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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-04-24
To the above the Norfolk Landmark
adds this COMMENT

Now, the same law-that of supply
and demand-wil produce the same
effect in any of the worlds commodi
ties-even labor, which is one of the
most important. Men are getting too
suspicious of each other. Whenever
the price of eggs goes up nowadays
the consuming people begin to look at
one another and frown. as if to say,
What made you do that, you misera
BILE monopolist?" When the price
goes down, the egg farmer howls and
says, Now, you see that; Grover
Cleveland and the goldbugs are swarm
ing again; they will ruin this country
yet-they won't even let the farmer
get over ten cents for his eggs" We
should cultivate better spirit even if
we have to live on spots and soft crabs
What is the use of being miserable and
SnaDpisl?
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-04-24
Southern Pig-IrOn.

The Savannah News noses large ship
ments from that port of Alabama pig
iron. The shipments are considerably
heavier this year than they have ever
been before. and it looks now as if the
entire years shipments would surpass
those of any other year. The Central
Railroad, together with the Ocean
Steamship Company, now has con-
tract for the shipment of 5000 tons of
pig iron through to Philadelphia,
where il goes right into the Pennsyl-
vania markets The total shipments
through Savanna last year aggregated
80 6j5 Ms, while is year, il is bellrv-
81 the shipments will go far above so i
900 tons. "The Northern manufacture
ers, says the News, find the Southern
iron fully as good II product as that of
the Northern mines. and the Alabama
miners have all they can do now to sup
oily the demand of the Northern mar
kets. Their ambition, however. is still
more wide reaching, and they are now
looking to competing with the English
iron in Italy and other European mar
kets. This, it is believed, will be
brought ubout within short time, and
it may be that direct shipments of iron
will be arranged through Savannah "a
baltimore San.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-04-24

Right Rev. H. N. Jackson, Pro-
testant Episcopal Assistant Bishop of
Alabama, was married to Miss Carrie
Toney Cochran, a niece of Governor
Oates, at Eufala, Ala, Wednesday,
Bishop R. H. Wilmer performed the
ceremony.
The Pope, through the Congrega-
ton of the Propaganda, has addressed
letter to the Canadian bishops con-
demning the frequenting of Protestant
or neutral schools by the Catholics of
Manitoba.
Rev. w. G. Lindsay, of the Norfolk
Presbytery, who wrote a sensational
letter to the Norfolk Pilot has resigned
from the two churches of which be had
charge in Accomac county.
Governor MacCorkle has pardoned
Stewart McNeely, convicted of murder
in the second degree in Wayne county.
W. Va, and sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-04-24

A SINGULAR FoRMATION-Capt
r. j. Hancock this morning sent to
Captain Murphy a stone weighing
three pounds and six ounces. which
was taken from one of his brood mares
last Monday. He writes that the mare
did not seem in any way affected ex-
cept for four or five hours before her
death The stone was sent to Captain
Murphy to be shipped to Col. 8. ID.
Bruce, editor of the Turf, Field and
Farm. 1t is a solid rock formation,
and shaped something like cows
hoof -ChdrlotteSUitle Progress.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-04-24
Why HeeI Is HIghy

The financial editor of the New York
Sun gives the following reasons for
the increased price of beef
1.-THE sudden rise in the price of beet
| has been made the occasion of a sense
| less cutlery against supposed conspir
acy of Chicago wholesale dealers. who
are charged with having artificially
caused it. A large number of people.
1t would seem, have not yet learned
that the prices of commodities are GOV
erned by demand and supply, and
cannot be permanently fixed by legis-
lation, or by combinations, or in any
other arbitrary manner. There was,
indeed, time when the law attempt
ed to regulate not only the price of
bread and provisions, but also wages.
and constant appeals are still made to
the law making power to counteraot
the effects of increasing consumption
or diminishing production. In the
case of beef it needs no profound wis.,
dom to discern that for several years
the market for it has been enlarging,
while the supply has not kept pace
with it. The high wages earned by
workingmen, both here and abroad.
have enabled them to add beef to their
daily diet in. much larger quantities
than formerly, though, because of the
opening of the vast cattle ranches on
our Western plains and the invention
of freezing machines, by which both
fresh beef and fresh mutton can be
brought from distant countries at
small cost, this increased consumption
did not at first increase the price. The
imports of fresh beef into Great Britain
have now for several years averaged
200,000,000 pounds annually, and of
mutton and lamb between 5000, 900 and
4 ZOO, 600 carcasses. From this country
alone Great Britain took last year cat
tie, fresh beef, and canned beef to the
value of $55,O00.000. With this enor-
nous consumption abroad, added to
that of our own country, it is easy to
see how very small decrease in the
supply might lead, as it has finally led,
to a rise in price, without resorting to
the fiction Of a combination or a cor
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-04-24

AT Farmville R. L. Payne, builder,
was shot by +. NJ. Cox. The wound
though painful, is not considered
dangerous. Payne was charged with
speaking disrespectfully about a young
lady, but denies the charge.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
a;.Ai LOCKS.

Manchester is trying to help It's unprom-
Using canal venture by reaching out to es-
tnblish direct fruit trade with Sicily
New York World.
The activity displayed by the earth in
canal enterprises is likely to give Mars "A
spasm of professional jealousy before long.
Washington Star.
Fifty bottles of champagne for each
member of the press at kiel is very liberal.
No wonder we had full reports Of the canal
opening.-Philadelphia Times.
of the mariner as he traverScs the newly
opened ship canal at New YORK. than ubc
tranquilizing picture of the Harlem goat
munching nj the tin can of commerce.
Rochester Post Express.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
Hope For the Arid West.

The Denver Republican has an idea
all its in regard to the arid west.
1t may not indeed be possible in all
cases, admits The Republican, to adapt
the dry soil to agriculture by means
Of irrigation. But since the arid west
cannot be adapted to agriculture, why
not adapt agriculture to the arid
west? That in brief is the EDITORS
idea. 1t may be done, he claims, ac-
cording to the principle of natural Sc
lection among plants. Varieties Of
wheat, oats, barley and other grains as
we'll as various vegetables may be de-
veloped and grown year after year till
they are acclimated to the arid soil, SO
as in time to thrive and produce with
out irrigation. Something like this has
actually been done in some parts Of the
northwest, SO far as the raising of fruit
is concerned. AT first it was thought
that apples, pears and grapes could not
be produced at all in many sections of
the northwest ON account Of the bitter
cold. But apple gratis were secured
from Russia and other hardy fruits from
other cold regions Of the old world and
experimental with year after year till
finally they kindly acclimated them
selves and o thrive and produce boun-
tifully. Perhaps arid region wheat and
other growths may be in like
developed.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
ReanIating Prodnctlon.

Years ago tie organized distilling in
terests q the country limited the produc-
ton Of whisky 20 what was conceived to
be paying quantities. Later the Standard
Oil company did the same thing for Pc
troleum. When so much was produced
as to lower the price to what the COM
pany considered too little to pay them
big dividends, they simply stopped work
at some of the wells till the surplus was
used up. Other corporations have tried
a similar policy with more or less suc-
cess.
The farmers Of the United States seem
to be learning a lesson from their SO
called enemies. For the past few years
so much cotton and wheat have been pro-
duced that these staples did not in all
cases pay for the raising. The report of
the United States agricultural depart
ment shows that for 1895 our farmers
instituted a new programme. In the
northwest the area sown to wheat has
decreased perhaps 30 per cent. In the
south the acreage sown to cotton has di-
minished nearly as much.
If the farmers of America would only
organize, keep a sharp lookout on the
amount of given crops raised and of
prices the country over they could reg
ulate production and prices of all their
staples as easily and efffectually as the
Whisky trust and the Standard Oil reg
ulate their business. When will they
do this?
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24

Murat Halstead says that one of his
first mistakes in journalism was the
suppression of bear stories, that stand
ard source of entertainment for all man
kind in all ages. As If to remedy this
mistake and omission of his reckless
youth, the man with the wisdom of
years on him now puts before the pub
lie a volume called Zone Hundred Bear
Stories" They are gathered from all
over the world. from the beginning Of
history down to the present day. One is
pleased to see from this book that the
famous journalist is so familiar with
the sacred Scriptures, something he has
not hitherto perhaps had full credit for.
At any rate, he knows enough of it to
quote Bible bear stories, which consti-
'tute some of the best in the book. In his
preface Mr.. Halstead says:
Bear stories have from the dawn of Ameri-
can letters occupied more chapters of our back
woods literature than those of all other beasts
and have held their own maryelously for two
centuries. The extraordinary fame of the bear
must be largely the product of his humorous
character. His accustomed comic dignity is as
delightful as his occasional savagery Is alarm
ing. He is a clumsy, heavy footed animal, but
often alert and erect, and there is something
manly in his hugging propensity. The fund Of
fur in him is the source of his fame and the
essential element of his Immortality. The hui
NOR of him and the horror of him help him to
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
CLEANLINESS.

1t was early in December, 1895, that a
loyalty loan of e1S, 600, 600 was collected in
London in Is hours.
An average of three British scamen lose
their lives every day by drowning, and BOD
British steamers and sailing vessels arc
lost yearly at sea.
Inndon's fro brigade is largely recruited
from the navy. The wages vary from
II Is. for fourth class to 81 15s. for first
class mon, while officers in charge of sta
tions receive from ~ IS. to e2 los. per
week, with rooms, Lighting and firing.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24

When yon stop in Tiu,kee Tor a day
or for month You should rememehe,
yon get the best accommodations at the
Whitney House.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
MERE MAN.

A'casefui survey of the street car hogs
ancestral tree would be of use In disclosing
tho lineage of the man who throws rubbish
ia the street. -Chicago News.
The maj who stands at the head of his
class at college is very rarely heard of aft.
onward, Will the tail end man has money,
to burn In u few years. Chicago Times
Herald.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
AJAX CYCLES.

Strictly High Grade. Twenty pound
wheel, one hundred dollars; same qnal-
ity, twenty-six pounds, seventy five dol
lars; also children's wheels best and
heapest. Il. Grlsw old Agent.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
Notice 10 hunters..

! hereby notify all hunters not 10
,fespass upon my PROMISES. Those
who do not heed this nntite will BIZ
prosecuted. L. G. HERMAN
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24

Bny your fencing, pine or redwood
shingles, clear aud common lumber Of
all sizes ri Foulks and Powning, Verdi
or Reno. The best mountain pine and
low prices. Common lumber on the cars
ut Verdi al $40 PEI thousand. =
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-24
Notice

YN THE MATTER OF TIE ESTATE OF
Vincent IaForge, deceased: To the credit
tors of. and all persons having claims against
the Estate Of said Vincent LaForge, deceased
Notice is hereby given, to pre- SEM their claim
to the undersigned, Administrators of said
estate. with the necessary vouchers, within
sixty days ftorn the first publication Of his
notice, OF the residence Of said AmiuistratriS,
in the town of Wadsworth. Washoe County,
Nevada. IRENE IAFpRGE,
Admins tratrix.
Dated June ~, 1895.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12

Jury regarding his investigation of the
ferry foundations and his excoriation of
State Engineer Holmes did not disturb the
serenity of the proceedings at the meeting
of the Harbor Commissioners yesterday
afternoon. No attention was paid to the
charges by the Commissioners as body,
but as individuals they expressed them
selves unreservedly that their confidence
in the engineer is undated. Mr.. Holmes,
when questioned about the matter, said
the so-called investigation was personal
attack upon him by enemies. The work on
the water front which had been criticized as
having been done by him, he said, was
done by Marsden Manson, who was for
merly engineer of the board. Mr.. Manson
was one of the gentlemen who had done
some exporting for the Grand Jury. Alfred
s. Moore, who sent an anonymous report
to the Grand Jury, was once partner of
Mr.. Holmes, an d to him the engineer paid
his respects in no ambiguous terms.
''T his man Moore has been prosecuting
me by every means in his power. " said Mr..
Holmes, "since 1 defeated him in a law
suit he brought against me. He has been
have been interested and he has also gone
to disgruntled contractors in his endeav-
ors to make trouble for me. If there was
any crooked work done by me in Spokane
Moore was party to it, for he was my
partner and shared in my profits. What
the directors of the cable road I built
thought of me was shown by their subse-
quent action. They let a second contract
to me, in which Moore was also partner,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12

| but he was a silent one. The directors
would not have anything to do with him.
He was known in Spokane as the yelping
hyena. and SO alluded to by the press.
factions speak louder than words. Mr.
Moore has followed me with a persistency
which is only equaled by the bitterness of
his expressions against me. He has tried
to poison the minds of my employers
wherever l have been located. But his
utterances have been met with the con-
tempt they deserved. 1 built the South
Pacific Coast Railroad, and President A.
e. Davis was so well pleased with my per-
Torrance that he presented me with a
handsome set of surveying instruments.
/ constructed the Powell-street road and
power-house, and at the conclusion of that
work was presented with fifty shares of
the stock in the road, valued at $500, and
a check for $3.50 besides. Then the en-
ployes of the road gave me dinner and
presented me with gold watch and chain.
The Stockton electric road was so well
pleased with my work on that line
that they presented me with a hand
some jeweled matchbox. l did some
work on the California-street line and
President ]. B. Stetson was so well pleased
with it that he gave me a check for $3.50
besides my salary. The Presidio and Fer
ries road presented me with a check for
$500 when / had completed my work on
that line.
Regarding Contractor Mattingly, who
is quoted as having said that | told him
there was no use of his bidding on the
ferry foundation, do not know the man.
never heard of him. Mr.. Manson's rec
ord on the water front speaks for itself. 1t
was he who made the plans for the Powell
street wharf, for the Fremont-street pier
and for the ferry foundation.
"The way In which contracts are let by
the board will show that there could not
be any crooked work in making the award
Every bid is opened in the presence of the
bidder, and there cannot be any collision.
1t is very poor incentive for a man to do
his duty fearlessly and honestly when cat
tie like Moore, when all other methods of
persecution fail, can get the Grand Jury to
back him up IN besmirching mans char
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12
oter Az for stilwelI-welI. the public

acter. AS for StilwelI-well, the pubic
NAV Judge between him and me.
"Spreckels was the lowest bidder for the
cement, ana that is why he got the con-
tract for furnishing it. Cowelps bid was
80 70 barrel and Spreckels' 81 40. Grace
K co mt in a bid for 50 IS a barrel, but
failed to comply with the specifications,
and for that reason their bid could not be
considered"
Governor Budd, who was present at the
meeting Yesterday, declined to be inter
viewed. as the report of St1iweli had De ee
made to him. He said: '"I have turned the
ranort over to President Colnon, and the
board. including the Mayor and myself, VIII
fake action upon it later on. believe tnaI
M Holmes is thoroughly competent, ana
the fact that he owns the quarry which Is
supplying the rock to the ferry 1ounoatloin
has not as important bearing on I 1I llas.el
as MIGHT seem at first sight. he owned
tho lof before the act was passed to have
this work done. It is immaterlal 10 MIN
how much or how little rock is takendro o. l
the quarry, as he gets his rent lust tnc
Same In fact. the less taken the better Tor
him." :
President Colnon of the board SAID that
the fact that Mr.. Holmes was still engineer
showed the confidence the board had IN
him 1--WE are his superior officers, SAID
Mr.. Colnon, land we have not calico MIN
to account"
Commissioner Chadbourne was more
forcible in his remarks.
1--WE are not paying any attention to
ANONYMOUS communications if the Grand
Jury is" said Mr.. Chadbourne: we
have the greatest confidence in Mr..
Holmes. In certain countries with certain
people it is crime to be successful. Evil
IDENTIFY some of those people have located
in San Francisco, and Mr.. Holmes, too,
has evidently been successful. 1t will
take more than an anonymous commun1-
cation to lessen our esteem for him."
Last evening Engineer Holmes received
the following letter from r. O. Mattlngly,
who denies the conversation attributed to
him by Stilwell:
Hopard Holmes Esq, City-DEAR SIR: The
statement in regard to what l said about a
conversation in this morning Examiner is not
true and am ready at any time to deny 1T.
When the first contract was to be let Tor the
foundation asked you if you thought it would
go through and you told me that you thought
changes would have to be made, etc, and that
the board would not let it the way it was then.
told you that had no time to waste figuring
on job that would not be let. You told me
also not to be guided by what you said in the
matter. Respectfully, r. c. MATTINGLY.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12
MERGED RIGHTS OF WAY.
Public Spirited Men Offer Free
Grants to the Valley
Road.
THIRTY FIVE MILES LONG
The Engineers Have Finished In
Stockton and Are Going
Southwark.

WStill another liberal offer of right Of way
and depot lands was made yesterday to the
valley railroad directors, which, added to
the proposition submitted by Visalia,
guarantees free right of way from Stanis-
1aus County through MERGED and Tulare
Countless large portion of the total mile
age from Stockton to Bakersfield.
J. ]. Stevenson, William n. Gray, George
s. Bloss, Henry F. Greer and James S.
Peck came from MERGED yesterday and
offered right of way for thirty-five miles
through their lands that lie between the
San Joaquin River and the Southern Pacific
Railway. Mr.. Gray represented the W. G.
Turner estate and his own interests, and
George s. Bloss and Henry F. Greer repre-
scented the Mitchell estate as well as their
own lands-in all about 100000 acres OF
fertile land in MERGED County. But the
delegation was not citizens committee,
however. They were cordially received by
the directors, who heard their arguments
for an hour in the afternoon.
eve can do almost anything the COM
panY wants in our county, said Mr.. Gray,
who was one of the principal speakers.
1--WE can guarantee rights of way, depot
lands, ETC., across the county, and we come
here to convince the directors of the valley
road that the place for them to build IS be-
tween the San Joaquin River and the
Southern Pacific main line. This strip OF
land is about twenty miles in width and
thirty-tive miles long, very productive
nearly all the way from Modesto to MERGED,
and principally grain country. We rep
resent all of this land, nearly all of which
Is under cultivation and is irrigated from
two main bitches. Most of it is our own,
and the valley road can have right of way
100 feet wide through it, provided the line
is run into MERGED.
'"The directors promised to look over the
proposition, and they feel satisfied with it.
and suggesting about where the line could
be built. There will be meeting in Mer-
ced in regard to the valley road, but the
people there are handicapped by the South
ern Pacific and cannot say their souls are
their own. To man they want the new
railroad, and will do everything in their
power to offer inducements for it to come
their way"
President Spreckels thanked them for the
board of directors and assured them that
as soon as the engineers reached the Mer-
ced County line committee will visit
MERGED to further discuss the matter.
Chief Engineer Storey returned from
Stockton yesterday, where he had been
making arrangements for the survey and
experimenting the preliminary work.
After mapping out a line he left busy
corps of men in the field and came back to
town well satisfied with the prospects for
rapid surveys southwark from Stockton.
''The engineering department is striking
a single line through Stockton, " said he,
"beginning on the water front and leaving
the city at its eastern boundary. This
part of the work will be finished tonight,
or at the farthest. early tomorrow. In the