and success 
of the’ military and naval forces of the 
United Stat(*s and to promote the success 
of the enemies of the United States.” 
Mrs. Stokes was born in Russia, and was 
engaged in factory, settlement and radical 
journalistic work prior to her marriage 
to the millionaire', ,1. C. Phelp.-j Stokes. 
Millions of dollars worth of cotton and 
cotton cloth, destined for the con.sump- 
tion of tiermany after the war. was lost 
to the fatherland and diverted to the uses 
of the United States May 2.3, when A. 
Mitchell Palmer, as custodian of alien 
l)roi»erty, took over the control and stock 
of seven corporations which since this 
country entered the war have been en¬ 
gaged in the ])urchase and manufacture 
of cotton, operating ostensibly as Amer¬ 
ican concern.s. The corporations, inclu¬ 
sive' of their mills and raw’ material in 
.storage, represent a value of more than 
.$5,0(10,000, and for the most part are 
registered under jtlausible American 
names, The'y are the New; England 
M'a.ste Company, the American Linters 
Company, the American Products Com¬ 
pany, M’olf & Sons, the Anglo-American 
Cotton ('ompany, and the Richard Mayer 
Company. Most of these operated prin¬ 
cipally in New England. Mr. Palmer 
has di.scovered that the last two conce'rns 
are the property of Reis & Co. of Heidel¬ 
berg. Cermany, and that the first five 
are i)art of the world-wide organization of 
Wolf und Soehne (or Wolf & Sons) of 
Rerlin, one of the lai-gest cotton firms in 
e.\istence, with branches in England, 
Switzerland, Italy, China and points all 
through South America, the West Indies 
and the Far East. 
Louisiana. May 2.3, refused to ratify 
the Federal prohibition con.stitutional 
amendment. The State’ Senate, by a vote 
of 20 to 20, defeated a resolution of rati¬ 
fication iidfipted a few hours previously 
by the House. 70 to 44. 
.Toliu .T. O'Leary was held in .$100,000 
bail at New York May 27 by Samuel M. 
Hitchcock. United States Commissioner 
for a hearing June' 3 on a charge of con- 
spiring to obstruct justice. John O’Leary, 
it is alleged, aided the plans of .Teremiah 
A. O’Leary, his brother, to evade trial on 
a charge of violating the espionage act. 
.Teremiah O’I.eary's bail of $2,.500 was 
forfe'ited when he failed to appear for 
trial May 20. 
The lower house of the Arizona la'gis- 
lature passed May 24 the joint resolu¬ 
tion ratifying the prohibition amendment 
to the Federal Constitution by a vote of 
20 to 3. The resolution j)assed the Sen¬ 
ate unanimously. Arizona is the eleventh 
State to ratify the amendment. 
Many fires in California towns Avhere 
the authorities and members of the' Indus¬ 
trial Workers of the World Avere clashing 
soon after the I'nited States entered the 
W’ar, were referred to in correspondence 
introduced by the Covernment May 24 in 
the trial at Chicago of 112 leaders f(U' 
conspiracy to block the w’ar programme. 
3’he doctnnes of Phineas Eastman. Avho 
caused a reign of terror in the Kansas 
grain fields in his alleged attempt to slow' 
down America’s war plans, were read into 
the records. It Avas Eastman, w’ho, ac- 
. cording to the Government, aroused by 
the organization’s delay in threatening the 
American public with "war against Avar,” 
called a meeting in Augusta. Kan., soon 
after the' final break Avith Germany and 
brought about adoption of resolutions de¬ 
nouncing the GoA’ernment and notifying 
members to fight con.scription. 
Charged with making defamatory re¬ 
marks Avhen approached for a contribu¬ 
tion to the second Red Cross Avar fund, 
John Coyne, 50 years old, Avas held May 
24 in $10,000 bail for the Federal Grand 
Jury in NeAvark by .Tohn A. MatthcAvs, 
United States Commissioner. The arrest 
is the first in Newai-k under the new se¬ 
dition act. 
Gustave Bernhard Kuhleukami)ff, a 
captain in the German army re.se'r\’e. Avho 
was close to Capt. Franz von Pap<m and 
others of the group around Ambassador 
von BernstorlT. Avas arrested May 2.'^ in 
New York at the order of Chief Charles 
De Woody of the New York Bureau of 
Investigation of the' Department of .Jus¬ 
tice. Kuhlenkampff is known to have 
$500.(X10 on deposit in New York hanks, 
and is said to be a millionaire. He has 
been in America twenty years, and has 
gained large Avealth here, but he ne'ver 
applied for naturalization and has been 
left AA’holly untouched by the American 
spirit. 
Allegations of furnishing meat and 
other foo<l products to soldiers at Camp 
Travis, Tex., that were “unfit for human 
consumption” were made against Morris 
& Co. and Wilson <fc Co.. Chicago meat 
packers, by the Federal Trade Commis- 
eion May 26. Information w’hich the 
Food Administration has is that the meat 
sjjoiled in transit because of improj)er 
icing. The plants of the two packing 
concerns nearest Camp Travis are at 
(Iklahoma City, a di.st.ance of more' than 
2(K) miles. Investigation is being made 
by State Food Administrator' I’oden of 
'I'exas. 
\\ alter Douglas of this city, president 
of the I’helps-Dodge (’orporation, one of 
the largest in the Avorld, is jointly in¬ 
dicted wtih a score of prominent Ari¬ 
zonians, principally citizens of Bisbee 
and Douglas, in connection Avith the de¬ 
portation from Bisbee on July 12, 1!»17, 
of 1,186 members of the I. W. W., fol¬ 
lowing a strike of copper raihens. 
More than 100.000 tons of wood and 
.steel ships were launched in the United 
.States in the Aveek ended May 2.5. 3'his 
constitutes still another record in .Vmer- 
ican shipbuilding. Eighteen vessels Avere 
put into the' water, fifteen steel and three 
wood, Avith a tonnage of 100,700. This 
is at a rate of jji’oduction of 5.000.000 
tons a year. 
I'AR^I AND GARDEN.—Through 
the Society of American Florists .‘IS.OOO 
llorists all over the country have ar¬ 
ranged to furnish free a con.sLint .supply 
of fresh flowers for military and naval 
hospitals. 
3'he negro farm-demon.stration agents 
of Alabama at a recent me'etiiig at 3'uske- 
gee Institute started a campaign that they 
hope will put an end to the old custom iii 
the .South, especiallj' among farmers, of 
oh.serving .Saturday or part of it as a holi¬ 
day. They formed an organization knoAvn 
as the I’nited_ States .Saturday .‘■(e'lwice 
l.eague, and in co-oi)ei'ation Avith the 
United State.s Department of Agriculture 
are urging farmei-s and farm laborers 
throughout the South to work six days in 
every week to me'et the Avar need for'food 
and feedstuffs. 
Senate and House conferees on the' ag¬ 
ricultural appropriation bill failed May 
27 to break their deadlock over the Sen¬ 
ate amendment fixing the price of Avheat 
at .$2.50 a bushel, and efforts were started 
to reach an agreement to have the bill 
again submitted to both Houses for fur¬ 
ther instructions. ’I'lie House recently 
voted against the amendment, but the 
Senate' refused to rescind its preA’ious ac¬ 
tion in adopting it. 
WASHINGTON, 
the man i)ower of 
of draft age upon 
tions deemed useful 
ning the Avar 
Avorkers into 
new and 
— Concentration of 
the wuntry that is 
industries and voca- 
and essential to win- 
and the infusion of women 
industries is the object of 
sweeping regulations i.ssued 
May 2.3 by Provost ]\Jarshal General 
Crowder following their approval by the 
President and Secretary Baker. Every 
nan of draft age; even though he is noAV 
in a deferred classification, after .Inly 1 
must be able to shoAV to his local board 
that he is engaged in a “useful occupa¬ 
tion.” If not his status as to dependents 
will be disregiirded and he Avill be i)ut 
into the army forthwith. This step will 
change the present employment of more 
than .500,(KM) men of draft age. it is esti¬ 
mated. and feed them into other fields of 
industry j-egarded as essential either as 
AA’ar industries or entei’prises of recog¬ 
nized imj)ortance to the economic life and 
Avelfare of the nation. The places of 
these men will he taken by women f.r by 
men above the draft age. x 
The War Department announced May 
24 that contracts had been let by the ord¬ 
nance' department for the establishment 
of two picric plants, one to co.st .$7,(K]i0.- 
000 at BrunsAvick, Ga.. and the other to 
<‘ost about .$4,000,000 at Little Rock, Ark. 
Another move toward full utilization 
of the country’s man power was made 
May 24 when Secretary Baker sent to 
Congress the draft of a bill proposing to 
raise the maximum age’ limit for volun- 
tai-y enlistment in the army from 40 to 
.55 years. All men over 40 so enlisted 
Avould be assigned to non-combatant 
sei-vice. 
T’he basic eight-hour day, won by the 
railroad brothe'rhoods in the Adamson 
law, is extended to all classes of railroad 
employes in a general order issue'd May 
26 by Director-General McAdoo, which 
I)uts into eff ect the Avage increases grant¬ 
ed by the' Railroad Wage Commission 
with certain modifications. The order 
Avill affect 2,0(K),000 railroad employes, 
and it is estimated that the increa.se in 
Avages will be_ more than .$.300,000,000 a 
year. <Thle increases -ibecome’ effectilve 
June 1 and are retroactive to .Tanuary 3. 
Half of the increases will be distributed 
within a feAV weeks as back pay, in sums 
as large as .$200. though the majority are 
close']’ to $100. 
June 8, 1918 
The Senate May 28 passed the urgency 
deficiency bill, carrying $123,000,000, in¬ 
cluding .$60,000,000 for housing < Govern¬ 
ment war workers. The’ bill has been 
pa.ssed by the House. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
.Tune 26-28—American Association of 
Nurserymen, Chicago, Ill. 
July 24—New Jer.sey State Horticul- 
Pira^l Society Field Meeting, Glas.sboro, 
Aug. 20-.30—Ohio 
bu.s, O. 
()ct. 10-19—National Dairv 
lumbu.s, O. 
State Fair, Colum- 
ShoAv, Co- 
The leading ]' ( duct in this county is 
milk ; we get .$2.4() per cwt. for it. Mixed 
hay IS from $16 to $20 a ton. Dressed 
pork. ,$22 per cwt.; eggs, .34e per doz.: 
Avheat. .$2.2o per bu. ; barley, $2.75; 
o.ats, $1.40. Butter, 46c.; potatoes, 7.5e. 
Milch cows .sell from $100 to $150. 
Madison Co., N. Y. t. m. 
The crops for the time of year look 
very fair with the exception of Winter 
whoat, which has been badly damaged by 
the severe frosts. Oats that were in eai’ly 
look very promising. There has been a 
larger (quantity of Spring wheat sown 
than common, which looks very healthy 
noAV. The potato planting is mostly com- 
jileted, but I hardly think on as large a 
scale as last year. We are all very busy 
AA’ith our corn ground. There will be 
more flint than silage corn put in, as it 
IS so hard to get help to fill the .silos. 
3’he grass crop is short for the middle of 
May, and indicates that the hay Avill be 
lighter than last year. There are a lot 
of peach orchards in this county, but the 
m.ajority of them have been badly dam¬ 
aged bj’ the A’ery severe Winter just 
passed, therefore the crop Avill be very 
light. StraAvberries are looking well, and 
indicate a lieaA’y crop. The farmers are 
feeding their dairy cows as heavily as in 
Winter; very few have turned out to 
grass yet. Milk is only bringing for this 
month 5.48 cents per qt. at depots. Po¬ 
tatoes are selling for 00c to $1 bu. Large 
white fresh eggs bring 39c doz. in Ncav- 
burg. Oats, $1.30 to $1.20 bn.; bran, 
$2..50 cwt. s. c. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
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