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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
MOSCOW VICTIMS BURIED.
Estimate of Loss of Life still Growing
No Americans Among Them.

Estimate OF Loss of Life StiIl Growing
No Americans Among Them.
Moscow.-The burial of the victims
of the recent disaster is still progressing
amid scenes of giref. Only mourners
are admitted to the cemetery. The
bodies of those who were identified
and claimed by relatives were inferred
III private graves, but at the expense of
the municipal authorities.
The great number of the unidentified
dead were buried in eleven great
trenches, each fifty yards long The
trenches were deep and the mutilated
bodies had to be placed close together
to find room for them all. There were
500 workmen engaged at the Vagan-
ovskoe Cemetery digging the. graves.
Many priests, prominent among them
being John of Cronstadt, famous for
his piety and his power to console,
and, it is believed by the peasants, to
heal, and many military chaplains,
conducted the funeral services, the
friends crowding around the graves.
The surviving friends and relatives
are for the most part of the ignorant
and simple-minded peasant classes: and
their grief and terror at the sudden
calamity was expressed in very
demonstrative fashion. The scenes at
the cemetery were piitful and terrible
IN the extreme. Only about half the
bodies recovered have been identified
and the majority of these are men,
though there are many children and
several old people.
The survivors have the vaguest posi-.
BILE idea of what happened to them and
how they escaped. They only remem-
Der terrible struggle in the vortex of
human muscular energy. 1t is touch
ing to witness how these poor, ignor-
ant people help to console each other,
to dress the dead and care for the chill
dren.
London.-A dispatch from Moscow
to the Standard says it is estimated
that total of 5000 persons were killed
and 1900 persons injured the majority
of them fatally, in the disaster of last
week.
Washington United States Minister
Breckenridge has cabled the State De.
partment from Moscow that no Ameri-
cans We're hurt i'll the recent accident.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
A New Agricultural Bulletin Out.

There is now ready for distribution
by the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture to all applicants bulletin No. 3S
of the Farmers Bulletin series. 1t is
four years since there was published
in a former bulletin "a summary of
the more important methods of combat
ing some of the destructive diseases of
fruits. During this time many i'm.
provements have been made in the
work, and for this and other reasons it
seems desirable to now bring together,
i'll brief practical form, our present
knowledge ON the subject. The ques-
ton as to whether it will pay to spray
has long since been answered in the
affirmative, so it is not necessary at
this time to enter upon any argument
III regard to this phase of the subject.
The contents of the bulletin are as
follows: Fungicides or remedies for
plant diseases: method of applying fun
gicides: treatment of grape diseases
black rot, downy mildew, powdery
mildew, and anthracnose treatment of
apple disease-apple scab, bitter rot,
and powdery mildew: treatment of
pear diseases treatment of ounce.
cherry, and plum diseases.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
Sure Preventative of Frost.

George F. Dietzler, superintendent
of the Hatch 81 Rock orchard at Biggs,
acting ON an idea furnished by Weather
Prophet Harmon, has constructed an
apparatus for the protection of orchards
during freezing spells. He believes
1t will be perfect safeguard against
injury from the frost and one that will
entail but a tritiing expense on the
farmers.
The device is one that can be rugged
up by any orchardist at little expense.
The principal materials are tar, straw
or manure and water. The tar, on
which rests the wet straw, is lighted
and the fire is kept at an intense stage
by an air blast, the fan of which is
operated by sprocket wheel and
chain attached to the wheel of the
wagon on which the fire is carried
The straw or other material is kept wet
by water supplied from tank, also
carried on the wagon. The blast is
blown through the wet substance in a
horizontal direction, forcing a long
column of condensed vapor underneath
the trees for quite distance.
Superintendent Dietzler reported that
during the heavy frost he had used the
device in part of the big orchard and
that the result was perfect protection.
He found that so much ground could
he covered with each wagon that the
cost of protecting an orchard with the
device was very slight.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
CrOss-POllenation.

Cross pollenation of fruits of all
varieties is attracting great attention
among horticulturists. Bulletin No.
., division of vegetable pathology, De-
partment of Agriculture, Washington,
treats of the cross pollenation of the
pear. A good many experiments seem
to show that the quality of fruit may
be systematically and greatly improved
by intelligent cross pollenation man
aged by planting properly selected
varieties together. At the rate at
which these things now seem to be
going we shall not only specialize as
horticulturists, but in the different
fruits, if not in special varieties. 1t
is evident enough that no man in one
lifetime can come to thoroughly under.
stand how to proftably raise more than
one kind of fruit.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
Lemons are Healthy.

Lemons, with their powerful acid,
are most helpful frequently in reliev-
ing bilious condition. A whole
lemons juice pressed into glass of
hot or cold water, with or without
sugar, and taken before one or two
meals or at bed time will often work
wonders for torpid liver. Such may
be the treatment for the first day or
two in marked attack of this nature
then for few days half lemon in
water will be enough at one time.
Thereafter one or two oranges each day
will have the milder effect desired.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
The Fish She Wanted.

A lady entered south end fish mar
ket and asked for two pounds of head
acke. She meant paddock, but she pro-
nounced the word wrong. While there
she said that the fish in this country
contained more bones than those in the
oid country. This may be considered
"hsh story, but it ism New Bed
ford Journal
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
Power and Fashion.

There exists strict relation between
'ne class OF power and the exclusive and
poiished circles. The last are always
nlied or filing from the first. Fashion.
tnough IN strange way. represents ali
manly virtue. 1t is virtue gone to seed,
KIND OF posthumous honor, a hall al
the past. Great men are not commonly
IN Its halls. They are absent in the
heids They are working, not triumph
Ing. Fashion is made up Of their chill.
iren. Emerson.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
LIBERALIZATION il Bad.

Professor Hilgard, speaking on irri-
cation, at the meeting of the State Hor-
ticultural Society at Sacramento said,
that i'll his opinion, much water made
the fruit aciduous and of poor quality
and also if there was too little water
the fruit would be dry and small.
Too much irrigation should be avoided
in California, for if the ground was
soaked all the season, the roots would
run near the surface and a drought
would be likely to kill the tree. Irri-
CATION has much to do with the flavor
of the fruit and fruit men should study
the nature of the soil and irrigate ac.
cordingly. Irrigation should be stopped
as soon as the fruit was fully formed,
as the tree needs rest.
Further if the water is too cold it
kills the trees and should be sufficiently
warm to insure no damage.
A. b. Stevens differed with Prof.
Hilgard as to the irrigation of trees
after the fruit was formed, and de.
clared that he had had good results
from flooding his vineyard when half
the fruit had been harvested. This
may perhaps be accounted
for i'll the vast difference that NAV
have existed in the nature of. the soil.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
Bonanza in Dew Berries,

y G. H. White, formerly we'll known
fruit dealer in the center of Los An.
geles has been experimenting upon
what can be done ON Boyle Heights
land in the way of raising dew berries.
He planted one lot 50x150 feet with
New Orleans dew berries. He has his
vines all trailed up and they are now
bearing a magnificent crop. He picks
the ripe berries twice week. Already
he has gotten $97 worth off of the lot
and he thinks he will get about $50
more. At one picking last week he
got SIS. 80 worth and later he got at
another picking worth $1,000. The
land he is using is one.fifth of an acre.
He has an entire acre and he will
plant all of it to these vines, which
he says will yield between $500 and
5000 worth of fruit per acre.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11

"Step this way. please, ladies, " said
the gracious shopwalker at large dra-
perry emporium as he led off with a ma
jestic wave Of the hand.
I'VE are sorry" returned one of the
fair customers demurely. "but we
haven't really learned to step that way. I"
But We'll try. put in another. And
they all did, initiating that naughty
shopwalker till he wished he had never
been born. London Answers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11

A deed signed by Ballington Booth
OF Montclair, New Jersey, and Maud
Booth, his wife, to Frederick de Latour
th-Tucker, was filed with the re.
corder of Santa Barbara county. 1t
covers Salvation Army barracks donated
to the army.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
Notes.

The Southern California Pathological
society will meet next November at
Glendora. The new president is G. G..
Thompson, with d. f. Smith, secre-
tary.
In the chicken department of the
California Fruit Grower it is stated
that "one of the best and cheapest pre-
ventives of chicken lice is a big heap of
wood ashes in one corner of the hen
yard Fresh ashes should be added to
the pile occasionally"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11

Secretary Thayer of the Santa Clara
Valley Railroad Company, says that
the last obstacle to the commencement
of active operations on the proposed
railroad from this city to Alviso have
been removed. The road will be nine
miles long, connecting San Jose with
line of steamers and sailing vessels,
which will sail from point ON Alviso
slough to all inland cities in the State
situated on navigable streams.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11

First Lieutenant Charles Gatewoad,
Sixth United States Cavalry, died AZ
Fortress Monroe, Va, lately. Lieu
tenant Gatewood was Virginian, and
graduated from West Point in 1873.
In several Indian campaigns he proved
his bravery. One of his notable ex.
ploits was making secret visit to
Geronimo's camp and escaping unin-
jured.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11

Over 400 patents have been taken out
in England for the manufacture of paper
and more than 500 in this country.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
THE FRUIT OUTLOOK.
A Report on the Condition of Our
DeciduouS Fruits.
THE LATEST FROST PREVENTATIVE.
Do Not oVer-Irrigate-New Rules for
Fertillzing-Fumigating Oranges
News Notes.

The weather since the LIST of May
has had tendency to hold the fruit
back, " says Mr.. Salisbury, ''of Porter
Bros. e. Co., land what at first prom
ised to be an early season has turned
out to be late one. Rain and frost
have interfered undoubtedly with the
cherry crop, and shipments of that
fruit will be light
Il have been well over the early
producing section of the State,
and | find that early shipping varieties
in the foothills and the highlands are
equal i'll quantity to previous seasons.
But apricots and early peaches i'll the
valley lands have in many places been
damaged by frost.
The first crop of grapes i'll the
vicinity of Vacaville and other early
sections has been badly injured, and
aside from the American river district
and the Natoma and Florin sections
the shipments of table grapes will be
light The Sacramento river section
gives promise of good crop of Bart
lett pears and of plums fair crop.
Early peaches will be light in all Sec
tions.
From my own observation and
from information obtained from many
sections l feel confident that fruit will
drop from the trees in considerable
quantity, on account of extreme
weather during April. While fruit
now ripening ON the trees does not
show the effect of frost, still very hot
weather or an abundance of rain would
cause much of it to fall to the ground.
Bartlett pears are, in some sections,
dropping badly, and the peach crop, l
believe, has been injured to an extent
that warrants the statement that what
promised in Arpil to be the largest
fruit crop California has ever produced
will not amount to more than go per
cent of full crop, outside of Bartlett
pears and, perhaps, French prunes in
Santa Clara valley, of which there will
probably be a good full crop.
THE present indications are that the
Eastern crop of fruit will be good,
especially as regards peaches. "
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11

The Hotel Green at Pasadena has for
the season closed, This marks the end
of the tourist season in Pasadena.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
Citrus Fumigaticn.

AT the spring meeting of the Pomo.
logical Society the fact was strongly
that it was folly to depend
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
TAXING COFFEE LANDS.
American Investors Will Fare
Badly.

Washington, Aug I'm a
communication dated Veracruz,
Mex, July 10th. Mr.. Charles
Schaefer consul at that place,
informs the department Of
the state that during its last
session the Legislature of Vera
cruz placed a tax of six cents
per 100 square metres on lands
planted with coffee and five on
a similar area of land planted
in tobacco. The law goes into
effect next,December. This tax
Will be detrimental to numbers
of Americans who are engaged
or expect to engage in coffee
planting. If a man were to be-
gin planting coffee at this time
be would, says the consul, un-
der favorable circumstances at
the end Of the fourth year real
ize 500 per acre as against an
outlay of about s94 80 includ.
ing the price of land but not
interest on outlay.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
CUBAN BATTLES.

Madrid, Aug. 1.-The Rodri-
guez column Spanish troops it
is announced has defeated the
Cuban insurgents under Arbo-
lay in Cierfuegos district, prov
ince of Santa Clara. krbolay
and AZ of his followers killed
and many wounded.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
ASK the recovered
The Cheapest. Purest ard Rest Family
hiedicine I'm the World

For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaun-
dice Bilious attacks. SICK HEADACHE, Cole,
Depression of Spirits SOUR STOMACH.
Heartburn, etc. This unrivalled remedy IS
warranted not 10 contain single particle of
MERCURY, or any mineral substance, but is
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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

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which an all-vise Providence has placed in
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IL will cure alt Diseases caused by Deranse-
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The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a
bitter or bad taste in the mouth; Pain in the
Back, Sides or Joints often mistaken for I<heu-
matism; Sour Stomach; Loss of Appetite;
Bowels alternately ccstiye and lax; Headache;
Loss of Memory, with painful sensation of
having failed 20 do something which ought to
have been done; Debility; Low Spirits, thick
yellow appearance Of tile Skin and Eyes, a dry
Cough often mistaken for Consumption.
Sometimes many Of these symptoms attend
the disease, AT others very few; but the LIVER
is generally the scat Of the disease, and If not
Regulated in time, great suffering, wretched-
ness and DEATH viii ensue.
The following highly esteemed persons attest
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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
REDUCED RATES ON CORN.

Washington, Aug. Com
sui general Crittenden of Mex.
leo has informed the state de.
partment that for August the
import duty on corn into Mex
leo viii be one dollar per cargo
of 800 bushels, a reduction of
Acc on the cargo.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
GOV. GENERAL
OF CANADA.


Toronto. Ont, Aug. IA
dispatch to the World from
Montreal states that Sir Charles
Upper will succeed Lord
q berdeen as governor general
of Canada.
Jos Chamberlain, the dis
patch says, is urging the claims
of Canada as late Premier for
the position and Lord Sails
bury is considering the matter.
The report is discredited
here.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
IRRIGATION ENTERPRISE.

following data concerning the
irrigation enterprise in Runnels
county: GA survey of the river
and the land proposed to be
irrigated has been made and
the scheme proved entirely
practicable. It is proposed to
build a dam on the Colorado
river about twenty-five miles
above Ballinger, near the line
of Runnels and Coke counties.
The reservoir thus made will
extend up the river about six
miles, over about 1000 acres of
land, and will maintain a ditch
100 feet wide and four feet
deep, running continuously for
three months. Two bitches will
be dug, each fifty feet wide
and four feet deep, and one
running parallel to the river on
each side for twenty-five miles
that is one ditch on each
side. This will furnish all the
water needed, the land reached
by these bitches is very fertile,
and will yield immense crops
of all kinds. The people here
have not been asked to donate
anything to secure it, however
they will give the land for the
reservoir and right-of way for
the bitches. There is nothing
which can interfere with the
plans, now, as the capitalists
who have been figuring on it
have promised to put up all
the money necessary for the
enterprise. The names of the
parties who have been most in
strumental in working mp the
scheme are Hon. j. w. Powell,
G. S. Miller, Esq, and Mr.. J.
j. Erwin. The capitalists in
terested ale Englishmen."
The advantages of such
gigantic irrigation scheme are
almost past computation. To
carry all the plans into eXecu
ton would require the steady
employment of several hundred
of men for the term of two
years. The scheme completed
would add considerable 10 the
taxable values of Runnels and
a ljoining counties. Land which
is sold at 50 per acre would
command a price proba bly,
twenty times or more than this
amount. 1t would cause add
itional transportation enterpri'
ses TO come into eXistence-as
railroads, etc. The increase of
population would be immense,
besides similar schemes by
others being called into eXis-
tence. The citizens of Runnels
and Coke counties cannot be
grateful enough to the promot-
ers of this enterprise, who de-
serve the good will not only of
those interested but also of the
communities at large Greater
Texas.
AMERICAN PILGRIMS IN
ROME.
r.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
| SUMNER EXCURSION
TGR3g TABLE
.-OF THE
Rio CTande R. R.
From aud after June 18th, 1896
regular passenger train will
run as follows:
Passenger Train between Browns
vile and Point Isabel in effect
on and after June IS.
REGULAR TRAIN.
Leaves Brownsville DAILY at 5p. NJ :.
Point Isabel u 30 am
Arrives /. - 6.l5 pm.
:, Brownsville % DO am
REGULAR TRAIN.
EXCURSION TRAINS.

EXCURSION TRAINS.
1--we Byille every Saturday at 5.p. m.
i, Sunday - ga. m !.
), Pt.Isabel y ;, 4.p. IN.
Excursion tickets are good until Mon
day mornings train,
e Communication cards, good for thirty
first class, round strips transferable
to members of ones family good unit
September both 1896, will be sold for
S25. 90 Mexican coin,
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
SOUTHWARK Hol

population that the world is to
witness will be southwark. The
conditions are now all favor
able. 1t has required a quarter
of a century since the war to
bring about the changes that
were necessary to make the
south a thoroughly attractive
country to the northern and
Western farmers. ALI the ques-
tons relating to possible race
troubles had to be settled; the
prejudices engendered on both
sides by the war had to die out,
and the fact that the South
could produce other things than
cotton had to be demonstrated.
The construction, after the war,
of railroads through the West
and Northwest by the aid of
enormous land grants made it
absolutely necessary that these
roads, controlled, as they were,
by the leading financial powers
of Europe and America, should
bend their energies aud unite
| the influences of all the fnan-
cial forces concentrated in them
to turn population westward.
The South was in no condition
to invite immigration, even if
it had been in its power 10 &C
compIish anything against such
combination of forces as were
at work in behalf of the West.
But a great change has come
and all the disadvantages I'M
der which the South has labor
ed are being removed. During
the last five or ten years there
have settled here and there all
over the South a few Northern
and Western farmers, whose
great success is now being
made known to all their friends
in their former homes. This is
awakening direct interest in
the South in all parts of the
West-an interest such as
could be aroused in no other
way.
From every section of the
North, the West, and North
west, aud even from California,
requests for information ABOUT
the South and its advantages
for settlers are being received.
Items of news from several
thousand Southern towns and
villages from Maryland to Tex
as pass before the writer every
day. The most striking feature
this mass of news-so pro-
nounced that it would impress
itself upon the most casual
reader-is the number of set
Tiers reported from day to day
as locating in the South.
This is entirely a new thing.
A year ago items of this kind
were rare. Now every issue Of
every Southern paper has some
thing in it about immigration
matters and the incoming of
new people, and even now
thousands of Western and
Northern farmers are settling
in the South-From the Chau-
tauquan for March.