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Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-25

lE7 railroad company are laying in -1 immense supply of ice at the depot les house. SD as to meet any demands i.at may be made upon them during the summer The house has been enlarged To mot this increased supply. Seven y-T loads of lee were received yesterday i'r storage. and 1t will continue to come lH--l --a ice house is filled.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12

rushing up a nice residence on Lake
street. Mating season, you know.
MARR1ED.-At the residence Of the
brides parents, on the enening of the
4th. inst: by Rev. NJ. D. Reeves, MI
p. Barker to Miss Minnie Beardsly ,all
of this town. They received the con-
gratulations of their many friends.
MI. Heath had the misfortune to
get one of his horses badly hurt by
falling on q harrow.
Ed. Pease, Esq. after improving
and cultivating his farm for y OF Is
years, has been compelled to pay $3.50
per acre to the railroad company. The
railroad company must be protected
in their rights. f..
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
PaprERS PRAIRIE.

The most Of the farmers here have
GOT through seeding, and those that
are not will finish this week. The
early sowed grain is up.
These warm and showery days is
making the grass and grain boom, and
if this keeps on, vegetation will be as
far advanced by the first of June us 1t
was last year.
J. Rider is building a good barn IN
connection with his hotel.
Mr.. Logan will soon have his house
in the village ready for occupancy
J. Clarmoe has got the addition to
his barn about completed.
Geo. Rhone, our blacksmith.. IS
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
House Cleaning Hints.

Helen Campbell, in her recent book
on housekeeping, gives some very
excellent and helpful hints in regard
to house cleaning. which our lady
readers, who are about passing
through the ordeal. Will be very glad
to see. She says: IF coal or wood
arc to be laid in for the winter supply
let it be done before house cleaning
begins, as otherwise much dust will
he spread through the house. 1t is
not necessary to take up heavy car
pets every year or oftener than once
in two or three years, unless they are
in constant use. The tacks. however.
should be taken OFT every year and
the carpet folded hack yard or two
and the floor washed in strong sl}ds
in which borax has been dissolved at
the tate Of a tablespoonful to Il pail
Of water, and after dusting black pep
per on the edges, tack the caIpet down
again. BY this means moths are
kept away. and us corners ana folds
are their f;,vorite hiding places. they
are searched out and destroyed. III
grain and other carpets after being
taken up can he frightened in color
by sprinkling u pound or tive of salt
over their surface and sweeping care
fully. II is useful to occasionally
wipe off tho carpet with borax water,
using u wet flannel and taking care
not to wet the carpet, bat only to
dampen it. Mirrors should also be
wiped with boraN water, the cloth
being wet enough to dampen it. In
securing paint. sapolio is better than
sand, and in all cases Il little ho:ax
should be placed in the water. Mir
rors can be cleaned with whiting,
afterwards being rubbed with a wool
ell cloth, or they can be polished and
dried with old newspapers. Oilpaint-
ings should simply be wiped with q
damp cloth. and if picture cord is
soiled that should be wiped off to
secure against moths. Soap should
never he used Gil varnished work of
any sort. All excellent way OF keep
ing winter clothing during the sum
mer, is to place it in bags made Of
several thicknesscs of newspapers,
printers ink being one Of the most
successful projections against moths.
Gum camphor is also good. A pound
of gum camphor sewed.in little bags
will last Il long time. Before putting
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
Growing Potatoes Under Straw

Growing Potatoes Under Straw.
Isaac Peaslee. q York State farmer,
gives the following as the result of
an experiment. in potato culture:
*'fhe ground WAS broken il the
fall of 1870 and in the spring Of 1880
it was narrowed and made fine, then
furrowed not very deep. three and
one-half feet apart. Potatoes OF
medium size were cut once and
dropped in the furrow twenty inches
apart. On one acre Of ground l
spread one hundred bundles Of rye
straw, Of the estimated weight Of
five hundred and fifty pounds, over
the potatoes dropped in the fnrroW,
and then with one horse attached to
a one-horsc Syracuse plow. q light
covering of earth was turned over on
the straw and potatoes. The season
being so very dry, the straw did not
Ill :smulch,' and the result was not
as good as it would have been if the
straw had all rotted and made Il bed
for the young potatoes. The results,
however, were in favor Of the rye
straw, as the yield OH that acre WAS
twenty-five bushels more than or an
acre alongside of it prepared i'll the
same way. but on which no straw
wa; used. Now: the rye straw used
on potatoes in this way is. l claim,
worth more than it would be it hauled
to the paper mill and sold at $40 or
even $25 per ton. Moreover, the
potatoes that grew under the straw
were larger and much smoother than
those grown where no straw was used.
Some people think that the potatoes
will not come up under the straw;
this is mistake. they will gro"
sooner in this way if properly covered.
I have also covered potatoes III the
hill with coarse manure and have had
good results.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
Facts About the Electric Light.

=
The London Graphic contains an
illustrated account Of the Swan elac-
trio light which will prove to be Of
special interest to people residing in
the country or in places where a flow
Of water sufficient to turn a small
turbine wheel can be secured. After
the cost of the lamp and it's accompa-
niments no other outlay is necessary.
The experiments made by Mr.. Swan
himself at Cragside: in England.
were with his perfected lamp which
makes use Of q continuous carbon
conductor enclosed in a glass bulb
hermetically sealed. At a distance
Of three-Guarters Of 4 mile the over
flow of a pond was used to propel Il
six horse power turbin wheel. This
moved Il small lynamoelectric battery
encascd in Il strong box near the
wheel, and produced the electricity,
which is carried to the house over a
double row of copper wires.
The lamp itself is said to be eX-
ceedingly simple, and may be hung
from the ceeling, placed in q bracket
on a side wall, Or III the porcelain
body Of IN old oil OF kerosene lamp Of
the style 50 much used at present.
1t consists of Il glass bulb about three
inches in diameter. from Whic II cyl
indrical arm extends. Two platinum
wires connected with the intermcdi-
ate carbon conductor pass through
this arm and into the bulb and are
hermetic&]]y sealed by fusion Of the
glass around them on entrance into
the glass wall of the lamp. The car
bon iilament is a special feature of
the lamp, a:d is ''wondcrfu]ly thin
and elastic" looking, in the engrav-
ing given of it. like a piece of loopea
wire. Since the air is exhausted
from the we'll the carbon does not
ueconpose, in fact it becomes harder
from continued usage. The carbon
thus used by Mr.. Swan in his expert
ments has lasted Eninterrrptetlly
since last October. It is claimed fox
the system that the light can be alb
solute]y divided without sacrifice Of
economy. forty-Gve Of them being in
use at CragSitle, each lamp giving Il
light equal 10 that CT three ordinary
lamps and the current being turned
on or off by small switches inserted in
the walls.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
Sheep that Dive from Cliffs.

John Muir, the naturalist Of the
Sierra, writing Of the wild sheep Of
the Sierra and Of their Well-aAthen-
ticated habit Of diving from rreci-
pjces and alighting On their horns.
relates the following anecdote:
':4lt the base Of Sheep Rock. one of
the winter strongAolds OF the Shasta
focks, there lives Il stock-raiScr who
has the advantage Of observing the
movements Of wild sheep every Will
ter; and, in the course OF a convcrS;!-
tion with him on the subject Of their
diving habits. he pointed to the front
Of lava headland about hundred
and fifty feet high, which is only
eight or ten degrees out Of the per
pendicular. There, said he. I fol-
lowed Il band CT them fellows to the
back of that rock yonder, and expect
Ell to capture them all, for thought
I had dead thing on them. / got
behind them on narrow bench chat
runs along the face of the wall neal
the TOP. and comes to al end where
they couldn't get away without fall
ing and being killed; but they jumped
off, and landed all right. as il that
were a regular thing with them.'
'What! said l, jumped Il hundred
and fifty feet! Did you see them do
it!'
No. he replied, I didn't see them
going down, for was behind them;
but SAW them going off over the
brink, and then l went below and
found their tracks where they struck
on the loose debris ut the bottom.
They sailed right eff, and landed Oh
their feet right side up. That's the
kind of animal they is--beats any
thing else that goes on four legs,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
Neighb0rhood News.
LEAF RIVER.

Mr.. Carl Fisher is breeding some
fine White Dorking fowls. They are
beauties. Also, Mr.. John Harding
is in the Plymouth Rock fowl raising.
All who want pure bred Plymouth
Rock, can get it by calling on him.
bill has changed shirts; don't for
get it.
NJ. $. Morical & Co., are making
ties at break-ncck speed. They have
the crew that can DO that kind of
business. They would take Il few
more good choppers. but they don't
want any culls, so dead heads need
not make application.
LICK SKILLET.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
NORTHERN COMPTON.

Seeding is about all done. and the
felix's are already putting on their
garments Of green.
Fencing is the order cf the day.
Miss Nettie Dean will attend the
Wadcna high school the present term.
T, ". French was around few
days ago, doing cutie q business in
surjng. lie represents some good
companies.
Mr.. Thompson has built an addition
to his house.
Covered wagons are beginning to
put in All appearance.
The machine agent is abroad IN the
land. Shoot him on the spot. 1t
won't mako any difference which
srot. Vhid'
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
WTDvG}lTSTCWE.


Seeding all done here i'll the timber
and planting we'll under way.
Winter wheat never looked better
than this spring. The deep snow dur
ing the winter and the favorable
spring has caused that crop to come
through all @. X. A larger acreage
will be sown the coming fail.
The failure Of the Amber Cane crop
last year does not seem TO discourage
the attempt to raise it this season.for
see that many Of our farmers III this
locality are planting it qllitc freely,
and Perkins & Abbott will be pre-
nared, with their improved machin-
cry. to manufacture the same into
syrup.
had the pleasure Of eating " piece
Of pie-plant pie yesterday, Which IS
rather early for this season when we
think That only a few weeks ago we
were wading through Snow drifts on
the very spot where the pie-plant is
now growing.
G.. A. Wright started for Fargo On
Monday last. where he has got q posi-
ton in Il tin shop. Remember me
Dell, with tin whistle when you get
there.
THE citizens here met last Saturday
and organized Il cemetery association,
and appointed Edmund Wright ".
+. Barber. and Z. 4. Perkins. dlrec-
tors. INV i>'hA4-'
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
WADENA MIMI, THURSDAY, MAY u. 1881.

away wooden clothing. f1anne]s. etc.
they should be carefully washed and
shaken in order to get rid Of any
moth eggs.:
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
wOODSIDE PRAIRIE.


wo0DSIDE PRAIRIE.
Hail storm the last day Of April.
The wheat fields begin to look quite
green.
Fish are running in the river.
Mr.. Lowe spent a few days last
week in Leaf Valley.
Our Prairie will be blessed. the
coming summer. with-grass widows
is what they call them I think.
Geo. Smith has commenced break
ing. hear he intends to SOW several
acres Of early breaking to oats.
Frank Quinett has purchased the
Emerson claim and will build near
Dick Johnston's. and then l will Try
to get word to the FARMER if he gets
a lousekeeper.
There is an old adage, ''can't keep
cake and eat it,; but ! think that
young man who carried off Uncle Dave
Carr's hen and rooster. concluded it
was not best to either keep or eat them.
for a few nights after they were stolen
they were brought back and put in
Uncle Dawes hen coop.
Mr.. J. A. Bunce is sick, but we
hope to see the old gentleman about
in q few days.
Our shool is very much in need Of a
black -b@,ard. Ism it time the board
was looking after a board.
[ have been told chat MessrS. llaW~
kins and Wilson have struck '.ile' in
the way Of six dollars per day.
We have garden peas one and q
half inches high.
We are glad to accommodate those
out side of our district with the bcne-
fit Of school, but it would be we'll for
our school board to see that some Of
those boys do not make too much trou-
bic for our teacher.
Judging from what hear and see,
Miss Deckstlator will teach as a splen-
did school this summer. for our juve-
niles seem to think there is no one
equal to their teacher.
Phyn Aldricll tells us that on his
trip west, one of his horses got hurt
and he sold out and came home.
BY the time the good people are
reading this. your humble correspond
e1t will be in Fargo. Wishing a hap
by summer to all, an abundant har-
vest for the farmers, and Il lively
trade for the merchants, I bid all
gocu-bye. INCOG.
Narrowing Corn Ground After
Planting.
Farmers do not fail to plant your
corn deep enough so but that you
can harrow it after the corn is plant
ed. The time to do this, is just be-
fore the corn comes Up. 1t will not
hurt the corn: and at thrt time, the
weeds on the surface are beginning
to start in any quantity. The har-
rowing will kill the weeds. and give
the corn a chance to get Il good start
before the weeds grow again. The
best way to plant your corn is with a
horse corn planter, but il you have
no corn planter, and are not going to
plant enough corn to pay YOU for
purchasing one, very good method
is to mark your ground one way with
" srlky corn i:low. taking off the front
shove]s and spreading the hind two
to the width that You wish to plant.
Drop your corn in the burrows thus
made, and cover with Il hoe. In
planting your corn in this way. it
gives it a better chance to root than
where it is planted Oh the surface.
thus shielding it in great measure
from droUth. Try this method and
see IT 1t does not pay.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12

Hail storm the last day Of April.
The wheat fields begin to look quite
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-26
SOUR GRAPES.

The Secret of Hatch's Injunction Proceed
ings in the. Telegraph Case-The Con
soliodidation Advised by Him, But he
Got Left in the Deal and Kicks.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.--The case OF
Rufus Hatch against the Western Union,
Atlantic & Pacific and American Union
telegraph companies, to prevent econ
solidatioQ, was called in the supreme
court chambers to-day. The session was
taken up in reading afidavits Of officials
of the various companies denying
that the purpose of consolidation
was inimical to the public. Jay Gould
made affidavit that the consolidation was
Influenced and brought about by the ad-
vice of Rufus Hatch himself. An aff1da-
Wit was read from Washington E. Con-
nor, in which he said he had an interview
with Rufus Hatch on the 10Th Of Janu-
ary, in which the latter stated that he
was the owner of quantity of the capital
stock of the American Union company,
and that he was displeased at being left
out of the deal, as he called it, and that he
ought to have been taken into it. He
suggested that his shares of american
Union stock should be taken by them at
the price Western Union was then selling
at. He also said he had no i'll feeling
towards Gould, but had toward Wander
bilt.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-26
THE GLOBE HOROSCOPE.
As 1t Casts its Light on the Chicago
Markets.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. ]

! Especial Telegram to the Globe.]
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-Cables lower and dull,
but our market did not take the hint this
time. The most part of the forenoon was, as
| usual of late, very quiet, with small trading
in everything and fluctuations of microscopic
dimensions. Near the close of the session
everything firmed up, with wheat leading, or
rather wheat firmed UP and everything else
followed. On call it was quite lively, March
wheat selling as high as 81, but closed at
99Xc and on curb at 99Xc. There being no
apparent reason at all for the furry some peo.
pie try to explain 1t thus: That strong
party, who is loaded with wheat, is now buy.
ing. in self-defense, hoping to frighten the
public and create bull movement; and others
again, say that the Silver Gray, who has not
gone to Florida for winter quarters, is short
tremendous line, and was trying to buy a
chunk, and which raised the price from 99c to
99Xc March so astonishingly quick. These
two statements, when viewed in the proper
light, disagree so materially that feel 1t my
duty to explain, because in the first
case of a strong party being overloaded and
trying to hold the price by buying more, that
says the price has been put up artifcially and
that we are too high, whereas, in the last case
of big short trying to cover some, this says
that the market has been oversold and that
prices have been kept down artifcially. I
think that my way of explaining the situation
that we continually sell down very slow, but
bulge up quick, at small scare, of course, tells
pretty well which of the above explanations is
nearest the truth.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-26
Miscellaneous Capital Notes.
uNsEATEp.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The committee on
elections in the House decided by strict party
vote to report in favor of unseating Mr.. Mar
tin, Republican, the sitting member, and seat
ing Yeates, Democrat, contested.
THE FUNDING BILL.
The committee on finance to day heard secre-
tary Sherman on the funding bill. He took
the position that it should be amended so as
to make the funding bonds redeemable after
five years and payable in twenty years from
the date of issue and to bear interest at rate
not exceeding 9X per cent, the rate to be
fixed on the discretion of the secretary OF the
treasury He expressed the opinion that
treasury funding certificates proposed by the
bill, which, he thought, should be described
as treasury notes, can be hoated at per cent.
interest without change in the House provi-
sion for their redemption at any time after
one year from their respective dates OF issue
MISCELLANEOUS.
The House committee ON foreign affairs had
another hearing this morning on the subject
of the inter. oceanic canal and the Monroe doc
trine, and was addressed by j. L. Philips, rep
resentative of the Nicaragua Canal company.
The point of Philips argument was the danger
to be apprehended from subjects OF foreign
powers gaming IOOtnOlu Oh Ine AuerlCaH
continent. Philips says it would be desirable
for the government to become subscriber at
once for e-half of the capital stock, SO as to
be able always to maintain control of 1t.
The House committee on Judiciary to-day
decided that the Senate has the constitutional
right to originate bills making appropriation
of public money.
The committee also had under consideration
Representative Pounds bill making the term
of President and Vice President six years and
declaring them ineligible for two consecutive
terms After discussion the bill was laid on
the table.
Assistant Justice Swayne of the United
States supreme court has handed his resigna-
ton to the President.
For the six months ending December 81,
1880, there were 131 900 more emigrants ar
rived in the United States than for the same
period the previous year.
The House committee on Territories took
action to-day on Delegate Benefits bill topro-
vide for division of the Territory of Dakota
and for admission into the Union of the south
ern portion of the State of Dakota, and voted
to report the bill adversely to the House.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-26
A CHICAGO CROOK.
A Very Bad Tn Gets Four Years in tho
Penitentiary.

n very bhu Gn Sebo EOuT bchis ih thc
Penitentiary.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-The jury tonight
in the criminal court found Lesser Fried
burg guilty of three counts of the lndict-
ment against him for larceny in receiving
and paying for stolen goods, and SEN
fenced him to four years in the peniten-
tiary Friedburg Is pawnbroker of bad
repute, who for many years has been a
fence for the worst kind of thieves, burg
lars and pickpockets. In this case he
planned burglary on a prominent dry
goods house, furnishing the COM
plete outfit, even to the pistols.
The wagon with the silks stolen by his
tools was before his place when Officer
Race discovered it and its suspicious
owners, and began an investigation which
resulted in his being shot and almost
instantly killed. Johnny Lamb, vicious
criminal, was convicted of the murder
recently on the testimony of one of his
pupils, Sheeny George, and to-day Fried
burg, who is the Mephistophhes Of the
gang, received his sentence because of
the same mans remarkably clear and con-
nected evidence.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-26
The 1Nith in the Postoficc Cecoanut.
[Winona Republican

From the inception of the movement
bringing out Mr.. Ramsey as a Senatorial
candidate down to the date of its latest
issue, the Pioneer Press has given un-
broken evidence that, instead of being
high minded, impartial director of pub
lie opinion, it has been exerting its great
powers to the attempted furtherance of
the personal aims and the ventilation of
the private grievances of its conductors.
This it has done ostensibly in the name
of the public welfare, it is true; but while
it may have deceived itself
upon this point, no discriminat-
ing reader has been likewise de-
ce1ved. We will conceed that its ex-
pressed views in relation to the question
at issue were honestly entertained, but
even this admission does not help the
cause of that paper, inasmuch as it i'm
plies Judgment so easily warped by
purely personal feelings and resentments
as to be not only unreliable, but, placed
in control of leading organ of public
thought and opinion, well nigh danger
Gus to those interests of which it ought
to be the unselfish champion and pro-
tector. For example, no consideration of
public policy or party expediency can
Justify the mean and petty assaults mas :
upon Senator Mcmillan 1ffor to his re-
nomination with vie~t to belittling his
character and services that rival candi-
date might profit by the fictitious contrast
set up. So, also, now that Senator Nc
MILAN has been chosen to represent the
State for another term in the body of
which he has been for six years respected
and honored member, there is certainly
no good excuse for the unmannerly as
well as unmanly casting of slime and mud
at his leading supporters in the legisla-
ture. 1t can scarcely be considered a
justifable provocation for public criti-
cism, not to say abuse, that Mr.. Sabin, OF
Mr.. Gilfllan, or Mr. Fletcher; or other
gentlemen whose names have been drag
into notice, saw fit to exercise the in.
| alienable right of citizens to sup.
port the man of their choice, whether
| that man was Mr. Mcmillan, Mr. Ramsey
| or some other candidate 1t goes with
out saving among those who know those
gentlemen, that their motives, though
resting upon human level, will not suf-
fer in comparison. with the motives. oi
Mr. Ramsey's supporters, or of the sup.
| porters of any other candidates whose
names were brought forward. The at
tempt of the Pioneer Press to make it ap.
pear otherwise is puerile and unworthy
in the extreme. We venture to assert
that if put to the test, not q single ma.
terial charge brought by that papel
against the members of the legislator,
who supported Mr. Mcmillan in the eau
Gus could be substantiated.