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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06
Is This the Right Sort of a senator.

Senator Teller is quoted as saying that
1.-The silver senators do not intend to per-
nit the treaty to be ratified in hurry
They are determined TO show Great Britain
that they are OF some consequence in the
Senate of the United States" We do
not like to believe that Senator Teller
said anything of the sort, and yet it is
asserted on what appears to be good au-
thority that he made the statement Sen
ator Teller has the reputation OF being a
man of a great deal of common SENSE
The foregoing statement is puerile. What
does Great Britain care whether the silver
senators are of some consequence or not.
and why should the silver senator's desire
TO show Great Britain that they are of
some consequence?
The treaty does not present question
which offers an opportunity for the silver
senators to make demons ration in be-
half of silver. The silver question is not
connected with any question with which
the treaty is concerned. There does not
therefore, seem to he any reason why SEN
ator Teller should want the silver senator's
to make a showing of their strength in
connection with the question Of the rat-
ncation Of the treaty.
The treaty should stand on it's merits
If Il is a wise measure 1t should De adopted.
III ii is not then il should Doc DEBATED; and
the fact that a senator Is for or against
silver should not influence him in the least
in acting upon the treaty.
The Baltimore American apothco-
sizes tho lingo spirit and
declares If it were not for
recent demonstrations inspired by that
spirit there would now be- no arbitration
treaty pending in the senate. "Jlngoism
in tins instance not only avertcd war. but
laid the foundation for lasting peace" says
our contemporary; which only goes TO
show that there are standpoints from
which peculiar vows may be bad.
II Is TO be inferred from recent utter
anoes OF the Rev. A. c. Dixon OF New
York that hc thinks a good deal of the
meekness Of Moses was artificial. or rath-
err mauufactured--namm into him BY
his wife Mrs. Moses, according to the
preacher, was a virago. VINO nenpocked her
husband so that he found life a burden.
II would be monument of shame 10
South Caroline lf that magnificent insti-
tuition Of learning az Charleston. the Cit
ddel Academy, should Be abolished.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06

If the decision of the United states SUI
preme court in the case in which the
state OF Ohio brought suit against the
Western Union Telegraph Company for
taxes on tho capital stock Of The company
is rightly understood. telegraph aud OK
press companies are taxable on
some part Of their capital stock
in all the states through which
thoy pass. with reference 20 the Ohio
ease. the auditor of that state is quoted
a. saying. Under tho United States SUI
prcme court decision, Western Union must
nay tax averaging taking the rate in
c)uniles) pa per cent. on S2.OO0,OOO for four
years back, or about 100000 in the aggre-
gate. The question OF whether II must
pay 10 per cent. penalty on this sum. be-
cause Of non-payment Of taxes IS not yet
settled The Adams. United States, and
American Express companies, together.
NUT pay about $4,000 back taxes. All
other telegraph and express companies
have been paying the tax for four years
aud owe nothing
II express and telegraph companies
should be taxed on their capital stock In
an the states through which they pass.
tho amount which they would have to pay
would cut heavily into dividends OF the
stockholders.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06

A Chicago paper has timely cartoon
illustrating misery and happiness. 1t
shows Mckinley besieged by ofiice-seekers
and surrounded by pamphlets upon the
leading national and international ques-
lions. hard at work upon his inaugural
address. That is misery. II also shows
Cleveland. studying a price list of fish
hooks" with nothing at hand to take his
attention but books upon "How to Hunt
Ducks" "How 10 Catch Fish," Where to
Spend a Holiday" and similar subjects.
That is happiness. Mr.. Cleveland's hoii-
day begins in less than month now.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06

4 very remarkable and successful X-ray
experiment was made in New York the
other day. living mans heart was
watched in action by doctor. A fiuoro-
scope between the Observers eyes and the
subjects chest, and a Crookes tube be-
mind his back. enabled the doctor TO see
not only the perfect outline of the heart
changing with each pulsation, but also
that the heart was out of its proper posi-
ton. The heart in action, as viewed
through the apparatus, is said to resem-
bic somewhat balloon partly inflated,
and being swayed by light winds, rising
and falling constantly with ever chang
ing outline. The heart is said TO be more
Opaque TO the H-rays than any other part
or tissue of the body. from the fact that
Il IS enclosed in sac that contains wa
ter and a salty substance, salt being thor
oughly opaque to the rays.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06

II would be a monument Of shame 10
South Caroline lf that magnificent inst-
tuition Of learning az Charleston. the Cit
ddel Academy, should b. abolished.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14

trainers calling and demonstrating the
facts which determine the measure OF
his success, and a more general educa-
ton enables every citizen to appro-
pirate the results Of this work TO the
direction Of his own affairs.
Few farmers now sneer at sclentlnc
farming, though some would prefer to
call it by some other name, for preJu-
dice adheres to the average man Ike
original sin to the uneonyerted. But
whether they admit or not, every sue
cessful farmer owes his success to the
application of scientific methods to his
business.
They may not even know why some
varieties Of plants will not mature seed
unless another variety Of the same
species is planted near it. They know
that stable manure benefits their grass
crops, bone meal their grain crops, and
wood ashes their fruit crops, and have
not bothered themselves about the
reasons. They know that growing
animals require different rations from
fattening ones; that milk and grass
will make a pig or a calf grow like
noxious weed, and that corn and cot
tonseed will pile ON the fat. But they
don't trouble themselves about protein
and carbohydrates. 1t is gratifying
to know that scientific knowledge il
spreading among farmers. anu tina
even those who have not the theor.
adopt the practice.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some interesting News for the
RuraIist
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN
A Few Sensible Hints to Suit the Busy
Agriculturlst.-It Items That May
benefit our Readers.
Fraudulent Fruit.

The dirty work Of the Baltimore
packers who have been robbing and
injuring California by fraudulent
labels is best described in the following
article:
Rnsamond Brand-(cut of peach)-
California Peaches. Yellow Crawford
Packed by the Rosamond Packing
Co., California, U. S. A.
Rosamond is a railroad station near
Mojava, in Antelope Valley, without a
bearing peach orchard within twenty
miles or a cannery within hundred.
Brookside-(cut of peaches)-yellow
peaches. Selected and packed with
cleanliness and care. Packed by Brook
side Canning Company, Brookside, San
Bernardino county, California.
Brookside is a small station on the
Southern overland route in San Bernar-
dino county. There are no fruits
packed at this place. The Bfookslde
Cannery company is myth and the
peaches are supplied by the Baltimore
packers and offered by the same @. d..
Pearson.
In every case the fruit packed under
these labels was found to be inferior,
slushy stuff, but Eastern consumers
have been innocently buying it on the
reputation of California and then de-
nouncing all California fruit on the
strength of this fraud. A dealer al
Nashville says: II find all through
the South that those disreputable Bal
timore packers are putting in car aftel
car of slush peaches at So to 20 ceut'
per dozen under California labels and
feel that some effort should be mad'
to restrain them. else it will ruin thu
California canned fruit business in thu
South. The poor, ignorant people WHIT
buy this stuff suppose they are getting
California fruits, and disappointed
next time will purchase Baltimor
fruits, which will naturally appea
better to them than the so-called Cali
/ fOrnia article"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14

The branch of the work at the Uni
versity experiment station which deals
with the introduction and acclimation
of economic plants made very notice
able advancement in public favor dur
ing the year now closing, says f. ].
Wickson, Associate Professor of Agri-
culture, in his report lately issued.
This gentleman goes on to say: The
wide recognition of the Importance of
the Australian Salt bush, Atriplex
semibaccatum, ON strongly alkaline
soils was highly gratifying and was
likewise considerable tax upon our
time and material. Similar experience
was had with the tobaccos, and, in a
less degree, with some of the other
growths offered last year. When it
is remembered that we do not conduct
free distribution and that, besides
paying the cost of what he receives.
each applicant specifically assumes the
obligation to report the results of his
seed or plant trial, the advance in
popularity which the figures indicate
is notable. The number of applica.
tions for the year 1S95-96 was ,504 as
against 925 in lS94.95 and 40 in 1898.
"a. This increased demand clearly
shows that our plan of distributing to
volunteer expreimenters, plants OF
seeds of those growths which seem most
promising after trial upon the grounds
of our own stations. commends itself
more and more each year to the people
of the State.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14

If your washed milk cans smell when
closed few hours they are not clean
enough for milk, says the Dairy World.
New cans, pals and strainers should
be carefully examined for irregular
creases in the soldering; a little more
solder will fill these places and make
the can perfectly sweet inside. In
cleaning cans where no boiler exists
for scalding them, wash first in cold
water, then in hot water and sal soda.
Finally half fill them with clean,
scalding water, put ON the covers
tightly for few moments, they will
steam themselves completely. By
using the hot water that steams one
can for the sal soda water for the next
one, limited amount of hot water
will thoroughly purify goodly num-
Der of cans.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
THE MINING INDUSTRY
What they are Doing in the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARE REPRESENTED.
Briefets that Are OF Interest 20 All
CIasses-News from All over
the Country.
Act suspendInK Assessments.

Judging from the number of letters
ON the subject received by the editor of
this department, says Charles g.
Yale, in the Examiner, many miners
are still ''hazy" on the subject Of the
period within which the necessary an
hual expenditures on claims must be
made. The Act suspending assess
ment work for certain years is not now
in force, having been made only for
two special years. 1t has been stated
aslo that, contrary to what many sup
pose, no assessment work is necessary
during the calendar year in which a
claim is located. For this reason no
claims located at any time during 1896
can be legally relocated before January
/, 1898, if work is not done on them.
Under the provisions Of the Act of Con-
gress of January %, 1880, the first an
nual expenditure becomes due and
must be performed during the calendar
year succeeding that in which the
location was made. Expenditure made
or labor performed prior to the LIST day
of January succeeding the date of loca-
UlO0 Will uOG De COuSlu6T6u as part OF
applied upon the first annual expendi-
ture required by law. These last two
sentences are quoted from the instruc.
tions OF the Commissioner of the Gen.
eral Land Office in his Interpretation
of the assessment feature of the law.
They will be found in Copp's Ameri-
can Mining Code. They are perfectly
clear. Any claim located at any time
in the calendar year 1896 does not have
to have assessment work performed
until during the calendar year 1897,
and any work done in 1896 does not
apply on the first annual expenditure
required by the law ON said claim.
People who are looking out for the list
of January, 1897, to come to relocate
claims need not trouble themselves
about any claims which were origin
ally located in 1896. They will have
to content themselves with claims
located before that, upon which the
q owners have failed to do assessment
work.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
NOtea.

The Sunset mine, on the south fork
OF the Stanislaus river, Tuolumne
county, has been bonded for $40, 900.
Considerable prospecting is being
done near Parrott's Ferry. Tuolumne
county, where several mines have been
started up.
A correspondent of the Sierra Valley
Record tells the following story about
the Alaska mine in that section, which
Is to be reopened. He says: 1.-THE
company that owns it will run a tun.
mel a distance of nearly two miles,
starting at the Middle Yuba. They
VIII then have nearly thousand feet
OF backing and the project will Cost
them something like 100000. This
has been and is yet supposed to be one
OF the richest mines in the State
The rock is very rich, and heretofore
II has been plundered right and left
from the uperintendents down to the
commonest miner. | myself saw forty
pounds OF amalgam here in Downie-
VILE in the possession of one of the
amaigamators, and informed the
sheriff. All they would do was to get
what gold they could from the party,
put would not jail him. as the superin-
'ehoent was III the business"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
Get Rid OF the Poor Cows.

Major Henry E. Alvord, Chief of the
Dairy Division of the United States
Department of Agriculture, is author
ity for the statement that there are
many, probably millions, of cows in
this country that do not produce the
cost of their keep, no matter how waste
fully poor it may be.
We wonder what sort of men they
are who keep COWS that are only an ex-
pense. And why do they keep them:
Are they millionaires who keep them
just for ornaments? 1t would seem
that no one except he who "had money
to burn would keep COW that did
not ray her board, and yet the very
men wh) do keep cows at loss are
the ones who have the least money.
Prices may go up again, and we
think that they will, but in the mean
while, would it not be good plan to
get rid of the poor ccws? There are
far too many cases where if one-third
of the COWS were sold and the same
amount of feed that the whole herd haC
were given to the remaining two
thirds, there would be almost if moi
quite as much butter or milk.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14

The day of small farms is approach.
ing rapidly in Solano county, says the
Dixon Tribune. On one thousand-acre
tract, where five years ago there was
not a single house, and one lonely
shanty used by the farmer and his men
when seeding and harvesting the grain
crop, was the only object that OBJ.
structed view of the whole place,
there are now forty small holdings and
almost as many homes. There are sew.
eral other instances where almost as
great a change has taken place in the
same interval, land the movement which
has gained SO much impetus will con-
tinue until all the large holdings are
subdivided. With the change will
come diversified farming, without
which no farming district, however
fertile, can be uniformly prosperous.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
Poisoning Gophers,

A well-known method of poisoning
gophers is by means of raisins and
strychnine. Many, however, report
only partial success, which may be &C.
counted for in the fact that the details
are not properly attended to. A SUBJ
scriber to the California Cultivator says
that after the end of raisin is cut off
to allow of the insertion of small
crystal of strychnine, the cut surface
should be rubbed with a little oil OF
odium. A number of raisins can be SC
treated, and kept in can, and it is
also important that they be never after.
wards touched with the fingers, but
spread about with thorn or pointed
piece of wood. The raisins should be
placed i'll the runaways, and the open,
ings carefully covered with dirt, but
the loose dirt should not be allowed te
fall into the runaway, nor should the
hands be permitted to touch it.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
Randsburg District.

Writing of the developments in the
Randsburg District, the correspondent
of the Los Angeles Times says:
The assessment work on all loca-
tons made prior to 1896 is being
pushed vigorously. Nearly every
hitherto idle man in camp is at work,
and the sound of blasting is heard
continually day and night. At the
rate it is being done three will be bat
few mines of value liable to be jumped
by January |, 1897.
The lack of milling facilities retards
work on the mines. AT Koehn Springs
another five stamps will be put in
operation today or tomorrow in addi-
ton to the five which have been run
ming, since last summer. There are
now over two hundred tons Of ore at
that mill. At Cow Wells there is also
a great deal of ore on hand ahead of
the milling capacity o. the place.
There are several mills going up there,
which will add at least twenty stamps,
together with one cyanide process.
The price remains the same, however,
and no low-grade ores can be handled
until the capacity of the mills equals
or exceeds the supply of ore. 1t looks
now as though Koehn Springs would
be the ultimate location of the princi-
pal mills IN this district, as the supply
OF water there is greatest. At Gar
lock there is no surface water and the
supply must come from deep wells,
and these may eventually drain the
basin. At least they will affect each
other when number are put down
close together. At Keohn Springs the
water comes to the surface and the
supply is SAID by an engineer who has
examined it, to be equal with a little
development, to 600 inches. The road
from the mines to either place is a
good one and all down grade, SO that
the heaviest loads can be hauled,
Garlock being twelve miles distant and
Koehn Springs eight miles farther.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
warning to the sultan.

London, England.-The Daily Tele-
graph will publish a dispatch from
Constantinople saying that the Gar
has sent a message to the Sultan recon-
mending him to consider more serious
ly the remembrance of the power re-
garding the reforms necessary for the
empire and adding that if he does not
do so he will expose himself to the
gravest consequences, even foreign in
PREVENTION. The Gar further says
that the Sultan's acceptance of this
advice is an indispensable condition to
the integrity of his empire and the
maintenance of peace.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
Gen. Chipman,s Advice.

The following good advice is from a
speech of Gen. Chapman, of Red Bluff
1--WE must get down to closer econo-
mics in living and in the management
of business. The penny should be in
troduced as a medium of exchange.
The farmer must cease his wasteful
habits of tillage and harvesting; he
must house his machinery and nipple.
ments when not in use, and spend his
loose change in making home habitable
and pleasant to wife and children in
stead of throwing it away in town.
He must raise his own vegetables,
fruit. butter, milk, eggs. Many farm
ers are land poor. They must let go a
part and get out of debt and change
their methods of farming, thus max
ing as much off from half as now the
whole, and spare days must be spent in
improving the farm instead of in idle
ness. Communities must stand loyalty
together and advance each others in
terests.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
GENERAL SWANS APPEAL.
Seeks to Recover Pay withheld as IA Re
suit of a Court Martial.


suit of Court Martial.
Washington, d. C.-The claim of
Brigadier- General ID. &. Swain, re-
tired, formerly Judge.Advooate Gem
eral of the Army, for the amount of
his pay withheld under the execution
of the finding of court martial will
come before the Supreme Court of
the United States this week for argu-
ment. he having appealed from the
decree of the court of claims, which
rejected his suit General Swain was
tried by court-martial on charges
preferred by Major r. N. Scott, acting
under orders from the Secretary of
War, and found guilty of conduct un
becoming gentleman and an officer,
and sentenced of be suspended from
rank and duty for twelve years, and
to forfeit half his pay for each month
of that period He sued to recover
the sums so withheld on the ground
that the oourt-martial which tried him
was illegally constituted; that the
charges against MIN were not properly
preferred, and that the facts proved
constituted no offense.
General Swain has filed a lengthy
brief in support of his appeal, but the
Government law officers have not yet
advised the court of their intentions in
the matter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14

A man cannot farm successfully these
days while ignoring science. There
are those who attempt to do it, but
they are in all cases miserable failures,
and would not succeed anywhere or in
any business. When competition is so
close and the struggle for survival SO
fierce, none but the best method can
succeed-and that is scientific, says
Texas Farm and Ranch. The expert
ment stations and organizations of
farmers are doing great work in dis
seminating scientific knowledge of
agriculture in all its branches. Many
philosophical and learned men are
spending their lives in discovering
and disseminating scientific truths
relating to agriculture. The agricul-
tural colleges and experiment stations
are intoxicating the dignity of the
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
Orange shipments commenced.


Direct shipments of oranges from
Jamaica to London, England, COM
menced last week. The fruit will en-
ter into keen competition with the pro.
duce of the Canary Islands. In an ar
tcle published ON November 8, the
London Telegraph said: This new de-
parture in Jamaica trade is due to the
great depreciation in the value of
sugar, and that once important import
is to be changed for oranges and
bananas. That the West Indian
colony is capable of producing enor-
nous quantities of these fruits is evil
dent from the fact that last year the
growers chiefly interested in this new
branch of trade shipped no less than
one million, five hundred thousand
punches of bananas to New York, and
oranges in equal proportion. +" Five
steamers have been chartered by the
English company conducting the direct
shipments referred to. and these have
been fitted up with refrigerator space
for large cargoes. Every precaution
has been taken to insure the success
of the undertaking. To Jamaica, the
results mean great deal. 1t is i'm
possible, it is claimed, to grow sugar
in that island without loss, and the
direct shipment of fruit, with it,
cheaper freights. offers an opportunity
to restore its somewhat frayed prosper
ity.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14

The festival of roses, Pasadena's an
nual floral display, awakened enthusi-
asm in 10000 spectators last week.
and despite the fact that the weather
was not as pleasant as usual the affair
was a great success in all its features.
There were many beautiful and artistic
designs in the long procession of veLi-
Giles. decorated with roses. The pro-
cession passed in brilliant array along
Orange Grove avenue. All of the
queens We're crowned with roses. The
prizes were Of great beauty and value,
among them being thirteen of the
splendid banners.