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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
CROPS IN NEBRASKA.

The United States AGENTS Report on Their
Condition and Yield.
The following is n summary of the report
transmitted to the United States commissioner
of agriculture, showing condition and yields
of crops Otober |, as shown by the reports re-
ceived up to that date from eighty-two corre-
spondents:
Wheat, reported In O. counties, averaged II
bushels per acre and grades in four counties
No. J. hfty-six counties No. 2 and two counties
Rye, reported in sixty-two counties, aver
aged 221l bushels and grades in thirteen coun-
ties No. l. forty-seven counties No. 2. and two
Oats, reported in sixty-four counties, aver
aged ~ bushels, and grades in twelve coun-
ties No. j, thirty-seyen counties No. 2 and If
teen counties No. 3.
Barley, reported In lfty-three counties and
averaged "a bushels, and grades in twelve No.
2, and forty-one counties No. 3 and rejected;
20 counties reported buckwheat, and the
average condition at 81 per cent; 81 counties
report corn, and the average condition at over
Jos per cent; 70 counties report Irish potatoes
and the average condition at 104 per cent; one
county reports damage to crop by potato rot
of 10 per cent; Al counties report sweet pota-
toes, and the average condition at 102 per
cent, 55 counties report sorghum, and the
average condition at 1G2 per cent
The quality of all g ain is better than usual
az d will we think grade in market even bet
ter than reported. The reports show that the
hay crop is large and of a most excellent quail
1ty. A much larger area has been sown in
winter wheat than ever before in the history
of the agriculture of this state. From reports
received we judge that the average yield of
the win er wheat harvested this year will ex-
coed 25 bushels which for a state heretofore
considered an exclusively spring wheat state
is a most excellent showing. Taking the esti-
mated acreage of 1883 and adding 10 per cent
for increased acreage of 1884 and we will have
a total yield of wheat of 81. 1856, 400 bushels for
1884 as against 27,4Sl 900 raised in 1888. Our
oat crop, poor as it is. will yield over y ,000,000
hlIGhals hDt of an a fariOr nro1ifu O1r har-
ley crop will exceed 100000 bushels, and our
rye crop raised more for pasture than the
grain, will exceed 5000 0 bushels. The corn
crop is simply immense, but as little has been
gathered thus far we will wait a month or
more before we approximate its yield.
Some disease among hogs called cholera 1--WE
suppose it is so called simply because 1t is not
cholerO for want of a better name, is proving
quite fatal in some six counties of the state.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
E1RH NOTES..

1t is claimed that IL woodcock will eat
his own weight in insects in a single
night.
Potatoes ought to be dug as soon as
they are ripe. or as soon thereafter as
possible.
If all the farmers would join in sub
DUNG the worst weeds, they would soon
be no more-the weeds we mean, not
the farmers.
Peat moss is gathered in North Ger
many and sent to Germany for bedding
for animals. for which it is said to be
excellent.
A silo in Colorado is as yet rare. yet
in the ~neighboring territory of New
Mexico they are quite common. and are
considered quite invaluable by the
%ranchmen.
Georgia-made butter costs IN cents
n pound, and sells at 25 cents. Pastur-
age is good and cheap for ten months
in the year, says n Georgia dairyman.
Joseph Harris says there is no more
trouble in raising an early lamb han a
late one, and he would rather have
lambs come in January and February
than in April and May.
Large as is our surplus of most cere-
ais, we do not raise all the barley we
use. The imported article mostly comes
from Canada, and goes to the New
York breweries.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24

came very promptly. Within five min.
policemen We're on the ground. But
they lost time in questioning him. The
stupid policemen thought that Smith
had attempted to commit suicide and,
before he could get him to comprehend
that he had been waylaid and robbed
the footpad had made his escape.
Smith was taken to the Presbyterian
hospital, where his wounded hand re-
ceived proper care. He was then al
lowed to go to his lodgings at the Har-
lem house. To the policemen of the
Central park force and the office detec-
tives who yesterday called on him he
gave a very good description of the
man who assaulted and robbed him.
Detective Campbell, of the Twenty
eighth precinct, and several detectives
especially detailed on the case by In
spector Byrnes were yesterday looking
for the bold robber.
Last night Sergt. Fleck of the Central
park police arrested in the park Pat
rick Curry, who in many respects an
swers the description given by Smith.
Flock had noticed this fellow hanging
about the park for several nights.
Last night Flock, in plain clothes, with
his gold watch well exposed, wandered
about the ramble. Curry logged his
footsteps and managed to get nearer
and nearer to him at each urn in his
stroll. Suddenly Flock seized him by
the throat and knocked him with the
butt end of his revolver. Curry cried
Il didn't rob anybody here" He was
taken to the arsenal and thence to the
East Fifty-ninth street police station,
where he was locked up as a
suspicious person. He will be ar
raigncd at the Fifty-seventh street police
court to-day, and Mr.. Smith will be
asked to identify him if possible. Cur
~ says that he is a folder employed in
the Herald office and lives at No. 11S
Chatham street. He says he knows
nothing about the robbery. The re-
volver which Mr.. Smiths assailant used
in his attack was found at daylight yes
terday in a clump of bushes near the
Ramble. 1t was blood-stained from
contact with MI. Smiths wounded
hand. 1t is a cheap seven-chambered
weapon. Five of the chambers had
been discharged, and the remaining
cartridges were nicked from contact
with the hammer, showing that an at
tempt had been made to fire these cart
but they had missed fire.
Mr.. Smiths wound, though extremely
painful, is not considered dangerous.
1t will doubtless disable him for some
weeks to come. The robbery has left
him without mean in this city, and he
has been compelled to telegraph to his
in Nebraska for money to get
home with. No additional arrests had
been made in the case up to midnight,
md the police authorities of the Central
park are pretty thoroughly convinced
hat in Curry they have the assailant of
he Nebraska carriage builder.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
OCTOBER
The Sho,cin0 Witch is Made by the Depart
mcnt of agriculture.

rncnt of agriculture.
The October returns of corn average higher
for condition than in the past five years, but
not so high as in any of the remarkable corn
years from 1875 to 1879 inclusive. The general
average is %, which is very nearly an average
with any of a series of ten years, and indicates
bouttwenty-sixb bushels per acre, the breadth
approXimating 70,0O0,0W acres. The region
between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountain
slope again presents the highest figures, which
in every state rise a little above the normal
standard for the full condition. No state east
of the Mississippi returns q condition as high
ms 100. The lowest figures are IN West Vir-
GINA %, Ohio "a. Louisiana IA, Texas so, Soutl
Carolina 81. The reduction was caused by
drought. There is complaint of drought in
states. but not sufficiently severe to reduce
seriously the yields. Early planted corn Il.
everywhere matured Late plants in south
ern states suffered for want OF summer rains,
and will be light and not well filled. Very
little injury has been done by frosts. There
was n frost In Vermont on the 25th of August,
and in several border states about the middle
of September with slight injury to late corn.
The damage by chinch bugs and other in
sects had been slight. The wheat crop will
exceed that of last year by about l00, 000,0
bushels. Threshing is slow and late with tho
results thus far, confirming the indications of
former reports, that the yield per acre will
average about thirteen and one-third bushels
per acre. The quality of the present wheat
crop is generally very good, especially in the
eastern and middle states, on the western
slope of the Alleghenies, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota. Some depreciation in
quality is noted in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa.
Missouri and Kansas. The average for the
entire breadth is 9.
The indicated yield of rye is about twelve
bushels per acre, and the quality superior.
The yield of oats is Il little above the aver
age. yielding about twenty-seven bushels per
acre, and making a crop approximating y0,-
100000 bushels, of good quality.
The barley crop makes a yield of nearly
twenty-three bushels per acre, and tho pro-
duct exceeding 100000 bushels of average
quality.
The condition of buckwheat averages 81,
indicating a crop slightly under the average.
of good quality.
The condition of the potato crop is repre-
sented by SO. five points lower than in October
last year, two points lower than in 1879 and
1852, and the same as in 1880.
October returns of cotton indicate a reduc-
ton of nearly eight points in the average con-
dition, as the result of continued drouth in ar
resting development and destroying the vital
ity of the plants. The drought has been gen.
eral, and its effects are manifest in every
state. OF ten successive crops only two have
averaged lower in condition In October. These
were 1881 and 1888, when the averages were 90
and IS respectively. The average was So in
the great crop year of 1882.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
In the Hands of Lynchers.

News has just been received from
Unlonville, Orange county, Indiana, far re-
moved from telegraph, that two men named
Espenditz aud Miller escaped from the Orange
county Jail and took refuge with the formers
father, who is also Miller's father-in-law The
sheriff went there with a posse twice to arrest
them but was repulsed. Friday night the
escaped prisoners went on a spreein Unionville
and terrorized the town. Saturday the citizens
formed a vigilance committee and laid siege to
Espenditz's house. The old man and his wife
were killed, and Miller's wife and 1S-year-old
son mortally wounded. The prisoners escaped
in the darkness and at last accounts the mob
was pursuing them, and they Will be certainly
lynched If caught.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
THE GIRLS WILL MIRRT.
Experience Vhic People With Pretty Maids
Hare at the Summer Resorts.

Experience Whic People With Pretty Maid
Hare at the Summer Resorts.
Philadelphia Times.
While SC man mammas with daugh'
tiers and carriages are watching the
coachman there are Il good many mis-
tresses of households who are watch
ing the maids. Few family necessities
are so rare as good nurses and cham
bermaids. When they are good ones
they are priced and their mistresses
are afraid of losing them. This is
more than ever the case during the
summer with nursemaids who are taken
away to summer resorts with the chill
dren. Nurses are as much affected by
moonlight nights on the beach, roman
tic country surroundings and the per-
sistent attentions of ardent SWANS as
the rest of their sex, and as Il natural
consequence a good many of them
about the time summer is over ''give
warning and 90 off and get married.
Only those who have been brought
face to face with the difficulty know
what a trial it is to lose in this manner
a clean, tidy, obedient nurse, who is
intelligent and faithful, and who not
only takes Il great interest in the chill
dren. but is liked by them in return.
But these, of course, are most likely to
be the first ones to 90 off. For some
unaccountable aus the ummer season
just closed has been a remarkable one
in the number of maids mt ser
vice in prominent Philadelphia
families who have married or
made their arrangements to
marriage before the winter. There are
few families hat went off anywhere
with maids at all attractive but have
had their maids matrimonially assaulted
or completely captured. In many
cases the sources of danger were the
walters at the fashionable hotels where
the families were staying. Some of
these walters are very gentlemanly and
agreeable, as well as good looking fell
lows, and they manage to wreck havoc
in many of the handmaidens' hearts.
There were some very amusing cases,
where families a away from the places
they were at to prevent their maids
falling in love with the walters. At
the Berkeley Arms, the most fashiona-
Bile place on the coast, where Cupid
ran amuck in the kitchen and ante
chamber, several families o o their de-
parture from this cause.
In n cast the girl is now on trial
as daughters are sometimes tested.
The family suddenly concluded to 90
to Europe and took their nurse with
them in the hope of breaking her infat-
uation for the waiter, a handsome
When, as in this case,
nurse is French also, the mistresses
have a hard time of it. On Monday
night Emile Campi, one of the popular
walters at the Bellevue Hotel, married
Mrs. John 0. SCOTS maid, whom he
met at Berkeley. Louis Vale is to
marry one of Mrs. Howard 0. Roberts
met at the same place. Half a
lozen similar affairs are disturbing the
Town stairs parlors of Walnut and
spruce streets.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
BEFORE THE Bibles CAME.

IL used to be so very trim,
SO quiet and serene.
with nothing ever cut of place,
Our little home | mean;
The chairs stood ranged against the wall
FROM week to week the same,
10 w1nging doors, no Uttered floors,
= before the babies came.
IL seemed so still one might hav heard
The patter of Il mouse,
AS We with soft and slippered feet
Moved silent round the house;
We never stepped upona doll,
"A humming top or kite
we never heard a llsping word
From morning until night.
All! there was something wanting there
To make our life complete:
10 was the OUCH of baby hands,
b sound of little feet:
The cry of Mother" here and there
A consecrated namel,
From girl or boy, ne'er CAV us joy
Before the children came.
But one by one they ventured in
To bless our humble cot;
wee darlings, very sweet and fair,
And happy in our lot;
The roses climb upon the sill
To see our children play.
The sunbeams glance and brighter dance
Than in a childless day
Now, looking in the little moo
holds their precious toys,
We bless Ri HEAVIER with fervent heart
For all our girls Inc boys;
For they nave brought far more to us
OF earthly wealth and fame
Than eer we had to make us glad
-TOmaha Waterman.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
AGRICULTURAL
Plum Trees in the Poultry Yard.

Plum Trees in the Poultry Yard.
Colorado Farmer.
| see that the discussion regarding
plum trees in the poultry yard is vigor-
ously kept up by fruit growers in the
east. A is positive that if poultry are
allowed the run of the plum orchard a
big crop of plums will follow. He
knows it, because he has tried it. b
boldly denies this, because, as any fool
must know, the curculio is not caught
by the fowls until after it has done its
damage and the ruined plum has
dropped to the ground. Then comes
c. who says he does not care whether
or not the theory of B. is correct, but he
Us certain that very little benefit is de-
from the poultry who run in the
plum orchard. Like A. he has tried it
and knows. The trouble with B. is
that he depends upon theory alone.
With G the trouble is not having
patience to secure success. When a
stung plum drops to the ground the
worm (f not gobbled up by the ''early
bird" the pigs, the sheep or small boys)
enters the ground. thence to emerge
the following spring as a full-tfedged
moth, to sting more plums. Now, if
one-half these worms are destroyed one
years, 1t stands to reason that there
will be less stung plums the following
year, and so on from year to year. A.
having pursued this plan for years. has
gained on the curculio and p%ronounces
it a success, while he has probably tried
it but one season. and with very few
fowls, and gives up in disgust.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
Results ia Sheep Breeding.

Sheep Farmer.
Probably of all the animals which
domestication has succeeded in molding
to its fancy one have been so easily
influenced by climate, soil, individual
idiosyncracies and force of circum-
stances as the sheep. Let the ultimate
desired end be ever so well understood
and agreed upon, these conditions would
prevent the use of the same means to
effect a like purpose. All improvement
in breeding is in a measure brought
about by experimental fact, it is only
by continued experiment that a retro
gradei is prevented. There is not a man
but what could afford to pay three or
four prices for the rams whose progeny
was foretold, and there would be no
necessity of producing any stock of an
undesirable character. 1t is to avoid
this dangerous uncertainty that breed
ers of every class are striving to elevate
their stock and make that drawback
less liable. But it should be remem-
bered that it is only through the exist
nee of tendencies to recede that an
advance is possible. 1t is but reason
that the animal should be drawn as by
a magnet toward its most natural con-
dition, its primitive and, for its own
comfort and health, mort perfect order.
1t is supposed that all things were
created perfect, and in breeding, if sud
den and rapid changes are being eff
fected, it is evident this magnetism
will the more easily attack weak
points. The more fixed the line of
breeding pursued the stronger become
the characteristics. The ideal sheep is
the extreme of imperfection from ma
lures standpoint, and, as compared
with a rubber band. is the limit of elias
ITCHY stretched a little further. The
ideal sheep is advancing from the point
of gravitation in a multitude of ways,
and it may never be possible to thor
oughly systematic the breeding princi-
pies, although great results could be ac-
com plished by a more scientific treat
ment of such matters. In the face of
all these circumstances it is not strange
that so many fixed types are found in a
family of sheep. True, in every
line, progress is stamped in indelible
whether it be for length, beau
ty, strength or fineness of fibre, weight,
density, quality, quantity or condition
ltCSCs oiLC- iOlih- coverings VI lOlbS |
of body, mutton, wool or a combina-
ton of both; it is progressive in its line.
The greatest excellence in any particu-
lar point is attainable only by a disre-
gard for all others, as in the produc-
ton of fibre. In this instance the
means employed have impaired the
hardihood, size and form of the animal
and diminished the quantity of fleece.
The French sheep is three times the size
of his Spanish progenitors. The Amer
lean merino has quadrupled the weight
Of fleece and quantity of folds. These
are significant facts showing as they do
possibilities of the future.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
A NEBRASKANS ADVENTURE


4 Falls City Nan Robbed and Shot in Cen
ira PARK, He,c York.
New York Times.
Central park during the late hours was
forcibly impressed upon the police au-
thorities by the experience of Austin
L. Smith, a visitor from Nebraska, who
was shot and robbed by a ~highwayman
in the park on Sunday night. Mr..
Smith is a well to do business man of
Falls City, Neb., where he keeps a car
riage factory. He is about t~hirty-five
years of age and is married. Tall and
of fine physique, he is more than a
match for an ordinary assault. He
came east to visit his relatives in New
Hampshire and his wife's folks in
Boston. On Thursday night he arrived
in this city from Boston, and put up at
the Harlem house, a large loding house
at Third avenu and One Hundred and
Fifteenth street. Saturday was spent
by him in Il visit to the Central park,
and he paid a second visit on Sunday.
spending the afternoon and evening
there.
The beautiful night tempted him to
prolong his stay there, and he was
strolling through its moonlight walks
until near midnight. He was on the
ramble at that hour, near the circle
which opens into the eastern drive. at
about Se%venty-ninth street and Fifth
avenue. He looked at his watch, and.
finding the hour so late, concluded to
make his way out of the park and re-
turn home. The path before him was
in the full moonlight, but he had gone
only a few steps when the light was
obscured by the trees overhead. While
he was in darkness Il man suddenly
sprang from Il clump of bushes beside
him and stood in his path confronting
him. The stranger said something
which sounded to Smith like Good
evening" and Mr.. Smith replied by a
polite Good evening"
The stranger said abruptly, Have
you go any money!"
''What the-is that of your bust
ness" replied Smith, who, according
to his W story, was not at all discon-
certed by the highwayman in his path.
The footpad whipped out a revolver
and pointed it directly at Smith. The
latter, who believed himself abundantly
able to cope with his ~assailant, threw
out his left hand and grasped the re-
volver, while he drew back his right
hand to hit his assailant in the face.
AS he swung himself forward for this
purpose the revolver was discharged
and the bullet went through his left
hand. The ~highwayman then sprung
forward and bore Smith to the ground.
He tore open his coat and from an in
side pocket distracted a red leather
wallet, containing 5000, all the money
he had with him. The struggle here
was short but determined, and the foot
pad. having secured the wallet, ran off
with it westward through the park.
Smith pursued, yelling like a Com
anche on the warpath. The robber
and, in his flight, fired four
times at his pursuer. One bullet went
through Smiths hat, but did not wound
him. He felt the other bullets, whiz
zing past him, and he remained unin-
jured with the exception of the wound
in his left hand.
The pistol shots and the yells of
Smith brought Policeman Driscoll and
two others of the Central park police to
the spot. Mr.. Smith said that they
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
CANNING SWEET CoRN.-One oual

CANNING SWEET CoRN.-One quart
of water to three quarts of corn Let
the cor come to a boil. Add one tea
spoonful of tartaric acid to each quart
of corn. Boil fifteen minutes. When
wanted for use, add one teaspoonful of
soda to each quart of corn; let it stand
n hour before cooking,
A man never appreciates how useful
an old flannel shirt may become until
he has had a meal of fried tripe at a
seaside hotel.-FaA Rirer Advance.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
Children Suppiant Beasts of Burden.

A Mormon family of six passed through
Nashville, Tenn, a few days ago. A boy and
a girl aged ten and twelve were narnessed in a
small cart containing their earthly posses
sions. The ankles of the children were swol-
len and bleeding. The father and mother each
carried Il child. They said they came from
Lewis county and were going west. but the
man in evident terror said in answer to u
that they were mot exactly" Nor
MONS, but were suspected and were forced to
noNn
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24

AS a sample of the Increase in the
growth of small fruits, it is recorded
that the town of Warren, Mo-, raised
ten acres of strawberries last summer.