Chapter XXI: Part 21

The curse of forest fires still hangs over us, and prohibits the planting of vast areas which should be growing timber. It is comforting that these fires are less destructive than formerly, but it is nevertheless a disgrace to our civilization, or lack of civilization, that they must occur at all. Education of our people and condign punishment of those whose carelessness or malice causes them will eventually make these annual holocausts a thing of the past. To this end liberal appropriations should be made by the state, rewards or prizes being offered to those who prove most efficient in checking fires.

Nothing is more vital to forestry than the total suppression of these fires. No attempt need be made to replant vast treeless areas, or no expense incurred in protecting the young growth upon them until the fires are prevented. In the year 1908 the cash value of timber destroyed by forest fires in New York was estimated at $780,164. For the same period in Pennsylvania the estimate was $688,980. The loss of humus and general forest litter was even more serious than the loss of timber because of wasted fertility and increase of surface wash during heavy rains. Each successive fire leaves the ground more exposed and less productive, the end of which is a desert condition. It is safe to say that at this hour our state has thousands of square miles which are unproductive because of forest fires. A radical change of policy in this matter is needed. Attention should be given to prevention rather than to suppression of the forest fires, and sufficient force and funds provided to accomplish this end, which is essential to the continued prosperity of the state.

Taxation of forest lands under our present system leads the state to impoverish itself, by premature destruction of its timber resources, and the industries depending upon them, and by increasing the areas of stripped lands, which, because of their unprotected condition, become year by year less and less fit for agriculture when an increasing population requires their occupation for home and farm sites. The law wisely requires that our engineers, physicians and lawyers shall have received proper training before entering upon duties intimately associated with the welfare and safety of others. It is to be regretted that prospective legislators and commissioners cannot be required to show some fitness for the work expected from them, before coming before the people as candidates.

It is notorious that the taxes imposed lead to the destruction of growing trees which are each year earning their right to stand by the benefit they confer upon the public. The only exclusive privilege which the owner enjoys from them is that of paying taxes for a seldom-accorded protection against fire, and depredation.

Timber should be taxed only when cut and then at a rate per thousand feet proportionate to the income received from it, but sufficient to make good, in a measure, the loss of tax during the growing period. This conclusion seems to have been reached by every disinterested person who has fairly considered the problem in all of its aspects. Bills leading to such a system of taxation have been defeated in the last three sessions of our legislature, but that is not the last of them, for the ultimate adoption of a proper system of forest taxation is beyond question. Pennsylvania has done and is doing too much in behalf of forest-growing, to hesitate at an expedient so necessary and so simple.

The state has practically a million of acres, distributed over twenty-six counties, in its forest reserve system. There are two admirable schools of forestry, one of which is intended solely to prepare men for the forest service of the state.

Three extensive nurseries produce seedling forest trees for planting on the state’s land and for distribution to our citizens at nominal cost, on assurance that they will be properly planted and cared for. In 1909 there were set out in permanent position 750,318 young trees, mostly on abandoned farms which had come, by purchase, into the possession of the commonwealth. We are rapidly increasing the output of these nurseries and expect at an early date to plant at least ten to twenty million trees annually. We are fortunate in having no laws which prevent scientific forestry. A tree, or a forest, may be cut when it is in the interest of the state to do so.

Water courses as a source of power are considered apart from water supply for domestic purposes, the latter being, in Pennsylvania, mainly controlled by the Department of Health.

Many water powers were purchased or seized, by those who anticipated their value, under our earlier lax laws, before their importance was generally recognized. They have thus passed too far out of state control to be available under existing laws as a source of public revenue. But in constituting the Water Power Commission it was provided that future letters patent “will not be issued to any water, or water-power company, nor will any such company be allowed to merge and consolidate, or to purchase the property and franchise of any other such company until the application for the charter, or the agreement of merger and consolidation, or the purchase and sale has been first submitted to and received the approval of a majority of the commission. Nor will any person, corporation or municipality be allowed to construct, erect or build any dam or other obstruction in any river or stream without the approval of the commission.” No franchise whatever in the interest of any individual or corporation, should be granted without adequate compensation to the state, nor should any obstruction be allowed place in any navigable stream unless locks of liberal size are provided for passing it. In the near future every important river in the state will probably be converted into a lake system capable of dead water navigation up to head waters, as an accompaniment of the dams erected for power purposes.

Better protection of wild life in forest and stream can readily be provided by taxing, as is the usage in most of the states, those who enjoy the privilege of hunting and fishing. A license fee of one dollar a year from each sportsman would pay for a much more efficient system of forest and stream protection than we have ever had. This would exempt those who have no interest in the sport and place the slight burden where it belongs, upon those who hunt and fish.

Conservation means use without waste, and is sound doctrine whether our mineral resources are to last for fifty, or for five thousand years. That there has been waste, not all unavoidable, is attested by the constant endeavor of our best mining engineers to discover more economical methods.

It is gratifying to be assured that their investigations have borne fruit, and that the loss of good coal in anthracite mining has within recent years been reduced so that “at present the recovery will average about sixty per cent and loss about forty per cent.” Not long ago these proportions were exactly reversed.

The numbers annually killed and crippled by serious injuries among the coal miners of this state are still appalling. The annual report of the department of Mines in Pennsylvania for 1909 says:

“In producing the output for the year 567 persons were killed
in the anthracite region and 1034 were injured. In the
bituminous region 506 were killed and 1126 were injured.”

From the same report we learn that these casualties, though exceeding the dead and wounded in many famous battles, are yet slightly less per million tons mined than were suffered the same year in the deep collieries of England; but the difference is hardly enough to bring us much comfort.

In mining, as in every other industry, we may look to education as a most hopeful factor in reducing the number of accidents. Christian sympathy is another factor; to that we owe it that children under fourteen years of age are by law excluded as laborers from our mines. We must love our brother even when begrimed with coal dust.

The ease with which land could at first be obtained in Pennsylvania led to neglect of conservative principles in agriculture. It was cheaper, for a time, to abandon a worn-out farm than to restore it to a productive condition. The result is seen in thousands of acres of barren, neglected hillsides. The average production per acre in Pennsylvania was, twenty years ago, so much below the possibilities as to be discreditable to the commonwealth.

This negligence is fast giving way to more modern methods, and the yield of our acres is on a rapid ascent. The struggle for existence has no doubt contributed somewhat to this, though education through the agency of improved schools, of the Grange, farmers’ clubs and institutes, and more easy access to markets have been more potent. The former isolation of the farmer was against him. His land hunger kept him from seeing that there was more money in fifty acres of well-tilled land than in one hundred acres of starved soil. Experience is bringing wisdom to him, and to the rest of us. We must have better roads, more improved machinery, more social intercourse and more fertilization of the soil, to keep the lad on the farm and to bring our yield per acre up to that of England and Belgium.

The Water Gap of the Delaware River, the Horse Shoe Curve in the Alleghanies, the Blue Ridge near the Mason and Dixon line, the environs of Mauch Chunk, are admired every year by thousands, a very large proportion of whom live outside the limits of our state. Pennsylvania values these scenic attractions as sources of revenue to railroads and resort keepers. It is a pity, but it is true, that our people have not yet awakened to the educational and uplifting influences of the beauties of our river and mountain scenery. We lack the inborn love for the landscape that characterizes the dweller on the heaths of Scotland, or under the shadow of the Alps, and in so far we fail to attach their just value to some of the noblest and most precious possessions of our state. These possessions should be zealously protected before they are hopelessly ruined, or given over to less important uses.

The gospel of fresh air, for the physical salvation of the people is sweeping the land. “It is cheaper, wiser, and more humane to prevent disease than to cure it.” Within recent years, largely by the efforts of the secretary of our state conservation branch, it has become possible for a municipality to own and care for parks, which may become not only beauty-spots, but outing-grounds, and lumber-producers as well. It is hard to limit the possibilities of such a law, for good, and it is in the direction of public desires.

Education in conservation means education in citizenship. Every child not only should know, but is entitled to know, what our national resources are and how they may be preserved. He is a partner in ownership of this stock in trade, out of which his living is to come. He should have full access to the inventory, and should know how long it will last, where it may be distributed to best advantage, and where the next supply is to come from. This is even more important to him and to the country than all involved in allegiance to any particular political party. It would be well for every family to have a copy of “The Land We Live In,” a new book by Overton W. Price, vice-president of the National Conservation Association, published by Small, Maynard & Co., of Boston. It was written especially for boys, but contains a vast fund of valuable information compiled in an attractive form which would interest everyone. The natural laws upon which our continued productive capacity depends should be taught in every school and to every pupil; for violation of those laws brings punishment which is as certain as it is bitter.

This commentary on the Pennsylvania statement of purposes, or “ten commandments,” has called for some condensation, for the amount that might be said, and well said, on each of these points could be indefinitely extended. It is largely the work of Dr. Rothrock, one of my colleagues, a veteran in the conservation cause. I think it may be an encouragement to this Congress to have a clear and full statement of the work in furtherance of its aims, now done or undertaken in our state; and, without making or suggesting a comparison with the achievements of any other state, I may add that Pennsylvania is not ashamed of the beginning it has made.

REPORT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA.

BY DR. M. W. TWITCHELL.

I shall carry out the advice given to the speaker of experience who has told us to say our best things first and then stop. I have only a few things to say. I represent a state quite a little distance from the state of Missouri. I came as the representative of the Governor of South Carolina, as a member of the conservation commission, and just want to say one or two of the things which South Carolina is doing to help on the cause of conservation. First, in regard to the conservation of human life, and the prevention of disease. There is one thing just being done down there which is new in this respect; that we have a pure food commission which is doing something, in that it is inspecting the food products which are coming into the State of South Carolina, particularly the corn products. We are confiscating diseased corn, taking possession of it, and insisting upon that the corn products which are brought into South Carolina shall be pure and healthful.

Another thing which we are doing is in regard to the drainage of our swamp lands. Today we heard of the importance of this movement with regard to the swamp lands of the Mississippi valley. We have swamp lands, as you know, along the Atlantic coast, thousands of acres of them, and we want them made available for cultivation. They will then be amongst the richest lands of our country, and we are actually going at it. We find that we cannot afford to wait for national aid of a direct type, so we are organizing drainage districts under a state law, which permits organization of districts, coöperating with the government, and actually draining certain portions of the swamp lands. So far we have had three drainage districts organized, and over two thousand acres of land in one district, and about three thousand acres in another have already been drained by this new method under a swamp land drainage law. We are going ahead along that line, and in the future you will hear of many thousands of acres of this swamp land that will be made garden spots, truck lands, similar to those that we already have in the vicinity of Charleston. Just a word in regard to the conservation of the soil. We have no law, there is no special state move in this respect, but the State of South Carolina produced last year 1,200,000 tons of commercial fertilizer, and the largest part of that immense product was used within the state of South Carolina itself. Now, that is conserving the soil. That is doing the thing that many of the people of the West will have to come to in view of the lost fertility by rotation of crops upon the same land year after year.

Just a final word in regard to the work in the improvement of rural life conditions. The State of South Carolina is a leader in that we have appointed a state inspector of rural schools. He is an educational engineer and travels all over the state. He visits rural school after rural school. He studies the conditions there, and he makes reports to the state board of education, and conditions are improved, and the state has made appropriations for the aid of these rural schools as the educational engineer reports along these lines. We are interested in the conservation movement. We think it is a grand movement for the benefit not only of the present day, but of the generations to come. I thank you. (Applause)

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED AT THE THIRD NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS.

National Conservation Association.
National Business League.
National Dairy Union.
National Implement and Vehicle Association.
National Association of American Chemical Societies.
National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
American Society of Engineering Draftsmen.
American Sunday School Association.
General Federation of Women’s Clubs.
American Economic Association.
National Rivers and Lakes Commission.
American Chemical Society.
National Fire Protective Association.
American Association State Geological Department.
National Farmers’ Institute.
Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo.
National Council of Women.
American Poultry Association.
National Association Audubon Societies.
American Bison Society.
American Society Civil Engineers.
American Society II. and V. Engineers.
League of American Sportsmen.
American Shorthorn Association.
Women’s National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
National Nut Growers’ Association.
Farmers’ National Congress.
Society for Promoting Engineering Education.
American Pomological Society.
Collegiate Alumni Association.
American Railway Engineers’ Association.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
National Columbian Wyandotte Club.
American Association of Refrigeration.
National Irrigation Congress.
National Educational Association.
National Association Daughters American Revolution.
National Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen and Engineers.
North American Fish and Game Association.
American Mining Congress.
International Dry Farming Congress.
National Mothers’ Congress.
American Medical Association.
United States Department of Agriculture.
United States Weather Bureau.
United States Forestry Service.
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
National Fertilizer Association.
National Soil Fertility League.
National Irrigation Congress.
American Civic Association.
National Municipal League.
National Humane Society.
Society of American Florists.
American Carnation Society.
American Institute of Electrical Engineering.
Cattle Raisers’ Association.
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
American Academy of Political and Social Science.
National Association of Manufacturers.
American Society for Testing Materials.
National Partridge and Wyandotte Club.
National Board of Fire Underwriters.
American Society of Refining Engineers.
American Electrochemical Society.
American Waterworks Association.
American Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association.
German-American Alliance.
Russian Government Agricultural Commission.
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ Association.
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association.
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways Association.
National Shell Fish Association.
National Garment Manufacturers’ Association.
National Dealers’ Association.
National Fertilizers’ Association.

LIST OF REGISTERED DELEGATES TO THIRD NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS.

_Alabama._

LeFevre, E. R. Gadsden
Miller, J. M. Cordova
Rushton, W. J. Birmingham

_Arizona._

Foote, Geo. A. Safford
Fowler, B. A. Phoenix

_Arkansas._

Brusee, Geo. Decatur
Cook, Geo. B. Little Rock
Dotson, J. Alfred Rogers
Higinbotham, Mrs. H. G. Pine Bluff
Lewis, F. W. Mena
Morris, Mrs. C. D. Rogers
Plank, E. N. Decatur
Spaulding, H. G. Fort Smith
Stroud, J. W. Rogers
Toland, H. L. Ashdown

_California._

Baumgartner, J. P. Santa Ana
Beard, W. M. Sacramento
Glavis, Louis R. San Francisco
Simons, D. P. Los Gatos
Turner, J. A. Santa Ana

_Canada._

Armstrong, L. O. Montreal

_Colorado._

Bruce, Geo. W. Delta
Callbreath, J. F. Denver
Dunning, W. S. Colorado Springs
Eddy, H. H. Denver
Gregg. J. S. F. Golden
Hickman, R. S. Delta
Meservey, Albert B. Colorado Springs
Lindsey, Ben B. Denver
Wilder, Chas. T. Colorado Springs
Work, Dr. Hubert Pueblo

_Connecticut._

Towney, Jas. W. Hartford

_District of Columbia._

Chilcott, E. C. Washington
Cameron, Frank L. Washington
Cobb, M. A. Washington
Frankenfield, H. C. Washington
Graves, H. L. Washington
McGee, W J Washington
Marbut, Curtis F. Washington
Shipp, Thomas R. Washington
Spillman, W. J. Washington
Wiley, H. W. Washington

_Florida._

Campbell, T. J. West Palm Beach
Cromer, J. M. West Palm Beach

_Georgia._

Worsham, E. Lee Atlanta
Worsham, Mrs. E. Lee Atlanta

_Idaho._

Shepperd, John W. Caldwell
Witson, Wm. Driggs
Woods, M. H. Arco
Yancey, Cyrus Blackfoot

_Illinois._

Abbott, A. N. Morrison
Aull, J. L. Belleville
Bartow, Edw. Urbana
Bell, Henry Y. Chicago
Bligh, L. L. Chicago
Block, Mrs. Fred’k West Chicago
Bradish, A. C. Ottawa
Braiden, Mrs. Clara V. Rochelle
Brooks, Morgan Urbana
Burgett, Scott Newman
Burgett, Thomas P. Newman
Burroughs, E. W. Edwardsville
Campbell, Murdock Chicago
Charles, A. W. Carrni
Christine, W. T. Chicago
Clapp, F. H. Mazon
DeWolf, Frank W. Urbana
Duncan, J. R. Tuscola
Dunn, Ballard Chicago
Eisenhart, Henry Waterloo
Elliott, J. T. Armington
Evans, W. A. Chicago
Franklin, G. W. Nenault
Giffhorn, Henry Columbia
Gossett, M. B. Newman
Gross, Howard H. Chicago
Grout, A. P. Winchester
Hays, Dudley Grant Chicago
Hill, A. H. Ottawa
Hooker, Arthur Chicago
Hopkins, Cyril G. Urbana
Jewell, H. L. Monmouth
Johnson, B. A. Chicago
Jones, Loyd Z. Galva
Marlin, D. M. Norris City
Mueller, Sr., Peter Valmeyer
Myers, O. V. Newman
Myers, M. R. Chicago
Nickerson, J. F. Chicago
Noyes, La Verne Chicago
Noyes, Mrs. La Verne Chicago
Osborn, F. W. Quincy
Pur Khizer, Edw. G. Chicago
Randolph, Isham Chicago
Rutherford, Cyrus Newman
Sconce, H. J. Sidell
Shoffer, John C. Chicago
Stufflebeam, O. F. Rossville
Syster, Mrs. J. C. Oregon
Tatgl, Gustavus Chicago
Taylor, Thomas A. Catlin
Thompson, Mrs. C. H. Chicago
Vrooman, Mrs. Carl Bloomington
Vrooman, Carl S. Bloomington
Wallbaum, F. C. Ashland
Walker, J. A. Chicago
Wolcott, H. K. Batavia
Woodbury, A. G. Danville
Young, W. M. Newman

_Indiana._

Barnard, H. E. Indianapolis
Barrett, Edward Indianapolis
Blatchley, W. S. Indianapolis
Breeze, Fred J. Lafayette
Breeze, Geo. D. Delphi
Dinwiddie, Oscar Lowell
Ford, Charles New Harmony
Hamilton, John C. Indianapolis
Hoynes, Prof. William Notre Dame
Knapp, Mrs. Edwin A. Winona Lake
Neizer, Maurice C. Ft. Wayne
Reisenberg, Henry Indianapolis
Whitehead, J. W. New Harmony
Woods, Sam B. Crown Point

_Iowa._

Allred, W. P. Corydon
Ashby, Mrs. Harriett W. Des Moines
Ball, F. D. Creston
Bishop, E. C. Ames
Bliss, J. A. Diagonal
Bogie, S. R. Waverly
Brown, Nelson C. Ames
Chandler, W. R. Blacktan
Cleveland, O. S. Webster City
Corrie, S. M. Ida Grove
Curtiss, Chas. F. Ames
Davis, F. M. Corning
Donald, G. B. Mac Ames
Doran, Justin R. Beaver
Doty, James J. Shenandoah
Dunn, E. G. Mason City
Durrell, Geo. O. Pilot Mound
Elk, M. M. Galva
Elder, Orville Washington
Fry, Joseph Weyer
Hathaway, B. Kingsley
Haynes, E. C. Centerville
Hazard, T. R. Des Moines
Holden, P. G. Ames
Holman, R. A. Rockwell
Hunt, C. W. Logan
Hunter, Edward H. Des Moines
Hutchins, C. B. Algona
Hutchinson, S. T. Lake City
Ives, A. P. Irvington
Kamrar, J. S. Webster City
Kelmartin, A. P. Malvern
Kaufman, Chas. C. Wilton Junction
Keating, C. R. Mt. Ayr
Kirkham, G. A. Diagonal
Kissack, John Farmer City
Knight, O. N. Salem
Latta, W. W. Logan
Leas, J. E. Galva
Leffler, Geo. V. Stockport
Lockwood, B. A. Des Moines
Macbride, Thomas H. Iowa City
McCulloch, Fred Belle Plains
McWhorter, Ellis Burt Kossuth
Menton, J. A. Boone
Miller, A. C. Des Moines
Miller, C. W. Waverly
Miller, O. W. Waverly
Milner, E. P. Red Oak
Nichols, Warren Minerva
Nichols, Mrs. Warren Minerva
Noble, Mrs. Lucy Seward Waterloo
Parrott, H. Waverly
Parrott, Mrs. Jane Waverly
Packels, Theo. Waverly
Plummer, A. L. Altoona
Rubel, H. F. Waverly
Russell, J. W. Adel
Ranels, S. C. Des Moines
Schenk, Myron Algona
Shimek, B. Iowa City
Smith, Ed. H. Cedar Rapids
Soper, E. B. Emmetsburg
Soper, E. H. Emmetsburg
Spencer, A. P. Oskaloosa
Stanton, E. W. Ames
Steen, F. D. West Liberty
Sykes, A. Des Moines
Sykes, Mrs. A. Des Moines
Tabur, Frank Waverly
Tomlinson, H. E. New Market
Turner, Asa Ferrar
Vail, Dr. A. M. Rock Rapids
Van Slyke, Mrs. C. B. Des Moines
Wagner, Henry Ankeny
Wallace, H. C. Des Moines
Welch, E. S. Shenandoah
Weller, Miss Mame E. Nashua
Wells, Joseph Des Moines
Whealan, Geo. B. Galva
Wisdom, Frank Bedford

_Kansas._

Adam, Henry Wakefield
Allen, R. N. Chanute
Alexander, B. J. Hiawatha
Andrews, Robert Powhattan
Anderson, Thos. J. Gas City
Atkinson, Mrs. W. D. Parsons
Austin, W. A. Sylvia
Avery, H. W. Wakefield
Ayres, E. S. Edgerton
Ayres, Hy. Howard
Babcock, W. M. Philipsburg
Bailey, E. H. S. Lawrence
Baird, E. J Wellsville
Baker, John M. Gas
Barber, John F. Centralia
Barker, G. H. Girard
Barteider, F. W. Lawrence
Batdorf, D. W. Wellsville
Bean, Frank K. McPherson
Beardsley, J. W. Overland Park
Beauchamp, William Olathe
Beck, W. T. Holton
Beckley, Maj. Thomas H. Wellington
Bell, W. M. Garden City
Bennetzen, H. C. Kansas City
Benton O. M. S. Oberlin
Beery, C. F. Paola
Black, Francis M. Kincaid
Blackman, F. W. Lawrence
Blair, Edw. Spring Hill
Blevins, J. C. Oskaloosa
Boggs, H. C. Beattie
Bowersock, J. D. Lawrence
Bollinger, C. A. Iola
Bone, Roy L. Topeka
Boone, W. M. Highland
Bauer, W. F. Highland
Bosworth, G. G. Wellsville
Bowman, Wm. Sibley
Boyd, C. H. Blue Mound
Boickel, W. H., Jr. Kansas City
Brown, Frances L., Miss Manhattan
Brown, Loyd. Oswego
Bruce, H. E. Marquette
Budd, P. W. Basehoe
Bulmer, Joseph Michigan Valley
Boyce, D. M. Galena
Cain, Victor A. Leavenworth
Call, G. E. Manhattan
Carey, C. W. Wichita
Carlbert, C. F. Lindsborg
Carroll, Edw. Leavenworth
Carter, W. O. Garden City
Carter, E. L. Oskaloosa
Cassin, J. H. Girard
Chapin, Archibald, Mrs. Kansas City
Clarke, W. D. Paola
Clark, Edw. C. Oswego
Cole, J. A. Topeka
Coleman, D. S. Oneida
Collier, John Overbrooke
Collins, Geo. W. Belleville
Collins, John Scammon
Collins, H. D. Eminence
Connet, Frank B. Kansas City
Condon, S. D. Paloa
Cooper, R. L. Salina
Corbet, J. D. Topeka
Cox, E. H. Tonganoxie
Cunningham, A. N. Humboldt
Currier, Harold Garnett
Currey, A. A., Mrs. Joplin
Carpenter, J. W. Bolivar
Coughlin, R. E. Paloa
Crawford, L. M. Winfield
Davis, C. D. Winchester
Davis, J. A. McPherson
Davidson, C. L. Wichita
Detrick, E. A. Caldwell
Dickson, W. T. Carbondale
Ditzen, Paul H. Kansas City
Dix, E. E. Ft. Scott
Donahoe, J. F. Paola
Dorst, O. H. Gardner
Dunham, Ed. Paola
Duncan, K. S. Salina
Dyche, L. L. Lawrence
Eby, A. F. Howard
Edwards, John A. Eureka
Edwards, L. S. Oswego
Edwards, Matt. McLouth
Ellis, F. S. Kansas City
Eldridge, Chas. E. Topeka
Engle, J. H. Abilene
Evans, U. J. Iola
Faxon, R. H. Garden City
Fair, D. J. Sterling
Fairchild, E. T. Topeka
Fosse, A. Wakefield
Faulkner, W. K. Leavenworth
Ferguson, R. M. Bonner Springs
Finley, G. E. Cottonwood Falls
Ford, W. B. Oskaloosa
Francis, A. J. Lucas
Francisco, Hiram Oswego
Friend, Wm. Sedgwick
Frizell, E. E. Lawrence
Flory, F. C. Howard
Frienmuth, Otto Tonganoxie
Finney, L. H. Wellington
French, Ed. W. Hudson
Funk, F. J. Marion
Furst, T. I. Peabody
Garlinghouse, O. L., Dr. Iola
Garrison, Chas. W. Garnett
Garrison, J. W. Garnett
Gaylord, Frank M. Axtell
Gearhart, W. L. Manhattan
Gibbons, J. B. Pratt
Gibbs, J. M. Oskaloosa
Gilliland, W. H. Denison
Gilman, J. M. Leavenworth
Gilmore, T. S. Oneida
Gragg, Frank. Denison
Greenman, Sara Judd, Mrs. Kansas City
Greer, E. P. Winfield
Greason, W. D. Paola
Griffin, Samuel Medicine Lodge
Griffiths, F. J. Peabody
Griesa, T. C. Lawrence
Groves, Chas. A. Edwardsville
Grand, Fred P. Girard
Guernsey, George, Mrs. Independence
Gurnea, J. C. Belleville
Guyer, U. S. Kansas City
Haines, L. J. Galena
Hageman, F. Salina
Halloway, H. M. Larned
Harmon, G. E. Valley Falls
Harrison, Wm. Whiting
Hartley, F. M. Baldwin
Hastings, J. F. Edgerton
Hamilton, M. C. Oswego
Harrell, W. W. Osawatomie
Haskin, M. H. Frankfort
Hatfield, F. P. Olathe
Hatfield, Thomas Valley Falls
Haworth, Erasmus Leavenworth
Hays, D. W. Osawatomie
Hazlett, Robert S. El Dorado
Helmers, W. I., Sr. Leavenworth
Hemphill, Chas. W. Reno
Higgie, F. B. Girard
Henshaw, W. H. Sylvia
Hoad, W. C. Lawrence
Hodgson, R. W. Kingman
Hodgson, H. J. Eureka
Hoffman, C. A., Mrs. Enterprise
Holloway, M. L. Topeka
Holman, E. J. Leavenworth
Holman, L. Carl Leavenworth
Holmes, G. L. Golden City
Holsinger, Geo. W. Rosedale
Holsinger, G. L. Rosedale
Holton, Edwin L. Manhattan
Hopkins, J. C. Tonganoxie
Hopkins, J. C., Mrs. Tonganoxie
Hopper, C. A. Pratt
Hoskinson, J. W. Liberal
Honsh, F. T. Oskaloosa
Houston, J. D. Wichita
Hougland, D. P. Olathe
Hovey, W. A., Mrs. Kansas City
Hull, Wm. Overbrooke
Humphrey, C. P. Denison
Hurst, Frank J. Garnett
Hunter, Senator Geo. H. Wellington
Insley, F. B. Oskaloosa
Irwin, J. C. Richmond
Isely, Charles C. Cimarron
Ives, Charles Baldwin
Jackson, Cong. Fred S. Eureka
Jardine, W. M. Manhattan
Jenkins, Emos Kansas City
Jewett, O. P. Dighton
Judy, D. D. Garnett
Karnes, L. F. Overbrooke
Kaufman, W. S. Iola
Kelsey, Scott Topeka
Kennedy, E. Edgerton
Keohane, T. J. Baldwin
Kennett, Homer Concordia
Kiebler, Thomas Mankato
Kincaid, C. C. Cherryvale
King, E. D. Burlington
Klein, Paul Iola
Knapp, Fred W. Beloit
Koelzer, J. P. Seneca
Koff, Wm. Carbondale
Kohler, J. P. La Harpe
Kraus, E. M. St. Paul
Kufahl, H. F. Wheaton
Kyle, J. C. Manko
Ladtler, W. A. Atchison
Lanver, D. M. Paola
Lease, R. W. Redfield
Le Van, E. P. Topeka
Lidikay, N. W. Wellsville
Livermore, H. C. Olathe
Longnecker, D. H. Paola
Loomis, Elmer Girard
Lowry, Dr. A. D. Valley Falls
Luman, E. M. Lansing
McAuliffe, M. Salina
McCain, F. O. Wellsville
McCarty, C. C. Iola
McCarthy, F. M. Edgerton
McClellan, M. A. Wichita
McComb, S. W. Stafford
McDonald, S. P. Peabody
McKaig, A. E. Olathe
McKee, Mrs. Milo D. Newton
McLachlin, A. F. Paola
McLean, B. F. Wichita
McLeod, H. K. Ellis
McKurdey, G. W. Lone Elm
Macgregor, C. F. Kansas City
Mains, James Oskaloosa
Mantey, A. H. Mound City
Marberg, J. W. Oswego
Marvin, F. O. Lawrence
Maxwell, H. McPherson
Meade, J. M. Topeka
Miller, A. L. Belleville
Miller, C. W. Hays
Miller, J. H. Cherryvale
Mills, J. H. Manhattan
Mingenbach, C. F. McPherson
Moffet, A. H. Larned
Moore, H. S. Kansas City
Moore, Mrs. Ida Wilson Abilene
Moore, C. B. Michigan Valley
Moses, E. R. Great Bend
Morgan, P. W. Kansas City
Mosse, Arthur Leavenworth
Munzenmayer, W. F. Junction City
Myter, E. W. Iola
Needham, H. V. Tonganoxie
Nichols, Mrs. C. C. Leavenworth
Nicholsen, F. C. Iola
Nichoken, John C. Newton
Nee, H. L. Hill City
Northrup, L. L. Iola
Norton, H. T. Olathe
Odell, T. B. Berryton
Oliger, A. L. Emporia
O’Neal, Chas. Berryton
Osborn, Dr. W. F. Baldwin
Osburn, F. M. Erie
Ostlind, John, Jr. McPherson
Parker, Dr. I. B. Hill City
Parker, J. W. Olathe
Paxton, Sam Oswego
Paulen, J. W. Fredonia
Pearson, M. E. Kansas City
Peet, John C. Tecumseh
Peiker, F. O. Paola
Pendleton, E. P. Ottawa
Perkins, J. W. Edgerton
Pierce, F. D. Topeka
Philip, Alex Hays
Platts, G. O. Winfield
Pomeroy, Frank Holton
Potter, Thos. M. Peabody
Powell, John S. Wichita
Powers, John Marion
Pringle, Robert Tribune
Quincy, Fred H. Salina
Reardon, A. P. McLouth
Reed, Geo. W. Axtell
Rees, Cong. R. R. Minneapolis
Reiber, B. F. Lone Elm
Replogle, O. E. Meriden
Rhoades, W. J. Olathe
Rich, Cecil Syracuse
Ricksecker, T. L. Rosedale
Rigney, W. L. Paola
Ritter, Chris S. Iola
Robinson, George W. Wichita
Robinson, J. W. Olathe
Robertson, J. R. Finney Co.
Rogler, Albert Bazaar
Romine, D. S. Oswego
Rose, Wm. Kansas City
Roseberg, Victor McPherson
Rule, Elbert S. Sharon
Ruthrauff, J. B. Hiawatha
Saunders, P. S. Oswego
Sanford, L. V. Oneida
Sarsensen, Anders McPherson
Schaeffer, Oscar W. Girard
Schlot, Henry Natoma
Scott, Adam, Jr. Westmoreland
Scott, Chas. H. Manhattan
Scott, Miss Minnie A. Westmoreland
Sears, John G. Calista
Seyster, O. B. Concordia
Shaad, Geo. C. Lawrence
Shallcross, Wm. J. Highland
Sharpe, Homer Eureka
Sharpe, James Council Grove
Shearer, A. Columbus
Simons, A. M. Girard
Skalle, John Blue Rapids
Smith, E. D. Meade
Smith, W. S. Ashland
Smithmeyer, F. H. Lawrence
Soice, John Kinsley
Siochla, F. J. Wilson
Steiner, D. R. Olathe
Stephens, Mrs. H. T. Kansas City
Steven, J. L. Stockton
Stewart, James Kansas City
Stich, A. C. Independence
Stover, H. J. Salina
Strickler, J. N. Cherryvale
Stubbs, A. W. Kansas City
Swobode, A. Leavenworth
Talbott, I. F. McPherson
Tanner, C. A. Wichita
Taylor, Edwin Edwardsville
Ten Eyck, A. M. Hays
Thompson, C. W. Marion
Thrall, E. W. Eureka
Tod, Wm. J. Maple Hill
True, J. F. Topeka
Troxell, M. F. Atchison
Turner, R. W. Mankato
Van Hoozer, W. H. Mulberry
Van Tuyl, Mrs. Effie H. Leavenworth
Vincent, M. G. Girard
Voigts, E. E. Merriam
Vrooman, L. L. Topeka
Waggenseller, A. L. Junction City
Wakefield, J. E. Humboldt
Walker, D. R. Oswego
Walker, H. B. Manhattan
Walker, O. E. Topeka
Wallace, H. H. Topeka
Wallace, Mrs. Lena Hartzell Kansas City
Warner, Frank Bonner Springs
Watkins, J. B. Lawrence
Watson, C. M. Merriam
Watson, J. M. Frankfort
Watson, W. W. Salina
Waters, H. J. Manhattan
Watson, Miss Grace Merriam
Wear, Jos. Barnard
Weaver, John H. Baldwin
Webster, Ed. H. Manhattan
Wedd, A. E. Lenexa
Weekes, E. E. Parsons
Welch, W. M. Independence
Wells, Abijah Seneca
Wells, Carl D. Sabetha
Whiting, O. F. North Topeka
Wiggam, John H. Emporia
Wilcox, Mrs. F. A. Abilene
Wilfong, J. E. Concordia
Williams, J. C. Kansas City
Williams, M. B. McAlister
Williams, J. S. Kansas City
Windbigler, J. L. Oswego
Winkler, William Seneca
Witwer, W. D. Ft. Scott
Wood, Frank Iola
Woodford, A. L. Burlington
Wright, J. D. Kansas City
Wright, L. J. Hoxie
Wulfekubler, Louis H. Leavenworth
Zumwalt, Imri Bonner Springs

_Kentucky._

Barnes, Mrs. C. P. Louisville
Crump, Malcolm H. Bowling Green
Grider, W. U. Bowling Green

_Louisiana._

Dowling, Dr. Oscar Shreveport
Gipe, James C. Clarks
Grace, Fred J. Baton Rouge
Gerrans, A. T. Houma
Hamilton, Alexander Clarks

_Maine._

Harriman, D. S. West Lebanon

_Maryland._

Baker, Bernard N. Baltimore
Barnard, H. E. Indianapolis

_Massachusetts._

Field, Geo. W. Boston
Moon, F. N. Amherst
Rane, F. W. Boston
Wharton, Wm. P. Groton

_Michigan._

Lord, Henry Nelson Au Sable
Haskel, Fred Detroit
Sharp, Mrs. John C. Jackson
Williams, Gardner S. Ann Arbor
Yoke, A. J. Adrain

_Minnesota._

Bennett, J. W. St. Paul
Eliason, G. Montevideo
Erney, Mrs. C. F. Minneapolis
Neill, D. M. Red Wing
Northrop, Cyrus Minneapolis
Rhodes, J. E. St. Paul
Steenerson, Elias Crookston
Wallace, Dan A. St. Paul

_Mississippi._

Lowe, E. N. Jackson
Travis, S. E. Hattiesburg
Whitfield, H. L. Columbus

_Missouri._

Adams, J. W. Holden
Adams, T. Lee Kansas City
Addison, Mrs. G. W. Kansas City
Adems, A. O. Smithville
Alexander, Rees Independence
Allen, Ford A. Kansas City
Anderson, J. N. St. Louis
Anderson, J. N. Kansas City
Andrews, Mrs. L. B. Kansas City
Ashworth, G. J. Neosho
Axtell, F. M. Amsterdam
Bailey, Geo. W. Brookfield
Bailey, Mrs. Geo. W. Brookfield
Baird, W. T. Kirksville
Baird, Mrs. Leslie Kansas City
Baird, Henry L. Louisiana
Bannister, F. J. Kansas City
Baldridge, Lenny Milan
Barber, H. A. Windsor
Barham, G. L. Braymer
Barnes, Clarence A. Mexico
Barnett, Mrs. Fred P. Kansas City
Barns, H. N. Joplin
Barns, W. E. St. Louis
Barton, Dante Kansas City
Bates, R. L. Excelsior Springs
Bell, M. C. Holden
Bender, Louis Kansas City
Bovard, John H. Kansas City
Bertrand, P. A. Jefferson City
Black, Wm. H. Kansas City
Black, Wm. H. Marshall
Blanchard, Mrs. Ben Kansas City
Blevins, John N. Linden
Boisseau, O. F. Holden
Bolen, James A. Kansas City
Borland, Cong. Wm. P. Kansas City
Bowin, S. B. Lee’s Summit
Brockway, James H. Kansas City
Briggs, Russell T. Joplin
Brigham, Mrs. E. T. Kansas City
Broadhurst, J. J. Gashland
Brodnax, T. J. Kansas City
Brown, F. F. Kansas City
Bryant, W. L. Independence
Buchanan, Mrs. Andrew Kansas City
Buffum, F. W. Louisiana
Burnet, P. B. Kansas City
Burnham, C. N. Cameron
Burns, Clinton S. Kansas City
Burton, Mrs. Chester L. Kansas City
Bushnell, L. S. Kansas City
Cooke, Chas. M. Kansas City
Carlisle, Chas. D. Kansas City
Carter, C. J. Kansas City
Chandler, Mrs. Asa Randolph
Chatten, Wm. K. Adrain
Chipman, L. L. Kansas City
Church, Mrs. Willard Q. Kansas City
Claggett, Mrs. William S. Kansas City
Cleveland, H. H. Cameron
Cobb, B. F. Kansas City
Cochran, James Kansas City
Coe, Willard L. Kansas City
Coffman, Mrs. Chas. Kansas City
Cole, James D. Kansas City
Colpitts, Walter W. Kansas City
Connor, P. Kansas City
Conover, John A. Kansas City
Cook, Miss Ellen Kansas City
Cook, F. L. Kansas City
Cook, H. G. Butler
Corbett, Wm. Turner
Cornell, Dr. H. L. Hannibal
Cox, D. K. Weston
Crabbs, Mrs. Franklin D. Kansas City
Crews, Mrs. Swepson Kansas City
Craig, A. B. Tarkio
Croft, Miss Jennie H. Kansas City
Crause, H. S. Kansas City
Culver, Paul M. Edgerton
Curry, Dr. E. R. Kansas City
Dallmeyer, R. Jefferson City
Davidson, Dr. S. C. Grant City
Davis, Bert C. Kansas City
Davis, Dr. Geo. W. Kansas City
Dean, H. A. Parkville
Deaver, M. Clyde Harrisonville
Dille, A. B. Kansas City
Dodson, Bruce Kansas City
Douglass, A. W. St. Louis
Doty, D. E. Anderson
Droll, G. A. Kansas City
Duncan, H. C. Osborn
Dungan, F. C. Oregon
Durrill, Milton Sedalia
Dutcher, C. H. Warrensburg
Dutton, H. D. Kansas City
Eckel, Rev. Edward H. St. Joseph
Edwards, Mrs. John A. Kansas City
Ellis, Mrs. E. C. Kansas City
Ellison, Mrs. Garrett Kansas City
Ettlinger, Mrs. Victor P. Kansas City
Evans, S. L. Cameron
Evans, Wm. P. Jefferson City
Everard, I. N. Marshall
Faeth, Mrs. Maud Kansas City
Fair, Eugene Kirksville
Faxon, H. D. Kansas City
Ferguson, W. M. Kansas City
Fetter, F. J. Kansas City
Filson, F. M. Cameron
Findlay, M. C. Parkville
Fisher, Miss Jennie M. Kansas City
Flaugh, C. L. Kansas City
Fleming, I. M. Kansas City
Fleming, W. C. Fillmore
Florance, F. C. Independence
Flournoy, W. T. Marionville
Forbis, J. B., Jr. Kansas City
Fordyce, Mrs. W. Grant Kansas City
Forseman, J. H. Kansas City
Forsee, Geo. H. Kansas City
Fox, S. Waters Kansas City
Frank, Harry A. St. Louis
Fratt, F. W. Kansas City
Freeman, Elmer E. Kansas City
Frerichs, Dr. F. W. St. Louis
Fuller, James Kansas City
Fulton, Mrs. J. M. Kansas City
Gantz, A. T. Cameron
Garden, John S. Kansas City
Garetson, James S. St. Louis
Gash, Theo. K. Palmyra
Gatchell, Miss Rosamond Kansas City
Gees, R. W. Kansas City
Gentry, Miss Elizabeth B. Kansas City
Gentry, H. H. Sedalia
George, Harry L. St. Joseph
George, Mrs. Todd M. Lee’s Summit
Gilday, Miss Anna C. Kansas City
Gill, Mrs. Turner A. Kansas City
Gillespie, John Holden
Gilman, F. L. Kansas City
Glass, W. C. Kansas City
Gorsuch, Harry A. Kansas City
Goodman, Chas. W. Kansas City
Goodman, L. A. Kansas City
Goodman, Miss Marie L. Kansas City
Goodwin, Dr. E. J. St. Louis
Goodrich, N. S. Cameron
Grant, E. H. Kansas City
Green, J. P. Liberty
Green, Mrs. J. J. Kansas City
Greene, Miss Mabel E. Clarendon
Greenwood, Prof. James M. Kansas City
Gutridge, A. W. Kansas City
Griffith, Elmer C. Liberty
Griffith, Thos. J. Kansas City
Hadley, Pirse Easton
Hale, James Lexington
Hall, Dr. C. Lester Kansas City
Hall, Mrs. Geo. T. Kansas City
Hamilton, Mrs. G. Harley Kansas City
Hanna, John V. Kansas City
Hanley, Mrs. P. M. Kansas City
Hardenburg, C. M. Kansas City
Hare, S. Herbert Kansas City
Harrington, John Lyle Kansas City
Harris, E. T. Cameron
Harper, John S. Butler
Hayman, F. C. Houston
Heath, Edwin Ruthven Kansas City
Heldorfer, George Kansas City
Hemingway, Mrs. A. F. Kansas City
Henderson, Mrs. Wm. B. Kansas City
Herring, L. H. Brunswick
Henermann, Mrs. H. W. Kansas City
Higgins, H. A. Milan
Hill, Curtis Columbia
Hill, W. A. Grand View
Hill, Wm. B. Kansas City
Hine, Willis Savannah
Hisey, Joseph C. Kansas City
Hockins, W. J. Warrensburg
Hoefer, Chas. Higginsville
Holmes, R. L. Easton
Holzham, W. L. Kansas City
Hoover, S. A. Warrensburg
Hull, James Platte City
Hunt, E. S. Liberty
Huselton, Howard E. Kansas City
Isham, W. V. Kansas City
Ismert, T. F. Kansas City
Jacobs, Floyd E. Kansas City
Jacques, W. R. Kansas City
James, H. G. Independence
James, H. L. Carrollton
James, W. K. St. Joseph
Jensen, A. Independence
Jones, Llewellyn Independence
Jones, R. Harry Kansas City
Kapp, W. C. Warrensburg
Kaufman, F. L. Kansas City
Keiser, Edward H. St. Louis
Keith, Mrs. Richard Kansas City
Kelley, J. R. Kansas City
Kemper, C. L. Cameron
Kendall, Mrs. Elmer E. Kansas City
Kent, James M. Kansas City
Kerr, John A. Independence
Kerns, Willis N. Easton
Kirshner, Chas. H. Kansas City
Kidder, R. E. Kansas City
Kiersted, Wynkoop Kansas City
Kinzer, R. J. Kansas City
Kirn, Gottfried Kansas City
Kirk, John R. Kirksville
Kirkland, E. E. Liberty
Knoop, Chas. E. Cameron
Knox, C. W. Smithton
Kryshtofovich, Theo. St. Louis
Kyle, Harry G. Kansas City
Kyle, Mrs. H. G. Kansas City
Land, Frank S. Kansas City
Latchaw, D. Austin Kansas City
Latz, Mrs. Samuel Kansas City
Laughlin, J. A. Marshall
Laurence, John A. Bolivar
Lawrence, J. H. Parkville
Lennon, L. A. Kansas City
Lewis, John S. Excelsior Springs
Lester, Mrs. John C. Kansas City
Liepsner, F. W. Kansas City
Logan, Geo. B. St. Louis
Logan, Dr. James E. Kansas City
Long, Newton Sheridan
Long, R. A. Kansas City
Lonsdale, C. W. Kansas City
Lott, Frank E. Kansas City
Loumiller, Daniel Parkville
Lowe, J. M. Kansas City
Luebemann, Geo. E. W. St. Louis
Lugbey, John R. Kansas City
Macfarlane, Mrs. G. B. Columbia
MacKesson, Mrs. J. E. Lebanon
MacKay, Malcolm Kansas City
McBlair, Geo. St. Louis
McCleary, C. G. Kansas City
McClure, Mrs. H. H. Kansas City
McClure, M. S. Kansas City
McCormick, Mrs. S. K. Kansas City
McCoun, C. T. Kansas City
McCoy, Mrs. James R. Kansas City
McCune, H. L. Kansas City
McDonell, Mrs. N. I. Kansas City
McKee, R. L. Perrin
McLain, J. K. Excelsior Springs
McKullen, Geo. M. Odessa
McMullen, O. E. Kansas City
McWilliams, E. Plattsburg
Maennes, L. T. St. Louis
Maitland, Alexander Richmond
Marshall, J. A. Kansas City
Martin, J. I. St. Louis
Martin, Joseph Lee’s Summit
Marty, A. P. Kansas City
Matthews, C. E. Webb City
Mayes, Fred St. Louis
Mayer, Morris St. Louis
Melcher, Geo. Jefferson City
Merine, Mrs. J. C. Kansas City
Merriwether, Hunter M. Kansas City
Merriwether, Mrs. H. M. Kansas City
Middlebrook, Robert B. Kansas City
Middleton, Tom Lathrop
Miller, H. D. Liberty
Miller, Mrs. Hugh Kansas City
Miller, J. Z., Jr. Kansas City
Miller, Jo Zach III Kansas City
Miller, R. E. Springfield
Miller, William Dexter
Mohr, Lewis S. Kansas City
Montgomery, J. T. Sedalia
Moore, Miss Annette Kansas City
Moore, Rev. Chas. W. Kansas City
Moore, Mrs. Philip N. St. Louis
Morgan, Mrs. Jacques Kansas City
Morton, John F. Richmond
Mosely, Geo. B. Kansas City
Mosely, Robert K. Kansas City
Mosher, Mrs. Geo. Clark Kansas City
Mosher, Dr. Geo. Kansas City
Moss, Mrs. Alice W. Kansas City
Mratz, Joe St. Louis
Mumford, F. B. Columbia
Munson, Fred S. Osceola
Murray, Samuel Kansas City
Muhlfeld, John E. Kansas City
Nalley, Miss Anna Louisiana
Nelson, C. B. Kansas City
Nickels, Mrs. W. B. Kansas City
Nichols, A. P. Kansas City
Noel, Mrs. George H. Lee’s Summit
Norris, Mrs. E. A. Joplin
O’Fallon, Samuel F. Oregon
Ohaus, Mrs. Henry Kansas City
Ohaus, Mrs. Rose M. Kansas City
Olmstead, Rev. Edwin B. Kansas City
Otto, Geo. Henry Washington
Ousley, Mrs. J. W. Kansas City
Overhoker, Dr. M. P. Nevada
Ozias, E. J. Centerview
Parry, Mrs. Thos. Wood Kansas City
Parker, Mrs. J. W. Kansas City
Parker, Miss Louise Kansas City
Paule, Herman St. Louis
Peet, Mrs. P. F. Kansas City
Peltzer, Theo. C. Kansas City
Peppard, J. G. Kansas City
Perry, J. W. Kansas City
Peters, James W. S. Kansas City
Phillips, E. D. Kansas City
Phillips, Mrs. E. T. Kansas City
Phipps, W. H. Independence
Pierce, Mrs. D. M. Kansas City
Pierson, Mrs. Kate E. Kansas City
Poland, J. W. Cameron
Pollack, Wm. Mexico
Pollord, John B. Kansas City
Porter, Pierre R. Kansas City
Porterfield, E. E. Kansas City
Prewitt, J. Allen Independence
Proctor, C. O. Strasburg
Purdon, C. D. St. Louis
Ram, W. F. Tarkio
Ratliff, Louis Moberly
Rand, R. W. Lathrop
Raupp, W. A. Pierce City
Rawlings, R. C. Kansas City
Reineke, Miss E. Blanche Kansas City
Reinnie, J. G. Stotesbury
Richardson, E. E. Kansas City
Richmond, Prof. H. M. Liberty
Ridge, Mrs. I. M. Kansas City
Risley, C. A. Cameron
Risley, D. C. H. Cameron
Robb, Judge James W. Liberty
Robinson, J. M. Kansas City
Robinson, Mrs. Mary F. Joplin
Robinson, T. M. Noel
Rock, Wm. L. Kansas City
Roeder, Geo. F. Kirkwood
Roever, Wm. H. St. Louis
Rolfes, Henry G. St. Louis
Root, W. C. Kansas City
Rose, Mrs. C. E. Kansas City
Ross, Mrs. John A. Kansas City
Rudder, J. F. St. Louis
Russell, J. B. Cameron
Russell, Joe J. Charleston
Sachs, Chas. Kansas City
Sanders, S. F. Grant City
Sankey, S. R. Holden
Schauffler, E. W. Kansas City
Schrenck, Herman von St. Louis
Schwedtman, Ferd C. St. Louis
Seeley, Mrs. H. J. S. Kansas City
Seibel, Louis L. Kansas City
Semans, Miss Gertrude Kansas City
Selber, Mitchell L. Kansas City
Shannon, E. W. Kansas City
Sharp, Judge C. Weston
Sharp, W. E. Liberty
Shelby, O. J. Joplin
Shelton, Mrs. Theo St. Louis
Simpson, C. L. Kansas City
Slater, J. Harvey Richmond
Smart, Fletcher Harrisonville
Smith, Frederick M. Independence
Smith, John T. Kansas City
Smith, M. R. Kansas City
Smith, W. B. Kansas City
Sneed, W. S. Sedalia
Stauber, R. O. St. Joseph
Steele, Wm. Holden
Sterling, Robt. E. Kansas City
Stewart, R. M. Kansas City
Storey, J. E. Kansas City
Storms, Roy L. Laredo
Stowe, Mrs. J. Kansas City
Sullivan, Michael L. Pleasant Hill
Sumner, Chas. A. Kansas City
Sweeney, E. R. Kansas City
Sweet, Mrs. C. B. Kansas City
Sweetman, M. M. Kansas City
Taylor, Rev. Carl R. Kansas City
Taylor, Isaac Kansas City
Teasdale, F. X. Louisiana
Temple, Chris Higginsville
Tharp, Mrs. F. D. Kansas City
Thayer, Mrs. W. B. Kansas City
Tibbe, A. A. Kansas City
Tippin, Geo. T. Nichols
Todd, Mrs. Gertrude T. Kansas City
Todhunter, Mrs. Ryland Lexington
Tucker, R. S. Excelsior Springs
Turner, F. H. Kansas City
Turpin, Rees Kansas City
Twichell, Jerome Kansas City
Van Brunt, John Kansas City
Van Brunt, Mrs. John Kansas City
Van Ornum, J. L. St. Louis
Wagoner, J. T. Odessa
Wagner, J. W. Kansas City
Walker, Mrs. John R. Kansas City
Walker, T. J. Harrisonville
Wall, E. E. Calhoun
Walmsley, Harry R. Kansas City
Walton, Mrs. W. E. Butler
Walton, Wm. E. Butler
Waller, Joe B. Smithville
Warren, Walter Sedalia
Wayland, Mrs. J. T. Kansas City
Weeks, D. M. F. Kansas City
Weeks, Edwin R. Kansas City
Weeks, Mrs. Edwin R. Kansas City
Welch, Mrs. Milton Kansas City
Welch, W. B. Marshall
Welsh, Mrs. J. B. Kansas City
Werkmeister, Geo. Webster Grove
Weyer, Sophia F. Kansas City
Wheeler, W. W. Clinton
White, D. F. Tarkio
White, J. B. Kansas City
Wilcox, Edw. D. Burlington Jct.
Wiles, John H. Kansas City
Williams, Lee Dexter
Williams, James Cameron
Williams, W. T. Gashland
Willison, Miss Nan Kansas City
Wilson, J. W. Kansas City
Wilson, Mrs. Richard E. Kansas City
Wingfield, J. C. Windsor
Withers, Mrs. R. S. Liberty
Wolf, Arthur L. Parkville
Wood, N. P. Independence
Woods, John B. Smithville
Woodson, Mrs. Blake L. Kansas City
Woodson, S. C. Kansas City
Woodson, A. P. Kansas City
Woodson, S. H. Independence
Wornall, Mrs. Roma Kansas City
Wright, Mrs. H. P. Kansas City
Write, James C. Smithville
Ziegenheim, Henry Cameron

_Montana._

Lake, James Kalispell
O’Neil, C. I. Kalispell

_Nebraska._

Burnett, E. A. Lincoln
Condra, G. E. Lincoln
Coupland, George Elgin
Covell, H. G. Plainview
Dalby, J. G. Superior
Garrett, E. O. Fremont
Gault, Mrs. A. K. Omaha
Grinstead, R. E. Salem
Grosvenor, H. Aurora
Herron, L. S. Lincoln
Hill, E. C., Sr. Dawson
Kay, David Loup
Keefe, Mrs. Harry L. Walthill
Lyford, V. G. Falls City
McBrien, J. S. Lincoln
McCoun, L. B. Omaha
Mayhew, J. M. Lincoln
Miller, Fred A. Aurora
Mudge, W. E. Dillen
Munn, H. M. Falls City
Nichols, M. V. Beatrice
Nichols, Mrs. M. V. Beatrice
Oleson, Miss M. Crowell Ord
Paine, Clarence S. Lincoln
Price, Thos. P. Dillen
Schoenauer, A. B. Plainview
Stark, U. L. Aurora
Stephens, E. F. Crete
Tanner, T. Superior
Tyler, A. A. Bellevue
Weeks, Chas. R. Peru

_New Jersey._

Libbey, Mrs. Wm. Princeton
Stevens, E. A. Hoboken

_New York._

Coffin, Wm. Edward New York
Mallalieu, W. E. New York
Moore, John D. New York City
Sevena, Joseph H. Kruka Park
Sheldon, A. B. Sherman
Taylor, Edw. R. Pen Yan
Van Vleck, A. A. Jameston
Wadsworth, J. W. Mt. Morris
Wilson, Warren A. New York City
Willey, Henry Ide New York City

_Ohio._

Adams, A. E. Youngstown
Allen, C. H. Paulding
Courtright, John Ashville
Dyar, C. P. Marietta
Fordyce, Geo. L. Youngstown
Goddard, T. H. Wooster
Lawrence, Mrs. Elmer G. Cincinnati
Porter, W. C. Xenia
Rogers, H. C. Mechanicsburg
Secrest, Edmund Wooster
Talbot, Rev. Winthrop Cleveland
Underwood, R. A. Marietta

_Oklahoma._

Ban, Archibald Claremore
Beaty, W. E. McAlester
Beard, J. T. Wagoner
Brown, Milton Guthrie
Burke, J. J. Norman
Casaver, J. C. Wagoner
Davenport, Dr. R. G. Oklahoma City
Elliott, James McAlister
Fink, D. N. Muskogee
Harrice, T. C. Wagoner
Harrice, Mrs. T. C. Wagoner
Harris, James A. Wagoner
Hudson, Kenneth Ardmore
Larsh, D. L. Norman
Mullen, J. S. Ardmore
Price, H. D. Keota
Price, J. F. Keota
Ramsay, Asa E. Muskogee
Robbins, Clay Chouteau
Roberts, O. T. Welch
Robertson, Alice M. Muskogee
Robinson, J. W. Keota
Rush, Frank Cache
Shinn, T. J. Wagoner
Smith, Thomas Muskogee
Thompson, Joe Sapulpa
Trumbo, A. C. Muskogee
Watts, Jess W. Wagoner
Watts, Mrs. Jess W. Wagoner
Wicks, John C. Guthrie

_Oregon._

Allen, E. T. Portland
Kinney, M. J. Portland

_Pennsylvania._

Baker, Hugh Potter State College
Cook, A. W. Cooksburg
Drinker, Henry Sturgis Lehigh
Farquhar, A. W. York
Guenther, Emil Philadelphia
McCreight, M. I. Du Bois
Oursler, Howard B. Pittsburg
Sterling, E. A. Philadelphia
Stone, Chas. W. Warren

_South Carolina._

Twitchell, M. W. Columbia

_South Dakota._

Culbertson, R. G. Mitchell
Heglin, Fred Centerville
Johnson, C. A. Fairfax
Newbanks, N. Pierre
Wentzy, Harry Rapid City

_Tennessee._

Fisher, J. W. Newport
Moore, Herbert Memphis
Winslow, Mrs. H. M. Harriman

_Texas._

Gray, W. H. Houston
Jones, W. Goodrich Temple
Landergin, P. H. Vega
Shackelford, Dr. S. S. Austin
Smith, J. A. El Paso
Spiller, E. B. Ft. Worth
Turner, Arry Amarillo

_Utah._

Belliston, Wilford Nephi
Bennion, S. O. Salt Lake
Broadbent, Sylvester Heber
Hemphill, Geo. E. Salt Lake
Jones, T. Vernon Payson City
Mackay, Walter S. Salt Lake
McAlister, W. L. Salt Lake
Shumway, R. F. Tropic

_Vermont._

Bailey, Geo. C. Montpelier
Goss, Frank K. Montpelier

_Washington._

Llewelling, A. L. Spokane
Griggs, Everett G. Tacoma

_Wisconsin._

Caples, Mrs. Byron M. Waukesha
Douglass, C. S. Fontana
Vilter, Theo. O. Milwaukee

INDEX

ADAMS, REV. CLAIR S., Tribute to His Work, 76

Agricultural College, How It Meets the Needs of the Farmer’s Wife, 128

Agricultural College, Kansas, 247

Agriculture, Commissioner of New York, Statement, 235

Agriculture, Government Expert in Every County, 221

—, Tolls on, 95

Agriculture, U. S. Dept of, Endorsed and Commended, xvi

Alaska Coal Fields, on Leasing System, Urged, xv

Alfalfa, Experience in Growing, 210

ALLEN, E. T., Report by, 114

Animal Husbandry, 234

ASHBY, MRS. HARRIET WALLACE, “The Farmer’s Wife.”, 121

Audubon Societies, Report of the National Association, 272

BACHELOR, IRVING, Cited, 265

“Back to the Farm”, 237

BAILEY, GEORGE W., Address by, 148

BAKER, BERNARD N., Introduced, 30

—, Address by, 50

BARBER, O. C., Telegram from, 109

BARNARD, HARRY EVEREST, Introduced, 28

—, Report by, 277

BAUMGARTNER, J. T., Announcement, 22

BAUMGARTNER, J. C., of California, Address by, 274

BAXTER, SYLVESTER, Author of “Golden New England”, 281

Bayne-Blauvelt Bill, Credit for its Enactment, 266

—, Bills to be Pushed, 266

BEARD, DAN, Reference to, 265

BEARD. W. A., Made Temporary Chairman, 68

—, Address by, 78

BENSON, HON. F. W., Reference to Work of, 289

Birch Canal, Its Completion in Sight, 286

Bird Life, Importance of Conserving, 263

Birds, American Water, to Safeguard, 272

—, Breeding Sanctuaries on Government Reservations, 273

—, Educational, Campaign Among Southern Children, 273

—, Important Breeding Colonies, 273

—, Wild Insectivorous, Importance of Protecting, 263

Bone Meal of Commerce, 238

Boys and Girls and the Farm, 17

Boys, Place for, 40

Boy Scouts, Reference to, 75

BREEZE, FRED J., Move by, 30

BROWN, MAYOR DARIUS A., Address by, 1

BROWN, MILTON, Introduced, 68

—, Report by, 287

BROWN, MISS FRANCES, on Organizations of Farmers’ Wives, 128

BRYAN, W. J., Telegram from, 64

—, Entrance Greeted with Cheers, 193

—, Remarks by, 203

—, Address by, 220

California Fruit Growers’ Exchange, 83

—, Report from, 274

Camp Fire Club of America, Represented by W. E. Coffin, 116

—, By its Vice-President, 265

CAMPBELL, H. W., Apostle of Dry Farming Cited, 252

Charcoal, Animal, 239

Charity Conference in Boston, Reference to, 136

Children’s Bill, in England, 42

Children, the Biggest Crop, 32

—, Versus Animals, 41

Child Labor Law Fallacy Exploded, 38

Child, the, and the Community, 36

Child Welfare Bureau Urged, xviii

Church, Country, Its Effect on Economic Affairs, 258

—, in open Country, Best School for Farmers, 257

—, in the Open Country, 257

Cities, Instinct to Flock to, 35

City, Movement to, 13

CLENDENING, E. M., Courtesies Acknowledged by Resolutions Committee,
xx

Clubs, the Ideal Kind, 137

Coal, Are Prices Prohibitive, 198

—, Fields, Early Opening Recommended, xv

—, Lands, Policy of Withdrawal, 197

—, Royalties per ton Exacted by Colorado and Wyoming, 198

COBURN, F. D., Assumes the Chair, 183

COFFIN, WM. E., Introduced, 116

—, Address by, 265

Coöperation, Failures in, 86

Coöperation, Talk by W. A. Beard, 78

—, Twenty Years of, 82

—, Leads to Large Success, 79

—, National Trait, 80

—, Recommended by Resolutions Committee, xvi

—, Rise of in America, 81

Coöperative Banks of Europe, 79

Coöperative Society, What It Is Not, 85

COMBS, REV. DR. GEO. HAMILTON, Invocation by, 111

Commercial Club, Escort to President Taft, 54

—, Especially Thanked by Resolutions Committee, xx

Community Center Church, Its Scope, 259

Community Club, 132

Community Life, Its Pleasures, 165

CONDRA, E. A., Address by, 49

—, Temporary Chairman, 45

Congestion Problems, 32

Congress, More Liberality Urged, xiii

Congress, International, of Humane Associations in London, Eng., 263

Conservation and the National Domain, 193

Conservation and Utilization, 140

Conservation, as Exemplified in Education, 216

Conservation, As Old as Mankind, 214

Conservation Commission in Oregon, When Appointed, 288

Conservation Commission of California, a Report of Its Work, 274

Conservation Commission of New York, Report of, 286

Conservation Commission, Urged for Each Commonwealth, xvi

Conservation, Education in, 293

Conservation Movement, Its Organization in Pennsylvania, 291

—, Misunderstood and Misrepresented, 195