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MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN

MONEY WANTED AND To LOAN.
$4,000 At FIVE PER c Nf to
teution given to applications. TIMES
REAL ESTATE BUREAU. 10th and Pa
ave. INV.
WE want 900 borrowers, VINO desire
from 500 TO $4,000 each on stocks
bonds, trusts. loan association certificates
warehouse receipts and life or tontine poll
cies in old-line companies; no delay; no chat
tel mort cages taken. YERKES & BAKER,
40 to 80 Metzerott Bldg. ITO st. NV.
MONEY TO N-Large sums
at and 1.2 per cent on ID. G. real
estate; $3.50, $500, $3.50, etc, at per
cent; all nsactions conducted with eco
nomical consideration for borrowers VIM
z. SAUNDERS & CO. 1407 F st. NV. mrs
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wANTED-FLATS.

WE can rent your nat; send US full de-
scriptton, Address TIMES REAL Els.
TATE BUREAU. oc17.1
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HOTELS.
FOR REST-STABLE.

FOR RENT-Stable, in rear $50 II
St NV, Tor two noises and wagon;
cheap. de6-3t
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FOR SALE-Cut-under deliyery wagon;
glass windows in sides; fine running
AT Nat. Cap Ice Co. wharf, root Sth 81.
dpS-3t
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els oI coke, 81; 3 bushels any kind
or coal, 81; 10 bundles roSin wood, 10
cents " FUEL ASSOCIATION, 633 Z
st. NV; 4UI y. }. ave. NV. 81 h St Sw.
No attention pad TO c. .. u. orders.
de61t
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FOR SALE-Fine bred st. Bernard
puppies; also tame male goat ana
fancy pigeons. SCHMID'S BIRD STORE,
712 18TH St NV. deo-5l
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FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

FOR SALE-A fine young, soundhorse,
very stylish; can oJrot fast; city broke
also fine JumpSeat SurTy, and styiisl
trap ana harness.. IlUb ] ICn s.. NV.
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MISCELLANEOUS

H. c. LANCASTER. books, sta
uOEery and Catholic EccSs. e
Dth II nv. ueo-ol
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The above Gale is postponed until WE'D
NESDA the GA DAY OF DEtEMfER,
1896, at the same hour and place
JOHN Il. WALTER, Trustee.
THOMAS ii PlCkFORD, Trustee.
de0- At
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-11
Bad JurYmen.
Boston,

Boston, January 10.-A special de-
spatch from Chicago says: The corrupt
clique organized among the mem bers OF
the December grand jury 20 transact a
wholesale business in blackmail and ex-
tortion demanded, it Is said, through a
representative $2500 from ID. H. Tolman,
as the price of immunity from an indict-
ment for his remote and probably inno-
cent connection with the Leon diamond
swindle $500 from G. j. Van Wrinkle as
the price Of finding mo bill'' in the COM
plaint against him for keeping a bucket
shop; $1,000 or more from Ulman & Co.
it is said, for the same spurpose as in the
Van Wrinkle case.
These grand jurors are said to have de-
manded money from Peter Van Schaak,
whose firm was accused OF having violat-
ed the state pharmacy laws. A check for
500 or more was secured from drug
firm, and over its division the coterie Of
blaokmailers quarrelled. For this check
a receipt is said to have been given, and
ever since sufficient evidence TO convict,
is said to be easily obtainable. There is
every reason to believe that from many
other persons against whom complaint
was lodged, but in whose cases no bills
were voted, various sums of money were
secured. Foreman Smith and Grand
Jurors GariIy and McComb are named
in connection with the blaokmailing
practices.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-11

should not.
Mr.. Bell, Populist of Colorado, ex-
pressed qualification at Mr.. Hepburn s
motion, illustrating what he claimed
to be an unjust effect of the present
practice by asserting that not since the
session opened had Populist been recog
nized by the Speaker He denounced the
committee assignments made by the
Speaker, desert ibing the present organiza-
tioc and management Of the House as
that of "body of bosses; bony OF ty-
ranny." At theseonclusion of Mr.. Bells
speech, ss..halfs a dozens smem5 5ers clamored
for recognition.
Mr.. Hepburn raised a general laugh by
dramatically withdrawing the amend
nent.
Randolph fuckers proposition for
counting a quorum. adopted by the com
mittee in place of those adopted in the
51st Congress was discussed and it met
only objection on legal grounds, that it
would authorize the passage Of bill by
votes of less than a majority of a quorum
before discussion.
Mr. Reed took brief part in the dis
cussion and when it was concluded the
House Adjourned.
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FOR HIGH TREASON.
rested-A Brother of Cecil Rhodes
Among Them.

Johannesburg. January 10.-Twenty-
two mem ners. of the national reform oom-
fomenting the recent rebellious acts of
the Uitlanders, were arrested by the
officers of the Transvaal government at
the rooms of the reform club last eve
ming on the charge Of high treason. They
will be taken to Pretoria. The prisoners
included Col. Rhodes, brother of Cecil
Rhodes, Sir Drummond Miles Dunbar,
Lionel Phillips and other leading resi-
dents of Johannesburg. The arrests Gre
ated no excitement the populace main
tanning perfectly indifferent attitude to
the action of the authorities.
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oefore and $4,000 in the like week last
year.
SsThe course of prices of staples continues
an improvement OF last week,

SiOiO UlAeh S~3 WV Az ullV lthb N6th IeAo'
year.
ssThe course of prices of staples continues
an improvement OF last week,
WITH AN UPWARD MOVEMENT
in live stock, pork and other meats, lard,
flour, wheat, corn, oats, Bessemer pig
and bar iron. In addition to these firm
prices are named for coal. tobacco, print
cloth, steel billets sugar, lumber, leath
or, hides, decreases beingsnoted for coffee,
cotton, petroleum, in addition to cut
OF 81 for southern pig and 25c for east
ern iron.
Comparative prices for 109 staples quar-
terly for five years, show prices for the
following are higher than one, two, OF
three years ago: Mackerel molasses,
sugar, raisins, Buenos Ayres hides, hem
look, leather, eastern sheetings, southern
pig iron. quick silver, southern coke,
Pennsylvania coke. crude and refined
petroleum, naphtha, rosin, nails. alum,
oarbolic acid, nitric acid. snlphuric acid,
qulnie and rubber. The following are
higher than one and two years ago; peas,
peanuts, cotton, southern sheetings, silk,
anthricite pig iorn, copper, lead, turpen-
tine, glass, spruce, alcohol, tobacco. rioe,
cIanberrles. currants higher than two
years ago. The following are higher
than year ago: Flour, sheep, mutton,
lemons, wool, hemp, flax, prints, ging-
hams, iron ore, Bessemer pig iron, steel
blltets, rails and beams, silver, tin, soft
coal, castor oil, carbonate soda. borax,
caustic soda, hay and cotton seed. Out
OF 107 staples quoted, only Al are lower
today than January l. 1895, So lower
| than two years ago, 78 lower than Janu-
airy l. 1s93 prior to the panic. The ex-
nf %N
from both coasts of the United States
this week were g. Al, 900 bushels, COM
pared with 2, $4,000 in the same week a
year ago.
The December
GROSS RAILWAY EARNINGS
are among the best of 1895 as far as in
crease is concerned. only one month
showing larger gain. The increase in
December is larger than that in October
and November, and altogether the vol
ume of business in each of those months
is large. The total earnings of 1O9 roads
for December are $4l, IT'S, 100, an increase
of s8 per cent over 1894. For 1895 the
total earning of 110 roads with 100, 00C
miles of track was SOL, 972, 3322, a gain
over 1894 of 5.2 per cent.
gross earnings in 1894 from 1898 of II pei
cent, 1898 showing a falling off of 2. !
per cent from 1899. The highest gains
shown In 1895 by roads were by the Cen
tai Western, s per cent; grangers re
per cent; Pacific 7.5 per cent; trunk lines
show a gain of 5 per cent, coal roads {
per cent, southern lines 2.2 per cent south
western roads per can't.
BANK C-EARINGS
aggregate 81. 1856. OOe. 900 this week, ar
increase of about 25 per cent over the
week before, 10 per cent over the week
year ago and more than that over thu
corresponding week of 1894; 10 per CEN
less than the like total in 1893, 10 PEI
cent smaller than the corresponding tota
Of 1892
The failures in the United States thi
week are 446, against 405 in the weel
4 a year ago.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-11
lINE SURVIVORS.
OF the Steamer Ealing Arrive at
CanSo.
FEARFUL HARDSHIPS In AN OPEN
BOAT.

Nine of the Crew Had Died from Cold and
Other Boat Missing-ProDabIy All 9th
ers Have Perished
Halifax, January 10.-The boat from
the steamer Ealing which recently went
ashore OIL Green Island, Isaacs Harbor,
n. s., reached Canso at p. m., today.
Ihero were nine in the boat which was in
charge of Second Officer Thomas. All
were thoroughly exhausted and badly
frost bitten. They had terrible expert
ence, and nine shipmates, including the
capaln, Ole d OF cold and exhaustion, and
their bodies We're thrown overheard. The
survivors are in such an exhausted CON
dition they cannot tell when their mate
died. They say two boats left the strand
ed ship at p. m. on the sixth. One con-
tanned the first officer and eight men,
and as nothing has been heard from them
all hands have probably perished The
boat arrived at Canso today .and was
originally in charge of the captain, con
tanned IS men. Nine died as related above.
LATER.
Second Officer Thomas tells the follow
ing story: "The boat, after leaving the
steamer tried to make Green Island as
the, lights were plainly seen. They could
not make the sails work and were driven
so miles to sea. Then the wind changed
blowing from. the eastward and by this
means the boat was enabled to reach
Canso. Had it not been for the bravery
and splendid work of the sailors, we
would have never reached land. The
seagoing qualities Of the life boat proved
first-class. When the boat pushed of
from the Ealing it had but dozen bis
cults and a barrel of water. The latter
froze and the men were compelled to live
on ice
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Capitol Gleanings.

Mr.. SomervilIe, member of the
board of general appraisers, addressed
The House committee on ways and means
Oh the administrative features of the
tariff law this morning, favoring
amending the law regarding the assess
inent of original. duties so as to.take from
the secretary Of the treasury power to re-
nit penalties assessed for under valua-
tion. He would limit the additional
assessment to 100 per cent of the appraised
val ue of the merchandise. The remitt-
ing power was detrimental to thesenforce
ment of the law. Findings of fact by the
board OF appraisers should be final.
L.. s. Sharretts, also a member of the
board of general appraisers urged that
| the change in the administrative features
OF 1the law De made as soon as. possible
and referred to the diff oulty experienced
by the board in arriving at the value Of
consigned goods. He suggested that the
law be amended so as to allow the board
to determine the value of such goods by
the prize at which they were freely off
cred for sale in the United States. A
great portion of these goods were made
specially for sale in this country and the
law, which requires the appraisers to
appraise the goods at the value at which
hey are offered for sale in the country of
expectation could not be followed, as they
were not sold abroad. Interest in the
case of Victor Fl. MoCord of Pennsyl-
vanla, who seeks damages IN S2O0, 600
from the government of Peru, sustained
by reason of his illegal imprisonment in
1885 while United States Consular agent
at Araquipa, was revived .this morning
by message from the President on the
subject in response to the Senate resolu-
ton. All correspondence in the case was
laid before the Senate, December 6, 1894,
and that body Of today does not indicate
any new features in the case. 1t closes
with letter dated April 90, 1896, from
Acting Secretary Adee to Mr. McCord's s
| counsel, in which he says the previous
| relations reported to the Senate, has been
considered by the State Department. Mr.
Adee did not think it could properly be
| taken as basis for further diplomatic
action in the case until it is finally
adopted by Congress.
| The proposition looking to the estab-
| lishment of an international bank, which
was one of the recommendations of the
| late Pan-American Congress, will receive
| the attention of the House committee
on banking and currency on Monday
next Mr.. Charles r. Flint of New York,
who was one Of the American delegates
| to the Congress, will be heard in sup
port of the bill. Another member of the
Congress, Senator llendonica of Brazil,
| now the diplomatic representative of that
country at Washington, has been invited
to be present and similar invitation
| has been extended to Comptroller Eckles
.of the Treasury Department.. Chairman
Walker says that any other gentlemen
who may desire to attend will be cordial
| ly welcomed.
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frankfort. KY, January 10.-Gov.
Bradley's message was reed in the House
today. 1t condemns mob law and asks
for the passage Of laws imposing rigid
penalties. 1t asks for the passage OF laws
imposing severe penalties for the viola
tion of election rules, and that foreign
corporations be compelled to organize
under the laws Of this stategbefore they
are allowed to do business here. It es
Inmates included deficit in the state
treasury next June, proposes out in
the salaries of state officials and an in
crease of license fees of all kinds to re-
plenliSh the treasury.
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George W. Sawyer, Cum berland Mills.
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BETWEEN SEASONS TINE.
That Is What Bradstreet's Calls
1t.
GENERAL TRADE is STILL VERY
QUIET.

A Little Improvement Showing Itself in
Some Quarters-Col1ections Best in the
South-Some Years Prices Compared.
New York, January -Bradstreet's s
tomorrow will say:
General trade has not improved appre-
ciably. Some wholesale houses are send
ing out travellers and others have not
completed taking account of stock. This
mild weather at the western points inter,
fered with business in some instances,
and the week continues to present char
acteristios Of the between seasons period.
The impression is general that the un-
certainty as to financial aotion by Con
gress, and the disturbing political CON
ditions have an unfavorable influence or
the prospect for new enterprises.
Mercantile collections in the east, west
and north are complained of while nj
the south the comparative ease with
which they are made, forms conspicu-
GUS exception. The demands for funds
at the various eastern centres is the most
active for the year. Stocks of wholesalers
at many larger interior distributing
points are low. The first advices OF
statesmen on the road are of a moderate
demand for goods, an
IMPROVEMENT SHOWING ITSELF
first In dry goods, shoes and clothing.
The general industrial situation is
moderately improved. In no department
are there more unfayorable conditions
than a week ago. The idleness of some
steel mills and the certainty that the
production Of pig iron will be curtailed
have produced a better feeling. A cut
of 81 for southern pig iron is backed by
the blowing out of three stacks.
Woolen industries remain unchanged.
Wool is stronger on the proposed increase
Of duty. Cotton goods are firm with a
limited demand owing to the position of
raw cotton, the latter having advanced
nearly half from the lowesJ price, and
the former only about one-seventh. Ship
ments of shoes have increased, six Now
England centres forwarding 100. 600 cases
within week, against 10000 the week
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Local Weather Report.

Portland, January 10.-The local
weather bureau office records as to the
weather are the following:
"a. m Barometer. 30.101; thermome-
ter, 1853: dew point. 1870; humidity, 86 {;
wind, n; Velocity. II; weather. cloudy.
s D m.-Barometer. 30. 180: thermome-
ter. BIO dew point. II; humidity, II i;
wind, N; velocity, 10; weather, cloudy.
Mean daily thermometer, 1870; maxi
mum thermom eter, a. 0: minimum ther-
mometer 143: maximum velocity Of
wind, 16, N; total precipitation, .2S.
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THE WEATHER.

Boston, Janu- :
ary 10. The 10
cal forecast for
Saturday win
be fair, slight
ly cooler with
northeriy winds
W a S hington,
January 49,
The forecast fol-
Saturday for
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j. G. BLACKBURN, was last night re-
nominated United States Senator by the
Democratic caucus on the first ballot at
+ frankfort, Kentucky.
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Maine Pensions.

Washington, January 10. The fol-
lowing Maine people have been granted
pensions today:
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Maine: Fair; slightly colder in the
northern portion; northerly winds.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04
Cost of Handling Ear Corn.

A gentleman from the country says
that the cost of carrying ear corn one
year, or longer, is probably greater than
many figure it, on account of the
shrinkage. For instance, the cost of
1000 bushels of corn at 81 cents is $40;
interest at per cent. for a year, $14.70;
expense of crib, $50; cost of the corn at
the end of one year, $244.7O. But it is
estimated that the shrinkage will
amount to 20 per cent, or 200 bushels;
therefore, there will remain but 500
bushels to sell. So $244.7O actually rep
resents the cost of 500 bushels at the
end of one year, or a fraction over 80
cents a bushel, without figuring any
thing for insurance or risk in holding
showing that 81 cents now is equal to
about 80 cents a bushel one year from
now.-Farmers' Review.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04
DICKMAN's BEE-FEEDER.

a. slot ss N. wide cut entirely through
block for bees to come through to get feed;
Ito II are slots cut Is in. wide, IA in. deep
tie hold feed. This to be covered with
screen which is raised by placing 12-in
strips around edge and across center.
other SLOTS, six on each side of the cen
Ter slot, three-eighths of an inch wide,
AK. cut 14 inches deep, and out as near
~e2ch end as possible; onc-eighth inch of
wood is left between the slots for the
bees to crawl up on and to keep them
from drowning.
These center walls, save the one on
each side of the center slot, have a
IPurtion cut away, down as deep as the
slots are cut, which permits these slots
30 ill evenly though the feed be poured
mt one place. Small strips one-half
inch thick ere nailed around the edge
and one across the center; over this
n piece Of common door screening,
cut to fit, is placed, and another small
strip one-eighth inch thick is nailed
3G hold the screen in place.
These feeders were placed over each
colony by cutting a small strip out of
the burlap and placing the center slot
so as to come between, or rather di-
rrctly over, the space between two
combs in the lower story. We believe
this feeder to be as good as any we
bsfre yet seen, as you can feed at any
time without the bees being able to
come out of the hive. If the feeder is
full of bees It matters not, as you can
pour your feed right on them and fill
the feeder if you wish, and not a bee
VIII be drowned. If you wish to stop
feeding and the feeder is full of bees,
simply place the feeder on the ground,
bottom side up, and the bees will soon
return to the hive. But we have di-
,gressed.
White clover yielded very poorly at
first, but got some better, until a crop
of $500 pounds was taken by the OK
tractor. Then we had short cessa ton
when the Eastwood flow began, and a
crop of 1000 pounds was harvested
and the honey from 222 stands not re-
moved, which (if it had been removed)
would have swelled the entire crop to
over 1000 pounds. Two tons of this
honey would have sold at 1O@12% cents
aSer pound, and nearly one ton on hand
There is considerable capital invested
&0S7t this crop did not take three months
work of one man.
Fhe query did it pay?" seems to bt
verc easily answered. One load of 800
shipped few days ago brought as
much as 800 bushels of wheat, or 1 ,OOC
bushels of oats, or $1,000 pounds o.
corn. Whether it paid or not. we thinl
You can find us next year as in the pas
20 years-still in the business.-JacoI
hickman, in Ohio Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

After testing several varieties of fax
the Mississippi station concludes that
fax culture cannot be made profitable
in that state.
Experiments with oats in Germany
show that varieties most productive on
one kind of soil are most productive on
all kinds; but difference in food con-
tents was found to be due to difference
in soil and not to difference in variety.
The Alabama station finds more than
six times as much nitrogen in cowpea
vines in the fall as in the same vines the
next spring, after they had lain on the
ground all winter. The clear inference
is that the vines should be plowed under
in the fall rather than let them lie on
the surface till spring.
Examinations by experiment stations
show that American clover seed is
clearer than European, and has equal
vitality. Some European seed was
found to be mixed with finely crushed
quartz, colored to resemble clover seed,
and other samples proved to be old seed
colored bright like the new.-Journal
of Agriculture.