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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

1t is probable that this congress will
pass bill providing for the establish.
ment of the Indian territory.
A resolution directing the Secretary
Of War to send supplies to Americans
and other sufferers in the Klondike
region has been passed
Frye, of the Commerce Committee,
favorably reported, and the Senate
passed, bill directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to purchase or con-
struct suitable vessel for revenue
cutter service on the Yukon river,
Alaska. the cost not to exceed SAC. 900.
The House has passed bill appro-
priating $l75,000 for the relief of the
people who are in the Yukon river
country and also the bill passed by the
Senate to prohibit pelagic sealing by
American citizens. The former bill
encountered practically no opposition.
Pettigrew has secured the adoption
of resolution directing the Secretary
OF the Interior to furnish the Senate
an itemized statement of the receipts
and expenditures Of the Central Paci / @
Railroad for each year from 1871 to
1879 the statement also to show the
subsidies paid to steamboat companies
The Oregon mineral land bill was
called up in the Senate recently and
would have been passed with the Cali
fornia measure as an attachment, but
for the fact that Senator Stewart of
Nevada reached the chamber in time
to object to its passage and it went
over.
Senator White of California has in
troduced bill to strengthen the eight.
hour law as applicable to Government
work. 1t has been found impossible to
enforce the law. owing to the lack of
adequate penalties. White purposes
an amendment by which violation
OF the law is made misdemeanor sub.
Jeet to tine not to exceed $1,000 or
imprisonment not exceeding six months,
or both.
Cannon of Utah offered and had
passed resolution directing the Score
airy of the Treasury to furnish the Sen.
ate the names of the revenue cutters
employed on the coast of Florida TO
prevent filibustering: how many such
expeditions We're thwarted; what ves-
sells were captured: what armed expe-
dltlons were taken; and by what au-
thority OF law the Secretary of the
Treasury acted in the matter.
The members of the House Commit.
tee on Agriculture have had confer
ence with Secretary Wilson respecting
the needs of the Agricultural Depart.
ment, and have been informed that
she Secretary desires increased appro.
priations for weather stations in the
Tar West. and in the vicinity of the
great lakes. Another branch of the
service which requires more money is
that OF the microscopic division which
inspects all meats designed for export.
The House Committee on Banking
and Currency held an animated SEES
sion. IL was evident the committee
could not agree A compromise was
made by which the bill covering the
Presidents recommendations and the
bill OF Secretary Gage and that of the
indianapolis Monetary Commission
shall be taken up at the first meeting
after the holidays. 1t was agreed also
that the committee would adjourn to
the second Wednesday in January.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

try In OAn rEhuOlhco lOh nOhAO eiAAO W
come by refusing TO issue any more
permits for pugilistic or physical cul-
ture" exhibitions to the big clubs.
II. r. Alton, John Lubin and others
who recently organized a company at
Alameda for the purpose of building
steamer to be put in ths Alaskan trade,
have commenced the actual work OF
constructing the vessel. which it is ex-
pected will be completed by early
spring.
The committee in charge Of the gold
discovery celebrate IN to be held Janu-
airy Gath, in San Francisco, has sent a
request to Governor Budd to have Ju-
bilee day declared a holiday. 1t is
proposed to offer prizes ranging from
$500 to $1,000 for the best float IN the
parade.
An expert bookkeeper who was APP
pointed by Mayor Koch Of San Jose,
1 has made his report, which shows that
/ on the part of the city license collector
there has been very lax performance
of duty. and that in consequence the
city has lost several thousand dollars
/ in the last few years.
Coroner Hav kins Of San Francisco
has taken up the subject Of deaths by
gas poisoning and will seek to have
the Board of Health direct the chemist
to investigate the matter and report to
what extent the illuminating gas used
in that city is dangerous and likely to
produce illness and death.
Fred Roeding, a local capitalist, has
offered to deed to the city of Fresno
% acres of good land in the vicinity
of the city to be used as a park. The
only condition attending the gift is
that for a term of five years an annual
expenditure of $4,000 be made by the
city in improving the property.
Twelve thousand acres Of the San
Lorenzo ranch in Monterey county have
been purchased by Claus Spreokels
!. from q. II. King. The price is stated
to be over 1915, coo. The land is stu.
ated near King City, and about 1000 of
the 900 acres are adapted to the oul-
tivation of sugar beets.
A carload of dried pears, which are
said to be the best cured fruit ever
shipped from this State, has been dis
patched from the Fannie Bancroft
orchard at Walnut Creek direct TO
France through Porter Bros. A car.
load of dried peaches was also shipped
from the same orchard to Portland. Or.
One of the largest mortgages ever
placed on record in Fresno county, has
been filed by jefferson j. James and
wife to the German Savings and Loan
Society Of San Francisco for 500, 900.
The rate of interest is s per cent.
Mr.. James gives as security for the
note his extensive holdings on the
West Side.
Some Spokane, Wash, and New
York City capitalists have purchased
24) acres of placer ground on Indian
creek near Cooks Inlet, Wash, for
100000. The placers will be worked
by hydraulic methods. The Black
Maria mine an Alaska quartz mine,
has been sold to the Thomas Invest.
IL emf Company for $125,000.
A train on the Hollister branch of
the coast division of the Southern Pa
cific Company went off the track re-
Gently, owing to the spreading Of the
rails. The engine plunged down the
embankment about fifteen feet high.
The passengers scrambled from the
car through the windows and doors.
The baggage car was badly smashed.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
The False Prophet In L,,era,nr.

A writer of fiction who puts all his
characters in antagonismt to beauty and
progress, who belittles his fellow-man
In the eyes Of the reader, who puts
hopelessness into his little world In
stead of reasonable ambition--is not
going to give you any particular pleas
ure in your leisure hours, or any con.
ISOLATION In the realities of every day
existence. This does not mean that
the best novel is one from which the
disagreeable facts of life are banished.
and only the sweets served as con
lection at the feast 1t is the attitude
OF mind toward the bitter and the
sweet, the evil and the good. the thing
foreseen and the accidental, that
makes a noyel uplifting or depressing.
-"Droch," in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
A Guileless Thief.

A story is told about clever spaniel
that took feather buster from his
owners house, and while playing with
1t tore out all the feathers. The dog,
after being shown the featherless han
die, was given whipping. He disap-
peared and about an hour afterward,
walked bravely into the house with a
new buster in his mouth and meekly
deposited the brush at the feet of his
mistress. BY the mark on II she saw
that the dog had stolea It from neigh.
boring store.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some Interesting News Tor the
Ruralist
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
4 pew sensible Hints 80 suit the Busy
AgricuIturist.-Items That May
Benefit cur Readers.

The experiments Of the Chino Sugar
Company in putting sugar beets in
silos are highly commendable in so far
as this mode of procedure will even
tually extend the time which the fac
tory can run for several months. says
g. w. Refs Of Orange county. The
fact is, that in all colder climates,
where the beet ripens later than here,
and is subject to destructive frosts
much earlier in the season, beets must
of necessity be put in silo, or else the
working time of the factory would be
so short as to make il almost valueless.
The only difference about which
there seems TO be any contention il
that in colder climates, and in Europe
especially, the beet-sugar factories re-
ceive the beets from the farmer when
they are ripe and ready for delivery,
and the factory people put them in
silos if they are not able to grind mp
all of them at the time. The silos
there usually cover an area of twenty
to forty acres, near the factory, and
frequently trenches from three to five
feet in width are Dug the whole length
of the land to depth of from one to
three fest. The beets are here taken
care of by man whose special duty
! it is to take care of the silo for the fac
tory. Under this system the farmer
has nothing more to do witch his crop
after it is once ripe and delivered. All
he needs to do is to show up his tag fol-
the tonnage delivered. The factory
people take care of such beets as they
cannot Immediately use, and as gen.
eral thing they are able to keep them
in good shape for two or three months
The man in charge of the silo is far
better able to judge just what is best
to be done than several hundred indi
vidual farmers could, many of whom
do not understand the instruction.
properly, or the instructions may moi
be adapted to the particular location
thus frequently causing loss to tn,
farmer by Misunderstanding. When
ever the factory people silo the beet
they also avoid the objection so fire
quently made. THAT the company il
making experiments at the expense o
the farmer" remark frequentl,
heard nowadays, and which can easil,
be avoided by the factory doing tn,
SLIDING and taking the beets when the,
are fully ripe and as fast as they Cal
be delivered
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
Dehoriing Cows.

Cows were given horns to protect
themselves from heir enemies, but in
our modern civilization man protects
the COW from hG enemies, and she
does not need tn, horns for defense, y
says the County Gentleman. Even
Mother Nature herself seems to recog-
nize this fact. The great Texas steers
that have to light for their lives
against wolves, Tears and members of
their own kind, have long, sharp, cuel
horns with a spread often of four feet,
and they have to use them savagely in
order to live. The gentle Jersey COW,
with man as her friend, and with no
persistent enemy larger than house
fly. has stubby, useless, little horns of
four or five inches in length, and
doubtless nature will in time eliminate
even these.
when man removes the horns from
domestic animals be is only finishing
up what nature has begun.
Nervousness and dread among dairy
COWS do not induce increase in milk.
giving. Quietness and gentleness
should reign supreme on the dairy
farm. If the farmer can teach his
COW that she has nothing to fear from
the horns of her sisters, he will see
the result of his teaching in the milk
pail.
Removing the horns, when it is
properly done, is NOT painful opera
ton, as is evidenced by the fact that
it will scarcely interfere with the flow
of cows milk as much as to chase
around the pasture in front of the
farmers dog will do. Those best ac-
quainted with dehOrning and its re-
suits are its strongest advocates. !"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

Attorney General Joseph e. Nc
Kenns Of California has been nomi-
mated to be Associate Justice Of the
Supreme Court, to succeed Stephen j.
Field. This appointment, the most
Important which will come before this
session OF the Senate. headed the first
list sent to that body by the Execu-
tive. That confirmation will follow
Is believed by every one.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
Lively.

Bob-Haye lively time at the Ham.
Tins last night?
Fred-Yes; very. The old gentleman
and got to arguing about religion, and
I guess my dress suit Is ruined.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

People often talk of breaking the Ice.
but 1t would require a powerful fight
of the imagination to think of breaking
the iceman,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
why Oranges Freeze.

There has been for years, and prob
ably will be for many other years,
conflicting opinions as to the highest
temperature at which an orange will
freeze sufficient to injure it, and the
temperature to which the orange itself
must fall to be damaged, says the Red
lands Record. Some have persistently
maintained that the thermometer must
fall to about IS degrees +. and be
maintained at this point for hours be-
fore the fruit would be affected by it,
while Others hold that a temperature Of
as much as 10 degrees higher will ruin
the orange, if maintained at that de-
gree of GOODNESS for long enough
period of time. Most people in dis.
cussiDg whether the fruit will be
affected or not, do not recognize that
1t depends largely upon TIE condition
Of the fruit at the time and to some ex.
tent upon the meteorological condi.
lions other than temperature. Un-
fortunately not sufficient data have
been collected as yet to determine very
accurately what will be the result
under certain conditions, save along
general lines, and with a wide and
apparently varying margin between.
The same is true respecting the knowl.
edge about the degree of cold the fruit
itself may reach without damage to its
tissues. Oranges have been known to
have needle.like crystals of ice formed
within the cells If the tissues and re.
oeive no apparent injury tberefrom;
on the other hand, the fruit has been
pronounced uniIjured because there
was no evidence of frost within it, vet
later 1t developed that the fruit was
greatly damaged. 1t is evident that
should the Toe form within the walls
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

A number Of gas companies of Bos-
ton were purchased by the New Eng.
land Gas and Coke Company. The
price paid was $l4, 900, 900.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

WaInuts Go Down.
There has been q decided decline in
the price Of California walnuts, which
is attributed TO the fact that sellers on
the Coast have been too anxious to
make sales, and not being satisfied
with the progress made by commission
houses. through which their goods have
heretofore been distributed, they have
resoTted to general consignments to
move stocks out faster, says the n. Y.
Journal Of Commerce. Eastern trad
ers, who have been obliged 20 recog-
nize California on the merits of its
products as very potent factor in the
dried fruit and nut market, have, il is
stated by representative houses, at
tempted TO protect and foster the in
/ terests Of Pacific Coast producers.
which they believe to be identical with
their own. but have been handicapped
by tendency of California producers to
attempt TO market goods in the East
and Middle West by flooding those sec
tions with stock.
/ 1t is charged against California pro-
ducers that they seem to be less inter-
ested in securing permanent ma ket
for their goods than in finding an i'm
mediate output for what they have on
/ hand. The course of the market of
California walnuts is pointed to as an
instance. At the opening of the season
holders on the Coast did not see fit TO
meet the views of Eastern buyers. By
holding to their prices they lost, it is
said, a good part Of the early trade in
the East and Middle West, as Greno-
bles, being relatively cheaper than
California nuts, were bought in pref
erence.
+. After these contracts for foreign nuts
we're made, it was found that the Cali
fornia crop had turned out to be much
larger than was expected, and as a
large number Of buyers, East and
West, had already covered their re-
quirements by purchases Of imported
nuts, and the latter were beginning to
arrive in liberal Quantity, the market
for the California product began to
sag. Western buyers, when they found
the market for California nuts declin-
ing. sought to dispose of their receipts
Of foreign in New York. and thus
brought about demoralized condition
of the market he:e.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

'Dairymen should constantly bear
in mind that the value of dairy COW
consists in the ability to consume food
at a profit or, in other words, her abil.
ity to convert food into milk in man
ner that will leave profit to her own
er, after paying for food consumed,
says the Pacific Coast Dairyman.
Unless you weigh and test each COW g
milk and keep yourself posted ON Just
what she is doing you can never know
if she is profitable for you to keep in
your herd or not. 1t is also very i'm
portant to know the amount and value
of the food consumed by each COW.
Because one COW will give more milk
or will make more butter than another
is no reason that she is the better and
more profitable of the two, for she may
be consuming over and above the other
COW more than enough food to offset
the difference in her production. On
the other side, it is also true that small
eaters are not necessarily the profita-
BILE ones; in fact, 1t is generally just
the opposite; large eaters. large pro-
ducers. 1t remains only for you t.
study your COWS and become acquainted
with their iDdividualities and wants,
and in so doing you will be able to
judge of their value in your dairy,
putting you in a position TO discard
the Improbable ones. :"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

Of the cells Of the tissues in which it
congeals, the fruit viii suffer. IL is
probable that q degree Of cold not
sufficient 70 form ice may, neverthe-
less, seriously damage the fruit by rea-
son Of its effects upon the juices alone.
when the orange is in some stages of
ripeDing or under other conditions
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

More than half the time when won.
an betrays secret some man is at the
bottom of 1t.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

No man should try to ride wheel un.
less he has horse sense
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

A national bankruptcy bill, similar
in its substantial features to the Hem
derson-Culberson bill, passed by the
House last session, will be reported to
the House by the Judiciary Com.
mittee. The bill provides for both
voluntary bankruptcy and involuntary
bankruptcy. By its provisions any
one may 60 into involuntary bank
ruptcy except corporation. The gen.
eral effect of the bill is to discharge
the bankrupt of all debts after the
estate has been administered and il has
been found that there has been no
fraudulent conduct.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
More Sugar Factories.

Beet sugar, refineries are multiplying
in this State. Hardly has the machin-
cry arrived for the California Beet
Sugar and Refining Company's new
refinery at Crockett when the am
nouncement is made that three more
beet sugar plants are to be erected, says
the s. +. Examiner. The latest com.
pany has Eastern sponsors and its arti.
cles of Incorporation have not yet been
filed. s. H. Green of New York is
the promoter and Homer Wilson and
John Herd Of this city are the organic.
ers. The two latter gentlemen have
offices in the Mills building. Among
them these three men have bonded
between 100, 900 and 100, 900 acres OF
land in Butte, Glenn and Colusa coun.
ties. This land includes the Bidwell
ranch at Chico, the Phelan property
adjoining it, the John Fennell ranches,
the John Boggs ranch and the Glenn
and Belcher estates. The entire prop.
erty is to be brought under beet cult
walton, that is if the plans of the
promoters are successful, which now
appear to be probable. The com pany
is to be incorporated with capital
stock of $40, 900, 900, and the various
landowners enumerated will to some
extent at least become stockholders.
The sites for the beet sugar manu-
featuring plants have been selected and
one of them will be situated ON the
Phelan property. The others will be
in places close to the railroads. The
yield of the 10000 acres should be
not less than 90, 900 tons year. The
average yield is four tons an acre, but
after two years planting to beets the
land must be allowed to lie idle for a
year or be planted TO some other crop,
that 1t may regain strength.
Mr.. Green went East last week to
present the results of his labors here
and Homer Wilson, who has been clos.
ing up some of the smaller properties
which have been bonded, will return
to this city during the week. If the
plans of the promoters are carried GU
the work ON the nav plants will be
commenced this spring and by the fall
Of 1898 the mills should be turning out
beet sugar.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10

A poll of the United States Senate
has developed the fact that the advo-
Gates of Hawaiian annexation have not
friends enough in that body to ratify
the annexation treaty. which requires
a majority of two-thirds. The Morgan
Bill. which was introduced at the last
session. will therefore be taken up and
rushed through both Houses as speed
lily as possible, bringing the islands
into the Union in the same manner
that Texas was acquired.
The first substantial rain since last
June in PARTS of Eastern Kansas fell q
few days ago,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-03
EncouraEing Statistics.

The Baltimore and Ohio officials are very
much pleased with certain statistics that
have recently been prepared of the per
Torrance of freight trains on the Second
division, which handles all the east and
west bound traffic between Baltimore and
Cumberland. Before the new freight en-
gines were purchased, and the improvements
made in the track in the way of straighten
ing curves and reducing grades, the average
number of cars to the train was % II. Now,
with more powerful and modern motive
power and better track, the average is &c
cars per train, an increase of Al per cent
The average east bound movement per day
for the first ten days of August was l,l2i
loaded cars. On the Third division, Cum
berland to Grafton, where there are grades
of l25 feet to the mile, the engines used to
haul 10 ID loads To the train. Now the
average is % % loads per train, an increase
of 81 per cent. 1t would certainly appear
that the money spent in improvements OIL
the B. and O. is being amply justified, and
that the cost of operation is being very ma
terially reduced
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-03
Do we Need mig Musc1ess

BY no means. Persons of herculean build
frequently possess a minimum of genuine
vigor, and exhibit less endurance than very
small people. Real vigor means the ability
to digest and sleep well, and to perform a
reasonable amount of daily physical and
mental labor without unnatural fatigue. 1t
is because a course of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters enables the enfeebled dyspeptic to
resume the allotted activity of every day life,
as well as to participate without discomfort
in its enioyments, that it is such a pre-
eminently useful medicine.
If a man makes a success in life, he likes
to tell how he started with nothing-Was
ington Democrat
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-03
I Jul . U u
PHIPPS & HERNDC
In Chicago.

go, mamma" the beautiful girl exclaimed,
che adores me SO, and he is SO noble and
handsome, and"
Eyes, my child"
and he brings such lovely references
from his last wife"
Mother and daughter mingled their tears
of JOY. Presently they grew somewhat
calmer and were able to speak OF trousscaus
and things.-Detroit Journal