THE NORFOLK NEWS : FRIDAY , JULY 18 , 1902 ,
Blue grass , butter and bunk accounts
are closely allied.
The deficient moral qualities of tlio
mule about offset any benefit tlio cross
produces in.a . physical way.
It Is a very remote corner of the
earth where may not bo found the
products of this country in some former
or other.
Alfalfa Is being raised successfully
In several localities In the state of Min
nesota. This proves that It is not cold
Weather which kills It
There Is no reason why four or five
town families could not keep a co
operative town cow , thus securing a
supply of pure milk at a minimum of
cost
Critically noting the relative merits
of several varieties of strawberries
Which we have fruited this season , we
flnd the Warfleld well to the top ot
the list
The spring chicken is never killed to
BO good a purpose as when two of
them will Just flll a frying pan and
two people arc supposed to make away
( With them.
A six years' drought in Australia has
converted a large productive and fer
tile section of that continent into a
desert wilderness. The losses on stocJ ?
alone have been enormous.
Every farmer's wife should realize
enough out of her dower interest in the
farm while she lives to provide her
.with modern and convenient accesso
ries for doing her household work.
When a white Brahma hen has laid
all winter long , raised a nice brood of
early chicks and will sell for 8 cents
a pound in Juno for a chicken stew ,
eho is a pretty profitable sort of bird to
have on the farm.
As predicted when the experiment
( was flrst tried , the Tanworth or bacon
hog when placed under corn belt con
ditions and fed corn belt rations im
mediately begins to drop his Tan-
[ worth characteristics and In a short
time so kept will inevitably gravitate
into the type of the corn fed or lard
hog.
hog.A
A friend in Pennsylvania sends us
the following as a successful remedy
for both the striped and big black
beetles which work such devastation
on the squash and melon tribe. It con
sists of getting the fine tobacco clip
pings and offal from the cigar facto
ries and placing some of it on each hill ,
( When the bugs let the vines alone.
T
; Your homo surroundings may be 1m-
piaculato from a sanitary standpoint ;
the food whfch you eat may be most
cdrefully selected and prepared , you
ttjay work , and live each day with
strict'refbronco to the laws of health' ,
and still at the same time be imbibing
aj subtle poison , every time you take a
Qrlnk of , v afer from your well. Nearly
every case of typhoid , diphtheria and
kindred diseases may be traced to the
use of , impure water at the family
'home. . . Jl
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| Wa are asked who lost the $500,000
Which the , man who ran the late corner
on oats In Chicago made. It did , not
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cocao out of'the farmers and producers
of the grain , for the very existence o"f
this corner , which was of the "bul #
type , had a tendency to support the
market' and stiff eft the p"rjco oftEis
cereal. It was the board of trade
smart Alecks who sold that which they
did not own who lostfho money , whoso
ability to bet exceeded their ability to
correctly Judge of the coursoT of the
market ,
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A sheljbark hickory stub "IS feet
high and 0 inches in diameter has thin
season , standing out alone near our
orchard , been curiously utilized as a
nesting place for birds. First a pair
of bluebirds selected a hole near the
top for their nest Before their brood
Was fledged a pair of king birds built
a nest right on top of the stub , and before -
fore they got through houfckeeplng
another pair of. bluebirds nested again
in the hole. Just why these birds se
lected such an exposed location for
nesting Is a puzzle to us.
A vast sum of money is spent every
year in all the civilized parts of this
country for the education of the chil
dren , and the weak spot connected
tTrlth the spending of this money is that
too much of It goes for educational
'frills and fads and not enough of It
for the education of the child along the
common , practical lines things which
ho will bo so much in need of ns ho
takes up the business of life. When n
high school graduate spells "whole *
.minus the "w , " something is wrong ,
oven if ho can conjugate a Latin verb.
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wintyfalt association , It Is HOOII all
uay with lliu county fair.
It Is usually the houioly cow which
fills the pall and nutUcs the butter rec
ord. The handsome cow stands fgr
boaf , not t utter.
The liquid fertilizer which may bo
easily gathered up In a barnyard after
a heavy rain makes one of the best of
stimulants for the rose garden.
Marked as has been the advance In
the prlco of beef , the advance In the
prices of the foodstuffs which pro
duced it have been still greater.
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The advance in the prices of all
building material Is operating to pre
vent many substantial Improvements
lu both the cities and on the farms.
The south Is Just beginning to wako
up and realize what a splendid market
the north offers for the early vegeta
bles and fruits which the south can
produce In such abundance.
A California cherry grower whoso
trees wcro Irrcgular/in bcnUng two
years ago placed several hundred
stands of bees in his orchard , and for
two years past his crops have been
very heavy.
Notwithstanding the great boom in
pork prices there Is very little boom in
the highly bred breeding stock. When
that forty-flvo hundred dollar hog was
found after his sale to have a tainted
pedigree a few years ago It put n
damper on fancy prices for Poland
Chinas. ,
A man whom we know has about
ruined his small fruit business by hi ;
miserable tricks in packing and mar
ketlng his fruit short measure , dirty
rotten berries and all'that sort of fool
ishness and dishonesty. The consum
cr soon sizes up a producer In these
matters.
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Illustrating some of the possibilities
connected with vegetable gardening in
the southern states , wo note that .one
Florida gardener sold 051 crates of tO'
matocs from a two acre patch and thai
they averaged him $1.50 per crate net ,
or $713 per acre. This Is as much as
lots of men mnko from an eighty acre
farm in the northwest
We noted a skeleton barn for the
storing of hay lately. It was Just n
well braced frame covered with a
board roof , the boards to be removed
when the hay was used up. It afforded
perfect shelter for 'eighty tons of- hay
and did not cost over $100. Where a
man cannot a'fford a well built baru
this method Is worth trying.
The Poles and Bohemians have
learned how to make money on the
sandy , timbered tracts in central WlS'
consin. They coax a growth of clover ,
plow the clover under , plant potatoes
and raise the finest potato In the coun
try ; then sow to fall rye and olovcr
the land again. They ore getting rich
off land which in an early day was
thought to bo worthless for agricul
tural purposes.
The country owes much to the un
ceasing restlessness and discontent of
the American farmer , the man who is
always migrating to some new section ,
the uneasy fellow who Is always will
ing to sell out no matter how well he
may bo situated. Still In the long run
this migratory habit has been bail for
him , thousands of men having at fifty
years of age little or nothing to show
for a life spent In hard pioneer work.
All through the section of the coun
try where the writer lives there" are
thousands of acres of oats at this date ,
the last of Juno , so rank and heavy
that an ordinary summer wind and
rain storm would lay them out flat
If this occurs , and It is quite likely to ,
there will bo a great waste. After
heading out , if so blown down , such a
crop can be made of more value made
into oat hay than to let the crop half
rot on the ground waiting for the har
vester.
While the system of cold storage
now so generally coming into use gives
the bis corporations controlling such
plants the opportunity to corner and
fix the price to the consumer of the
commodities so stored and held , there
Is no disputing the fact that the proc
ess has been of Inestimable benefit to
the producer , as it has not only equal *
tzcd but advanced prices , which often ,
because of the very perishable nature
of eggs , butter , meats and fruits , were
BO low as to entail serious losses on
the producer.
We note that many of the towns of
the west have at some place on the
outskirts of the municipality a dump
ground whereon Is thrown all the ref
use of the community , mostly manure ,
street sweepings , leaves and rubbish.
It seems strange to us that there is
not one man in the place shrewd
enough to have all this valuable fer
tilizer put on to his land near town.
Down east , where men are glad to pay
i dollar a load for stable manure and
naul it themselves , such things are
lot to be seen.
There arc lots of men chasing rain-
sows in their constant effort to coin-
Mno all the good qualities In one nnl-
nal. They want n cow which will give
i maximum flowof milk and at the
tame time produce the best sort of
: alf for beef ; they want n sheep which
vlll combine all the excellencies of
> dth the wool and irfutton breeds , buns
vhlch will lay the year round and
hen bring the highest prices when
tilled , and in a vain effort to secure
hese results by cross breeding they
inly succeed In running a scrub fac-
ory.
Tlio ccitjiln lUTPUso of population
ni'tl tiltquiily eon a In liuuuscdnliie
of peed farm laniht will force a bettor
and more liitoiinho ljpe of agriculture ,
tlut > tn- \\lilcli luoMiilH In tlio thickly
nettled eoiimmnltlt'H of the old wet Id.
The man with a mnall faun In China ,
France , Jersey , Belgium or Holland
Is of necessity an Intensive fanner. Ho
Dimply must raise more than one crop
on lilH land during the crop season , and
he docs , and not Infrequently three
crops are taken from the land In onn
year. Ho economizes all his land. Ho
has no four rod roads burdened with n
growth of wild hemp , ragweed , sunflowers -
flowers and nettles running through or
bounding his land. If ho plants trees ,
they bear fruit or initfl. No weeds
grow on his farm to rob the neil and
sap his land. Ho takes care of What
he lalscs and feeds bin land Intelli
gently as lie would his stock. The
knowledge of how to properly and In
telligently farm miwll traetn of land
Is huiuptlilng which the agricultural
colleges should give out In large mens-
me to their btndents.
SAVKI ) T1I13 THUR3.
Last winter wo had three choice apple -
plo trees , six years planted , badly gir
dled by the rabbits. We regarded tha
trues as good as dead , but tried this
experiment : Wo took some strips of
cotton cloth three Inches wide , melted
some grafting wax and soaked tha
cloth In the wax , stripping off all the
wax we could between two knlfa
backs. . This cloth wo wound on the
mutilated sections of trees. At plant
Ing time In May , expecting the tree :
to die , wo set new trees as close to tin
old ones as we could , so that thcj
could flll the vacancy. The Injured
trees leaved out and have made as vlg
orous a summer growth as any of the
uninjured trees in the orchard and np
parently have not suffered In the Icasl
from the winter barking. This rem
edy for wo bellevo It Is a remedy-
must be applied as soon as the damage
Is done , before the sun and wind gel
lu their work on the mutilated bark.
CORN TOOLS.
Wo flnd that there Is no best too ,
with which to cultivate a crop of corn
Weather and soil conditions vary se
much that no one tool fills the bill nl
the time. The disk and the harrow
properly used before the corn Is plant
d often do more good work in the
production of the crop than any othei
tools. With mellow and level Gelds
nothing beats the wccdcr If used be
fore the weeds get a start ; on those
fields Infested with the largo and deot
rooted weeds the surface cultlvatoi
with its sharp knives Is almost an in
dispensable tool , while the double
ehovcl cultivator win always bo a fa
vorlte. The disk cultivator also does
good work , the only objection to ftf
use being that it will rldgo the Held
which is a serious drawback In dry sea
sons in the matter of conserving the
moisture ;
\vncnc COUN DOES BEST.
We are asked to state where the
very best crpps of corn are raised In
this country. The greatest yield per
acre , properly verified , has not been
made In the so called corn states. The
best corn sections may be said to be
those where a'crop ' of eighty bushels
per acre is produced each favorable
year under ordinary farm cVilture and
conditions , and the sections of the
country where this may be and IE
done Include the tile drained and re
claimed wet lands and/the rich river
bottom soils In any of the so called
corn producing states. The eastern
one-third of Kansas and Nebraska lu
favorable seasons Is probably as fine a
com producing section as can be
found. '
HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
There is any amount of land in the
south of fair quality and covered with
a heavy growth of timber which is
for sale nt low prices , the rainfall am
ple and certain , the climate favorable
to the growth of all grains , fruits and
flowers , and all this falling to attract
the attention of home seekers , who are
indulging at the present time in one
wild , mad rush for cheap lands in the
far north and west , where the rainfall
is capricious and too often deficient ,
where thoi winters nro very long and
tedious and where fruit growing is al
most an impossibility. This is some
thing which is hard to understand.
IIE'I > L , OWN A FARM.
We know a commonplace eort of
young man , neither well educated nor
skilled in any sort of trade or business.
The best thing he can do seems to bo
to work for some man on a farm ,
where ho is a flrst class hand. Ho has
worked for one man three years and
has saved up from his wages the sum
of $500 , which he has in n bank draw
ing a low rate of Interest He attends
strictly to business and never goes out
on a high old time with the boys. Ho
is going to own a good farm and make
a most successful farmer some of these
days , or wo miss our guess.
EAST AND WEST SIDE.
A river passing through n town ,
whllo it adds materially to the scenic
beauty of the place , Is of value in an
economic way in affording needed
drainage and sewerage and qulto fre
quently n valuable power , is all too
often a serious menace to the welfare
of the town In a political and munlcl
pal way , In that It divides the people
into two factions and creates a rivalry
between the separated sections which
works to the serious disadvantage of
the community as a whole.
Cloudbarst Works Costly
Havoc at What Cheer.
BREAKS OVERLEVEEATKEOKUK
Great Loss Follows Eight Foot Rko
of Lower DCS Molnee River Iowa
Central Railroad a Heavy Sufferer ,
Skunk River Overflows.
Kookuk , la. , July 1C. Just as the
DCH Moliies rlvor began to fall ut the
lower portion after the floods from
the upper waters , another flood catno
and caught everybody by surpilao. At
the mouth the liver rose eight foot
last night and It Is ttll lining ona
Inch an hour , nothwllliBtandlnu the
bi caking ot luvecn.
The lovcu oC the Kookuk Canning
company bioko yesterday and thou
sands o [ aetes of cucumbois and te > -
matocs and two thousand acios of
coin woio flooded. Tito loss of tha
canning company Is $10,000 and to the
farmoiB twlco us much moro. The
total loss hero Is about $30,000 and
there Is danger thnt this will bo
quadrupled In Clark county , which la
protected now by only the Egyptian
levee , tlio last stand against the ad
vancing waters. The cause ot thg
flood was a cloudbur'st near Given , la. ,
with a rainfall of flvo Inches over n
largo section near the rlvor. All points
between hero and Ottuimva will suf
fer great dajnago and the loss In the
lower fifty miles ot the DCS Molnca
river totals hundreds of thousands of
dollars , chiefly to flno corn fields.
Oskaloosa , July 15. A torrlbla
storm of wind , rain and hall visited
this part of Iowa early yesterday
morning. At What Cheer a cloudburst -
burst occurred at the head of a dry
run which trends directly through tha
city. The water came down In a tor
rent four feet deep and swept through
the heart of the city , taking every
thing before It. Nine buildings wcr < <
moved from their foundations , Includ
ing the Methodist church. Ono largo
building , the Palace livery barn , waa
carried a mlle down the stream and
lodged In the trees. The people bare
ly had tlmo to got out pf their houses
and escape without making any effort
to save their property. fTho loss la
conservatively estimated at $25,000.
Iowa Central Suffers.
Marslmlltowu , la. , July 15. Im
mense property damage has been
done the Iowa Central railroad by
high water in the Skunk river , i Sev
eral hundred feet of track has been
washed away , and approaches to tha
Skunk river bridge undermined , ren
derlng It unsafe for use. There has
been much damage between Hu
guenot and Ollle , culvcrta being wash
ed out. Passenger trains are running
ton and twelve hours late , and a num
ber have been annuled altogether.
FLOOD BEGINNING TO EBB.
Several-Bad Washouts on the Union
Pacific Are Revealed.
Manhattan , Kan. , July 15. Fear of
further floods In this vicinity arc past ,
the Blue and Kawrivers , having fallen
nearly live feet within twelve hours.
The receding waters has revealed sev
eral washouts on the Union Paolflc
east of here and makes moro apparent
the loss to wheat and oats. Thou
sands of dollars worth of grain have
been destroyed'tho wheat and oats
In the valleys that have bean sub
merged being practically a to&l loss.
It Is not believed that trains can be
run on the Blue Valley railroad between -
tween Beatrice , Neb. , and Manhattan
for another ten days.
Flood Situation Improving.
Topeka.Kan. , July 15. The flood sit
uation Is beginning to show some im
provement. The Kansas river has
fallen nearly four inches and the pros
pects are that the fall will bo steady
until the water has reached Us usual
level. Railroad traffic on the Santo
Fp and Union Pacific is entirely shut
off between hero and Kansas City
on account of washouts near Law
rence. The damage will bo repaired
today. The street railway bridge
across the river hero has been ruined.
Half a dozen or moro have drowned
in the Kansas river during the past
two days.
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Storm" In" the Northwest"
Portland , Oro. , July 15. A high
wind which at times reached a ve
locity of from twonty-flve to thirty
miles prevailed over the northwest
yesterday and last night. Asldo from
demolishing telegraph and telephone
communication no damage of consequence
quence has yet been reported. In
Portland several plate glass windows
were smashed and trees blown down.
Tower of Venice Falls.
Venice , Italy , July 15. The campa
nile ( detached bell tower ) of St.
Mark , ' ? church , ninety-eight meters
high , collapsed yesterday and foil with
a great crash into the piazza and Is
now a heap of ruins. . The cathedral
and palace of the Doges are qulto safe ,
but a corner of the royal palace was
damaged. It is feared there was some
loss of life. The ruins are surrounded
by a cordon of troops.
Sword for Major WaHer.
Norfolk , Va. , July 14. The presen
tation of a sword to Major Lyttleton
W. T. Waller , of the marine corps ,
by the citizens of Norfolk , his native
homo , In the academy of music last
night , was marked In its simplicity.
After receiving the sword , Major Wal
ler shook hands with the entire audi
ence. Later ho was banqueted by th3
Artillery Blues , bis flrst military as
sociates.
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HICKS-BEACH RGTIRE-8 ,
Ulu.ncellor of Cxtlictjiicr Hnnrfa In
His Reolunntlon.
London , July 1C.A. . .1. liiillour wni
yoHlonliiy femimlly gieolod an Cheat
Britain's piomlor and the now re lmo
began Hi ) work. The inoinoiitoua
clnuiRo waa innrheid by only one real
ly diamntlc Incident , nanioly , the ) res
ignation ot Hlr Mlelmol Hlokn-Itaach
from his post ot chancellor of the ex
chequer. Yet this lack ot outward
Bhow and public prejudice ) to a now
chapter In English history la by no
mcatm rupioBonlatlvo of the dlsturu-
anco which the midden transition cre
ated among the undercurrents of po
litical life. It Is nafo to say Sir Mich
ael Htckn-Bcach wan the first of HOV-
oral whoso names have figured largely -
ly before the public In the hint halt
century and who now will disappear
Horn the political aiona. Nothing
absolutely doflnlto1 In yet Bottled , but
the UnlonlHt pnity oxpcctn Hhoitly to
hear of the lUHlcimlloiiH of Kail llah
bury , lotd high chancellor ; Lori
.Taiws of lloiofoul , chancellor of thn
Duchy of Lancaster , and Hail Cado-
snn , lord lieutenant of Ireland.
For HlohH-Beach'B place , Karl linn-
bury , now president ot tlio hoard of
agriculture , Is the favorlto. In tha
pending reconstruction , which may
not bo completed for BOIIIO tlmo tei
como , Mr. Balfour , much to the doHght
of the Unionists , will remain the
loader of the IIOIIBO of commons and
flrst lord of the trevinury , with Mr.
Chamberlain , still In command of the
colonies , as liln first lieutenant. If
Halsbury , on account ot bin great ago ,
fulfills predictions by retiring , Baron
Alvorstono will sticrcod him to the
woolsack , Sir Rlrlmrel Honn Collins
becoming lord chief Justice.
WIRE FENCE FOR BOUNDARY.
Plan Is to Keep Cattle from Straying
Into Canada from Montana.
Helena , Mont. , July 15. It IB pro
posed to build a wlro fence 700 miles
long on the boundary line between
Montana and Canada. The necessity
for this huge undertaking arises from
the fact that several weeks ago n
largo number of cattle that had
strayed Into Canada from this state
were seized by the dominion of
ficials on the ground that they had
boon smuggled. The fence will prob
ably bo built Jointly by tlio Canadian
and American governments and will
cost several hundied thousands of del
lars.
- Insane Farmer Kills Wife.
Cincinnati , July 15. Near Maaon ,
O. , James Conover , a farmer , killed
his wife and seriously Injured his son
Charles. After beating his wlfo to
death with an ax , he carefully shroud
ed her mangled body for burial.
Afterwards ho met his son at the gate
and told him what he had done with
his mother. Then plunging forth with
his BOC , the crazed father told Charlei
that ho was to bo killed next. TUG
blow brought Charles down and the
father escaped. The son's condition
Is serious.
Direct Hal Shows Speed.
Detroit , July 15. C. J. Hamlln's
splendid black pacer , Direct Hal , with
Ed Goers In the sulky , made memor
able the opening of the Detroit Driv
ing club's meeting at Grosse Polnto ,
yesterday by winning the first heat ol
the Chamber of Commerce $5,000
stake In the record tlmo of 2:06 : .
This Is a world's record for the flrst
winning heat ot a green horse ,
Ames Off for Europe.
Minneapolis , July1 11. Police Super
intendent Fred W. Ames , Indicted .1
week ago In connection with the ent
rant municipal corruption expose , Is
reported to bo on his way to Europe.
The police captain , Hill , is acting in
his place. Mayor Ames left the city
last night for a vacation at West Ba
den , Ind. , his bribery trial having been
postponed until next Monday.
Gretna Girl's Mad Deed.
Denver , July 15. Lena Rohmer ,
aged 22 years , of Grotna , Neb. , jumped
in front of a Union Pacific train at
the union station hero yesterday , evi
dently with the Intention of commit
ting suicide. Both her legs word cut
off and she will die. Miss Rohmor was
enroute to Glenwood Springs for her ,
health and had just alighted from a
train from the east.
Miss Morrison In Penitentiary.
Loavenworth , Kan. , July 14. Miss
Jessie Morrison arrived at the state
'penitentiary at Lansing yesterday to
begin her twonty-flvo years' sentence
for the murder of Mrs. Olln Castle ,
at Eldorado. She was very much
downcast She was taken Immedi
ately to the women's department. It
is not known what work will be as
signed her.
Big Blaze at Nice.
Nice , France , July 15. Los Qrandea
magazines , in the Place Cllchy , are
burning. The military and the Credit
I.yonnals have been partly dostroye-l
and the fire threatens to extend to
other buildings.
TELEGRAMS TERSELY TOLD.
Reports have been received at Vi
enna of the killing of three tourists in
the Austrian Alpa.
The queen ot the Belgians ( Marie
Henrietta ) , has suffered a rclapso and
her condition Is critical.
J. W. Johnson , a well known horse
man , died at St. Louis Monday from
the effects of a horso's kicks.
Thcodoro Lacaff , of Nevada , Mo. ,
was nominated for congress by the
Republicans of the Fifteenth Missouri
district.
It Is proposed by the National Good
Roads manageis to cqvip and send
over the entire Great Northern sys
tem a special good roads train.
Passengers on Denver and Rio
Grande Lose Valuables. -
EXPRESS SAFES ARE RIFLED
Engineer Falls to Obey Order of
Bandit and la Knocked Down With
Butt of Rifle Mfill Car Not Mo
lested Posse In Pursuit.
Balldo , Col. , July 15. Flvo masked
men hold up the west bound passon *
Kor train on the Denver and nio
Orando narrow gauge line running
from Salldu to Grand Junction yester
day. The lobbery occurred nt Mill
Switch , two nilloH east ot Chostor. The
paHHunuora woio lobbed and both
nates In the express car woio broken
opejn with dynamite and their con
tents taken. It Is not known how
much money was secured , but the ox-
Pleas company eloclaies the amount
was email , as the train generally car-
rlos very llttlo trcanuro. The mall car
wan not inolcHtod.
Airiong the passengers , who num
bered about sixty , were many ladles ,
two of whom fainted. Several ot tha
pnBBoiiKorH succeeded In Bcerotlns
their valuables but many ot them lent
consUlorablo Bums. But one person
was hurt. Engineer Perry Ilulanet
failed to obey an order ot the robbcm
promptly and wan knocked down with
the butt ot a rlflo.
POBSCH were sent by special train
from OunnlBon and Sallda , and are
now hunting for the robbers , who are
bollovoel to have gene south.
EXCHANGE SHOTS WITH TRACY.
Outlaw Again Furnishes Some Excite
ment for Deputies.
Seattle , Wash. , July 15. Outlaw
Tracy exchanged nhots with doputica
near Palmer , according to the follow
ing inoBsago from Enamslaw : Word
haa been received hero that Tracy
fought a battle with two deputies at
the Palmer scl.aol house last night.
No particulars or names are known.
Tracy worked a neat game on the of
ficers In order to got to Palmer. Ho
was within a mlle of that place , when
ho learned the officers were there. Ho
then worked back toward Enutnclaw ,
and showed himself on the road to
Buckley. IIo was In the woods , and
whllo officers were stationing guard's
ho ran a mlle and boarded a freight
train on a grade and proceeded to
Palmer , where ho is no doubt making
for Stampede pass.
General Bragg In Trouble.
Washington , July 15. Cuban Minis
ter Quesadai refuses to make any statement - ,
mont regarding the words attributed
to Consul General Bragg , at Havana ,
In which he IB alleged In a letter to
Mrs. Bragg to have made rema'rks derogatory - "
rogatory to the Latin race. It Is bo-
lloved to bo altogether probable , how
ever , that Mr. Qucsada will take stops
to ascertain whether or not General
Bragg has made use of the words at-
trlhuted to him , with a view , If trua ,
of bringing them to the attention ot
his government
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Marietta , O. , July 15. Jacob Schlarf
and Solomon Grcathouse are dead and
George Groathous'e Is dying from fire
damp. The mcn/flveie / cleaning nn old
well at IIoslop. Schlart entered first
and was overcome by gas. George
Grcathouso attempted to save him
with a rope and was overcome. Solomon
(
mon Greathouso went down and suc
ceeded In tying a rope about his
brother's body. George was pulled out
alive by neighbors , but his brother
perished before help could reach him.
Portland and Jeanle Safe. Y
Victoria , July 15. Messrs. Master-
son and Glllcsplc , two passengers
from Nome , landed hero by the collier
Melville Manor on her way to Lady-
smith , report the safe arrival at Nome
of both the Portland and Jeanle. Tha
steamers , they say , 'arrived at the
same time , the Portland towing tha
Jeanlo. which was disabled , part ot
the way. No hardships were suffered
by passengers and crew.
Dooley-Harrls Feud.
Flat River , Mo. , July 15. As a to-
suit of the well known Dooley-Harrla
feud Frank Harris shot and killed
William Dooley last night near Lougb-
boro. Last Wednesday Dooley shot
William Harris , Frank's brother , on a
train at Doe Run. Each 'family haa
sworn to kill the other and as most
of the men have been killed already ,
the women are taking up the fight.
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King Will Be Out Today.
London , July 15. The progress ol
King Edward toward recovery k
maintained and It is reported that hj
will bo transferred to the royal yacht
at Portsmouth at noon today.
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