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The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-29
Big Vegetables.

Thomas Lehman, ST., beats all previous
records for large vegetables, grown in his
garden in Riverside addition. On Mon
day he brought to the enterprise office n
turnip that weighed twenty pounds and a
potato just four and a half pounds in
weight. During the past season he raised
eighty sacks of potatoes from a patch of
ground 65Xl40 feet. Montana certainly
excels in the production of large vege-
tables as we'll as in the quantity of the
yield.-Livingston Enterprise.
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Antler win Hang.

MIssoULA, Oct. 26.-Antler, the Indian
whose trial was commenced yesterday
was this afternoon found gully OF MUIR
der in the first degree and his punish
ment was fixed at death. He is one OF
the three Indians who killed three pros
pectors in the Flathesd country in the
fall of 1887. In the spring OF 1855 ms
two companions were hanged by the Wig
llantes at Demersville but he escaped
and was at large until this summer.
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LOCUST VALLEY, L. l., Oct. 24.-E. ID.
Morgan's large steam yacht, Katrina
bound from Newport for New York,
with the owner and crew of thirty men
on board, ran on a. ruck one hundred
Yards from Nantucket Point, l.. l., and
sank this morning, but all on board es-
,aped
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CBIcAeo. Oct. 27.-Cattle-steady 10
shade lower; steers $3.00@S545; rangers
S3.25@$S.55. mn..,.
sheep-strong; natives $4.Oo@S4'eoi
westerns S4OO@s4.5Oi Texans $4oo'
lambs "a. 75M$5.75.
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VALLEJO, Calf. Oct. 24.-Two sailors
accidentally started u fire in the base
ment of the steam engineering store
nous at Mare Island navy yard this at
ternoon and damage from fire smoke anu
woter will reach 100000.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-29
The Great Field Marshal HOnOred.

New York, Oct. 27.-The ninetleth
anniversary of the birth of Count Won
Moltke Mas celebrated tonight by one of
the greatest festivals of music and ora
tory that has ever been held at the Me-
%tropolitan opera house, All the German
societies and prominent clubs of the city
added their share of interest to the event.
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So Say 8 Commissioner Morgan in his
Report to the Secretary Of
the Interior.
he IS TO BECOME INDIAN AMERICAN,
To Break up Reservations and De
stroy Tribal Relations, is the
Government Policy.
The Western Telegraph Operators at
st. Paul go out on a
Strike.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-Commissioner
Morgan Of the Indian bureau in his an
nual report to the secretary of the inter
ior says of the Indian question generally
that there has been for 10 years or more
real progress in the right direction and
that the outlook for the future is encour-
aging. ut has become" says the com
missioner, "a settled policy of the ,ov.
eminent to break up reservations, destroy
tribal relations, settle Indians upon their
W homesteads, incorporate &lem into
the national life and deal with them, not
as nations, or tribes, or bands, but as in
dividual citizens. The American Indian
IS to become Indian -American.
A public school system is being rapidly
provided whereby every accessible In
dian boy and girl of school age is to be
afforded the opportunity of acquiring the
rudiments of an English education and
the elements of an honorable calling.
The Indians themselves are coming to
understand the present policy of the
government and are showing an increas-
ing readiness and even desire to adjust
themselves to it. ALI changes have been
made for the improvement of the service.
The work of making allotments of lands
in severalty under the several acts OF
congress has steadily progressed. Dur
ing the year, 1,484 allotments have been
made on the Yankton reservation in South
Dakota, 952 on Wlnnebago reservation
289 to Gre nd Rondee Indians in Oregon,
u to Eastern Shawnees and 201 to those
on Papagoe reservation in Arizona.
A large part of the work is now in
progress, ma ing it impossible to state
the number of allnfments mada
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-29
Cleveland as a Lawyer.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2z-Ex-President
Cleveland today made his argument be-
fore the supreme court as associate coun-
sci for James Wallace Peake in what is
known as the New Orleans drainage case.
A great crowd was present.
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New York win not be Re-counted.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-Secretary OF
the Interior Noble today rendered a de-
cision denying the application of Mayor
Grant for a remuneration of the popuia-
ton Of the CITY of New York.
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New YORK, Oct. 27.-Pig lron' steady
dull. American s16.Oo@$le'O.
Copper, stagnant; Lake. Oct *lo''o. "a
Lad dull. unchanged; Domestic So.Vo
Tin, quiet, tirmer; straits S@i'oo'
Bar silver, S1.O3.
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Boston, Oct. 24.--The storm did much
damage around here. Along the south
shore it is reported the worst since
November, 1883, and it is'worse tonight.
Many wrecks are feared.
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The storm in New York.

UTICA, N. Y, Oct. ga heavy storm
prevailed in central New York last night
and today. The Mohawk flats between
here and Oneida are flooded on both
sides. The rain ceased tonight after "a
haurs duration.
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City Council,

At tie council meeting Friday night the
rate Of taxation was fixed at Z mills. The
council also created four funds and set
each apart for II specific purpose. Of
the 7 mills levied, 3 mills will go to the
general fund, 2 mills to the water fund,
l mill to the park fund and l mill to the
street fund.
The committee reported favorably on
the resol ution from the Workingmen's
Union asking fol- S2.50 per day, and the
resolution was adopted.
An ordinance allowing street signs to
extend over the sidewalk three feet was
read, also an ordinance in regard to petit
larceny.
A number of bills were allowed.
uu.. d.. - MI H..
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Killed nv Masked Men.

SULLIVAN, Ind, Oct. %.-Edwara
Houk was abusing his wife and threaten
ing to kill her with a Ratchet, when
masked men seized him and killed MN
with the same Ratchet.
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New York, Oct. 24.-Elward En-
mons tonight shot and INSTANTLY killedMrs.
Kate Owens in her apartments at Clifton,
Staten Island. Emmons then unsuccess-
fn,,v ATTEMPTED to take his " life.
They had been living together.
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CLEVELAND, Oct. GA disastrous fire
swept away part of the business portion
of Andover, Ohio, this morning, fifteen
buildings being destroyed. Loss $4,000.
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Lynch IL Again.

AUGUSTA, Ga, Oct. 24.--Last Monday,
Geo. Williams, a negro, killed the five
wear old son of j. R. Robertson, five
miles from Miller. Last Light Williams
was taken from the officers and lynched'
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Oct. 27.-h. u
Peters inventory shows that his assets are
&c. 88, 04S and total liabilities S2,967,59S
This includes everything.
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Boston, Oct. 24.-1he storm has been
unusually heavy in southern Vermont.
Brattleboio reports az inches of rain and
still raining.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-29

New YORK, Oct. ga dispatch was
received from Far Rockaway, l.. l., say
ing a large ocean steamship was ashore
beyond Long Beach.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-29
Three Libel Suits.

PHnApELrHlA, Oct. 27.-Robert E.
Pattson, democratic candidate for gov
ernor Of Pennsylvania has sued the
Philadelphia Inquirer and North Amerl-
can and Harrisburg Call for libel IN
charging that he had been bribed by the
Vanderbilts to sign certain bills in 1855
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CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The steam filters
are on a strike for Il ten per cent adj
Vance.
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BUSINESS LOCALS.

Wool Goods in great variety at Con.
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The Barker mine at Barker is worked
by a tunnel which is being pushed with
rapidly. Eight men are now working
on the mine, hut two men will be added
to the night shift. This mine has only
been worked since the first of the month
bur they are now about tweuty-seyen feet
on the lead, carbonate, silver ard lead.
James Leslie is the genial superintendent.
The timbering of this mine is a model for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Advance.
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President J.. j. Hill Of the Great North
ern and officials of the O., b. Il G., and
some others, arrived Ivy special train Sun
day night. The party went down to the
dam yesterday morning and about noon
passed on to Helena. On returning they
will visit Monarch and Neihart.
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. number of bills were allowed.

Corrugated Iron Roofing at Bach. Cory
u Co.'S
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Conrad has a fine line of standard Cor
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-29

In our account of the laying of the cor
ner stone Sunday, Cascade should have
been st. Clair. We had no intention to
nov the church across the river, but
the informant stated that he had Just
come down from Cascade and hence the
mistake. No harm done.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-29

A mining deal vas closed last Saturday
which will give a strong impetus to oper-
atoms in Barker. Helena parties signeu
a bond of $4,000 for a property on which
they will commence work at once. A
force of 40 men will be put on as soon
as they ctsn be secured and work will he
carried on all winter.
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Why don't Mr.. l. oehet Of the Ladder
publish his interviews with Mr.. Harris,
Mr.. Werthein and others? The ,eason
IS that he is not fair and does at want
The people to know the truth in regard to
he advance in prices.
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Mrs. j. E. Sprague of the Neihart news
and confectionery store, is in town on
business. This is her first visit 10 Great
Falls, but on the completion of the rail
road all the people of the camps will
come here to do their trading.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-01
Grain, Flour and Feed,

Sales on call at the Grain Exchange, lear No.
2y. g. corn, 60c, P, G. & St L.; car No. white
oats, 421Sc, P. & W.; 1 car No. 2 y. g. corn, 60c,
no time; cars y. e. corn, 60c not over Is days.
Receipts as bulletined, 2S cars. By Pirtsburg,
Fit. Wayne and Chicago Railway, 2 cars of
oats, of feed, l of malt, 8 of -four. BY Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and st. Louis, cars of corn,
s of oats, of middlings. BY Baltimore and
Ohio l car of hay. By Pittsburg and Western,
2 cars OF oats, l of hay, of -four. BY Pittsburg
and Lake Erie, ! car of -four. Markets are
strong in all G, real lines Corn is particularly
strong and prices are steadily moving upward.
Millfeed also shows an upward drift Flour is
firm at outside quotations, and an advance is
probable at an early day. Oats are scarcely as
strong as they were last week. Choice hay is
steady, but common grades are slow, with an
inclination to lower prices.
Prices are Tor carload lots on track:
WHEAT-No. 2 red. 94@95c; No. 5, 92@93c;
new wheat, No. 2 red, 6S089c.
CoRN-No. yellow ear. 59@60c; high mixed
ear, 5S159c: No. 2 yellow. shelled, 54@55c;
high mixed shelled corn. 52Q5Sc.
OATs-No. white, 420421zc; extra, No. q
40Q4lc; Mixed 38@39c.
RYE-No.1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 5sG59c;
No. Western 55Q56c.
FLoUR-Jobbiug prices-Fancy winter and
spring patents. So 5O@5 rs: winter straight,
IS 00@5 %: clear winter, 81 1895 90; straight
xxx bakers. "a 25@4 So Rye -four, s. 500
MILFEED-Middlings, fancy fine white. $40 90
OIL 90 q ton; brown middlings, az oo0lo 90;
winter wheat bran. sl5 0o015 30.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-01
sllins the stock, furnished sla4oOa The nnal

selling the stock, furnished sl24OOO. The final
changes were as usual insignificant
government bonds have been quiet but firm.
state bonds have been dull and featureless.
Inc Post says: The advance in the Bank of
England rate of discount ow seems explainable
upon the presumption that the reports from
Soutn America to the effect that the rebellion
mas peen crushed, and the Government re-
stored, are true. As long as there was an ap7
parent revolution In progress it was useless to
send gold to try TO sustain the credit of Gov
ernment that might not be in existence when
tne gold arrived there. The Argentine Re-
natural resources for the production of COM
modltles which make the producer rich, is un-
aoubtedly In bankrupt condition owing to
tne wildcat methods of expanding the
credit of the Republic and its
representative banks. The debts represented
Dy the various forms of Argentine securities"
and especially the "ceoulas" or real estate
mortgage bonds of the Argentine National
mortgage Bank, will have to be scaled in the
same way as the various classes of bonds OF one
OF our bankrupt railroads are scaled in the
schemes of reorganization. The leaders of
Argentines' in London, Berlin and other
parts OF Europe will have to take some other
form form OF security or at least reduced interest.
When the reorganization or scaling is ar
ranged gold will be required to sustain the
credit OF the Republic on the new basis It is
doubtless In view of something of this sort
that the Bank of England has determined to
accumulate gold in advance.
me toli wing table SHOWS the prices or active
stocks on the New Y ork stock Exchange yester-
9ay. Corrected daily for 1HE DISPATCH by
oers Of New York Stock Exchange. 81 Fourth ave-
nue.:
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By Telegraph.


CHICAoO-The Dropers' Journal reports.
Cattle-Receipts, 10000 head: shipments. 5000
head; market dull and weak: beeves 81 6O6
10: steers s. 1904 so; stockers and feeders,
81 10G3 20: COWS, bulls and mixed, 81 20i3 2S
Texans, 81 4O63 10: Western rangers, 81 5OGS s..
Hogs-Receipts. 1880 head; shipments. $500
head; market irregular; mixed. So 65aS SO:
heavy, Sc 65G3 So: light SS 7O94 05: skips. 50 SO
1000 head; market dull and lower; natives s3 60
as &c: Western, q 00Q4 40; Texans, SS 1894 6O;
lambs, 81 5OG5 60.
NEW YORK - Beeves-Receipts, AL head
all for exporters and slaughterers; no trading:
feeling dull; dressed beef steady at 6L@1Lc
Calves-Receipts. SS7 head; market dull; yeals
So 0O66 %: buttermilk calves. 81 5OG3 so; W. est.
erns, So 40G3 621 Sheep : Receipts, 1855
sheep, 81 25G5 80: lambs, IS ood7 90; drssseG dasf
mutton dull at S14Ql0c per b. and lambs weak
at 9159l3c. Hogs-Receipts. including 1926 for
sale, 37l7 head: market steady at 81 I094 SO.
ST. LOUIS - Cattle-Receipts. 1900 head.
shipments 300 head; Z mar market ct lower; good to
IS 60Q4 l5; stockers and feeders 81 OOG3 O0:
Texans and Indians. 81 l0@3 %. Hogs-Re'
ceipts, 500 head; shipments, 2lO0 head:
market lower; fair to choice heavy, IS 700
3 so; packing grades. % eo@s 70; light. fair to
best. S. 7O93 S21S. Sheep-Receipts, 32o0 head:
shipments, $500 head; market lower; fair to
choice, 81 O0@4 so.
cINcINNATI-F1our easier. Wheat easier
and lower; No. red. s4c; receipts. 1900 bush.
els; shipments, 500 bushels. Corn firm: No
mixed. 4905Oc Oats steady; No. 2 mixed
S7@39c. Rye firm; No. 2 SAC. Pork nominal
at SI2 25. Lard dull at S5 70. Bulkmeats steady.
Bacon stronger; short clear, s. So Whisky
steady; sales, $50 barrels. finished goods, on the
basis of 81 IL Butter firm. Sugar steady.
Eggs firm at 1lxGl2c. Cheese firm.
BuFF FFALo-Cattle slow and unchanged: re.
ceipts, l37 loads through, ! sale. Sheen and
lambs dull and irregular: receipts, 10 loads
through, II sale. Hogs-Receipts. loads
nothing doing.
cINclNNAII-Hogsl lower; common and light.
81 1904 O5; packing and butchers, s. Sl63 s0
Receipts, 400 head; shipments, l,72O head.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-01
THE MARKET QUIET,
But the Furnaces Still Seem to Have
a Suficiency of Orders
THE SITUATION In STEEL RAILS.
Wire Rods Are Likely to be Scarcer Than
Ever in the Future.
8 SITUATION In STEEL RAILS.
STATE OF TRADE OVER THE ATLANTIC

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrspArcH.1
NEW YORK, July 31.-The Iron Age OF
this date reports the American metal markets
as follows: American pig-The marketcon
tnues exceedingly quiet so far as new busi-
ness is concerned. The majority of the fur
naces seem well supplied with orders, So that
there is little pressure to sell. The larger
Southern companies have for so long time
held prices so high above the market that their
business IN this section must have been exceed
ingly light. We quote No. Northern iron SIG
1S; No. 2 Sl6Gl7; gray forge, sl56l5 %; South
ern iron, No. i. S17@l7 25; No. !, soft, SIG 5O@
Is 10 and No. 2 Sl66l6 25. Bessemer pig is
offered at Sl99l9 Is delivered at ride water
Spiegeilsen and ferro-The market continues
lifeless, with spiegeilsen nominally $50 009S0 80
for 20 per cent and ferro s7l 5OG72 So Import
ers insist that the situation abroad justifes
better prices in the near future.
Billets-There have been some sales of
foreign billets but thus far only in small lots,
and chiefly of odd and small sizes on the basis
of S32 50GSS 90. Foreign mills do not demand
the extras for small sizes which our works ask.
and it is through this cause that foreign billets
have found a market.
Wire Rods-The scarcity continues, and the
outlook has been rendered more dubious still,
through the fact that one of the large German
mills, the Phoenix, has been forced to stop
through break down. Small lots of foreign
rods have been sold the market being s45@46,
buyer taking risk of duty.
Steel Rails-0utside of a few 1000 and 8, 000-
ton lots no business is reported by Eastern
mills 1t is regarded as a satisfactory feature
that the Western mills are filling mp quite we'll
At present prices in the West, with freights ad-
vanced to 81 to Chicago, the Eastern mills on
competitive business could probably not do
much better than S29 For the present. there
fore. Western business is out of the question.
We quote steel rails at Eastern mills S3l 006
81 so, the latter for lots under 900 tons.
Plates-The only transaction of any copse-
euence was the closing OF contract for 600
tons of tank plates for tank cars. at private
terms. The market is steady at 23092 40c for
tank, 255d zoe for shell and 275G3c for flange
steel delivered.
Old Rails-The market has been quiet at S246
q 5e, nominally, for old rails
. Track Fastenings-We continue to quote
spikes s2G2 10. fish plates L759le e0c and bolts
and nuts 2S0d3c delivered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-01
PLAYING A LOSING GAME.
Drovers Losing Money Owing to DemornIi.
zation of the Live Stock Market.

DroFerB Losing money OWlnR 10 DemOfnns
zaiion of the Live Stock Market.
The drover trade has been far from remu-
nerative the past few weeks Our live stock
yards have had an over-supply of low grade
stock, and the effect has been a general de-
moralization of markets. The only grade of
cattle that holds its own of late is the light,
tidy butcher grade, weighing from l. 1v0 to ], 200
pounds. This class of cattle is in light supply,
and for this reason only prices are well main
tanned. All other grades are dull. and as prices
are unchanged in Chicago, drovers are losing
money. A Herr's Island drover who has been
familiar with the cattle trade there for a
quarter of century at least said yesterday:
Il would cheerfully close up operations this
week at a lnss of s25 on four loads of cattle.
The truth is there is no money to the drover of
late, and unless there soon comes change for
the better many drovers will be forced out of
the business. When Western cattle are
brought to our market at q loss, it is only a
question of time when we will be forced to
seek some other source of livelihood"
A leading East Liberty stockman talked in
the same strain. He said: II do not see how
the shipper of live stock can come out even in
the transactions OF the last few weeks. The
drift of cattle and sheep has been steadily
downward, and am convinced that shippers
are playing losing game of late"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-01
Provisions,

Sugar-cured hams. large. lie; sugar-cured
hams. medium, 1l5%c; sugar-hams, small, l2c:
susaf-cured breakfast bacon. SIC; sugar-cured
shoulders. TIC; sugar-cured boneless shoul-
ders. SIC; skinned shoulders, Sc: skinned
hams, 1l2zc; sugar-cured California hams, SIC;
sugar-cured dried beef fats, 1Uc; sugar-cured
dried beef sets, lie; sugar-cured dried beef
rounds. 13c; bacon. shoulders, SIC; bacon. clear
sides, TIC; bacon. clear bellies, ne: dry salt
shoulders, &c: dry salt clear sides, SIC. Mess
Lard-Refned. in tierces, SIC; half-barrels. &c;
30 tubs, 61sc; 20-ib pals, SIC; SOD tin cans.
SIC; 3D tin pals. SIC; 5b tin pails $50; lob
tin pals, &c. Smoked sausage, long, DC;
large, &c. Fresh pork, links. &c. Boneless
hams, 10Hc. Pigs feet half-barreis, 81 90;
quarter. barrels. Sc Is
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-01
GARDENERS LONG FOR RAIN.
A Doarth of Green Stuff Feared Owing to
the Prolonged DRY Spell.

A Dearth of Green STUFF Feared Owing to
the Prolonged DRY Spell.
IF the present dry weather fails to let up in
the next week famine of garden stuff will en-
sue. The showers which visited our city on
Tuesday it seems did not reach out to the gar
dens round about u.s." a Neville Island gar
dener said yesterday. STUFF is drying up ON
the island and if Heaven does not soon favor
US with showers tomatoes, cucumbers and
roasting ears will be a failure. never saw the
time when rain was as much needed as right
now. There have been longer dry spells in my
time, but the ground was in better condition
to stand q drought The wet spring left
ground in a bad condition. 1t was too wet
when we plowed, and has been hard and baked
ever since.
"a year ago at this time brought double
the amount Of stuff to market am able to do
now. On 3 seven-acre tract planted in early
corn will get no yield If rain does not come
in the next week. Tomatoes and cucumbers
are also suffering from want of moisture.
Tomatoes are ripening on the island this sea-
son before they reach one-half their natural
size. To be sure we get better prices this year
than common. but if the present dry weather
docs not soon give place to rain we will have
little or nothing to bring to market. Our main
dependence is on roasting ears and tomatoes,
and only good rains in the next ten days will
save US from famine in both lines"