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The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25
MANHATTAN 10 CHANGE HANDS
Mr.. Billings, Proprietor OF the Hotel Oak
lev ut Guthrie. TO Assume Charge

Mr.. 5. Billings, an experienced hotel
man Of Guthrie. o. T., is in the city
for the purpose OF leasing the Manhat-
tan hotel. He has submitted his propo-
sition- to the executors of the Manhattan
property, who now have the matter un-
der advisement. 1t is likely that The
business will be settled during the next
three II four days. Mr.. Billings is now
the proprietor OF the Oakley hotel al
Guthrie. He has stipulated in writing
what rent ne will pay provided the ex-
ecutor will repaper the house. put in
new carpets, and soma new furniture,
and give the house a general renovating.
When completed II will be one of the
best and most convenient hotels in the
city. If the contract is signed, ana It
now looks as If it would be, Mr. Bill
lings viii assume charge on the 1st of
January.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25

Keep your eyes open when you buy
goods OF any sort. Refuse all substitutes
for standard. advertised articles
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25

". c. Teterick, a prominent lawyer OF
Kingman, was here yesterday enroute to
Blackwell. Q. T, where he will move his
family in the near future. Mr.. Teterick
has already opened law office at Black
we'll
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25

Hood,c D;JIc are purely vegetable. care
AAOoo . Z siiS fHliy r<era-e1- cszss-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25

An Organization of Arkansas Valley Farm
Court Of Colorado For an Order Re-
s,raining the Rocky Ford Irrigation
Company From Taking All the Water
From the Bed of the Arkansas River
Three Wichita Attorneys, Assisted by
Denver Lawyers. Will Prepare Papers
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25

And every form of stomach weakness.
cured by the new discovery STUARTS
DYSPEPSIA TABLETS. Pleasant to
take: full size pkgs. so cents. at drug
gists. Book on stomach troubles and
thousands Of testimonials sent free by
addressing. STUART CO..
Marshall Micf
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25

The wiciaita Produce company OF I25
and l27 North Market street, Who are
noted for their generosity with their en-
ployes. presented each one OF them big
fat Thanksgiving turkey.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-24

mammoth sugar corn. This gave me
ears of very large size and excellent
quality, but they were very late, and
in my own locality l would risk this
variety only on very early and warm
soil. 1t might be used to furnish the
latest supply, say in October.-Rural
New Yorker.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-24

Our readers will please notice H. B.
Rusler's advertisement of the Comet
Force Pump Sprayer in another col
umn of this paper. The Comet is a
Lawn and Garden Force Pump as
well as perfect Fruit Tree Sprayer.
Among so many advertisements it is
sometimes difficult to tell which is
the best, but if you will write to FL.
B. Rusler, at Johnstown, Ohio, he will
forward you free catalogue and hints
ON spraying, and will be able to con-
vince you that the Comet is not only
the best, but the fastest selling
sprayer on the market. Send your
address to him on postal card and
be convinced. The very low price at
which the Comet is sold places ir at
once within the reach of all in need
of sprayer.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-24
The Virtues of Beggarweed.


Farmers are cross-plowing their
fields, getting ready to plant corn.
Land that has been sown to beggar-
weed for two years turns over black
and rich like fine garden. All the
growers of this place have filled
their lands with beggarweed. Some
say if they had known the value of
this plant twenty years ago it would
have saved them thousands of dol
lars in feed and fertilizer. We all
save our own seed to stock new feds,
and some to sell. 1t does not grow
in the field until June, affording
chance for corn crop on the land I'M
disturbed. By scattering the seed at
the last working of the corn a crop of
beggarweed follows, and thus the
necessary rotation of the crops is
provided for and the land is ready for
another corn crop the following year.
All the barns around Richmond are:
filled with beggarweed hay. 1t should
be cut when three feet high, and
cured thoroughly two or three days.
The weed after moving makes an
other crop, natures it's seed, and
yields the richest pasture until it is
killed with frost. Horses and cattle
fatten on it until the holidays. Farm
ers who have paid no attention to this
plant do not know what they are los
ing. introduced on the lands and
properly managed it would render
South Florida an earthly paradise.
Orange trees at this place fortified
with nothing but beggarweed and
corn stubble have made the most mar
velous growth, and have leaves today
five inches long and three inches
broad. If our beef cattle ran in fields
of beggarweed instead of pine woods,
we should have but little call for
Chicago beef. This plant opens the
way for successful farming on the
pine lands of Florida without other
costly fertilizing as nothing else ever
has. One man states that he increased
the production of his corn field from
ten bushels per acre to thirty, with
beggarweed alone. How long it takes
us to learn to get along! A grower
in Leesburg said since the freeze he
had sown peas broadcast and plowed
in the crop, and made his trees grow
as we'll as when he put on $50 per
acre of commercial fertilizer. Peas
are an excellent crop, but for several
reasons [ prefer the beggarweed.-
Eustis Lake Region.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-24
A Succession of Sweet Corn.

about ninety days, and in order to
have roasting ears" from beginning
to end, and always as good as can be
had, we must plant at least three
types of sweet corn-the very early,
the medium, and the late. We must
calculate on getting our supply for at
least awenty days from the earliest
sorts, of which Cory may be called
one of the best, if not the very best
and most reliable. To give us a sup
ply for the next thirty days, we plant
a medium Sort and | think that the
old Moore's early (Concord is yet
good and reliable sort, although our
seedsmen offer quite number of va
reties, such as Stabler's Early, Xxx
Sugar and others. For home use, I
prefer the ''Blacll'' Mexican, which,
when approaching maturity, turns
dark blue or purple color, and for
that reason has never become pOpu-
lar. Ears gathered in prime condition
for use, however, are snowy white,
and of delicious sweetness and ten
derness, surprising all other varie
ties, so far as | know, in these re-
spects. After these medium sorts, we
usually rely wholly on Stowel's Ever
green for the main sweet corn season,
lasting, say, fifty days.
Thus we will need 500 ears a day
of Cory for twenty days, or 10000
ears in all. We plant this in rows
three feet apart, and calculate to have
one plant to every four or six inches
or row. If the land is in good order
we can expect to get 10000 good ears
from about one-half acre of land. |
would plant one-quarter acre just as
soon as the weather seems favorable
in early spring, and another quarter
acre ten days or two weeks later, as
these first early varieties mature
quickly and would soon be too old for
use. Possibly it might be still better
to plant only one-eighth acre at
time, at intervals of five or six days.
Of the medium early sorts, we want
500 ears day for period of thirty
days, or $4,000 ears in all. We can
have the rows for them also three
feet apart, although we usually make
them three and a half feet apart. The
plants may stand eight inches apart
in the rows, and on good soil should
give us about $4,000 ears per acre. To
go sure, we might plant slightly
larger area, but do the planting also
in smaller plots, say one-quarter acre
every week. Of this, we will need 500
ears a day for fifty days, or $4,000
ears in all. We plant Stowell's Ever
green, or any other large, late sort, in
three and half or four-foot rows, and
aim to have the plants foot apart in
the rows. Two to two and half
acres Of good corn land should fur
nish us the required number of ears.
If we have more than are needed for
immediate sale, we can make good
use of the surplus, by saving it for
seed, or if we think this is too much
trouble, for feeding. The proceeds
from the four acres of sweet corn
provided we have a regular sale of
500 ears a day-would be about as fol-
lows:
Q22 dozon COrv at 10 cents Der
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-03-24

Without counting the value of the
stalks, which, in my own case, is con-
siderable, amounting to more than
$50. A few years ago grew lot of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03

New York, April "A dispatch to the
Sun from Havana says:
General Rus Rivera will probably be
shot on Saturday if the queen regent
does not interfere by cable in his be-
half. 1t is said that today the court
martial will meet to pass Judgment
upon him, in case General Weyler re-
ceives a favorable answer from Mad
rid to a dispatch he sent to the gov
eminent saying that he thinks 1t nee
essary to show great energy in this
case.
f3ius Rivera, according to the regula-
uons, will be placed for "a hours en-
capilla. That is to say, after he mas
been informed of the sentence of con-
demnation he will spend day in
dungeon with a priest as a companion.
The report is generally believed in
Havana that General Rus Rivera was
betrayed in the hands of the Spaniards.
1t is said that he commissioners VINO
were sent to him about month ago by
the Spanish government to- propose the
acceptance of Canovas' reforms, during
the three days they remained at
Rivera's camp secertly arranged with
a spy to inform the SpaniardS OF all
the movements of the Cuban leader
The commissioners not only submit
ted to Rivera the proposed reforms
with full authority from General Wey-
Ter, but also a letter from CUBAN,
who resides in Havana and fought in
the patriot ranks during the last revo-
luton, commencing them to his con-
sideration. To this letter they owed
their lives and the good treatment they
received from General Rivera Now
they are accused by public opinion OF
having betrayed him to General Her
nandez De Velasco.
The accusation is fortified by the
fact that Senior Jorrin, one of the Span
ish. ENJOYS is a friend of General Her
nandez Velasco, and had several con-
ferences with him after his interviews
with Rivera. 1t is also known that
Rivera was surprised by Hernandez De
Velasco, the Spanish genral knowing
beforehand the position and forces of
Rivera and his staff.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
GREAT GAMBLERS THEY.
CONSERVATION Caused by Weyler's
Latest Order.

Havana, April Reconsideration has
been caused among many members of
political, military and civil circles here
by an order that has been issued By
Attorney-General Weyler. Gambling
has been INDUCED in by all classes of
officials, and the evil has grown to
such proportions, and has caused such
scandal, that General Weyler deter
mined to make an attempt to stop it.
Contrary to usual custom, he did not
modest the smaller offenders, but is
sued an order calling for the arrest of
80 prominent men in Cienfuegos, whose
gamb bling proclivities were well known
to everybody. Among those taken into
custody are the chief of police of Santa
Clara, who has been spending much of
his time in gambling in Cienfuegos,
and the police delegates in the latter
city. 1t is believed that more arrests
will follow. The chief officers of the
military administration are quaking in
their boots, lest an order for their ar
rest will be issued. 1t is considered
probable that the CIVIL governor of the
province of Santa Clara will be re-
moved from his office. The order of ar
rest states that in addition to gambling
there are irregularities in the accounts
of the accused that must be explained.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
The Quangle Wangle Hat.

On the top of the crumpetty tree
The Quangle Wangle sat.
But his face you never could see,
On account of his great big hat.
His hat was hundred and two feet wide,
With ribbons and ribbons on every side,
And bells and buttons and loops and lace,
So that nobody ever could see the face
OF the Quangle Wangle Quee.
The Quangle Wangle said
To himself on the crumpetty tree.
Jam, jelly and bread
Are the best of food for me.
But the longer L sit on this crumpetty
tree,
The palmer than ever il seems to me
That very few people come this way.
And life, on the whole. is far from gay"
Said the Quangle Wangle Quee.
But there came to the crumpetty tree
Mr.. and Mrs. Canary.
And they said, Did you ever see
Any spot so charmingly airy?
May we build our nest on your lovely
hat?
Oh, please let us come and build our nest
or whatever material suits you best,
Mr. Quangle Wangle Quee.'
And besides. to the crumpetty tree
Came the stork, the duck and the owl
The snail and the humble bee.
The frog and the fimble fowl,
The fimble fowl with the corkscrew leg;
We may build our homes on your lovely
hat;
Mr.. Quanble wangle. grant us that,
Mr.. Quangle WangIe Quee.''
Ard the golden grouse came there,
And the pobble, that has no toes.
And the small Olympian bear,
And the dong with the luminous nose.
And the blue baboon who played the flute
And the Orient calf from the land of
Tute,
And the artery squash and the bisky bat
All came aid dwell on the lovely hat
OF the Quangle Wangle Quee.
And the Quangle Wangle said
To himself on the crumpetty tree,
when all these creatures move
What wondrous noise there'll ber'
And at night by the light of the null
berry moons
They danced to the flute of the blue
baboon
On the broad green leaves of the crump-
city tree,
And all were as happy as happy could be,
9 With the QuaHgle Wangle sQuee.
Edward Lear.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
GOLD BY THE YARD.
Remarkable Thinness Attained by
the Reaters of the Precious Metal.

The beating of the innumerable little
square pieces of gold which are used
to cover domes and signs, and so on.
forms a distinct industry in the gold
trade which employs a large number
of hands and requires no small amount
of skill, according to Pearson's Weekly
The long, low building in which the
work is carried on is filled throughout
the day with the sound of hammers. On
every side little boxes containing tiny
rolls of gold are to be seen, which, al
though only measuring an inch and a
half in length, are each worth about
$40. The gold is received in bars one
eighth of an inch in thickness, an inch
in width and weighing 240 penny
weights. This is rolled out into a rib
bon 80 wards in length.
1t is then given TO the workmen in
strips measuring seven yards, each of
which is cut into $50 pieces. These are
now ready to be beaten out by hand.
They are placed (Drotected by fine
skins) in a tool known as the clutch,
and are thoroughly pounded out on a
great granite block set in the ground
in such a way that there is absolutely
no vibratory movements. The process
is repeated several times. the gold as
it spreads being continually subdivided
until it is of the exact dimensions re-
quired.
The skins in which the gold is beaten
are so delicate that they will tear as
easily as paper, nevertheless they are
of so fine a quality that they will with
stand the continual hammering for sew
eral years. The gold. which is finally
beaten down to 0O,000th of an inch, is
rubbed with brine before being
placed in the skins, in order that it
shall not adhere to them.
+, - -,,-l~ Of 1,~1 -
gold may seem, it is in reality an art
of a verv delicate description. The
workman must know to nicety pre-
cisely how hard or gentle the blows
of his hammer must be. and also the
exact spot on which they should fall.
Accordingly, a very superior class of
men are employed in the business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
It Was an Outra re

Jacksonville, Fla, April captain
W. T. Lewis of this city, VINO was on
the tug Monarch when that vessel was
captured by the revenue cutter Win
ona, near Baya Honda Key last Mon
day, returned to the city this morning.
Captain Lewis says that the capture of
the tug was an outrage, as she, was vio-
lating no law. He says that he was on
board prospecting the sponge fields
with view of going into the sponging
business, but he has given up the idea
in disgust, for if he has to take the
chances Of being arrested every few
days by a revenue cutter and be towed
into Key West harbor, there can be no
money in it. The Monarch was towed
to Key West by the Winona, and is still
in custody of the collector of the port.
Lewis left Key West Wednesday night
on the plant steamer and arrived at
port Tampa Thursday afternoon. He
said that he did not learn any Cuban
news from the passengers from Ha-
vana, and heard nothing whatever
about the sentencing of General Rivera
TO be shot this morning at sunrise.
The captains name has been fire.
quently mentioned in connection with
filibustering expeditions, but he de-
clares that he knows nothing what
ever about any expedition being carried
by the Monarch or any other vessel
from Charlotte harbor or any other
place.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
A Talk With Vassos.

London. April 2-The Daily Tele-
graph will tomorrow publish an inter
view had by the correspondent in Crete
with Colonel Vassos. The Greek COM
mander declared that the protest re-
Gently sent by him TO the foreign adj
miralS would be the last document of
the sort that would be sent. Colonel
Vassos said that he does not regard
the admirals as the true representa-
tives of Europe's attitude. He claims
that he has quieted the entire Chris
tan population, and repressed every
fern of crime, rendering life and prop
erty as secure as in England or France.
He has established hospitals and pris-
ons. built bridges and appointed judges
and sanitary officers. Such satisfac-
tory state of things was never before
known in Crete. Everything has been
effected in seven weeks.
Colonel Vassos explains his success
as being due to his knowledge of the
people, who, he declares, recognize him
and his troops as kin
If said Colonel Vassos, the Eu-
ropean forces had done in the towns
what 1T has done in the country per-
feet peace might reign until Greece
completed the negotiations with Europe
for a recognition OF her claims to
Crete, and not drop of blood need
have been She'd
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
Some of Them Reported Are
Quite Startling.
TALK WITH vASSOS
AFFAIRS ARE NOW WORSE
THAN EVER BEFORE.
That Such Condition Exists Is Due
to the Work of the Christian Ad-
mirals-Europeans Must Listen to
the Voice of Humanity Soon or
the Island Will Be Deluged With
Torrents of Blood.

London, April 2.-The Canea CORE
spondent of the Chronicle sends a dis
patch to that paper, in which he says
that the following incidents have &C.
CURED during the current week;
A force of British marines, with
guns. went to Tripeti, in Sphaki, and
searched the houses there for provi-
sions, which, whenever they found,
were destroyed lest they should be used
by the insurgents. A similar expedition
went to a village near Selino, search
ing for flour and grain.
Two warships, one of which was Brit
ish sent armed boats to Kolumbari to
seize small mercantile craft that wero
lying at the place. The peasants re-
fused to surrender the vessels, where
upon the marines threatened to de-
stroy the village. Eventually the boats
were yielded.
The most astounding incident re-
ported, however, is the following: A
British detachment, which was sent TO
Kissamo, passed chains around the
houses of certain Christians. Gables
were then attached TO the chains and
these were passed to warships,7 which
pulled upon them until the houses fell.
The correspondent of the Standard
makes mention of this affair, but adds
that under cover of these houses the
insurgents were attempting to under
mine the fort.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
a Message From the Dead.

New York. April "A Press special
from Norfolk, Va, says:
A bottle was picked up at Woods life
saving station yesterday containing
what purports TO be a message from
the Inflated White Star steamship Ma
ronic. The message reads as follows:
"On board the steamship Naronic, at
sea, 500 miles east of Cape Hatteras.
Steamer been struck by cyclone now
sinking. AS we push off in only boat
left we toss this overheard in the
hope that it NAV reach land and tell
of our fate. Good bye"
The White Star freight steamship
Naronic sailed from Liverpool for New
York on Feb. is. 1893. From that time
to this nothing has been heard of the
craft IT was believed that she turned
turtle and sank.
The steamship Coventry, which ar
rived at Bremen on March 90 1898.
from Ferdinanda, passed two life boats
while on the voyage from Florida. They
bore the name of the Naronic. but did
not show any evidence of having been
occupied.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-03
THE DOGGY.
Queer But Lucky Little Texas
Beast.

A Queer But Lucky Little Texas
Beast.
Probably not one boy in 1000 east of
the Mississippi or north of Texas knows
in the least what doggy is; but to the
cowboy a plucky little doggy constitutes
at the same time the pride and butt of
life 1t is nothing more or less than
a little calf, whose mother, having died !
when it was young, is forced to earI
grass long before nature intended that
it should, or as the cowboys say, to
rustic for living.
Now, do not confound Texas rustic"
with New York and Chicago hustle
for they mean totally different things
In cowboy dialect, to rustic means to
pick up a precariOus living against the
worst possible odds. and this is eX-
actly what the doggy has to dc. No
comfortable little meSseS are made for
it, nor is it transferred TO a foster
mother. 1t is just left TO forage for
itself, and to live or die according to
it's native hardihood. OF course. most
of these poor little motherless animals
die, and if one manages to live. in spite
of fate, it is considered entitled to the !
most profound respect; for it means
that it has pluck. stamina, strength,
force-in short that it can rustic.
1t really means rather more tfiS-n this.
1t also signifies that there has been
an unusual combination of favoring
That tender young
grass has existed somewhere in that
region round about, and that the eli
mate has been at least fairly mild.
However, where dOgies manage to
bring themselves safely through child
hood-or perhaps L should say calf
hood-they make the very finest sort
of cattle. The amusing thing about it
is, that their beginning TO eat grass
long before they should, makes them,
when young, tremendously fat, and
gives them altogether a most curious
Their little bodies being
so stuffy and poddy makes their legs
seem singularly short. while their hair
grows very long. Then their struggle
for existence seems to impart a verv
serious expression to their faces. Al
together their whole bearing is that
of the most comical self-impOrtance
You can tell one of them as far as you
can see it, and their coming is usually
greeted with shouts of laughter.
Herds of cattle always drift before
a storm. In Texas, when a good
''nOrther' comes up, they have been
known to drift southwark for miles and
miles, the largest and sturdiest being
always found in the front ranks It
is no uncommon sight to find. bringing
up the rear, a number of these little
dogies, bending their heads TO the
storm and trudging along as bravely
and untiringly as their grown-up com
Danions.
Cowboys consider it very good omez,
to meet a little doggy that has strayecTA
from its herd, and if several of them
are together they dismount from their
ponies. throw the grOtesque little beast
down. and pick aside the long hairs to
ind out whether or not il is a Maver-
ok-an expression used for unbranded
cattle, and # it is they cast lots for it.
and the lucky one Immediately heats
MS skillet or other instrument and
brands it with his employers mark.