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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
CROPS IN RUINS.
Florida Will Lose Millions of Dollars
by the Cold Weather.

Florida Will Lose Millions of Dollars
by the Cold Weather.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, January 2.-Three
million dollars will hardly cover the loss
in Florida from the cold of the past sew
enty-two hours. The mercury dropped
% degrees above zero last night and the
cold completed it's work of destruction.
The pineapple plantations are ruined as
we'll as the oranges and the winter vege-
table crops. Next years orange crop
will be shortened by 100000 boxes,
which means an additional loss of ST.
500, 900 to the growers and the trans
portation companies. The direct and
incidental losses by this spell will ag-
gregate $1,000, 600 in the next two years.
Last night at 8 O'Clock the mercury was
at Al degrees.
The mercury went down to IA degrees
above zero at the signal station in this
city just before sunrise this morning,
this record being l degree colder than
the temperature during the great freeze
Of 1886 and the lowest since 1885. The
thermometer dL Cuc SCdClOA 40 AOV iOOo
above ground and the surface readings
about town average from 10 to degrees
lower. Reports from Titusville. Tampa,
.. ala, Gainesville, Palatka and Sanford
indicate the mercury dropped to about
Is above zero in these localities. The
orange and vegetable crops are practical
ly ruined. The best estimate places the
number of oranges on the trees at fully
$500, 900 boxes and officials of the Florida
Fruit Exchange in this city think fully
1000, COO boxes have been frozen either
wholly or in part. If this estimate is
correct, the remaining 800, 600 boxes
will bring fabulous prices. These re-
ports cannot be verified until tonight
or tomorrow, but the best informants
in fruit matters say 1.-THE jig is up with
the oranges of 1893-94." Ice formed on
the streets of Jacksonville this morning.
The snap is not without compensation,
however, as it has largely killed the
scale, one of the deadliest orange pests,
and exterminated another, the white
fly, which was becoming active in some
groves and threatened the State.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
He PAID IN GOLD COIN
0. F. Paxton Had the Money
for a Tacoma Motor Line.
PRICE PROMPTLY TURNED OVER

1t Was Bought in at a Mortgage Sale
for the General Electric Company of
Portland-MOneyC Carried to the Court
house in a Guarded Hack.
TACOMA, January 2.-The Point Def
ance street railway, extending from
South Ninth street to Point Defiance,
seven miles, was sold to o. F. Paxton of
Portland to-day for $82, 900. Mr.. Paxton
is attorney for S. 2. Mitchell of Port
land, who represents the the Edison
General Electric Company's interests.
The price was promptly turned over in
gold. Eighty-two thousand dollars in
cold coin was what Mr.. Paxton flashed
on the rest of the lawyers. The money
was carted up to the courthouse from
the London and San Francisco Bank in
hack guarded by the representatives
OF Mr.. Paxton and Detective Leroy. The
claims against the road are in brief:
Those represented by Lewis, trustee,
approximating 1000, for which a de-
cree in the lower court has been OBJ
tanned; that of c. Hinchman, a mort
gagee, the original amount of which was
$50, 600, but which with costs and re-
ownership has mounted up to about $780,
600: claim for labor; claim of the
Bank of British Columbia for $1,000; a
claim of the Tacoma Railway and Motor
Company for $50, 600 for power furnished
and a claim of the Edison General Elec-
trio Company represented by the pur-
chaser. The sale was under decree of
the Hinchman mortgage.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
Reduction of Wages.

NIrrA YUMA, Miss, January ga
movement, which seems destined to be-
come popular among the planters OF
Mississippi, was inaugurated at plant
ers' meeting in this town. Prominent
agriculturists of Delta were present, and
resolutions were passed fixing the pay OF
the best male labor at 80 cents per day
and the best class of female labor at &c
cents per day. Not more than 81 pei
month with rations will be paid the best
laborers, and crops should be laid
by at a maximum expenditure of $3.50
per acre. Clubs will be formed at once
throughout the State, having for their
motto the reduction of wages. Colonel
John R. Cameron, Captain John Willis
and DR.. A. J. Phelps, three of the most
prominent men in the State, are giving
the movement their Endorsement.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
OUTLOOK BETTER.
The London Times Review OF Last
Years Business.

The London Times Review of Last
Years Business.
LONDON, January 3.-The Times will
cav tomorrow in it's trade review of last
year:
While the possibilities of a year ago
were only partially realized, trade in the
aggregate may be said to have turned
the corner in series of ten years. The
hinderance of enterprises is mainly to
be ascIibed: :,
"First, to the depreciation of silver
and the tariff wrangle in America, which
when ended failed to give trade con-
tinuous impetus. 90.
"Second, to foreign competition,
which, however, is not increasing, the
main injury arising from our establish
ing manufactures in growing countries
and damaging similar ones at home.
"Third, to the disappointing harvest
and low prices for grain.
"On the other hand, there have been
evidences of sounder trading. Inc tall
ures were fewer, and the capital IN
volved was lower than before In recent
wears. We enlarged our exports and I'M
ports on the whole, although adverse re-
suits due to the extreme dizziness are re-
ported in some quarters. Hopeful views
are now current. They are mainly di-
rected to the early improvement OF the
American markets on q more assured
basis. secured by the tariff settlement
and a better financial position. There
is expectation also of a betterment I'D
South America and of some recovery In
Australia and the East"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
PLATE-GCASS WAR.
There Will be Cut Where the Jobbers
Expected an Advance.

There Will be a Cut Where the Jobbers
Expected an Advance.
CHICAGO, January 4.-The Tribune to-
morrow will say: plate-glass war is
on, and it may result disastrously to
some of the jobbers of the country, who
have been caught in the "trap." Nego-
tiations have been pending for several
months for a combination of plate G lass
works, and the deal was announced TO
90 into effect January 1. An immediate
advance in plate glass was to take place,
and on the strength of this assurance
the jobbers bought up every foot OF glass
in the country for speculation. NOW
comes the announcement that the deal
has fallen through, and that the present
prices would suffer another 20 per cent
cut. As a result decidedly ugly feeling
prevails in all branches of this industry,
the manufacturers asserting that they
are operating at loss and the jobbers
insisting that they have been mulcted.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
SAY CARLISLE BROKE FAITH.
Report Current That Wall Street Has
Asked His Removal.

Asked His Removal.
CHICAGO, January A special to the
Daily News from Washington says:
Leading New York bankers have made
a formal demand on the President for
the removal of Secretary Carlisle. The
request was made by J. Pierrepont Nor
gan, who came on from New York for
that purpose. Mr.. Morgan was the chief
factor in the late syndicate which took
the last issue of bonds. There have been
many informal demands for Secretary
Carlisle's retirement coming from Wall
street in the last year, but this is the
first time the movement has taken an
organized form. New York inanciers
charge that the Secretary broke faith
with them on the recent bond issue by
springing his currency plan just after he
disposed of the bonds and depressing the
price on the market, resulting in the
dissolution of the syndicate. The Pres
ident informed Secretary Carlisle to-day
for the first time of Morgan's modest re-
Quest, and indicated he had no intention
of asking Secretary Carlisle to quit"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
NEWFOUNDLAND CRISIS.
Government Passed tho Guarantee Bill
by q Single Vote.

Government Passed tho Guarantee Bill
by q Single Vote.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., January 1.-The
government carried the bill of guarantee
bank notes through the Council last
night by majority of one. There has
been considerable opposition to the pas
sage of the measure, and an attempt to
defeat it failed few days ago through the
premature publication of the plan. The
dissatisfaction with the bill is so general
that the noteholders have decided to call
q mass meeting at which resolutions will
be adopted petitioning the Governor
from attaching his signature to the
measure. The Union Bank sharehold-
ers will hold q meeting tomorrow and
the first business on the programme to
be transacted is the removal OF the pres
ent Board of Directors and the appoint
ment of q new one. The condition of
the Union Bank, it is said, is very satis-
factory, and its leading shareholders are
confident of it's success, for the Bank OF
Montreal will assist in every way, and
the government will provide for special
legislation.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
FATAL FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS.
Bob Moore and George East, Old Okla
hOma Offenders, Killed,

AoHd OhcuuerS, KILLED..
GUTHRIE, o. T., January 1.-Two des-
peradoes who have infested Oklahoma
for long time past have been run to
ground and made to bite the dust. Be-
fore they died they fought their pursuers
and seriously wounded one of them.
The outlaws are Bob Moore and George
East, both of whom are suspected of
having been implicated in the Canadian,
Texas, express robbery, a station on the
Atchison and Topeka road, and the kill
ing of Sheriff MCGEE. News of the affair
was received at United States Marshal
Nix's Office here to-day. Deputy Mar
shall Bill Williams and strong detach-
ment of deputies had been chasing the
outlaws for several days. They had
trailed them from place to place, but
had not come within fighting distance
until yesterday. Although the sides
were unequal, half a dozen or more
deputies to two outlaws, the latter were
armed to the teeth and their natural
desperateness, strengthened by the box
in which the deputies had put them,
made them no easy mark. They were
rounded-up in desolate valley in the
southwestern part of Washita county
about noon, and when commanded to
surrender made stand and began using
their Winchesters. Their aim was good,
for in the first volley one of the posse
fell seriously wounded by a ball in the
side. The next instant, however. both
outlaws were stretched on the ground
dead with bullets from the deputies
guns in their hearts. The outlaws were
a veritable walking arsenal and, had
they not been killed so soon, would
doubtless have laid some of the deputies
to rest. They were both old offenders
with enviable regulations among their
craft, and their radiance is joyous news
to the Territory officials, generally as
they were the constant dread of Okla
homa.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
LUMBER COMBINATION.
San Francisco Dealers Club Together
for Mutual Benefit.

San Francisco Dealers Club Together
for Mutual Benefit.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 3.-Nearly
every prominent firm dealing in lumber
in this city is interested in movement
to form a combination, increase prices
and insure profit in branch of business
which has been conducted at loss for
months. Negotiations with that end in
view has been in progress for two weeks,
but as yet no definite organization is
the result. A committee has been
chosen, plan outlined and rules have
been formulated, even name for the
new concern has been adopted, but the
step which is to make all these measures
practically operative has not been taken.
Local lumbermen are unit in declaring
that trade with them has been worse
than proftless for year. Cargoes have
been sold at loss of 5000 and 200. 1t
was found cheaper in many instances to
have work performed and material pur-
chased in British Columbia rather than
in this city. The only possible field for
even small profits is in the foreign mar
ket. Under these conditions local mer-
chants considered it absolutely necessary
to take some step to stop the COMPETE
ton going on and to raise prices until
there be reasonable profit. With that
object a meeting was called. Repre-
sentatives of the following firms were in
attendance:
Preston & McKinnon, the Golden
Gate Company, Pope & Talbot, Renton,
Holmes & Co., w. J. Adams, Gray's
Harbor Commercial Company, the Pa
cific Pine Lumb Der Company, Hanson q
Co., Simpson Lumber Company and
Wood-Slade-Thayer Lumber Company.
After an informal discussion of the
matter a committee of three was APP
pointed and instructed to report plan
of action. This committee urged that
all of the interested companies unite in
the creation of what is to be known as
the Central Lumber Company of Cali
fornia. It urged that all consignments
of lumber be made to this company,
which would then appoint it's selling
agents. In that way all sales would
come under the direct supervision of the
combination. Every ten days there was
to be division of profits upon basis
fair to all the companies. The plan
seemed to meet with approval, and it
was hoped that it would 60 into opera
ton to-day. Certain delays have oc-
Cured, however, and it is difficult to tell
when the combination will be formed.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
Antitrust Law.

AUSTIN, Tex, January At Is re-
norted here on what is regarded as good
authority that Governor Mitchell OF
Florida has revoked the executive writ
issued nv him on the requisition of Gov
ernor Hopg of Texas for the extradltlon
Of Henry M. Flagler, one of the Stand.
ard Oil directors, who was indicted at
Waco. Tex, for conspiracy under the
antitrust law of Texas.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
The Naval Reserves.

WASHINGTON, January ga meeting
of the executive officers of the United
States naval reserve of the several
States will be held in Washington next
week to discuss the question of reorgan-
izing the reserves. Senator Perkins of
California is deeply interested in this
matter, and his State has the first repre-
sentative to the meeting on the ground,
J. Scott Oliver of Los Angeles.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
There May be q Contest.

SAN Francisco, January 2.-The pros
poets for a contest over the will of James
G. Fair seem to be developing. Charles
Fair has realized that the clauses de-
nrivine any children he may have OF q
Share of the estate is a slight, and he
also resents the placing of the manage
ment of the estate in the hands OF out
siders. On the latter count 1t Is thought
his sisters, Mrs. Herman Oelrlchs ana
Virginia Fair, may join hands with
Charlie.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
Another Lexow Committee.

SAN Francisco, January 4.-Plans for
a crusade against vice and corruption
private and public, in this city was de-
veloped to-day by the formation OF the
Civic Federation of San Francisco on the
lines of the Chicago Civic Federation:
War is declared by the federation against
dives, side entrances to saloons, gam
bling and municipal corruption. A Leg g
islatiye Committee, similar in scope to
the Lexow organization, is possible
outgrowth of the federation, which was
Organized by Rev. James Cumming
Smith, pastor of Trinity Presbyterian
Church.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
Adams Express in tho West.

DENVER, January 3.-The Adams Ex-
press Company. which for the first time
appears in the Rocky Mountain country
as an independent company, opened
Observation-Disclosures quarters here
to-day under the management of G. l..
Day of Chicago as general agent. The
Adams from this point is to operate over
the Burlington and Pennsylvania sys-
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
Partial Victory.

BosroN, January 4.-The American
Rell Telephone won a partial victory
when the United States Circuit Court o.
Appeals to-day in writof error brought
by the telephone company against the ne
Western Union Telegraph Company ct
al. ordered that the decree OF the Oai tea
States Circuit Court be reversed ana tne
case remanded for further proceedings
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
The Pope's Safeguard.

LONDON, January 3.-The Standards
Rome correspondent says several Cardi-
nails, who oppose Cardinal Rompolla's
attitude toward the Cardinals, were con-
versing recently, when one remarked
that the King of Italy at Rome was the
Pope's safeguard. All concurred in this
opinion. The Pope upon hearing this
was much impressed. 1t is supposed
that this partly accounted for his omis,,
sions of the usual illusions to temporal
power from his speech at the New Years
reception.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
M. de Lanessan Explains.

PARIS, January 3.-Le Journal yester-
day sent q telegram to M. de Lanessan,
Governor General of French Indo- China,
asking him to explain the circumstances
of his recall. M. de Lanessan replied
that the pretext that he had permitted
unauthorized persons to have access to
official and confidential documents,
which he was charged to have done, was
simply ridiculous.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
M such Plan Considered.

MADRID, January 2.-Senor Biessa,
Minister of the Interior, has entered q
formal denial of the statement, which
recently emanated from Washington,
that a plan has been under consideration
allowing local officials of Cuba to make
up the budget of tariff duties, afterward
submitting it to the government for ap-
prevail. The Cabinet has, however, ap-
proved the proposal to open an inquiry
into the Cuban customs system.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10

BERLIN, January 4.-Sociallst memoe'
Of the Reichstag, Zubil, at mass meet
ing last evening said he thought an cary
dissolution of the Reichstag certa: d
through the rejection Of the bills prov ovid
ing for the construction OF new ,lon II
clads and the increase OF the strength tau .,
the army and the institution .o OF various
reforms in the imposition OF taxes.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10

BOMBAY, January 2.-Reports just re-
ceiyed indicate that the Waziri tribes
men. who lately attacked the escort Of
the British Commission engaged In de-
limiting the Punjab frontier. have been
completely beaten and no longer prove
q menace TO the British forces.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10

BRUSSELS, January IA Parliamen-
tary election was held in the Lige to-day,
M. Defuisseaux, who was returned for
Lige and Mons in the general election,
having been chosen to sit for Mons.
The Socialist Smeets was elected to-day
by = majority Of 500.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
w.,1-Kuown Singer Dead.

CHICAGO, January Mrs. Emma
Gillineham Bostwick, one of the best
known Western singers, died last night
at Morristown, N. J. She was born in
1914 and notwithstanding her advanced
age retained her voice to remarkable
degree until last summer, when she sang
in public the last time.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
Goinp to the Front.

LONDON, January ga dispatch to
the Central News from Picking says that
Lin Kun9 vi, the Viceroy of Liang XII
ang. who has been appointed as the
head of the Chinese armies, is preparing
tn start for the front to assume supreme
command of the troops. The Japanese
feet. together with q new squadron, OF
war vessels, is cruising off the Shan
Tung Promontory.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-10
p..,.r ministerial Scandal.

ST.. PErERsBNRa, January 4.-ine TO
tirement of M. Krivoschein, Minister Oh
Ways and Communications, Is IN .ono.
ouence of his connection with contI h;ch
for railroad ties, the material ior T Which,
was obtained from the estate Of M Mu
chem. When the Minister OF inhnS
discovered this scandal M. hrlSoscne'A
was requested to resign.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-08-22
FaIl Rxe For Potatoes.

A writer in The American Agricul.
turist says: Every fall after removing
the potatoes plow the ground, using
care to turn under all the tops, and sow
it with rye, two bushels to the acre.
The rye was tall and we'll headed out
when turned under the latter part of
May and furnished considerable Mass
of vegetable material to decompose in
the soil. The result is always satisfao-
tory, the potatoes being Of the best
quality and giving good yield, rather
increasing year by year without other
manure, while the heavy clay soil be-
came more liable and soon reached that
light and crumbly condition so desira
BILE for root crops.
In fact, it finally became so full of
decomposing vegetable matter that, be-
ing on side hill, it would sometimes
gully with the violent summer showers,
and to avoid this trouble 1 seeded it to
grass again. As q matter of conven-
fence and to keep the field smooth it
should be plowed toward the center in
the fall and plowed out in the spring
This will prevent an increasing uneven
ness of soil in back burrows and dead
burrows and will keep the field in good
condition.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-08-22
Hay Caps.

A Country Gentleman correspondent
writes from North Carolina: My cloth
caps are made six feet square, with
pieces Of the same cloth about ten
inches long, doubled about an inch
wide, sewed on the corners two or three
inches. One person can easily carry 80
from barn to field. They are fastened
securely by twisting the corner strips
round in the hay, making band or rope
of the latter, which can be quickly run
under or into the shock. Two persons at
opposite corners can cover shocks rapid
ly. Using stones or pegs at the corners
seems clumsy and slow These caps may
be left on any length Of time, as they
shed the rain almost perfectly and per
NIT the moisture from within to escaoN
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-08-22
At the Atlanta Exposition.

The exhibit Of the department of ag-
riculture at the Atlanta exposition will
occupy the center of the Government
building 1t will be devoted largely to
horticulture. Models Of the fruits of
the country will be shown, in many in
stances on their original trees. Special
attention will be paid to the exhibit of
orange and citrus fruits, intended to
show their methods of culture, their
diseases and the methods of prevention
and cure. A display will also be made
of horticultural and fruit growing tools
and implements and of soils, their
adaptability to different sorts of agri-
culture and horticulture.
Plants constructed of wax will illus
trate plant diseases and the insects that
prey on agriculture and plant life and
the chemicals and instruments used to
exterminate them. A full display will
be made of cotton plants both of this
and foreign lands, the cotton and other
fbers OF American and foreign growth
and the insects and diseases that prey
on the cotton crop, together with the
methods of war waged ON them.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-08-22

A correspondent of Rural New York
Or says: "We took a lot of shingles and
pressed these down ON their sides in the
hills at sharp angle, SO that the upper
edge Of each was about couple Of
inches above the surface Of the ground.
These made warm place to retreat to
when night came, and ON going the
rounds in the early morning lots of bugs
We're found on the under side, when by
bringing two pieces together they are
easily killed In about ten days the bugs
Were nearly exterminated Much of the
injury by the bugs is done when the
vines have little more than broken
ground by their sucking the juice from
the upright stem. If the squash vines
have been well fed with food rich in nj
trogen, these last attacks will do but
little harm.