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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-11-18

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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-11-18

Nothing SO distressing as hacking a
cough. Nothing so foolish as to suffer
from it. Nothing so dangerous if al
lowed to continue. One Minute Cough
Cure gives immediate relief. Snipes-
Kinersly Drug Co.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
Forty Third Day.

Senate.-Senator BOyds bill to pun
ish seduction was considered In cont
mittee of the whole and recommended
for passage. 1t makes this offense
punishable by Imprisonment from one
to twenty years. The age limit of the
woman was fixed at 1S years.
A bill by Senator Drake to require
the justices of the peace to tax the
costs of all criminal examinations be-
fore them and report them to the
chairman of the county commissioners
every day was next considered. The
author said 1t was intended to be a
check on the exorbitant fees charged.
Hartzell then moved an amendment
whereby justices might, in counties
other than the first class. certify their
bills under their own hands unless the
county commissioners of their coun-
ties ordered otherwise. The amend
ment carried and the bill was favor
ably reported.
The bill to have the reports of state
institutions printed at the Mute and
Blind Institute, was defeated.
The bill abolishing capital punish
ment was favorably reported. 1t pro-
vides for five days solitary confinement
each month for life convicts.
The Senate defeated on third read
ing bill to regulate the employment
of deputy sheriffs, and to require them
to be citizens and residents of the
county. Another bill to pay the en-
ployes for assisting in organizing the
Senate passed third reading.
A bill by Senator Felker to limit the
time in which action can be brought
for debts contracted outside the state
to six years, passed second reading.
House.-The amendments to the
Lowell bill requiring insurance com.
panies to pay on the gross instead Of
the net receipts were concurred in.
A resolution authorizing the publica-
tion of the Waite and Mc1ntire inau,-
ural addresses in Spanish was adopted
The following bills passed second
reading:
To give Kiowa county two terms of
court instead of one.
By Morris, to amend the law relat-
Ing to commitments to the Industrial
school.
To limit police power to water COM
missioners.
To limit the term of leases for school
lands to ten years and making provis-
ions for renewing leases to the holders
by agreement.
To appropriate money to pay the ex-
penses of the Inauguration and another
to pay the expenses of the hold-over
senators who inquired into the state
canal and Twin Lakes proposition.
The Denver charter was taken up mt
the evening session.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
become the leading industry.

become the leading industry
By covering with earth in winter
tender foreign varieties of grapes can
be grown, while all native sorts need
no protection.
The climate being so dry, grapes can
be grown on the ground without trel
lis or support of any kind, as no mil
dew or rot will affect them. Conve,i-
ience in picking and cultivating make
it preferable, however, to have them
up on something.
The plum is a native of this section
and is perhaps as much, or more, at
home here than is any other fruit.
Peaches are not sure crop every
year, but we have had three good
crops in the past seven years. They
are very profitable, the tree being
longer lived here than in unirrigated
sections, for it is generally considered
in the Middle States of the Mississippi
Valley that If peach tree bore one
crop after setting, beY5re it died, that
it would pay to plant them.
The apple is at home, trees bear
young and abundantly; the quality of
the fruit is excellent. Colorado apples
have brought better prices in the mar.
kets Of Denver and Chicago than any
other, during the past fall and winter.
The prices now in this state are from
four and half to five dollars per bar
rel, and still going up. The keeping
qualities of these apples is above the
average. In the line of small fruits
the Arkansas Valley has an advantage
in the fact that the greater part of
the valley is about two weeks earlier
than any other portion of the State ca st
Of the mountains.
The products of the valley find n
market in the mining camps of the
mountains, which are reached readily
by the A. T. & 8. F., the D. & Il. q.
and the Missouri Pacific railroads
which run through the valley and by
the short branches that lead from these
main lines to the various camps.
The large and important manufacture
ing town and railway center of Pueblo.
is situated little west of the middle
of the valley, and consumes an i'm
mense amount of produce.
The coai fields and petroleum wells
of Fremont county, supply the valley
with light and fuel, and in return are
supplied with the necessaries of life
from the farms and orchards. Denver
is directly connected with Pueblo by
several main lines of railroad, and the
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
WESTERN FARM NOTES.

1t has been ascertained by an ex-
tended series of experiments that rye
and winter wheat will germinate in
soil the temperature of which is as low
as 80 degrees Barley, oats, fax, clo-
yer and peas will sprOut at 80 degrees.
The turnip is as cOld-blooded as the
rye and winter wheat, but the carrot
needs 3S degrees, and the bean 40 de-
grees before they will make the initial
effort to send the life-shOot in search
of air and light.
The Rio Verde Canal Company of
Arizona, one of the largest irrigation
enterprises projected in the United
States, has just perfected arrange
ments to commence operations in 30
days to construct dam and canal sys-
TEN, which, when completed, will cover
22o,OOO acres of land in the Salt river
and adjacent valleys, stretching 40
miles in length. From this it would
seem that the irrigation cat is not yet
dead. and that there is money enough
In the East to go into enterprises of
this sort.
1t is a well-demonstrated fact that Il
number of forage plants can be pro-
duced in n commercial way any place
on the plains. Three or four varieties
of sorghum, several varieties of the
non-saccharine sOrghums, bromus iner-
mis-, rye and several other grasses that
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
FOrty-Sixth Day.

The Senate was not in session.
House-Going into committee Of the
whole, House bill 200, to extirpate the
Russian thistle, passed second reading.
Mr.. Puring toms bill to allow county
commissioners to Offset claims with de-
linquent taxes was killed.
Mr.. Murfitt's bill to divide normal
school district No. 13 and creating No.
IA, was read and recommended for
passage.
At the aftvHpoon session the House
accepted tho Invitation of President
Baker of the State University to attend
the dedication of the Hale Scientific
building at Boulder on March 8.
The following bills passed second
reading: For the regulation of armed
guards. House bill "a, Greenman, to
protect miners, teamsters and other la.
borers and to punish parties obtaining
labor under false pretenses. Mr.. Ma
comber's bill to remove the Soldiers
Home from Monte Vista to Fort Lyon
in case the government ceded the Fort
Lyon reservation to the state. The
bill to eradicate foul brood among
bees. House bill 800, Campbell, to re-
peal the section compelling county
clerks to keep an index Of each volume
of records, which makes much work.
House bill 357, Minor, to prohibit the
sale Of liquor to inmates of the Sol
diers' Home, had Its enacting clause
stricken out.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
Why Should the Agriculture and
Horticulture Of the Arkansas
Valley Attract I'm
migration?
(By Frank Crowley


All along the Arkansas Valley there
are Il variety of soils, varying from
the heavy adobe to the light sandy
loan. and adapted to all kinds Of
crops, from corn, on the heavier and
clay-like soils, to the grape, which
brings forth its sweetest and best fruit
when planted on the rockiest hill to
which water can be brought for irri-
CATION.
The land that has been in cultivation
a year or more requires less water and
new land, however, has the advantage
of being free from weeds, and good
crops are grown on such lands.
Alfalfa is the leading hay crop, an,l
thrives on all kinds of soil. 1t is cut
three times and then makes a growth
of ten or twelve inches for winter
pasture. Four crops can be cut by
cutting just as the blossoms begin To
appear each time, but the hay is of Il
much better quality if allowed to get
in full bloom. The average yield per
acre Is about two tons at each cutting.
The price Is from three to four dol
lars per ton in the stack. When good
seed crop is grown the profits are larg-
er than where nothing but hay is cut.
When crop of seed Is grown during
the season only one crop of hay can
be cut besides.
Wheat, oats and all small grains give
large yields, but corn is being planted
more extensively in their place.
Melons, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and
vegetables of this class are perfectly
at home here.
The long season, great amount of
sunshine and other climatic conditions
seem to especially adapt this section
to all crops containing great deal of
sugar. Sugar beetsS have been grown
and analyzed, showing that they could
be grown with profit for sugar making
purposes. In this connection l might
say that the Arkansas Valley has some
prospect for a beet sugar factory with
In the next few years. If one is locat-
ed in Colorado it will most likely be in
this valley.
OF fruits there are now in bearing in
the orchards of the valley, apples,
pears, plums, peaches, prunes, cher.
ries, nectarines, ounces, grapes, rasp.
berries, blackberries, dewberries, goose
berries, currents, Juneberries, straw
berries, etc. Horticulture is destined to
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28

are not yet fully tested, will produce
crops any year if the ground is proper
ly prepared in the fall. Subsoiling Is
the great lesson that the most of us
have yet to learn, particularly If the
land is of that hard-pan character that
turns water like n ducks back.
There has been good deal of buga-
boo about the over-production of fruit
in the arid West, and some of the top
heavy wiseacres are crying down the
further planting of fruit trees on the
ground that we are going to have too
many of them some day. AS Il matter
of fact, statistics show that the CON
sumption of fruit is increasing more
rapidly than the production. The city
of Denver alone consumed l 100 cars of
fruit in 1894. The mountain states
have been for years California's best
market A hundred-fold increase of
fruit production in the next 10 years
will not exceed the natural increase of
demand. The state of California con
sumes less than 20 per cent. of the
fruit it raises.-Field and Farm
The great drawback to orchard plant.
ing, especially in the dry climate of
Colorado, is the drying out of the roots
in the interior between the unpacking
ana the plantlnS Wnefe tne tree Is to
stand. A good way to circumvent this
difficulty is described by w. Il. Glib,
son, of OterO county, who says: "rhe
most convenient method of distribut.
ing the trees without drying the roots
is to puddle the roots, then set the tree
up in Il wagon with double bed and fill
in around the roots with wet straw. In
this way they will remain moist all
day. The wagon is drawn along us
fast as the trees are set and by setting
one row on each side of the wagon
they can be taken out as fast rs need
ed and the work will progress rapidly
In his orchard the rows are set 30 feet
apart, placing the trees 10 feet in the
row. He would keep the varieties sep,
arated in the wagon, Ben Davis, Wal.
bridge and the like every 30 feet, alter
mating with Missouri Pippin, taking
out each as needed.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28

most perishable fruits and vegetables
can be shipped from any point in tho
valley In good shape, only a few hours
time being spent after Loading on the
cars, until it is right in Denver, one of
the greatest markets iD the United
| States.
Good milling and elevator establish
| ments are located at every place where
the surrounding country is formed to
such an extent as to warrant invest.
ment in such an enterprise Besides all
these means of disposing of the crop.
thousands of head of cattle and sheep
are shipped into the valley for feeding,
every winter, from New Mexico. Ari-
zona and Kansas, and are driven in Off
of the extensive range that stretches Oh
both sides of the irrigated portion of
the valley.
Most all of the alfalfa is used in
this way and is fed on the ground, the
pasture being turned to profit as well.
Farmers having capital enough to go
ahead in this line, grow stock enough
to consume all farm crops, making a
double profit.
AS the fruit business develops the
market will grow also, for we can ship
in car lots to the east, north, south an'l
west, and by so doing obtain rates
IIlaC Will give us II cudHce 10 compete
with California and other places more
remote from the great markets than
ourselves.
The small fruits and perishable pro-
duets can be canned right here. There
are ut present two canning factories ill
the valley, which put up tomatoes,
| beans, etc.
Regarding irrigation; the water sup
ply is furnished by the springs, and
melting SHOWS of the Rocky Mountains,
which flow down the great Arkansas
river through the center of the valley,
| 1t Is taken from that by a system OF
main canals, to the farming lands
| where each farmer conducts it through
| system of small ditcnes or latterals
to the parts to be irrigated.
The Arkansas Valley Experiment
| Station is located near Rocky Ford
! Otero county, and is a source of much
| instruction in the various branches of
agriculture and horticulture and saves
the ordinary farmer from experiment
ing with new varieties and new
methods.
The valley from the east line of
Colorado to the Royal Gorge is about
one hundred and fifty miles long. and
there is room for great many more
people. No government land remains
| to be taken up, under the bitches, but
there is great deal of state land that
may be put on the market in a few
years. and which is now leased at Il
] low figure A great deal of land lies
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
Tolorrnphic BreyItles.

Denver celebrated Washington's
birthday In an enthusiastic manner.
The Carbonic Acid Gas association
has been organized in New York.
Between 5000 and 1000 starving per-
sons are now fed daily at St Johns.
North Texas Is putting in the largest
crop of oats in the history of that state.
Another skeleton has been unearthed
from the ruins Of the Delavan house,
Albany.
James W. Scott has bought a con-
trolling interest in the Chicago Herald
and Post
The town Of Muscat on the Indian
ocean has been captured by insurgent
Bedouins.
The japanese Diet has voted the ex-
ira credit of 1OO,OOO,OOO yen, $780,
600, 900, asked by the government It
has also given its approval to Corean
loan Of 100000 yen.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28

has robbed me of many years of life and
a great deal of happiness. I realize 1t
noWs as compare my feelings and my
condition with that of a year ego, when
I was a tobacco saturated cigarette
fend. Many and many a time did
try to quit smoking myself into etern-
ity, but 1 could not put through a day
without suffering extreme nervous tor
ture, which would increase hour by
hour till finally, to save myself as 1t
seemed, from almost flying to pieces.
had to light the little. white pipe stick
and swallow the smoke. One day 1
read in my paper Don't Tobacco Spit
and Smoke Your Life Away" Just what
I was doing. it came to me like the
warning of the man who waves the red
flag of danger at the railroad crossing,
and said that No-To-Bac was an abso-
1utely guaranteed relief from tobacco
slavery. l did not believe 1t, but like a
drowning man grasping at q straw
commenced taking No-To-Bac. The ef-
fects were MT sgical. 1t destroyed the
nerve craving, and desire for cigarettes.
Two boxes, would you believe 1t, made
me well and strong. 1 have gained
mentally. physically, in vigor and man
hood, and with the brain free from the
nicotine and a breath no longer be-
fouled with tobacco smoke am so hap
py to-day to write No-To-Bac did 1t all
a year ago, so the cure is time tested
and tried, not only in my own case. but
several of my friends who have been
also cured.
I'VE have a baby boy now. My wife
and feel that all this happiness start
ed from the time when first used No
To-Bac, and in evidence of our appre-
citation and in order that the memory OF
the happiness may be perpetuated in a
living form, we want to name our baby
boy after the man who wrote the line
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
Life Away
"No-To-Bac is popular here and all our
druggists sell 1t. Hardly a day passes
but somebody asks me about No-To-
Bac, SO don't want you to hesitate to
use these lines in any way that you
think will make known to suffering hu-
manity the happiness that there is in
store for the many men with nicotin-
lied brains and weakened resolutions.
If they will only make up their mind to
save the waste of vital power-to say
nothing of the money-now going up in
smoke and out in tobacco spit"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28

idle for the want of capital to improve
and because the owners have more
land than they can manage. In fact.
most all are beginning to realize that
pays best.
The valley is settled with whole
souled, home-loving, hospitable, wide
awake, progressive class of people;
which fact is demonstrated to anyone
who visits either or both of the annual
festivals that are held each fall; one is
Water Melon Day, held during the
Arkansas Valley Fair, at Rocky Ford.
whose melons have a wide reputation
in this and other states. This is in
Otero county. The other is Fruit Day.
which is held at Canon City, in Fro
mont county.
The people here are not lacking in
social features, and schools are numer-
Gus and of high grade. Churches hold
their high and honorable place.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28

Senator GordOn's bill, appropriating
$3.50 to finish the cottage for male
patients at the Pueblo Insane asylum,
was read. 1t was favorably reported.
House.-The committee on corpora
tions recommended that the Stewart
bill regulating the Pullman company
be laid on the table as inexpedient.
That same committee recommended
that the Rumble bill prevent dis
crimination In freight and passenger
rates be also laid on the table. A
bill by Mr.. Warren to compel street
car companies to disinfect their cars,
and a bill by Mr.. Stuart to compel the
Pullman company to pay full taxes
the table. The reports were adopted.
A communication was received from
the supreme court relative to the
questions asked about the eight-hour
law. The court declined to answer as
the questions were too vague and gen.
eral.
A bill by Mrs. Cressingham to pro-
vide for the appointment of board of
arbitration was taken up on second
reading, but was referred to the labor
committee.
A motion to adjourn over Washing
toms birthday was voted down. The
assessment bill was then taken up in
committee of the whole. One section
Of the bill taxes franchises. An at
tempt to strike this out was defeated.
Mr.. Minor moved an amendment
that the State Board of Equalization
assess all railroad franchises through
out the state. This was to prevent
Denver and Pueblo and one or two
large towns from getting the benz at
Of all the taxes on railroad proporly
in the respective counties. At present
the state board prorates the taxation
on the greater portion Of the railroad
property to the counties along the line.
The amendment was adopted.
Resolutions were adopted asking the
supreme court for an opinion on the
constitutionality Of the anti-truck bill
and the bill to require the weighing of
coal before screening.
A resolution by Mr.. Stuart on the
death Of Frederick Douglass and pay
ing tribute to his meEiory was
adopted.
Just before the house adjourned Mr..
Minor moved to reconsider the vote on
the Holly bill, to require an education
al qualification for voters. The bill
was defeated two days previous. The
motion carried.
The bill was then referred to the
committee on rules, to be reported as
soon as possible for second reading.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
COLORADO LEGiSLATURE.
Forty-Second Day.

Senate.-In the morning the Senate
went into executive session and con-
firmed the appointees Of Governor
McIntire to the Denver Fire and Po-
lice Board. Messrs. Boyd and Gra-
ham, Populists, with Adams and Led
dy, Democrats, voted with the Repub-
licans for confirmation.
A number of kilograms, letters and
petitions from. all parts Of the state
protesting against the church tax bill
were read and referred.
The Senate went into committee of
the whole on House Bill 524, Lowell,
amending the insurance law, assessing
companies on their gross proceeds, H.
stead of net proceeds, as heretofore.
The bill passed.
Ex-Governor Thayer of Nebraska
was introduced to the Senate and oc-
cupied a seat by the side of the presi-
dent.
Going into committee of the whole
on general orders, Senate Bill 211,
Kennedy, creating state examiner
of county treasurers, was read. 1t was
defeated
House-The House, in committee of
the whole, took up the question of re-
ports Of state officers. The bill intro.
duced by Representative Crow was
first considered.
ThlS provided tnat the reports OF
elective state officers should be limited
to 1000 copies, with all other reports
limited to 500 copies, with the excep-
tions of the state engineer and coal
mine inspector. of which there shall
be 1000 copies printed. No limit is
put on the size of reports Of elective Of.
ficers or the engineer and coal mines
inspector. Other reports are limited ia
100 pages.
Without discussion the committee
recommended the bill to pass.
Mrs. Holly's bill providing for an
educational test for voting was knock.
ed out by big majority. The bill
provided that no person should be al.
lowed to vote unless able to read In
English the constitution of the United
States and the state of Colorado. Mrs
Holly spoke long in favor Of the meas.
ure, but it was defeated.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-02-28
Forty.Fifth bay.

Senate-The election of extra clerks
was proceeded with and was the occa-
sion of a personal encounter between
Senators Pease and Mills. They were
disputing as to the number of clerk
ships secured for the friends of each.
Senator Mills was struck by Senator
Pease with n paper weight and later
by the fist of Senator Pease's son. A
committee appointed to investigate the
trouble recommended that both be CEN
sured, but action was deferred.
Mrs. Brown was elected assistant SER
geant-at-arms and Mrs. Mills telephone
page.
The bill allowing estates of infants
to be mortgaged was favorably re-
ported.
s. B. 293, Locke, for annexation of
contiguous towns, was reported favor
ably by the judiciary committee.
The ArapahOe delegation, forming
the committee on Denver's charter bill,
reported the same for passage.
Senator Graham moved the appoint
ment of William Norrid as Senate jan
itor, and Thomas Hogg to be commit
tee room janitor. Both are colored.
Adopted.
House-Harper's bill. No. 467, provid-
ing for the direct payment Of the pur-
chase price of mining lodes in school
grants into the state treasury was car
ried.
Mrs. Holly's bill providing for the i'm
mediate advancement of will cases to
the heads Of court dockets passed third
reading and went to the Senate. Other
bills on secoud reading were taken up
and discussed, none Of them being Of
general interest. The senatorial joint
resolution designating one of the Platte
range as "Mcunt Evans" was adopted
by a unanimous and rising vote. The
House then adjourned until 10 o'clock
this morning.