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October 18, 1019 
<fte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—George E. Snyder and 
five other mining promoters, of Seattle, 
Wash., were indicted by the Federal 
Grand Jury in New York, Oct. 3, on 
evidence presented by Assistant United 
States Attorney George W. Taylor and 
Postoffiee Inspector Howard B. Mayhew, 
which charged that the defendants were 
engaged in a mail fraud swindle, involving 
.$400,000. According to the indictment the 
defendants organized a copper company 
in 1916 to exploit mines at McCarthy, 
Alaska, because the property owned by 
one of them was within 10 miles of the 
Kenneycutt copper region. After or¬ 
ganizing the company, the indictment 
states, the defendants negotiated with a 
brokerage firm in New York for the sale 
of the stock, and 550,000 shares were dis¬ 
posed of at a par value of $1 a share, 
under representation that the money was 
to be used for development purposes. The 
indictment charges that, only one-fifth of 
the money realized was used for develop¬ 
ment and that the other four-fifths never 
reached the treasury of the company. 
Postoffice Inspector Mayhew visited Alas¬ 
ka and investigated the properties after 
many complaints had reached the Post- 
office Department. He reported that the 
development was small and that the rep¬ 
resentations made to investors when they 
purchased the stock were false. 
Oct. 3 several Russian Reds were ar¬ 
rested in the Pittsburgh district, and will 
be deported to Russia. Federal action 
against the Russian Reds became known 
simultaneously with the appearance of 
what looks like the first organized sabot¬ 
age of the steel strike—the $150,000 fire 
of suspicious origin at the Carnegie plant 
in Mingo Junction and the discovery of 
nuts and bolts thrown into delicate parts 
of the machines which the Allegheny Steel 
Company was preparing to reoperate at 
its Breckenridge plant. 
Col. Townsend F. Dodd, Commander of 
Langley Field, Va., and the first Ameri¬ 
can army officer to receive an aviator’s 
commission, was instantly killed and four 
other army aviators were critically in¬ 
jured in two airplane accidents which oc¬ 
curred Oct. 5 at Bustleton Aviation Field, 
near Philadelphia. Col. Dodd was killed 
when he sought to make a landing in a 
heavy fog. When about 20 feet from the 
ground his machine struck a tree. The 
impact tore the motor loose from its base 
and pinned the Colonel against the gas 
tank, lie was strangled to death by the 
heavy motor, whcih rested on his neck. 
The second accident occurred when the 
machine in which were the four aviators 
skidded and overturned in making a land¬ 
ing on the wet turf of the field. Both 
planes were en route from Washington to 
New York to participate in the coming 
transcontinental races; 
A counterfeit of the present $5 War 
Savings Stamp has been discovered, it 
was announced Oct. 6. Secret Service 
agents have found that many have been 
sold in Newark, N. .1. In every instance 
the stamps were on folders calling for 
$100 in 1924. The stamps which have 
been counterfeited are printed in blue 
and bear the head of Benjamin Franklin. 
They are about one-half the size of the 
previous one. which was green and had 
George Washington’s head engraved upon 
it. The counterfeit has been made by 
the photographic process and is slightly 
smaller and of a darker blue than the 
genuine one. The horizontal liues be¬ 
side Franklin’s head in the genuine stamp 
do not exist in tin; spurious one. 
The steamer Lexington, of the Colonial 
Line, steaming through Hell Gate New 
York, Oct. 6, at dusk, was rami . 
the United States submarine 0-7. Li.e 
submarine, running awash, tore a 12-foot 
hole in the port bow of the Sound steamer, 
about six feet from the stem. As the two 
vessels fell apart it was seen that neither 
was seriously damaged. Both made the 
Astoria, L. I., shore and tied up. There 
was no panic among the passengers of the 
Lexington, who numbered about 250. 
Mrs. Seymour E. .1. Cox, who flew in 
an aeroplane from Houston, Tex., with 
her son, Seymour, aged 11, landed at 
Rooseve't Field, Mineola, L. I., Oct. 7. 
She said that she had come North to put 
her son in school. 
The plant of the Standard Guano Com¬ 
pany at Curtis Bay, a suburb of Balti¬ 
more, was partly destroyed by fire of 
Undetermined origin Oct. 7, and two work¬ 
men lost their lives. An official of the 
company estimated the loss at $1,500,000. 
Thirty-five negroes were arrested by 
soldiers searching for suspected leaders 
of the Progressive Farmers and House¬ 
hold Union of America, the negro or¬ 
ganization which authorities say plotted 
a general massacre of whites at Elaine, 
Ark., Oct. 7. 
WASHINGTON—The Senate passed 
Oct. 6, with amendments, the House bill to 
punish the interstate theft of automotive 
vehicles. The elastic “commerce clause” 
is stretched to meet the emergency, the 
bill being entitled ‘An act to punish the 
transportation of ;oleu motor vehicles 
in interstate or foreign commerce.” 
Driving a motor vehicle across a State 
line is made transportation of it in inter¬ 
state commerce. To do this, with knowl¬ 
edge that the vehicle has been stolen, is a 
felony subject to a maximum of $5,(XX) 
fine, or five years imprisonment, or both. 
To “receive, store, conceal, barter, sell 
or dispose of a motor vehicle moving as 
or which is a part of interstate com¬ 
merce, with intent to deprive the owner 
of the possession thereof” is likewise made 
a felony subject to the same penalties. 
Offenders may be punished in any district 
in or through which the motor vehicle has 
been transported by the offender. 
A definite and what is considered a 
final decision that there will be no further 
increase in railroad rates during the 
period of Government control was made 
Oct. 7 by Walker D. Ilines. Director- 
General of Railroads, who made public a 
letter of T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of 
the Association of Railway Executives, in 
which he says any increase by the Gov¬ 
ernment is beyond the question. Sugges¬ 
tion is made by the Director-General, 
however, that the railroads prepare tariffs 
for increases regarded as necessary and 
then file them with the Interstate Com¬ 
merce Commission as soon as Government 
control ends December 31. 
Senator Smoot of Utah introduced Oct. 
7 a general anti-dumping bill intended to 
protect American industries from the ef¬ 
fects of unloading foreign products pend¬ 
ing passage of new protective tariff legis¬ 
lation. The measure is along the same 
general lines being prepared by Represen¬ 
tative Fordney of Michigan, chairman of 
the House Ways and Means Committee. 
Several bills have passed the House deal¬ 
ing with particular products with a view 
to giving needed protection for industries 
established during the war. Tungsten, 
zinc, dyes and some other articles are 
covered by these measures, but it devel¬ 
oped that there is no general opposition 
on the Democratic side of the Senate to 
going further with these measures at this 
time. Senator Smoot said there were 
enough dyestuffs at German ports now to 
provide the needs of all their pre-war 
market and to meet the requirements of 
this country for two years. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The For¬ 
estry Service was urged by Representa¬ 
tive Randall of California, Oct. 6, to 
start a reforestation programme for the 
fire denuded areas in the Sierra Madre 
range by using airplanes to scatter mil¬ 
lions of tree seeds over these mountains 
as soon as the rainy season begins. After 
his conference with service officials, Mr. 
Randall wired civic organizations in Pa¬ 
cific Coast cities to organize forestry as¬ 
sociations to press action by the Govern¬ 
ment. 
Arrangements are rapidly being com¬ 
pleted for the greatest meeting of farmers 
ever held in the East at Hagerstown, 
October 27 to 31, when the Farmers’ Na¬ 
tional Congress and the Maryland Agri¬ 
cultural Society and affiliated associations 
convene in annual session. A number of 
prominent speakers appear on the pro¬ 
gramme. Special arrangements have been 
made for a splendid agricultural and in¬ 
dustrial exhibit by the Washington Coun¬ 
ty Agricultural Association. It will be 
primarily a county exhibit, and prizes iu 
fruit, grain, vegetables and other products 
are being offered. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
National Nut Growers’ Association, 
and Northern Nut Growers’ Association, 
joint annual convention, Albany, Ga., 
Oct. 15-17. 
Farmers’ National Congress and the 
Maryland Agricultural Society, Hagers¬ 
town, Md., Oct. 27-31. 
Minnesota Creamery Operators’ and 
Managers’ Association, Ryan Hotel, St. 
Paul, Minn., Oct. 28-30. Henry Sand- 
holt, secretary, St. Paul, Minn. 
Iowa Buttermakers’ Association, Du¬ 
buque, la., Nov. 5-6. A. W. Rudnick, sec¬ 
retary, Ames, la. 
New England Fruit Show, with Rhode 
Island v . overs’ Association. Elks 
Auditorium, Providence It, I., Nov. 10-13. 
itional Grange, annual meeting, 
Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 12. 
Greater Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, 
Ariz., Dec. 3-8. 
New Jersey State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Atlantic City, Dec. 1-3. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Roanoke. Dec. 2-4. 
Virginia State Corn Growers, annual 
convention and exhibit, Roanoke, Va., 
Dec. 2-4. 
National Farmers’ Exposition and Ohio 
Apple Show, Terminal Auditorium, To¬ 
ledo, O., Dec. 4-12. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, thirty- 
fourth annual meeting, Chestertown, Md., 
Jan. 6-8, 1920. 
Ohio State Grange, annual meeting, 
Columbus, Dec. 9-12. 
Pennsylvania State Grange, annual 
meeting, Pittsburg, Dec. 9-12. 
Michigan State Grange, annual meet¬ 
ing. Saginaw, Dec. 9-12. 
New York State Grange, annual meet¬ 
ing. Rochester, Feb. 9-12, 1920. 
Ohio Apple Show, State University, Co¬ 
lumbus, Dec. 11-13. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Oct. 21—Ayrshires. Rodendale Farm, 
South Billerica, Mass. 
Oct. 29—Ayrshires. Allegany County 
Ayrshire Club, Ilornell, N. Y. 
Nov. 1—Baltimore County Guernsey 
Breeders’ Association Sale. Pavilion 
Timonium, Md. 
Nov. 6—Berkshire Swine. Berkshire 
County Berkshire Club, Pittsfield, Mass. 
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