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Show ER1PT1 OF lEDSSOUEBT Prosecution of Those Who Ignore Cleanup Requests Promised. More than two hundred warrants for the urret of property owners who have ignored t!1 request mr.do by the state crop prt commissioners to clean up the noxious weeds on their property, will be issued, accrdine to Harold It.1 li.itfan, seereiary vi the commission, within tlie next week nnd proceedings to pro-t'eute for misdemenuors wili be j instituted. Warnings were issued to 1O00 cttirns I that they must take somo steps to lull 'the noxious weeds on their" property, Secretary H.i.nn oaid, nnd ftO have : made every iinrt to cooperste with miiion to stamp dut the weed;. The other 200 have ibinorcd the warning and tlie commissioners now ir.-l that the u;ater should be taken Into court. For two month- r.inn men havo bet-n en.p!ovc 1 d.'tily cl:inini; out the weeds on the streets and ?ii:ht have been busy1 vo'h work on the private lots. The law pn.vid" that the commlysion T.nv employ m n to erariieatc the uevtn noxious weeds tho prevail in this ter-ritorv ter-ritorv and (vr'.flin fund- are set asid? for this work. The money appropriated is not suifn-ieiit to take cfire of the entire c.itv, nnd ciM-.ens are asked to aM;t in the drive to kill the v.eedt. The eeen wcds nre: whiteiop, hull thistle, Canadian thi-Me. Kuisiaa thistle, this-tle, burdock, po;cn hemlock and cockle-burr. cockle-burr. over -"0 blocks in the outhe.ns'.ern portion of the citv have been cleaned off once and i Timer. is are beinR u.ad" r.uw in bpravmj the plunts v.-tUi a fro'titi.-n of od;um ar-"nite, w'uii h. it is found. J-i!'s ail but p ere nr. in 1 weeds. In time it thnutht the roots of these weeds can be starved out by killing th" t'T1' "i'h the poison. In th: work it is found that too much of the poion wiU not do the work any better bet-ter than too little nnd the men are try. inc out the solution to find just the rinht amount. The territory upon which the poison is be in 2 tried' lies in the western pnrt of the citv nnd particularly on tho large pateh covering the ton-acre jot on the east sid-7 of the county infirmary. |