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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
NEWS NOTES.

Seven persons were fatally poisoned
recently in Galloway county, Ken
lucky, by eating poisoned melon
stolen from neighbours melon patch.
Residents of Wheeling, Vest Vir-
ginia, have recently presented the gun
boat Wheeling, now completed at San
Francisco, with an elegant silver and
crystal service.
A special to the Denver, Colorado.
Times from Washington says: There
is just now large demand upon the
Treasury Department for small coins
to assist in the movement of crops.
The National Executive Board of
the United Mine Workers have agreed
to recommend to the miners propo-
sition of the mine operators at Pitts
burg to pay sixty five cents ton until
the end Of the year.
The Treasury Department has con-
cluded that it cannot legally enforce
the provisions of the Dingley tariff
law forbidding the insertion of pri re
coupons and other gift devices in pack
ages. of cigarettes and smoking tobacco,
A proposition has been made to OBJ
tain from the Federal Government the
collection of Grant relics presented to
the National Museum in New York by
Mrs. Grant and deposit them in the
large room in the northeast corner of
the 1nauaolaun
In some of the mining districts of
the eastern States the strike is prac-
tically ended. The plan now is for
the miners to return to work at the
rate of Ga cents per ton, and continue
at work during the time that the set
Element by arbitration is pending.
A Wichita, Kansas, man has in
vented an appliance which he says is to
be attached to brooms used in hos.
pitfalls. 1t is a tank to hold disinSec-
tants, and is so arranged that the
stroke of the broom feeds the liquid to
the straws, distributing it regularly
as the broom is drawn over the floor.
The Bank of Durand at Rocksford,
ILL.,, has closed its doors. and Charles
A. Norton, cashier and general man.
ager of the institution, has disap.
peared He is said to have forged the
names of prominent farmers to twenty
seven notes for various amounts. The
bank had deposits amounting to about
$50, 900.
Charles w. Caryl, prominent min.
ing man of Denver. Col, proposes to
present to the miners meeting in Chi
cago the latter part Of the present
month scheme for the solution of the
labor problem. Mr.. Caryl proposes
to incorporate company with CAPT.
tai of 10000, 900, which is to engage
in all kinds of productive industry
Stock is to be sold at par and money il
also to be raised by the sale of bonds,
due in twenty years. bearing pei
cent interest and payable in gold.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
SKAGUAY.
Despairing Gold Seekers Turn
Back From the Trail.
EXODUS BEGINS IN REAL EARNEST.
Ninety Per Cent OF the Argonauts Give
Up the Attempt to Reach Dawson
The KIOndIke a Burst Bubble.

Juneau, Alaska by steamship George
E. Starr TO oeattlel. - The much
Wanted Skaguay is busted COM
munity. Her glory as the gate to the
Klondike has tumbled to earth even as
the columns of Carthage and Rome
have fallen. Even hope has left the
city of tents. and despair. which has
lowered with wild eyes over the scene
for weeks, has taken possession.
An exodus from Skagusy has begun.
The Klondikers are fiocking in all
directions. The steamship George Z.
Starr. now lying here for half hour
taking in water, is crowded with re-
turning Klondikers. Before she left
Skaguay notices reading, Excursion
rate of $40 to Seattle by this Ship"
were posted on her sides and ON Broad
way and other conspicuous thorough
fares. This is just half the regular
rate from the head of Lynn Canal to
Puget Sound. This was the kind of a
chance that the disappointed Klondik-
ers had been waiting for, and they
flocked aboard the Starr and turned
their faces toward homeward. The
Starr got most of the passengers booked
for the steamship Willamette at $50
head. The Willamette met the Starts
cut and will leave Skaguay, returning
by way of Sitka.
Steamships which have been busy
all season and loaded to the gunwales
with Klondikers are now busy carry
ing them back again. The Starr came
in here with the passengers shouting
from the decks with evident satisfac.
ton: The bottom has fallen out of
Skaguay. She is a busted town."
Others are tiocking to Dyea and will
make plunge TO get over the Chilcoot
Pass.
They have realized the availability
of the Dyea trail too late. They can
not possibly get their outfits over and
build boats at the lakes before the sea-
son closes. Only the men who have
money are swarming from Skaguay to
Dyea. Hundreds are stranded at Ska
quay without dollar, unable to leave
the place and unable to get to the
Klondike. Many of the men have
mortgaged their all or spent all the
money they could raise to find the
land of gold, still as far away as when
they left home. Many a strong man,
finding himself in that position, has
been moved to tears. Some have gone
back from the trail and wept in silence
and alone; others did not attempt to
hide their bitter disappointment. but
wept on the highway.
All the small steamers running from
the head of Lynn canal to juneau are
crowded with men looking for board
and lodging for the winter. The first
, corners will be successful, but the
others cannot find accommodations
here. An outfit of two tons of sup.
plies on the summit of White Pass,
which cost with the packing added
$3.50, was sold for $780, Representa-
tives of Juneau merchants, of salmon
canneries and of stamp mills working
quartz in Southeastern Alaska.are buy.
} ing up this stuff at from to &c
cents on the dollar Thousands OF
men on the trail are trying to sell theil
| outfits for any price they can get in
} order to raise money to return home
for the winter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
NEW STRIKE NEAR DAWSON.
Bonanza Discovery Made by Miners el
sulphur Creek.

Bonanza Discovery Made by Miners ON
sulphur Creek.
Seattle. Wash. John E. Light of
Chicago, who arrived here yesterday
from st. Michael on the steamer South
Coast, reports that on the evening Of
his departure from Dawson rich
strike was made on Sulphur Creek and
that it promised to prove veritable
bonanza. Sulphur Greek is tributary
to Dominion Greek and Indian River
and is in the very center of the gold
fields.
The first prospectors and locators did
exceedingly we'll and as high as $S4 to
the pan was taken out. The first pros
pect-holes proved very rich and some
OF the original locators more than
earned wages while conducting simple
prospect work. The news of the strike
came to Dawson about the middle of
August and there was an immediate
rush to the creek. A large number of
claims had been located when Light
left Dawson. Light expresses the
opinion that the creek will prove one
OF the richest in the district and add to
the millions that it will produce this
win ter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

lection Of what is called the mercan-
tile system. A result Of its adoption
will be a reduction Of premiums and
a general readjustment of rates.
The Duarte- Monrovia Fruit Ex.
change this year shipped 52.460 boxes
of oranges. receiving therefor $75, ss3-
.3S net cash paid to growers, $50, 1872
SO. The cost Of handling the fruit
was reduced / 4 cents per box. The
exchange also handled 1873 tons of april
cots for its members, paying, after de-
Quoting all expenses, 1913 per ton.
Foreclosure proceedings are under
way against the Redondo Beach proper.
ty, involving the largest foreclosure
ever effected in Los Angeles, except
the old cable railway. The amount
asked is over 5000, 900. Judge Lamme
and E. E. Milliken are attorneys for
the plaintiffs, and E. K Blades, attor-
ney, in the Stowell Block, is the com.
missioner appointed by the court to sell
the property.
The forest fires which started on the
Brown ranch in the upper Carmel val
ley. near Monterey, about two weeks
ago, and which has ragged constantly
since, destroying valuable timber, az
well as grain, stock pasturage, barns
and other ranch buildings, has finally
been controlled. The fire extended over
an area of more than thirty square
miles and caused great loss to the
ranches in the district.
The first Car of raisins for the season
of 1897 was recently shipped to Phila
delphia from Fresno by Chaddock &
Co. This is very early shipment
The indications are for a short croI
and increased prices, which cause con
siderable friction between packers, anC
growers. Just now the growers, who
control the situation. demand 80 t.
4c per pound cash in the sweat boxes
which is being met slowly by the buy
eIs.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
Hop Lice spray.

The following practical formula is
given for an emulsion which will not
injure the hop vines and will kill the
lice: Cut up one.half pound of hard
soap, put into gallon of rain water
and place it on the stove, leaving it
there until it comes to boiling point,
or until all the soap is dissolved. Then
remove to some convenient place in the
yard and add two gallons of kerosene
The mixture should now be thoroughly
Still red with syringe or force pump,
or if spraying apparatus is at hand,
run the emulsion through the sprayer
two or three times, or beat vigorously
with a paddle for Is or 30 minutes.
When completed the emluison will
look like thin buttermilk. and will ad.
here without oiliness to the surface OF
glass. Add Is gallons of rain water for
every gallon of emulsion. so the three
gallons of EMULSION can be added to
45 gallons of rain water. If the emul-
sion has not been thoroughly mixed,
globules of oil will separate and rise
to the surface of the emulsion and will
produce white spots on the leav IS.
The most satisfactory way of applying
the emulsion is by means of a KNAPP.
sack sprayer, which can be bought al
a moderate price. The spray can be
regulated to suit the needs of the
operator and it is easily applied by
walking between the rows. There il
also an attachment for reaching the
vines where on high poles.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
Protecting Farming.

The United States Agricultural De-
partment is doing a great deal of hard
work to save the farmer from being
fooled and defrauded in the purchase
of seeds. says the s. Call. Attention
should be called to this in order that
the efforts Of the government may be
properly appreciated by the people
they are trying to serve. and in order
that farmers may be able to profit by
the work performed.
In some recent seed investigations it
was discovered that thousands of
pounds, probably tons, of grass and
clover seed are annually shipped into
the country which are mixed with
those of many kinds of injurious weeds.
Not only are the old pests of the field
thus sown and spread, but new varie-
ties of nuisances are being introduced.
Paying high prices for this trash would
be bad enough, but this is not the
worst Of it; the weeds once established
on the farms are very diff cult to eradi-
cate and they becom permanent in
jury to the land.
A recent report of the department
mentions particularly in this regard a
certain German coffee berry," which
is now being extensively advertised as
an economical substitute for genuine
coffee. This can be bought oheaply in
many places where it is known as the
common Sofa bean.
The necessity of caution in seed buy.
ing is made more plain by the state
ment that some seedmen doing a large
business will sometimes sell half a
dozen different varieties Of seed out OF
the same bin. From this it can be
realized how, by giving the same seed
multitude of names, the business OF
novelty seeds" can be made to -four.
ish.
This commendable work of the de
partment in seed testing is of great
magnitude. This year the experts
have already made half million tests.
They have collection of $4,000 walls
of seeds from all over the world to aid
them in identifying the foreign seeds
shipped to this country. Farmers
should keep themselves posted about
the results of these labors and buy only
seeds recommended by competent au.
thority.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

Burmese baby when fortnight
old Is named. On the suspicious day,
which the astrolo8er has selected, there
is feast to which relatives and friends
have been invited. The baby's head is
washed for the first time, and his name
is chosen. An English lady residing in
Burma describes the process of select
ing the name:
The limits of the choice are deter
mined by the day of the week upon
which he was born. Burmese custom
divides the letters of the alphabet
among the days of the week, and a
child born on Monday must receive a
namo initiated by one of the letters be-
longing to that day.
ka, kha, ga, CHA, nga, Taninla
Sa, hsa, "a, cha, nya, Amiga.
Ia, tina, da, dha, ma, Sanay,
is the beginning of jingle which every
Burmese child learns, as you and
learned, Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November. :"
A child born ON Taninla (Monday)
must have a name beginning with ok, !"
'g" or m" and when he is old
enough to go to the pagodas the nature
OF the offering he carries, or rather its
shape, is determined by the day of his
birth.
Each day of the week is under the
protection or subject to the fury Of
some animal. The tiger rules Monday,
and Burman bern on Monday will
offer to Gautama a candle shaped like a
tiger and fashioned of scarlet or of yell
low wax. Tuesday belongs to the king
OF beasts, Wednesday is the tusked ele-
plants, Thursday is sacred to the rat
and Friday to the guinea pig. The drag
on dominates Saturday, and Sunday is
dedicated to another fabulous creature,
half bird, half beast. Youths Com
panion.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
Deciduous Pruning.

Pruning deciduous fruit trees is a
subject generally treated OF during the
winter months, says the California
Fruit Grower. That we may "prune
whenever the knife is sharp, or when
ever there is no fruit ready to pick
should be considered an axiom in hor-
ticulture. This is modified, like all
other methods, according to environ
ment. In California. where hot, dry
summers prevail, trees may be pruned
while in leaf with less chances of in
jury than where summer rains are fire.
quent. This again must be modified
where water is supplied artifioially, as
in the irrigated districts.
The current seasons growth should
never be cut back except when dor
mant To shorten in the growing
shoots in the summer will merely
cause buds to break" lower down,
with resulting bush of weak laterals
Where these shoots are too thick and
crowded they may be cut out entirely,
next to the older wood
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
Wheat Is King.

The calculations recently made of
the probable gain to the farmer of Cal.
ifornia by the rise in wheat values
need revision in view Of the oontin-
ued advance, and the promise that this
advance will hold for the season, says
the S. F. Examiner. Since July in
this market milling wheat has ad-
vanced 80 cents per GENITAL, and ship
ping qualities have had an almost
equal lift. AS compared with last
year at this date, wheat is worth So
cents per GENITAL more than on August
81, 1896.
These are handsome figures. and
their chief beauty lies in the fact that
the farmer will this year reap the
largest share of the benefit from the
increase. 1t is not an unfair estimate
to place the yield of California this
year at $4,000, 900 centals. That is
some 1900. 900 centals less than last
years crop, according to the returns
of the Department Of Agriculture.
The report from the several counties
in the State indicate loss and gain.
Some counties show an increase and
others the reverse. On the whole, the
gains do not seem to offset the losses.
At present prices, therefore, the wheat
crop of California should be worth over
"a /, 100000, or nearly $4,000, 900
more than large crop was worth at
this time last year A difference of
$15, 100000 in the pockets of the
farmer, comparing one year with an
other, means great deal. 1t is in fact
the difference between bankruptcy and
a comfortable balance, for it is an ad
mitted fact that the prices prevailing
for the past five years have meant in.
solvenoy for wheat farmers. Il has 90
| happened that even for longer period
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
Citrus By Products.


Since il has become certain that the
exporting Of Italian oranges and
lemons to the United States will be
much decreased by the new tariff, says
the Los Angeles Times, the Italians
are considering various means of re-
heving the glut Of fruit which it is ex-
pected there will be in coming seasons.
Among other suggestions, one Italian
paper published in Catania urges that
the Italian government assist in the
establishments Of great industrial estab-
lishments, where the crude lemon
juice can be worked into citrate Of
limo or crystallized citric acids, and
other similar products, by which means
the market would be relieved of a vast
quantity Of poor lemons. The follow
ing resolution is suggested for the Ital.
ian Assembly to adopt:
Considering that TO solve the grave
crisis, it would be efficacious to estab.
lish an industry which would withdraw
from expectation the poorer qualities
of the citrus fruit and put them to use
in the manufacture of products, de-
rived from the raw material, the gov
eminent is prayed that whenever large
establishments with that object in view
are started, there shall be accorded tC
them immunity from taxes for period
Of at least ten years, and that likewise
in justice and equity. the same favor
be granted to similar establishments
already existing; and,
Resolved, that premium b,
awarded to that industrial establish
ment manufacturing citrus products
which shall best correspond with thu
plans of the coun oil in the creation O
new factors Of activity likely to Ieliev,
the crisis. y
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

The Minister Of Customs of Canada
has decided that her safter petroleum
imported in tank cars may be stored
in bond in bulk. This is conces-
sion to importers of American coal
oil. as heretofore duty had to be paid
ON the entire consignment before the
oil could be stored away. Under the
new system an importer can bring in
500 gallons at time by tank cars.
store it in his warehouse, and pay the
duty as he disposes of it in barrels.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

The Milwaukee Journal says that,
IN furtherance of scheme which the
Westinghouse Electric Company of
pittsburgh and the Baldwin Locomo.
i've Works Company Of Philadelphia
planned year ago, to absorb all of
the more important independent man
u1actories OF electric dynamos and mo-
tors. the combination. under the name
OF the Westinghouse Electric and Man.
ufacturing Company, has bought out
the interests of the Gibbs Electric
Company of Milwaukee. The consid-
GRAFTON is said to be $50, 900.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

Telephone connection was formally
opened recently between Minneapolis
and New York, Boston. Chicago, Phil
adelphia, Detroit, and other large
cities. The wires worked well over the
whole distance, although the atmos.
pheric conditions were not the best.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

As a result Of raid on moonsbipe
distillery in the mountains of Pope
county, Arkansas. two officers we're
killed. two mortally wounded, and the
remaining two of the posse are either
dead or in the hands of the bandits.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

A rumor comes from Alaskan sources
to the effect that certain United States
commissioners, recently sent into
eastern Alaska, are there for the pur.
pose OF assuming control of large
portion of the Klondike region. II
the rumor proves correct, there will
be serious trouble between the United
States and Can ada.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

Wine bottles are best cleaned with
charcoal, broken in small pieces, and "a
little powdered charcoal left in bottles
for day or two will effectually remove
any unpleasant odor
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

wheat prices have stood at low level
while the crop was in first hands.
This year the advance came in time to
help the farmers rather than the spec
ulators.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23

Honesty is warrant of far more safe.
ty than fame. Owen Felltham.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-11-19

1925 600. the assessor and the Appeal
Court at 100000, and the Supreme
Court at s650,000 Hamakua Sugar
Co., fixed it's valuation at s650,000, the
assessor at s654,000, the Appeal Court
and the Supreme Court at 100000.
Paauhau Plantation Co., fixed its valu-
alton at S632, 172, the assessor at $780,
900. the Appeal Court and the Supreme
Court at 100000. Union Mill Co., fix
ed its valuation at s149,771.29, the as
SCISSOR at $4,000, the Appeal Court at
100000, and the Supreme Court at
$149,77 80. Hawi Mill fixed its valu-
alton at S210,444, the assessor at $685.
600, the Appeal Court at 100000, and
the Supreme Court at 1921. 500. Hutch
inson Sugar Plantation Co., fixed its
valuation at S625,000, the assessor at
$750,000 the Appeal Court and the
Supreme Court at 1926, 900. Hawaiian
Agricultural Co., fixed its valuation at
s53S,900, the assessor at so49, $50, the
Appeal Court and the Supreme Court
at s53S,900. Waimanalo Sugar Co.,
fixed its valuation at $4,000, the as
SCISSOR at 1855, 465, the Appeal Court at
S226,S00, and the Supreme Court at
$4,000. Eva Plantation Co., fixed it's
valuation at sS50,OO0, the assessor at
s1,210,775, the Appeal Court and the
Supreme Court the same.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-11-19
SUNDAY MUSIC.

A correspondent living on Molokai,
over the signature of English Wo-
man" writes to US on the Sunday band
concert question. She gives us, as a
reason for not permitting them here,
that there are no Sunday band con-
certs in England nor in Scotland"
that they are found in some parts of
the United States it is true, but they
always smack of the beer garden.
She says also, that during her resi-
dence in Honolulu, she saw the mis-
sionaries walking to church and they
did not ride. unless it was to visit the
sick"
The Sunday ways of the English peo-
pie are not lofty precedents, because
they have a curious way of straining
dreadfully at gnats, and swallowing
diversified camels, that is to say, they
closed until lately, the museums and
art galleries on Sunday, but permitted,
and now permit, the opening of all
liquor saloons after the noon hour of
that day The reason for doing it is
that the people generally drink beer
and they will have it on Sunday. When
a community wants an article, it soon
makes its religious practices conform
to its wants, just as this community
wants transportation on Sunday, and
therefore the mules must work in
spite of the Commandment forbiding
animal work
AS to Sunday music, we suspect that
English Woman" from want of in
formation, or observation. associates
beer with music, just as the Kentucky
Colonel associates whiskey with water
and, it is said, goes to his grave in the
belief that water is not a separate com