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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-12
CONDENSED NEWS.

A cyclone damaged indianapolis yes
terday.
James Russell Young is dangerously i'll
at Boston.
Terrible cyclone at Lexington, Texas
yesterday.
JEFF Davis body is to be inferred al
Richmond, Va.
Kansas farmers are holding their " heat
for an advance.
Crops were damaged by a cyclone in
southeastern Illinois.
Official statistics place the population OF
Mexico at II $780, ,S24.
Near Kalkaska, Mich the fire depart
ment is powerless in fighting the forest
fires.
The shortage of Cashier Young, Of the
Newport News 4 Mississippi Valley rail
way, is at least $4,000.
Joseph Wynne, business agent OF the
Georgia State Alliance exchange, is over
500, 900 short in his accounts.
A ukase has been issued prohibiting
from August q the expectation from
Russia of rye and rye meal of all kinds
and brands.
A. d. Potter, claiming to he a conductor
from Denver, has been working the sym
pathes of Springfield, Ohio, people, many
of them Masons. He has skipped.
A tornado at Washburne, Wis, struck
circus tent Saturday afternoon, killing
two persons and injuring fifty more.
t,,x 70 ho hDy
Many business blocks were wrecked.
Damage is estimated at $4,000.
Arizona is rapidly getting into shape,
politically, to become state. A woman
suffrage clause may occur in the consttu
ton. The matter will be settled by con-
vention September I.
The president has appointed Richard
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador. THIS
is the new South American mission Great
ed by the last congress.
He-Yy wind ~ Ottulnwa, Iowa, un-
rooted many buildings yesterday. At
Corydon the court house was wrecked
the Methodist church and depcp demol-
ished. Crops are destroyed.
One hundred and seventy-fve carloads
of melons have been shipped from Hemp
stead, Texas, upon which the railroads
have collected $l2 900, leaving but little
profit for the producers. The remainder
of the crop is being made into moasses
or being fed to hogs.
Alfred Downing, president, and I. II.
Tollman, vice president of the National
Capital Savings, Building & Loan asso-
ciation of North America, of Chicago,
were arrested yesterday by Postofice
Inspector Stuart, charged with using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. Denver
spectators loss $40, 900 by his deals.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has been notified that 1928 persons in
tend to make maple syrup with product
estimated 5000 900, 1872 will manufacture
cane sugar to the amount of 5GG, ,623. 700
pounds, will produce 20, 210 900 pounds
OF beet sugar, While 6 will manufacture
100000 pounds, making total of G0G,-
1888, 700 pounds, of sugar manufactured
subject to the government bounty of 7
cents per pound,
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Foreign Famine.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 12.-The grave
situation created by the failure of the
crops in Russia is causing the greatest
apprehension in all sections. The Crash
DAMN declares that the local administers
tions will be unable to make provisions
for the inhabitants of the distressed pro-
vlnces by drawing upon the surplus OF
other provinces if spectators are allowed
to export corn, or if the artificial rise in
the price of corn is not checked. The
paper demands that the government i'm
mediately place heavy export duty on
corn. The Financial Messenger declares
that it will be almost impossible for Rus
sia to export corn this year.
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Rain Makers Succeed.

CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-Hon. G. B. Farwel
has received telegram Prof. Dreyfourth
in charge of the rain-producing expert
ments provided by the last congress, now
being conducted on the ranch of Nelson
Morris of this city, lin Texas. The profes
sor says that the first experiment was
made yesterday, powder being exploded
high in the air, that clouds soon after be-
gan to gather and that it rained heavily
there during the day.
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Heat Sufferers.

New YORK. Aug. l2.-New York to-day
has been furnace seven times heated.
This has beer the fourth day Of the heat
ed term iu this city, and the hottest of
tie three, with no prospect OF change.
According to the probabilities, as furnished
by the local cast office, the mercury bids
fair to touch the 100 mark. Persons are
overcome by The heat in hundreds and
actual sunsroke befaIls scores Of people.
The aggravaton Of otaer diseases by the
heat incalculable and children, especially
is nursing babes and teething little ones,
suffer untold miselies The hospitals are
crowded with poor supplicants for treat
ment for the ailments generated by the
weather and physicians are Overworked
and many of the attendants are fit sub
jects for treatment themselves. Sunstroke
has carried of directly dozen persons in
the twenty-f0ur hours and there are
scores of others in the hospitals. The
suffering caused by the heat has been in
tehsfed by yertable platoon of mosqui-
toes. Sunday night these little pests
made their appearance by the millions
and drove all persons i'll doors. The old
inhabitants declare that they had never
before experienced anything of the kind
and wondered what they had done to be
so afflicted
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A good many of your friends east have
no idea OF the flavor of Santa Fe's apri'
cots. Get Morton to express basket tC
them tor YOU.
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The Publishers and the Law.

HELENA, Mont, Aug. l2.-The su-
preme court Of Montana has vindicated
the right of newspapers to publish the
news. Judge Mediation, of Butte, recent
ly ordered Editor J. A. Mcknight Of the
Helena Journal, to appear before him for
publishing in gossip article the words Of
an old Montanian, to the effect that the
Davis will contestants could not get an
impartial trial before any judge or jury in
Butte where the vast estate lies and from
which it would be removed if the contest
is successful. The court holds that con-
tempt of court is confined almost excus-
lively to acts that interrupt the progress of
the business OF the court. "We are pass
ing upon question of law as between the
rights of citizens and the power of the
court summarily to imprlson on charge
Of contempt. The power is given to the
court 10 enforce obedience and respect to
the authority Of the court. 1t is not to
enforce sentimental respect, for that must
be gained by other means and will come
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the Albuquerque fair grounds yesterday
Mrs. Guadalupe Mares died suddenly
at Albuquerque. Her husband has been
charged with the crime and is under
arrest.
1t is understood that "White Cap"
lodge has been organized in Old town.
| The number of members is kept q pro-
found secret.-Albuquerque Citizen.
At a meeting Of the board of directors
| OF the San Juan county Agricultural assO-
citation of New Mexico, it was decided to
hold the tenth annual fair on Wednes-
day, Thursday and, Friday, the 23ii24th
18th days of September, 1891, at Locke
grove, between Pennington and junction
City.
The reception to Mr.. d. b. Robinson
at the San Felipe hotel, Friday evening,
August II, under the auspices Of the EN-
| plOyes of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad
and the citizens OF Albuquerque, prom.
ses to be the most successful affair of the
kind ever held in the southwest.-Albu
querque Citizen.
Fifty thousand brick, enough to build
several con mOdious dwelling houses, will
be used i'll walling up the big water works
well at Deming. The Headlight says
Notwithstanding the unusual lack of rain
| here for the past two summers, the stage
OF water underneath, which has been praC-
tiCally demonstrated to be a great under
ground river, is from four to five feet
higher than ever before known, as shown
in the increased depth of water in all the
wells in town.
Enterprising note in the Las Vegas
| Optic; The present season has been
such an unusual one, in the abundance
OF showers, that all the earth, hereabouts,
is covered with grass and weeds. In
many parts OF the town weeds lave grown
up along the sidewalks in such abun-
dance as to occupy the larger part of the
walk-way, making pedestrianlsm, after a
shower, anything but agreeable to ladies',
or even to men, for that matter.
Agapito Abeyta, jr., sheriff OF Mora
county, has effected the arrest of dwarf,
named Salvador Ocano, who is charged as
being accessory TO the murIer of one
Chavez, for which crime the man Disar-
rlaga was sent the pen for life. Otano
is charged with having killed a number OF
cattle, belonging to the Dubuque CompaLy,
and with having threatened the lives OF
the manager of that company and some
Of the men in his employ.
The artesian well is doing more, prob
ably, than any other agency, to solve the
water problem in the arid regions. New
wells are being undertaken, i'll different
parts of the country almost every day,
and the cases wherein such attempt fail
to furnish water constituted not more
THAN l per cent OF the whole. Scen-
tific men are now teginning to believe
that flowing wells can be had anywhere
on the earth's surface, the only question
being one Of depth-that is, that water,
rising to the surface, can be had any
where, if you 60 deep enough for it.
4 poOI many Of vOur friends east have
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TUscoLA, ILL.,, Aug. 12.-On the Wabash
river near here novel exhibition was
given last evening, which was probably
the first of its kind. This was the trial OF
Prof. Claude Baum 8 aquacy, which travels
on the water with almost the speed of a
bicycle on land. A race was run on the
river between the steamer Dsuntless and
Prof, .Baum's water wheel, and the latter
showed better speed than the boat.
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The Eight Hour Law,

OMAHA, Aug. l2.-Guy Barton, presi-
sldent ofthe Omaha & Grant smelter, was
arrested to-day, charged with violating the
eight-hour law. He will be tried to-mor-
row and will receive Jail sentence. He
will then apply to the supreme court for
writ of habeas corpus on the ground
that the law is unconstitutional. This
will he made test case.
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the Albuquerque fair grounds yesterday.
Mrs. Guadalupe Mares died suddenly
at Albuquerque. Her husband has been
charged with the crime and is under
arrest.
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The Rock Island.

BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 1.-TWO deeds
have been filed for record in the register
of deeds Office, wherein the Chicago,
Kansas & Nebraska railroad company
deeds to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa.
cific railway company all its property
rights and franchises. The consideration
paid is $25, ,222 900. The.property named
is situated in the states of Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Okla.
homa.
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At meeting of the board of directors
of the San Juan county Agricultural asso-
citation of New Mexico, it was decided to
hold the tenth annual fair on Wednes-
day, Thursday and, Friday, the 23di24th
18th days Of September, 1891, at Locke
grove, between Pennington and Junction
CITY
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1t is understood that a "White Cap"
lodge has been organized in old town.
The number of members is kept pro-
fnl- nd snrrct - 1 Alhnn1lnhnlnn Eitiunn
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brief WlRINGS::-
A CYclone's Work.

ASHLAND, Wis, Aug 12.-The coast of
Chequamegon bay for seven miles north
of Ashland is strewn with the remains Of
pleasure yachts and fishing boats. 1t is
impossible to state how many of these con-
tain human lives that were lost in Satur-
days cyclone.
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German
Syrup"
ForThroat andLungs

"Ih have been Ill for
Hemorrhage "about five years,
"have had the best
Five Years. medical advice,
"and Itook the first
"dose in some doubt. This result
led in afew hours easy sleep. There
"was no further hemorrhage till next
day, when I had a slight attack
which stopped almost immediate
"ly. By the third day all trace of
" blood had disappeared and l had
recovered much strength. The
fourth day I sat up in bed and ate
my dinner, the first solid food for
1.-TWO months. Since that time I
have gradually gotten better and
am now able to move about the
" house. My death was daily ex-
"pected and my recovery has been
"a great surprise to my friends and
the doctor. There can be no doubt
"about the effect of German Syrup,
"as I had an attack just previous to
its use. The only relief was after
{" the first dose" J.R. LoUGHHEAD,
Adelaide, Australia. q
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to court where law are order and admin
stered with able, fearless and impartial
fidelity" The prisoner was ordered dis
charged.
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evidently the opinion of General Miles,
the leading officer in the field, who has
formally recommended the President to
transfer the entire control of the five great
Indian Agencies to the Wa Department, in
order to secure energy and we greatly fear
honesty of administration. The proposal
is supported bYiGeneral Sch ofeld, the Com
mander-in-C Chief, and produced a heated
discussion in the Cabinet the Secretary of
the Interior, Mr.. Noble, violently resisting
the suggestion as an impertlnence., Presl-
dent Harrison, after listening patiently to
ali arguments, decided that for the present
there should be no change bat it is believed
that, if fighting continues, opinion will yeer
round towards the military view. The
Generals are hampered at every turn by
the supply difficulty, and it may be taken
as certain that the military officers, who
are all educated men, will be both more
scrupulous and kinder in treating the In
dams than the Indian Department OF the
Interior, which has always proved itself
unequal to check POPULATION in the distant
agencies. The whole system is absurd,
the Indians being treated as paupers, TO
be supplied with ~ratiOns, rum, and blankets
yet held competent to make treaties 10th
with each other and Washington but i'm
prOvement will never come until the mat
ter is in nOn-political hands.
, 1891-01-28
PHENOL PHTHALEIN AND THE
TEMPER ING OF CANE JUICE.
From the Louisiana Planter, Jan. 3, 1917

Cane mice contains within itself the ele-
ments Of self destruction SO far as cane sugar
is concerned. and the quantity and quality OF
the sugar made from a given quantity Of cane
Juice depends primarily upon the treatment OF
the Juice in the %clariier. The truth OF this is
far too often ignored, or at the best, but par
TALLY remembered.
The Juice comes from the mill surcharged
with various impurities, solvent or suspend
ed, albuminoids, chlorophyl, organic matter,
acids, gum, etc., and is altogether d COM
pound Of q delicate nature. knowing all this
It has been the custom in the past, and to a
great extent is 30 now, to entrust the care
and treatment of this delicate and valuable
product to men working without method or
established laws to guide anu direct them
other than those of tradition. by thus means
there grew up O. system of un~dertemperlng
and an imperfect Qualification, resulting IN
the production of an imperfect sugar and
an undue quantity of molasses. Experiment
tai chemists and sugar makers OF an adyen-
turous turn of mind introduced various me-
thods of defeating and bleaching cane juice
by chemicals, using mainly sulphurous acid
$50 or the same in another form CAH2,
aSOs and phosphoric acid H3 Pa IN COM
bination with other bodies all possessing an
inverting power, causing, in the opinion OF
many, greater loss than could be compensat-
cd for by a slight increase IN price Sc
cured by O. rise in color.
Practical men in the boiling house have
effected great improvements IN the clarlflca-
ton of cane juice, improvements that have con
ferred benefits upon all, more especially
those who aim at producing a good muscova-
do for %refners. Foremost amongst those, we
place DR.. Shiers, of Demerara, whose pam
billet upon Qualification and the method OF ap-
plying his system will repay the reader. In
fact every method we know of since his day
savors more or less Of work, especially the
use of itmusp paper, which DR.. Shlers first in
PRODUCED to the West Indian sugar makers.
Iitmus paper has been a great good to the
whole sugar industry, and we do not wish to
detract from its value for many purposes, but
for work in raw cane juice it has always
been an unreliable agent, being unaffected by
some organic acids in the juice, and conse-
uuently could not be depended upon to hx
the quantity of lime necessary tor neutrallz"
ing those acids. This failing DIR. Shlers him.
self points out and warns those using 1t to
guard against it's errors.
Mr.. Watts, the government analyst here,
in his lectures to planters delivered at the
beginning of this year, introduced to public
notice apd advocated 81 system OF defeating
so simple and effective that all interested ia
sugar should know of it. After stating fully
the constituents of cane juice; the lecturer
described the albuminoids as being soluble in
acid consequently not removed by filtration,
but insoluble in we'll tempered or neutral juice,
which, when heated, coagulates in the same
manner as the white of an egg when similarly
treated. The heat causes the separation OF
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the albuminoids, the contained air upon heat
ing becomes liberated, and attaching to the
coagulum, bears it up IN the form OF scum.
The process of Qualification continues until
the thick covering of mud is cracked the
operation lasts about thirty or forty minutes,
and until the temperatures raised up to about
100 deg. F.. The cracking. point can not be
easily missed, as the mud crust becomes
pierced with numerous air bubbles forced
from below, and when this takes place the
process of surface clarifying is complete, eX-
cept the subSiding of the contents.
1t is very evident from the above that to
ensure complete Qualification, complete neu-
tralization of the juice is most necessary.
To. determine this an agent other than litmus
must be used. Such all agent Mr.. Watts has
had the good fortune to discover and introduce
to the sugar makers here, and with such bene-
fetal results that, although only used for part
of the crops of 1890 those using it have been
recompensed beyond their expectations. This
new agent is known as Phenol Phthalein and
is a product of coal tar, and prepared for use IN
the c~lariier room by being dissolved in spirits.
1t is probably one of the most subtle detect
ors of acid ever compounded IN a laboratory,
and consequently, its use has increased largely
the use Of lime in the c~larifier room, proving
conclusively that W have erred in under-lm-
ing, as by those using the quantity of lime
indicated as necessary by phenol phthalein
the test and yield of the sugar has been raised
and the quantity of molasses lessened.
The method of using phenol phthalein in
the clarifer room is simple in the extreme,
and consists in the following operation:
When your clarifer has been filled and
tempered in the ordinary manner, a small
portion Of the juice is sucked up into a pipette
and run into a test tube from a drop bottle
containing the phenol pIthalein. Add two or
three drops to the sample Of juice, shake gen
thy, and observe if any change of color has
taken place. If no change, add more lime to
your c%laritier of juice, mix well, and sample
again, adding two or three drops of phenol
phthalein as before. Should it be found that
upon adding the phenol phthalein a slight
pink shade is present this indicates the
presence of lime, and that the Juice is lined
sufficiently. On the contrary, should the
color be found of a red or dark red color, too
much lime has been added. To remedy the
over-liming, draw off from the claritier, by
bucket, some of the overturned juice, and add
raw juice sufficient to reduce the overplu5 Of
lime. That the application Of phenoI phi ha-
lein as q detector Of acid in juice has proved
Of great value may be best gathered from the
following letters from. some of the proprietors
OF estates who adopted ana worked the system
during part Of crops 1890.
TIkaL1R- A-.1 80 l. . 1AnN
, 1891-01-28
Cassada Garden, d.

Jas. Robertson, Esq.
Dear Sir: In accordance with your re-
quest to furnish you with the results OF
using phpnol phthalein as a test for correct
tempering of cane Juice with lime, | have
much pleasure in stating that its use at
once showed me that we had been
all along under tempering our juice.
After using the test there was a decided i'm
movement in the Qualification, the liquor
when run from the clarifer being OF a bright
amber color and on boiling yielding much
less scum than our liquor had heretofore
done. The sugar in the coolers was Of u
more uniform appearance than uSual, ana
when nut into the hegsheads drained
more thoroughly than sugar made under
the old method If tempering. | have care
fully compared the pOlariScOpic test OfthlS
years sugar and the mOlaSses yield with that
of 1888-crop of 1889 being reaped during
such unprecedented'wet weather, l did not
think I should compare it with 1890, AS |
felt certain it would make the difference too
great.
I find in 1888 the test ranged from 81,8
to 80 [ ; i'm 1890 the test ranged from 300
to 9O,3: in 1888 Me molasses yield was 40
puncheons per 100 hogsheads sugar; in
1890 the m0lasces yield was 80 puncheOns per
100 hogsheads sugar; that is, the molasses
weld was reduced 20 per cent, but when |
consider the low test sugar of 1888 contained
a considerable quantity of molasses against
this wears sugar which yielded all it's molass-
es, I am of opinion hat the reduction is
about Is per cent. I presume that Mr.. Watts
method of tempering with phenol phthalein
test is we'll known by this time, so | have
omitted it.
Yours faithfully,
E. R. HALL.
Antigua, December Is, 1890.
j. Robertson Esq.
Dear Sir-In reply to yours of 18th inst. >
asking for my experience in the use of Mr.,
Watts method of tempering sugar, i have
much pleasure in informing you that it has
given satisfaction. Before its adoption on
my estate it was almost impossible to
get an even quality of sugar; now we get
a high test sugar with less trouble and
with unskilled labor.
l am, yours very truly,
SAMUEL GAIBRAITH.
, 1891-01-28

Of the Qualification of cane juice by the phenol
phthalein test.
First, let me say that the process as recon-
mended by Mr.. Watts is simply as follows
AS soon as the clarifer is nearly full put in
the lime, mix thoroughly, and then by means
of a pipette take up a small quantity of the Juice
from below the scum, fill a test tube and ap-
ply a few drops of phenol phthalein. Should
The color of the juice not change, go ON APP
plving lime to the clarifer until a decided
change in color takes place not to a strong
red, as that would imply an excess of lime,
but to a reddish brown. During the crops of
this year, I applied to every 100 gallons
of cane Juice a quart and a half of lime of
a density Of 10 deg, by the saccharometer,
more or less, according to the strength of the
Juices, which was about so per cent. more
lime than | used formerly the separation of
the scum from the juice was very good, and
the test much improved. Each clari6er for the
day must be tried by itself, as every field diff
fers in it's lime requirements, and even parts
of the same field differ one from the other.
UNDERMINING has been a mistake of the past
with us, the result Of which has been too
much glucose and too little sugar, to say
nothing Of low tests.
Mr.. Watts says our juices had better be
overturned than underlined. For further
information on this subject, l refer you to-
Messrs. Townson & Mercer, SO Bishopgate
street, within, from whom you will get the'
test solution itself and dl~ ections how to pre-
pare it also all the apparatus necessary for
It's use. A few shillings will supply all re-
quirements for a Crop of 400 or 500 hogsheadss
! am, dear sir, yours respectfully,