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Show I THE SCREW JUMBO WINDMILL. Does the Work Well and Costs but a Few Dollars. D. K. There is a home-madwindmill called the screw Jumbo in use. Will you kindly describe the construction of this mill? I wish to pump water for stock from a well 96 feet deep. e ' illustrations accompanying represent the "screw Jumbo" windmill as shown in Nebraska bulletin windNo. E9, devoted to home-madmills. Fig. 1 shows the windmill attached to the plunger of a pump. Each revolution made by the wind- The e i windmill attached to plunger of pump. mill pumps one stroke. The fans of such mills are of duck along diagFlg. , The 1. onally opposite arms In such a way as to make a veritable screw. The wheel is 8 feet long and 10 feet In diameter. The cost of this mill, which lifted water from a 96 foot well, both for house use and irrigaThe owner tion, was ten dollars. found this form of mill quite satisfactory, until trees grew up about it to 6ucb an extent that the mill was MRS. KRAUSS HELD FOR THE MURDER OF STEPDAUGHTER AT HARTFORD CITY, INDIANA iv fi o r il'if O t Aug. 5. Coroner William A. Hollis Tendered his verdict in the inquest held at Hartford City, Ind., to determine the causq of the death of Miss Ciystal Krauss, who died suddenly. The verdict was that Crystal Krauss came to her death by . strjchnlne M. Kae by poison administered Krauss, her stepmother. I wT THE TOURIST'S FAVORITE ROUTE SAIT THROUGH AID SCENIC CITY LAKE . COll TO THE WORLD'S FAIR Mystery in the Case. The poisoning of the girl, with Its mysterious and remarkable features, has stirred intense loral feeling. The stepmother, accused of the murder of the girl by poison, sat in her Jail cell cool and collected, talking freely of the tragedy, without a tear or a quaver. Though the chief figure In the absorbing tragedy, and accused of murder, she was utterly complacent. She denied everything and declared herelf without fear. In striking contrast, the father of the dead girl, though not accused or under suspicion, was in a state of utter collapse, nervous and physical. FAST FLYEItS DAILY BETWEEN OGDEN AND DENVER: CHOICE OP ROUTES. AND PULLA1AN THROUGH TOURIST SIjnJ FROM OGDEN OR SALT LAKE - J TO ST. LOUIS WITHOUT CHANGE OF CAR Free Reclining Chair Cars. Dining Car Service a la carte on all through trains. For Folders, Illustrated Booklet, etc.. address . . j I. A. BENTON, G. A. P. . 4 SALT LAKE CITY, ri Ur The Popular Route to tho I ST. LOUIS FAIR Fig. 2. Screw Jumbo Windmill, plan of construction. disqualified for use. Fig. 2 shows the construction of the mill. The sails of canvas are attached to arms of wood which are braced and tied together with twisted wire. shlw-in-g anti Points East 3 ;? : m Pullman and Tourist Sleepers India: ce er old Ants in a Bee Hive. Sub. How may ants be prevented from carrying off honey from a bee hive? Do ants injure the bees apart from robbing them? to t deep-roote- d it has given very much trouble, and nothing other than actually digging out and constant hoeing does any good, but the hoelug must be very thorough and deep. Every bit of the root should be dug up. Then heavy seeding with clover, rather than rye or any other ci op, would be advisable to help to choke out any plants which might remain. Weight of Milk. Docs all cows' milk weigh the same, and what is the weight of one gallon? Is cream lighter than milk? A. t Exchange. J. A. The weight of milk varies according to the percentage of solids con-- . talned In it. The specific gravtty of1 milk varies from 1.029 to 1.03S, at 60 degrets Fahr., the average being about 1,032. In general, the effect of an increase In the solids of the milk is to Increase its specific gravity, though In milk extremely rich in fats (6 per cent or above), the specific gravity Is lessened. The weight of one gallon of water is 10 pounds, so that the weight of a gallon of average milk Is 1.032 pounds. Ye, ereum Is lighter than milk or It would not rise to the top in the pan or creamer. Weeds in Asparagus Bed. bed is becom- J. II. An asparagus ing overrun with twitch gras. Could the grass bo kilted with salt without Injury to the asparagus? You may use salt to good advantage In ridding your asparagus bed of quack grass. Use at the rate of three hundred pounds per acre, spreading through the rows. I should endeavor to dig or hoe the grass roots from Immediately around the asparagus In order to he on the safe side and not permanently Injure the crowns of the (plants. 1 have never known of salt bring an Injury to asparagus, but it might be If used without discretion. i:. h. f. convulsions without speaking. Mrs. Krauss Insisted upon the physicians, who were called Just before the girl expired, making out a death certificate giving as the cause acute indigestion and heart trouble. The physicians refused, and analysis by Coroner W. A. Hollis showed death was due to strychnine poisoning. The coroner searched the death chamber and found nothing. Later Mrs. Krauss produced a bottle partly filled with strychnine and a note, which she said were found beneath the covers of Crystals bed after the coroner party bad gone. "Fnpa, 1 cannot live without Jim; good-by,was all that was acrawled on the note, "Jim" was supposed to be Jame Cronin, a young suitor whom the father had forbidden to pay attentions to Crystal. Then appeared a Lloyd Sommer-vllle- , a boy who carried milk to the Krauss borne, who declared that Mrs. Krauss bad sent him tor strychnine to liCgan'a drug store, giving blm a note reading: "(live bearer 15 cents worth of strychnine. I want to clean out some mice. (Signed). Mrs. Showalter." The boy Somnmrvllle knew Mrs. Krauss well. Mrs. Krauss denied havMrs. ing sent him for strychnine. lives across the Showalter, who street, denied having written the noto. Krauss, the woman's husband. Is a druggist, hi store being much closer than lagan's. But Summerville says Vrw. Krauss very explicitly told blm to go to lagan's. The police declare the farewell note attributed to Crystal and the message to Druggist Logan wore written by the same hand. Mrs. Krauss stoutly denied writing the notes or sending for strychnine. "I do not see how they can prove me guilty on the word pf a mere boy," (he said. " rful i Formerly I believed that the ants were a cause of injury to the bees, but I have now come to the conclusion that they do little or no harm to the colony. It is the warmth of the cluster that attucts them rather than the bees or honey. The ants disappear as the colonies become stronger and the weather becomes settled and warm. Dut in the meantime. If you He had to be carried bodily from bis wish rid of them it is easily room to the carriage that bore him to done. locate their bills and make (he funeral several holes iu them w ith a crowBoth the stepmother and father of bar. Four Into each of the holes a made extended Ciystal statements small quantity of gasoline or even common kerosene oil is quite as ef- concerning the tragedy. Neither wife Lloyd Sommervlile st.cks stoutly to nor husband offered anything to clear fective. Flug up the holes and in a his first story, and bus rehearsed it the up mysterious features of the day or two you will find all the ants several times to the police. or reconcile girl's conflictthe death, dead. Mrs. Krauss .is a remarkable woman ing statements previously made by a woman. remarkably strong woman in the In their story for pubBindweed. nerve and body. , Oregonian. Enclosed is a weed lication both said they did not believe mind, is mere spite work," the woman "It the which threatens to ruin my orchard. girl committed suicide, though Flease tell me what it is and how best they gave the coroner a note nlleged declared, pursing her lips and raising to kill It out. The more hoeing it, to have been found beside her body her eyes with an angry gleam. "I know the prejudice against stepmothgets the thicker it grows. 1 have which bids the father farewell and ers. I hesitated a long time before been advised to sow rye in the or- says she "cannot live without Jim. 1 see the responsibility. assuming Do Also both declare their disbelief that chard. you think it would kill it I now should have waited that longer. she was murdered. out? Is no evidence against me. But the most sensational develop- There "They say that the farewell note The plant sent is the Bindweed ment was the declaration of a niece (Convoivus arvensls), Introduced from of Krauss that the husband told her you claimed was left by Crystal and the note asking Druggist Logan for Europe. It Is a very perprivately that he believed his wife strychnine were in the same handennial with long twining stems and guilty. writing and that It resembled yours." with flowers about an Inch in diamewas taken sick on Mrs. Krauss showed neither anger ter shaped like Morning Glory flow- - theCrystal Krauss morning of Aug. 2nd died in nor surprise at the pointed observaers. Whenever found to-ge- ;VoW from Ogden and Salt Lake to St. Lonis PRINCIPALS IN CASE. At the top is a photograph of Crya-ta- l Krauss, the dead girl. At left is a picture of the Krauss home In Hartford City, Ind. Below it a reproduction of the note sent to Druggist Logan and the bottle of strychnine alleged to have been found in the girla bed. Below at right Is a photograph of Mrs. W. R. Krauss, the girl's stepmother, who is charged with her death. She paused a moment, raised her head, looked her questioner straight in the eyes and said with tion. viva if, it THROUGH SCENIC COLORADO alia It WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. vet i Dining Cars. Free Reclining Chair Cars. Everything Tor bertha, tickets, folder, etc., address was certainly no reason for my wue to poison her, said Krauss. "It was I who found the bottle and :torr First-du- n nr li tis i note In Crystal's bed. I have forgotten whether I gave It to my wife or to the coroner. H. C. TOWNSEND, G. P. & T. A., ST. Unite for War's Suppression. Thirty members of the French chamber of deputies and ten of the British house of commons met In Laris in 1SS8 to consider some method of settling differences between nations without resort to war. They organized the Interparliamentary union, of which 1,500 national legislators are row members. I.ast January an American group of the union was organized in congress with forty-thremembers. A hundred others have signified their Intention of Joining It The twelfth annual conference of the union will be held at St. Louis In September and congress has appropriated $30,000 for the entertainment of the distinguished foreign delegates. The object of the union is "to procure the reference of all pending difficulties between nations to The Hague court, hasten new arbitration treaties and to Insert In all future treaties between nations a clause favoring LOUIS ARE YOU GOING To the Worlds Fair? e If so, you OREGON SHORT undoubtedly want to as quickly Union Pacific Railroai as possible. Is the SHORT FAST ROUTE D, E. Bl'Ri,HY, o. a p. t. 7i T. M. KCH I'M ACKER, TSAPPIC D, B. 8PKNCHR, A. O. P. n Salt Laki LIKE In Connection with tbs git then rositlveness: Private Plant Too Coatly. I did not write those notes, I did After spending $10,000 and considnot send for strychnine. I deny It erable of his time In experimenting, all." "Will, what about the boy, Som-- John I). Rockefeller has di elded that ervllle, who any positively that you so far as he Is concerned the operagave him the note to Druggist Lo-- tion of a private electric light plant Is a failure. He has signed a contract with the local lighting company to "I did not know him, and 1 doubt his i state, consisting of about light 1 1 If could tell him If saw blm," 5,000 acres, at J'ocantlco hills. As came the reply, rather uncertainly, soon as the new service is begun bis with the quick addition: "I do not which cost about private plant, see bow they .can prove me guilty will he for sale at a bargain on the testimony of a mere boy. I am innocent and am not afraid but price. Mr. Roekt feller put In a plant about a year ago, that I can prove myself so, she add- when lighting ho thought that hia hills were ed, rather defiantly. becoming too large. After operating "We had a happy home," she re- a short time he discovered that tbo sumed. along new system was "Everything ran costing more than I never had the electricity smoothly. Crystal and formerly supplied by a word. I did for her all a mother the lighting company. He continued could. I sewed for her and helped the service, however, until the year her all I could. Mr. Kraus will tell was up, and th n notified his superinIs that the truth." you tendent to make a change. Krauss, the husband, who conducts a drug store, was seen and talked of Statesman's t Secret his daughter's death and the accusaSir Mlchal Hick Bench, in tion of murder against his wife. the To ST. LOUIS and all point EASTAsk Short Line Agents about Sp Excursion Rates. MO., T. A, Curt, Ctab. - $10,-00- 0, prl-vat- o THE NEW WAY of THE OLD WAY Four New Worlds Fair Trait NMV EQUIPMENT, ELECTRIC LIOUTS AND ELECTRIC FAN BETWEEN Well-Kep- bouse of commons d recently, He declared there was no truth In the Idea of checking the a!a the report that the removal of the of drink In piddle house to children stepdaughter. Crystal, would give Mrs. nd in an outburst of confidence be Krauss 2,09Q additional of his estate. told how He said he and his wife bad entered he was once, when, as an Won boy. on the Thames bs rot Into a contract for the disposal of out and rowing had some liquid refreshment their property, and that be had made a wayside gin pulace, and a will, neither of which could be af- scandalized it he saw than! fected by the daughter's death. A 1 rotestant anjthjng The $2,000 addition to her possible rotunda a fcw bishop speaking in th nights later mentioned Inheritance was forwarded aa a mo- that Sir Michael had kept hi llttia tive for the alleged poisoning of the 1Uil ion,R' 'ahem'0 only revealed The police it girl by her stepmother. five years earlier he declare Krauss' explanation unsatislT'n pN!d factory, and say that the death can ESir,h,W and be proved to make a difference In the come Chancellor would never hav beof tin exchequer. Bir property Interests. ,Ky f Cl'1 T don't know why Crystal should ,hn Sir man. f..r he nail.. that have committed suicide, and thers Bones wav gold. n. KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS pooh-poohe- .?' ie VI AHKivn ; DAILY ; of to i superior .err Ire Y Ruanda t y1 "j !.u u"!Tnr. u' . p,l i 1 Ipkiwmu'aVi ViV Color ilu, t.h, IrtLL oA Oislr Kalinin C7 " Louis via new route ru"nllI. T' "M I ; Nnw " A'flf! Wwl ALL TRAINS (Alii, ar. 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