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The advocate., 1890-04-09
OFFICIAL.

CAMBRIDGE, Kansas, March II, 1890
Mr.. EDITOR:-Please announce that
Brother J. N. Palmer Of Cresswell, Ma
rloh county, Kansas, has been appointed
State Statistician for the Alliance In
Kansas. Let each county secretary for
the present put hlmselfin communication
with Brother Palmer and assist In the
work.
AT the next county meeting each couR-
ty must select a county crop and stock
statlstician. The secretary can generally
attend TO IL, but Il must be made duty
for some one and each sub. union or
county falling to make a proper report
will be held accountable for such failure.
Brethren, let each one feel II our duty TO
attend 10 this.
The report must include growing crops
and their condition at time Of making re-
port, also amount Of matured crops on
hand, also stock Of All kinds classified and
their condition, This 10 for our own ln-
formation and TO be kept for the benefit
of Che order and not for publication.
Attend 10 it
Also announce that Brother Ben Terrell
will DO In Kansas from the 18th Of July
to the 10Th, both days included. He
comes In from Colorado and goes into the
Indian Territory. A series Of meetings
will be arranged 10 suit his route ACROSS
the state.
He is our National Lecturer and all
should hear him who can. A list Of ap-
pOintments will be published as soon az
they can be arranged.
II. III. CLOVER.
President Kansas FArmerS' Alliance and
Industrial Union.
The advocate., 1890-04-09

The American Live Stock Commission
Go, is Cooperative corporation for the
purpose Of selling the Live Stock Of LIS
members in the most economic manner.
The Kansas Alliance Exchange Co. has
taken stock in the American Live Stock
Commission Co. which entities each mem
Der OF the Kansas Alliance Exchange Co,
10 the full benefit Of membership and
business with the American Live Stock
Commission Co. the same as II they were
individual members of the said Co.
The charges for selling stock are tho
same as other Commission Cos,j cannot
be otherwise and conform 10 the rules
Of the Kansas City and other Live Stock
Exchanges: but large part OF this comes
back at the end OF the year In the
shape OF dividends upon the profits OF
the business
The commissions upon the business
with non members adds just that amount
10 the volume Of the yearly dividend
among the members, which 10 and induce
ment 10 every member 10 solicit ship
ments TO the Company.
/ am receiving many promises OF
shipments and q large Alliance business
is assured for the near future. / would
advise
First, Get stock in good condition be-
fore shipping.
Second, In shipping hogs, whore sever
al members unite TO make upa load,
where 1t Is convenient weigh on scales at
shipping point and divide proceeds Of
sales according to these weights. Where
not convenient to weigh at home they
can be divided here, but usually q car
load can be sold for better price than
smaller lots
Third, Notify me a day In advance OF
shipment, by mail or wire, naming road
over which shipment Ia made. While
this 10 not absolutely necessary II is
sometimes valuable information for us.
Market reports and other information
will be Cheerfully furnished upon appli-
cation. Conslgn to Edwin Snyder.
Care of American Live Stock Commits
sion Go. Kansas City, Mo.
The advocate., 1890-04-09
9. j. ADKINS.
u. U. CALDWELL.
w. A. NRIAOM.
DnxTnR, Kan, March n, 1850.

DEXTER, Kan, March II, 1880.
To BRETHREN Greeting, COwley Coun-
y Union will hold its regular quarterly
session at the city Of Winfield beginning
on Tuesday, April Goth, al ten q. m, sharp,
The basis Of representation will be, ono
delegate for every twenty members, aud
major fraction thereof. Let all delegated
be on hand promptly and sub. Unions WIN
elect only those brothers who can attend.
BY call Of President b, II, CLOVER,
Attest, r. O. BOURDETTE,
County Secretary
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Rulings OF the Judiciary Board.

Rulings or the JuOlCp@ty hOAfu'
Has the President Of the Stats Alliance
the power TO grant q special dlSpenSatlOn
or ruling TO admit into the alliance per-
sons who are in sympathy with the cause
but are excluded BY The eligibility clause
Of the constitutlonH II sOwill you please
prevail on him 10 grant Sob.slIHanCes the
right TO take In such persons.
Ruling. No. The constitution docs not
give the President that power.
Persons living IN incorporated CIilea are
not eligible under our state constitution.
Persons engaged In wholesale or retail
business whether II is milling, buying
and selling grain, stock or merchandising
are not eligible.
No alien Is eligible 70 membership In
the farmers Alliance and industrial
Union.
Suspended OF expelled menberB arc
not entitled to any dement's FROM che alll-
ance while suspended or expelled.
A member four months IN arrears on
account Ofdues, stands suspended, wheth'
The advocate., 1890-04-09
To tho suD-AlllanCes I'm the state OF



Ar. ", Sec. 0, Of our state constitution
cOntalnsthe following;
"It shall also be the duty Of the leCtur-
er 10 select subjects for consideration and
discussion by sub-alllances each month,
and publish the same In the official or
gan sufficient time beforehand 20 give
due notice, and chat he shall requirs che
lecturers OF the sub-allIances 70 submit
the same at the meetings Of the suh-GllI-
ancSs."
TIE ADVOCATE having been selected
by the Board Of Trustees as our Official
organ, hereby announce the frEt sub
iect chosen for consideration; VIZ: The
sub-treasury Plan adopted at the Nation
al meeting At 81. Louis, details and lu-
formation Of which may be found la THn
ADVOCATE and che National BcoaONStk
The lecturer OF each sub-alliSnce III sho
state will please to introduce this fOr
discussion ae soon as possible, and 300
chat IL is thoroughly discussed and indest
stood In all Ito bearings, as far as posslhlsi
get aH expression Of Che members and rVA
port 20 Che chairman Of committee
The advocate., 1890-04-09

List Of Sub Alliances that have reported thl
ratification Of the agreement Of the Joint oOrl'
mittoo Of the Alliance and Grange and tho plan N
Brother J. @, Otis proposing u schedule Oi min'
lmum prices for farm products.
lot No. 0iO Irabel, Barber county,
2nd 700 Of ArgOnia.
Srd Meade county Alliance.
Ath No. Ss9 Antelope Union, Vosta KAnsRs
o" "iOS Good win Union, Reno county
Q" Alliance not named. Post ONCE ArgOnia,
7" Pleasant Valley Alliance.
q" Eureka No. Oeo.
0" Mount Union No TB6
10" New Salem Alliance No. 500.
n" Eagle Alliance, Neely Kansas.
u" Virgil Alliance No. 10.
is" Bunker Hil Alliance, No. 260, Canton, No
IA" Bunker HIN Alliance, No. sos, Arcadia,
10" Sand Creek Alliance, No. 900,
10" Friendship Valley No. 02O.
n" Banner Union, No. ia.
10" FAirview Union Edwards County.
20" Superior, No. 4ss.
n" Pleasant Grove No. O57.
"a" Mt Labor Alliance, Saline cOuntyi
70" Highland Alliance No. 7Ol.
"a" FAirvieW Alliance, Barton county.
49, Alliance No 7io, Saline county.
20" Pleasant Ridge Alliance, No. S32.
"a" Maple Alliance, COwley county.
%" Chapman Alliance, Dickinson county.
70" Alliance No 900, Seyery Kansas.
90" ExCeldOr Alliance, KlOwa county.
The advocate., 1890-04-09

or he has the pass or not and 10 debArred
from any benefits OF che alliance.
No question will DO considered by che
Judiciary committee unless first submitted
10 the sub-alllance for consideration and
must be signed by the president and sec
retary.
No railroad employee Is eligible 10
membership under the constitution of tho
FarmeEa' Alliance and LabOrers' Union Of
the State Of Kansas.
s. J. ADKINS.
u, O. CALDWELL
w. A. NRIsOM.
The advocate., 1890-04-09
BEVERLY, April 2, 1890.
s. MoLALLIN,

=. MCLALLTN,
Dear Sir;-By order Of Twelve Mile
+. A. and l. U. No. 1880, Of Lincoln
County, Kansas, We submit the follow
ing resolutions.
WHEREAs, A recommendatiO was sub
mitted by j. g. Otis to the joint commit
tee Of the Alliance and Grange at their
conference at Topeka, on January S3d,
1890, having for It's object the establish
ment Of a farmers schedule Of minimum
prices Of all staple farm products; and
WHEREAS, The said joint committee
submitted the same to the local unions;
therefore be IL
RcSoIUcd, BY the Twelve Mile union
No, 1880, that we indorse said recon-
mendatlon and recommend the adoption
OF the same by the state and national
unions.
8. S'S41 {; y. sz34s"s, szSa"a:6'' Committee.
s, G. PAINTER,
Secretary.
F.A. and l. U. No. 1880, Lincoln Coun-
ty, Kansas
The advocate., 1890-04-09
KANSAS CITY MARKETS.

CATTLE,
In numbers about the usual Monday run OF
cattle was NJ tho yards, but the proportion Of
beef steers was very much larger than usual.
The quality Of the stoeB was very satlsfactOTy
and the demand was good oil around. Prices
were steady 10 strong with the highest point ON
Saturday, but there was nothing ON the market
as fine as tho $500 steers ON Saturday Owing W
the scarcity, cows and helieTs were strong for
the medium grades, and higher for chelCe stun.
Trade IN stOCkerS and feeders was dull, Tho
farmers are busy In their fields, and also since
the price OF corn has advanced are not aO anxious
Tor feeders Bulls were steady and little trading
was done I'm them Range cattle was In hight
supply and sold at steady prices Spectators
bought quickly everything that was offered In
the line OF mixers and SpHngers. PTicoO were
stlR.
GRAIN.
Wheat was 5tlfH in price to-day. IN many cases
commission mem reported sales H0ic higher
than the same grade sold on for Saturday. The
receipts we're % cars for Sunday and Monday,
making scarcely a fair average. by sample 10
cars sold at tO62o. Quotations were shout 90 fol-
lOws No. rod, n a 72MCj No. 2hard, Ob D60hci
No. red, 90 @GecI No. hard, Oo@OoNc. VoTy
choice samples would bring a little above these
hpres
Therols Is no change in tho corn situation, Re
ceipls are stll exceedingly light, and consequent
trade Is dull Prices were nrm for No 2 a. 2iNc,
with Nc discount for No. 3. No. 2 with local
billing, sold for the same 90 No. Q with through
billing.
Oats we're stronger, and No. sold II 9Oh u 2ic,
with 10 discount for No q
Rye sold around 57hc.
Hay was stronger at e4.SO@ W.Cb bet ton.
The advocate., 1890-04-09
FraternallY Yours,
sT. MARYs, Kansag, ApEIl Z, ls0C

ST. MARYs, Kansas, April A, 1890.
EDITOR ADvocATE,--Ata regular meet
Ing OF the Cross Creek Alliance, Of Jack
son County Kansas, the following resolu-
tlon was adopted
ResOlced, That we do not give any
growing crop to the township trustee,
BY order OF the Secretary,
ID. w. CUNNINGHAM.
The advocate., 1890-04-09
MoLoUTn, Kansas, April 1, 1890.

MoLoUTH, Kansas, April 1, 1890.
BROTHER MCLALLIN
AT the regular meeting Of Round
Grove Union No. 42s, on Saturday, March
Goth, resolution was passed that we
urge upon our representatives in con-
gress that II. B. No. 1852, relating to a
system Of sub-treasurles and other pur
poses become a law.
Signed, q. M. WooDHEAD.
Secretary.
The advocate., 1890-04-09
OsnoRNn Kaneaa, April lat. 1e

OSBORNE Kansas, April lot, 1890.
We the farmers and members Of Beth.
any Alliance do adopt and will abide by
the following resolutions.
WHEREAS, The retail implement deal
ers Of the state Of Kansas In session at
Kansas City, pledge themselves to pur-
chase no goods from any parties who sell
to the Farmers Alliance; therefore be it,
ResOIUed, That we the members Of
Bethany F. A, and /. u, will purchase
no spring implements except Of the Hap
good manufacture and that through our
state exchange.
ResOIBcd, That rather than any brothers
of the Alliance should patrOnize any one
who will boycott our exchange, we win
try and manage TO loan him our lister
planters ETC., free of charge.
ReSOlVed, That we will support no
paper that refuses TO publish matter
written in the interest Of our order.
Yours fraternAlly,
A. M. CURRAN.
Secretary.
Bethany f. A. and I. U.
Osborne, Kansas
The advocate., 1890-04-09

F.A. and /. U. No. 1880, Lincoln Coun.
ty, Kansas.
The advocate., 1890-04-09
CORRESPONDENTS.

DANvuLE, Kansas, April 5th, 1890
EDITOR ADVOCATE;
Dear Sir Chikaslxia Alliance No. 798
adopted the "sub-treasury" bill unani.
mously
Fatenaliy Yours,
q. II. BECKER, Secretary.
No. OF members 90.
The advocate., 1890-04-09

Business Agent-U. A. TYllRN, ITO East Jun ~
Topeka, Kans.
Live Stock Commission Agent,
RDWIN SNYDER, Stock Yards
Kansas City, Kansas.
Grain Commission Merchant,
RE. HIoGs a Co.,
KanBas City Missouri.
The advocate., 1890-04-09

To Members Of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union Of KsnSao.
I am asked many questions as the con-
neCtiOn OF the Kansas Alliance Exchange
Co. with the American Live Stock Com
mission 90.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01

The May bulletin of the Michigan Agri-
cultural Experiment Station is an essay on
the English sparrow. 1t appears that seven
States legislate against this irrepressible
bird. New York makes 1t a misdemeanor
to harbor or protect them, while Michigan
pays bounty of 8 cents for each sparrow's
head. 1t is recommended that one man in
each town and city be employed to superin-
tend systematic warfare against the un-
welcome guest. No matter how much
farmers and gardeners desire to destroy
these birds it will be of comparatively lit
tie avail so long as the sparrows are per-
mitted TO stay in their great breeding haunts,
the cities, unmolested. The scheme for Of
fering liberal prizes for the greatest number
OF birds killed in any given territory is
good one. Whatever means are employed
should be well advised and all States and
Territories should be united in their efforts
One or two States alone can accomplish but
little, as the sparrows are spreading so rap
idly that they would migrate from adjacent
States as fast as those within the State lim-
its were destroyed. The killing of useful
birds should be punished. A great many of
the birds that have been sent in for bounty
in Michigan are most beneficial birds, such
as the song-sparrow, the red polled linnet
and the evening grossbeak, birds that the
laws protect by q fine OF IS against their
Every person presenting such
a bird at the town clerks Office should pay
the pepahy,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
California Fruit Productiou.

California is now one Of the principal
fruit-producing centers of the world. 1t Is
more particularly in the southern part OF
State that this industry is most developed,
and Sacramento is the center of it. 1t pro-
duces all kinds of fruits-pears, peaches,
figs, grapes, etc. Southern California is
distinguished, by very varied climates,
which admit Of all description of fruit cult
ure. The choicest kind OF table grapes are
those known as Tokay. A San Francisco
paper states that over an area OF 10 acres
planted with Tokay grapes, the vines being
IA years old, and we'll tended, the gross
yield was valued at $40 900. Deducting all
expenses OF cultivation, irrigation, trans
port and commissions, the net profit was
$500 per acre. This, however, is regarded
an exceptional case. With the increasing
fruit production of the country great atten-
ton is being paid to developing the sale OF
preserved fruits. At first these were pre-
pared on the evaporation system, and the
fruit was then packed in boxes. This In
dustry mas had an enormous development,
and the manufacturers of tin boxes
in California are considered among the
most skillful and the richest in the world.
Since 1887 the yield of fruit has been so
abundant that the special apparatus for
artificial evaporation haye.been insufficient,
and recourse has therefore been had to nat
ural evaporation by solar heat. This system
has not given everywhere satisfactory re-
suits. In the greater part of California,
however, the air is extremely dry, and the
dessication of fruits under the influence of
the sun is said to be absolutely perfect
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
The PITTSBURG DISPATCH
BRANCH nFRTTFC

THE BRANCH OFFICE FOR THE SOUTH
SIDE HAS BEEN REMOVED TO NO, 1872
CARSON STREET.
ADVERTISEMENTS, NEWS AND suBsCRIP.
TloNS CAN BE LEFT THERE BOTH FOR
GENERAL EDITIONS AND FOR THE
SPECIAL soUTHsIDE ISSUE PUBLISHED
EACH SATURDAY.
BRANCH OFFICES ARE ALSO EsrAB-
LISHED AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES,
AT ALL OF WHICH WANT, FOR SALE. TO
LET, AND OTHER TRANSIENT ADVERTISE
MENTS WILL BE RECEIVED UP TO p. N.
FOR INSERTION NEXT MORNING.;
Advertisements are 10 be prepaid except vhere
advertisers already have accounts with TIE Dis
PATCH
THOMAS MCCARTNEY. s5Js Butler street.
EMIL 6. STUCKEY. 2zth street and Penn ave-
z. 6. STUCkEY CO., Wylie ave. and Fultonst
n. STOkELY. Fifth Avenue Market House
EAST END.
J. W. WALLACE e121 Penn avenue.
McALLIsTER& & sHEIBLER, 5tn av. L &Atwoodst
soUTHsIDk
JACOB SPoHN. No. 2Carson street
ALLEGHENY.
A. J. KAERCHER, So Federal street.
H. J. MCBRIDE. Market House, Allegheny
FRED H. EGGERS. 172 Ohio street.
f. h. EGGERS SON, Ohio and Chestnut sts
j. F. STEVENSON. Arch and Jackson streets
THOMAS MCHENRY, Western and Irwin aves.
G. W. HUGHES, Penusylvania and Beaver aves.
PERRY NJ. GLEIM. Rehecca and Allegheny aves.
T. R. NORRIS 6ss Preble ave.
AlLLVALE BOROUGH.
W. W. FLOCKER, Stationer, No. 4Grant ave-
sHARPSBURG.
C. BELLMAN, stationer, SIS Main st.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
The Ideal Sanitary House.

The picture of the ideal sanitary house, as
drawn by a contemporary, is pleasing one.
The house will stand facing the sun, on
dry soil, in a wide, clean, amply severed,
substantially paved street, over a deep,
thoroughly ventilated and lighted cellar.
The floor ofthe cellar will be cemented, the
walls and ceiling plastered and thickly
whitewashed with lime every year, that the
house may not act as a chimney, to draw
into its chambers heterogeneous from the
earth. Doors and windows will be generous
in size, so as to admit of plenty of air. The
outside walls, If of wood or brick, will be
kept thiekly painted, not to shut out the air,
but for the sake of dryness. The inside
walls will be plastered smooth, painted and
vanished. Interior woodwork, including
floors, will all be vanished. Movable rugs,
which can be shaken daily in the open air
not at the doors or out OF the windows-will
cover the floors. Mattresses will be covered
with oiled silk; blankets. sheets and spreads,
no comforts or quilts, will constitute the
bedding. There will be as little plumbing
as possible, and what there is will be ex-
posed. The hot air furnace which heats the
rooms will take its supply from above the
top of the house instead of the cellar, and,
we are told, the ''spring" cleaning will be
twice year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
TPREPAREp FOR rHE p1srLrcH.l


Prof. Loomis gives a very interesting
summary of his investigations on the sub
ject Of tornadoes. He finds that while no
season of the year is exempt, they occur for
the most part in May and June, and gen.
orally between noon and sunset. The usual
accompanimeGts are a rise in temperature.
lightning and rain, and frequently hail.
Their progress in this country is invariably
eastwardly, the mean being 12o north of
east. Their average breadth is 12O rodsi
length Is miles; velocity of progress when
violent, about 80 miles an hour; duration
of destructive violence, As seconds.
The loss of human life is remarkably
small considering all the attendant con-
ditions, being about one to tornado. In
passing over ponds or rivers water is in
variably raised in large quantities. Leeward
roofs are generally taken in preference to
Windward. Light objects are frequently
transported 8 to 20 miles, and fowls are
not infrequently picked OF most OF their
feathers. This, though a singular, is un-
doubtedly true phenomenon. The attempts
to prove that it could be caused by the ex-
psnsion of air in the quills, due to passage
of vacuum have not been successful. The
most singular fact is that the fowl lives
under the depluming process. In some
cases roosters have been seen walking
around, after q tornado, Growing, and with
out a feather on their backs. A feasible
explanation is that an electric charge threw
of the feathers much in the same way as it
now and again strips the clothes from
person,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
Ga..Burners for Illuminating.

There is a singular stagnation just now in
the devising of radical Improvements in gas
burners. 1t can hardly be said that this
arises from any Incidence on the part of
those who are identified with any of the
recognized systems. Indeed, never since
Eas-lighting came into vogue has the
activity of burner makers been more con-
spicuous and more fruitful than during the
last eight or ten years. Progress in this re-
spect has been much greater than in previ-
GUS years, and it is not too much to say that
In consequence the average consumer now
gets great deal more for his money ESQ far
as simply the combustion of the gas goes)
than did his predecessor of the last genera
tion, who perhaps paid twice the present
rates. Outside the regular trade, however,
there has been nothing doing for years, in
spite of the daily more formidable coupeti-
tion of the electric light. The question is
what is the cause Of this lull? Has the last
word been said respecting the best way to
develop the Illuminating power OF gas, or is
the matured experience of the gas burner
makers about to bear fruit in another cycle
OF improvements?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01

A somewhat significant 'sign Of the
times" was given at one Of the sessions of
the recent meeting of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers at Cincinnati.
One member read a paper in which he
showed that to equip and operate an ordi-
nary steam railroad to use electricity would
be SO enormously expensive that il could not
possibly compete with the steam locomotive.
A most spirited debate ensued. Halt q
dozen or more mechanical engineers rose up
to defend electric power" against the at
tack, and criticised his estimates and state
ments and the work of electrical engineers
In general in an astonishing manner. 1t
looked like friendly battle between the
electrical engineers and the mechanical. in
which the latter were fighting for instead of
against electricity. O-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
ShorteninE the Trip 70 Europe.

The scheme for reducing the passage
across the Atlantic to about three days and
a half is assuming definite shape. The aim
of the company which has been formed for
the purpose, is to reduce the length of the
Atlantic voyage to about 1,700 miles, as
against 3.052 miles between New York and
Liverpool. To do this it is proposed to con-
struct railway along the north shore of the
river and Gulfof St. Lawrence, from Quebec
St. Charles Bay, on the Labrador coast, a
distance of S54 miles. With vessels steam
ing 20 knots an hour, it is calculated that
the distance between st. Charles Bay and
Milford Haven, LOO miles, will be made
In 8 days, 13 hours, as against the average
OF days, 81 hours from New York to
Liverpool.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
vaIue ofscieutific Expeditions.

The work which has been done in con-
nection with the challenger" expedition
is, of course, of great interest to the pure
scientist, but sooner or later it will be dis
covered to be of immense practical value
The reports which have been published in
connection With it form library of At quarto
volumes. with nearly 2S, 900 pages OF letter
press. more than $500 lithographic and
chromo-lithograph!c plates, 400 maps,
charts and diagrams, together with great
many wood cuts. The preparation and pub
lication of the reports have cost no less than
$40, ,006, and the amount recovered by sales
does not yet reach $4,000 The part of the
report which is specially interesting is that
tides, currents and prevailing winds OF out
of-the-way spots, which will be of use to
those engaged in maritime and commercial
pursuits