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Show i NORTHWEST NOTES. NEWS SUMMARY. Steamboat men estimate a total of 3,150 excursionists and seek- pleasure ers have visited Alaska this year. Henderson Pierson, living near Davenport, Texas, in a fit of jealousy, shot and killed his wife and her mother. There have been several cases of bubonic plague recently at Palermo and Naples, three or four ending fatally. The total number of buildings destroyed by the Victor, Colo., fire is800. Total loss about 51,750,000; Insurance 800,000. The number killed by the hurricane in Porto Rico is 1,973, missing 1,000, houses destroyed, 6,421, persons home- less 22,046. St. Paul, Minn., Globe advocates the nomination of Admiral Dewey for president by the next Democratic national convention. Fourteeu fishermen camping on Wan island, near the mouth of the Neuse river, N. C. , during a recent storm were drowned. John and Jay Saunders, colored, were killed and four other negroes wounded at Parsons camp ground, Kentucky, in a fight. The London Church Missionary so- ciety has received a report stating that 40,000 persons have died of famine on the east coast of Africa. From most parts of England reports state that the wheat crops are being gathered in fine condition.- It is considered the best crop for years past. The steamship City of Columbia has been abandoned at sea in a waterlogged condition and her crew of thirty-eigh- t men are now in Honolulu. Until quite recently a man to hold office in the Transvaal must have resided there fourteen years and be at the same time a member of the Dutch church. At the Berkeley Oval, New York City, George Scheiber and Frank Kratandem mer lowered the quarter-mil- e bike record. They covered the distance in 23 seconds. 2-- 5 In Havana the Masons have been asking for an increase of wages. About 4,000 workers held a conference .at which a strike was agreed upon. Nine thousand are idle. The Echo Agricoloj Paris, states that several estimates of the wheat crop have already been given, varying from to 130,000,000 hectols to 44,700,000 quarters. 110.000.- 000 ills the quartermaster department's Intention to have not only the first ten regiments afloat for the Philippines by the last of October, but also those to be raised under the last order. mission of Russian engineers and f tieir escorts was recently attacked by Chinese brigands at Kirin, on the' frontier, on the main Manchuria railway. All were massacred. A shooting affray growing out of the old row between cattlemen and sheepmen occurred on the range southwest of Chadron, Neb., when George Coil, a slieepherder, instantly killed Thomas Ryan, a cattleman. Miss Viola Ilorlocker, who is under 25,000 bonds to appear in Hastings, Neb., next month to answer to the charge of poisoning, is a patient at Oak Lawn sanitarium, Jacksonville, 111., under the name of Miss Allen. K China-Russia- n cable dispatch has been received the war department from General A at Davis, giving additional details of the conditions in Porto Rico. He places the number of killed at 1,000, and reiterates his estimate of 100,000 destitute. James Birch was shot and killed by Patrolman G. M. Warren at Birch's Before he home. Indianapolis, Ind. was killed Birch shot the policeman twice, making serious but not necessarily fatal wounds. He resisted arrest. The bonds of Daniel Coughlin, in Chicago, charged with and at present a fugitive, and those of William Armstrong, his have been declared forfeited. Coughlins bonds were 15,000; Armstrong's .5,000. Baron Von Ileyking, the late German minister at Peking, who has arrived at Berlin on leave of absence for a year, has declared in an interview recently that Russia does not intend to extend her possessions in jury-bribin- g China. In consequence of the putreficatioq of bodies, typhus fever has developed at Arroyo, Porto Rico. The captains of coastwise vessels complain that the bad odors at the various ports have caused them more suffering than the Jiurricane. The stonecutters engaged on the capitol building at Helena have gone on a strike. Paddy Purtel defeated EJ Steele of Cripple Creek in the arena of the Lead-ill- e Athletis club last week. Steele was outclassed. A stock buyer recently purchased 25.000 head of lambs in one bunch, near Reno, Nevada, the price being in the neighborhood of 65,000. S. B. Roberts shot and killed Nate Young at Big Timber, Mont. The men were ranchers and had quarreled over a piece of government land. The Wyoming soldiers will return on a special train, which will cost in the neighborhood of 13,000. Nearly every town in the state is raising funds. The sparring exhibition given at the Olympic Athletic club. Denver, for the benefit of the free train fund of the Colorado volunteers, netted about 300. It is estimated that 10,00.) people from various towns in Colorado and Wyoming attended the first day's session of the Frontier celebration at Cheyenne. A son of John Lambert of Spokane, while playing, lay down on the railroad track and fell asleep. A few moments later a tcain four-year-o- ld crushed the life out of the little one. Simon T. Morse, while working placer ground in Butte, was slowly His smothered to death by a cave-in- . little daughter saw the accident and ran for assistance, which came too late. Mrs. Wallen, wife of a Northern Pacific section boss, ran in front of a passenger train at Painted Rock, Mont. to shoo turkeys from between the rails. The effort cost her her life and the turkeys were killed, too. Near Topaz, Nevada, last week two men were riding in a horse race, when one hit the other one over the head with a whip to keep him from winning. A lively fight ensued in which one of the parties was badly, probably fatally injured. Harry Staininger, 17 years of age, was killed and Frank Murdock, also 17 years old, mortally wounded by Henry Bartholmus of Ouray, Colo., whose watermelon patch they were raiding. Bartholmus says he shot intending only to scare the boys. George Wilson, the man who came to Rawlins. yo., looking for his wife, who had eloped with his brother, found the guilty couple at Encampment, Wyo., where they were living as husband and wife. They are now in the clutches of the law. During the celebration of Frontier day at Cheyenne, while Nelson Perry, a cowboy, was roping a wild steer, the animal, which was a ferocious beast, upset the horse and rider, the cowboy falling under the horse and receiving injuries which may prove fatal. The annual celebration of Frontier day at Cheyenne came to an end with a grand reception given at the capitol in honor of the Frontier day bride and groom and the twenty-twbridesmaids. During the two days celebration the exciting scenes of thirty years ago were John Korte, a wealthy retired of Cincinnati, dropped dead on the streets of Leadville on the 21st. He has been a sufferer from heart disease for some years and heart failure was the cause of his death. He was one of the Cincinnati excursion party, which was spending a few hours in the city. News comes from San Francisco of Deceased the death of L. P. Drexler. was for years a mining man in Nevada and member of the legislature that sent Fair to the senate. He was noted for his enterprise and independence of judgment. His first trip to the west was from St. Louis to Salt Lake by ox team. John Audrachi reports to the Helena, Mont., authorities that while crossing the Mullan pass over the main range of the Rockies, he was held up by two highwaymen, who, after robbing him, bound and gagged him and lowered him into a shallow prospect hole some distance from the trail. He would have remained there to starve had not a man named Murphy, believed to be one of the gang, pulled him out long after the other robber had gone away. The state board of equalization decided to raise the assessment of Montana in excess of the total assessment aseqaulized bv the county boards. In doing this the board invites alawsuitof big proportions as it will be disregarding a deision of the supreme court made in 1896, which was in effect that state equalizers could neither raise nor lower the aggregate assessment as equalized by the county board. The contemplated increase in assessment would probably amonut to 3,000,000. o mer-cha- Does Agricultural Education Taj? Ftom Farmers Review: The col lege dairy flncja that It does. Before the 1st of April, 1S99, the herdsman at the Kansas Agricultural College was a man with no special training along lines. He was a good agricultural man to do what he was told and to draw his salary, but there his interest ended. When asked how the recent snowstorm or change of feed affected the milk yield of his cows he didnt know, although he had weighed and recorded each milking. During this time the college was feeding four head and this herdsof calves on skim-milman made them gain at the rate of 33 pounds per month per head, or 1.2 pounds per day. On the 1st of April a graduate of the college and a special student in dairying took up the work of herdsman. He is a man that is constantly on the alert for new developments When milking a fresh cow he can scarcely wait until the milk is weighed in order to see if there is a gain or 'When loss from previous milkings. the calves are weighed he wants to know immediatley how much they With the same feeds it his gained. command he made the four calves mentioned above gain an average of 53 pounds per head per month, or 1.8 pounds per day, an increase of CO per cent. This was done by carefully watching the calves; the moment one of them began to scour he saw it, reduced the supply of milk, gave a little castor oil, and in various other ways sought to bring it back to normal condition. This was acomplished in about twenty-fou- r hours, when the calf would keep on gaining at the rate of a pound and a half or two pounds per k, , OUR BUDGET OF FUN. SOME COOD JOKE, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. A Variety of Joke. Gibe, and Ironies, Original and Selected Flotsam aad Jetsam from th Tide of Humor Viitty Saying. Shirt-Wai- MARKET EEPORTJ SILVKK. New York San Francisco London 59 11-- Yd 27 I. KAO. New York Exchange New Vork brokers 4 36 t'OPPKK. New York New Yrk 4.624 54.80 Exchange Brokers t 018.50 ftlt) 50 Girls. st Fair as any vernal flowers That Illumine a woodland way With their brilliancy of color. s On a perfect day. Are the maidens now before us With their wealth of tangled curls. Whom we designate with justice girls. Springtime's lovely Man might lose his faith In summer Mav-titne- shirt-wai- st Were It not for such as these. of rosy June time breexe. fragrance-lade- n When he sees them come, as blossoms. On the street, away he hurls All his doubts of coming mildness. And he blesses shirt-waigirls. Harbingers With its st Woman has more trust that man Ms, For she'll wear a tine new siraw Ere the last white flake of winter Has decided when to thaw. Thus they ever lead men onward (Those who won t he led are churls). at least, these maids assever. Who are known as shirt-waigirls. So, st r.e the skies or fair or cloudy. They will somehow look the same. Just a sight to cheer a fellow Ee he losing at life's game. And if Id a choice between them And the choicest of choice pearl3, I had rather see before me Half a dozen shirt-waigirls. Arthur E. Lock.. st Feminine Spooks. day. Yet there are farmers who say that education dont pay, and that book learning is a farce. There is no profession in the universe that allows a greater display of intellect than farming, and nowhere is it needed more in order to increase the profits. The farmer is called upon to solve questions in soil physics, in chemistry, botany, entomology, bacteriology, veterinary sicence, mechanics and in fact can call into play a knowledge of all the sciences and arts. To do this he must be educated. This education not only makes him a better farmer, but makes his work a pleasure. No one who has not experienced it can apFirst Ghost Say, Marie, come wltk preciate the satisfaction that comes from seeing a plant, an insect, a bird me to the graveyard; Im afraid to go or an animal of any kind, and to be alone. New York Journal. able to name it, tell something of its life history, and especially to know of Foor Georgie. its economic value to the farmer. Such I want to marry George 'Papa, education helps the farmer to realize the dignity of his calling, and helps td Eh? Why on earth doesnt he coma place his. profession in the front rank to see me about it? of the worlds industries, where it beHes so sensitive, papa. longs. Stuff and rubbish. But he is, papa. Hes afraid youll Treatment of Run Down Pastures. guy him. undertaken have been Experiments Guy him about marrying you! ne8 by Mr. Jared Smith of the department of agriculture at two points in Texas an idiot! "No, papa, not about that. to determine the most practical and What then? natural of manner economical treating Why, he knows you are a Harvard have become which largely pastures and hes from Yale, and he says as man, so run down through overstocking, to again cover them with native hes Just sure youll say something grasses or better species from other about those boat races. regions. Plats of pasture have been Her Geographic Idea. disked, dragged with an ordinary harrow and pastured alternately, allowing Charley, dear, said young Mrs. I wish theyd have something grasses a short period for recovery after each grazing, and compared with more in the papers about the Bering plats grazed in the ordinary way. sea. I dont quite perceive why. During succeeding seasons experiments will be made with sowing alfalfa, It would go so nicely with all theso sorghum, bokhara clover and other South Africa head lines. Just think of forage plants directly on the sod withthe combination; sealskins and diaout further treatment than to keep monds. Washington Star. the stock off during the first year. In order to be practicable, very inexpenHe'd He I here to See. sive treatment must be employed. How am I to know that you will These treatments will be carried on at support my daughter in the style to least three years, at the end of which which she has been accustomed? asktime definite results are hoped for ed Goldey of the persistent Chumpley. which will enable stockmen to decide Why, we will live right here with the of pasmethod the best restoring you, so you may see for yourself. You tures which are now generally deprecant make it too rich for my blood. ciated. Detroit Free Press. Commercial Fertilizers in Michigan. The use of commercial fertilizers ia Very Apropos. steadily increasing in the state. Considerable knowledge is required in order to buy just such ingredients as are lacking in the soil and as are best for promoting growth in adapted certain plants. Their use will of necessity be limited to the older portions of the state for some time to come. Many farmers throughout the state have found the use of these fertilizers profitable. It is a subject worthy of investigation, and many farmers would do well to conduct experiments of their own along this line. Careful work of this kind could be done with much profit at a slight cost. The per cent of farmers that use commercial fertilizers is, in the southern counties 10, in the central counties 4, in the northern counties 1, and for the state 7. Michigan Crop Report. First Missionary What did you put Action. on action, that cannibal'3 tombstone who died Capillary Capillary or movement of water in the soil, is last week? Second Missionary Here lies one due to the tension of the soil particles. If the particles are coarse, the action who loved his fellowman. i3 weak and the soil cannot hold much water. If the particles are fine and the Giving It a Name. Seems to me Ive read this short soil compact, the caplliary action is strong and a large amount of water story a couple of times before, and each will be held unless lost by evaporation. time it had a different authors name attached. over in nine Denmark, Everybody tale. "It must be a peers of age, can read and write. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Crown I'oini Comstock Century Camp Floyd Columbiu Crusader Con Central Mammoth Dalton Diamond Consolidated. Eagle & Blue Boll Emerald .00' .03 .01 .10 .OO1. O'J .11) UP 12' .52 1 22 .Ha 1 4 Bol-leng- er. Tor-kin- s, twice-stole- d Lake City. (salt Wheal Cwt. Corn ) Cracked corn 1 Rye Barley Oats Alfalfa Mixed hay la 1 OD 1 I 15 40 50 55 60 Timothy SLraw, por hale Live Turkey Gobblers Live Turkey Bens Chickens, hells 23 10 12 6 8 12 10 19 lb 1)1 rooslers Broilers, pr lb Young duck Young Geese Old Eggs, (Jiuii, per case ft 4 5(j -5 121401$ Butter, creamery Ranch butter kan Francisco Grain. May wheat 01 December Harley New 00 i pj lfllx II 4 I December 62'4 S3 Iortland. Walla Walla 59 Valley 059 60 61 llluestein STOCK. LIVE Chicago. Good to fancy steers Common grades Hloekeisaud feeders Bulls Cows and heifers alves lexas steers Lambs Western sheep Culls 15 80 3 25 3 40 2 00 2 00 4 50 3 25 3 2 .' 3 50 2 ()0 Kansan City. Native steers Texas steers Texas Cows Native cows and heifers Stockers and feeders Bulls and stags Lambs Muttons ft 5 25 7 15 4 ft 25 5 S3 15 ft3 00 ftl d 8 35 05 14 75 3 60 2 50 1 75 3 76 4 00 2 60 3 kO 3 75 3 75 4 60 Western muttons Stockers Lambs ft5 00 ft 5 25 08 ft 4 4 Calves Bulls and stags Sheep Yearlings 5 55 00 25 75 00 65 00 15 3 2 3 3 3 Omaha. Native beef steers Texas steers Cows arid heifers fanners blockers and feeders 80 S 15 30 ft 3 00 ft 5 35 ft5 00 ft 4 50 40 ft! 00 08 10 4 01 ft 4 20 2 50 5 00 6 25 4 25 4 10 4 00 ft 3 65 5 25 Denver. t3 Beef steers Cows Feeders, freight paid to river.. Stockers, freight paid to river,. Bulls and stags Good fat muttons Lambs . . 2 3 3 2 3 4 75 50 25 75 75 75 5 50 ft 4 CO ft4 60 ft 4 75 4(4 50 44 ft5 50 25 RECEIPTS. Chicago Cattle Sheep Kansas City -- Cattle Sheep Omaha.. Cattle Sheep Denver Cattle Sheep 14.000 lH.MlO 12.000 3.00) 4 200 7,300 300 4 |
