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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
HE HAD ALIASES,
And Was Arrested at San Antonio on a
RequisitiOn From Gov. Hogg.

And Was Arrested at San Antonio on a
RequsitiOn From Gov. Hogg.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. A--The arrest
of e. Madison, alias Mansfield, alias San
chez, was chronicled last week. Last night
Detective John M. Tierney of the Chicago
force, arrived from that city with extra
dition papers signed by Governor Hogg.
The prisoner was delivered to hlrc today.
. The crime for which Madison is accused
IS forging the name OF Henry
Bracket former fir end to
five checks aggreealing four hundred dol
lars. When the detective who personally
knows Madison met his prisoner in the
county Jail toCay the latter beg ed TO be
taken back as quickly as possible to Chicago
to face the music, and complained of the
delay occasioned by his having to await
the detecIives arrival. ierney with his
prisoner left today for Chicago.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
r The ImbOden Case,

Fort WORTH Tex, Feb. 24.-When
Judge stedman's court adjourned tonight
the evidence in the Imboden forgery case
was all in and tomorrow will be resumed
in the arguments of the case. Today's
proceedings brought out no new points.
1t was developed hat lmboden's total in
debtedness to the Daggetts is $3.50 The
defendant was put on the stand in his own
behalf. A great deal of character testi..
monv was introduced by both Imboden and
the Daggetts. Public interest is unabated.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26

state and local ORGANIZATIONS there is no ma.
tionai body: and the intention now is to
ois, Kansas and Missouri, and representa-
tives are expected from other states. Tenn
porary organization was effected by elect
ing Mr.. A. Graft of Wellington, Kas tenn
poIary chairman, and Mr.. w Blnohelly of
Jackson Mo-, secretary, after which recess
was taken.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
The Mitchell. LaBIancbe Fight

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. N.-The directors Of
the California athletic club had a meeting
last night to consider the question of
awarding the victory for Mitchell in the
La Blanche fight, which took place at the
club last Friday night After brief die.
cussion they decided to postpone the deoi-
sion until Monday night. Charges ars
made that the fight was sold.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
Shot Himself.
4.-Daniel Delanv,

CHILDREss, Tex, Feb. 24.-Daniel Delanv,
= section hand, committed suicide last
night by shooting himself through the head
He had been in poor heath for several
days. He had considerable property and
EnnLe cash.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL.
Unexpected Movement of the Old StOckhold'
ePS of the Road,

New YORK, Feb. 23.-The statement has
been made public that Coils P Hunting
ton and the dire ctors of the old Texas Cen
tral Railroad company were served Satur-
day with papers requesting them to remove
Frederick p ocott, president of the Cen
trql Trust company. The papers we're is-
guaH 30 esaaif Of a portion Of the stock
ho.ders Of he old Texas Central RailToad
.orpsuv who imtinated if their request
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
Instantly Killed.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala Feb. A.-This morn
ling ON Nineteenth street Frank Hull, aged
%, a telephone lineman, fell from the top
OF sixty foot pole and was instantly killed.
He resided in Rome, Ga.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26

company in bill filed by R. H. Eobertson,
4 stakeholder. The company was organ
ized in this city in 1890, with capital Of
IS, 100000. Robertson alleged that as q result
OF the conspiracy his stock was soli at
Judgment sale freeze him out. The coart
issues an injunction restraining any dispo.
stion of the stock involved.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
Fire at Sbreyenort.

SHREVEPORT, La, Feb. A.-Five frame
dwellings on Marshall near Lane Avenue
were burned last night The origin of the
fire is unknown. The losses are partly in
sured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
FLOODS IN THE NORTH.
Streams in the Vicinity Of CeRtralia, Ills,
Out of Their Banks.

CENTRALIA, Ill, Feb. 24.-Streams in this
vicinity are all overtiowing by the recent
unprecedented rain fall. Farmers report
hundreds of hogs drowned, carried away by
the food. Fences and bridges also suffered.
KAsKAKIA RIVER.
Kaskakia river, usually small stream,
has assumed large proportions during the
last week owing to the general rain fall. 1t
is rising rapidly and flooding the low lands,
large number of log RATS have broken
away and will be lost causing heavy losses
to the lumbermen.
RISING AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, o., Feb 24-The Ohio river
has been rising today Ian average of one
half inch an hour, and al O'Clock reached
fifty seven feet. News from Ripley, forty
miles above, is that it is rising there at the
same rate, while at Portsmouth il is falling
with a cold drizzling rain At Huntington
the river has fallen eight inches and the
rise above is falling rapidly. If there wer-
no rain it would be fair to say the river
here would rise not more than four inches
more and then recede, but it is raining at
nearly all points from here to the head
waters. There is no material change in
the situation. Trains driven from central
station are all usiEg other convenient sta
tions for passengers. Freight is handled in
the same way. In CovIngt n, KY, the
rolling mills have stopped and many fami =
lies fearing further rise are moving to the
higher ground.
FLOOD IN THE GILA.
PHOENIX, Ariz, Feb. 23.-The first wire
into Phoenix since Wednesday night was
completed today. A heeavy rain last night
and this morning raised Salt river but did
not get over the banks sufficient to repeat
the damage Of Thursday. Advices this
afternoon say that Yuma is threatened
with inundation by the Gila changing its
bed from where it empties INTO the Colo
RADIO All the wires are down now and it is
supposed part OF the town has been swept
away.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
Cotton Picking Machine,

CHICAGO, Feb. PA receiver is asked for
the Lone Star State Cotton Picking Machine
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
FLOOD IN THE GILA.
STATE LEGISLATURES.
LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 24.-When the
joint assembly met to vote for United
States senator this morning several mem
berf of both parties were absent on account
of illness. Both parties therefore refrained
from voting, the only vote cast being that
of the presiding officer for Palmer.
FARwELL's PLAY.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb 24.-It is rumored
that Hon. G. B Farwells name will be
again brought forward in the contest for
United States senatorship and that w. ].
Campbell, his close friend, is now en- route
to Springfield for that purpose.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
A BIG METEOR.
An Aerolite the Size Of the Moon Bursts
Over Maine Village.

MADISON, Me-, Feb. % AT about 4:l5
yesterday meteor apparently the size of
the full moon, was observed in the sky.
1t burst with loud report over Madison
village, the blazing fragments scattering in
every direction. Houses were shaken as
though by earthquake and hundreds of
people were awakened from sleep by the
conclusion which reverberated for several
moments, sounding like heavy rolling
thunder, while fiery particles seemed
like so many flashes Of lightning. The
glare was visible all over the STATE.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26
American Societies.

CHICAGO, Ills, Feb. 24.-The National
Congress of representatives of American
societies began its session here today with
about sixty members present. The onIy
business of the meeting was the appoint.
ment of committee to draw up q plan OF
concerted political action and submit IL Ia
congress this afternoon.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-26

Get one OF those celebrated Marion
Harland coffee pots sold by I. Stein
& Co., and always have good coffee,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08

tree is to prune it, and sometimes it prunes
where we would rather that no pr lining
had been done. Fortunately it never ap-
pears in very large representation; if it did
we would have to grin and bear it, for as
yet science has settled upon no remedy for
the pest. We have always found it worse
on the common persimmon O1osp. ,ros vir-
giniana), than on either the hickory or the
pecan. The probability is that it will never
trouble the pecan grower to any extent
worthy of serious consideration.
The pecan has no diseases that we know
OF. On several occasions we have heard OF
''twig blight" on the pecan, and more than
once we have travelled considerable dis
lance to investigate it. Invariably we have
found it springing from the same cause
Swampy or soggy land. While occasional
overfows of streams do not at oil iniure
the pecan, but rather help it, lands perma-
nently swampy or soggy are against it. The
trouble shows first on the slender twigs,
and then we hear Of pecan blight 1t is
scarcely necessary for US to suggest that
immediate and thorough drainage would be
the remedy in all such cases. Cut deep
bitches to the grove leading off the water
standing in the soil and subsoil and the
trees will promptly recover.
We will state in conclusion that of all the
American trees known to US none approach
so near entire exemption from disease and
from serious insect ravages Us does the
pecan
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08
THE PEANUT IN TEXAS.

| Your article in THE GAZETTE mentioning
| a successful experiment at peanut culture
| made by Mr.. Robbins near Fort Worth has
| reused no small degree of interest in this
| section. have long thought that the pea
| nut might be made most successful and
| profitable crop for US. There is one point
not mentioned in your article that we would
much like to be infopmed on. You did not
| give US the probable yield to the acre as
| shown by Mr.. Robbins experiment. Give
| us all the facts at your command on peanut
culture, from time to time. as they appear
| before you, and doubtless The GAZETTE will
| soon be able to congratulate itself upon hav-
| ing worked even one more great good for
| the agriculture of Texas in the way of
bringing her into recognition as the cham
| pion peanut-producing state of the Union.
Tell us something of what an acre 20 pea
| nuts, properly managed, might be expected
to do for the Texas farmer.
Weatherford, Tex.
After receiving your letter we called on
Mr.. J. NJ. Robbins for the purpose of inter-
viewing him relative to the point I'M
touched in our former article. He in
formed US that by bringing his peanuts to
a regular stand, as they would have had by
correct attention, it might be stated that he
had in about one-fourth of an acre Al
ready he had picked off considerable pro-
portion of his crop-enough to convince him
that he would get at least thirty bushels of
merchantable nuts from that quarter acre
Four thirties, as you will understand, are
100 So, as it appears, Mr.. Robbins ex-
pertinent has PANIED out at the rate of 1aO
bushels of nuts to the acre.
The next thing was to find out what pea
nuts were worth on our market, so that
thing took US near mile to the Fort Worth
Grocer company, the concern from which
most of our retailers of peanuts obtain
their supplies. That concern told US that,
while they could not put the figures down
to actual cents, they concluded that the pro-
Queer might safely depend upon nothing
less than sl.5o per bushel for good goods.
In all probability it would never be below
those figures, though there was chance
that it would often be considerably above
One hundred and twenty bushels of pea
nuts at 81. 80 bushel would be $50 to the
acre, at cost for culture, etc., decidedly
less than that Of an acre to cotton. How is
that for highl
But we don't stop at this. Mr. Robbins
told US that he was feeding his peanut vines
to his horse, and that his horse would quit
corn or anything else in the manger for
them. They seemed to be reiished more
than anything else he could offer the ami
mai, and, therefore, on account of the great
abundance of the vines, he fully believed
- ~
raise peanuts for the fodder alone, suppos-
ing that the selling value Of the nuts was
not at all taken into consideration
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08
ANOTHER PECAN LETTER.

If you remember l last year promised to
send you sample of my paper-shell pecans
this fall. A sample of nine nuts is sent by
this mail, which please acknowledge.
Would like to have sent more; that is,
what would call respectable sized sam
pie, but the fact is the demand on me for
the nuts is so far above the supply that l
have been forced to put up with sending
you a few. l have but one tree
bearing as yet. 1t stands right where
the waters of the Colorado river
and the - river come together. If
ings on the nuts, which, I think. is due to
the different color of the soils where the
tree grows, the soil carried down by one
stream being black while that carried down
by the other stream is red.
This tree is most elegant one, and is as
distinctive from other pecan trees as are
the nuts from those of other trees
Already l have fine lot of young trees
grated from this particular tree, all doing
well and coming on rapidly.
No effort whatever has been made at
booming my peculiar variety of the pecan,
yet knowledge of it has somehow spread
among the people to such an extent that l
have orders for all the nuts for several
years ahead at 81 per pound. II you ever
happen in this way please call on me and
AFFORD me the pleasure of showing you a
tree, the sight Of which would make your
heart glad, think; and l further think
you would much enjoy look at my grated
pecan trees.
I would request that you do not publish
this letter in The GAZETTE, for already l
have more letters to answer about my
pecans than can well afford to attend to,
about half of them inclosing no stamps for
return postage. have no pecans of this
fine variety for sale at present
Central Texas.
: 1t viii be seen that we have rather vio-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08
WHAT MINERAL Is 1T?

have inclosed in a small tin box and for
warded to your address by mail few frag-
ments of quartz rock from the outcroppings
of ledge The most of them, as you will
see, are coated with mineral substance
very much resembling gold; but it is not
gold neither is it what is commonly called
fools gold" Please let me know what it
is, or what 1t indicates. Do you
regard the quartz as probably some
ral-bearing rock, and that this
subtance upon it is the blossom
of some miueral2 The stratum from which
the specimens were taken lies nearly YER
teal. 1t is about twenty inches wide, runs
east and west, and is bounded on either
side by clay ''gouge."
Hoping l am not trespassing too much on
your time, and thanking you in advance, L
am FRANCIS HoLsTEIN.
De Roche, Hot Springs county, Ark.
Your rock is an imperfect ebert. and not
a quartz at all. The largest specimen. of q
light color, has the peculiarities of buhr
stone The yellow matter interesting you,
as appearing on the specimens, is imonite
iron-the yellow ocher otthe paint shops.
Nothing beyond whaty6u see on the sur.-
face is indicated. II
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08

opening is left to fill the Office of ventilator
for the potatoes in the bank.
Should you desire to keep the potatoes
longer than the opening up of warm weather
next spring, you add more dirt to the heap
as the warm weather comes on to hold the
potatoes cool and prevent sprouting. We
have kept sweet potatoes entirely sound
and good for ten months on this plan.
In the coast country under consideration
they use dry pine straw (pine needless, in
making their banks, but any kind of good
dry straw or grass would answer the pur-
pose equally as well as pine straw. The
strips of board laid on are to prevent the
covering from pressing heavily upon the
potatoes, u thing that might bruise many of
them
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08
OUR CORRESPON DENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions as may be asked by our sub
scribers, which may be of general information.
Inquiries OF personal character that require an
closed. Please give full name and postoffice
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber" or "A. G. d, not for publication,
if against the will OF the writer but to admit Of
direct communication should such thing be
deemed necessary. Address as directed at head
of this page
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08

man for whom it was intended. The sa..
was published in the local papers. aul. AZ -.
wards served to make the artist fZm :,
Ten years afterward the body of the pl.,
authrophist, which had been inferred !. :.
metallic. air-tight coffin, was eXhGWra and
was in Il perfect state of preseryatjou Tie
portrait was place alongside the face ~ lie
body which had been eXhumed, and -g-r;
feature of the portrait corresponds eNac..r
with those of the dead man.
Whether this story is true or not IS ll,
vouched for by THE GAZETTE.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08
"a DEAD MANS PORTRAIT.
THE STORY TOLD TO A GAZETTE
REPORTER.
A Portrait of Likeness Painted From
Memory Proves Faithful in Every
Particular-A Strange Tale.

Samuel Miller of Lynchburg, Va, sew
eral times millionaire. on his death gave
nearly all of his estate to build and endow
two orphan asylums-one for girls and one
for boys, the former being located at Lynch
burg. Va.-besides giving that city its water
works and fair grounds. The following
story embodies the facts, which authenti-
Gates the account as given by The GAZETTE
some weeks ago:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08

In her scale of weights and measures the
state of Georgia has put dried chufas at
forty-four pounds to the bushel- y bushel
of good chufas will plant about five acres.
They are planted in rows three and half
feet apart and eighteen inches apart in the
row, single.tuber to the hill. About the
last week in March would be 4 good time
to plant in your latitude, though the crop
might do well enough planted several weeks
later
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08

VIII you be so good as to let me know
through The GAZETTE how many pounds a
bushel of Spanish chufas weighs, and how
much land might be correctly planted with
a bushel of good seed' When is the best
time to plant? 1 read The GAZETTE regu-
larly and am much pleased with 1t US
family and farmers paper.
q X ONDFRDONE
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08
THE SPANISH CHUFA.

apt to think, just at the time, that it was
burning bad enough for anything.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-08
j. P. STEELE, EDITOR.


{ Prof STEELE For Worth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

Considerable ore is being taken out an
stored.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
FINANCE AND MINING
Lead Takes a Decided Turn fol
the Better.
THE ORE AND BULLION OUTPUT
Business at Home and the Financial Situation
AbrOad-News From Many of Our
Utah Mines.

There is no denying the fact that the
present unreasonable weather has a bad
effect upon business. Merchants. however,
who were seen yesterday were of the opin-
Ion that the past week had seen an i'm
provement in many lines, and more hope
full feeling generally prevailed. The latest
advices from New York are to the effect
that trade is large in volume for the season,
and in many lines Is the largest ever
known. The east was the first to feel the
effect of business stringeucy, and naturally
1t is the first 20 recover from the infliction.
Reports from cities east and west, outside
of New York, show great hopefulness. AT
Boston, trade is large in volume boots and
shoes active, dry goods and wool sales fair,
with good trade in groceries At Hartford,
trade IL dry goods is fair, and also in gro
ceries, but wool and hardware are quiet.
AT Philadelphia, trade in dress goods is
more active, but, as in Salt Lake, mild
weather retards sales Of Woolens, blankets
and flannels; wool is active At Cincn-
matt, retail trade improves in all lines, and
lobhing trade for shoes. At Detroit, man
ufacturers are busy, and at Cleveland the
dry goods and shoe trades surpass last
years, and hardware and groceries are
active. At Milwaukee sales in all trades
are far in excess Of last year. At Chicago
receipts of wheat and rye are three times
last years, of oats and dressed beef third
larger, Of hides and wool u quarter larger,
Of flour fifth larger, and of barley some
what larger, but in cheese, butter aud corn
decrease appears, and large decrease in
cured meats and lard Sales of merchau-
disc greatly exceed last years, and clear
ings are the largest ever known. At ST.
Paul trade is active at Minneapolis lumber
is strong and high, and the output of -four
20l,OOO barrels, versus 119, 600 last year; at
Duluth the lumber cut is the largest ever
known and shipments heavy. At St.Louis
trade Is strong in shoes, clothing, drugs and
oil, and money in large demand for cattle
and cotton regions, and in Kansas City the
movement of live stock and grain is heavy.
At the South cotton receipts are very large,
but much is held because of low prices; the
rice movement is heavy at New Orleans,
and receipts of sugar large, with groceries
fairly active.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

From Tintic.]
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
The Financial Situation.

Henry CIews writes as follows: SAT the
moment there is distinct revival of dis
trust in European finances. Although
there is some abatement of the outflow of
gold to this country, yet 1t is felt that, with
the inevitable further extraordinary ex
ports of our grain, this change can be only
temporary. The absence Of any improve
ment in the situation of Argentine finances.
the progress of political disin migration In
Brazil, and the possible development of un.
favorable conditions in Gillian finance. all
coming upon q very sensitive state of
finance in the European centres, are events
calculated to create 0istrust and apprehen-
sion. Beyond this, the chronic fears for
the maintenance Of peace between the great
powers are aggravated to the point of
acuteness by variety Of symptoms which
show that next spring may too possibly
bring events that will shake the European
continent to its centre. In such state of
things, it would be almost utopian to put
the restoration of confidence across the
Atlantic among the probabilities, if not the
possibilities, Of the near future. The cues
tion-how do these prospects bear upon
American securities has two sides. On
the one hand, the foreign situation is direct
ly calculated TO produce deep distrust of
European government securities and a cor
responding preference for the better class
of our investments, and this preference is
Enthusiastically apparent in the fact tina.
Americans have been for some time the
strongest securities IN the foreign markets
and that their strength in London is a pow
erful support to New York prices. But
on the other hand, while all this NAV he
natural enough SO long as there is only an
prehension of coming trouble in Europe
yet can we calculate upon a continuance of
this favorable condition in the event of the
catastrophies now only feared becoming
actuali The first effect of widespread
trouble would be general realizing: and
In that event, the very fact of our securi'
ties being less exposed to depreciation than
others would be one reason for their being
sent home, while another, equally potent
would be found in the desire to get onr
gold. Under these circumstances, however
helpful to our market the present attitude
of the foreign markets may be, that ia a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
Considera BILE ore came In.

From Marysvale.l