The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-09-29

made the test claim that If fruit Is
surrounded by carbOnic acid gas IN
stead of air all the process of decay
and deterioration are arrested ana the
flavor OF the fruit is not impaired.
An ordinary car has been zinc lined
40 a. to be practically alright. IL
will be filled with fruit and carbonic
acid then introduced. y condenser
filed with Iiquified gas will be placed
in the car a. supply from which 10
repair any leakage which may occur.
The gas is obtained from an aban-
doned quicksilver mine near san Jose,
where, it is claimed, an inexhaustibIe
quantity exists. Should the expert
ment prove successful, q fresh impetus
will be given to the fruit growing in
dustry of the Pacific Coast.
Sugar Cane in California.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE super
intendent of the Sugar Experiment
Station in San Joaquin county, Cali
fornia, has sent report to the Agri-
cultural Department, giving the con-
dition of growing crops OF sugar ana
cane, and stating the results which
have been attained in the cultivation
of saccharine plants. The Super1n-
tendent states that the most remarka-
BILE thing is the growth of the stalk of
cane after being planted so late. The
crop was planted in the latter part of
April, when il should have been
planted in February, but in spite OF
being planted two months behind time
il has attained a growth of five feet.
The rice he reports in excellent con-
dition, but says it has not yet headed.
The fax has ripened up and has made
q splendid crop of seed, but was plant
ed too late to make any fiber. He
states that sugar beets are the most
promising thing at this station. They
weigh nearly a pound apiece, and
promise splendid yield.
The Tennessee Lync5inc
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 15.-Thir-
teen men have been indicted by the
Grand Jury for completely in the
recent lynching of Fix negroes near
Millington, Tenn. OF that number
ten are in Jail and the other three viii
be arrested before morning.
The Grand Jury made its report to
Judge Cooper today and adjourned.
In concluding, the jury says " We
cannot close this report without ex-
pressing our horror of the cold blooded,
brutal butchery of the six defenseless
men, the cruelty of which would cause
shame, as shown by the evidence de-
veloped in the investigation. We in
dulge the hope that the most vigorous
prosecution will be continued until
every man engaged in it suffers the |
extreme penalty of the law"
Successful Tests.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-The War |
Department has been notified by Man |
ager Phipps, President of the Ord |
nance Board, which conducted the re- |
cent tests of the dynamite gun bat
teries at Sandy Hook, n. Y, that the
guns worked well and that all of the
requirements of the contract had been
met. Consequently, the battery and
plant will be accepted and the Pneu-
matte Dynamite Company will be
paid $4,000 for one s inch and two
15-inch guns, with all the boilers,
compressors and machinery, the shells
used in the tests and ten reserve pro-
jectiles for each gun. This experiment
having resulted well, work viii be |
pushed on the dynamite gun battery
for San Francisco harbor.
No More Indian Wars.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Is. - General
Armstrong, Assistant Commissioners
Oh lnu-ah AhailS, SpcahihS VI eh
changes of United States troops and
the abandonment of several military
posts in the West, says it Will have no
effect whatever upon the Indians.
"There is more DANGER" he said,
''from anarchists in Chicago than
from all the Indians in the West. In
dian wars are thing of the past.
With the railroad facilities troops can
be transported from the large posts
more quickly than they can march
from any of the little posts which
have been abandoned
ENGAGED 10 a Prince.
LONDON Sent lS.-A dispatch from |