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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
MINING MEN MEET
Prominent Operators Here
From all Parts of the
Northwest.
HARMONY AND BUSINESS
Important Reforms That Will Be
Advocated by the Association
The Speeches.
HARMONY AND BUSINESS
Spokane, Wash, Feb.

Spokane, Wash. Feb. o.
Mines and mining had their innings
yesterday. No more fitting celebration
of the birthday of Washington could
have been found than the meeting to-
gether in this city of representative
miners to discuss the subject that Is
becoming one of the leading industries
of the country, made a great country
by Washington.
Friday evening they commenced to
arrive, and every train coming into the
city brought some of the vice presi-
dents. The meeting was not in the ma
ture of a convention. but rather the
coming together of the second vice
presidents. who compose the executive
committee. to listen to suggestions as
TO means and methods of lettering this
industry, and formulate these sugges-
tons into proper rules or laws for the
convention to acA apon when 1t next
meets. In this respect the meeting yes
terday was one of great Importance,
and it's members set forth two sug-
gestions which will be taken up. and 1t
is hoped made laws of the United
States. These were the addition OF a
secretary of mines to the cabinet. which
suggestion was set forth at length in
the paper of Aaron Parker of Idaho.
and the adoption of parallel end lines
In the location of mines, the suggestion
of Judge Hepburn, also of Idaho. The
meeting resolved to take these matters
up and present them to the next gem
eral convention, and with the North
west Mining Association working in
conjunction and accord with other asso-
Citations of like character in the United
States these suggestions will in time
probably become laws.
When the convention was called to
order there were fully rs second vice
presidents present, among whom were
the following. whose names are well
known in mining circles: ]. w. Settle
Hope, Idaho; A. c. Raymond, Newport
Idaho; L. l.. Preston. Troy. Mont; p.
II. w. Ross, Ellensburg, Wash; C. w
Bardsal, Frultland. Wash; r. C. LANCE
Toledo, Wash; A. +. Parker, Grange
vile, Idaho; ID. NJ. c. Gault Hillsboro
Or; Theodore Reed, Moscow; ]. M
Lang, Missoula, Mont; e. d. Egerton
Helena, Mont; w. b. Hepburn, Osburn
Idaho; S. w. Smith, Elk City. Idaho
A. Il. Severance, Palouse City. Wash.
II. c. Walters, Libby, Mont; f. w. AL
drich, Cascade Locks, Or; w. NJ. Pink
ston. Boundary City. Wash; S. G.. Cos
grove. Pomeroy, Wash; Peter Larson,
Helena, Mont; c. s. Warren Butte
Mont; George Haldorn. Butte, Mont.
W. r. Rust, Tacoma, Wash; w. C. But
Ter, Everett, Wash. and a large num-
Der of others, including miners from all
the northwest states and British Column.
bla.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
AT THE AFTERNOON sEssIo,
Instructive Addresses by A. F. Parker,
Judge Hepburn and Others.

At the afternoon session, John Day.
export, commonly called Uncle John. "
was called upon to speak upon pioneer
Mining" In substance, he said:
Forty years ago | commenced pla-
Ger mining. and at that time little
was known of any other kind of min
ing. Nothing was known of the treat
ment of ore this side Of Swansea. Other
business took me out of mining, but 10
years ago / went back to it, and went
into the Occur d'Alenes. but found
there was little placer mining there.
Now attention is turned almost en-
tirely to ore mining. and a number of
those here have spent a good deal OF
money trying to develop the mines in
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
PROCEEDINGS IN THE MORNING
An Address of Welcome Is Delivered by
Mayor Belt.

Promptly at 10 o'clock yesterday the
convention of the officials of the North
west Mining Association was called to
order by President Dennis. He intro
dueed Mayor Belt. who delivered the
address of welcome. Mayor Belt said
Il have not prepared a set speech for
this occasion, but desire to impress you
with the fact that you are all heartily
welcome in Spokane. and ii Is our wish
that you feel at home.
Il must say to the patriotic gentle
men who organized this association that
there is no industry of more or / may
say of equal Importance to that of min
ing, and it is gratifying to know the
people are coming to think the same
way. To the mining industry we owe
much of our prosperity, and in the gu
ture 1t Will add still more to the wealth
of the northwest. l believe that Spo-
kane is the natural center of the min
ing industry of the northwest.
Il am sorry we are snort on govern
ors. They were expected, and our own
governor said he would be here How
ever, this need not interfere with the
work of this convention, which / trust
will result in a common benefit. Again
| say to you that you are all heartily
welcome"
Secretary Armstrong then explained
to the officers the objects and aims of
the association. This convention is
called to discuss the means which
should be taken to unity the industry in
the northwest This organization was
formed for the purpose of consolidating
the mining interests. and to that end,
after talking the matter over, 1t was
decided best to send letters of invitation
TO attend a convention on the Sd of Oc-
tober last. While .he association was
yet in its formative state it was deemed
necessary to call meeting of the Off
Gals to discuss matters of interest to
the mining industry and to promote the
best interests of the organization. In
fact, the meeting was intended to be one
of instruction and discussion as to
the best way to conduct future business
Mr.. Armstrong spoke on the lack of
state laws governing mining and other
matters of interest
PRESIDENT DENNIS ADDRESS.
President Dennis then delivered the
following address:
las the representative of two great
people it is we'll that we assemble here
under common purpose. When Brit
ons and Americans stand together nei-
Their man nor nature can stay their
progress. our skill and our energy are
adequate to the great task before us
From the prospector TO the capitalist.
here we are bound together in move
ment and life
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
CONFEDERATE MUSEUM OPENED
General Bradley Johnson Delivered the
Speech of the Occasion.

Richmond, Va. Feb. 22.-The confei-
crate museum was opened today in the
old Davis mansion with a brilliant pro-
gram. Governor OFerrall introduced
General Bradley Johnson. the orator of
The occasion, who made a stirring ad-
dress in which he said: 1.-THE time will
come when all the world will realize
that the failure of the confederacy was
a great misfortune to humanity, and it
would be a source of unnumbered woes
10 liberty"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
THEY MAY DE III kAMIAH ROBBERS
half-Breed and a White Man ARA igneo
at Lewiston.

Lewiston, Feb. 17.-James Holt. a
half-breed cowboy, and a white man
by the name of Pete Williams were ar
raigned here today charged with rob
bling the postoffice and store at KAMA n.
on the reservation, last October The
horses these men rode were identified
by Mr.. Vincent, one of the men who
were held up at the time of the ron
berry. The crime for which these men
are held caused much excitement at the
time, having aroused the Indians, for
the thieves took large sum of their
money, which was on deposit at the
store of Mr.. Jorgens. The robbery was
bold one and successfully planned,
as the perpetrators dropped out of sight
IN mysterious way. The case was
worked up by Detective Felix Warren
OF this city.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28

Work viii soon Bv Commenced on the
Big Ditch.

Lewiston, Feb. 17.-Representatives
of the eastern capitalists who are stock
holders in the Lewiston Power and Wa
ter Company are in the city looking
over the ground preparatory to the in
vestfnent of $4,000 in an irrigation
scheme.
Work on the ditch to put water on the
Lewiston fiat will begin in a few days
If there is no unexpected hitch in the
preliminary arrangements now being
prosecuted. This ditch viii cover 20. 600
acres of the finest land in the north
west, which has heretofore been value
less for the want of irrigation This
tract of land is only 700 feet above the
level of the sea and is favorably located
level with sunny exposure
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
NO TRACE OF A MISSING SHIP
Cutter Corwin Couldn't Find the Catzow
Forest.

Port Townsend, Wash, Feb 22.-The
United States revenue cutter Corwin.
which 10 days ago received orders from
Washington to cruise to Cape Flattery in
search of the overdue British ship Catzow
Forest. returned here today at noon. hay
ing been unsuccessful in her search
The Corwin picked up the crew and
captain of the sealing schooner Wanderer.
from Victoria. They had been wrecked
N the storm 10 days previously and were
badly frozen and nearly starved The
Corwln left the wrecked sealers at Vie
toria this morning.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
FRUIT DRYING IN THE poTLACu
Pear crop WIN Hereafter lie Made More
Profitable

Kendrick, Idaho, Feb. 17.-Fruit dry
ing promises to become an important
industry in the Potlatch by another sea-
son. Considerable experimenting has
been done during the fall among the
farmers in the line of apples, prunes.
peaches and especially pears. Hereto
fore the pears have proven almost a
proftless crop, owing to the absence
OF market, and no way of keeping
them.
Mr.. Vessels, of the Potlatch ridge,
has found method after some expert
menting, which dries the pear without
much shrinkage, and retains it's natural
flavor. Travelling men who have seen
the fruit here predict that it will prove
a ready seller.
The wheat market is dull. The price
has declined to As cents in the ware
house. Grain buyers are Offering bet
ter prices for carload lots.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28

James Hudsons Friends ct Lewiston
Think lie Is Prosecuted.

Lewiston, Feb. Thames Hudson.
an aged veteran who has been living
with a large family in a tent on the
grounds of the Northern Pacific near
the depot all winter was arrested to-
day on a charge of stealing a wagon
load of wheat out of a barn. The old
mans friends are indignant over the
disgrace they claim to be unjustly inn
posed upon the old comrade and his
needy family.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1896.

The Idaho Free Press is one Of the
only seven papers In the state OF Idaho to
which q guaranteed circulation rating Is
accorded In the edition of the American
Newspaper directory for 1894 The cor
rectness of the rating Is guaranteed by
500 forfeit, offered by the publishers OF
the directory. to any person who will show
that the circulation Of the paper Is not
correctly stated.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
TRAGEDY IN A BAD QUARTER
May Conboy, a Woman of the Town. and
an Unknown Man Are Dead.

San Francisco, Feb. 22-Another murder
in the demi-monde section of Morton
street has caused great excitement in that
quarter. The nude bodies of Nav Con-
boy and an unknown man were found on
the woman's bed this afternoon. each
with bullet in the head. The man had
undoubtedly killed the woman and then
committed suicide, for in his hand was a
revolver with two empty chambers.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
KILLED BY A CRAZY MAN.

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. PIE. r.
Campbell, ex-clerk of the United States
district court, was shot and killed by
a son of Robert Campbell today. Young
Campbell has been regarded as men
tally unsound.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
MOVING OUTFITS AND WHEAT
Activity in the Vicinity of Kendrick Is
Unprecedented

Kendrick. Idaho, Feb. 22.-The return
of good weather and roads is allowing
reservation settlers to move their farm
implements and household goods to
their new homes. During the last three
days a steady stream of heavily loaded
wagons have passed through here. and
the merchants are reaping a good trade.
Today party who lately arrived from
the east left with blacksmithing OUTFIT
for Nez Perez City.
The supply of wheat in the warehous IS
Is about diminished, there only being
about four carloads of wheat in the five
warehouses. Some of the grain buyers
who have contracts to fill of flax are
experiencing some trouble in securing
enough to fill their bills. More wheat
was hauled in today than any time dur
ing the last month. The wheat acreage
promises to be almost double that of
last year. Wheat. As cents in warehouse.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28
W. WALDORF AsToR ENGAGED

London, Feb. 2O.-Leeds Mercury saws
today that the engagement of william
waldorf Astor and Lady Randolpn
Churchill. formerly Miss Jennie Jerome,
of New York, will shortly be announced.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-25
Root Knot on Legumes not Angulula.

Since writing the article on velvet
bean and it's values as a forage plant
and for fertilizer, have received sew
eral letters asking me if the velvet
cow peas, and if there is danger of
contagion is planted in orange groves
or peach orchards. Very many per-
sons suppose the root knot on cow
peas is caused by the angulula worm.
This is an error. [ supposed for some
time that this was the case, but af
ter careful investigation [ became
satisfied that the root knot as found
ON cow peas was receptacles for nj
trogen and hence beneficial to the
ground, and not in the least danger
Gus or detrimental. In fact after
growing cow peas on ground few
years it is much richer in nitrogen
and requires ~less fertilizer. The
same is true of the velvet bean. The
same root knot to some extent is
found on the velvet bean roOtlets.
No one need have any fear of injury
to grove or orchard from planting
either of these peas or beans from
this cause, and the great value of the
velvet bean as a fertilizer and a for
age plant cannot be easily overesti-
mated. The bean seels readily here
at $4.00 per bushel, and there will
not be half enough to supply the de"
mand, as it solves the problem of
making good groves cheap.
Geo. I'll. Wright
Orlando, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-25
Orlando, Fla.
Curious Trees.

The largest orange tree in the
south is a gigantic specimen which
grows out of the rich soil in Terre-
bonne parish, La. It is fifteen feet in
circumference at the base. It's yield
has often been 10000 oranges per
season.
The 'tallow tree of China has
pith from one to two inches in diam
eter, according to the size of the tree,
which is composed of a greasy wax,
which is so highly volatile that it Of
ten catches fire spontaneously, con-
suming the tree to the very end of it's
roots.
The largest oak now left standing
in England is "Cowthorp's oak,"
which is seventy-eight feet in cir
cumference at the ground. The old
est tree in Britain is parliamentary
oak" in Clipstone park, London,
which is known to be 1,5O0 years old.
The largest apple tree in New York
state is said to be on standing near
the town of Wilson. 1t was planted
in the year 1915, and it is on record
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-25
DeLand, Fla, Wednesday, November 25, 1896

special departments for each branch
of rural effort.
We make it a point to preserve our
papers, filing them away carefully,
each publication to itself. Most pub
fishers supply an index once or twice
a year. These indexes are very val
liable, as by them any information
that has bee read once and forgotten
can be readily traced up when want
ed. Again, by their use one can find
all that has been said on given sub
ject for years past. We think it very
essential to thus preserve papers, as
their value is by no means spent
when once read and thrown aside
III. e. Tweed in Farm, Field and
Fireside.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-25

honey. The first oil that flows from
the crushed olives is clearest,. best
and highest-priced. We rebreak the
mass for a second pressing, and then
for third.
"Signora, the tree bears fruit
young, and bears for many years;
the tree will live even a thousand
years, and [ saw one at PersicO,
twenty-five feet around the trunk" :"
Lake Region.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-25
Horticulture.

At the Buffalo meeting of the
American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science, Professor w.
r. Lazenby of the Ohio State Univer-
sity read an essay. Professor Lazen-
by asserts that few industries show
fairer returns for capital and labor
than. the cultivati'hic of small fruits
or flowers and a5,s % are few that
can be started with such small means
and have the same capacity of eX-
tension into large enterprises. Fruits
and flowers are products which are
in universal demand-necessities Of
the rich and appreciated luXuries OF
those in moderate circumstances.
Good berries and fine roses rarely
lack purchasers, and the same is true
of vegetables forced in winter, which,
after an experience of twenty years,
Professor Lazenby affirms, is a prof
liable industry if it is intelligently
and energetically pursued. To sub
stantiate this thesis he states that
the vegetable forcing house belong
ing to the horticultural department
of the Ohio State University has an
area of about 1000 square feet of
glass, comprising two plain struct-
ures, which can be built for about
5000 each; the total bench space in
these two houses is a trife over one
twentieth of an acre, and the annu-
al sales from them during five years
past have averaged about $50. The
products include lettuce, radishes,
beets, cucumbers and hyacinths. Be
sides this, there were grown in
smaller quantities, for experimental
purposes, parsley, peppers, egg plant,
caulifower, string beans, onions,
mushrooms and a few Towering
plants. When it is considered that
these houses are in use but little
more than half the year the result is
certainly encouraging. If small
fruit culture, Horticulture and vege-
table culture in summer are connect
ed with this winter forcing of vege-
tables there are few places where "a
small capital can be invested with
greater certainty of success by an
intelligent and thrifty person.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-25
The Bamboo, the Palm and the Olive.

4u0 Ddu1UOOJ UlO L dill CGllA buC O11VCI
Julia McNair Wright, in her many
sketches of travel, says: Stopping
one day to look at some long, beauti-
full bamboo poles, Chinese student
came and stood beside me.
''This cane," said he, els the great
gift of God to a large part of the
world. Utensils, furniture, houses,
fire, light, paper, sails, cordage, even
food, are in this one plant
1.-The PALM" an Arab said to me,
sis the mother tree all that we need
for living for man and beast comes
to us in the palm, the blessed tree"
Once in Italy I entered little olive
orchard on sunny slope. The own
er was busy among his trees. Final
ly he turned to me and said:
''This is truly the tree of God.
With a few acres of olives man is
rich. No part of the tree is wasted.
See these roots-the olive roots grow
very fast-we prune them. (Here is
a hint for those in Florida who have
an olive tree for "ornament.") When
a tree ceases to bear, we take all the
roots from the ground and grind
them into a coarse, red dust, like
sawdust. 1t is rich with oil, and we
press it into those round chocolate
colored cakes, called fumes these
are our fuel; they hold fire a long
tine. You can leave them on the
hearth to shoulder all day, and
strike them into bright fire when
you come in cold and damp. The
trunk and branches of the olive, Sig
nora, are far too precious to burn.
The wood is hard, fne-grained, beau
tiful in color, and serves to make
the choicest cabinet work. The olive
berries we pick and sort; the finest
green ones are sold for the pickles.
The fruit for the oil is left on the
tree until November to become pur-
pie as a mulberry and full of oil as
comb in the summer hive is full of
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-25
Vol XIII, No. ..46 Whole No. 942
Agricultural Papers Valuable.

AGRICULTURAL dp6IS VdludUl0'
We certainly owe large per cent
of our improvement in methods to
press. He who reads and profits by
the information given from time to
time in good farm papers, whether
he owns a garden spot or hundreds
of acres, is sure to be benefited
thereby. 1t is not only the immedi-
ate profit. but the inspiration and
pleasure that adds value to the pa
per.
Agricultural periodicals will not,
in the widest sense, teach one how to
farm. Farming is so varied in diff
ferent localities that very few meth
DDS are universally applicable. For
instance, in my native county the
quality and condition of farm lands
is so varied that what would suit one
man would often be entirely unfit
for his neighbor. More than this,
the capacity and inclination of the
Individual need consideration. One
man may be a huge success at what
his neighbor could but fail. If a man
fancies horses, let him raise horses
for success; if he fancies swine, Let
him raise swine for success. No one
will ever be a real success in a line
Il. L. 4oI I.ox1
known scores of men whom we be-
lieve have made flat failures, not be-
cause of Incidence or general inca
pacity, but because they did not
reach the line for which they were
especially suited.
However, let the line of farming be
what it may, we cannot fail to be
benefited by the visits of good agri-
cultural papers. One or two will be
sufficient, if the right kind. We have
often noticed that man who reads
one or two papers carefully is in
formed better than one who receives
half dozen and reads none careful
ly. Read and learn what others are
doing, then winnow the chaff from
the straw, and finally, after due con-
sideration, act according to your
Judgment.
One will get an. occasional receipt
or suggestion for treatment of
sick animal that will much more
than repay the cost of papers. Some
perplexing question arises. We are
at loss to know what to do. Pen a
postal to publisher, stating want,
and in few days question is before
tens of thousands of persons. These
are only few of the helps that the
paper affords.
We might mention among other
things of value the market reports,
and that of the "scrap" correspond
ence, and, most valuable of all,