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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-12-14
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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
MORE CENSUS FIGURES
Farm and Home Proprietor
ship in the States.
NEW YORK RANKS THE HIGHEST
The Results of the First Investigation OF
the Kind Ever Conducted in Any
Countrv-Number of Resid emit Owners
of Land in the United States.

the Kind Ever Conducted in ANY
Country-Number of Resident Owners
of Land i'm the United States.
WASHINGTON, September 3.-The CEN
sus Office gave to the public to-day the
principal results of the investigation OF
farm and home proprietorship in all
States and Territories. This is the first
investigation of the kind ever conducted
in any country. OF the II, 269, 125 fami-
lies in the whole country almost 4S per
cent own their farms and homes and the
rest rent. Of the families owning farms
and homes almost % per cent have in
cumbrances, and over II per cent have
no membranes. The number of resi-
dent owners of land in the United States
is 6,066, All, to which must be added
any land owners who may be living IN
tenant families. The farm families num-
Der 4,676,174, of which 66 per cent own
their farms and the others rent. VI the
owning families over % per cent have
membranes on their farms. In 1880
1856 per cent of the farms were hired.
In the cities that contain over 100000
population there are 1,948, 1884 home
families, of which almost % per cent
own and " per cent rent or hire, while
of the owning families SO per cent own
subject to incumbrance. Among the
cities having 100000 population and
over New York has the highest percent
age of home tenancy. The percentage
of the principal cities are:
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
CHOLERA IN CHICKENS
Promptness to Disinfect and
Treat the Birds
WILL SAVE THE MANY LOSSES

Doses of Salts Help to Rid the Birds OF
Cholera BaciIli and Hasten the Eradi-
cation of the Disease-Asafetida Acts
as Diffusive Stimulant.
Why submit to heavy losses from this
disease? Up to April, 1894, this disease
had not been on the experiment farm to
our knowledge. Early in the month a
hen became sick and dumpish, with dark
comb; all food and water refused. 1t
was thought useless to treat this case,
but Epson salts were administered, and
this was followed with copious watering,
put in the mouth with a spoon. The
hen was placed in warm, sunny place,
isolated from usual runs, and recovered
very slowly. Another hen died in few
DAYS, and then another and cockerel |;
and several persons who had had expe-
rience with cholera pronounced this dis
ease to be cholera. The hen and cock
erel died near night, and next morning
two other hens were dead and eight
more in different stages of the disease.
Treatment was begun at once. Two
hens were killed and buried, as those
previously dead had been. The six were
brought out into the sunlight and given
salts and water. The house and yard
were thoroughly disinfected with one
pint of strong sulphuric acid to eight
gallons of water, as suggested in poultry
books. The hens themselves were sprayed
with this. Their drinking water was
charged with carbolic acid Zone teaspoon
| full to half gallon of water, and asafet-
ida was put in their food at the rate of
| one heaping teaspoonful to the food of
thirty chickens. The next morning six
hens could not get off the roost, though
all but two had gone up as usual the
night previous and after their treatment.
These were treated as before and put
outside the yard. Before night all but
four hens were walking about picking
grass. After three days of isolation
these four were returned to the yard
cured, and all have been in good health
since. Six hens and a cockerel were
| lost before the health of the flock was
restored by the treatment as given above.
Had we known the disease at first, it is
doubtful if single bird need to have
been lost. Promptness to disinfect and
treat the sick birds will save many losses.
The doses of salts, not before recon-
mended to my knowledge, doubtless
helped to rid the birds of the cholera ba-
cilli sooner than if it had not been given,
and go fastened the eradication of the
disease. The asafetida acts as diffusive
stimulant to help to keep the birds warm.
The drinking water was for some days
kept charged with carbolic acid, and all
that is now needed to secure immunity
from another attack is second thorough
disinfection and to continue for some
time the addition of carbolic acid to the
drinking water.-F. E. Emery, Agricult-
urist, North Carolina Experiment Sta
ton.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
SCOTCH COAL MINERS.

Ballot Shows Them in Favor of Accept
ing a Reduction.
GLASGOW, September 3.-The result of
a ballot among the Scotch coal miners
on the questions involved in the present
strike was announced to-day. The bal
loting shows 25,417 miners in favor of
the proposal of the Miners Federation
to accept sixpence reduction, with guar
anteed wages on that basis for two
years, and 20,942 in favor of insisting
upon shilling advance in wages. The
mine owners declare that the balloting,
which shows a majority in favor of ac-
cepting reduction of sixpence, does
not by any means put an end to the
strike, for the reason that it will be i'm
possible for them to guarantee even a
minimum rate of wages for a period of
two years. The owners assert that this
cannot be done, inasmuch as most of
their annual contracts have been can
celed by their subscribers.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06

In Alaska 1t VIII Nearly Equal That OF
Last Year.

Last lear.
SAN Francisco, September 2.-The
bark Harvester, which has arrived from
Karluk, brought the latest news OF the
Alaska salmon run, and considering the
lateness of the season this year, the re-
turns are very good for the combine.
Last wear the catch resulted in about
600, 600 cases, and this years run will
amount to very near the same. The re-
turn, it is said, will have the effect OF
making the market stable, if there is no
heavy demand from England. In the
latter event the price of salmon will adj
vance according to demand. A gentle
man, who is largely interested and thor
oughly posted on the situation, said to-
day:
1.-THE English market bought very
sparingly of us last year on account OF
the largeness of the British Colum bla
catch, but this year several English buy
ers have placed heavy orders on this
market. From reports received from
Alaska the run has been light in some
places, but has averaged up well at
other points. In Southwestern Alaska
there has been a shortage, but this is
not of so much consequence, as the
greater portion of the output there is the
pink or cheap varieties of salmon. At
Karluk, | understand, the catch has been
very good. The winter there extended
very late into the spring months, SO that
the season was short one.
"The loss of time was made up, how
ever, by excess of work, and the Gamer
les were run at their fullest capacity.
The run has ceased, and the season has
closed. Nearly 600, 900 cases have been
put up by the canneries of the combine
Nearly all this lot has been placed, and
not a little of it is already out of second
hands. The market this year opened at
95 cents a dozen, which was 5 cents
lower than last years opening price.
This was a month ago, and it was only a
little while before the price advanced to
971a cents and finally to 81.
"Outside the combine there are sew
eral independent canneries, among them
being those of the Pacific Steam Whal-
ing Company, Wheaton, Breen q Co.,
James Madison and others. Their full
catch is not known yet, but there is lit
tie doubt it has been fairly successful.
1t will probably amount in all to loo, 900
cases. Some of this-nearly all in fact
has been placed. The British Column
bia catch has not been up to the average
this year, and is at least rs per cent off.
This failure makes the outlook for Alaska
salmon much brighter, as the POSSIBLE
ties are greatly increased for considera-
bly, more of it finding it's way to the
English market"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
DONATION LAND CLAIMS.
Limitations of Proof Provided by Her.
mann's Bill.


mann's Bill.
WASHINGTON, September 2.-Repre-
sentative Hermann's bill, which has now
become law, providing limitations for
proofs in donation land claims in Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho, provides
that claimants to such lands have until
January 1, 1896, the right to make final
proofs, in default of which the claims
are held to be abandoned. Notices are
to be published in the proper land dis
tricts requiring claimants, their heirs or
guarantees, to make final proof within
the time prescribed and, failing to do so,
the lands will be restored to the public
domain. If the lands have been in the
quiet, adverse possession for twenty
years of any person claiming the same
by descent, devise, judicial sale, grant or
conveyance from the original claimant,
such possessors shall be entitled to
patents upon making proof of such facts.
1t is further provided that where any
abandoned donation claim, settled upon
prior to January /, 1894, by any person
under an erroneous claim of right, and
has been used by him as bona-fde
residence, such settler, if he has ex-
hausted his homestead right, may file
with the Registrar of the United States
land Office the affidavits of himself and
two disinterested witnesses as to settle
ment and improvement, and thereupon
must pay to the Receiver of the United
States land Office $1.25 per acre for the
land, not exceeding 100 acres. The act
in the meanwhile permits contests as
at present authorized. The Interior De-
partment is directed to issue rules and
regulations for carrying the act into eff
feet.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
CARNEGIE ON LABOR.
Workingmen Can Live Cheaper Here
Than in Great Britain

Workingmen Can Live Cheaper Here
Than in Great Britain.
LONDON, September 3.-Andrew Car
negie has an article in the September
Contemporary Review concerning labor
in America. He says that working
man can live for less in America, if he
chooses, than in Great Britain, provided
he will live as frugally. Consequently
Carnegie thinks the argument that
wages must be higher in America is fall
lacious. A pound judiciously expended
in America on necessities of life would
afford q workingman's family more COM
forts than would the same amount spent
here. The American workingman's posi-
ton was like that of the old Scotch
woman, who, when asked if she could
live on a certain annuity, replied she
could live on half of it, but could spend
dooble.n
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
FARMERS ARE BENEFITED.
Saving to Them by Having Their Grain
Bags Imported Free.

Saving to Them by Having Their Grain
Bags Imported Free.
SAN Francisco, September Lit is
estimated that free grain bags will mean
a saving of 1876, 900 year to California
farmers. The new tariff, however, went
into effect too late to make much saving
this year. The annual demand for grain
sacks is about 1000, 900, of which Cali
fornia uses "a, OO0, 900. The importation
is about 26, 000, 900, and of the remaining
6,000, 900 4 1000, 900 have been produced
at the San Quentin prison and 10000
at the California iute mills. The latter
have now closed down, and it is claimed
that its plant, valued at $3.50, 900, has
been rendered useless by the free impor-
tation of bags. The average duty has
been 1.55 cents bag, and this will now
be saved to the farmer. Since the en-
actment of the new law the price of bags
has dropped from 90 cents to 81 cents.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
THE SEATTLE MARKET.

The following quotations are the prices
paid to farmers and producers by Seattle
business houses for articles named, the
goods to be delivered in Seattle:
HoPs-Choice, lac; prime, lie; me-
dunn, 10c per Id.
HAY-In carload lots: Puget Sound,
$8.OO@81a per ton; Eastern Washing
ton, $1O@11.
GRAM-In carload lots: Oats, choice,
$40 per ton; barley, SIG; wheat,
chicken feed, $12; corn, $2S; cracked,
500.
PoTAToEs-$8@12 per ton.
BUTTER, Eaas AND PoULTRY-Handled
on commission.
HIDES, PELTs AND TALLow-Heavy
sailed steers, over 80 lbs, 3@3116c per Id;
medium, 21ac; light, under As lbs,
.1@1hc; sailed kip, &c, and calf, S@4c
green hides 1c less than sailed; dry
hides, &c; culls of the above one-third
less; dry elk, per Id, 6@8c; dry
deer skins, summer, zoe; good winter,
12@15c; poor and thin winter, &c;
sheep skins, 15@25c; full wool, $4,000
wool, 1900; tallow, 2k@3ac.
LIVE SToCK-Choice beef cattle, 219@
2Ac; choice sheep, &c; good hogs, 44c;
calves, large, &c; small, &c per ID.
Loas-Fir, superior quality, $5.5O@7.5O
per M; choice cedar, $5.5O@6.50; COM
mon, per M, $500; spruce logs, $500
$50.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
GEORGE M. PULLMAN
HOW THE PALACE CAR MAGNATE GOT
HIS START IN llFE'S JOURNEY.

Born In the Country, His First Wages
Amounted to but $40 Year-Cabinet
Maker, Building Mover and Raiser, Pike.
Peak Gold Seeker, Millionaire.
George NJ Pullman, whose differences
with his employees brought about the
Debs boycott and strikes, Is SO years old
He was born In Brocton, Chautauoua
county, N. Y, and like most country
boys attended school more or less regular
~ till he was about IA years old. Then he
went to work in country general store
at a salary of $40 year. He staid there
three years, and it is of record that he
earned his money.
He had already begun to show that he
possessed the genius of accumulation, for
when he left the country store he had a
capital of $50, which had been saved out
of his meager wages. With this he went
to Albion, N. Y, where his brother had a
cabinet shop. For this brother the boy
went to work, though not exactly as an
employee, for his little savings were in
vested in q partnership interest in the
shop. George learned the trade quickly,
and the two did very well, SO well indeed
that when few years later an opportu-
nifty for man of ingenuity and enterprise
to make money came up the younger of
the two was equal to the emergency. His
chance was furnished by the widening of
the Erie canal. This made it necessary to
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
FARM NOTES.

A young and growing animal requires
different ration from a mature, fat
one.
A dry shadeless pasture will not pro-
duce much growth in animals these hot
days.
It will pay you to have rotation OF
crops, if only corn, oats and grass are
used.
Have you pair of scales? They are
next in Importance to a pencil in active
service.
If YOU must let the manure leach,
draw it out so the washings may 60 into
the field.
No success succeeds like success. A
soil is best for the crop that grows the
best upon it.
One of the greatest leaks in dairying
is the great loss of butter fat lost by
careless handling.
1t is cheaper to keep up the flow of
milk than to get it back after Z" the COWS
have dropped in their milk"
Provide shade for all of the COWS; and
enough so the incoming ones will be
sure to get in it if they wish.
W1L0nOlO COrnmSdI ITOm Tie SOOn-CO-
be-fresh cows. A little oil meal and
bran or either will not come amiss.
If the pasture is drying up, the cows
will fail in milk and flesh if they do not
have supplemental feed of grain, en-
silage or fodder.
Have you commenced to cut corn fod-
der for your cows yet? If not, what are
you giving them to keep up the milk
flow these dry, hot days?
We do not believe in watering milk
after it is taken from the COW, but we
do believe in letting the COW have all
the water she wishes, whether she puts
it in the milk or not.
The best way to clean woods pasture
or field of sprouts is to turn in the
sheep. If you do not have flock, buy
one; perhaps you will find them useful
in other ways; or, having done the
work, they can be sold rapidly.
A dairy writer says that you had bet
ter begin dairying with two COWS and a
strong desire to thoroughly learn the
business than with ten cows and con-
fident feeling that you can succeed as
well as old hands in the business.
1t is great mistake to work butter
too much, and half the country butter
that finds its way to our commission
houses has been worked until it is only
grease. Butter should be worked as lit
tie as possible and have the milk worked
out of it.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
LUCK IN ODD NUMBERS.
5uperst;tions of Modern Gamblers Which
Are s.as Old rs the Hills"

superst;tions of Modern Gamblers Which
Arc "as Old as the Hills"
If there is one active principle that
snters into gambling, it is superstition,
and for almost every man that hunts the
elusive dollar over the desolate waste OF
the green baize cloth, or on the race
track, or in any of the other multitude
nous ways or places that one may lay
siege to alluring fortune there is sep
arate fancy
Jack Mcdonald, one Of the best known
bookmakers of America, believes that
he is most successful in those years
which are indicated by odd numbers,
and if you are doubtful of the truth OF
1t he will offer you figures to prove it.
"Carley B., as Bookmaker Woolf is
best known, has steadfast belief In
'3,' and after he has selected horse
10 bet upon he will place an extra heavy
wager ON him if he discovers that he is
numbered SO" ON the programme
Several superstitious betting men at
the Morris park races a few years ago
noticed the coincidence that the thir-
teenth day of the meeting fell upon
June Is, and they straightway sought
out horse numbered ''13" on the card.
They found one and bet upon him, and
to make the coincidence most strange
he won.
That this belief in luck as applied to
certain numbers is as old as our phlloso-
ply is shown by the fact that centuries
before the Christian era the Pythagorens
and Platonists, who represented all
movements and phenomena of nature by
numbers, invented the science of arith-
nomancy, consisting Of the use of magic
al squares and applying occult powers
to numbers On the combinations Of GER
tain numbers depended systems of divi-
nation, and particular virtues were as
cribed to numbers accordingly as they
were odd or even.
"There's luck in odd numbers is
saying as old as the hills. AS ancient a
writer as Virgil says the gods themselves
esteemed the numbers odd, for in the
eighth eclogue he wrote:
Around his waxen image first wind
Three wooden fillets Of three colors joined;
Thrice round his thrice devoted head,
Which round the sacred altar thrice is led
Unequal numbers please the gods.
The Chinese have similar ideas. With
them heaven is odd and earth even, and
the numbers 1, 8, 5, z, 9 Belong to heav
en-, while the even digits are of the
earth earthly.
So it is little cause for wonder that
our modern gamblers stick to their be-
lief that fortune abounds in odd num-
bers only.-New York Herald
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06

The smallest percentage is 56, repre-
senting Rochester. Bringing the urban
population into contrast with the nom
urban population, almost A per cent of
4 1854 $50 home families living outside of
cities and towns of 5000 people own
their homes, and 56 per cent rent. OF
the owning families 70 per cent own
without incumbrance.
The value of the 1885, 1903 incumbered
farms and homes is So, 687 ,296 ,O69, and
the ncumbrances aggregate ~, l62, 944,-
563 or 37.5 per cent of the value. OF the
incumbrance of farms and homes over
% per cent bears interest at rates less
than per cent, "a per cent at the rate
of per cent, 80 per cent at rates greater
than per cent and II per cent at rates
greater than per cent. The average OF
value of each owned and incumbered
farm in the United States is Sc, 444, of
each incumbered home $3.50, and the
average incumbrance of each farm is
81 PA and on each incumbered home
81 ,293. The S86, 977 farms subject to in
cumbrance are worth So, O54, a23, 165, and
the incumbrance is 81 ,0S5, 995, $50 or 1856
per cent of the value. The 800, 933 homes
subject to incumbrance are valued at
50, 632 ,374, $40, and the incumbrance is
81, O46 ,953, O03 or 1917 per cent of the
value.
Cities of from 5000 to 100000 popula-
ton have 214, 613 incumbered homes &C.
cupied by owners, worth S739, SAC, 087,
and with an incum brance amounting to
1922, GIL ,974, which is 1886 per cent of
the value. In cities of 100000 popula-
ton and over the value of the 1853, 159
incumbered homes occupied by owners
is 1894 191 ,Sl1, and these homes are in
numbered for 1898 ,O29, 1888 or 42.07 per
cent of their value. In the country out,
side the cities and towns of 5000 and
over the value of the 427, l61 incumbered
homes occupied by owners is 1868, 337,-
0O6, and the incumbrance is 1861, 311,-
796, or 37.7 of the value. In cities hav-
ing at least 100000 population, $3.50
represents the average value OF each
home owned and incum bered. The high
est valuations are:
New York $40 200 Omaha. 7,179
San Francisco. 1898 Washington. 7,o45
BrOoklyn............. ,449l
The annual interest charged on each
owned and incumbered home in these
cities is 1874. The highest amount is in
New York, $438, and the lowest amount,
$33. in Louisville. Denver has the high
est average rate of interest on the in
cumbrance of owned and incumbered
homes, 1887 per cent, and New Orleans
is second with 1886 per cent; New York
has the lowest rate, 4.95 per cent, and
Boston is next lowest with 5.14 per cent.
Over "a per cent of the incumbrance on
owned farms was incurred in buying
real estate and making improvements,
and SO per cent of the membranes was
for the purpose of buying and improv-
ing real estate, investing in business,
etc. Over "a per cent of the incum-
ORANGES of homes was incurred to secure
the purchase money and to make inn
provement.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-06
Reformed Geometry.

Almost leo years ago two men set
out from Virginia to visit the Scioto
valley, Of the beauty and fertility of
which they had heard alluring reports.
On the third night they reached Clarks
burg, where they put up with man
who appeared to be honest, but old fash
toned and illiterate.
''Can you tell us how far it is to Ma
rietta and what sort of road we shall
find?" asked one of the travellers.
EYES," answered the host; "that is
exactly what can do, for was appoint
ed one of the viewers to lay out the
road and have just returned from the
performance of that duty"
''That is fortunate. What do you call
the distance?'
"Well, the distance on straight line,
which we first ran, was rs miles, but Oh
our way back we discovered and mark
ed another line which was much near
err
The two travellers had each spent some
years in the study Of surveying and were
more Or less amused at the idea Of a
line shorter than a straight line be-
tween two given points.
However, the next morning they took
the route which their informant had
pronounced the shorter, and true enough
they found his statement correct, for
the crooked road went round the hills,
while the straight one went over them,
and the distance round was less than
the distance over -Youth' s Companion