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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
THREE UNDER ARREST.
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covered the engineer and fireman. ordering
them out of their cab. and Anderson,
ana ..Chilcs.' stood guard over them while
he and Kennedy entered the express ear.
They first mad EXpressman Frier alight
and later made him get back into his car.
when they placed dynamite on the safe and
took his keys away from him. Kennedy
had previously attempted To bore the safe
door through. but. finding this was going
to take too long = time they gave II up
land turned their attention 10 the local
safe. which they opened with key. FlEnn
says he and Kennedy robbed the safe, put
ling the pluud-r into Il sack.
The engine and express car ana special
baggage car of the Black Crook opera
company, which was between the engine
and the express car had previously been
detached trom the train and taken several
miles down the road toward Glendale leav-
iGr Engineer Melton and Fireman Post
behind. Kennedy had managed the engine
and they 1~u Very fast. After the express
safe VS. successfully looted. the engine
VS. cui OF from the express and special
cars and ran short distance 10 a road
crossing. where 'AHdersou" and "Chiles'
got OIL and Disappeared Kennedy and
Flynn remained with the engine until the
brow Of the iill Just west of Glendale WIS
reached when they deserted il and Ken
nedy pulled the throttle wide upon and let
th" engine run down the steep incline. il
passing Glendale station at terrific speed.
awakening cut Of his Slumbers. Agent
Walker. who thought the beated ST. Louis
was making up for lost time SO fast did
the engine DaSs
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

fore write to Nj
Piukham, at I.yu
Mass, aS she has
ever proved !
their most aC- NJ
curate adviser, "
and knowing
that their L
letters will be rea
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
Fruit transportation.

The announcement that the Southern
Pacific Company has made arrange
ments for establishing a fast service
for fruit trains from Sacramento to
Chicago, New York. Boston and all
the principal shipping centers of the
East, will be in the highest degree
gratifying not only TO our fruit shippers,
but to the people of California gener-
ally, says the S. F. Call. The imprc We
ment is likely to be of immense bene-
fit to the State i'll many ways, and it
is to be hoped the experiment will
prove SO successful as to lead to further
improvements in the same direction
hereafter. The object of the scheme
as announced is to ship fruit from
Sacramento between a. IN. and mid
night and land 1t in Chicago within
about 1875 hours, so that it will arrive
there at 3 a. M, or in New York at
the same hour day later, thus enab-
ling auctioneers to get it unloaded and
catalogued ready for sale on the day of
arrival. This will mean an immense
gain in the value of the fruit, and will
result IN securing for our shippers
much better prices than they have OBJ.
tanned lately.
Reports from all parts of the State
show that there is now every prospect
of good fruit crop, and as those in
the East seem to have been largely
damaged by frost the chances are
that the demand in the Eastern market
for our products of this kind will be
exceptionally good. The improved
schedule of freight service is therefore
a most opportune one, both for the Cal
ifornia shipper and for the Eastern con-
sumner. 1t offers to us an opportunity
to make larger figure than ever in
the Eastern fruit market and to obtain
there advantages which it will be our
own fault if we do not make perma-
nent.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Helpful Suggestions For the
Agriculturists.
HINTS THAT ARE INTERESTING.
Some Coed Advice for the Ruralists-a
Budget Of knowledge ThatMay
Prove Beneficial.
Outlook for Prunes.

The prune market is firm, but
prices remain low. considering the light
supply on hand, says the California
Fruit Grower. Very few prunes re-
main in growers hands unsold, but
the lack of demand prevent holders
from moving their fruit at profit.
The heavy buying during the past two
weeks by spectators has concentrated
stocks and caused prices to harden,
while the present light consuinptive
demand is gradually cleaning up the
market. Our advices from Eastern
points indicate a quiet movement with
light stocks. The bloom and set of
fruit indicated an enormous crop of
small sized prunes, but nature has as
serted hers elf and the overburdened
trees are being relieved of a portion
of their load. The drop in some sec.
tions is heavy and growers are alarmed
for fear the thinning byssnature's hand
wall result in materially reducing the
crop. 1t is too early to say what the
crop will be, but without doubt there
will be few prunes left on the trees
after the drop is over. Our reports
are conflicting but reach us from the
largest producing sections, including
Sonoma, Solano and Alameda counties
and the Santa Clara and San joaquin
valleys.
There is drop" every year, but
growers report it heavier than usual
this year. Some sections report a very
light crop of the young trees. Last
season there was light crop consider
ing the number of trees in bearing,
but yet we had enough prunes to go
around and the price ten days ago
reached the lowest point in the history
of this industry. The Santa Clara
valley last season produced less than
half a crop. The shipments from san
Jose for the week ending May l were
400, $40 pounds, and for the season 3D.
100, 3l0 pounds. These figures represent
the overland movement only. Hence
it is safe to place the total yield of
that valley for, season of 1896 at up
wards of 40, 900. 900 pounds. Should
the drop turn out as bad as some pre-
dict and only half crop be harvested,
we will have $4,000, 900 to 10000, 900
pounds to market, which under pres
emit condit lions will prove ample for
all requirements.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

Very near the ideal farm, the farm
OF the future, 10 one described in an
Official report to the State Departments
by United States Consul Mutb at
Madgeburg. This is probably the most
perfect illustration of the advantages
OF the liberal use of electricity in farm
ing operations, and because of the
highly successful workings of the cleo
trio system the Consul has ever seen
NJ to include in his report many de-
tails OF the character of the plant, the
first cost, operating expenses, and COM
paratlVe economy over the use of steam
power. The particular farm de.
soribed is located in Mecklenburg, and
small brook furnished all of the
power needed to run the farmers
dynamos, which in turn drive all of
his farm machinery, pump his water.
and light his house and outbuildings.
Every operation for which steam or
horse power was formerly used is now
performed as well or better by this
electric plant, which has also the ad-
vantage of being always ready for
any call upon it. The brook is
damned, and with six foot fall drives
an eighteen horsepower turbine, the
prime mover in the curcuit of ma.
chinery.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
Grape Fruit.

Writing of the desirable varieties of
grapefruit. c. B. Hewitt writes:
Marsh's seedless variety, as we'll as the
Leonardy, which has seeds, but is of
a very fine texture and flavor, having
a very thin smooth rind, will certainly
take the lead with grape fruit, as the
navel does with the orange.
have planted several hundred of
these two varieties some four years
ago, having cut the buds from the old
original trees in Florida and budded
the stock myself and in that way OBJ
tanned that which was true to name.
| spent several winters travelling over
the State of Florida looking up the
grape fruit, and know what | am talk
ing about when l say that thsee two
varis ties mentioned are bound to take
the lead over all others.
The Aurantum, or sweet rind. is of
an extremely fine flavor, but being
crossed between the orange and the
grape fruit, has none of the medicinal
qualities of the other varieties, while
the seedless and Leonardy are not of
an extremely bitter, they have enough
III the rind and lining to tone up the
pulp, and enough for all medicinal
purposes, at the same time have a
better flavor than any of the other
varieties have ever tasted.
The seedless will be apt to take the
lead ON account of its being free from
seeds, although the Leonardy has
little the better flavor.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

Exhaustive experiments conducted
by the Department Of Agriculture show
the necessity of cross pollination in
most orchards. The net results of
long. careful aid costly experiments
by the department are summed up in
the following practical conclusions;
/. Plant mixed orchards, or at
least avoid planting solid blocks of one
variety. 1t is not desirable to have
more than three or four rows of one
variety together, unless experience has
shown it to be perfectly self-fertile.
2. Where large blocks of trees of
one variety which blossomed well have
failed to fruit for series of wears
without any apparent reason, it is ex.
ceedingly probable that the failure is
due to lack of -polllnation. The
remedy is to graft in other varieties
and supply foreign pollon. '
.. Be sure that there are sufficient
bees in the neighborhood, of within
two or three miles, to properly visit
the blossoms. When feasible. en-.
deavor to favor insect visits to the
blossoms by sheltered situations, or
by planting windbreaks.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

A. A. Marshal & Co.. New York wine
de lers, and the directors Of the Cali
fornia Wine makers Corporation. the
sale Of the bulk Of all California wines
made last year has been effected. IL
is understood that the New York COM
pany and California dealers friendly
to the corporation agreed to take p
500, GOO gallons Of wine, with the
opti,l Of 900, 900 additional. The
average price agreed on is IS cents a
gallon. According 70 gossip, this
agreement is not likely to cause any
cessation of hostilities between the
California Winemakers' Corporations,
composed of the wine-maksTs Of the
State. and the California Wine Asso-
citation composed Of the dealers, which
have been in progress for nearly two
years.
As soon as the Valley Railroad is
extended to Hanford so that trains can
be run that far il is the expe station
that there will be big improvement
in the passenger service principally in
the time made on the run between
Stockton and Fresno. Now the train
leaves there each morning at 1920
o'clock and reaches Fresno at 1870.
1t starts back in an hour and twenty
minutes. or at 1910, and reaches Stock.
ton at $40 in the evening. The pro-
posed schedule will start the train
from Stockton at o'clock and land
it at Fresno at 1880, cutting Just an
hour off the running time of the train.
There will be a lay-over of three hours
at the ralsin center, and the train will
start back at $50. reaching there at
about $3.50.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
Cross Pollination.


Experiments have shown that apples
are more inclined to be self.sterile than
peas, in most cases no fruit at all re-
sulting from -pollination. Amongst
other conclusions arrived at, it was
found that the impotency of the pollen
is not due to any deficiency of its own,
but to lack of affinity between the
pollen and the ovules of the same
variety. The pollen of two varieties
may be absolutely self.sterile and at
the same time perfectly cross fertile.
The state of nutrition of the tree and
its general environment affects its
ability to set fruit either with its own
pollen or with that of another tree.
Bad weather during Towering time
has decidedly injurious influence Oh
fruitage by keeping away insect visi.
tors and also by affecting the fecunda-
ton OF the owners; conversely, fine
weather favors cross.pollination and
the settling of fruit.
1t is suggested, in view of all this.
that solid blocks of trees of any one
variety should not be planted, or, if
they are, then an occasional row
should be grated over to some such
variety as here indicated, or such AS
observation or experience has shown
to be able to fertilize the variety it is
desired to cultivate. Every fourth or
NTH row should be of such cross.polli-
mating variety. Bees are of assistance
as pollen carrying agents, and it is
also an advantage to have windbreaks
where an orchard is much exposed. to
encourage the visits of insects.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

agent of the Southern Pacific Cor,
pany, who is in receipts of advice
from the East which indicate thu,
frosts have destroyed 80 per cent ~
the Georgia peach and berry crop. 30
per cent of the Delaware crop and
about two-thirds of the Maryland cron
Additional items are that, while esna.
cial stress is laid on the injury 60 peacb
orchards, all summer fruits have
suffered alike. Early berry blossoms
especially strawberries, are entirelv
destroyed. All early vegetables in
the zone of the free were cut down. lint
many will come up again or be re.
placed with later varieties. IL ia
stated that the Michigan fruit regions
are all right, but their product, in the
face of the other losses, will do but
little to reduce the vast fruit shortage
at the East.
OF course the fisrt deduction is that
unusually large quantities of California
fruits will be called for this year and
that prices are likely to be again as
profitable as they were seven years ago.
OF the California crop it may be safely
said that it is not likely to be SO large
as was anticipated in the mid-winter.
The spring weather has not been favor
able. We, too, have had frosts, and
other conditions have thinned out the
crop. Care should be taken that the
California crop is not overestimated.
Reports are that serious dropping is
going ON in all regions. We shall
probably have good lot of fruit, but
according to present indications, both
east and west, we shall not have any
more than will be wanted at good
prices.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

The tremendous buildings for the
new beet sugar factory at Alamitos,
about thirty miles from Los Angeles.
near Long Beach. are about completed
and the placing of machinery has been
commenced. Fully 2,50O acres with
large crop of beets will be ready for
the opening of work at the factory.
which. it is expected. will be some
time within the first two weeks of
July: W. A. Clark and ]. r. Clark
are the largest stockholders, and have
made radical departure in equippine
the big factory.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
Eastern Fruit Crnna

All fruit circles East and West are
discussing the serious inroads made BY
frost into orchard prospects in the
Eastern and Southern States, says the
Rural Press. There are host of state.
ments on the subject. bat no exception
made to the reports of injury; it is
only question of how sweeping the
damage really is. Probably no account
Is more Ineligible than that author.
ised by G. F. Smurr, general freight
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
]. N. Rodenburg has presented the

j. N. Rodenburg has presented the
Antiquarian Society with a historical
arrow point. It is one which in 1871
caused the death of Theodore Putt,
about four miles northeast of Prescott.
Putt was sheep herder. and was
killed by Indians. In preparing the
body for burial this arrow, which caused
his death, was taken from his body
and has been carefully preserved ever
since until Rodenburg turned it over to
DIR. Miller for the Antiquarian Society.
The arrow is made from a beautiful
pink colored stone.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

In the suit which was brought by the
united States against the Bell Tele-
phone Company for the multiplying Of
tne last Berliner patent, Justice Brew
or OF the Supreme Court, rendered a
aecision on May 10 in favor of the
Telephone Company. which virtually
gives it control of the art of telephon-
ing until the year 1908. The snit has
attracted wide attention. because Of
the extensive interests involved.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

The Holland submarine torpedo boat
has been launched at the Crescent
shipyards in Elizabethtown, N. J..
The construction of the boat has been
eagerly watched all over the country.
The boat is cylindrical in shape, is
tifty-three feet three inches long, with
a four.foot screw amidships and the
nodded diameter is the same The
boat can travel under water eight
knots an hour for eight hours. and ten
knots an hour on the surface. The
power comes from a gasoline engine
and a dynamo, the former to be used
when the boat is sailing along the sur
face. and the latter when she is sub.
merged. 1t will take less than min
ute to submerge the boat, and about the
same length of time for her to rise to
the surface. The.armament consists of
three torpedo tubes. which will dis.
charge high explosives. Six men will
constitute the crew. Several foreign
nations have bid for thessvessel. but it
is likely that Mr.. Holland will sell her
to the United States. John P. Hol.
land is the inventor of the boat.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

1t is thought there will be no
further damage done by the overflow
OF the Mississippi River. The losses
in Louisiana are estimated at 81, $780,.
900; in Mississippi at IS, 500, 900, and
III Arkansas at $4.250, 900. or total
of S14,500.000 not as serious loss
as in many previous years of overflow,
when the river was not nearly as high
as it is now.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

The beet-seed supply of the depart.
ment OF agriculture is exhausted.
About 10000 pounds have been dis.
tributed.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

Interest in Arizona mines is grow
ing in the East. The Phoenix papers
report daily inquiries concerning prop
critics in the territory.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

The Sayre Institute, at Lexington,
KY, famous educational institution,
has been wrecked by fire.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

Indiana farmers are preparing to send
a trainload of corn to New Yorh for
shipment to famine-stricken India.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03

A crockery firm and a wool commits
sion firm failed in Boston in one day,
, 1897-03-13

edited by Mrs. e. S. Boyd.)


The citizens OF Fort Collins, Col. are
to vote simply for or against license at
their election this spring. Wish the
citizens of Laramie could rise % that
common sense platform for the good OF
the community. There is nothing else
they can do that would add so much to
the prosperity OF our city. to the build
ing up of our schools, as closing the
saloons.
doing this, but the men have had the
ballot quite as long and are in the ma.
jority, so we cann0t understand why
we are alone TO blame.
Mrs. Louisa Yokum, superintendent
Of schools Tor Dolores county, Colo, has
refused a certificate to Prof. Victor Nc
Giss, principal of the Rico public school.
because he smokes. She takes the
ground that a teacher who uses tobacco
is disqualified to teach in Colorado be-
cause a~nti-tobaccO instruction is re-
quired in the public schools of the state.
She says she does not wish to discrimi-
nate between the sexes and she certainly
could not give a certificate to u woman
who smoked. Why then to a man!
But the school board has ordered hal
he be given a certificate.
Mrs. j. X. Barney, our eighth round
the world missionary, has started. She
sam, f~~ .--.
, 1897-03-13

because they. TOO. knew X that position
was surrendered it would be a sorry
uay for Us. ! was in sore need Of b9Il
men and ammunition, bul to send II man
10 The command was almost sure death.
We were not in communication viii
idea how IL was faring.
Finally our situation became drsper-
ale: something had to be done At once
L We hoped L. live many minutes long
er. Just as | had decided to send a mes
senger to Colonel Benteen Private Me
DermOtt spoke to me and asked II |
would like him 10 carry a message 10
The colonel. | hastily pointed ont The
danger Of his going. but he again ex-
pressed his Willingness to go. So he
carried my message to Colonel Benteen
that | must have men and ammunition
at once. McDermott miraculously got
there and back without a scratch. He
said the colonel would be here mmp,
diately with reinfOrcements. He did
not arrive at once and McDermo,t nsk-
ed me if he should go back. ! replied.
NO." that if Colonel Benteen said he
would come he certainly would. Sure
enough he soon arrived with about 10
or II men. Considering The smallncss
OF the command and the losses il had
sustained, II was quite a large number.
TIL Il on \DrE MN rrIrI, nT-u-nr - . ~
Benteen took in the situation at once
and said we must charge them. This
we did and it resulted moi only disas>
trOusly TO them, bur surprised them. so
that they gave us a wide berth after it.
Subsequently Colonel Benteen con-
WINGED Major Reno that ours was the
position to defend, SO we got more
troops up there and some spades and
picks, and 500 threw up very respect
able earthworks. This strengthened
our position immensely, and, after
fighting us until dark. the Indians with
all their belongings withdrew and left
us in possession of the field.
This they did for two reasons; they
had had pretty hard fighting, had lost
heavily, and their INNER had discOv-
cred General Terry's command up
preaching in the distance. About s
O'Clock on the morning Of the eth Ter
rvs command was in sight. and from
it we heard Of the fate of Custer and
his men. . They, it turned out, had per-
ished in less than half an hour after
they became engaged, and the dead
bodies of our comrades were lying
about two miles from us. Thus the bat
tie of the Little Big Horn ended.
1t carried many of our comrades, whom
we loved with almost a brothers affec.
ton, to the happy hunting ground"
and may their souls be at rest.
Colonel Reno is now dead. but | do
not think | do any violence to his MEM
CRY by stating most emphatically that
had it not been for Benteen's perfect
GOODNESS and surprising judgment We
all would have ended our careers there.
These are some OF the events that oc-
Cured from the day we left the mouth
of the Rosebud. on June ., 1876, until
the close OF the battle of the Little Big
Horn, on June &c. 1876, as |. after 20
years, remember them. There may be
some inaccuracies. but, if so, | am not
conscious of them.
f. NJ. GIBSON, Capt. T.. S. A.
Captain Gibson was appointed second
lieutenant in the Seventh cavalry in
October, 1867. was made first lieutenant
IN July II, 1871, and captain on Feb
ruary 5. 1880. He retired from the SER
vice on DeceYber 3, 1891, on account OF
physical disability.
, 1897-03-13

Our relief committee has had 1876 gar
ments donated and hns given out 1872.
The reading room needs a few more
wants 10 know what we are doing. We
are clothing the naked and keeping a
comfortable place for boys. who have
be out of the way Of harm.
, 1897-03-13

TO CURE \ COLD N ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo QuInine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II 1t
fails TO cure. Zoe.
, 1897-03-13
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