The Madison daily leader. [volume], November 14, 1908, Image 1

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BREAD and CAKE
Raised with
Royal Baking Powder
Consequently lovers of the game of
«uto car racing are looking forward to
the smashing of records when the
ind prize race of Nov. 20 Is run,
iys the New York Evening Sun.
Ilnce the Savannah race of March
ist, when Lewis Strang drove an Isot
ta a distance of 342 miles In 6 hours
91 minutes 20 seconds as the winning
car competing for the $3,000 cup offer
ed by the Savannah Automobile club,
the distance about the course has been
•xtended a fraction over nine miles,
lo that now the total distance through
the city of Savannah and through the
outlying country In Chatham county
fs exactly 20.73 miles. A lap during
the race in March amounted to 17.1
miles, the best time for this race be
ing made by A1 Poole In an Isotta In
JO minutes 40 seconds, or an average
Of a mile In a little more than flfty
eight seconds. George Itobertson In
the Vanderbilt race on Oct. 24 covered
ft lap of 23.40 miles In 20 minutes 17
Seconds, or an average of a mile In
fifty-one plus seconds. These figures
Would seem to uphold the contention
of the Vanderbilt cup commission that
the Long Island course is the faster.
However, construction work In the
•way of grading, banking curves, oiling,
scraping, and so on, has been carried
on almost continuously since the event
In March, so that now the Savannah
.course is said to be far faster than it
was when Strang and Poole drove their
machines about earlier In the year.
The sharp turns of the original race
way hove been banked, so that cars
V may take bends at almost straight
away speed with little danger to the
motorists. The stretches have been
widened, so that at certain points a
number of machines may speed
abreast. The surface has been rolled
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—delicate hot-biscuit, hot rolls,
doughnuts, puddings and crusts are not
only anti-dyspeptic in themselves, but aid
the digestion of other foods with which
they assimilate in the stomach—the joint
the game, the entree—important parts
every meal.
Royal Baking Powder makes the food
finer flavored, more tasty, more healthful.
J0YA^^AK1NQJ^OWD^^COj^IE^J^0RK«
iFine Condition of Course For Gold
Trophy Contest
tQDRNERS AND TURNS BANKED.
Southern Circuit, From Point of Speed
and Absence of Danger, 8aid to
Equal, if Not to Exceed, Long Island
Motor Parkway.
The Long Island motor parkway and
the state and county roads which com
ete the course over which the Van
erbllt cup race of 1908 was run Is
thought by many to comprise about
the fastest bit of racing ground for
MitoniobHes that was ever constructed.
Georgia folk, however, from Governor
Soke Smith down to the little black
kid whose favorite dainty Is water
Melon, make a similar claim for the
twenty-six mile circuit of prepared
f^adway over which almost a score of
t^e swiftest automobiles In the world
"#111 race In and near Savannah on
•Ehanksglvlng day In competition for
tfce $5,000 gold trophy and attending
«*sh prizes offered by the Automobile
Olub of America. Not alone do the in
ft»bitants of the Empire State of the
South say that the southern raceway
far faster than the one on Long
Ifcland. Those of the most skillful and
Glaring motor car drivers In the his
£|ry of automobile racing who have
.put their machines about the circuit in
#k southland say that from point of
Speed and absence of danger there is
«o auto racing ground anywhere, at
•home or abroad, that compares with
the one at Savannah.
Tit 11 it If ill
,and refolled and scraped until it Is In
'perfect condition for racing.
The roadbed has been constructed
with a view to minimizing the wear
The concrete con'
and tear of tires.
attraction of the motor parkway por
Hca ct the Lou* Island course was the
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spect on thd part of drivers, who
claimed that the back stretch, known
as the Jericho turnpike, generally was
far faster than the concrete section
The roadbed of the southern circuit
is paid to be similar to but In far bet
ter condition than the Jericho road,
and for this reason the Savannah clr
cult is expected to be more satisfac
tory for the drivers.
The start of the Thanksgiving day
race will be made in front of the
grand stand, a structure seating 8,000
persons, erected on Estill avenue. In
the southern part of Savannah. For
something more than a mile the coursc
extends through Savannah streets to
White Bluff road, where It takes
ritfht angle turn into the longest stretch
of the entire course, a distance of
20.000 feet, or more than three miles
without a turn in the road. At the
Montgomery crossroad another right
angle Is met, followed by a stretch of
something under a mile, when another
ninety degree turn Is met at Water's
road. Alternating stretches less than a
mile in length and right angle turns
bring the course to Whltefleld avenue,
an irregular road more than two miles
long.
Swamps and a small river Inclose a
foot shaped circuit of three miles or so,
and an almost straight stretch of three
miles, followed by a hairpin turn,
brings the road to the Isle of Tlope.
said to be the most dangerous point of
the circuit. The cut turn here Is not
especially sharp, yet extreme care
•must be exercised by the driver. The
only accident In the history of the
course occurred here last March, when
a wheelman lost control of his car and
shot with it up over the banking only
to land uninjured In soft mud on the
other side.
An irregular winding road of several
miles Is next encountered, followed by
two roads a mile In length, joined with
two wide tnrns. bringing the autolst to
the home stretch, leading back to the
grand stand. This stretch, along Dale
avenue, is 11.250 feet, or more than
two miles, lxi length. It Is a straight
away, slightly up grade, so that the
spectator In the grand stand may look
down on the flying machines as they
come speeding up the course. The
roadway here is wide enough for six
machines to run abreast, so that a
close finish is certain to give the look
ers-on plenty in the way of excitement.
No railroad crosses the circuit at any
point. Trolley tracks cross at two
potnts. On the days of the races and
during practice hours, however, the
trolleys will not be operated across the
course. All bridges have been con
^tructed without steep grades In pass
ing over roadways and streams.
When the Savannah Automobile'club
was Incorporated early this year and
Governor Smith of Georgia consented
to act as honorary referee at the race
in March the military organizations of
the state and city volunteered to pa
trol the course on the days of the
races. This they did, and the roadway
was kept clear for the autoists. When
one of the machines overturned during
the race none of the spectators was
permitted to go out on the course. The
game state of affairs will prevail on
Nov. 25 and 20. The soldiers will be
armed, and nnv effort on the part of
lookers-on to throng the course will be
met with stern redistil nee.
EX-SHERIFF UNDER ARREST
Accused of Aiding In Murder of Sen*
ator Carmack.
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 13.—John D.
Sharpe, ex-eneriff of this county, was
arrested here charged with murder
and aiding and abetting in the mur
der of Senator E. W. Carmack last
Monday afternoon. It is alleged that
Sharpe was seen with the two Coo
pers shortly before the killing and
was also at the scene of the tragedy
Immediately after Carmack fell to the
ground. Sharpe wii at sacs taken to
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Displace the Horse.
GASOLINE THE MOTIVE POWER
Big Maotiine, Built For Hard, Heavy
Work, Reduces the Cost of Farming
Three-fourths and the Time One
third—What Farmers Say of It.
Out at St. Francis, on the western
border of Kansas, where the settler
turned his back on his farm not so
many years ago as not arable or worth
the effort, the newest thing in farm
machinery is threatening to retire the
horse from the farm about as thor
oughly as he has been driven from the
city streets by the motor car. At. least
two farmers In Cheyenne county are
using what is called the farm motor,
a machine that may be described as
the mule of the motor car family. It
Is a general farm drudge, plowing,
disking, harrowing, seeding, harvest
ing and even hauling the thrashed
wheat to market.
Horses will furnish the power for
most of these things, It is true, so that
there is nothing remarkable about the
story thus far. But the farm motor
will do it in a third the time, at a
fourth the expense and better. It has
no apparent drawbacks. It can be
used wherever horses can go, and
where large areas are to be tilled It
promises to send the horse Into total
eclipse.
Think of plowing up about thirty
acres In a single leisurely day with
one machine, disking a swath twenty
six feet wide at the rate of three
linear miles an hour, hauling 600 bush
els of wheat to market at one trip
and you have an idea of the new mo
tor and what it will actually accom
pllsh under conditions none too favor
able, says a St. Francis correspondent
of the Kansas City Star. Then con
celve of doing this plowing In the vir
gin prairie at about 30 cents an acre
and hauling that amount of wheat
thirteen miles to market for $10
counting the return trip. Then you
have even a clearer impression.
The farm motor Is Just a big, heavy
awkward looking motor car, built for
hard, heavy work. It Is the embodi
ment of all the principles of the motor
car seen on the streets every day, ex
cept that It produces strength where
the other develops speed. In front is
the big radiator, cooling the four cyl
inders. The drive wheels are big Bteel
affairs with tires eighteen Inches wldt
studded with sharp conical spikes for
taking hold of the ground. Gasoline
furnishes the motive power, and one
man can operate it with its plows,
disks or harrows, hitched behind,
without the slightest trouble.
In Cheyenne county two big farmers
are using the motor with satisfaction
They are Jerry Lyons, whose farm of
1,900 acres is seven miles from St.
Francis, and G. W. Denny, whose
3,500 acre farm is thirteen miles dis
tant from the town. Recently both
places were visited. On the Denny
farm the motor was busy disking a
big field which had been broken last
spring. Hitched behind the big, lum
bering car were three sets of disks,
two four horse and one eight horse
affairs.
Moving along at a steady pace of
about three miles an hour, the ma
chine dragged the disks over a lateral
area of twenty-six feet with as much
ease as though puffing along a road,
piling the once broken soil along In lit
tle furrows, ready for harrowing and
the seed. The field was a mile long
and about 800 feet wide, so that at the
longest circuit of the field the machine
was disking about eight acres of
ground. The circuit took about an
hour. As geared up for work the
motor weighed six tons. A steam en
gine of the same kind and power
would weigh three times as much.
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H. C. Denny, son of the farm's own
er, speaking of the disking, said:
When we get done with this we will
cross disk It, but when we do that we will
hitch thirty feet of harrows behind and
do the harrowing as we disk. Wo can
pull the three disks and the harrows at
the same time. Then we will hitch on
three drills and drill it to wheat. We are
working along the Campbell system of
farming—dry farming they sometimes call
it.
G. W. Denny, the owner who came
to Kansas from Nebraska, where he
had tried the same kind of farming,
said:
I believe the motor t" proving a great
success.. I always have been looking for
the tlmb when we could farm with less
expense. To break the prairie with hired
t»arrR routs $2 an acre. With the motor
we use about two gallons of gasoline to
that amount of ground at a cost of K
cents a gallon. I expect even to cut and
thrash by gasoline power, and 1 know we
can haul the wheat to market with this
motor. I shall get two 300 bushel tanks
and mount them on wheels. These I can
pull over the level roads out here to town
and back for $9 or $10. I believe fn a few
years these motorB will be very comtnon.
The fact that they will save from one
half to three-fourths the expense means
a great deal In dollars and cents when the
magnitude of these western farms Is con
sidered.
At the Lyons farm the owner was
plowing with eight tnoldboard plows
hitched to the back of the motor. In
discussing his farm motor he said:
What we have always wanted Is more
•rop at less expense. The motor Is going
to help us gain that end. It has been
91ADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1908
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tEey broke ground Tor G6 conts an acre
which cost $2.85 on an average when
broken by horses. I expect to harvest
with my motor, but I'll do my fall plow
ing at the same time, hltchlnp my binder
far enough behind my eight plows to drop
tho bundles on the plowed ground.
Mv exnerience Is that with the gaso
line'farm motor I can carry on almost all
farm operations at about, one-fourth the
•ost of liorse?.
I can buy g.vsollne here at 16 or 17 cents
a gnllon, so that you can figure my ex
pense yo vpolf—25 or SO cents an acre.
Cutting of the Cuilinan Diamond.
The cutting of the Cuilinan diamond,
which cost $5O,000. Is now complete,
says a cable dispatch from Amster
dam. The stone has been divided into
seven parts exclusive of the big on#,
which will go by the name of Cuilinan,
Six of these small stones are being
made into a necklace, with the sev
enth. which Is somewhat larger, as a
pendant, and will be presented by the
king «o Queen Alexandra.
COWS
Minnesota Man Killed.
Hastings, Minn., Nov. 13.—Andrew
J. Anderson, a well known young man
of this city, was accidentally killed
at Gold Creek, Mont. No particulars
have been received, but his remains
will be brought to Hastings for burial.
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SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS-504 p.-B0TTU
F. G. Ball and F. Stoltzman
—==AGENCYSS==—
Insurance Lands City Property MfldiSOfl
We have a large list of LAKE COUNTY
FARMS for SALE at Reasonable Prices.
We have in CITY PROPERTIES some splen
did values, in fact real SNAPS.
IX CHEAP LANDS
We haw iafcOUTH DAKOTA several THOUSANDS of acres «ml
on easy terms, and in NOKTH DAKOTA we have improved or
unimproved farms at very low prices, terms to suit purchaser,
can sell you a fijfya farm on CROP PAYMENT plan, one half
crop each year, no CROP no PAY, also we can furnish you
on time ami give you a chance to pay for them, and you :.l!
know that the FAMOUS GOLDKN VAULEY of NORTH DAKO'J A
and MONTANA is raising the GRAIN and STOCK.
In MONTANA we have several tracts, including the
JUDITH and LAKE BASIN districts, where the conditions
GRAIN and STOCK raising arc not second to any place in ihe
whole UNITED STATES, in the .LAKE BASIN district
Government LANDS was only opened for HOMESTEADS April
l!3rd, 19(18, and you can procure just as good a FARM of 160 us
you ever saw anywhere. Just talk with parties that went there
with us Oct. 20th, '08, who got HOMESTEADS and purchased
us LAND. Others are croinir, WHY NOT YOU?
NOVEMBER 17th, NEXT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, we go
again. COME, go with us. We show you the LANDS FREE, and
pay your railway ticket if you BUY OUR LAND.
Call at Office in I. O. O. F. Block or Phone 232 for
Folders and Information.
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