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ch ynssi should prove to be a good draw

Oh ynskI should prove TO be a good draw
ing card.
Peter Jackson said last evening that he
expect to leave for the north in few
day with theatrical company.
Il am ready to meet all CO omers," said
Jackson. II have not been whipped yet
ANA l cannot understand why l am Sc
lected as being among the mum Der of has
b'ens-' When l am whipped then it will
be time for those who look upon me as a
has been to cry wolf. l may drink and
appear out of date in the eyes of many
people, but let them give me chance te-
fore they cruelty me; that's all 1 have TO
say. ANYHOW, l am going north with
show and l expect to do well while am
on the road"
The Excelsior Athletic Club is still hop
ing to carry eff its monthly exhibition,
which was stopped by the police last Tues
day evening. The membe say that the
Excelsior Club has just as good right to
hold its entertainment as the olympic
Club, which sold tickets to outsiders last
FrilRy evening. The members say that
the authorizes should not make fish of
one club and flesh of another.
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INDICTED THREE CROOKS.
The Grand Jury Finds True Bius
Against Sealsk n Thieves.

The Grand Jury Finds True Bills
Against Sealsk Thieves.
The Grand Jury found indictments yes-
terday against Fiege and Finney, the two
men who were recently arrested for break
ing into the urstore of Frederick P. Null
Ter at 223 Ke army street, and stealing a
large guam tity of sealskins belonging TO
wealthv society women who had left the
garments there for repairs.
Tho iurs were sold to a Montgomery
street pawnbroker for $50. and were recov-
cred from there by the police after lon e
search. Both men are now in stody on
charges OF burglary, and the indictments
charge them wit the same eff .nse.
The jury also found true DILL AGAINST
joan Underwood. who Is charged with
having perpetrated a hsIf-lnterest swim
die. Underwood IepTe ented that he
owned a real estate business downtown
and sold an interest t. a s. Bragg. The
business real y belongei TO George Ban
mister, and Underwood was detected in
his nearious transaction when his victim
tried TO take possession.
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SERMON ON GAMBLING.

Rev. DIR. BovAId Attacks the Slot Ma
chimes aud Gift-Sale Enterprises.
ALA AMEDA, Dec. 13-Rev. f. D Bo-
ward, pastor of the Park street Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. who is famous for
his outspoken attacks upon public evils,
devoted his sermon last evening TO a con-
Iteration OF the subject of gam bling. He
paid II respects To the slot machines,
and WAS especially severe uDon orug
firm of this city, winch Is promising To
I'VE away pony and cart on the pr
number system. He declared that In S
WAS bling of the worst Kind ana would
debauCh The con- -ciences of the winners
and those who engaged in such enter
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Ferk ley News Notes.

BERKELEY, Dee. l3 AT tn monthly meet
ing ot the regents tomorrow morning In San
Francisco the matter OF rlectlI 6 director OF
the Lick Observatory WI be brought up.
The Berkeey Free Public Library was re
opened today IN lis new quarters on the
second floor OF The bank building.
The lack of an organiz d fire company in
East Be kelley i, declartd have been largely
responsible Tor The fire College way early
sunday morning. An eff ri may be made to
reorgauiz the old rolum bia FIRE Company in
order To secure the central portiol OF the
college town against confagratl0ns.
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WOLWEBBER STEPS OUT,
Handed in His Resignation Yester-
day, to Take Effect at
Once.

Sergeant Gustav Wolwe bber yesterday
handed in his resignation to the Pol ce
Com mmissi>ner', TO take effect to-day, as
signing ilI-hea.th a3 the cause.
He has been on The force for the last
sixteen years. a0d for two wears
has been a sergeant at the CALI
frnia-sireet station. Recently an
lnvestiga uon was mace ana three of
his men were caught in quiet
game of draw poker, ana the SER
geant was transferred to the O'Farreil
street station, or What is known as the
log district" and many oil his friend :
say that this change has more to do with
his resignation tnan his health
Sergeant Wo!webber intends to engage
in business shortly, and ieav S the de part
ment with st wishes for lis future.
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TOO BIG TO BE BELIEVED,
Mrs. PrInet Says Her Husband Tried to
Kill Her, but she Gets
Arrested.

Mrs. Prinet, wife of Eugene Prinet, who
tried 10 commit suicide last week by tax
ing chloroform because he could not get
along with his vile, was arrested late last
night for disturbing the peace.
The officer who male the arrest saws
that when he arrived MIS- Prinet was Gre
aiing a distur bance, but on seeing the Of
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commend the officer would stamp the
story as true it is believed the Mavor
would introduce some such re QUITO be-
fore the Police Commits ion. As 1t is
everybody concerned disclaims any
knowledge of the Incl lent
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JOo broadway, Dec. Is.
ANY citizen who is out after dark in
OAKLAND during this winter is likely 10 be
held up either by the police, WHO merely
want info nation, or by genuine footuads,
who want something else.
Chief Lloyd has inaugurated a system
ty which he hopes to catch some OF the
little army of burglars who average about
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hcers she changed her tactics and ella med
thai her husband was trying TO kill her.
AS Mrs Prinet is a Hercules compared
with her husband, the officer gathered
her in and placed her IN the California
street station Tor the balance OF the even
ing
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The hL-M M
She Brings ttOries of fitch Finds
and the famine at CdwSon
CITY.

PORT TOWNSEND, Dec. 1.-THE
steamer A.ki arrived this morning
from the north. She brrgs the
story of very rich find
of gold near Dawson, and confirms
the stories OF impenIiug famine among
the miners
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An Executor suspended.

OAKLAND, Dec. 13-There was a little
excitement il Judge Ogden's court to-day
u hen il was found that Alfred Gublinger
wa not pre- -ent. Gubinger is one OF the
executors of the Rathgale estate and was
ciIPd to be present to-day TO max some
explanations. He did not appear AMI q
b-nch warrant was Issued for hIm. The
Sheriff II ade a re turn this afternoon that
Gubinger could not be found, AMI a.so an
affidavit that l. e believed the executor was
evadIng service Jude Ogden then sus-
Vended the authority OF the executor till
next week. and ordered him to appear and
show cause why he snould not be Derma-
nently removed.
Louis JAmes at the MacdOnough.
OAKLAND, Dec. 13. - Macdonough
Theater was we'll filed to-niPht 10 see
Louis James in his new play "a Cavalier
of France" Tuesday evening James will
appear for the last time in Spar acus."
The Ellford Company has returned AMI
will be seen in the Oakland this week in
"Kidnaped The Lost Paradise" and
"Humpty Dumpty."
Masonic and odd Fellows Honors.
OAKLAND, Dec. 13-Ihe funeral of
Robert Smihe Will take place to- morrow
afternoon at his late residence, DIR. r. F.
CoyIe, ID, officialinp, under the super
vision OF Oak and Commaudrey No. IL,
knights TIE rp!ar. Thr mem bers of Foun-
tHin L ldge No 1873 l. 0. o. F., will attend
as an organization, in reGalla. The guard
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TO MEET IN THE RING TONIGHT.


Agnew and Frank Mcconnell before
coming yet been defeated There
o ant
he
people
fyeo probably
and Young
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ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.

nf honor consists OF mast Commanders Sir
kn ghts w Frank Pierce, A. w. Burren
ID. Edward Collins, George Patterson, Il
I. Gilpin, J. B. Merritt, Solomon Latnrop,
Charles w. HemeS and t. H. Morgan.
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Alameda Notes.

ALAMEDA, Dec. I3 -Yeary medals have
been wo4 by the following mem bers OF Com
pany g A. l. Huff, J. H. Wituth, +. Thomp-
son ana J. Rivera.
The "Mother Goose" fair OF S.. Ur5ulss
Gu.l netled the sum o. 500. which viii be
applied TO the church debt
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REFEREES SALE.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. Is, 1897,
AT - o'clock,
1t The SaIeSrOOms of G. II. UmbSen G. Co.,
II Montgomery St,

We viii sell by ord n of Gustav III.
mbse referee OF the estate of ThO Omas
Nontry Jr, three properties of the es-
tate, as follows:
Firs.-SW. corner of HAYES and Cough sts.; Inn
pruvements consist of S, flats and houses
bringing in .otal mou hlv rental OF S27S: lot
o5X 20 feet. fronting o. three streets.
Sec"nG-~f. corner of p axe and Octava SITS I;
mi rove meats bringing in total monthly rem tai
Of S67: lot 27:6xl20 feet Hickory ave-. three
ITontagAs.
ThrI-SW- corner OF 8av and Dupont st<: i'm
prov ments ren.ing fos $57 per month; lot go 6x
il3 feet
or further PARTICULARS, catalogue. etc, inquire
at The Ollie OF G. H L NJ BSkN & CO., Auction
eers, i Montgomery st
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OCEAN TRAVEL
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP co.

CTEAMER5 LEAVE BROADWAY 6eSa.
- wharf san Francisco as follows: GS25%
For ports in Alaska. A. NJ, Dec 2 z, l., II
% ~ aud every firth day thereafter.
For Victoria, Vancouver Oh c., Port Town
send. Seattle Tacoma, Everett Anacortes AMI
New WLatcom tBellingham Bay, Wash.l 9 A II,
Dec. =, Z u, IL %. 81, and evecy fifth day thers
after, connecting at Vancouver with .he e. Z. Ry.
at Tacoma with \. z. Ry- at Seattle with Grea5
Nor, hern ny, and a aska steamers
For Eureka (Humbodt Bay) Str. Pomona
p M. Dec 3, T. L IS, 20 "A. 2S. Jan l, D, H. 4
For santa Cruz, Monterey San Simeon. Cayncox
Port Hartford (San Luis Obispo), Gaviota Santa
Barbara, Ventura, Hueneme, san Pedro. East san
Pedro (Los Angelesl and Newport, 9 A. NJ. Dec.
4 s, y. 10 p, "a, %, anu every fourth day
thereafter
For san Diego. stopping only a, Port Har ford
(Sen Luis Obispo( santa Barbara, Port LoI An
relies AM Redondo (Los Angees). IL A. NJ. Dec,
:. 10, Ia, 10. - 20 80, anI every four. h day
thereafter
For Enseuada, Magdalena Bay San Jose del
Cabo, Mazatlan Aitata, La Paz, Santa Rosa Ia
and Guaymas (Mex.). 10 A. NJ. I'd of each month.
The Company reserves the right co cnange with
out previous notice steamers, sailing dates ami
hours of sailing
Ticket Office-PALACE HOTEL NEW MONT
GoAIERY ST.
6OODALL- PERKINS q CO, Gent Agents.
10 Market ST.. san Francisco
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In Some Instances the Bold
EOotpads Have Been
Officers
Patrolmen Instructed to Ask
an Explanation From
Anybody.
A Quiet Report That Mayor Thomas
Was Mistaken for
Robber.

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL J
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food, the cutworms, and assuming
that 10 per cent of these insects would
have been killed by the carabid bee
ties, it still leaves 1888 cutworms to
the toad's credit; and if the damage
the cutworms would have caused be
estimated at one cent per worm, a fig
ure which gardeners and tobacco
growers will probably consider ridic-
ulously low, it will be seen that toad
might destroy cutworms which would
otherwise have destroyed crops to the
extent of $19.88.-Ex. 10
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The Fence Question.

The fence question will not down.
1t will keep bobbing up until we have
a change in the laws
The Agriculturist invites the fullest
discussion through it's columns. AS
our correspondent in another column
saws. there are two sides to this as to
all other questions, and we are per-
fectly willing to present both sides.
Our position is perhaps too we'll
known to need consideration. We IA
vor a local or county option stock law.
A law that will allow the citizens of
different counties to say whether
stock should be fenced in or fenced
out. Our reason for favoring a law
of this kind is on account of vast
tracts of land in some counties suited
only for grazing, and these tracts in
some instances comprise almost entire
counties. 1t would be manifestly I'M
lust to cause stock raisers in counties
where stock raising is the only in
dustry, to fence for the benefit of the
people of other counties perhaps hum
dreds of miles distant. On the other
hand it is unjust to compel people OF
other counties engaged in general ag-
riculture to build thousands of dollars
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The Economic Value of a Toad.

The Hatch Experiment Station of
the State College at Amherst has just
issued Bulletin No. 46, which is on
"The Habits, Food and Economic Val
ue of the American Toad" The bulle-
tin is the work of A. H. Kirkland, as
sistant entomologist to the Gypsy
Moth Committee. Mr.. Kirkland finds
that insects constitute N per cent of
the food of toad. To show the num-
Der of worms which a toad destroys
he states that in the stomach of sim
gle toad were found fifty-five army
worms, in another sixty-five gypsy
moth caterpillars, and in third, thir-
ty-seven tent caterpillars He records
an experiment where in three hours
time a toad had consumed between
thirty and thirty-ive full-grown Gel
cry worms. He found by examina ton
of large number of loads that 81
per cent of the insects they destroy
are injurious to cultivated crops, or in
other ways obnoxious to man. A toad
would devour, in the months of May,
June and July, the following: 1872
ants, 2,200 cutworms, 1,840 myrapods,
2,2O8 sourbugs, 36S weevils, and 1868
carabids. Of these 9,936 are injurious
insects, and 368 are beneficial insects.
Mr. kirkland then figures out the
amount in dollars and cents which a
toad may be worth. Combining his at
tention to but one element of the
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medium low ridges and no cultivation
whatever was given them from plant
ing time to harvest.
Plot No. 1 was fortified with
ground tobacco stems. The tobacco
was placed in the center of the ridges
before planting, about six or eight
inches below the crown of the ridge.
Plot No. 2 was fertilized with COM
plete fertilizer with guaranteed
analysis of five per cent phosphoric
acid, six per cent ammonia and eight
per cent potash. ',@'
On plot No. 3 blood and bone was
used and small quantity of double
manure salt was added.
Plot No. 4, no fertilizer.
Plot No. 5.-On this plot was APP
piled mixture of sulphate of potash
as per cent? and nitrate of soda, at
the rate of $50 pounds of potash to
$50 pounds of nitrate per acre. A
small amount of ground Florida phos-
phate was also used but do not con-
slider that it figured in the result.
The yield on this plot was most
marked and satisfactory. Plots No. 1
and where tobacco Q) and the COM
mercial fertilizer (2) were used, yield
ed almost the same, but the tubers
from No. 2 were in better shape, be-
ing of more even size and smoother.
Plot No. where blood and bone
was used yielded but little more than
the unfertilized plot, No. 4, but the
roots we're knotty and very unattrac>
tive in appearance. Unfortunately the
potatoes from the plots above named
were mixed before weighing and no
figures can be given as to the size of
the yield.
Plot No. was by all odds the best
of the lot. This was the plot on which
the mixture of sulphate of potash and
nitrate of soda was used. The nitrate
had the effect of producing what l
thought at the time was an abnormal
growth of vines, but final investiga-
ton showed that this growth in no
way interfered with the development
of tubers. In this plot the ridges were
almost a solid mass of potatoes all
of them smooth and clean without
knots or cracks and very few being
above or below a marketable size.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1897.
Table of Contents.

FARM, GROVE & GARDEN-Shaw
berries in South Florida; The Fence
Question ........................... 600
Strawberry Culture (continued).....---- 61O
Dropping OF Oranges. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GIL
Among the Orange Groves .........-.- 612
Bermuda and St. Lucie. 613
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT - Florida
Tobacco Fair; Selling too Cheap; Sea-
sonable Hints; Crops of Leon and Ga s.
den Counties ................... Ga
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT - The
Fence Question; Potash for Sweet Po-
tatoes; The New Tariff Law ...--.---.--- GIG
FLORAL DEPARTMENT-The Sweet
Pea. OAo
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT - Child
ren's Manners; Medical Food; Ora
ham Mullins o4o
POULTRY DEPARTMENTAL Breeds
and Profits; Poultry in Large Crops;
Saving Poultry Manure. .............. GIG
LITERATURE-The Woman in It.. go
WITH THE JOKER..-................ 622
FIORJDIANA. .. 623
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to know the protection accorded the
various products of the soil under our
new tariff law. The list follows:
Beans, forty-fve cents per bushel of
sixty pounds.
Beans, peas and mushrooms, pre-
pared or preserved, in tins, jars, bot
ties, or similar packages, two and
one-half cents per pound, including
the weight of all tins, jars and other
immediate coverings; all vegetables,
prepared or preserved, including pick
les and sauces of all kinds, not spec
tally provided for in this Act, and fish
paste or sauce, forty per centum ad
valorem.
Cabbages, three cents each.
Cider, five cents per gallon.
Onions, forty cents per bushel; gar
lie, one cent per pound.
Orchids, palms, dracaenas, crotons
and azealeas, tulips, hyacinths, narcis-
ST, jonquils, lilies, lilies of the valley,
and all other bulbs, dubious roots, or
corms, which are cultivated for their
flowers, and natural flowers of all
kinds, preserved Or fresh, suitable for
decorative purposes, twenty-five per
centum ad valorem.
Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of
Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb or Muzzard
cherry, three years old Or less, fifty
cents per thousand plants and fifteen
per centum ad valorem; stocks, cut
tings- or seedlings of pear, apple,
ounce and the St. Julian plum, three
years old or less, and evergreen seed
lings, one dollar per thousand plants
and fifteen per centum ad valorem;
rose plants, budded, grated or grown
on their own roots, two and one-half
cents each; stocks, cuttings and seed
Engs of all fruit and ornamental
trees, decidous and evergreen, shrubs
and vines manetti, mu1tifiora and
brier rose and all trees, shrubs,
plants and vines, commonly known as
nursery Or greenhouse stock, not
specially provided for in this Act,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Potatoes, twenty-five cents per
bushel of sixty pounds.
Seeds: Castor beans or seeds,
twenty-five cents per bushel of fifty
pounds; faxseed or linseed and other
oil seeds not specially provided for in
this Act, twenty-five cents per bushel
of fifty-six pounds; poppy seed, fifteen
cents per pushed; but no drawback
shall be allowed upon oil cake made
from imported seed, nor shall any al
lowance be made for dirt or other i'm
purities in amy seed; seeds of all kinds
not specially provided for in this Act,
thirty per centum ad valorem.
Vegetables in their natural state,
not specially provided for in this Act,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Fruits and Nuts.-Apples, peaches,
ounces, cherries, plums, and pears,
green or ripe, twenty-five cents per
bushel; apples, peaches, pears and
other edible fruits, including berries,
when dried, dessicated, evaporated or
prepared in any MINER, not specially
provided for in this Act, two cents per
pound; berries, edible, in their nat
ural condition, one cent per quart;
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worth of fences against few dollars
worth of COWS and hogs
Potash for Sweet Potatoes.

| in FLORIDA or In any OF the gulf ana
South Atlantic states, that will yield
| larger returns for the amount of cap
ital and labor expended than the
sweet potato. 1t is, in fact, one of the
never-failing dependence of the s,uth-
ern planter, and it speaks well for the
crop that the yield is one-half what
it is when we take into consideration
it's mistreatment.
AS rule the potato is planted any
where between April and July, and the
planter appears to think his duty
done when the slips Or runners are
put into the ground. AS for fertiliL-
ing, he either thinks it unnecessary,
or what is worse still, makes whole
sale and injurious application Of barn,
yard manure, which is just what the
potato does not need, and which az
fects in a detrimental manner both
the yield and the quality of the tn
bers.
Careful ANALYSES of the potato show
that the roots contain over fifty per
cent of potash and the vines over
seventy per cent. 1t would seem that
with this knowledge the planter could
not make mistake in the matter OF
fertilizing, but that he persistently
applied heterogeneous barnyard ma
nure almost entirely deficient in the
most important constituent of both
vines and roots is conclusive proof OF
either his ignorance or his thought
lessness.
Experience, extending over con-
siderable period, has brought the con-
viction that good healthy vines are es-
sential to a good crop of tubers. The
impression prevails that large vines
produce inferior potatoes and few in
number. This may he if the soil is
so deficient in potash that the roots
will not develop, but in fertilizing ele-
ments that are supplied are of a char
acter that will stimulate vine growth
and at the same time supply the form
ing tubers with sufficient food for de-
velopment the result in every case will
be satisfactory.
Nitrogen and potash are the two
elements needed to produce the sweet
potato to perfection-and we might
say that they are all that is needed,
as the ordinary soil contains a SUI
fcient quantity of phosphoric acid.
Analysis indicates thepresence of over
twenty per cent of nitrogen in the
roots and forty per cent in the vines.
Hence in compromising fertilizer for
sweet potatoes it is necessary to use
these elements-potash and nitrogen
in about the same proportion as indi-
Gated by the analyses.
The generality of farmers are salts
fed with a yield of about 200 bushels
per acre-in fact the average is there
much less than that-but with a COM
paritive small expense in the matter
of fertilizing the yield may be more
than doubled.
A correspondent detailing his ex-
periments with various tertilizing ma
| terial, writes:
My experimental ''patch'' was put in
quite late, too late in fact for best re-
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