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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
Crop Indications.

The weather bureau at Seattle pro.
poses to issue monthly bulletins here
after, stating weather conditions upon
which to base the expectations fol
farm and orchard crops. The first o
these for March and the first week oi
the present month has been received
from which we quote:
The past winter was more open than
usual, the temperature milder, and
the PRECIPITATION from rain and snow
considerably less than the normal
There has been enough moisture, how.
ever, to keep the soil in good ccndi-
ton for working, and to germinate
fall sown grain. During February
and the fore part of March the wealth
er was favorable for plowing, seeding,
and early planting. But the last week
OF March and first few days of April
were so cold and wet as to greatly re.
tard all farm work.
Fall grain has come through the
winter we'll, as general thing. Some
had to be re-sown in Eastern Wash
ington, the severe freezes in March
having killed it out. Fruit trees do
not appear to have been injured by
the winter, and the orchards where
we'll cared for, look promising.
The ground is drier than it general.
ly is in Spring, especially in Eastern
Washington.
The first week in April was cold
stormy for most part, with clustering
winds, heavy freeze on the Sd, and
also freeze and eight fall of snow on
the 4th. The rains delayed the spring
seeding, but it is now nearly finished.
The freeze did some injury to winter
wheat, but how much it is impossible
to say.
On the first of the IN onth, Eastern
Washington was visited by the most
violent wind and dust storm ever
known there, but it does not appear
to have damaged crops materially
The 9th, 7th, and Sth, were fine, sunny
days, drying out the soil, and were
very favorable for farm work of all
kinds. Small grain seeding is now
practically completed, and potato
planting mas begun. Early gardens
though touched by the frosts of the 81
and 4th, are doing very well.
On the whole the season is consid
erably earlier than usual, and in spite
of slight setback by the unfavorable
weather at the beginning of this
month, the outlook is very encourag
ing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
Don't Grease the GFlddle.

Hot pancakes are such universal
favorites and the family is SO varied in
all its branches that every one knows
how to mix the most approved in
gradients, whether the substratum be
buckwheat, rice, Indian meal or wheat
-four. But how to bake them is the
question, without filling the house
with smoke and heavy, greasy odor
Do not grease the griddle. That's my
way OF cooking them. The griddle
must be perfectly clean and smooth
and neither too hot nor yet too cool
When think it is about right, wipe
it off with wet towel, then try one
small cake. If it bakes to a nice light
brown, then keep the griddle at thai
temperature until the meal is finished
moving it alternately to a cooler Oh
warmer place on the range, as may be
needed,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
New York Post,

When Washington was inaugurated,
Philadelphia, then the metropolis Of
the country, had only about $4,000
people, New York but $4,000, Boston
$4,000, Baltimore 1900 and no other
city anywhere near 10000. Even
after the lapse OF half a century, dur
ing which New York had overtaken
Philadelphia, so that in 1910 it had
3l2 900 inhabitants to the latter city's
21S 900, Baltimore and New Orleans
were the only other places with more
than 100000 people, and except Bos-
ton, with $4,000, all of the remaining G
cities fell short of $4,000. During the
formative period of the new nation,
therefore, all but the merest fraction
OF its citizens lived in places of small
population, the local affairs of which
were easily administered through
town meetings or other such simple
machinery.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

| iHS' IHeSe acluo are dangerous
health.
Many foods which are OF such sim
pie character as to be least suspected
are loaded with poison. What i.
called cider vinegar is apt to be corr
vinegar with an admixture of sui
phuric acid. Cream-of- of-tartar com
monty contains 5 per cent. of oxalit
acid. A plate OF cheap strawberry
ice-cream will hold perhaps as much
fusel oil as five glasses of bad whisky
The flavOring extracts used in the
household are compounded with many
kinds of injurious acids and drugs
Liquors of various sorts are sophisti-
Gated by the addition OF vitriol, opium
alum, copperas and sugar of lead.
Yankee ingenuity has been we'll.
nigh exhausted in devising methods
OF falsifying foods. Apple sauce is
pumpkin boiled in cider. Grated
horseradish is likely to be nothing but
turnips. Flour is weighted with SOAP
stone. There are twenty recognized
substitutes for coffee on the market.
The tea you buy is half currant leaves.
The "pure ginger" which the frugal
housewife purchases at the grocer's is
composed of cornmeal, red pepper and
salt. Mustard is a mixture OF flour
and cayenne pepper. Allspice is mus
tard-husks, cracker-dust and cornmeal.
Mace is flour, cornmeal and buck
wheat. Cayenne pepper is rice flour
and red-lead. A dusting of powdered
charcoal soon transforms cornmeal
into pepper.
Glucose is the greatest of all adul
terants. Most OF the maple sugar and
honey sold in this country is glucose.
Happily, it is harmless, being simply
"grape sugar" produced from corn
starch. 1t could be made out of old
rags or blOtting-paper, but those ma
terials are more expensive. Molasses
is glucose. "Fruit jellies" are manu-
factured from glucose, with the addi-
ton of properly-selected acids. So.
called imported wines are crude alco-
hol and water with small percentage
of aniline dyes derived from coal-tar.
Orange cider never saw an orange.
1t is nothing but sweetened water
sharpened up with citric and tartaric
acid.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
The SEVEN WONDERS, OLD AND New

The SEVEN WONDERS, OLD AND New.
The old seven wonders of the world
are: The Pyramids, the Colossus OF
Rhodes, Diana's Temple at Ephesus,
the Pharos of Alexandria, the Hang
ing Gardens OF Babylon, the Statue Of
the Olympian Jove and the Mausoleum.
by Artemiss, at Halicarnassus. The
new seven are: Niagara Falls, Yellow
stone Park, the Mammoth Cave, the
CANYONS and Gardens of the Gods in
Colorado, the Calaveras and Mariposa
Rig Trees of California, the Natural
Bridge of Virginia and the Yosemite
Valley OF California.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
Broad way the Longest street.
Frank Leslie's Weekly,

The longest street in the world is
Broadway, which begins at Bowling
Green, in the city of New York, and
runs up the Hudson under the same
name past Ionkers some II miles, and
is then continued along the Albany
postroad to the capital of the State OF
New York. This makes the street
practically $50 miles long. OF course
there are many other long and fine
streets in the world, but not one, tax
! ing it, all and all, equal to Broadway.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

THE New INTEREST RATEs.-The
usuary law in this State makes it un-
lawful to charge a greater rate of in
terest than II per cent. per annum on
any paper whatever; penalty, deduc-
ton OF twice the amount OF accrued in
terest with costs. Where no rate i:
specified, the legal rate is Z per cent
judgments may draw 6 per cent; State
city, town or district warrants draw
not more than s per cent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

DR.. N. G. Blalock, of Walla Walla,
thinks that the subject of diversified
farming in Washington should include
tobacco, since he has demonstrated
that it can be successfully grown in
the State,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

The destructive gillnet is forbidden
on the Snohomish river, and the
County Attorney is preparing to prose-
cute offenders.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

g.. $40 and S.u Genuine Confederate H.ls
81, onlv hyc cents each. $lHand : ~ bills
ten cents each. = Hni ~ cent stinrlastcrs ten
cents each. 81 Hul 81 hIlis IS cent. each. sent
securely scaled uu receipt Il price. Address.
cHAS n. HAKkER West Atlanta. TIA
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
PURE WINES sLIQUORS,
PARTIAL PRICE LIST.

"hisky. ...-................. ~ J 20. and 80
All other California wines st the very lowest
prices. sample room and beer hail attached
Goods delivered 10 any part OF the city free Of
ehaIse' - J. PULLkS.
july hH Manager.
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DIRECTORS.

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JOHN +. COMFY.
Olympia, March l9, lSqn
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
An American Gentleman Writes
Of the Condition of Suryiv-
ing Armenians.
Turkish Government Hindered
Administration of Relief All
1t Could.
More Than Five Thousand People
Whose Need Of Assistance Is
Imperative.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-The pitiable
condition of the survivors of the Ar
menian massacre and the alleged efforts
of the Turkish authorities to retard the
work of relief, are described in a COM
munication just received here from an
American gentleman now at the scene
of the SasSoun massacre. The letter is
dated Aug. /, and after referring 90 the
distribution Of relief funds which has
been entrusted to American missiona-
ries, says, III part;
1.-THE missionaries are now here, but
the opposition Of the Turkish govern
ment Is so great that they can make but
little progress. The people are com
pletely Frustrated. The villages, sam
pies OF the 81 that were destroyed, are
now marked by crumbling walls, the
roofs so completely destroyed by the
incendiary soldiers that not a CHIP re-
mains to show they had roofs. The
The mass of the survivors Of the massa-
ere were scattered about among the viii
lagos of the surrounding region, and
supported by those scarcely better off
than themselves. Two months ago
most Of the survivors We're induced
to return to their old homes, SOW
their fields with 4 kind of millet that
natures in a few weeks and seek to
establish themselves before the winter.
Many have only a few boughs to cover
a corner OF their former homes and fur
mshings are bare; a little hay to sleep
upon, with possibly some filthy rags
10 throw over them. Hardly a child
has than a remnant Of a tattered
shirt 10 owe him, and many of the
adults are lot many degrees letter OF.
Food Is very scanty, working tools are
lacking. In short they are utterly
PROSTATE, and must be pat on their
feet, by supplying them with every
thing till they can begin the upward
road toward the old prosperity. There
are already more than 500 people TO be
thus cared for. England has already
sent 81 600, and the Arnlenians thenr-
selves have raised two or three times
this amount, bat it will still be sufficient
TO do the work cniy imperfectly, Still,
If they were assured protection, they
would go at the great task before them
with cheerfulness and hops. But alas
these conditions do not yet obtain, nor
do we know that they viii.
The English ambassador obtained a
promise that all assistance should be af-
forded 10 the distribution Of the English
funds and the American missionaries
Were requested 20 come and superintend,
but the three weeks they have spent ON
the ground have seen almost nothing
accomplished, because the government
has thrown obstacle after obstacle in the
way.
The first estimates of the slain were
exaggerated, as no one could get into
the region, and the survivors we've seat
tered III different directions. Probably
not more than 4,G0) really fell az the
time, the others died of want. But the
tales Of Eea tly lust and tiendish out
rage that come TO our ears exceed all we
had dreamed Of, and can never be al
lowed TO soil the page of the clean his
toriaH.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
stamp Mil Destroyed.

RAPID Cry, 8. D., Sept. 12.-The 90
stamp mill and hosting works Of the
Keystone Mining company at Keystone,
20 miles southwest Of here, burned with
a loss of $35, 900. Three men were ut
the bottom of o -foot shaft but were
taken u uninjured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
HEAD END COLLISION.
Wreck of Passenger Trains on the Great
Northern Road.

Wreck OF Passenger Trains on the Gfcat
Northern Road.
ST.. CLOUD, Mimi, Sept. 12.-Not
since the terrible Nelson collision three
years ago has the Great Northern o.
perienced SO dreadful a wreck as that
near Melby, a small flag station about
midway between Ashby and Evansville.
Somebody Numbered and five are dead
and four others injured as the horrible
result.
Just how the accident occurred can
not be learned. No. 2, the east bound
passenger train, while running at a com
paratively high rate of speed, met No. 3,
the coast bound train, in which the fol.
lowing We're killed AID wounded;
Killed. j. X. Emerson, engineer No.
2; Ira Hines, engineer No. 3; John IL,
Hawkins, baggageman of No. 3; mes.
senger of No. 2, name unknown; James
Thebedau, fireman of No. 2.
Injured: Two mail agents, one brake
man and N passenger.
As Told at Headquarters.
The reports received at the Great
Northern Office up ~ 10 o'clock, state
that there was a head-end collision be-
tween overland train No. 3, westbound,
and train No. 2, eastbound, at Melby
station, about lao a. m, and that En-
gineer j. X. Emerson and Fireman
rhiladau of No. 2, and Engineer Ira
Holmes Of No. 3, are missing. The
fireman of No. 2 was evidently not i'll
jured. The three mentioned are, il is
stated, the only ones killed, but the
baggageman and express messenger,
three mail clerks and one pas enger Were
injured, the passenger but slightly.
There were three baggage, express
and mail cars in front OF the passenger
coaches, and this undoubtedly saved the
passengers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
Caused widespread sorrow.
Result of a Petty Quarrel.

RAPID CITY, S. D., Sept, 12.-At Key
stone, 20 miles southwest of here, a
butcher known as Big John, shot and
fatally wounded Fred Wides, locally
known as the English Kid. Ashotgun
was used. The killing resulted from II
petty quarrel. Big john surrendered TO
the officers and will be brought here.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
Wei digger. Asphxxiatsd.

NEnLsvILLE, Wis, Sept. 12.-Fred
Wagner, aged %, and Fred Thaier,
aged 30, both Germans and single, Were
asphyxiated in a well on a farm in Pine
Valley, two miles from here. Thaler
lost his life trying to save that Of Wag-
npr.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
Showed the Weight of Years

and the effects Of service, while march
ing. 1t was the general remark that
there were never so many old, lame aud
feeble men III line, bat they proudly
kept step and ''trampod, tramped,
tramped, " Just as if they were boys still
marching thro' Georgia. They SEEM
ed to feel sad that they were under new
commanders, but also to rejoice that
they had survived to see this new era.
None Ct the old Union generals around
whom they gathered SO fondly at for
mer encampmonts, and whose carriages
they cheered SO Justify in former pa
rades, We're here. Their portraits were
seen along the line Of march, but they
were biyouacing where most Of their
comrades will soon join them. And in
thst silent majority, Grant, Lee,
Sherman, Johnson, Sheridan, Jack
son and other leaders could Lave been
no more at peace, II have 10 more good
will to man than was felt and sincerely
expressed here, amid scenes that Oeggar
all description and wipe ont the last
yestigeS Of sectional feeling.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
lowe MethodI.t in Session.

OrTUMwA, Ia, Sept. 12.-The annual
conference Of the Iowa Methodist Epis-
topal church hes began Its 5lst session.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
THE BIG PARADE
Thousands Of Veterans March
Through the Streets Of
Louisville.
Sun Was BrOiling Hot and Many
Were Forced TO Leave the
Ranks.
Two Flags, Carried by Exon
federate Officers, a PrOmi-
nent Feature.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 12.-After all
the demonstrations of the week, the pa
rade was the event Of the Goth annual
encampment Of the G.. A. r., as it has
been of all former encampments. The
air was full Of patriotic music, and the
streets We're carnivals of richness in de-
signs and profusion of the red, white
and blue. Along miles Of bunting and
amid hundreds OF thousands Of cheering
citizens the comrades once more
marched on Southern soil. No con
trast could be greater than that Of the
reception at the gateway to the South
today and the opposition at its portals
81 years ago.
The veterans had spent two days and
nights in campfres and reunions, in
hunting up bunkmates and comrades,
and in talking over old experiences in
the service, but they say they never feel
ike lid times till they get in line. And
they formed a long, strong line Of
yankees in Marching Through
Kentucky while thousands of John
MES grew h0arse in cheering them
along the way. And the ladies OF
Louisville and from all parts Of the
Sonth, in brilliant dress, joined in the
great chorus Of cheers as heartily as
they We're intense iii bitterness along the
marches in the days Of strife. The vet
ars,,,g
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
Carried an Embicm Of Peace,

The parade was headed some distance
in front of the first grand division by
two distinguished ex-C onfederates on
Observation-Disclosures John II. Weller
and Captain William II. Harrison.
They did not wear the gray, but were
dressed in black Prince Alberts, with
silk hats, and red, white and blue
sashes, the same as members of the
citizens committee. They also wor red,
white and blue scarfs and rosetteS.
Captain Weller carried a very large
flag, and the Stars and Stripes were
son carried a very large white banner Of
peace, mounted on a staff like the Stars
and Stripes carried by his Confederate
comrade. The two flags We're alike in
every respect except in colors, II being
all pune white. In place Of the eagle on
the top Of the staff, the white banner
had a dove carrying an olive twig,
designating peace and good will.
Following these new participants,
who were the striking feature Of the pa
rade, came the drum corps, Louisville
Legion, the citizens committee, notables
in carriages, and then the divisions of
the Grand Army.
Among the features of the parade was
Old Ned, the war horse, over 40 years
old, that has heretofore tramped with
the boys alcGG the Inc Of march. Old
Ned is novv SO feeble that he today rode
on a feat. The New Hampshire de-
partment carried a large eagle. The
Ohio boys all wore buckeyes; the Ken
tuckians had corn and crackers, and
others bore the emblems of their states.
Moved on Time.
The procession moved ON time 10 the
r-oment, 10 the great satisfaction of
] ndreds of thousands suffering along
the line Of march, as well as those in
line. The thermometer stood at 80 and
the enthusiasm was equally high. One
hundred Kentucky horses were mounted
by the committee on parade and review.
and they made a chivalrous appearance.
Quite a number Of veterans became
exhausted and had to retire from the
ranks. Six We're so Frustrated by the
heat that they were taken in ambulances
10 the hospitatal. but none are consid-
cred in a serious condition.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12
Had Perfect Weather.

At sunrise, the only clouds were from
the salute Of 10 guns, and the weather
even was for peace. The departments
began forming at an early hour under
the special orders to have the procession
to move promptly at 1880 a. m.
st $50 another salute was fired for
the first grand division to form. AT 10
a. III the guns indicated that The escort
was moving to the head Of the column,
and at 1890 the salute signaled all Of
the 10 grand divisions to move. Under
q proclamation of the mayor, the streets
Where the divisions formed and the en-
tire line of march We're cleared Of every
thing.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-02
The buckeye Rioter. surrender.

Brock Brown. james Lang, William
Motlit and William Keller, charged
with rioting at the Buckeye Glass
Works oil Saturday night, surrendered
Themselves to tho Martins Ferry au.
thoritics yesterday morning. rhey
were taken to 81. Clairsvillo by Police.
men Scott Neal and John Fisher, up.
pearod before Mayor ". $. Konnon,
before whom tho charges wero made,
waived MI examination, plead not
guilty and gave bond in tho sum Of $3.50
each Tor their appearance before tho
grand jury. They were accompanied
by itheir attorney, W. 4. Dixon and
George Arbaugh and Glenn McCabe, Of
Martin o Ferry. who went on their bond.
They claim they can prove nm abb.
Keller and Lang paid another 6ne
last night under 4 state charge for
throwing stones at Henry johnson. n
non.union man las. week. Tho Gre,
fine was under city ordinance.
Tho elass troubles have been free
FROM disorder this week and It 10 hoped
that there will DO no further lawless.
meas. The last person assaulted was
tho Riverside ironworker on Saturday.
Some OF the strikers are Of the opin-
ion tina. L they can quietly persuade
new arrivals Of non .union mon to leave
town and have no further trouble that
they will yet win. They have their
headquarters in a building on First
street near tho Buckeye Glass Works.
The cutting shop at the Buckeye WAS
OF yesterday on account Of minor acct.
dent to the engine.
oorders are already being received Tor
goods.
When the works shut down about
sixty or seventy union men were elm.
ployed, over one.half OF which arc now
working elsewhere. Something like
twenty o. the union men in Martins
Ferry are receiving benefits.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-02
Vile and flvo o,hors 10 DO appointed n, by

vile and Eve othors to DO appointed by
the chairman. The motion passed with
but ono dissonting vote. and DR..
Mayors anid that OH account Of the I'M
portance Of securing q frat class com.
mlttcc, ho would defer tho selection Of
the, 1vo until today or tomorrow.
After tho motion had passed man
got up and proposed that the committee
DO instructed to soc II the bridge COM
panios will not rotract IRON thoir pres.
ont stand OH the toll question. This
suggestion was received with violent
disfayor and crlos Of mo. no." and
"Puth him OUT" were heard on all sidos.
Tho man. who had the tomarity 10 pro.
poso such an unpopular ana disloyal
idea waa elloctually squealched. The
meeting adjourned to nleet.again ut thu
call Of DR.. Meyers, tho chairman. Tho
meeting will DO held as soon as the com.
lni,tce has perfected tho plan that has
been decided upon.