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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Luke Usher, president of the Ma
tional Bank, of Pottsdam. N. Y, has
been indicted charged with misappro-
priating 5000, 900.
James H. Duffy, the wizard Of
Machiasport, Me-, claims to have dis
covered the lost arts of producing Da-
mascus teel, and of hardening copper
and brass.
The Brazilian Chant Der of Deputies
has ratified the arbitration treaty
with France, which had for its object
the settlement Of boundary disputes,
particularly the Anapa question. This
concern French Guiana. The negotia-
ton cover two centuries.
A newspaper of Sprague, Bohemia,
says that ex-King Milan of Servia is
again seeking to divorce his wife Ma
talie, in order that he may marry
Artemisia Christie, the divorced wife
of his former Secretary, and by whom
the former King had son.
The Rome correspondent of the Daily
Chronicle of London says: The report
is confirmed that the Powers have ue-
cided to blockade Constantinople, in
case Turkey refuses to withdraw her
troops from Crete and to accept
European Governor of the island
The American Woodworking Ma
ohinery Company has just been organ
lied at Williamsport. Pa, and will
control fourteen concerns. manufacture
ing seven tenths of the woodworking
machinery produced in the United
States. The capital is IS, 800, 900.
Chicago has at last been recognized
by the Japanese government as COM
mercial point Of equal Importance with
New York and San Francisco. She
has received within her gates a full
fiedgedsConsul in the person of Count
Tatsgoro Nosse, one of the most dis
tinguisbed representatives of the Jap
anese diplomatic corps, and member
of the leading families of the nobility
of that country.
While this government has not been
officially notified of the intention of
the French government to denounce the
treaty of trade and commerce which
has existed between the United States
and Tunis for century, something in
that direction is looked for, in view of
the fact that the subject for long
time has been under consideration by
the State Department and the French
embassy.
Samuel Tongue and William Dow,
prominent citizens of Mattawa On
tario, in Canada, who went to Lake
Teillen week ago on hunting ex-
petition, have retuIued and reported
that they had shot and killed James
Mcconnell. desperate. who has terror
lied the settlers of Nippissing district
many years. Mcconnell attacked them
while they were crossing the lake, and
in self-defense Tongue shot him
through the stomach. Mcconnell |
died few minutes later. Settlers are
over his death.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16


Lord Kelvin holds that the internal
heat Of the earth has nothing to do with
the climates. The earth, he says, might
be Of the temperature OF white hot iron
1000 feet below the surface. or at the
freezing point fifty feet below. without
al all affecting climate
To lessen. If not to abolish altogether.
the noise of train when crossing a
bridge, German engineer has devised
a scheme which has proved surprising
~ successful. He puts a decking OF
planks between the cross Orders, and
on the planks a double layer of felt is
placed. In this way, any noise is pre-
vented.
In the French navy II has been found
that the electric search light employed
on men of war injuriously affects the
eyes of seamen who have to work about
the light, and drrS-blue spectacles are
supplied to them for protection. Brown
eyes are less affected than gray or blue
ones, the reason suggested being that
the former are more heavily charged
with pigment.
In Russia = horse that is addicted to
the habit Of running away has thin
cord with a running moose around his
neck at the neck-stay, and the end is
tied to the dashboard. When horse
bolts. he always takes the bit In his
teeth, and the skill of the driver is use
less; but the moment the pressure of
the cord comes on the windplpe the
horse is conquered.
A single tree, according to a computa-
ton in knowledge, is able, through its
bonic acid arising from the respiration
of considerable number Of men, per-
haps a dozen or even a score The vol
ume Of carbonic acid exhaled by hui
man being in the course of twentyfour
hours is put at about 100 gallons but
by Boussingault's estimate, single
square yard CT leaf-surface, counting
both the upper and the under sides of
the leaves, can, under favorable circum-
stances, decompose at least gallon OF
carbonic acid in day. One hundred
square yards of leaf-surface then
would suffice to keep the air pure for
one man, but the leaves of Il tree of
moderate size present a surface OF
many hundred square yards.
Engines used in electric lighting are
required to run with great regularity.
An interesting device for detecting,
with extreme accuracy, any change of
speed in such an engine Is employed In
an Elizabethport factory. Two metal
plates are pierced with corresponding
Sits and placed one In front of the 9th
er so that, when the Sits are in line, the
! spokes OF the fy-wheel of the engine
can be seen passing them. One of the
plates is caused to oselllate, by means
of an electro magnet. at such a rate
that the two Sits are in line every time
spoke Is passing. II there are six
spokes in the wheel, and the wheel
turns 400 times in minute, the nova
BILE slit must oscillate 2,400 times In a
minute. If the speed of the engine Is
perfectly regular a spoke will always
be seen directly in line with the Sits;
II the speed varies the spoke win ap-
pear ahead or behind Its proper place.
| according as the rate of the wheels
revolution Is increased or diminished.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

From report by Commercial Agent
Halves of Reichenberg, Austria Hun
gary:
The conditions required of good
sugar beet are:
I'D Regular shape leone, pear or
olive shape). Many side roots or
prongs are Instantaneous, because
they make cleaning more difficult and
increase the waste. The leaves should
be thick and should be of the charac-
teristic shape and color, and thos )
which lie fiat are to be preferred as
protective the beet against frost.
go A medium size, to 2 pounds.
Small beets make small crop, while
large beets comparatively little sugar.
The length should not be more than 80
centimeters IA inches).
90 Rich in sugar-from to 26
per cent.
90 A white, compact, brittle SUBJ
stance. Such beets are more resistant
to destruction by storage. A small
head not protruding from the ground,
as this head must be cut off, contain.
ing, as it does, very little sugar.
1t is very important to select the
proper variety for given district, be-
cause the different economical condi-
tic" 3 OF climate and soil require differ
ent varieties, if the largest possible
crop is to be harvested. It Is, there
fore, quite necessary for every farmer
to experiment with different varieties. +"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
sugar Rect Seed.

Next to proper oil and climate, a
ruling factor in the production of good
beet for sugar is the choice of the
seed. On this subject Mr.. John l..
Howard, president of the company
owning the Alvarado factory, says it has
been watchful, tedious and painstak-
ing work on the part of seed growers
to bring the sugar content from to
10 per cent in the beets originally
grown to 10 and 30 per cent as now.
The process has been to select at har-
vest time the most perfect roots OF
different varieties, and these, called
mother beets. are carefully preserved
for planting until the next season,
when they are allowed to produce seed
Of their own knid, or crossed with
other varieties to produce new kinds
with the nope of improvement in form,
hsrdihood. adaptability to soil and
climate. but always with the view Of
increasing the sugar yield. The be.
lief exists in Germany that the sugar
yield cannot be pressed much further
without endangering the productive
ness of the beet
The root product of the seed is put
through tn chemical laboratory Of the
establishments. each Of which makes
during season thousands of chemical
determinations OF quality.
The seed sown in this country is i'm
ported from Germany and France, and
much hes been learned in practice
with respect to the kinds best suited to
our particular climate and to the
differences of soils. II is quite certain,
however, that il the industry shall
become generally established in this
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

country. American growers Of beet
seed will be able TO sell the farmer the
kinds best suited to his own condition.
Indeed. it is thought that in this State
we have discovered what it is hoped
will prove fact, that beets from seed
yielded by mother beets, grown in
California from foreign seed, yield
more sugar than beets grown directly
from foreign seed that have not been
scclimated. 1t will take many years
Of peculiar study to prove this TO be
fact, and then if proven, the produc-
ton of our own beet seed will become
a uecessity.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
Thanksgiving Day.

Speaking of the causes for thanks.
giving among the agriculturists this
year. thu California Fruit Grower
says: Generally speaking, the deoid-
nous fruit crop of the State has been
an immense one. That portion of it
which was shipped Immediately fol.
lowing the harvest found wider and
more eager market than was ever be.
fore known and at better prices than
those prevailing in late years. A part
OF the grape crop, intended for raisin
making did not cure we'll, but aside
from this, the other portion of the de.
ciduous fruit yield met with excellent
conditions for curing. 1t is safely
housed and fairly firm tone evades
the situation all down the line. Be-
fore another harvest rolls around,
stocks, it is safe to say, will have been
depleted. California fruits in one
form, or in another, are found in the
uttermost parts of the earth. They
are becoming known as never before,
and in the opinion of cool, calculating.
foreseeing men, the industry will con.
tinue to grow in Importance with the
coming years.
The cereal crops are harvested and
vessels are in demand for carrying il
to the less favored countries Of the
world. Farmers are receiving once
more for their labor remunerative
figures.
The largest citrus fruit crop the
State has ever produced is about ready
TO be marketed. This first shipments
are already begun and by the time the
campaign Is closed, barring unlocked.
for conditions. more oranges and more
lemons will have CROSSED the Sierras
than in any previous year.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
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Her Hone.

Dear me-" exclaimed Maud, who had
been reading fashion paper. Last
years engagement ring has gone wholly
out of style"
WAT has taken its placer inquired
Mamie.
Il don't know. But hope it's bi.
cycle. "-Washington Star.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
portantif Trne.

YES" said the poet the greater
man becomes, the more pleasure he de-
rives from visits to the scenes Of his
childhood"
''Humph!' retorted the cynic, do you
know why? He just wants to hear the
old folks around there say they always
knew he had something more than com
mon stuff In him.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

Assistant Secretary Vanderbilt has
signed what is known rs pay war
rant, directing the Treasurer of the
United States TO deposit in the Treas
ury SIS, i94.618. representing the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the Union Pacific.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
Yaauviua, Lava

1t Is computed that all the houses In
London and New York could be built
of the lava thrown out by yesuvius
since the first recorded eruption In A.
n 10
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
The Tigers Great STRENGTH.

The tigers strength exceeds that OF
the lion. Five men can easily hold
down lion, but nine are required to
subdue tiger.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

George A. Reynolds. grand secretary
of the National Order of Elks, an
nounces that the new annual conven-
ton of the Elks will be held in New
Orleans in May, 1898. as previously
decided. regardless of yellow fever
conditions.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

The Journal de Concrete of Rio
JaneiIo announces that the Roths-
childs of London have givenya credit
for go 900, 900 t$1 o. 900. 0O0J. On the
strength Of this announcement Brazil
ian stocks rose to I'd, but afterward
fell to S.s2d, where thay remained
firm,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
Mammoth Docks.

hamburgs new colossal docks meas.
ure $50 meters in length and thirty-six
In breadth.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

The highest price actually paid for
Sonoma county hops this season is 3 "a
cents. Very few sales we're made at
this figure and several thousand pounds
have been sold since that time for IS %
cents. On hops the Santa Rosa Re-
publican in late issue says: Growers
all over the county have been on the
anxious seat ever since this season s
hops were ready for market, scarce
knowing what price they ought to ex.
pct. When ISL cents were offered a
few sold. Others held back, believing
that 90 or even % cents, would be
offered. Since that time the price has
fallen to IL to 1875 cents for choice
hops.
In conversation with prominent
hop man a reporter learned that the
hop crop of Sonoma coanty will not
fall short of IA 900 bales. This is two
thousand bales more than was at first
reported. OF these IA 200 bales, about
5000 have been sold. leaving 5000 still
on the market.
1t was reported recently that 141s
cents was being offered, the price hav-
ing advanced cent. Buyers main
tain that the price will not again reach
1874 cents, but growers are holding on
for a higher figure than has yet been
offered.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
Prevention of Milk Fever.

At recent meeting of the Guernsey
Breeders Association. Geo. L. Gilling-
ham said that, as our Channel Island
cattle become more highly bred and
perfected-as we are striving to de.
velop them each year-it will be neces.
sary for us to be better versed in re-
gard to that dread disease-milk fever,
or parturient apoplexy. We will
have to use preventives in order to
save some of our richer mixers, for
it is with them that this disease proves
most fatal; and while an ounce OF pre-.
vention is worth a pound of cure. it is
doubly SO with this.
The dairyman of the future will
make special study of this branch
of his business, and, in the absence of
amy better preventive, it has been
found that the following has been
very beneficial: When the cow is in
high condition, place her in quiet
stable and feed her on very light diet
for two weeks, composed of a small
amount Of good hay and a few quarts
of wheat bran; and five days before
parturition give her drench of one
pound Of EPSON salts dissolved IN one
quart of hot water, with one quart of
molasses and two tablespoonfuls of
ginger. and again as soon as the calf
is dropped. allowing no hay for twenty
four hours, giving warm bran slop and
allowing nothing cold to eat or drink
for at least twenty-four hours.
After having lost quite number
with this disease, we have lost none
since practicing this treatment or had
q case in period of four years.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some Interesting News for the
RuraIist
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
a Pew Sensible Hints to Suit the Busy
st.-Items That May
Benefit our Readers.

The complaint Of olive-growers that
oottonseed oil is running the trade in
olive oil, as we'll as the health of those
that use it, is one that could be met by
legislation An analogous case is that
of the butter-makers in their fight
against oleomargarine. When bogus
butter was first put on the market it
had general vogue in cities. Its taste
being agreeable, its color right, and
its price low, it put the dairying inter-
est in jeopardy, and would have re-
duced its profits more than half if the
aid of Congress and State Legislatures
had not been successfully invoked.
The first effort of the dairymen was to
stop the manufacture of the spurious
compound, but in this they were
baffied Then they turned the tables
on the cleomargsrine people by secur-
ing laws which obliged the manufac-
turer of oleoInargarine to sell it as
such and not as butter. This device
stood constitutional tests. IL put an
end to the fraud and left the new COM
pound to make its way. if it could, on
its own merits and not upon those of
the genuine produc of the dairy.
Why not the same protection for
olive oil? If the growers demand that
cottonseed oil be sold, only under the
descriptive labels, and that laws pro-
hibiting the sdulteration of olive oil
with the cheaper product be passed,
they will probably get what they
want. Having established the princi-
pie in the case Of butter, Congress and
the Legislatures would not hesitate to
apply it to other commodities. AS a
further result of such a reform the
Italians, whose export oil is adulter-
ated, would be driven out of the Amer
lean market or compelled to better
their wares. In a word, the olive
growers have remedy for unfair do
mestic and foreign competition alike
in the use of weapons already fashioned
for them. They have only to take
these weapons in hand and use them
to secure the relief which means very
large addition to their revenues and
those of the State from the 1880, 00O
California olive trees now in bearing.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

Many people have wrong idea as to
what constitutes good beet for sugar
purposes. Contrary to popular idea,
the beet should be small, with large,
leafy top. Brien says: 1.-THE size of
the beet is in the inverse ratio of its
sugars and salts; the content of water
increases with the size and weight of
the beet. In general, the standard
adopted seems to be beet weighing
/ z to / q pounds, carrying IA per cent
sugar, and having purity of so per
cent, although factories will accept
beets weighing as high as pounds
and having as low as IL per cent sugar.
In addition, good sugar beets should
have long, tapering roots, without
branching rootlets.
The average sugar content and
purity for the States where sugar is
now manufactured from beets are as
follows.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

The Swedish Academy of Science
may arrange with the Government for
a preliminary expedition to Spitzber-
gen, there to arrange for the final
measurement of degree of latitude
in 1890 and 1900. with view of OBJ
tanning more exact knowledge of the
earth's form.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16

In no country in the world are the
climatic conditions as favorable to the
production of plant crosses as in Cali
fornia. 1t is therefore not surprising
that with each season some new and
astonishing creations in these lines
should make their appearance. Among
the most recent and Interesting of these
is the Mammoth blackberry, originated
by Judge ]. 81. Logan. the originator
of the now famous Logan berry.
Judge Logan informs us that the
Mammoth is cross between the wild
blackberry of California (Rubus ursin-
us) and the Texas EARLY, the former a
species of the dewberry type. while the
latter has more the shrubby habit of
the high blackberry. The most Ie-
markable feature about his new black
berry is that while the fruits of both
parents are below medium in size, q
cross between the two should produce
berries of the largest size. specimens
measuring 3S inches in length be-
ing not unusual.
When fully ripe the berries are
sweet and of excellent flavor, and for
cooking or canning they are unrivsl ed.
Unlike the high blackberry the Nam
moth does not throw up sprouts from
it's roots, and cannot be propsgated
from root cuttings. Instead, its canes
run from 20 to 80 feet in one season,
and strike roots at their ends on tips,
like Blackcap raspberries. So far this
interesting novelty has not been suffi
oiently tried outside of it's original
locality to establish it's value for gen.
eral cultivation, the results of which
are eagerly looked for by progressive
fruit growers.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-30
Wallace Circus Company.

The list of artists is too long to
enumerate in detail but the principal
ones who can be mentioned in this
limited space with the Great Wallace
Shows which will exhibit at johnson
City, Wednesday, October 18th. are
the Martell's in phenomenal bicycle
and skating novelties; the Wrentz
family, thrilling mid-air feats on the
trapeze; the Petils in a laughable
comedy bar act; Nine. Dupre and hor
trained elephants; Rowenna, head
ballancer; the Sansoni sisters, female
SamSons in feats Of strength; Martinez
sisters, contortion wire walkers; Girard
Leon and his famous singing mule,
"Trilby;" Oscar Lowande, Reed Sis
ters, Mile, Tatslli and others, bare
back riders, together with long list
of menage riders, revolving globe walk
ers, tumblsrs, trained animals, funny
clowns and all the other soncomitants
that go to make up the modern mon
ster circus, The glittering white and
gold street parade, one mile in length,
should not be forgotten, leaving the
show grounds at 1890 every forenoon
and traversing the principal business
street of the city.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-30
Original Attachment Suit.
M E Wolfe Furniture Company vs..
The Linnville River Lumber Co.

III pursuance to an order heretofore
male aud entered by me, NJ /. Gump,
a Justice of the Peace for Washington
county, Tonn., in an attachment suit
wherein the M. E. Wolfe Furniture
Co, is plaintiff, and you, the Linville
River Lumber Co., is defendant, you
are hereby notified that upon the
affidavit of plaintiff, in which it is
allgeJ that you are indebted to the
NJ. +. Wolfe Furniture Co. in the sum
of $l0G 80 due by probated account,
and that the claim Is Just and that
tie said Linville River Lumber Co. ia
nonresident OF the state of Tennes.
see 60 that the ordinary process OF law
can not be served upon it A writ of
attachment was on the 18th day of
Sept. 1897, issued against you by me,
M. | Gump, Justice of the Peace for
Washington county, Tennessee, which
writ came to the hands of &. F. Camp.
bell, deputy sheriff for Washington
county, Tennessee, and was by him
executed by levying said attachment
on the following personal property, the
property OF the Linville River Lumber
Co: One road wagon and four sets Of
harness, done same day at 6 80 o'clock
p. M, as appears by return OF said
officer on the 10Th day of September at
the office OF M. |. Gump, justice of the
peace aforesaid. Said Linville River
Lumber Co. is requested to appear on
the 10th day of October, 1897, at the
office of M. l. Gump, Esq, in johnson
City, Tenn, before him as the Justice
having cognizance, then and there to
defend this action so commenced
against you by attachment, otherwise
the cause will be proceeded in against
you exparte.
NJ. l. GUMP, Justice of the Peace.
This Sept. Is, 1897. 689-4t.